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[2004-12-14 11:27:39] - and really, the "bidding" process was probably silly since no other company could possibly outbid EA - travis
[2004-12-14 11:25:06] - guess i'm not buying a new football game next year - travis
[2004-12-14 11:23:09] - Aaron: Likely, although I wonder if Sega can find ways around it somehow. -Paul
[2004-12-14 11:16:03] - Paul: Well yeah, it's good for EA and for the NFL, it's just bad for sports games in general. - aaron
[2004-12-14 10:43:58] - Aaron: I imagine it got the NFL more money though, and EA has virtually guaranteed that Sega won't be overtaking them in football games now. -Paul
[2004-12-14 10:35:42] - What a shitty idea! Now not only does EA have less threat of competition, they also have $x million dollars less to spend on development and deployment. - aaron
[2004-12-14 10:20:57] - http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20041213-4461.html EA gets exclusive rights to the NFL -Paul
[2004-12-14 09:47:30] - Mig: I'm here mostly. -Paul
[2004-12-13 22:45:36] - i'm here. ~a
[2004-12-13 22:00:34] - where did everybody go? - mig
[2004-12-13 16:03:45] - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4092689.stm Ukrainian presidential candidate Yushchenko was poisoned by dioxin, which has left his face disfigured. -mel
[2004-12-13 15:53:57] - A White House team is considering 5 candidates to replace O'Keefe to head NASA. Bush's top choice right now is Air Force Lt. Gen. Ronald Kadish, former director of the Pentagon's Missle Defense Agency. -mel
[2004-12-13 15:52:33] - http://www.waff.com/Global/story.asp?S=2685941 Sean O Keefe resigned today. he will be the new chancellor of Louisiana State University. -mel
[2004-12-13 12:40:43] - g
[2004-12-13 12:26:29] - http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=324464 NASA Administrator Sean O Keefe to resign this week. Bush will pick someone new. -mel
[2004-12-12 23:43:02] - http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=1944994 The Kobe/Malone fued thickens. -Paul
[2004-12-11 13:18:22] - http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/world/2941589 oops. looks like we have rivals for beuracratic incompetence. - mig
[2004-12-10 15:36:48] - Travis: I'm partial to this comment: "Consumers are happy with their DVD. They're not going to be rushing out to replace their content." Not because it's necessarily true for me, but because I wish the companies thought it was true.
-Paul[2004-12-10 15:31:15] - and the best remark about the upcoming format battle: ""The problem is that we're getting into another round of format wars and until it shakes out, consumers are not likely to buy much of anything" - travis
[2004-12-10 15:30:32] - http://www.technewsworld.com/story/news/38881.html and then some people are gonna try to support both - travis
[2004-12-10 14:34:18] - mig: pimping, eh? -mel
[2004-12-10 14:27:45] - There is also a competing format by a bunch of over companies called HD-DVD which some people think is better. -Paul
[2004-12-10 14:25:22] - Mel: mig is right. Here is more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluray -Paul
[2004-12-10 14:23:12] - the new hi def dvd format that sony i believe is pimping to be the succesor to the current dvd format. - mig
[2004-12-10 14:18:16] - Paul: What is Blu-Ray? -mel
[2004-12-10 14:17:48] - Mel: Hopefully. -Paul
[2004-12-10 14:16:26] - Paul: but its ok, I bet there will be a big buzz beforehand with a lot more info, and you can try the two of them out before you buy, so the choice will be clear when the time comes -mel
[2004-12-10 14:14:18] - Mel: It presents somewhat of a conflict for me though, since I have preferred the X-Box over the PS2 but I also prefer nVidia over ATI (the company that I believe is doing the graphics for the next X-Box) so now I don't know which to get. -Paul
[2004-12-10 14:08:09] - Paul: wow cool, that sounds good. -mel
[2004-12-10 14:07:31] - Mel: I think nVidia has been contracted to help design the graphics chip on the PS3 also. -Paul
[2004-12-10 14:06:06] - hey guys, what do you think about the ipod that can handle photos? How diffrent is photo compression from song compression? -mel
[2004-12-10 14:03:47] - Paul: I heard that Sony and IBM are involved in making the chip for the Playstation 3. Some people I knew left Intel to work on it. -mel
[2004-12-10 13:59:31] - Mel: Well, the next Playstation and X-Box are probably in early development, but they're probably at least another year or two away. -Paul
[2004-12-10 13:59:14] - pierce: deal.
-mel[2004-12-10 13:58:22] - Mel: yaaaaay! let me know if you sign up. - pierce
[2004-12-10 13:57:46] - pierce: I will definitely check out World of Warcraft. -mel
[2004-12-10 13:56:47] - Paul: thats cool. what next generation consoles are currently in development? -mel
[2004-12-10 13:56:33] - mel: get World of Warcraft! I need to know someone else who plays it! - pierce
[2004-12-10 13:56:15] - Gah! I got pulled off my flight due to weight restrictions. My poor self-esteem! - pierce
[2004-12-10 13:56:05] - Paul: haha. well thank you for the advice. I think I need many new computer games. Good thing Chistmas is here.
-mel[2004-12-10 13:55:38] - Mel: I'll probably buy one of the next generation consoles when they come out though. -Paul
[2004-12-10 13:55:16] - Mel: Not really, I just find that most games that I would enjoy playing by myself are on the computer and most of my friends own the consoles so if I want to play multiplayer games it's not a problem. -Paul
[2004-12-10 13:54:17] - Mel: That would be my prognosis. Computer games are the cure for many ailments. -Paul
[2004-12-10 13:53:12] - Paul: is there something you don't like about the newer consoles? -mel
[2004-12-10 13:53:01] - Mel: Ah yes. That's a quote from one of my friends that I found to be very humorous and I enjoy quoting a lot. -Paul
[2004-12-10 13:52:39] - I've been frustrated lately by a particular guy so I feel the sentiment. Maybe I should buy a new computer game.. -mel
[2004-12-10 13:51:27] - who needs women when you have computer games? -mel
[2004-12-10 13:48:57] - Mel: Which one? -Paul
[2004-12-10 13:48:16] - Mel: Nope, I don't have any of the newer consoles. -Paul
[2004-12-10 13:47:33] - Paul: haha. interesting blog entry title. -mel
[2004-12-10 13:45:26] - Paul: do you have a Playstation or X Box? Just wondering. I don't know much about either. -mel
[2004-12-10 13:44:26] - Mel: I've seen The Whole Nine Yards but haven't seen The Whole Ten Yards. -Paul
[2004-12-10 13:44:00] - Mel: Not doing too bad. Just got me some new computer games that I'm loving right now. -Paul
[2004-12-10 13:42:11] - Paul: I just saw The Whole Nine Yards while I was sick at home. -mel
[2004-12-10 13:41:53] - Paul: Have you seen The Whole Ten Yards? -mel
[2004-12-10 13:41:27] - Paul: so how are you doing Paul? -mel
[2004-12-10 13:40:33] - Paul: Thanks.
-mel[2004-12-10 13:32:19] - Mel: You might also find that to be useful. -Paul
[2004-12-10 13:32:08] - Mel: "Okay, I've put a login/pass up for it which is going to stay up for the immediate future. The login is what I like to call my journal ("journal"), the password is what I don't like to call my journal. If you don't know what that is, email me (and the "forbidden" error page now gives the same instructions). - pierce" -Paul
[2004-12-10 13:30:26] - Mel: (In case Pierce isn't around). It was passworded because he accidentally sent an email to a potential employer from ph0 so he didn't want them checking out his journal. -Paul
[2004-12-10 13:25:10] - I've been sick, I was off work all week and at home with the flu. -mel
[2004-12-10 13:24:30] - pierce: your journal is passworded now? -mel
[2004-12-10 10:00:28] - http://www.team4news.com/Global/story.asp?S=2671795 for every sprinkle I find, I shall kill you
- travis[2004-12-09 20:01:45] - same goes for guys denying they got another woman pregnant - travis
[2004-12-09 17:59:01] - yeah, i too am rather alarmed that a signficant portion of women would lie about having a std to a partner. I do wonder, however, how men would compare in a similar survey. - mig
[2004-12-09 17:41:17] - a: I could go either way. I can see reason why it would and why it wouldn't be. -Paul
[2004-12-09 17:38:07] - paul: i'd be surprised if the std percentages (31% and 65%) weren't higher in men. ~a
[2004-12-09 17:33:06] - Pierce: You may not be alarmed by those statistics, which is fine. I just thought some of those numbers were significant, considering the situations. -Paul
[2004-12-09 17:31:46] - Pierce: "And an alarming 31 per cent said they would not tell a future partner if they had a sexual disease: this rises to 65 per cent among single women." -Paul
[2004-12-09 17:31:29] - Pierce: "Forty-two per cent would lie about contraception in order to get pregnant, no matter the wishes of their partner." -Paul
[2004-12-09 17:31:19] - Pierce: "Half said that if they became pregnant by another man but wanted to stay with their partner, they would lie about the baby’s real father." -Paul
[2004-12-09 17:23:16] - the 1 in 20 who "would never lie to a partner" are lying to the surveyors. - pierce
[2004-12-09 17:22:47] - Paul: the margin of error in that "lying women study" was probably 5%. In other news, everyone lies on some occasions! *GASP* - pierce
[2004-12-09 17:07:19] - Travis: Infinite resolution? Mmmmm.... -Paul
[2004-12-09 17:02:48] - yeah, i understood, i was just joking since that fantasy would be the ideal you videophiles would want - travis
[2004-12-09 16:48:19] - Travis: Well, I think there would still be distortion with his method, but I think he is claiming there would be less distortion. -Paul
[2004-12-09 16:35:30] - so that guy's program is like the ones on tv shows when they look at something and say "zoom in on that" and it blows up a section of the screen while maintaining a clean picture
- travis[2004-12-09 14:06:30] - At least that's what I think he was trying to prove, although I didn't quite understand everything he was saying in there. -Paul
[2004-12-09 14:06:05] - His point being that there were better ways of transferring scenes with CG from 4:3 to 16:9 than what they did with the DVDs. -Paul
[2004-12-09 14:05:40] - Travis: Oh, I think those pictures were supposed to be examples of how it would look in 16:9 (I assume he cropped them). -Paul
[2004-12-09 13:31:20] - his picture does look better but wouldn't it still be distorted when it's put into a 16:9 setting? - travis
[2004-12-09 13:28:35] - he also made the pictures black and white which probably made the re-rendering process a lot easier since he didn't have to worry about getting the colors right - travis
[2004-12-09 13:28:07] - the pictures are both in the same aspect ratio as each other so i don't see how his changes made the picture any better for 16:9 cause those two pics don't look to be 16:9 to me, unless he cropped them (he does say he removed black space) - travis
[2004-12-09 11:28:40] - Travis: There is some debate about Buffy, but I know Angel was shot in widescreen. Not sure about Star Trek, but I would guess it wasn't. -Paul
[2004-12-09 11:28:02] - Traivs: It's still in the same aspect ratio as what? -Paul
[2004-12-09 11:07:00] - but yes, it does explain that the non-CG is in widescreen, but how many older shows like buffy and star trek were made that way? - travis
[2004-12-09 11:06:11] - paul: i think i'm missing something in that guy's proof section, the image looks cleaner but it's still in the same aspect ratio so i don't understand how he helped anything - travis
[2004-12-09 11:03:10] - http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory?id=313404 Teenagers, Young Men Warned of Laptop Health Risk -Paul
[2004-12-09 10:43:38] - They just cheaped out on the CG so it basically was done at the level of a 4:3 television broadcast. -Paul
[2004-12-09 10:42:23] - Travis: http://www.cs.tut.fi/~leopold/Babylon5/DVD/DVDTransfer.html I don't really understand most of what he says here, but I do know that the non-CG scenes were shot in a format which allows 16:9 without distortion. -Paul
[2004-12-09 10:42:14] - okay, just seems to me that they would have to recreate the scenes because otherwise there's no way to make it 16:9 without distorting it - travis
[2004-12-09 10:33:13] - Travis: I don't know. I'm not entirely sure how hard it would be to do an overview like that. It could be relatively easy as long as they don't have to recreate all the scenes. -Paul
[2004-12-09 10:32:37] - and if the CG was made for 4:3 wasn't the rest of the show done that way as well? why did they stretch any of it to 16:9 if the original format was 4:3? seems like you'd have to have a distorted image or lose some of the frame when you do that - travis
[2004-12-09 10:30:57] - paul: you really think B5 did well enough that they'd go back and do that big of an overhaul? - travis
[2004-12-09 09:57:28] - Dave: And I can't get an HD TV until I move out...
-Paul[2004-12-09 09:57:06] - http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1407622004 "NINETEEN out of 20 women admit lying to their partners or husbands, a survey on attitudes to truth and relationships has found." -Paul
[2004-12-09 09:55:00] - Paul: well at least you could wait till you got an HD tv, unless you were planning on watching it on your computer -dave
[2004-12-09 09:52:14] - Travis: Because they'll probably thow in some extra goodies in any re-released versions. I know B5 could use a redo of it's CG (since the CG was done for 4:3 and stretched into 16:9 for the DVDs) and I would bet that even shows like Buffy would get a new, better looking transfer or more commentaries or something. -Paul
[2004-12-09 09:46:24] - paul: why would you even need high def versions of your TV show dvds? unless the show was recorded in hi-def, which i highly doubt buffy, star trek, or b5 were, there's no point except being able to fit more episodes on a single disc - travis
[2004-12-08 16:27:25] - Dave: Then somebody (possibly multiple somebodies) will die. -Paul
[2004-12-08 16:21:19] - Paul: I bet they will unfortunately -dave
[2004-12-08 16:10:47] - Travis: Yeah, I've been watching that battle with growing dread. All I have to say is that they better no re-release all the movies and TV shows I own as High Definition DVDs (of either standard) or else I'm going to freak out. -Paul
[2004-12-08 15:35:31] - paul: http://slate.msn.com/id/2110495/ and they're gonna make the future of dvds harder for you too
- travis[2004-12-08 15:17:41] - http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20041207-4442.html Activist organization responsible for 99% of FCC complaints -Paul
[2004-12-08 15:15:16] - http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20041207-4440.html NVIDIA graphics solution to power PlayStation 3. Which just makes any future console decisions that much harder for me. -Paul
[2004-12-08 10:39:09] - Dave: Bah, Malone gets pissed at the drop of a hat. I would venture to say he's always pissed. -Paul
[2004-12-08 10:15:59] - http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=1940902 Malone gets pissed at Kobe's statements. Says won't play for Lakers -dave
[2004-12-08 09:13:04] - a: firefox is clearly targeting the wrong group of users then
- vinnie[2004-12-08 00:43:25] - vinnie: this is the site I told you about... http://broken.typepad.com/ - pierce
[2004-12-07 22:20:08] - busy message board day. ~a
[2004-12-07 11:29:44] - pierce: i have no idea what you don't like to call your journal. ~a
[2004-12-07 11:26:13] - http://news.com.com/Firefox+users+ignore+online+ads%2C+report+says/2100-1024_3-5479800.html?tag=nefd.top url. ~a
[2004-12-07 11:25:48] - "German advertising technology company Adtech reports that during the months of October and November, Internet Explorer users were more than four times as likely to click on ads than Firefox users were." ~a
[2004-12-07 10:19:56] - pierce: a deja vu is usually a glitch in the matrix. it happens when they change something . . . good thing i didn't follow your instructions exactly. otherwise there would have been a stray "a" in there. ~a
[2004-12-07 09:29:57] - http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/1205-10.htm behold democracy in all of its glory. - mig
[2004-12-07 09:25:36] - http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002110336_tillman06.html i have to wonder, can we believe anything the military says anymore?
- mig[2004-12-07 01:52:24] - Okay, I've put a login/pass up for it which is going to stay up for the immediate future. The login is what I like to call my journal ("journal"), the password is what I don't like to call my journal. If you don't know what that is, email me (and the "forbidden" error page now gives the same instructions). - pierce
[2004-12-07 01:50:55] - Slightly used gold, but gold nonetheless. - pierce
[2004-12-06 23:36:01] - It's gold. - pierce
[2004-12-06 23:34:11] - Wow. Steven Weber and Molly Shannon star in a U.S.A. movie about a career-centric man who has lost sight of what's important in life and must relive the same holiday over and over until he learns his lesson. - pierce
[2004-12-06 17:19:10] - aba: a is correct. there's actually no password at the moment, it's just a fully restricted area. I'll set up a password soonish for you all. - pierce
[2004-12-06 16:58:50] - a: I'll just wait a couple months until he posts a new entry.
-Paul[2004-12-06 16:56:59] - paul: nope. ask him
~a[2004-12-06 16:31:38] - a: So any idea how long he is going to keep it passworded? -Paul
[2004-12-06 16:13:21] - aba: he accidentally sent an email from ph0.org to someone he didn't want reading his journal. i don't know if anybody (besides pierce, of course) knows the password. ~a
[2004-12-06 16:11:24] - how come pierces journal has a password now? - aba
[2004-12-06 15:57:05] - paul: don't believe everything you read. ~a
[2004-12-06 15:32:17] - http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6650997/site/newsweek/?GT1=5936 "Most Americans believe the virgin birth is literally true" -Paul
[2004-12-06 08:48:44] - http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=1939316 NBA riot appeals advancing -dave
[2004-12-03 23:50:25] - http://aporter.org/pics/reunion/
[2004-12-03 12:44:23] - who's greg?
[2004-12-03 11:55:14] - pierce: check your vt email. greg would like you to respond asap. - mig
[2004-12-03 10:42:19] - http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/12/02/212213 digital clock with no moving parts and no electricity (it's a sundial) ~a
[2004-12-03 09:54:50] - Dave: I don't know, she kinda contradicted herself in the interview and she never really said anything insightful, just a bunch of cliched phrases which don't really mean anything, IMHO. -Paul
[2004-12-03 07:47:46] - http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20041202-4431.html another nail in SCOs coffin -dave
[2004-12-03 07:45:29] - Dell and HP are 1 and 2 respectively -dave
[2004-12-03 07:45:18] - http://money.cnn.com/2004/12/03/technology/ibm_pc.reut/index.htm?cnn=yes IBM, the number 3 PC seller, is selling it's PC business. -dave
[2004-12-03 07:38:30] - Paul: you don't thinks he came across well? How come? I thought she came across well -dave
[2004-12-02 19:02:49] - Mel: Which is strange, considering I'm normally not a very optimistic person. -Paul
[2004-12-02 18:58:03] - Paul: haha. how optimistic of you.
-mel[2004-12-02 17:28:20] - Mel: I was a bit surprised too, but it was only #5 and there was a lot of hurricane news so I was hoping that maybe everyone who looked it up knew what it meant and was looking for something else, like more information or something. -Paul
[2004-12-02 17:22:03] - Paul: I'm most suprised by "hurricane." -mel
[2004-12-02 17:21:11] - travis: haha. yes, exactly. I think its a newspaper word. I read it in the (snooty) LA Times.
-mel[2004-12-02 17:07:16] - mel: yeah, i can understand that, but even watching sportscenter every morning i never heard that word, must be a snooty newspaper word
- travis[2004-12-02 16:53:41] - Mel: You're probably right, I was just amazed that many people didn't know what it meant. -Paul
[2004-12-02 16:45:13] - travis: I think most people don't follow bike racing, but this year since Lance was up for winning his fifth consecutive race (I think), there was some coverage in the mainstream news and they probably used peloton. People like to watch when an American wins a big international competition... -mel
[2004-12-02 16:43:25] - paul: I don't have any basis for this, but I think there really are that many people who don't know what incumbent means -mel
[2004-12-02 15:43:31] - who the hell was looking up "peloton"? i had never heard of the word before, do that many people follow bike racing? - travis
[2004-12-02 15:11:07] - a: I suppose, but would that many people really want to know the exact definition of the word incumbent for some reason? -Paul
[2004-12-02 15:05:44] - paul: it might have just been people who wanted a definition. almost every word i look up in a dictionary i already know what it means. ~a
[2004-12-02 15:04:58] - Or, instead of talking to myself, I could address that comment to Mel.
-Paul[2004-12-02 15:04:36] - Me: I can't believe so many people didn't know what incumbent meant. -Paul
[2004-12-02 13:44:07] - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/12/02/msn_spaces_messenger_hotmail/ msn launched a blog service yesterday called "MSN Spaces" -mel
[2004-12-02 13:41:15] - 4) insurgent 5) hurricane 6) cicada 7) peloton -mel
[2004-12-02 13:39:43] - http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/12/01/print/main658433.shtml Most often looked up words of 2004 at Merriam-Webster's sites: 1) blog 2) incumbent 3) electoral -mel
[2004-12-02 09:55:40] - http://www.10tv.com/Global/story.asp?S=2634895 ken jennings reign ends - travis
[2004-12-02 09:47:18] - Dave: I actually didn't think she came across too well in the interview. She is 23, after all, so she should sound like an adult... -Paul
[2004-12-02 07:25:51] - http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/12/02/pentagon.media/index.html deliberate use of misinformation by US military for strategic purposes? This a problem? -dave
[2004-12-02 07:19:44] - http://entertainment.msn.com/celebs/article.aspx?news=174562 Interview with Julia, Jude, Natalie, and Clive about their movie Closer. Natalie comes across as quite mature. I suppose this is to be expected from a Harvard grad -dave
[2004-12-01 20:30:28] - mig: et tu, Migue. - pierce
[2004-12-01 17:43:11] - dave: where is that bush quote from? It is funny. -mel
[2004-12-01 17:43:07] - and ... "I proudly ate some Alberta beef last night, and I'm still standing." - Craig
[2004-12-01 17:42:20] - haha. I couldn't figure it out either. I kept thinking it was supposed to be multiple words. -mel
[2004-12-01 17:42:17] - dave: other good Bush quotes: "Paul [Martin] and I share a great vision for the future: two prosperous, independent nations joined together by the return of NHL hockey." - Craig
[2004-12-01 17:41:17] - pierce: check your email. - mig
[2004-12-01 17:32:48] - Pierce: Heh, thanks. Believe it or not I couldn't think of what word could possibly fit in there. -Paul
[2004-12-01 17:20:30] - Paul: screw. why it's censored is beyond me, since it's the whole topic of the article. - pierce
[2004-12-01 16:44:44] - http://www.nypost.com/gossip/pagesix.htm "s- - -w"? -Paul
[2004-12-01 16:17:03] - Vinnie: We need two participants then, because I can start a conversation but I don't really have the time to partake in it right now. -Paul
[2004-12-01 16:00:17] - paul: no actually, but I'm a pretty horrible conversation starter. and participant. decent ender, though - vinnie
[2004-12-01 15:36:11] - Geez, is everybody else as busy at work as I am or something?
-Paul[2004-12-01 08:57:51] - god, eb sucks. they're only letting you pre-order the ds in a really expensive bundle and that's not shipping until february. grr..... - mig
[2004-12-01 08:32:52] - "The president said "the reception we received on the way in from the airport was very warm and hospitable, and I want to thank the Canadian people who came out to wave -- with all five fingers -- for the hospitality." " haha -dave
[2004-11-30 18:19:33] - http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2004/11/30/us_eyes_collection_of_college_student_data/ looks like we got out of college just in the nick of time. - mig
[2004-11-30 17:52:37] - Mel: It's scary how accurate that guide is, considering it's mostly supposed to be funny. -Paul
[2004-11-30 16:49:49] - http://www.wwe.com/shows/raw/raw/ Not sure how long it will be up, but the "Are you ready for some wrestling" video is a pretty funny spoof of the controversy surrounding the MNF intro. -Paul
[2004-11-30 16:41:16] - From Best of craigslist, http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/wdc/49455908.html DC's driving guide. -mel
[2004-11-30 16:22:44] - It was very frightening and it had Jack Black in a guest role - aaron
[2004-11-30 14:39:40] - i haven't had time to watch adult swim for a while
- mig[2004-11-30 14:11:56] - sorry, aaron. i didn't see it. ~a
[2004-11-30 14:10:11] - Just curious, anybody catch the premiere of Tom Goes To The Mayor? I think miguel and adrian are the only ones on this board who watches adult swim regularly but.... - aaron
[2004-11-30 14:04:27] - vinnie: I agree. - aaron
[2004-11-30 13:19:44] - a: I think it looks like me. or at least what I think the back of my head looks like - vinnie
[2004-11-30 12:01:09] - vinnie: i thought that was you. it doesn't look like you but it was your shirt. ~a
[2004-11-30 12:00:17] - pierce: i'll bet there was a maximum size for the account. it seems weird that a bunch of people uploaded then all uploading stopped. ~a
[2004-11-30 10:49:15] - mel: and yes, the reunion was quite fun - vinnie
[2004-11-30 10:48:42] - heh I think I'm the mystery dancer in ricky's pics - vinnie
[2004-11-30 10:08:36] - Paul: interesting. thanks! -dave
[2004-11-30 10:00:32] - Dave: http://studentsforacademicfreedom.org/reports/dk_ls_diverse.pdf This is a survey about what you were talking about. Page nine has the info you would be looking for. -Paul
[2004-11-30 09:57:26] - If I recall correctly, the results were roughly what you would expect. -Paul
[2004-11-30 09:56:49] - Dave: I think there was a study done about which areas of universities had the most conservative professors and which had the most liberal liberal ones (most as in numbers, not degrees of liberalness and conservativeness). -Paul
[2004-11-30 09:55:37] - Dave: I've found that many times the people who are loudest about preaching tolerance and diversity are often the least tolerant and mostly only like hanging out with people who share their beliefs. -Paul
[2004-11-30 09:50:00] - Paul: a possible caveat is I think the statistics were taken of professors in the social sciences. It'd be interesting to see the figures for profs in business schools, or e-schools. I'm not sure if they'd be different, but it'd be interesting to see -dave
[2004-11-30 09:48:41] - Paul: yeah, I suppose. It's just highly amusing in the face of the fact that educational instutions are so worried about their diversity -dave
[2004-11-30 09:39:43] - Dave: It's not a problem as long as everybody realizes the bias exists and acknowledges it. -Paul
[2004-11-30 08:58:12] - http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/11/30/lava.lamp.death.ap/index.html Death by Lava Lamp -dave
[2004-11-30 08:56:49] - anyone go to the reunion btw? was it good? lotta people show? -dave
[2004-11-30 08:55:50] - is this a problem? any comments? -dave
[2004-11-30 08:55:29] - "They do indeed cultivate diversity -- in race, skin color, ethnicity, sexual preference. In everything but thought. " -dave
[2004-11-30 08:55:25] - "Many campuses are intellectual versions of one-party nations -- except such nations usually have the merit, such as it is, of candor about their ideological monopolies. In contrast, American campuses have more insistently proclaimed their commitment to diversity as they have become more intellectually monochrome. " -dave
[2004-11-30 08:52:50] - "Why does he think liberals are like that? "Unlike conservatives, they believe in working for the public good and social justice." That clears that up." -dave
[2004-11-30 08:52:38] - My favorite part is this "But George Lakoff, a linguistics professor at Berkeley, denies that academic institutions are biased against conservatives. The disparity in hiring, he explains, occurs because conservatives are not as interested as liberals in academic careers. " -dave
[2004-11-30 08:52:16] - The statistics are pretty lopsided for Dem vs Repub professors. Like 166 to 6. -dave
[2004-11-30 08:50:47] - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15606-2004Nov26.html "Academia, Stuck to the Left" -dave
[2004-11-30 02:26:22] - I'm assuming the "bah" gallery is Jay Delanoy's pictures... do you think he's still in the process of uploading them? Because I know he took a boatload more shots than that. - pierce
[2004-11-29 22:34:29] - mel: oh and in case i didn't make it clear in my last post: those pictures are of the reunion. ~a
[2004-11-29 22:31:22] - mel: i liked it a lot. http://www.snapfish.com/login/t_=0 username "tjclassof99 at gmail dot com" (convert to an email address: you know, with the '@' and the '.') . . . password is "rumors". let me know if this doesn't work for you. ~a
[2004-11-29 18:43:49] - Mel: I didn't go, but I heard it was a blast. -Paul
[2004-11-29 18:32:13] - so how was the reunion? -mel
[2004-11-29 18:15:49] - Aaron: I'm sure it could happen, and from what I've read of some discussion over articles on wikipedia it sounds like it occasionally does happen, but I think that the number of people who are truly trying to be neutral would outnumber the people trying to muck it up. -Paul
[2004-11-29 17:58:59] - You know, not really blatant stuff, but the whole "anti-abortion" kind of buzzwords like we were talking about earlier - aaron
[2004-11-29 17:58:31] - paul: But it's all still user-submitted right? Not to be a skeptic or anything, I think it could work, but I could also envision some really bored but very politically motivated individuals mobbing the site and peer reviewing all of the articles in minor ways so that they line up with their world view - aaron
[2004-11-29 17:34:51] - migtjvt is bored
[2004-11-29 17:08:09] - Aaron: From what I've seen from Wikipedia entries, they do a pretty good job of keeping things as neutral as possible. I don't see why the news section would be very different. -Paul
[2004-11-29 17:01:20] - The coolest thing would be if like, we could get news stories first hand from other countries without having them get reparsed by traditional news outlets. I'd kind of like to see that. But that's really a best-case scenario. - Aaron
[2004-11-29 16:59:46] - mel: I'm most curious whether it will be politically neutral, politically liberal, or what.... you know? I'll bet it will have a liberal bias, but who knows. - aaron
[2004-11-29 16:51:50] - aaron: haha. Yes, it will be interesting to see how this works... -mel
[2004-11-29 16:47:25] - What an insane idea. I wonder who has the time to moderate that thing 24 hours a day... very unusual. - aaron
[2004-11-29 16:26:20] - http://demo.wikinews.org/wiki/Main_Page Wikimedia starts a new experimental wikinews site. -mel
[2004-11-29 16:22:34] - I got dirt on my hands and didn't want to sully my keyboard with unnecessary typing - aaron
[2004-11-29 15:28:07] - I was in an all-day meeting (I'm aware of the obvious logical flaw here) - vinnie
[2004-11-29 15:09:24] - Sorry, I've been somewhat busy at work. -Paul
[2004-11-29 15:04:53] - don't brame me. i stubbed mah toe.
[2004-11-29 15:02:51] - what a boring message board day. ~a
[2004-11-29 04:40:07] - i don't wear glasses. silly people. ~a
[2004-11-26 16:29:24] - reunion people .... what time are you getting there this evening? I'll probably be there around 8-8:30- Craig
[2004-11-26 15:22:39] - twin? http://www.bestkungfu.com/images/mattshaved.jpg
[2004-11-25 23:14:51] - Pierce: Question withdrawn. -Paul
[2004-11-25 23:10:30] - Pierce: Oh, perhaps I should've read the rest of your messages first. -paul
[2004-11-25 23:09:38] - Pierce: How is the headline false? -Paul
[2004-11-25 13:13:45] - Hopefully that will be the tone of the ensuing debate, rather than sensationalistic "OMG tehy banned the constitution and made baby Jesus cry!" - pierce
[2004-11-25 13:12:36] - It's still an interesting issue though, since it brings to the forefront an outstanding ambiguity of our policy: that we mandate that children go to school, and that we simultaneously have to teach them about a history with religious underpinnings and keep from providing any significant religious bias in the material. - pierce
[2004-11-25 13:10:29] - But I'd be willing to bet that when they come out they will be pretty clearly biased to a "U.S. is a Christian nation" viewpoint. - pierce
[2004-11-25 13:09:51] - A particular teacher who seems to have had a history of using the classroom as a pulpit for his religious beliefs, has been forbidden to use handouts containing exerpts of historical documents like the DOI. I haven't seen the handouts themselves, unfortunately the smoking gun entry of the complaint doesn't have them. - pierce
[2004-11-25 13:08:15] - http://olympics.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=domesticNews&storyID=6911883 "Declaration of Independence Banned at Calif School" according to Reuters. Interesting, since that headline is absolutely false. - pierce
[2004-11-25 12:23:25] - paul: c'mon! yuriy is going!! - vinnie
[2004-11-24 12:20:49] - what a bummer. ~a
[2004-11-24 11:57:05] - a: yeah, mark, dan, and I had dinner last night at sweetwater tavern. Sorry you couldn't make it! - Craig
[2004-11-24 11:56:32] - mig: dan is here, but he's flying back out before the reunion. - Craig
[2004-11-24 10:14:49] - a: No, that's what I meant, two of those friends are going to the reunion. Not that I only have two other friends.
-Paul[2004-11-24 10:13:18] - paul: are those two going to the reunion? ~a
[2004-11-24 10:07:15] - mig: dan is already here. they invited me to eat dinner but i wasn't at home so i didn't get the message. ~a
[2004-11-24 10:05:26] - a: I think there was 2, last time I checked, and I think those two even still live around here. -Paul
[2004-11-24 10:05:14] - a+pierce: do you know if dan and/or morgan are coming down for the reunion? - mig
[2004-11-24 10:04:57] - a: I do care about seeing other people and I do have friends from TJ that didn't go to VT, but none of them seem to be going to the reunion. -Paul
[2004-11-24 10:00:16] - paul: why don't you care about seeing the other people? you didn't have any friends at tj that didn't go to vt? ~a
[2004-11-24 09:56:12] - And this reunion, IMHO, does not seem to qualify. -Paul
[2004-11-24 09:55:53] - To me, the only reason to go to a reunion is if there are going to be an appreciable number of people there that you want to see who you can't see very easily otherwise. -Paul
[2004-11-24 09:55:24] - a: You're welcome to your opinion, but I don't see why I should go out of my way to meet with a bunch of people in an inconvenient setting if I can just meet with them outside of that setting just as easily. -Paul
[2004-11-24 09:52:15] - paul: but bars are fun. crowds and noise are fun. (imho) you're too soft! ~a
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