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Prior to any Olympic Games, Summer or Winter, a great deal of IT work is required.
Why not make it a part of the Games ?
Events would include "How many Cat5/Cat6 cables can you correctly terminate in the shortest time", "Attaching all the cabling to the back of a pc from the front, working blind
inside a cabinet", "Carrying hardware up six flights of stairs", and "Sucessfully installing Windows 7"*.
*(Specifically chosen to sort the amateurs from the professionals - professionals won't bother to even try).
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"What's a geek urn?"
"About 7.50 an hour." |
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soon followed by the even more exciting "mass
emergency replacement rollout", "network rewiring",
"motherboard replacement", "database
unscrambling", and the always popular "sacking of the
management" |
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[+] There should be a marathon-equivalent: something
involving 20+ hours of work uninterrupted by sleep, the
contestants allowed no sustenance save junk food and
caffeinated beverages. And the sprint-equivalent would be
code-sprints, of course. |
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Of course, someone would then try to recreate the Ancient Geek Olympics - find the density of the "gold" crown, estimate the mass of hammers from their pitch ratios, etc. |
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I think in homage to the original Olympics, the Geek Olympics should be performed in the nude. |
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//Tougher than it sounds//
Indeed! I've heard some particularly amusing tales about the occasionally farcical race to install the comms infrastructure in time for the 2012 Olympics. |
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//the Geek Olympics should be performed in the nude// |
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"That's a novel place to put an antistatic-strap" |
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[+]...can you execute an infinite loop? |
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