From: Rich Holm 


We have a new game we 'discovered' during some late night design sessions
over the summer...

We have a few large white boards in our conference room and they have a
small shelf for the pens.  The object is to lean over the conference table
and toss a pen into/onto this shelf.  It's a pretty hard thing to do, but
as with anything.  Practice makes perfect.  The game is 4 sets of 5 pens
with each player alternating his toss.  If there is a tie and the end of
20, we have a sudden pen period of alternating tosses... the winner in that
case is a
'golden' pen.  That shows the english influence.  Of the three of
us that play this game, 2 are english.  We have had games of 6 successful
tosses on a side.  In the average game, we probably score at least 3-4
pens.

A couple times a week after solving a hard problem, someone will call for a
game of pen...  good fun and good stress relief.

Our company is just 8 months old.  We all are partners.  We all are working
our butts off right now and someday will look back and smile when we recall
these first days.

Cheers,
Rich



In article , adam{at}NOSPAMsoftfab.com says...
>
> "Ronnie T. Mungo, Boy Genius"  wrote
in message
> news:3defc217{at}w3.nls.net...
> > It was great fun to watch him chase his tail for a while, but then between
> > the real world barging in and a rather rude decision by some nasty germs
> to
> > invade, I had to let it go. Glad it entertained the troops here.
> >
> > It was great fun to do while I watched the counters on the system as we
> ran
> > tests. Anyone who is involved in testing knows that sometimes when all you
> > are doing is staring at a system watching it load. it can get a tad dull,
> > and with the advent of DVDs, it is even MORE dull.
> >
>
>  This is my excuse... mostly during (frequent) large scale tests or SQL
> script runs where watching consoles tailing the scripts loses it's fun as
> you get close to/into the early hours of the morning....
>
> Coffee, Barktopus, browse newsites.....nope still going....browse more
> sites...more barktopus....nope still running....
>
> Jim & I (the bod I'm mostly in late with here) have a table tennis net which
> we fit to 2 desks shoved together.....ah the glamour....
>
> I have to admit I'm getting fearsome at table tennis though 
>
> Adam
>
>
>

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