Ep 332: Toby Baldwin, Eleanor Lamb (December 6, 2011)

Rounds: Here.


Yesterday we learned more about Toby's music interests, and today Richard asks him about what his pathology work involves.  Toby processes and tests specimens, both from within the hospital and from outside it.  A good deal of it is clinical trial work, so it is important to be extra careful with names and dates to ensure that the integrity of the trial is maintained.  Richard has this view of Toby peering down microscopes, but Toby says that it is more a matter of operating "big machines", spinning samples down, and maintaining the very expensive equipment.

Tonight's challenger is Eleanor Lamb, a university student and musician.  She plays trombone in a ska band, The Kujo Kings, and every week or two they'll have a gig somewhere in Melbourne (usually a pub or a bar, as is to be expected).  The band has two EPs out, with Eleanor playing on one of them.


There's some awkward rounds early on (uncooperative letters, and a difficult numbers target), but then things settle down.  Toby has the better of it, and a solution to the final numbers round sees him safely ahead for the conundrum.  He solves the conundrum, too, winning the game 54 points to 28.

I really struggled in those first three rounds, missing a word I should have found and changing tacks at the wrong point in the numbers round (leading to two away, which I think is the worst for a while).  But I had not fallen behind and the rest went as well as it could, complete with an early conundrum solution and a comfortable win in the end.

As usual, details after the jump.