pwd
yesterday was our cub scout pack's annual pinewood derby. last week we didn't have a track. or a plan for a derby. but the pack leader somehow pulled a monster huge 6-lane track out of his truck. and the race was on! i've been the pwd chairman since b started scouting. he's now a boy scout. g has one more year to go. then we're done with that piece of american culture. woo hooty. anywho. there was no electronic timer. so a set of judges went a bit cross-eyed trying to determine the place order of the six cars. it's an interesting math problem to figure out which cars to race when. you want every car to race in every lane, once. and you want every car to race every other car. and you want the none of the currently racing cars to be on deck. fortunately, there's a program on the internet that does a pretty good job. though it expected us to run 96 races in one hour. we ran 30. but then we had to take a couple of eyeball breaks. and pizza. and photo ops of the pack with the cars. most of the cars were pretty fast. none were slow. g's finished fourth. just out of the money. and guess what. two of the top three appeared to have significant adult contribution. which i'm fine with. so long as the kid was at least there. the point of scouting after all, is to get dad to spend time with his kid.