Crappy PrizesCompetitions, raffles, give-aways... sure the prizes look great, but don't they always turn out a bit crap should you happen to win them?
The last raffle I bought tickets for, they'd just given away the all-expenses paid weekend in New York when my number came up. Rushing up to find out what I'd won, I was a little disappointed to be handed a box of "Biscuits for Cheese". Especially as they were busy serving the cheese course (complete with biscuits) as they drew the raffle.
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chthonic, Thu 4 Aug 2005, 11:16)
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RadioMe and some of my more geeky friends went to a cross-school tech-a-thon last year. Besides highschool level coding competitions (Java, HTML, VB...all to be coded with no restriction for reference) they had this little thing while scores were being calculated where you need to fill in blanks on this little worksheet. Luckly one of the guys I was with had a laptop and the place had a public wi-fi so we quickly googled everything up.
No doubt we were one of the winners (after being accused of cheating....which we werent, since rules said 'find answers by any means possible') so we got called up to get our gifts......
this piece of #*@$& Microsoft Office branded radio
It only has controls to turn it on, skip to the next station and then rewind to the beginging of the band. If that was still decent set of features on a keychain radio, it refused to pick anything up. I used the carabiner for my keychain and my friends used the headphones as temps somewhere. I still keep it for no reason along with other crap here. I did nick the Java competition booklet with the questions from the place though, and since their problems don't change, I can use it as a study guide for next year...bonus
On the not crappy note I won StarCraft several years ago at a Bar Mitzvah. Dunno where it went, but it's still a kickass game and one of those few I still play(ed) in the spare time.
(, Wed 10 Aug 2005, 4:51, Reply)
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