On Mon, 4 Mar 2002, Keith C Ivey wrote:
I don't seem to be
getting the epiphany yet, so I guess I've got a few days of
obsession to go
Funny, I thought I'd had several epiphanies, and yet I'm still a stroke
behind you
--
Stephen Turner, Cambridge, UK
Stephen Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Funny, I thought I'd had several epiphanies, and yet I'm still a
stroke behind you...
I apologize for my unseemly whining. I've been punished for it
by being dropped from 7th to 11th place overnight.
--
Keith C. Ivey [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Washington, DC
Stephen Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
If only there were a POSIX::secretnumber().
LOL!
If only the stupid rules didn't call for printing out the intermediate
results...
Marcelo, who's got (a|the obvious) way to compute the secret in one op.
On Mon, 4 Mar 2002, Keith C. Ivey wrote:
Stephen Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Funny, I thought I'd had several epiphanies, and yet I'm still a
stroke behind you...
I apologize for my unseemly whining. I've been punished for it
by being dropped from 7th to 11th place overnight.
Hmmm
$ pwd
/usr/ports/lang/perl5/work
$ grep -ri secretnumber
$
Oh, well
-- fxn
On Sat, 2 Mar 2002, Yanick wrote:
Ah, the things one is ready to do to keep his mind away from
a big fat score of 65 that doesn't seem to want to shrink of a
single stroke
Stephen Turner schreef op 3 marchi 2002:
If only there were a POSIX::secretnumber()
I checked that too; we
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Unfortunately, I have been reduced to hanging on to Keith and
Stephen like a leech. :-(
Looks like the leech has detached itself. You've shot up to
second place, 5 strokes ahead of me. I don't seem to be
getting the epiphany yet, so I guess I've got a few days of
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Unfortunately, I have been reduced to hanging on to Keith and
Stephen like a leech. :-(
Keith C. Ivey schreef op 4 Marchi 2002:
Looks like the leech has detached itself. You've shot up to
second place, 5 strokes ahead of me. I don't seem to be
getting the
If anyone is interested to see a graphical representation
of the scores:
http://babyldyndnsorg/golf/
I quickly hacked a little page that slurp the scores off
the official page and make a histogram out of it
(please note the ties are not handled correctly as
we speak I'll try
Yanick wrote:
I quickly hacked a little page that slurp the scores off
the official page and make a histogram out of it.
That's awesome! And I like the 'sandtrap' metaphor much better than the
disparaging 'rejects' that we're currently using. I think I'll steal that
one from you, OK?
Dave Hoover wrote:
Yanick wrote:
I quickly hacked a little page that slurp the scores off
the official page and make a histogram out of it
That's awesome! And I like the 'sandtrap' metaphor much better than the
disparaging 'rejects' that we're currently using I think I'll steal that
one
On Sat, 2 Mar 2002, Dave Hoover wrote:
That's awesome! And I like the 'sandtrap' metaphor much better than the
disparaging 'rejects' that we're currently using I think I'll steal that
one from you, OK?
Fun-with-English question: Is a 'sandtrap' the normal US word for what we
over here
On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 02:53:09PM -0600, Chris Dolan wrote:
Dave Hoover wrote:
Question: how will it scale as the number of golfers grow? Will it push
off
the right side of the page? It fits nicely in my browser right now, but
I'm
not sure how well it would scale to the 73 veteran
On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 09:38:14PM +, Stephen Turner wrote:
Fun-with-English question: Is a 'sandtrap' the normal US word for what we
over here call a 'bunker'? Is 'bunker' also used?
I think both are used But I'm probably the last guy you want
to have as a reference for this kind
Stephen Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Fun-with-English question: Is a 'sandtrap' the normal US word
for what we over here call a 'bunker'? Is 'bunker' also used?
Both are listed (sand trap is spelled with a space) in
Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary and in The American
Heritage
Fun-with-English question: Is a 'sandtrap' the normal
US word for what we over here call a 'bunker' Is
'bunker' also used?
Both are listed (sand trap is spelled with a space)
in Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary and in The
American Heritage Dictionary (3rd ed.). There's no
Jonathan E. Paton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Are you surprised bunker is a Scottish word? Since we
Scots invented golf, I guess we were entitled to attach our
words to the game.
I'm not surprised that it was originally Scottish. I was a
little surprised that the OED considered the word (not
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