Science at its best

A while ago I felt like I should have a grown up night out. Don't be alarmed, even the recreational fresh air in Vancouver cannot make a Joli grow up just yet. However, the thought was more that I am surrounded by <25 year old students in everyday on Campus school life. Consequently, I felt the urge to have a night of "mature" conversations and interactions only. So that night, no kids were allowed (except for one little British, but we all know exceptions prove the rule...). Naturally, such a special occasion calls for a special invitation. Plus: I was working on a research proposal at the time. Might have caused an urge to distract myself but at the same time keep the focus on scientific methodology and practice.

(Random email from August 24, 2014 at 5:33 pm)

Project Concept: The effects of intoxication have well been studied in the past. It also has been shown that an irregular high intake of bêor can cause odd conversations, loud insults, a certain degree of touchiness as well as side effects such as hick-ups or occasional memory loss. However, in recent years there has been a lot of innovation and development with respect to the art of beer crafting, which power has only been tested to a certain degree. Thus, it should be every computer scientists' duty to optimize taste-amount-endurance coefficient. 

Hypotheses: It will work.

Methods: Leave campus at 6 pm on Friday, August 29th, and head to the Beer Craft Market. Then, order beer. Lift the glass and drink with as little spillage as possible. Repeat this until no longer possible. 

Measures: Numbers of beer drunk. Numbers of pointless conversations. Time of consumption. Annoyance of the waiters. Spontaneous flashes of genius.

Expected Results: Headaches, sleeplessness, nausea, in summary: one hell of a night.

Follow-up: Results can be solidified by going to Portland Craft or to the Vancouver Alpen Club or both.

Participants: As addressed here. However additional participants are welcome and should be suggested to the group to go up for voting.


In retro-perspective, I can report that maturity level did definitely suffer. We especially accomplished to max out the measure of "annoyance of the waiters". Or at least we had some kind of very memorable Joli-waitress interaction. But that is a story for another time.