Strongly Worded

Taboo, Math & Science Style

So my boss (a dean-type person) hosted a celebratory dinner for staff and student workers.

She held the dinner at her very lovely house, and she served a lot of lovely food, and I was pleased and surprised to find that our 13 student workers all attended. As I've mentioned, our department is all about the science, and I live slightly vicariously through these people, who have their whole lives ahead of them and know how to distribute algorithms and de-bug code and invent stuff, and will probably always enjoy financial security and probably never suffer a demoralizing job search such as mine, unless of course their potential jobs get shipped to India, which is no dim possibility. But I digress.

Towards the end of the evening we busted out the game Taboo (which you must immediately procure if you don't already own it). As a graduate of a liberal arts college, I thought I would kick ass in this arena, because, unlike these students, I use words in my day-to-day life.

But they were, once again, wicked impressive.

For "darkroom": "this is a location in which there's an absence of lumens"

For "cone", nothing about sorbet or dunce caps or what have you. The word was instantly conveyed as "a geometric shape ending in a point."

Posted by Dori at 9:49 PM