Apr. 3rd, 2006
Numbered list insertion
Apr. 3rd, 2006 12:53 pmSo, noone seems to have noticed the introduction of Jack into the unrandomized list, though a lot of people heard about it; that copy of the list wasn't actually used for the randomization, a new copy was, so Bill certainly never drew his name out of the hat (where by "hat" I mean "bucket"). Afterward, though, they were looking at the list - apparently there was some problem - and they announced this, and from where they were pointing I thought they had noticed Jack's name - but actually Girl Sam had noticed that her name hadn't been drawn, and so they were checking the list and seeing that she wasn't on there. For a moment I was afraid that I had introduced that error, but then Mark pointed out that Girl Sam wasn't called was a result of her not being on Bill and Fiona's list.
So now, of course, I've thought of, and it's been suggested to me several times, that I ought to insert Jack's name into the randomized list. Unfortunately, copies of this have been distributed, so I can't affect most of those. I think I'll wait until the lottery is coming up - hopefully this list actually *will* be used, seeing as how it's just reading names off the list rather than cutting it up and putting the names in a hat - to reduce the risk of anyone noticing. Also, this list has numbers on it, so there's the question of what number to assign Jack. If I push everyone else down, someone might notice that the numbers are wrong. And putting in a number for Jack that's, say, a half-integer, or out of sequence, would probably also be noticeable. So I think I'll use a duplicate number; that shouldn't be so obvious.
-Sniffnoy
So now, of course, I've thought of, and it's been suggested to me several times, that I ought to insert Jack's name into the randomized list. Unfortunately, copies of this have been distributed, so I can't affect most of those. I think I'll wait until the lottery is coming up - hopefully this list actually *will* be used, seeing as how it's just reading names off the list rather than cutting it up and putting the names in a hat - to reduce the risk of anyone noticing. Also, this list has numbers on it, so there's the question of what number to assign Jack. If I push everyone else down, someone might notice that the numbers are wrong. And putting in a number for Jack that's, say, a half-integer, or out of sequence, would probably also be noticeable. So I think I'll use a duplicate number; that shouldn't be so obvious.
-Sniffnoy