As the more attentive of readers may know, Emily won the contest regarding how many pictures I would take this summer, with a guess of 18,081. She was closest to the real number of 16,904 so a prize was due.

I had a bit of a problem coming up with ideas until late, but things fell together quickly. I choose not to award her with 16,904 of something, because I really do not want to count up that high. Instead two other good prizes were selected. Emily was is town for thanksgiving, so I presented the prizes to her yesterday.

The main prize is the golden camera award for guessing arbitrary numbers with a reasonable degree of accuracy. This coveted prize is a real, working golden camera pre-loaded with colour film I could found lying around my room.

The second, specific prize is a molecular modeling kit. Emily had expressed some slight frustration over a lack of academic pursuits on the Outtatown program, so I thought that this would help prevent any grey matter from going into atrophy.

For everyone who guessed and lost, this contest will probably be repeated next summer. You will have another chance to win the golden camera award.

Now that I am home from camp I have done a final tally of how many pictures I took this summer. The number I arrived at should be reasonably close, as it is a bit of a challenge to count pictures in a camp context.

Between May 1st and September 1st I have taken: 16,904 pictures.

Emily will be recieving her prize as soon as I determine what it shall be.

I would like to announce that lately I have had very little material to blog about.

Now that is out of the way, here are some changes to this site. As you may have noticed I have a spiffy new colour scheme (actually its the return of an old colour scheme but just run with me on this...). I also have on the sidebar "Summer Stats". I wondered how many pictures I took at camp last summer and now I am actually going to keep track and update a counter here this summer.

Hold on... an idea just hit me. I will send a prize to the person who has the most accurate guess of how many pictures I will take between May 1st and Labour Day. Just leave a comment on this post with your guess and your email address and, if you are the closest, I will contact you in September about receiving your prize. No votes will be accepted after May 8th, offer not valid to residents of Quebec.

One exam left, w00t! w00t!