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[2009-10-19 15:34:12] - the thing i worry about is that the facebook password is kind of easy to get (i think it's on the open internets now). ~a
[2009-10-19 15:33:50] - a: does that mean you think child porn would be okay as long as you waited until the subjects were adults before you released it?
- pierce[2009-10-19 15:33:29] - vinnie: it's no better or worse than the tjpics directory (also password protected). right? do you think the tjpics directory is improper? ~a
[2009-10-19 15:32:28] - paul: none of them are minors anymore. also it's password protected now. ~a
[2009-10-19 14:23:45] - a: most of our class probably would think that quiz was cool, though there might be people who wouldn't want their pictures and names to be public. you could make the quiz opt-in
- vinnie[2009-10-19 14:21:38] - a: What if that mother finds out you have pictures of people on your website again?
-Paul[2009-10-19 14:11:52] - vinnie: eh i don't care. why hide it? as we get closer to thanksgiving, i was even thinking of advertising the quiz on the tjpics page (which gets lots of facebook traffic) ~a
[2009-10-19 13:59:39] - a: I'm pretty sure it is his middle name. - pierce
[2009-10-19 13:54:53] - now that we've got "animesh tandon" and "walter gong" listed on the mboard, how long before all of our class finds this quiz?
(yes, I know it's password protected) - vinnie[2009-10-19 13:54:23] - i wonder why he picked the name abe. was it like his middle name or something? 1999-abe didn't seem like he would have picked that name. ~a
[2009-10-19 13:51:22] - Vinnie: Walter Gong! - Stephen
[2009-10-19 13:48:36] - yeah, I would assume because it's the official tenth reunion, that it's not going to be like the rumors reunions where we're having to mix with "normals" or anything like that. even the beer bar, I assume (hope) they'd be renting out a party space. that's what they did at the metafilter tenth and it worked really well for improving the meet-and-chat aspect. - pierce
[2009-10-19 13:46:54] - vinnie: ah yea, I think that might have been the one I put abe in and got something completely different ~gurkie
[2009-10-19 13:45:22] - gurkie: that's on Saturday, sounds like the bar thing is Friday. also, I almost got 5 out of 5 just now except that I forgot that abe's real name is not abraham (and I was too lazy to put a last name). grrrr - vinnie
[2009-10-19 13:39:45] - But Stephen said it was going to be at a hotel this year... which should hopefully be less crowded with random people and less loud so better for talking? maybe... ~gurkie
[2009-10-19 13:32:24] - though . . . in this case it'll be old people
~a[2009-10-19 13:31:47] - c'est la vie. crowded bars is where most new people are met? ~a
[2009-10-19 13:29:22] - I never got all five right, but I did get four right one time. a: I'm sure there are people I would like to see at the reunion, I just don't know how much I want to see those people and whether a crowded bar would be the right setting. at the 5-year reunion I saw people I wanted to talk to but felt like I didn't have very good conversations with them - vinnie
[2009-10-19 13:29:04] - *** amy waves back
[2009-10-19 13:27:50] - *** a waves.
[2009-10-19 13:27:37] - amy: you know like 5% of our class! my average on the quiz usually sticks around 30%. ~a
[2009-10-19 13:26:58] - so now that I am on google wave what do I do with it??? ~gurkie
[2009-10-19 13:21:11] - a: also I almost put vinnie's name in wrong cause I havent really been doing last names anywhere... ~gurkie
[2009-10-19 13:20:35] - a: animesh tandon ~gurkie
[2009-10-19 13:18:42] - i didn't do very good on the quiz. out of 15 (i stopped after that) i was only able to get one aaron pieper. -amy
[2009-10-19 13:16:58] - gurkie: what's wrong with being caught up in the past?! ~a
[2009-10-19 13:15:05] - gurkie: i've never gotten all five right
~a[2009-10-19 13:14:07] - gurkie: yeah you have to use real names. ashoo is pretty hard unless you know his last name. also if you're not sure about the real name, you can guess twice on one of the names, like for meg you could have put "margarete megan" and you would have gotten her right. ~a
[2009-10-19 13:11:09] - sweet I totally got all 5 right
go Vinnie, Travis, Sienna, Lara, and Matt Croft I totally gotta stop while I am ahead~gurkie[2009-10-19 13:05:49] - also the 2 I went to in the past I hated. But Ballston means I can bail when I want and just go home if I think people are lame and caught up in the past. Which is likely to be the situation...~gurkie
[2009-10-19 13:04:55] - a: I got a bunch wrong where its like I put Katie in and the name is Katherine or... urm there was someone who went by one name and legal name was something else entirely cant remember who though... And cmon I got myself wrong!! ~gurkie
[2009-10-19 13:04:09] - a: I dont like that many people
and the people I do like I mostly keep in touch with. There are some people I would like to see again but I am wary of going. Also loud bar/big crowd is hardly ideal to reconnect with people. Hearing its at a hotel in Ballston increases my chances of going ~gurkie[2009-10-19 12:38:23] - . . . if you had guessed "france shmance" for abby, you would have gotten it right. ~a
[2009-10-19 12:36:14] - gurkie: it's pretty lax. either name has to be right. in fact neither name has to be "right", it uses metaphone to see if you get a name close enough (though some weird examples like "brian" vs. "bryan" will not match for some reason). also it really doesn't care which name is first and which is last. ~a
[2009-10-19 12:33:25] - vinnie: any possible to get the date and time of the tmbg concert? i guess it's saturday november 28? - aaron
[2009-10-19 12:32:55] - gurkie: why debating? i thought that you of all the people here would be most interested in going. ~a
[2009-10-19 12:31:28] - vinnie: if we have our own tj reunion i won't get to see people that i never see. i hate big crowds and loud bars and i'm extremely awkward around people i don't know, but i'm hoping it'll still be a great time. ~a
[2009-10-19 12:04:17] - Derek Moore said it was a two day event. Day one was at a beer bar in Gallery Place, day two at a hotel in Ballston. - Stephen
[2009-10-19 12:01:15] - I guess if the reunion is on Friday and all you all are going, I might go. I'd rather just have our own TJ reunion though
- vinnie[2009-10-19 12:00:15] - mig: do they even have the date? all I've heard so far was thanksgiving weekend. aaron and I are gonna see TMBG that Saturday anyhow (and anyone that is interested is invited to come along) - vinnie
[2009-10-19 11:38:22] - are there any details about the reunion other than the date. - mig
[2009-10-19 11:14:31] - a: still debating ~gurkie
[2009-10-19 11:14:22] - does it count if I get the last name right and not the first name? ~gurkie
[2009-10-19 10:57:28] - gurkie: you will go, though, right? ~a
[2009-10-19 10:53:57] - gurkie: you can put a last name if you want. you would have gotten your last name right. ~a
[2009-10-19 10:53:08] - gurkie/vinnie: they all have last names i just display them if you guess on somebody (i thought it wasn't useful to display both). well i guess i should change that back ... ~a
[2009-10-19 10:52:59] - wow it took a couple looks before I recognized travis... I think this is a good sign of why I shouldnt go to the reunion... I know NO ONE! ~gurkie
[2009-10-19 10:43:09] - Why do some people have last names and others dont? ~gurkie
[2009-10-19 10:42:25] - ~gurkie
[2009-10-19 10:42:21] - and I put abbie instead of M Abigail France
[2009-10-19 10:42:04] - I got myself wrong... I wrote gurkie not Gurukirn Cheng ~gurkie
[2009-10-19 10:17:31] - paul: cool, i'll check out the trailer when i get home (youtube is bad at work) - aaron
[2009-10-19 10:15:25] - a: is it possible to put last names on the answers? a lot of these people look familar but without the last names, I can't remember exactly who they are - vinnie
[2009-10-19 10:14:08] - a: hahaha, great quiz. I'm doing pretty badly so far, but I got a couple that I was guessing on - vinnie
[2009-10-19 09:59:55] - aaron: http://arstechnica.com/gaming/reviews/2009/10/when-robots-fall-in-love-ars-reviews-machinarium.ars This seems like a game you might enjoy. -Paul
[2009-10-18 22:25:32] - there's a rep for that (originally hosted on the new GOP.com social networking site, for added amusement) - pierce
[2009-10-18 21:59:53] - it's not so much the people I know or don't that bug me, it's the people I know I should know but just can't recall their name. - pierce
[2009-10-18 21:59:12] - (cool quiz, though, that'll be helpful) - pierce
[2009-10-18 21:56:42] - not fair in that I'll know a lot more names, or a lot fewer? - pierce
[2009-10-18 21:33:31] - buh? - pierce
[2009-10-18 19:55:13] - we'll have to create some sort handicap for pierce because otherwise it won't be fair
~a[2009-10-18 19:50:03] - for those of you boning up for the reunion: http://aporter.org/quiz.html ~a
[2009-10-17 10:47:19] - aaron: I guess that makes sense... I'm a little disappointed in the joke, though.
-Paul[2009-10-17 10:45:09] - Pierce: I'm definitely interested in watching it, and wouldn't mind having people over my place (if all else fails), but it would require a decent bit of cleaning on my part to get it done. -Paul
[2009-10-17 09:43:43] - paul: I read it (for the first time) aloud to Katie. She laughed. Hard. I didn't. I think this explains something somewhere. -- Xpovos
[2009-10-17 02:11:49] - a: I thought the msgboard was robots.txted out of google search results... - pierce
[2009-10-17 02:11:12] - - pierce
[2009-10-17 02:11:09] - anyone feel like getting together to watch the tech game tomorrow?
[2009-10-17 01:29:13] - aaron/amy: yeah i didn't get that. now, surprisingly, i think it's a funny joke. ~a
[2009-10-16 19:57:49] - paul: to dissect the joke, it's that the twins are completely oblivious to how absurd the experience was. - aaron
[2009-10-16 19:55:54] - paul: ha ha! i liked it. - aaron
[2009-10-16 19:28:30] - paul: i'm not sure i get it either. i think that the joke might be just that it was such an unusual experience for the guy that of course he would remember them. doesn't seem like a good joke. -amy
[2009-10-16 17:43:14] - or maybe she was unaware that her sister was even having sex. ~a
[2009-10-16 17:41:03] - paul: to be honest i don't think i get it either. maybe the "do you think he'd remember us?" twin was the one who was playing the trombone. she wasn't intimately bonded with the guy. ~a
[2009-10-16 17:20:09] - http://www.askmen.com/daily/jokes/2009_sep/sep18.html Can anybody explain this joke to me? I don't get it. -Paul
[2009-10-16 15:45:42] - Aaron: Oh yeah, last year I really wanted Bryan to get to keep Constantinople. How did you guess? - Stephen
[2009-10-16 15:41:51] - stephen: anyway what's with you and bryan bouncing in constinople? two turns in a row? i smell a conspiracy - aaron
[2009-10-16 15:38:16] - stephen: if you can convince bryan to move into helgoland i would like that muchly
- aaron[2009-10-16 15:07:28] - Happy almost Diwali! - Stephen
[2009-10-16 14:45:06] - Aaron: I don't trust that I can hold Ankara in the Fall if I take it in the Spring. - Stephen
[2009-10-16 14:01:01] - Stephen: Exactly, I hope nobody fell for Aaron's explanation on how since they bounced in Holland, they must not be allies. You would think they could at least trade Holland between the two of them rather than keep bouncing out. -Paul
[2009-10-16 13:56:04] - Bryan: Psh, like I'll believe you.
-- Xpovos[2009-10-16 13:49:16] - Paul: Have you noticed how nobody has tried to move into Baltic or Helgoland, and how they keep bouncing in Holland? I doubt it's random. - Stephen
[2009-10-16 13:47:05] - Aaron: For two players who aren't allied, there seem to be a lot of draw proposals involving you two. -Paul
[2009-10-16 13:42:07] - Xpovos: I have yet to submit a draw proposal...and I understand how they work. -Bryan
[2009-10-16 13:13:45] - Aaron: I said you were going to take France, not that it would be without a fight. -Paul
[2009-10-16 12:48:24] - I think someone needs to tell Bryan how draw proposals work on the website. -- Xpovos
[2009-10-16 12:38:44] - google adsense ad of the day: "Have A Girl In Ukraine?" - mig
[2009-10-16 12:33:32] - aaron: I think everyone down here has trust issues. -- Xpovos
[2009-10-16 12:32:50] - stephen: and what the heck is going on in ankara? you and bryan have trust issues - aaron
[2009-10-16 12:32:01] - paul: hey you said i could have france
- aaron[2009-10-16 12:24:15] - Paul: I know, but as the two powers who are currently in decline, it holds more significance to me. - Stephen
[2009-10-16 12:21:45] - Stephen: and again with Tunis! I don't know why you are so obsessed with me not having it. It's like the most inconsequential supply center on the map. -Paul
[2009-10-16 12:03:12] - vinnie: i'm surprised that google crawled the message board so recently. usually that's done only a few times a year. ~a
[2009-10-16 11:47:22] - Stephen: I did say I was taking Tunis? I thought I was just threatening that I could. Either way, I'm sure it was at least half in jest. I wouldn't bother trying to take it last turn. This turn maybe...
-paul[2009-10-16 11:46:18] - Xpovos: Aw... I feel bad ignoring people that I legitimately do know... even if they are not friends. -Paul
[2009-10-16 11:45:53] - Paul: You said you were taking Tunis. I guess you could theoretically take it this fall. Aaron and I had a bet, though, and now I owe him dinner. - Stephen
[2009-10-16 11:43:38] - Stephen: What did I lie to you about? I'm not saying I didn't, I just don't remember telling you anything.
-Paul[2009-10-16 11:31:55] - Paul: You lied to me. I owe Aaron dinner now! - Stephen
[2009-10-16 11:24:04] - Paul: I'll be ignoring.
-- Xpovos[2009-10-16 11:18:45] - Xpovos: Ok, that's what I thought. I was added as a friend on facebook.
-Paul[2009-10-16 11:12:36] - Paul: Yes. -- Xpovos
[2009-10-16 10:59:55] - Xpovos: Do you know an Alea Adkins? -Paul
[2009-10-16 10:46:15] - xpovos: i would guess those guys didn't employ any lawyers to write the contract up. - mig
[2009-10-16 10:39:31] - Paul: My guess is that if the police took their side, the contracts must have been either very misleading or fraudulent. -- Xpovos
[2009-10-16 10:38:19] - Xpovos: Heh, that's pretty good. I wonder if the contract had any outright lies in it or if it was just misleading (like the Borat and Bruno contracts). -Paul
[2009-10-16 10:23:32] - http://maxbarry.com/2009/10/15/news.html We take offense: not enough people are involved in the production of this sleaze. -- Xpovos
[2009-10-16 10:14:54] - http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1925036,00.html california proposes to ban "gas guzzling" TVs. - mig
[2009-10-16 10:13:57] - So, in short, their profitability was up, but their sales were down. That is: they cut costs aggressively and successfully. -- Xpovos
[2009-10-16 10:13:34] - Paul: I think they mean earnings in an EPS kind of sense, which is more about profit, than revenue, which is gross sales before expenses, taxes, financing costs, etc. -- Xpovos
[2009-10-16 09:38:21] - mig: Makes me want to ask them if they understand what the word "expectations" means.
-Paul[2009-10-16 09:38:07] - hehe, lmgtfy points back to mboard as the first result. it's an infinite loop to get the answer - vinnie
[2009-10-16 09:37:27] - mig: It's not the first time I've read stuff like that, though. I always hear about companies having disappointing results while beating expectations. -Paul
[2009-10-16 09:34:36] - paul: that strikes me as a weird statement. - mig
[2009-10-16 09:21:32] - Does earnings = revenue? If so, I'm not sure I understand this statement: "General Electric posted revenue that missed Wall Street's expectations Friday, overshadowing better-than-expected earnings". -Paul
[2009-10-15 22:47:14] - a: I answered your question and did not have any knowledge of it besides what I learned from the google search. Therefore, the google search was sufficient information to answer the question. You're right that I was a dick about it, though.
- pierce[2009-10-15 21:34:41] - Are you ready for the rapture?
[2009-10-15 18:03:36] - sam: fat-waist
~a[2009-10-15 17:38:39] - haha. here is a good question from yahoo: "what time is it? what time is it? what time is it? what time is it? what time is it?" ~a
[2009-10-15 17:37:22] - it can't be answered by a google search. like you said the question has been removed (and web.archive.org didn't have it either) so your usage of lmgtfy was totally misplaced. lmgtfy is for when a google search answers the question. you didn't answer my question and you were a dick about it? ~a
[2009-10-15 17:34:31] - a: lmgtfy is an asshole way to say that your question could be answered by a simple google search. in this case, the first result is to a collection of moronic Yahoo! Answers posts, though the actual question has since been removed. - pierce
[2009-10-15 17:32:11] - i don't get it. ~a
[2009-10-15 17:32:00] - pierce: "Enable javascript to use LMGTFY." ~a
[2009-10-15 17:10:05] - my phone number spells ax-on-mud www.phonespell.org -sam
[2009-10-15 17:07:51] - a: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=%22any+possible+to+make+more+genders+in+biology%22 - pierce
[2009-10-15 16:58:22] - a: yeah, i was looking up C'est vs Il est on google and that sentance was one of the examples... "Where is Paul? He is late." sorry, that was so random... -sam
[2009-10-15 16:53:43] - aaron: the phone number that you can remember that ended in 8 was 2*prime. ~a
[2009-10-15 16:50:12] - sam: french? i'm glad tard means "late" in french. i would have otherwise guessed you were calling paul a retard. ~a
[2009-10-15 16:40:17] - Où est Paul ? Il est en retard. -sam
[2009-10-15 16:34:17] - title: wtf is that from
~a[2009-10-15 16:33:10] - oh weird. my number is a multiple of 13^2. ~a
[2009-10-15 16:27:07] - xpovos: ah ic! I didnt link your post to aarons, even though I was uber confused by yours! Wondering why a 2 in the third position would matter and why your phone numbers were 6 digits long! ~gurkie
[2009-10-15 16:18:15] - Huh, so I was right the first time. Need to just keep my dumb fingers quiet. -- Xpovos
[2009-10-15 16:09:28] - i'm not sure where you got 128. ~a
[2009-10-15 16:08:07] - i assume the same phone number can come up and that would be fine: the chance of zero even numbers is: 1/64. the chance of one even number is: 6/64. the chance of two even numbers is 15/64. the chance of three even numbers is 20/64. the chance of four even numbers is 15/64. the chance of five even numbers is 6/64. the chance of six even numbers is 1/64. ~a
[2009-10-15 16:03:58] - 6 because aaron remembered 6 phone numbers. Not because of the length of the phone number. -- Xpovos
[2009-10-15 16:00:08] - xpovos: the chance of having a specific position being odd and the rest all even should match the odds of having all 6 even. But what I dont get is why is it out of 6? There are 7 numbers in a phone number, if you arent counting the area code... ~gurkie
[2009-10-15 15:28:48] - xpovos: no, that is not true. the chance of one of 6 being odd is not the same as the chance of having all 6 even. ~a
[2009-10-15 15:27:41] - a's ,match is spot on! ~gurkie
[2009-10-15 15:27:30] - Ive had people (possibly just a person) tell me I look similar to Winnie Cooper and Dinara Safina. I dont really see it but whatever... ~gurkie
[2009-10-15 15:15:55] - Interestingly, I think the odds are the same as if having all 6 even. Which kind of makes a perverse sense. -- Xpovos
[2009-10-15 15:14:56] - Eh, bad stats. Exactly one of 6 being odd would be a 1 in 128, not 64. Significant difference. -- Xpovos
[2009-10-15 15:11:59] - Well, assume a random distribution, 50% are even and so inherently and obviously not prime. And your statistical distribution of 6 numbers in that 50% exactly 5 out of 6 being even is a 1/64 chance. Not exactly earth shatteringly uncommon odds. I can only really remember my current work number, my parents home, and my cell, and all are even. -- Xpovos
[2009-10-15 14:56:42] - xpovos: yeah, my phone numbers that i can remember ended in 5, 0, 6, 6, 8, and 6. i guess it's really likely for your phone number to be a factor of a small number, so maybe it's not so unusual to have six obvious factors like that - aaron
[2009-10-15 14:47:28] - All mine are %2 = 0... I have an affinity for even numbers. -- Xpovos
[2009-10-15 14:44:29] - stephen: your phone number is prime AND it's just a cool number. - aaron
[2009-10-15 14:39:37] - mine is a multiple of 13. ~a
[2009-10-15 14:30:04] - Aaron: I think my number is prime. -Paul
[2009-10-15 14:21:55] - Aaron: My phone number is prime! - Stephen
[2009-10-15 14:11:39] - hmm does anybody have a prime phone number? i've never had a prime phone number? - aaron
[2009-10-15 14:07:23] - aaron: 7% of all phone numbers are prime (7 digit numbers that is) ~a
[2009-10-15 14:05:22] - wow! 8675309 is prime? - aaron
[2009-10-15 13:48:50] - amy: we call that the "evan factor" now - vinnie
[2009-10-15 13:32:36] - (whoops, i didn't mean "mistaken," i meant more like "told that i look similar to.") -amy
[2009-10-15 13:32:06] - btw i don't get mistaken for celebrities because there aren't any asian female celebs. oh wait a minute, yeah there is... but i don't look much like her. -amy
[2009-10-15 13:31:37] - also i apparently have a scary memory for reality tv contestants. -amy
[2009-10-15 13:31:02] - he seemed popular with gmas (the "aww how cute factor" i guess) and teenage/pre-teen girls. -amy
[2009-10-15 13:30:23] - a: to be fair, i didn't realize that ppl had mistaken you for that person at the time, i was just seeing i could see him looking like a "teenage adrian" or adrian when he was younger. btw john stevens was the "crooner," i believe he was the youngest contestant that season at 16, and he owned sinatra-style challenges but epic failed at everything else... -amy
[2009-10-15 13:28:58] - heh. i hadn't checked mboard yet today, and vin asked me in an email: "btw did you see mboard similarily of AI contestant to Adrian? I think you watched that season too..." i replied: "before i click on it, i'm going to guess it's john stevens." -amy
[2009-10-15 13:27:59] - vinnie: Well, the person who told me I looked like Trent was totally hitting on me. So that might help. -- Xpovos
[2009-10-15 13:14:22] - xpovos: I don't see those either - vinnie
[2009-10-15 13:07:21] - Vinnie: Is that why you lost the goatee? For me, I was told once that I looked like Trent Reznor and a few times like Gary Numan. I don't see it. -- Xpovos
[2009-10-15 12:59:32] - Vinnie: That's just so racist. Like "this is the only South Asian guy we know, so you must look like him". Besides, clearly you are a clone of Kal Penn
- Stephen[2009-10-15 12:53:51] - but me on the other hand, people are always comparing me to this guy . yep, at least once or twice a day. must be my biceps and my rugged but traditional good looks - vinnie
[2009-10-15 12:45:12] - a: wow. I didn't watch that season but he does really look like you. I don't think Stephen has much resemblence to Tobey though, or Aaron to Nicolas - vinnie
[2009-10-15 12:39:22] - a: Meg's mom said I looked like Tobey Maguire. And she wasn't the first person. - Stephen
[2009-10-15 12:31:59] - stephen: how about you? ~a
[2009-10-15 12:31:49] - i'm actually surprised he got to 6th place in american idol. ginger kids can't sing soul music. ~a
[2009-10-15 12:21:33] - a: Yeah, I think it's just because there aren't a lot of celebrities with short, very red hair. - Stephen
[2009-10-15 12:18:11] - it's the red hair and the young boyish look. . . . for god's sake, he's younger than my sister. ~a
[2009-10-15 12:16:53] - lol. ~a
[2009-10-15 12:12:01] - a: actually i'm just kidding, i google image searched the name and was confused why pictures of you came up in the results - aaron
[2009-10-15 12:11:21] - a: http://www.americanidol.com/archive/contestants/season3/i/john_stevens.jpg i don't see it - aaron
[2009-10-15 12:01:53] - stephen: in 2004, some guy named john stevens was on tv a whole lot (american idol season 3, which i did not watch). people on the street thought i looked so much like him that they were taking pictures of me and trying to get me to admit i actually was john stevens. coworkers didn't believe me until we went on travel. ~a
[2009-10-15 11:55:16] - aaron: yeah i could see that. ~a
[2009-10-15 11:50:06] - http://notalwaysright.com/disco-stu-does-not-approve/2567 everybody get down - aaron
[2009-10-15 11:49:20] - stephen: nicholas cage - aaron
[2009-10-15 11:48:14] - Does anyone else ever get told they look like a celebrity? - Stephen
[2009-10-14 17:47:48] - yeah np. ~a
[2009-10-14 14:18:25] - I think we may have to skip out on the card table then, but thanks for your help!!! ~gurkie
[2009-10-14 14:00:29] - that's why i said thursday only. ~a
[2009-10-14 14:00:20] - i'm around, but i won't have it until tomorrow.
~a[2009-10-14 13:59:25] - a: what about tonight? you around/have the card table? ~gurkie
[2009-10-14 13:43:31] - i'll be in pennsylvania on friday. it's my parents'. ~a
[2009-10-14 12:56:59] - Curerntly the yard sale is scheduled for 9am - 4pm on Saturday - I should add in the case of rain we will be postponing the yard sale by one week ~gurkie
[2009-10-14 12:56:29] - amy: Yea friday would work well for us to pick up the table... ~gurkie
[2009-10-14 12:55:54] - amy: I guess it depends slightly on what and how much. My initial reaction was you are welcome to join us and set up next to us. But I think at yard sales people try and negotiate price a fair amount and I dont want to be responsible for setting prices on your objects. If you have like 1 or 2 items that might be different. In terms of help, I think we should be okay. ~gurk
[2009-10-14 12:40:36] - gurkie/paul: are you accepting items from other people to be sold at your yard sale? also, do you need help at all, and what time is the sale? also we should probably arrange giving you my table on fri sometime since i suspect you'll want it before i'm awake on sat ^_^; -amy
[2009-10-14 12:06:22] - Wow I should have refreshed before hitting enter on that... a is this yours or your coworkers? I drove into DC today... I have my car which is not big but I could try and fit it... ~gurkie
[2009-10-14 12:04:00] - a: would sometime friday work? I could probably drive out during lunch time. Also are you saying pick it up from your place or your office? ~gurkie
[2009-10-14 11:41:09] - Aaron: Move to Reston! I like Reston. - Stephen
[2009-10-14 11:39:56] - aaron: you could move in with your mom.
~a[2009-10-14 11:38:25] - paul: the toll road out of tysons is light speed compared to 66. the few days that i take the toll road to my mom's house from tysons, i'm like, "why couldn't my commute be this nice" - aaron
[2009-10-14 11:38:21] - no thursday is pretty much the only day i can do it assuming you need it this weekend. also if this is going to be a bigger pain than it's worth, make sure to let me know. ~a
[2009-10-14 11:30:37] - a: Yeah, I guess. Unless some other day works better for you. -Paul
[2009-10-14 11:25:55] - ummm. any time is fine. we're talking about thursday though, right? ~a
[2009-10-14 11:22:23] - a: Let me see what I can work out and I will get back to you. When do you need to know by? -Paul
[2009-10-14 11:21:24] - Stephen: Yeah, I know I'll easily be on the Toll Road for half an hour alone. -Paul
[2009-10-14 11:16:42] - Xpovos: 66E is bad in the evenings where it merges with the Toll Road. It's all of us Arlingtonians (and Washingtonians, and even some Marylanders from PG County) driving back from Fairfax. - Stephen
[2009-10-14 11:15:49] - Paul: I mean some days that might be ok, other days you'll be in traffic forever. - Stephen
[2009-10-14 11:11:53] - i could chill at work (till 8?) if you wanted to pick it up after rush-hour. ~a
[2009-10-14 11:10:57] - i don't see how 123 would help but i guess i don't know where paul works. ~a
[2009-10-14 11:09:53] - Paul: You'd probably be better off taking 'backroads' like 7100 & 123 to try driving north on 95/395. Just watch out for construction zones. -- Xpovos
[2009-10-14 11:05:01] - a: Basically, I could try leaving work around 5 or something, but I think the fastest way for me to get to Alexandria is to take the Toll Road east (ugh) to 495 south and that sound like it would take a while. Also, would the table fit in my car? -Paul
[2009-10-14 11:04:00] - Stephen: So taking 495 from the Toll Road to Alexandria around 6:30 would probably be a bad idea? -Paul
[2009-10-14 11:03:37] - Paul: Yeah, like Stephen says, anything around the 66/495 interchange is going to be brutal at that time. 66 east bound is pretty bad by itself too. I never understood why, but I always see bad traffic inside and outside the beltway heading east in the afternoon. West is bad, but at least that's obvious. -- Xpovos
[2009-10-14 11:01:08] - Paul: Traffic is usually pretty bad south of 66 because of everyone driving home from Tysons. - Stephen
[2009-10-14 10:59:50] - northbound it's great. southbound i'm never on at 6pm but i have to imagine it's starting to wane around then. ~a
[2009-10-14 10:58:45] - http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/4160/developing_games_for_android.php "The iPhone store charges developers $99 a year to distribute their apps, while Android has a one-time $25 fee for developers. And the review process for iPhone apps grows increasingly lengthy -- sometimes weeks or more -- and it's somewhat arcane . . . " hmm. i wonder. ~a
[2009-10-14 10:58:40] - a: Any idea how bad traffic is on 495 around 6pm? -Paul
[2009-10-14 10:56:56] - yep. ~a
[2009-10-14 10:53:42] - a: You work in Alexandria? -Paul
[2009-10-14 10:51:36] - ok when do you or paul want to pick it up then? ~a
[2009-10-14 10:49:36] - a: I would have trouble maknig it at Thurs during those hours seeing as how i dont think it would fit in my car and wont be able to borrow my parents car until thurs night... And being in DC from 9-6 makes it harder, although I can see if I can change things a bit and be able to... Unless of course Paul wants to volunteer to pick it up. ~gurkie
[2009-10-14 10:47:51] - amy: awesome! ~gurkie
[2009-10-14 10:41:45] - Stephen: I haven't read much about her gay rights points, but her feminism points are... unique. As a result, I find them interesting to read. She has street cred there too, as a woman. -- Xpovos
[2009-10-14 10:25:36] - Aarig: Great, thanks. -Paul
[2009-10-14 10:25:06] - paul: if you don't mind your diplomacizing to be completely open and public, I don't see much issue. - mig
[2009-10-14 10:15:51] - Xpovos: Her positions on gay rights and feminism are...maddening, at best. I think she is just full of so much bile that the only thing she enjoys is raining on, or even destroying, other people's parades. - Stephen
[2009-10-14 10:11:15] - paul: i've seen a few people get upset at anonymous press in miguel's current game... but personally i don't understand where that's coming from. anonymous press can be enabled/disabled, so i don't understand what peoples' problem is with it - aaron
[2009-10-14 10:10:06] - paul: oh, yeah that's pretty common. - aaron
[2009-10-14 10:07:34] - Also, I realize I wasn't clear on what I meant. I didn't mean diplomacizing on this message board, because I think we're already done that a bit (even if mostly in jest). I was referring to the Diplomacy message boards. -Paul
[2009-10-14 10:06:57] - Xpovos: Some variant of that, yes.
-Paul[2009-10-14 10:04:39] - aarons sub-post: Well, you'd be a lot worse at Diplomacy... -- Xpovos
[2009-10-14 10:04:09] - Stephen: Interesting reaction to Paglia. I'm curious what brings it out? I know she's done a lot of things to annoy liberals at times, so which ones got to you? -- Xpovos
[2009-10-14 10:03:12] - Paul: Is the second half, "... and start attacking England/Aaron"? -- Xpovos
[2009-10-14 09:56:40] - Stephen: That was only the first part of the message... or the second... anyway, there's another half! -Paul
[2009-10-14 09:50:22] - Paul: I have no problems with it. Especially as you've already indicated what you want to say
- Stephen[2009-10-14 09:48:58] - aaron: Diplomacy etiquette question: Is diplomacizing allowed on the message boards? Could I post something like "Everybody stop attacking me!", or is that considered mis-use of the board? -Paul
[2009-10-14 09:11:01] - gurkie: so would you be interested in a card table? if so, when would you pick it up? i'd prefer thursday when i'm at work (i'm usually at work from 10ish-7ish). ~a
[2009-10-14 08:58:54] - Xpovos: Camille Paglia is a f**ktard who shouldn't be allowed out of her ivory tower. But that's just this liberal's opinion (who was also amused by the Olympic decision). - Stephen
[2009-10-13 23:12:31] - gurkie: actually yeah, my sewing table is a portable foldy table. i could lend it to you for the day. -amy
[2009-10-13 23:11:44] - Camile Paglia is not exactly a straight-up liberal, but she's certainly no friend of Rush Limbaugh, and even she's admitting to 'cheering' the Olympic decision. http://www.salon.com/opinion/paglia/2009/10/14/teaparty/index.html -- Xpovos
[2009-10-13 22:43:40] - oh my parents! they probably have a few. i'll send an email. ~a
[2009-10-13 22:41:31] - no sorry. my coworker does. though you'd have to come pick it up. ~a
[2009-10-13 16:28:41] - Do people have tables that fold up which Paul and I could borrow for our yard sale? ~gurkie
[2009-10-13 16:21:27] - "You two look like a pair of non-litigious mammals." - Carney
[2009-10-13 16:14:28] - aaron: yay. as i told amy already, i was playing with css . . . "visibility: hidden;" ~a
[2009-10-13 16:08:54] - a: i totally figured out the word. The scrabble score is 18 (21 for the longer word) - aaron
[2009-10-13 16:04:17] - yeah i had a hard time getting my sister to help me remember the word "arbitration". "you know that thing you're supposed to do before a lawsuit?" she had no idea what i was talking about. ~a
[2009-10-13 15:45:07] - a: But litigation is time-consuming, costly, and often pointless! Why not just jump right to it? - Stephen
[2009-10-13 15:31:30] - i.e. you could use the trap street to open a dialog with the company that violated your copyright. after the dialog is open, you can discuss licensing. if that fails, you could fall back on dispute resolution and/or arbitration. or use the information in marketing campaign to beat out the unethical competition. ~a
[2009-10-13 15:28:20] - you know there is a step between prevention and litigation (at least one). i'm very ashamed at you two.
~a[2009-10-13 15:13:27] - xpovos: litigation. - aaron
[2009-10-13 15:11:34] - aaron: but if it's so slightly incorrect as to be unnoticeable for navigation purposes (the point of a map, certainly) then it won't detract from the reason for copying. It might just allow it to be noticed after the fact. Prevention, or litigation? -- Xpovos
[2009-10-13 15:06:29] - xpovos: well, the beauty of trap streets/slightly incorrect data is that you can't automatically weed it out - aaron
[2009-10-13 15:04:44] - a: Also, I imagine if these are digital maps they can add tons of dummy data that either has a flag, or there's some hard coding for the system to ignore when on display. -- Xpovos
[2009-10-13 14:58:09] - aaron: AH. "sometimes . . . a map will misrepresent the nature of a street in a fashion that can still be used to detect copyright violators but is less likely to interfere with navigation". so smart! ~a
[2009-10-13 14:44:19] - heh, i always try to post dokuwiki markup here - aaron
[2009-10-13 14:43:06] - a: i found it, they're called [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap_street|trap streets]] - aaron
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