Each day I am becoming more and more of an old man, because I find that if I miss Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune, I am usually very grumpy for about three hours afterwards. This is one of my primary reasons for not getting a job in investment banking out of college because I know I would never again see my beloved shows.
However, tonight I made it home with plenty of time to watch both, and I crushed Final Jeopardy tonight.
Tonight’s Final Jeopardy Category: “Colleges and Universities”
Answer: “This two word term for a famous group of colleges 1st appeared in an AP story that ran in the Providence Journal in 1935.”
Question: “What is Ivy League?”
I knew this because I may or may not have read the wiki page on said answer many a time. I wonder how many questions Jeopardy pulls off of Wikipedia?
Only one guy got it right. The other two guessed “Seven Sisters”. FAIL.
Screenshot. And by “Screenshot” I mean “I took a picture of my TV”:
Also, a guy from Temple won $100,000 on Wheel of Fortune tonight. Wooooo Philly!
I was walking down the street to dinner today, Easter Sunday. I spotted a SEPTA bus running down Chestnut street, but something was off. On the LED sign which usually shows the route and the destination, the bus was rotating the sign between the route number and a “HAPPY HOLIDAYS” message which was flanked by Christmas trees. While I greatly appreciate the sentiment, shouldn’t the message have been at least flanked by Easter eggs or maybe even a bunny instead of using the trees?
My good friend and roommate Matt has penned the first post, and (hopefully many) posts by me will soon. I’ve got my first post completed and it will be published on Sunday.
So what does that mean for my own good ol’ blog at coreyhulse.com? Well, I’m going to keep this going as a place to post personal pictures and rants about the trips I take, while awesomeopolis.com will be a new place for things like my plinko odds post. Think of this site as a place to go for people who know me already, and the new site for content that would potentially be interesting to people who don’t know me.
I enjoy traveling whenever I have the opportunity. I’ve decided, mainly for the preservation of these things in my own mind, to plot out points on a map the places that I’ve been to.
I’ve set up a new static page on the site where I embed a Google Map I’ve created that plots out the places that I’ve visited since I started college.
It’s a few days late, but here are some of the pictures I took at the Relay For Life at Penn event. For some more photos, be sure to check out Alyssa Rosenzweig’s Picasa album.
Full Disclosure: The rain started falling pretty hard after midnight, so in order to keep my phone from getting soaked, I stopped liveblogging after the 1:30am update. However, after I got back home I updated the rest of entry for what did happen that night. Enjoy!
4:00am: Closing Ceremonies. Allison and Michelle, The Chairs, get on stage and thank everyone for braving out the weather. Carly, our American Cancer Society representative, tell us that they’re still counting up all of the money, but they’re approximating $130,000 raised!
3:50am: A decision has been made to call Relay early. The rain continues to fall pretty hard, so we’re packing up and leaving.
2:45am: The rain is continuing to fall, so unfortunately most people have left. A cappella groups continue to belt out songs while my team plays Apples to Apples in the tent.
1:40am: Billy and I are soundly defeated in Round 1. The game involved six cups each, and traded off the first three cups, until the other team went on fire and nailed all three of their last cups in a row. Should I be proud or concerned that my 11-year old brother sank two in a row?
1:30am: Root beer pong tournament begins. Billy and I look to win it all.
12:30am: Rain! Oh no!
11:15pm: Luminaria Ceremony! Cancer survivors share their stories, they turn the stadium lights off, and the luminaria bags spell out ‘HOPE’. And now they’ve changed the word ‘HOPE’ to the word ‘CURE’.
9:15pm: Survirors Reception. The survivors have gathered to celebrate the evening and enjoy free food courtesy of Maggiano’s.
8:15pm: Opening Ceremonies! The survirors were honored and lead the first lap. Relay has begun!
7:00pm: We’ve made it! People are slowly pouring in and setting up their tents.
6:11pm: Made my way to campus. However, we’ve made a quick detour at Mad4Mex.
5:19pm: Testing out post updating from my phone. All clear, Houston.
5:10pm: Tonight is the 6th Annual Relay For Life at Penn! And what better way to celebrate the event than by liveblogging it? Well, I can think of at least five better ways but oh well. Follow me as I blog the event LIVE as they happen, or better yet, if you’re in the Philadelphia area, come on down to Franklin Field on the University of Pennsylvania campus!
Relay For Life at the University of Pennsylvania
Historic Frankin Field
TONIGHT, March 27 2008 8pm to 8am
Pacman: Pacman fills mazes with dots, pausing only to regurgitate fruit & ghosts.
I think this is awesome to the max. I’ve come up with some of my own, and I think everyone should play along.
R.C. Pro Am: Fastest car in the world drives backwards, spitting out letters that spell ‘ODNETNIN’ until it is really, really slow.
Super Mario 2: Mario falls asleep, runs through deserts and grassy plains planting vegetables until floating up to the heavens.
Tiger Woods Golf: Ball emerges from hole and launches itself to player’s club until reaching the tee box. Repeat 18 times.
Mario Party: Players move backwards on a gameboard in a charitable quest to give away all their stars and coins until they have none.
Star Wars Battlefront 2: Stormtrooper resurrects Rebels by sucking in blastershots and bombs until there are 150 of them.
Bust-A-Move: Same-colored bubble clusters appear and dinosaur removes them until a nice pattern of random-colored ones are left.
If you post on Twitter, add “#backgames” to each of them because when you search “#backgames” on Twitter you’ll get all the posts that other people have backgamed about.
NHL ‘94: Basically a giant game of keepaway with nets that spit out pucks. Also, the goalies are nice enough to help people off the ice.
John Madden Football: Receiver’s revenge! Everyone throws balls at the quarterback. Defensive backs thoughtfully help people up and get out of the way.
Super Smash Brothers: Looks exactly the same, except people come flying in from the sides, jump kick from really far away, and ascend to heaven on glowing platforms.
Minesweeper: OCD players fix a diverse mix of tiles until only smooth gray ones remain.
Solitaire: 4 holes suck up an entire deck worth of cards, then distribute them in an odd pattern.
Marble Madness: Looks exactly the same.
Ocarina of Time: Old warrior discovers fountain of youth, abandons princess to evil monster as he returns to childhood by giving away all his worldly possessions (very Buddhist).
And finally, PiFry take a jab at my card-playing skills:
Poker: Corey accumulates money at a decent rate over a period of several hours.
Drew, who apparently has expanded this to non-video games:
Monopoly: The wealthiest players are apparently hit with antitrust laws, give everything away until socialism reigns.
Jeopardy: Players ask Alex Trebek extremely obvious questions, which he answers in the most difficult way possible.
Baseball: Random fan makes herculean 400 ft throw to strongman, who uses a stick to deflect it to a man about 60 ft away.
