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

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

What the fuck?

Love,
Phil

On Letters to Society.
At Library, 2 months, 2 weeks 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.

On Marking.
At Uni, 2 months, 2 weeks ago.

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

On Work.
At Home, 2 months, 4 weeks ago.

An interesting thing about Direct Connect is that everybody’s searches are broadcast to every other user. So for a few weeks, I’ve been sitting on the local university hub 24/7 collecting search data.

Unsurprisingly, the data follows Zipf’s law pretty tightly—maybe I can get a paper out of this…

On Uni.
At Uni, 3 months, 1 week ago.

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