Table Tennis. Is it an Olympic Sport?

You’ll see here that today Table Tennis was played as an Olympic sport. Or all of the marginal sports in the olympics, I think it ranks pretty high along with Beach Volleyball and Handball. I think we need to add Foosball and Pool to the list of Olympic sports. While we’re at it why isn’t programming an Olympic sport?
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"We’re in the C preliminaries and we’ve got Dennis Richie here to help us understand this sport. Dennis when you invented C did you think it would ever come to this?"

"No, I’m ashamed and I can’t believe they’ve turned something so refined as programming into a cheap, patronization or valuable skills"

"You’re right Dennis, but we’re here and they’re ready to start. What libraries do you think the judges are looking for the coders to include, Dennis?"

"Shut Up."

"Right. I think that Dave’s variable names are going to get points deducted, they’re not very intuitive. The judges are going to mark him down for that!"
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And as you can see I have an overactive imagination.

List of Company Name Etymologies

Since I know most of my readers really get a kick out of words here’s a great link about business names and where they came from: List of company name etymologies – Wikipedia.

Props to Dave O’Hara, Mad Scientist, Programmer, Husband and Dad. Oh, and my friend, too 😉

And if you don’t get a kick out of words, shame on you, there are starving kids in China. And lastly Etymology is the study of the root of words and languages. entomology (commonly confused with etymology when pronounced) is the study of insects.

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