Nomination for IQ Prize

On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 10:25 AM, Landei <Daniel.Gronau@gmx.de> wrote:

Mensa Germany awards an IQ prize every year, and here is the list of this
years nominees:

I never understood what Image Quality had to do with Odersky, but then again, my IQ is not that good either, I think my anti-aliasing is affecting my judgement.
 

http://www.mensa.de/index.php?id=157 (in German)

#26 is Prof. Martin Odersky :-)

I know that it is quite unlikely that he wins (other people on the list are
much more present in the media, e.g. TV hosts or comedians), but I'll keep
my fingers crossed.

Cheers
Landei
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Viktor Klang wrote:
>
> I never understood what Image Quality had to do with Odersky, but then
> again, my IQ is not that good either, I think my anti-aliasing is
> affecting
> my judgement.
>

I guess in this context IQ stands for "Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit" or
"traditional Inuit knowledge" (see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inuit_Qaujimajatuqangit )

And who would disagree that designing Scala is like walking on thin ice?

Cheers,
Daniel

hmmm... hape kerkeling and angela merkel are there as well... i just
came back from latin america, you know "mensa" means simple-minded in
spanish, they must have overseen that ;-) my favourite anecdote with
angela merkel is back in the days when she was helmut kohl's
arselicker in the ministery for "reactorsecurity": when the news
reported that radioactive contamination came out of the castor
containers during their transport, she stated "well you know, when
i'm baking a cake, there is also always some flour spilling on the
floor". she is certainly worth the IQ price...

(anyway, good luck to martin!)

cheers, -sciss-

Am 26.03.2009 um 10:25 schrieb Landei:

>
> Mensa Germany awards an IQ prize every year, and here is the list
> of this
> years nominees:
>
> http://www.mensa.de/index.php?id=157 (in German)
>
> #26 is Prof. Martin Odersky :-)
>
> I know that it is quite unlikely that he wins (other people on the
> list are
> much more present in the media, e.g. TV hosts or comedians), but
> I'll keep
> my fingers crossed.
>
> Cheers
> Landei

Viktor Klang schrieb:
> I think my anti-aliasing is affecting my judgement.

The originators put P.M. Magazin on the list, so you are probably
in a better shape than they are.

- Florian

Sc iss wrote:
>
> hmmm... hape kerkeling and angela merkel are there as well... i just
> came back from latin america, you know "mensa" means simple-minded in
> spanish, they must have overseen that ;-) my favourite anecdote with
> angela merkel is back in the days when she was helmut kohl's
> arselicker in the ministery for "reactorsecurity": when the news
> reported that radioactive contamination came out of the castor
> containers during their transport, she stated "well you know, when
> i'm baking a cake, there is also always some flour spilling on the
> floor". she is certainly worth the IQ price...
>
> (anyway, good luck to martin!)
>
> cheers, -sciss-
>

I absolutely agree. I already said if Merkel or von der Leyen (another
politician with fundamentalist Christian tendencies) wins, I'm in the wrong
club and leave...

Daniel