Thursday, April 21, 2005

When did Geek become cool

I am sitting here at the IDC in Herzeliyah at a competition being sponsored by my company. Basically it is a competition for extremely clever kids, they have 1.5 hours to answer 44 questions about computers and codes. The competition is called CodeGuru.

What amazes me, besides the fact that there are no females in this competition, is that these kids don't look like your sterotypical geeks. In fact I would go as far as to say some are quite cute! (girls where are you).

Of the 35 participants only 5 or so wear glasses, either contact lenses are in or maybe they forced kids with a certain IQ to wear glasses back when i was a young lass. Anyway kudos to these kids. One of them will win a laptop computer today ala IBM.

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When we had an organizational meeting a few weeks ago there was a riddle we had to solve before we could move on. I didn't solve it but hey - I don't claim to be a genious! Can you solve it?

עיכר - is to מכונית
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אני is to ברך
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חיבוק is to ????

Icar is to Mechonit
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Ani is to Berech
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Chibuk is to ????