Followup on the AAA BBB CCC DDD game

Kelly Graves, a new friend, and I had a coffee meeting yesterday to chat. And we ended up starting our chat with a wonderful discussion of the game “whats wrong here AAA BBB CCC DDD EEE FFF [...]“ that I blogged about a few days ago (after reading about the game from Kelly’s Facebook page).

We were thinking very much alike in many different aspects of this game. So, depending on whether we can gather some solid and interesting information to share, we may end up writing a joint paper/blog entry about this game. Stay tune.

P.S. Please take a few minutes to watch this insightful Google Talk video by the funny and very insightful Erin McKean. The talk is not directly related to this game/virus/chain-mail but I guarantee you will have some fun and learn something from Erin.

P.P.S. By the way, I want to talk about Kelly for a moment here.

Kelly and I have become fast friends as we both have a wide range of interests and can have fun talking just about anything under the sun (and see the connections in these seemingly distinct areas). And have I mention that Kelly is also an insightful entrepreneur (the current Entrepreneur In Residence at Calgary Technologies Inc.)? I will not be surprised that Kelly has been an insightful and helpful friend to many other entrepreneurs in Calgary as he has been to me even we only met twice and chatted once.

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Dec 6 Update: Kelly is working with some back channels to see if we can get some hard and insightful data.

As a start, we want to spread the “awareness” of this chain letter/virus and thus provide some form of “vaccination“. Ultimately, like flu vaccination, we may have to do it once a year or some time period. My current thought is new viruses may potentially appear on a yearly cycle coincide with a new school year. It is too early to say or tell.

Dec 23 Update: Kelly and me are still interested in writing something about this game/virus/chain-mail. But we will likely look at this in 2008. Have a Merry Christmas and Happy New year.