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Fri, 25 May 2007

[15:00] SRE Crawl
Recently my group at work was subsumed by the overarching SRE group. Since there are now a considerable number of groups operating under the SRE banner it was decided that we should all get together for a bit of a meet 'n greet in the style of your traditional pub crawl, so that's what we did on Thursday. We downed tools at 12:00 and embarked upon a 4-stop tour of the campus. Events included:

  1. Tricycle Races:
    This event involved racing a child-sized tricycle around a traffic-cone course. This was the initial stop on the crawl and, at this stage, most people were still sober so there was some decent competition. The tricycles did not cope well with a succession of ~100Kg+ engineers attempting to propel them at high speeds and depending on how long it had been since the event started your attempt could have been severely hampered by the differential between the direction the front wheel pointed and the direction the handlebars pointed. I managed to come in second place at 59 seconds, well behind the blisteringly fast 29 seconds of our glorious leader.
    Kynan at the starting line of the SRE tricycle raceKynan participating in SRE tricycle race
  2. Cupcake Eating Contest:
    This was advertised in advance so I knew not to eat breakfast or lunch until after this event! Luckily the cupcakes weren't insanely sweet so I was able to deal with them effectively and ended up tying for first place in this one. I managed to ram 14 Safeway cupcakes into my gob in the alloted two minutes. I offered an "eat-off" challenge to the other winner but he graciously declined.
    SRE Cupcake Eating Contest: Before, During, After.
  3. Karaoke:
    Sadly, I got paged and had to go deal with some stuff, by the time I got back the list was o'er long. I got to have a bit of a sing-along with YMCA though so it was all OK!
  4. MarioKart:
    Ahh, you don't really appreciate MarioKart until you've seen eight players playing on two projectors :)
That's the highlights reel, amongst other coolness was a chance to meet up with the far-flung SRE folks, have a go of one of the aforementioned Conference Bikes and, of course, the schwag!

[Posted at: 15:00 25/05/2007]

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