Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Football Pool part 3 - the picks

Football pool - part 3

Matt,
Here's where our results are being posted...we are tied for 4th....not bad:
http://canterburypool.blogspot.com/

Here are the games for this sunday:
Green Bay at Minnesota
Oakland at Miami
NY Jets at Buffalo
Houston at Atlanta
Chicago at Detroit
Baltimore at Cleveland
St. Louis at Dallas
Tampa Bay at Carolina
Seattle at San Francisco
Kansas City at San Diego
Pittsburgh at Arizona
Denver at Indianapolis
Philadelphia at NY Giants
New England at Cincinnati

This is what I want you to do:
Get a blindfold or hat or something, and a tennis ball or other ball that bounces.
Put the blindfold on.
Throw the ball at a wall.
If you catch it, first team wins, if you miss 2nd team pick.

Let me know what happens.
I can't wait to see the documentation.

Monday, September 24, 2007

Week 3 NFL betting picks

Matt,
I'm just about to get our results this morning and I'm starting to feel a little bad about doing pretty good. We got 10 right I think this week. After tonights games we'll know more. I think there are going to be some pissed people, and I have nothing to say about our picks, I think that might be the most upsetting part, that we're openly saying we don't give a shit. I was willing to just give them our money, but not take it.
Oh well.

Saturday, September 22, 2007

More Pictures from WANTED!


The night before WANTED! in our new jumpsuits!


Hanging posters





Posters at the baseball field of McCarren Park


My first run-in with Jason - unplanned and not from a call. So I walked on by.


This is the psychic who failed to help me locate Jason. She charged $60 for the reading and $15 to take her picture, so please look closely. I need to get $15 out of this image.


Mini-Colin (different from Good-Colin (Tracy) and Evil-Colin) with Danielle.

Wednesday, September 19, 2007

Betting Methodology, Pt 2

To choose our football picks for next week, we played Tic-Tac-Toe via iChat. Here it is:

dude
hey
hey so how should be we do this
describe the area, like middle top x
etc
yeah
sorry, I have to run for a bit though
things suddenly got busy
ok draw a tic tac toe board
ok later
realy quick
I was thinking we just draw on a piece of paper
one of us starts, they are x
so i would say "x in top middle"
right
then you would say "o in bottom right"
etc
got it
we alternate who is x and who is o every other game
and who starts?
x
x always starts?
ok
ye[
that's why we alternate
be back in like half hour
ok
hey
hey
you are x
ok
x upper left
upper middle
that's o upper middle
middle
o bottom right
top right
bottom middle
bottom left
i win
I am A, you are B, so the first pick is B
ok what if we tie?
it doesnt count at all
we go until we have 18 definitive wins
ok lets do it
im x
middle
o top left
bottom right
bottom left
middle left
middle right
tie
ok
new game
i'm still
x
top right
middle left
middle
bottom left
top left
bottom right
top middle
i win
2nd pick is A
x top middle
bottom middle
bottom right
bottom left
top left
middle
top left
you are letting me win
no
but yo udid, so pick 3 is B
yep
x top left
bottom left
bottom right
middle
top right
i win
middle right
top middle
victory!
#4 pick is A
middle
top right
top left
bottom right
middle right
mid left
tie
bottom r
yup
start over
bottom r
top r
bottom l
bot mid
top l
mid l
you win
pick 5 is B
top l
bottom r
top r
middle top
bottom l
bottom middle
middle left
I win
pick #6 is A
you are x
wait you didn't win
oh yes you did sorry
ok
cool
so you are x
left top
mid left
bottom r
middle
middle r
top r
bottom l
bot mid
tie
do over
bottom l
middle
bottom r
bm
tm
tr
lm
tl
tie
do over
tr
new rule
if we have 3 ties in a row, the person who is X loses (since X almost always wins) and we move on
ok?
k
x in tr
o in mr
tl
tm
mm
bl
br
win
whooo
pick #7 is B
x tr
one sec
k
bm
mm
bl
br
ml
tl
win
A?
x tr
obm
wait what?
you're A right?
i'm just going over the last game
Oh, right!!!!
you won
yes
I thought was like "huh?" or something
ok so I'll start
yes I'm A
you start
tl
bl
mr
tr
mm
br
ml
B
9-B
x - mm
tm
br
ml
tl
i win
10 -A
tr
have you noticed it goes B A B A B A ?
O never wins
I didn't actually
o sucks
this game is rigged
tic tac toe sucks
agreed
so is football
ha
br
x br?
obr
ur x
ml
mm
tl
u win
11 -B
can we assume it will go this way for the rest of them?
should we just do the rest
ha
B A B A... for 18
that's funny
we could have come up with that without playing tic tack toe
the Wanted! video is a hit
I showed my class today
yea right, like SAT's
probably the best thing in conflux
confucks
seriously
can you post this IM like with the civil war blog?
sure
awesome, then I'll post our picks
ok
give me a few minutes to get it ready
oh yea, no rush...by sunday
k
later
bye