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- Thread starter Claude Kolm
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Claude, thanks. It brings back some nice memories. It's become more like an arms race now. So many doctoral (i.e. older) students with presumably more tasting experience.
We were fortunate in getting a bottle of 1990 Winston Churchill each, but the highlight was (and remains) the all expenses paid trip to Epernay. Pol Roger gave us carte blanche at the hotel bar, the foolishness of which became apparent 2 hours after our arrival when they ran out of wine. The beer taps ran dry around dinner time, and that same night we finished all the spirits except the local eaux de vie, which was undrinkable. Considering that one of the party was fairly abstemious (!), six of us performed heroically.
We were fortunate in getting a bottle of 1990 Winston Churchill each, but the highlight was (and remains) the all expenses paid trip to Epernay. Pol Roger gave us carte blanche at the hotel bar, the foolishness of which became apparent 2 hours after our arrival when they ran out of wine. The beer taps ran dry around dinner time, and that same night we finished all the spirits except the local eaux de vie, which was undrinkable. Considering that one of the party was fairly abstemious (!), six of us performed heroically.
Claude Kolm
Claude Kolm
Yixin -- according to the article, these had been going on +/-50 years when you were there. Why do you think the sudden escalation in the last decade?
Not sure - back in my time we drew our pool from the Oxford University Wine Circle (OUWC), which was, to put it mildly, seen as a bastion of undergraduate aspirational toffery. There were a few other wine clubs but none with the same reach. So most graduate students, presumably of a more mature disposition, took one look and walked away. Our primary trainer was a major contributor to the Oxford Companion to Wine, and we often got aid from alumni in the trade. It was, in retrospect, as fine a schooling in the art of tasting as one could hope for.
Claude Kolm
Claude Kolm
Ian Fitzsimmons
Ian Fitzsimmons
What's the drug-testing protocol for these events?
Jeff Grossman
Jeff Grossman
689 - 677, Oxford wins. And the Trade beat the Press by 6 points (no total given).
12 points is less than 1% of the total points earned. Seems to me that this could go the other way on any given day.
12 points is less than 1% of the total points earned. Seems to me that this could go the other way on any given day.
Sure does.originally posted by Jeff Grossman:
689 - 677, Oxford wins. And the Trade beat the Press by 6 points (no total given).
12 points is less than 1% of the total points earned. Seems to me that this could go the other way on any given day.
Yixin, are we wrong?
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originally posted by SFJoe:
Sure does.originally posted by Jeff Grossman:
689 - 677, Oxford wins. And the Trade beat the Press by 6 points (no total given).
12 points is less than 1% of the total points earned. Seems to me that this could go the other way on any given day.
Yixin, are we wrong?
nope. you are just failing to appreciate the true value of the perfectly executed double axel.
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originally posted by SFJoe:
well, sure.
But that's an individual sport.
oh sure. like we all don't know about your love for figure skating.
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originally posted by Jeff Grossman:
689 - 677, Oxford wins. And the Trade beat the Press by 6 points (no total given).
12 points is less than 1% of the total points earned. Seems to me that this could go the other way on any given day.
Jeff, we shall recreate the sport in The Cellar. How do we make up teams, compilers vs interpreters?
Points vs. Prongs?originally posted by .sasha:
originally posted by Jeff Grossman:
689 - 677, Oxford wins. And the Trade beat the Press by 6 points (no total given).
12 points is less than 1% of the total points earned. Seems to me that this could go the other way on any given day.
Jeff, we shall recreate the sport in The Cellar. How do we make up teams, compilers vs interpreters?
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originally posted by SFJoe:
Points vs. Prongs?originally posted by .sasha:
originally posted by Jeff Grossman:
689 - 677, Oxford wins. And the Trade beat the Press by 6 points (no total given).
12 points is less than 1% of the total points earned. Seems to me that this could go the other way on any given day.
Jeff, we shall recreate the sport in The Cellar. How do we make up teams, compilers vs interpreters?
Fine. But beware of the obligatory Eastern European judge.
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double blind judging is the only fair way to do this.
i will mail in the scores for the teams from afar, in advance, then you can open them at the end to find out how well you all did.
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i will mail in the scores for the teams from afar, in advance, then you can open them at the end to find out how well you all did.
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originally posted by .sasha:
originally posted by Jeff Grossman:
689 - 677, Oxford wins. And the Trade beat the Press by 6 points (no total given).
12 points is less than 1% of the total points earned. Seems to me that this could go the other way on any given day.
Jeff, we shall recreate the sport in The Cellar. How do we make up teams, compilers vs interpreters?
Too old school, Dotster. I'd suggest server-side vs. client-side as the current idiom.
Greetings from CloudCuckooland,
Mark Lipton
Jeff Grossman
Jeff Grossman
Cloud vs. WTaaS (Wine Tasting as a Service)
The Cloud team can choose to do it themselves or retain a Managed Services company to taste the wine for them.
The Cloud team can choose to do it themselves or retain a Managed Services company to taste the wine for them.