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Sections: -- Networking Night -- Joke - Texan's Challenge Developing news. Happening on 15th March (Wed) 2023. Roundhouse. Food, drinks and conversation over 7:00 - 8:30

pm. "Be there, if you want to share."

=== NETWORKING NIGHT ===

Do you have something to share with the current undergraduates or other industry graduates about work?

If you're interested, contact Aron Keness, Industry Executive, via industry@elsoc.net or here so we can pass it on. If you're Covid wary or not in town, share a video-grab or an email. Much easier now than it was for us in the '80's.

Elsoc email excerpt: "This is a separate event from our annual Industry Night with a focus on casual conversations with food and drinks at the roundhouse with industry and undergraduate students". [President -- Regan Fan]

As far as I know, most of the Alumni Ctee will be there. Hopefully there'll be no Covid detours this time.

We're not sure if Elsoc will be using the usual Eventbrite ticket system as yet. We shall let you know if we find out.

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13 FEB 2023

=== JOKE – TEXAN’S CHALLENGE ===

A Texan goes into an Irish pub and says, "I'll give anyone $500 if they can drink 10 pints in two minutes".

People look around at each other a few times. Silence all round.

"No takers?" says the Texan.

One person walks out and the Texan orders a pint from the bar-tender to drink by himself.

30 minutes later, the guy who walked out comes back in and asks the Texan, "Does your challenge still stand?"

"It sure does, my friend!", says the Texan.

"Can I take up your challenge?"

"Yes, 10 pints in two-minutes for $500", says the Texan.

The bar-tender takes out the stop-watch and starts it when he serves the first pint.

The 10th pint was finished with 5 seconds to spare.

"Here you are. The $500 for beating my challenge", says the Texan.

"By the way," he asks the man.

"Where did you go in the last 30 minutes?"

"I had to find a pub to see if I could do it!", says the man.

Takeaway -- It's good to test yourself with a trial run or prototype before you accept the challenge. The chances are better that way even if you are playing with a spreadsheet or with other gadgets or people.

You guessed it. My appreciation of Irish humour started from Tom Millet, an Irishman of course. He was the Communications Lab Mgr during my thesis time of nutting out an interface system to the TMS32010 DSP evaluation board. Rarely dull.

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