Well last year (1997) a strange group of four std. 9's in Theodor Herzl, LordCow (meee), Dimebag, px, Flyer and one uninternetted guy, Alon Bushman, took it upon themselves to do this government-money throwing-all-over-the-place project, the CSIR Mindwalk. (We called it Cybertising if u were wondering about the title).
Well anyway it was this national science awareness project (and still is) that any schools were allowed to enter. We chose the Tourism section and got through to the national finals, but more of that later. I wanted to do the Great Leap section (invention) caus i knew i could come up with something kewl but the others, as always, never took any notice. Well actually i couldn't come up with something so we did the other thing.
We, (Dimebag & Evan), decided the project was gonna be a web presentation. This was the turn around point were px forced his way in (yea five not four). Him and Dimey sorta knew something about it whereas we had no clue. (This is actually why i'm boring u because it's how i started on the web and all). So anyway us three sat back and watched them play quake and stuff (with a bit of Cybertising inbetween) and Alon came in handy when we needed him to correct his own spelling mistakes.
Anyway we based Cybertising on the fact that there was a gap in the advertising market for Bed & Breakfast Agencies. It may sound lame but we made a real kewl web presentation out of it, with java applets and marques and stuff (on FrontPage98 of course). Well that plus Evan's ingenious budget (no sarcasm) got us through to the nationals. Ten teams in total including three in our catagory from PE .. yehaa.
So stuck in da Pretoria Hotel with 5 guys and 2 showers we somehow managed to improve the project, (and totally cream each other in NHL in the process). After a week of the CSIR stuffing burgers down our throats, which i thought was quite kewl, we found ourselves being adjudicated again. Inbetween Evan and Alon phoning all their girlfriends on my cell phone we checked out the other projects. Not being baised (of course) but we really should've won, not that those demon judges in human clothing had the same idea.
Yeah so we never got through. We're all at the prize-giving now, sitting on the edge of our seats caus they'd just named the second and first runners up and i was so damn sure we were gonna #@$ing win .. and then .. erm .. well i'm gonna stop here caus i get 2 emotional :(
We didn't WIN!!
(Yeah so if i can find a copy i made in the dark depths of Dimebag's computer i'll stick it up here).
Just for the record some, well many actually, will say that this was our downfall, but i of course will strongly deny it:
Judges: "So how did you collect your statistical information?"
LordCow: "Well we gave this survey to our friends and family."
*wasn't me*