Geeky Yet Waterproof

I streamed live video of our workshops on Friday (using my trusty PowerBook and iSight), and also recorded it to the web. In the first workshop, I was the one talking about COPPA, which was sort of a bad idea because it was way over both of our heads. The second workshop worked out better though; I was talking about email obfuscation (nobody, including myself, can pronounce that correctly on their first try), which was ironically easier than the COPPA.

You can watch the second workshop below.







I’ve been having a lot of fun this week. It’s literally been workshop, party, long meeting, party, free dinner, party, sleep, party, etc…



On Friday, seven of us athletes took the shuttle to Downtown Disney and ate at the Rain Forest Cafe. We were Ultimate Tourists: every five minutes, we’d ask some innocent unknowing stranger to take our photo. When they would say yes, all seven of us would hand them a camera.

Another thing was that whenever someone asked us the frequently-used question, “So, where are y’all from?”, the answer would come:

“Oregon!”

“Hawaii!”

“New York!”

“Pennsylvania!”











On Thursday night we began a scavenger hunt, commissioned by Tyler Storie. We were split into teams of 3-5, and then each team was given a list of things we had to get by Saturday morning at 8:30am:

• University and Macot name of every NCAA mascot designed by Disney
• Brian Jones’ favorite drink. (Who’s Brian Jones?)
• Middle names of all AEC members. (What does AEC stand for??)
• Jamie Rauch’s wife’s first and middle names. (Who the heck…?)
• Nate Rothman’s flight number.
• Coasters from three different restaurants.
• Signatures from all the BoD vice presidents.
• Team picture in of artwork made of zip-ties.
• Team picture with three Disney Characters.
• Names of the two conferences that will be represented in the 2008 football national championship football game.
• Name of the only Division 1A football program to lose to a Division 1AA football program thus far this season.
• Four different matchbooks.
• Learn and perform, as a team, the “Hotty Toddy”.
• One pair of Mickey Ears.
• One Mickey Mouse trap.
• Gas receipt for $0.01.
• One Halloween costume.
• 10 Facebook message posts on Ali Terry’s wall. (Nobody knows who Ali Terry is.)
• Pictures of team with five different Mickey Mouse representations.
• Picture of team at morning workout.
• At least five different LSC pins.
• Picture of at least one team member wearing Trent’s glasses. (Trent Staley is a vice president of USA Swimming.
• Sand from Laguna Beach.

When Saturday morning arrived, my team had completed a whopping THREE tasks. But believe it or not, we won. All the other teams did even worse than us.


Note: at the time of this writing, we are sitting in the hall eating sugar and drinking caffeine. Oh, and the time is 3:30am. I’ll provide a full excuse for this in my next post.