Official BBO Hijacked Thread Thread

[Lobowolf]

Glitch

[Aberlour10]

Is this guy Tom Jones drummer? ;)

[Winstonm]

Glitch

You have just described my life.

[Aberlour10]

When I hear Finland, I immediately think of the metal band Sinergy, and Kimberly Goss.

And I think of the finnish goverment where a half are ♥ex-beauty gueens ♥

 

 

 

 

 

 

...the other half ex-athletes ;)

[matmat]

flying monkeys of doom.

[Winstonm]

THE END

[matmat]

THE END

But Wait.

There's MORE.

[Aberlour10]

More? One day may be. In a thread ... Return Of The Bacon Knights ;)

[bid_em_up]

No. Really.

 

It's THE END.

[matmat]

No.

[gwnn]

Nei, ég held það ekki.

[ggwhiz]

What gwnn said.

 

 

 

Maybe?

[Winstonm]

Part II

[jjbrr]

Update through Part I:

Who posted in: Official BBO Hijacked Thread Thread

Poster Posts

Aberlour10 150

Winstonm 149

jjbrr 141

Al_U_Card 116

gwnn 90

[gwnn]

how did you make that stat?

 

may we order some other stats from jjbrr?

 

three things I always wanted to know were

 

-Posts/Topics ratio for posters

-Reads/Replies ratio for threads

-Intelligent/Stupid posts ratio for posters or threads.

Edited March 29, 2010 by gwnn

[jjbrr]

how did you make that stat?

 

may we order some other stats from jjbrr?

 

three things I always wanted to know were

 

-Posts/Topics ratio for posters

-Reads/Replies ratio for threads

-Intelligent/Stupid posts ratio for posters or threads.

Would you believe me if I told you I counted?

 

No you may not.

 

-That's doable, but it would require a time frame and a list of posters. I don't intend to do it.

-That should be easy. Do it yourself imo.

-The denominator in my intelligent/stupid post count is remarkably high.

[gwnn]

ok :P

 

in related news, I finally beat the machine at Reversi at "Impossible" (opensuse game).

[jjbrr]

Actually the stat I posted is available just by clicking the number under "Replies" in the subforum list thing.

 

Posts/topics ratio could be done by looking at this number for all threads started (I assume manually one by one) and keeping track of whatever poster you're interested in (or making a spreadsheet for all of them). Probably not too hard, come to think of it.

[Aberlour10]

- Serious / non-serious postings ratio in this thread = aprox 1:150 B)

[Aberlour10]

Celebrating Slowhand's 65th birthday :)

 

[y66]

From Time To Start Taking The Internet Seriously by David Gelernter:

 

29. Nowness is one of the most important cultural phenomena of the modern age: the western world's attention shifted gradually from the deep but narrow domain of one family or village and its history to the (broader but shallower) domains of the larger community, the nation, the world. The cult of celebrity, the importance of opinion polls, the decline in the teaching and learning of history, the uniformity of opinions and attitudes in academia and other educated elites — they are all part of one phenomenon. Nowness ignores all other moments but this. In the ultimate Internet culture, flooded in nowness like a piazza flooded in sea water, drenched in a tropical downpour of nowness, everyone talks alike, dresses alike, thinks alike.

 

30. As I wrote at the start of this piece, no moment in technology history has ever been more exciting or dangerous than "now." As we learn more about now, we know less about then. The Internet increases the supply of information hugely, but the capacity of the human mind not at all.  (Some scientists talk about artificially increasing the power of minds and memories — but then they are no longer talking about human beings. They are discussing some new species we know nothing about. And in this field, we would be fools to doubt our own ignorance.)  The effect of nowness resembles the effect of light pollution in large cities, which makes it impossible to see the stars. A flood of information about the present shuts out the past.

 

31. But — the Internet could be the most powerful device ever invented for understanding the past, and the texture of time.  Once we understand the inherent bias in an instrument, we can correct it.

 

...

 

33. Anyone who has ever looked through a telescope at the moon close-up has seen it drift out of sight as the earth slowly spins. In the future, the Cybersphere will drift too: if you have investigated one topic long enough for your attention to grow slack and your mind to wander, the Net will respond by letting itself drift slowly into new topics, new domain: not ones with obvious connections to the topic you've been studying; new topics that have deep emotional connections to the previous ones, connections that will no doubt make sense only to you.

 

34. The Internet today is, after all, a machine for reinforcing our prejudices. The wider the selection of information, the more finicky we can be about choosing just what we like and ignoring the rest. On the Net we have the satisfaction of reading only opinions we already agree with, only facts (or alleged facts) we already know. You might read ten stories about ten different topics in a traditional newspaper; on the net, many people spend that same amount of time reading ten stories about the same topic. But again, once we understand the inherent bias in an instrument, we can correct it. One of the hardest, most fascinating problems of this cyber-century is how to add "drift" to the net, so that your view sometimes wanders (as your mind wanders when you're tired) into places you hadn't planned to go. Touching the machine brings the original topic back. We need help overcoming rationality sometimes, and allowing our thoughts to wander and metamorphose as they do in sleep.

This guy is amazing. Not only did he anticipate the Internet. Seems he also anticipated this thread.

[Aberlour10]

I dont understand what's the problem. Forums like this one are so strictly regulated, you have to be always on topic, stay in your own skill-class (bridge) etc etc..

 

This is the only completely-free-style-thread with a lot of fun, nonsense, strange humor..whatever...

[jjbrr]

I don't like artichokes at all.

 

 

Not even a little.

[jjbrr]

Nor brussel sprouts.

[kfay]

Total opposite here. Used to not like sprouts but as you get older....

Artichoke on Christmas Eve and lobster tail is pretty good though. Family tradition. You can dip your lobster and artichoke in the same butter sauce! And artichoke hearts in salad/on pizza? Come on, dude! So money.

 

Helpful hint: try it in a salad(ish)!

 

Chopped and Sauteed Brussels Sprouts

Serves 4

 

4 cups Brussels sprouts, base removed and thinly sliced (think, chiffonade)

1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil

1 Roma tomato, diced

1 1⁄2 teaspoons kosher salt

1⁄4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper

2–3 tablespoons Fresh Herb Butter (you can make your own! put butter, parsley, garlic, thyme, chive, oregano in the food processor)

 

 

1 Prepare ice bath and set aside.

2 Bring pot of salted water to a boil and blanch

Brussels sprouts for about 1 minute.

3 Quickly strain Brussels sprouts and place in ice

bath to shock.

4 When Brussels sprouts are completely cooled,

strain again and dry well on towels.

5 Sauté Brussels sprouts and tomatoes briefly with

a small amount of olive oil in large sauté pan over

medium-high heat.

6 Add Fresh Herb Butter and stir to combine until

just melted but still creamy. Season with kosher

salt and freshly ground black pepper and remove

quickly from heat.

 

 

But I also enjoy them just steamed with some butter + SAP, or maybe a little bit of lemon.