April 2008
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March 2008
5 posts
February 2008
2 posts
If I could call the
If we named a
If your gestures threw me towards
without me crashing into it so
without us shaking the tray from its hand
without you apologizing as I pick up up the
could I have met
could you have seen
would we have been like two asleep on the same train?
“Hey all,
I’ll be using the lower porn palace for a meeting with a...”
– Actual email sent to our office mailing list today.
(Much less funny in context)
January 2008
5 posts
Rocks-Paper-Scissors-Spock-Lizard →
Scissors cuts Paper covers Rock crushes Lizard poisons Spock smashes Scissors decapitates Lizard eats Paper disproves Spock vaporizes Rock crushes Scissors
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How to Use a Bike Box →
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Argh frequency chart →
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December 2007
13 posts
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Comments
seliopou taught me that I can add comments to this blog using disqus. That’s totally rad.
Games
You know all those two player, perfect information, zero sum, turn-based games that have been solved or are about to be solved? Like Connect 4, Checkers, Go, etc.?
This games are boring games.
You know how the Game of Life is Turing complete? Now that’s a game.
Proposal: create a two player, perfect information, zero sum, turn-based game that is Turing complete. It will be a game...
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Lame Duck Books, regrets regarding
seliopou writes:
I was out for a jaunt in Cambridge with Emily today. We stopped by a peculiar but alluring book store: Lame Duck Books on Arrow Street.
I recall once going to Lame Duck Books with seliopou just over a year and a half ago.
I found B.F. Skinner’s Beyond Freedom and Dignity there. I was excited. I intended to go back and purchase it after we had run our errands in...
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A Question
What is it about scotch that makes you love everybody so much?
seliopou all up in here →
The Coup
-- Created This channel was created on 12/14/2007 10: 21:34 PM.
-- Join ocujevy has joined this channel (n=ogc@cpe-66-108-80-238.nyc.res.rr.com).
ojucevy: oh hey cool this does exist
ojucevy: i was just guessing wildly
phope: ocujevy: welcome to the inner circle
ojucevy: thanks, dude. it was a long hard slog but i finally made it.
ojucevy: and it sure feels good to be here.
phope: yeah
phope: this is where we are planning the coup
phope: don't tell anyone
phope: also
ojucevy: whoa, you're planning a coup and you didn't let me know?
ojucevy: come on man, you know how i feel about coups
phope: every once in a while somebody with the handle DeliciousXXX comes in and gives us cybermassages
phope: we don't ask questions, she (?) don't give no answers; it just works.
ojucevy: what a system!
phope: here are #nymap, we are experts at systems
phope: you could learn a thing or two from us
ojucevy: are you ... *systems engineers*??
phope: no no no
ojucevy: oh oh ok
ojucevy: sorry i got carried away
ojucevy: sry
ojucevy: sry sry syr
ojucevy: i'll go now if you want me to go
phope: I'm more like a systems _artist_
phope: under normal circumstances, i would demand a toe for this insult
ojucevy: what about that funky_d__ dude, what's his story
phope: but you are a special man
phope: funky_d? He doesn't talk
ojucevy: i dont know if i like the cut of his jib
phope: he just watches
phope: and waits
ojucevy: why did he have to go and cut his jib that way
phope: he read on the internet
phope: that that's the best jib cut for waiting
ojucevy: i guess that's true
phope: otherwise, you've got to deal with all sorts of abrasions
ojucevy: my paternal great-grandfather was a jib cutter back in the old country
-- Nick funky_d__ is now known as funky_d.
-- Quit funky_d has left this server (Read error 104 (Connection reset by peer)).
ojucevy: i remember my dad telling me the stories he used to relate from his heyday
ojucevy: all about cutting jibs for waiting men and such
-- Join funky_d has joined this channel (n=funky_d@cpe-66-108-80-238.nyc.res.rr.com).
ojucevy: the way my dad described it, i could see funky_d's jib cut being precisely that same fashion
phope: I am incredulous
phope: I mean, if that's the case, there would have been no mystery behind funky_d's jib
phope: I had already told you he was a waiting man
ojucevy: well, i just haven't thought about old seymour jucevski in a while
ojucevy: i didn't make the connection
phope: here in #nymap
phope: we honor our pa's.
phope: it's part of the whole coup thing.
phope: breeds a sense of nationalism.
funky_d: ojucevski: You need me for somethin?
phope: patriotism, to be more exact
phope: CRIMENY!!
ojucevy: phope: no, i hear ya. i'll be better now.
ojucevy: funky_d speaks@!!!!
phope: That's the first time funky_d's spoken in months!
ojucevy: i must be the man of legend!
phope: He must have got what he's been waiting for!
ojucevy: prophesied in ancient books!
phope: blessed day.
ojucevy: the one the watched awaited!
funky_d: Why does everybody say that when I decide to say somethin....
-- Nick ocujevy is now known as the_promised_one.
funky_d: Alright you little turd buckets, whatd'ya want?
the_promised_one: i have accepted my destiny.
* phope thinks that the coup is totally in the bag now
Popularity
At the time of this writing, Citizendium has raised $1072 out of its $10,000 funding drive goal.
At the time of this writing, Alan Keyes, who is running for the position of President of the United States, has convinced 3,105 people to take his pledge to support his bid for presidency. His stated goal is 5,000 people.
(Alternate title: Goals)
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C. Bennet, "Logical Depth and Physical... →
In the future, we will all be talking about logical depth.
