{"id":8861,"date":"2006-04-03T22:09:48","date_gmt":"2006-04-04T05:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2006\/04\/03\/speaking-of-names-and-faces.html"},"modified":"2006-04-03T22:09:48","modified_gmt":"2006-04-04T05:09:48","slug":"speaking_of_nam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/04\/03\/speaking_of_nam.html","title":{"rendered":"Speaking of names and faces"},"content":{"rendered":"

We did a team-building\/introduction exercise during the big meeting today. The project manager stuck the names of various “famous people, fictional or real, alive or dead” on each of our backs, and, through yes-and-no questions, we were supposed to figure out who we were.<\/p>\n

I was more than a bit dismayed when it turned out that “I” was a music personality. My experience with these sorts of things is that I end up with either a pop music star I’ve never heard of — or, more likely, have heard of, but couldn’t associate with a given tune for love or money — or else a sports figure that I recognize the name of but whom I could never offer up as an answer if my life depended on it.<\/p>\n

I was a bit further hampered in the exercise by people giving me wrong answers, to wit, two people telling me that I was, though dead, not associated with the 20th Century.<\/p>\n

It turned out I was John Lennon<\/a>, who was quite associated with the 20th Century.<\/p>\n

My project-related observations:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. If people are telling you things that don’t make sense, keep asking questions.\n
  2. The answerer and the answered may have different interpretations of the answer.\n
  3. Not all data is equally reliable.<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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