I had the fun of working setting up a Unix system for a company that printed Bingo cards. The math involved in that is amazing. They used a Math professor from the University of Waterloo, (home of the Blackberry), to ensure that only one winner could happen. You cannot print bingo cards or scratch cards if there is going to be an undetermined number of winners. Especially when you give away a car. So the computer generates the cards and formats them for printing. He did the math, I did the encoding for the printing using xroff, or troff, one or the other. Then I automated it and didn't get enough money, they used that software for years and years because it worked.

Silly me, again.

Seriously, bingo cards for TV bingo. Win a TV. But just one. And the insurance company involved had the reputation of a math wizard who could not in plain english say how this worked. Fun Fun Fun. Till daddy took the tv away. ..no but at one point I thought those were the words.

When I learned to read I was appalled at what I sang in church. God in 3 purses. Not 3 persons. But no one got out the book, you just heard it every week. LOL. Imagine me, about 7 or 6, glancing around wondering if people thought I was nuts. Turns out I was.

John Conley
Musica est vita