Post by SE13 on Feb 1, 2012 7:21:35 GMT
It's a two part question today, part one will be along shortly, and part two will be along later. There's a bonus point for working out why this was chosen today;
Today marks the 5th anniversary of the daily quiz, which it seems you're all
still enjoying so I have no plans to stop here. The quiz is a lot bigger now
than when it started, with the addition of the DLR, Overground and now
Crossrail, and the obfuscations have in many cases become more sophisticated
and, sometimes, more complicated (although yesterday was not an example of
this!), but it's essentially the same quiz as it was 5 years ago.
In addition to the improvement in my photo manipulation skills, has come an
improvement in my spreadsheet skills. When it started, all I needed to
manage the quiz was a small text file, now it's a hefty shreadsheet with
data in over 24,500 cells (including headings, statistics, etc).
I sent a copy of this spreadsheet to Angel Islington a couple of days ago,
and she will extract some (potentially) interesting statistics from the data
for you, so I'll not bore you with many in this post - other than ones I've
just worked out: In 2007, 149 different locations featured in the quiz, in
the past year 411 did.
As a result of this quiz, I've travelled to and photographed nearly every
current TfL station (I think it's only Hounslow East and Hounslow Central
I've not been to), several disused ones and (the outside of) a few depots
and taken the best part of 5000 photos (the vast majority of which haven't
been seen yet). All very enjoyable for a photographer and rail enthusiast
like me. I haven't recorded the distance I've travelled, but it's probably a
significant fraction of the distance to the moon!
I wrote another bit of waffle for the
1st
anniversary, so I'll not repeat myself here, but I will thank you all
again for playing - I enjoy doing the quiz and without you there would be no
point. And I owe particular thanks to the admin team for indulging me all
this time, and most especially to SE13 for all the hard work he's been doing
almost every day since round August 2007 iirc.
So, enough of the award ceremony blubbings and on with today's special
image. Don't expect to see many more of these as they're a lot of effort to
produce, but like the queen indulges in a spot of celebration in Jubilee
years[1] I felt the occasion worth it.
[1] Whether this quiz will reach it's diamond jubilee, and if so
whether the 86-year-old me will still be at the helm, and how many stations
will be run by TfL (or it's equivalent) by then are questions that remain
unanswered at present
Chris
Today marks the 5th anniversary of the daily quiz, which it seems you're all
still enjoying so I have no plans to stop here. The quiz is a lot bigger now
than when it started, with the addition of the DLR, Overground and now
Crossrail, and the obfuscations have in many cases become more sophisticated
and, sometimes, more complicated (although yesterday was not an example of
this!), but it's essentially the same quiz as it was 5 years ago.
In addition to the improvement in my photo manipulation skills, has come an
improvement in my spreadsheet skills. When it started, all I needed to
manage the quiz was a small text file, now it's a hefty shreadsheet with
data in over 24,500 cells (including headings, statistics, etc).
I sent a copy of this spreadsheet to Angel Islington a couple of days ago,
and she will extract some (potentially) interesting statistics from the data
for you, so I'll not bore you with many in this post - other than ones I've
just worked out: In 2007, 149 different locations featured in the quiz, in
the past year 411 did.
As a result of this quiz, I've travelled to and photographed nearly every
current TfL station (I think it's only Hounslow East and Hounslow Central
I've not been to), several disused ones and (the outside of) a few depots
and taken the best part of 5000 photos (the vast majority of which haven't
been seen yet). All very enjoyable for a photographer and rail enthusiast
like me. I haven't recorded the distance I've travelled, but it's probably a
significant fraction of the distance to the moon!
I wrote another bit of waffle for the
1st
anniversary, so I'll not repeat myself here, but I will thank you all
again for playing - I enjoy doing the quiz and without you there would be no
point. And I owe particular thanks to the admin team for indulging me all
this time, and most especially to SE13 for all the hard work he's been doing
almost every day since round August 2007 iirc.
So, enough of the award ceremony blubbings and on with today's special
image. Don't expect to see many more of these as they're a lot of effort to
produce, but like the queen indulges in a spot of celebration in Jubilee
years[1] I felt the occasion worth it.
[1] Whether this quiz will reach it's diamond jubilee, and if so
whether the 86-year-old me will still be at the helm, and how many stations
will be run by TfL (or it's equivalent) by then are questions that remain
unanswered at present
Chris