I went to Mount Macedon last week for a work conference. God, it was cold up there. I froze my ass off.
They made us do the Myer Briggs personality test, and I found out I was an INTJ - introvert, intuition, thinking, judging. It turned out both James and Craig were the same type as well - maybe why we get along so well.
On the second day, they made us do Survivor, with four teams. I was part of the green team, and god, we kicked ass! We won about 80% of the challenges, and the remaining 20% of challenges, we came second. Yea! Got a trophy at work to show it off too!
One of the challenges they made us go through was an egg challenge. An egg hangs in the air by a string, and the aim is to build a contraption to get the egg safely down to the ground without breaking once the string is cut. Now, some rules:
1. The egg must end up on the ground, not on something else like a jacket/cotton wool/paper
2. The egg must not break
3. If the egg gets stuck before hitting the ground, it's not as bad as the egg breaking
We had wire, tubes, paper folders, clothes pegs, sticky tape, string, paper cups, cotton wool, and paper clips to build our contraption.
The eggs are held up about 1.4m high, and they get cut by a pair of scissors.. The rest of the teams build these elaborate slides, and bassonets, but our team decided to build a simple pulley system: the egg drops into a paper cup, and 4 pieces of string held by tubes feed off the weight of the egg to drop the egg to the ground. Nothing is holding the end of the strings to counter the weight of the egg.
The rest of the teams give us a bit of stick for our invention, convinced it wouldn't work.. They were sure the egg would break - falling 1.4m and SPLAT! They even gave us pity points for it!
But when the egg was dropped, our egg landed safely on the ground! Oh yea!
I gotta post up a pic of our contrapment - I was so proud of it! Hehehe.
It was a good trip away, though by the end of it, I was exhausted.
They made us do the Myer Briggs personality test, and I found out I was an INTJ - introvert, intuition, thinking, judging. It turned out both James and Craig were the same type as well - maybe why we get along so well.
On the second day, they made us do Survivor, with four teams. I was part of the green team, and god, we kicked ass! We won about 80% of the challenges, and the remaining 20% of challenges, we came second. Yea! Got a trophy at work to show it off too!
One of the challenges they made us go through was an egg challenge. An egg hangs in the air by a string, and the aim is to build a contraption to get the egg safely down to the ground without breaking once the string is cut. Now, some rules:
1. The egg must end up on the ground, not on something else like a jacket/cotton wool/paper
2. The egg must not break
3. If the egg gets stuck before hitting the ground, it's not as bad as the egg breaking
We had wire, tubes, paper folders, clothes pegs, sticky tape, string, paper cups, cotton wool, and paper clips to build our contraption.
The eggs are held up about 1.4m high, and they get cut by a pair of scissors.. The rest of the teams build these elaborate slides, and bassonets, but our team decided to build a simple pulley system: the egg drops into a paper cup, and 4 pieces of string held by tubes feed off the weight of the egg to drop the egg to the ground. Nothing is holding the end of the strings to counter the weight of the egg.
The rest of the teams give us a bit of stick for our invention, convinced it wouldn't work.. They were sure the egg would break - falling 1.4m and SPLAT! They even gave us pity points for it!
But when the egg was dropped, our egg landed safely on the ground! Oh yea!
I gotta post up a pic of our contrapment - I was so proud of it! Hehehe.
It was a good trip away, though by the end of it, I was exhausted.
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