Two Days Left
August 8th, 2007 by Dan Meyer
No snarky commentary on this one. Just two days to submit a four-slide set to the Four Slide Sales Pitch contest. Here's your competition, a fierce but open field:

Alice Mercer
Diane Cordell
Dave Stacey
Colette Cassinelli
John Pederson
Marcie Hull
Chris Duke
Ethan Bodner
Nancy Bosch
Glenn Moses
Carolyn Foote
Kevin Hodgson
Graham Wegner
Paul Williams
Tracy Rosen
Jeffrey Pierce


Is there any significance to how heavily weighted this seems to be to the front half of the alphabet, and even within that, to the front third of the the front half?
Oh yeah, first or last names, the trend seems just as clear for both.
Yikes. Um, hadn’t noticed that.
Anyway, how’s that European vacation treating you? Amsterdam this week, was it?
[...] There are some really good entries being submitted in Dan’s 4 Slide competition, although at the moment I think this one is my favourite. Still, I wouldn’t like to be Dan, Scott or Christian come Friday evening! You can check out all the entries so far from this post [...]
This week? The Bronx. Last week? Sofia. It’s all an adventure.
Change of subject–have you seen this? Mathematics in the Movies.
http://www.math.harvard.edu/~knill/mathmovies/index.html
[...] participating in dy/dan’s “Four Slide Contest” earlier this summer, I’ve been thinking alot about [...]