A few weeks ago before competing on The Amazing Race, I started “The Great Coin Jar Competition“. The premise was simple. Guess how much money is in my coin jar. Two things to take from it:
- I got tons of linkbacks, so now I’m in the top 10k of bloggers on Technorati.
- You are all rubbish.
Nobody was anybody near! Everybody was over £100 out. I hope none of you are bankers or accountants.
Anyway, the total was £214.38, which either bought me 1 £214.38 hooker in Amsterdam, or 214.38 £1 hookers in Amsterdam. I’ll leave you work out which happened.
So the winners, there were 3 prizes.
First Prize (2 Month 125×125 Advertising)
The winner was Adil, with his guess of £91.20. Congratulations! I will contact you shortly with the prize.
Second Prize (2 Month Adicon Spot)
Second Prize went to Contestblogger, who guessed it in funny money. $124.18, which converts to £62.09 as of today. Don’t worry, he was second by a large margin, so there wouldn’t be any exchange rate tomfoolery.
Third Prize (1 Month Adicon Spot)
Third Prize went to Adsense Tracker, who guessed £43.28.
Congratulations to all the winners! I will contact you all soon and let you know your prize and what you need to get the spots live.
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To keep those of you who aren’t interested reading, here’s a story from the hols.
If you have ever been on a coach trip, you need to find ways to pass the time, otherwise you will get insane. One such time was completely incomprehensible questions. This was one that cropped up often.
“You are travelling in a car going faster than the speed of light. You switch your headlights on. What happens?”
Any answers that an A Level Physicist or dumber can undertstand would be appreciated.
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Rhys Wynne, the author of this blog, is a 20 something web designer from Colwyn Bay.
What would a 0.38 £1 hooker be like? Only 38% of a body… I’m working out which bits would be essential… It’s not pretty.
Also I reckon the lights wouldn’t work at the speed of light
Ignoring the fact that the car would be a total wreck if it ever were travelling at those speeds, and be infinitely heavy etc etc. the only way of the car travelling that fast would be if it were being pulled in by a black hole, and was beyond the event horizon. If the lights are still functioning, surely relative to the car’s driver, the light still travels at the ’speed of light’ away from them, so, in theory the light still goes out in a beam. Problem is that to see said light, it would need to be relflected off small particles of dust / bigger objects, and being in a black hole, these would also be travelling faster than the speed of light, hence the light would never reach anything to reflect back from
That’s exactly what I meant when I said “I reckon the lights wouldn’t work at the speed of light”
I agree, the lights wouldn’t “work”… you wouldn’t be able to see the light.
Cool. Thanks for running a unique contest, Rhys. Glad to hve you back
Good to have you back Rhys!
Dangit! I missed it! I would have over-guessed–I thought I had over $300 in my jar and it was only $80.
Hi rhys,
Thnks for holding such a gr8 contest. Recieved your email, will reply shortly. I was just forgot that I have participated in this contest. Gud to see that I have won. I will send you the code to be put vie email.
Nice comment by Bloggrrl.
Cheers..
congrats to contestblogger and Adsense Tracker
Congrats to all the winners! And DANG, AdTracker really knows how to win these things. She has the best karma from anybody I’ve ever known! Maybe I will buy a little adicon :c). That reminds me, I haven’t heard from her I should probably try to touch base with her again!