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Home » Posts » 2007 » February

Trivial Things
February 8, 2007 at 12:55 pm AST by Rodney MacLeod

I love trivia!

I am the guy that spouts off useless information all the time.

If you mentioned Vancouver Canucks, I might mention they play at the only arena in the NHL that does not use a Zamboni.

Some times I just spout off trivia out of the blue with no discernable association to what the conversation is.

I was a member of a quite successful trivia team at The Wave of UPEI (Which I have been told holds the distinction of being the first internet domain with the extension .ca).

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Play on Words
February 7, 2007 at 12:19 pm AST by Rodney MacLeod

Dwayne and I started up a competition last year we played Jumble almost every day keeping track of our times in a spread sheet and had all sorts of statistics generated like average times winning streaks, best time and solved percentages. Dwayne started off strong, but I ended up beating him by quite a margin.

We kept all of our stats in an Excel spreadsheet part way through the year we discovered Google spreadsheets and moved it all over there, which worked great until around October when we exceeded Google's limit for formulas and we went back to using excel.

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