| 03:01.21 | jduncan | plarsen - ooo... that's interesting. if it were me i'd like to see it from the "ground up". |
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| 14:56.45 | plarsen | jduncan, ping? |
| 14:57.15 | jduncan | plarsen , pong |
| 14:58.42 | jsmith | plays ping-pong with plarse and jduncan |
| 15:00.58 | plarsen | Hey - it's a two person game! ;) |
| 15:01.08 | plarsen | but it would be fun doing it 3 or 4 way ... |
| 15:08.59 | jsmith | So, my new boss is apparently one of the top ten ping-pong players in the country, or so they tell me |
| 15:09.08 | jsmith | (and the company has something like four or five people in the top ten) |
| 15:09.14 | jsmith | Crazy, huh? |
| 15:09.52 | jduncan | that's .... sorta' creepy. |
| 15:09.53 | jduncan | lol |
| 15:10.39 | jsmith | They have five ping pong tables at the office, including a robotic ball shooter |
| 15:10.44 | jsmith | Hold on... let me find the video |
| 15:12.21 | jsmith | http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&list=PL5422B0138FC6AFA8&v=NxBe65afGRg#t=22s |
| 15:14.03 | jduncan | i want my own gym! |
| 15:14.24 | plarsen | Ping Pong or Table Tennis? |
| 15:14.32 | jsmith | plarsen: Yes. |
| 15:14.38 | jsmith | ducks |
| 15:14.43 | plarsen | Where I'm from, it's two different games :) |
| 15:15.03 | jsmith | Really? |
| 15:15.10 | jsmith | never grok'd the difference |
| 15:15.37 | jsmith | The first thing my boss said when I met him ... "If you want my job, you have to beat me at table tennis." |
| 15:15.44 | jsmith | It was later that I heard just how good he is |
| 15:17.02 | plarsen | It may be a European thing ;) More strict rules in Table Tennis |
| 15:17.43 | plarsen | In ping pong we could serve directly to the opponents half immediately but we could not smash on the serve. |
| 15:18.19 | plarsen | Some games required you to hit your own half all the time too meaning the game was slower and less challenging. |
| 15:18.27 | plarsen | Those were called ping-pong. |
| 15:18.45 | plarsen | (sound of the ball hitting the table twice vs. only once in a normal game) |
| 15:19.12 | plarsen | But wikipedia seems to proclaim it's the same game over here - just the "professional name" is Table Tennis and ping pong is what everyone outside the industry uses. |
| 15:20.29 | benji | yeah, I don't think I've ever seen anyone play the "own half all the time" version |
| 15:22.12 | benji | until some recent health issues my wife and I would play a few games most every day at lunch; good times |
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