OddThinking

A blog for odd things and odd thoughts.

Christmas Party = Eating + Drinking + Game Theory

It’s a corporate Christmas party, around 1999. The dot com crash hasn’t happened yet, the party-organisers have a considerable budget, 200-300 guests, and an idea of a good time strongly influenced by the company’s sales and marketing teams – people who have a tendency to differ from my idea of a good time.

I consider how to maximise my happiness in this situation.

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Framework Work-out

Wherein Julian finds he can re-use hobby code to solve a real-life problem.

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Non-Smoking linked to Drinking

My father, Joe, smoked cigarettes when he was younger, but he decided he wanted to give up.

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