Subject: Just curious: has anyone created a Super Bowl squares database?
Subject: Not me…
But I did know someone who tracked there NFL picks pool in Notes over a couple of seasons…
Subject: Just curious: has anyone created a Super Bowl squares database?
No, but I did do a Stanley Cup one (if you’re speaking of the 10 X 10 grid thingy where folks buy one or more squares in the grid and the last digit of the score determines the winner – Canadians have different sporting priorities, as you may imagine). It was done in R5 for the web, but I think I still have it on disk here somewhere. If that’s the one you’re after, let me know and I’ll see if I can find it.
Subject: I never knew you were a Canuck (was Super Bowl squares …)
… then again, I don’t know you. What city? I’m a Detroiter.
Sure, I’ll take it. I trust your work. I’d like to see what you did with it.
Precede @dcx.com with WFL3 to get it to me if you find it.
Thanks
Subject: Oh goodness…
I grew up in Detroit and can speak with a Canadian accent when I spend a weekend in Canada.
Subject: *Eh?
Subject: we should go ouver for a bier, eh?
Let me see what kind of proh-gress I make on my shedule this week.
Or how about how many syllables the guys on Hockey Night in Canada can use to pronounce Detroit? I think it’s 4, eh? Dee-tr(w)u-oi-it
Just kidding, I love going to Cananada. Just got a beaver hat there before the holidays (really). But that’s a whole separate line of jokes …
Subject: RE: Oh goodness…
What part of Detroit? which HS?
Subject: CCHS
Detroit Catholic Central HS, '84
They’re in Novi or Northville now.
Subject: RE: Oh goodness…
Canadian accent? I hope you don’t mean the South Park version. I’ve never said “aboot” (except when denying that I’ve ever said “aboot”), eh? I did use “hoose” once when asking what made Indiana “hoosier” than any other state, eh? But that was just fer fun, eh?
Yes, we do speak differently. I find it interesting that one can hear the difference between Detroit and Windsor. I mean, you can throw rocks from one to the other, and yet the vowels are completely different. That’s just weird.
Subject: It’s a slight thing
There’s a roundness to the words not found in the lower 48. Also, there are words and phrases not commonly used across the Detroit River (I’d have to go to Belle Isle to throw a rock to Canada - my arm is too weak these days).
I live in Virginia now, so they all tell me I have a Virginia accent, but hey, it’s been 16 years, so I have a right to it…
Subject: RE: I never knew you were a Canuck (was Super Bowl squares …)
I’m in Toronto(ish – I’m in the 'burbs) these days. (Was briefly in Montreal, but I got better.) I’ll see if I can hunt it down.
Just as an aside – Domino makes a pretty good gaming platform. The only thing missing natively, really, is the e-commerce aspect – but if it’s office pools and so forth you want, the authentication scheme helps a lot when it comes to collection time. I’ve done quite a few different game types for charity fundraising – online bingos, auctions, tounament “bracket” pools, one-armed bandits, etc. I should throw a few of them up on OpenNTF.org – even if the games themselves are silly and fun, the UI methods used can be ported to serious apps as well.
Subject: RE: I never knew you were a Canuck (was Super Bowl squares …)
We love Toronto. Finishing off the last of my Mill St. Coffee Porter this week.
Spent a weekend seeing the Rheos’ Fall Nationals in December.
Say, what’s the deal with that farmland-farmland-farmland-whoa!highdensityhousing-farmland-farmland-farmland thing you guys got going west of the city?
Subject: RE: I never knew you were a Canuck (was Super Bowl squares …)
Been wond’rin’ abou that one myself. Might have something to do with throwing a bloody great city right in the middle of some of the best farmland on the continent. By accident, of course – Toronto didn’t start off with millions of people in it. But now that it’s there, it needs BIG 'burbs cause you can’t just pave over all of that topsoil. Or at least I hope they don’t. Might not matter much when all of the little farms go belly up or the realty value of the land gets big enough for the farmers to take the money and run. But for now, folks find a two-hour commute twice a day more reasonable than Tronna housing prices. (The exact distribution of the housing within the farmland is an intersection of the functions representing the reluctance to drive too far and the reluctance to pay more than one earns every month against a mortgage. The distance between major burbs has something to do with standard deviations.)
Subject: Domino eCommerce
Actually, I’m expanding on the OpenNTF eCommerce template in-house for supply ordering (with workflow, of course). So, how native the e-Commerce is may be in the eye of the beholder 9of course, I don’t have to do any credit card billings, which are also not in that template…)
Subject: I’m a Toronto guy as well. I live in Cambridge now, but I do get home as often as possible.