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I can't wait for the trend of naming things by skipping the vowels wears off
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Only in words that end in R, Maundr.
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Roger Wright is the Chief Clown of the Mojave Electron Rodeo.
Roger Wright is Commodore of the Arizona Navy. The Battle of Bullhead City resulted in his flagship forcing the Colorado Belle to run aground.
Roger Wright set out to write the next great five-book-trilogy, but his characters walked out in disgust after only three.
Burros run free in Oatman because the locals fear Roger Wright's wrath if they are inconvenienced in any way.
If you ever get on Roger Wright's list (he only has one list), feeding a carrot to an Oatman burro is the preferred way to get back off of it -- you don't want to experience the other way.
The quickest way to get onto Roger Wright's list is to suggest that Bullhead City was named for him.
Roger Wright put Jimmy Hoffa under the Boulder Dam. (See what I mean?)
Mike Hankey moved to Florida because Roger Wright said that Arizona wasn't big enough for the both of them.
Mike Hankey doesn't fly to Arizona; he drives so he can pack more carrots.
Roger Wright looks forward to going to Hell for its cool weather. For this reason, it's customary to greet him with a cheerful, "go to Hell!"
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Roger Wright is the only person to successfully beat Man v Food.
Roger Wright's middly name is Always.
Roger Wright is the only person to have won the World Series, World Cup and World Chess Championship on the same day.
Roger Wright doesn't wash. Dirt is scared of him.
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: Roger Wright's middly name is Always.
I'm sure he'll tell you that "Always" was his ex-wife's maiden name.
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Roger Wright's blood is equal parts scotch and electricity.
Roger Wright taught Chuck Norris the roundhouse kick.
Roger Wright is the only thing that keeps the grid running stably.
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My inherent modesty inclines me to deny all of the above, but my well-known regard for strict veracity requires me to admit the truth of these claims.
And who let out that my middle initial is A?
Will Rogers never met me.
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Uh oh, someone better buy carrots. 
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: Uh oh, someone better buy carrots.
Got your back buddy! 
Have you ever just looked at someone and knew the wheel was turning but the hamster was dead?
Trying to understand the behavior of some people is like trying to smell the color 9.
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If I hear you say, "trust me, it's a carrot", I'm out of here.
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It's on a stick so we're all safe.
Have you ever just looked at someone and knew the wheel was turning but the hamster was dead?
Trying to understand the behavior of some people is like trying to smell the color 9.
modified 17-Aug-14 2:24am.
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Doctor of Chocolate[^]
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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One thing that I found funny and attractive was:
Candidates wishing to study chocolate need to apply by 29 August.
Its my Birthday!
Favourite line: Throw me to them wolves and close the gate up. I am afraid of what will happen to them wolves - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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"The challenge is to stop chocolate melting in warm climates by studying the "fundamentals of heat-stable chocolate"."
M & M's aren't good enough anymore?
m.bergman
For Bruce Schneier, quanta only have one state : afraid.
To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered. -- Voltaire
In most cases the only difference between disappointment and depression is your level of commitment. -- Marc Maron
I am not a chatbot
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Just buy Cadbury's crap sold in India.
I left it on the seat of a car with the sun shining directly on the chocolate and the windows rolled up at 12 noon in summer.
It was more solid than a rock and stayed that way.
The thing ought not to be called chocolate.... Depleted uranium, maybe!
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I guess you haven't experience Cadbury's Dairy milk silk
There are hundreds of languages in the world, but a smile speaks them all.
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Last years ‘Intel Perceptual Computing Competition’ only awarded ½ of the 1 Million dollar price pool even though they received an alleged ‘overwhelming number of entries’. This year there is another scam, I mean competition going by the name Intel Real Sense Competition.
Since there is so much emphasis put on the 1 million dollar price pool, does it constitute a scam if only ½ the money gets awarded?
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I'd happily enter a scam competition if the scam was limited to giving me half a million bucks, as opposed to one million bucks, if I won
Just sayin'
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You mean splitting 1/2 a million with all the winners.
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Link?
I'm more than happy to talk to Intel directly about this and get an answer. My experience with them (both professionally and personally) has been that they do the right thing. I'd be interested to hear the full story on this.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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You want to be careful throwing allegations around like that. I'd like to see what your evidence is that this is the case. In all my dealings with Intel, they have been nothing but honest and fair.
If Intel were found to be breaking competition rules, they would face hefty fines. Competition rules have legal status as they comprise legal and binding contracts.
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To be clear, I am not saying they are breaking competition rules. In the fine print, it describes a scoring system which provides their out.
The evidence is in the list of last year’s winners. Add up the total prize money awarded to all the winners. It’s under half of what’s advertised. Heck, two of the four 75,000 dollar prizes were not awarded to anyone.
https://software.intel.com/sites/campaigns/perceptualshowcase/winners.htm
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If two of the prizes were not awarded, then it could well mean that there were no candidates who posted suitable entries.
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Indeed: as competitions here have demonstrated, an "overwhelming number of entries" does not equate to "a lot of good ones"... 
You looking for sympathy?
You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric
(Page 1788, if it helps)
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Pioneering wrote: even though they received an alleged ‘overwhelming number of entries’.
"Quantity" is not an indicator of "Quality": you have to sift a lot of rubbish to find a little gold.
It is quite possible that none of the entries for a particular category were considered worthwhile, so no prizes were awarded.
Would you expect a prize to be given to a wrong answer in a multiple choice quiz?
You looking for sympathy?
You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric
(Page 1788, if it helps)
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