And The Winner Is...!
Friday, April 18, 2008
Hi All.
My GOODNESS. (My goodness had nothing to do with it.) Who knew free booze was so enticing? I mean, other than to me?
Thanks to all who entered. I had lots of fun with this! We'll have to do it again soon.
As for picking the winners, I had this bright idea that I would cut and paste all the comments into Word, and then print them out and then cut them into strips and put them in a jar and pick them that way. Fun, huh?
But that was when I assumed that, at most, 50 of you would enter. Instead (yowza!) I realized that my scheme would result in approximately 75 pages of wasted paper and who-knows-how-many hours of cutting and frankly, that is a lot of unnecessary work. Even for gin.
Instead, I cut and pasted all of the comments into a text file. Then I deleted all the content of the comments except for the timestamps.
Like so:
Then, I cut and pasted the list of timestamps (with empty lines, which didn't really affect the outcome) into www.random.org, which totally randomized the list (thanks for the suggestion, Jenny!).
I have determined that whoever has their comment's timestamp come up first will win First Prize, and the second comment's timestamp will win Runner-Up.
And the winners are...
Congratulations, commenter 9:35 a.m. April 16 and 6:43 a.m. April 16th! Please email me and we'll figure out how to get your winnings to you!
My GOODNESS. (My goodness had nothing to do with it.) Who knew free booze was so enticing? I mean, other than to me?
Thanks to all who entered. I had lots of fun with this! We'll have to do it again soon.
As for picking the winners, I had this bright idea that I would cut and paste all the comments into Word, and then print them out and then cut them into strips and put them in a jar and pick them that way. Fun, huh?
But that was when I assumed that, at most, 50 of you would enter. Instead (yowza!) I realized that my scheme would result in approximately 75 pages of wasted paper and who-knows-how-many hours of cutting and frankly, that is a lot of unnecessary work. Even for gin.
Instead, I cut and pasted all of the comments into a text file. Then I deleted all the content of the comments except for the timestamps.
Like so:
Then, I cut and pasted the list of timestamps (with empty lines, which didn't really affect the outcome) into www.random.org, which totally randomized the list (thanks for the suggestion, Jenny!).
I have determined that whoever has their comment's timestamp come up first will win First Prize, and the second comment's timestamp will win Runner-Up.
And the winners are...
Congratulations, commenter 9:35 a.m. April 16 and 6:43 a.m. April 16th! Please email me and we'll figure out how to get your winnings to you!
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