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Mad Quake Stats

As mentioned, there was a lot of Quake-playing in the honours room last year. Since I’m easily distracted, and like pretty graphs, I decided to mine the Quake stats that were accumlated from every game that we played. A total of 794 games (over 200 hours), an average of 2.8 per day, distributed over the year like this:

Where the blue areas indicate when we had lectures, green during exams, and red when we had no other work but our honours projects.

April 17, 2008

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Tip for first-year computer science students doing exams:

If you have to modify an exam question to give an answer, you’re doing something wrong.

I mark first-year papers, not for the money, but for the comedic value.

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On Marking.
At Uni, 1 week ago.

Dear People-who-write-in-library-books,

What the fuck?

Love,
Phil

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On Letters to Society.
At Library, 1 week, 4 days ago.

I’m marking a first-year engineering assignment where students had to design a device to separate egg yolks from their whites and shells.

At least a quarter of the students have cited their mother in their references.

I also worry about the guy who cited a tape ruler, a ruler, soft drink bottles, a soap container, solder, plastic boxes, and a spoon knife.

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On Marking.
At Uni, 2 weeks, 1 day ago.

Public holidays, like weekends, have become days where I just work from home and give myself the illusion that I’m on holiday.

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On Work.
At Home, 3 weeks, 4 days ago.
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