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Comment on Caption Contest by Davy

Davy — Thu, 01 May 2008 14:13:49 +0000

Walk into the light, and plug in.

Attention men, women, and elephants.

Comment on Caption Contest by Steve Campbell

Steve Campbell — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:19:42 +0000

Women keep left, men pass on right.

Comment on Chance of life developing in the universe by Walter R. Moore

Walter R. Moore — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:58:34 +0000

Ancillary to my ancillary: what proportion of intelligent life survives past the moment where it can destroy itself through war or by over-consuming planetary resources?

We desperately need a control group for that experiment, but we only have one test subject so far.

Comment on Chance of life developing in the universe by Walter R. Moore

Walter R. Moore — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:56:32 +0000

My ancillary was always: “well, where is everybody?” followed by “well, how old is the Universe, and what numbers should we plug into the Drake Equation?” followed by “what if everybody else, once their culture matures, stops broadcasting anything because they all use fiber etc.”

So, the more recent estimates of the age of the universe.. 2-2.5 times the age of our solar system, put things in a new light. There could be 4500 planets developing intelligent life, in that case, and it could just happen that none of them started blasting TV signals of their Olympic games into space at the right time for us to see the signals.

If the Universe was very old we ought to be awash in evidence of other civilizations.. or not, depending on the odds.

Comment on Battlestar Galactica -> April 4th by jb

jb — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 17:04:02 +0000

Yeah, thank goodness it’s only a couple of weeks away.

Comment on Battlestar Galactica -> April 4th by Raven

Raven — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 16:53:37 +0000

The image is subtle if you just glance but yeah, pretty trippy when you look at the “last Supper” context. Wonder where (or if?) they’re gonna take it? More to mull over while waiting for the next season!

Comment on Battlestar Galactica -> April 4th by Walter R. Moore

Walter R. Moore — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 20:11:41 +0000

“No one makes a recreation of the last supper on accident.”

I sure hope they’re taking it somewhere. Don’t throw your messiah imagery around without having it mean something, even in an ironic way…

Comment on Battlestar Galactica -> April 4th by jb

jb — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 18:38:44 +0000

Obviously it’s intentional. No one makes a recreation of the last supper on accident. But what is the intent? That is what is intriguing about the picture. Is #6 the savior of humanity? Or is it just for fun? Or is it just meant to be thought-provoking w/out any particular underlying meaning at all.

Comment on Battlestar Galactica -> April 4th by Steve Campbell

Steve Campbell — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 17:17:51 +0000

I looked, and at first could not see what was disturbing to you.
It took a while, but now that I notice it, I am sure it is absolutely intentional.

Comment on Truer words… by jb

jb — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 18:00:12 +0000

eek.. good point. I’ll have to edit for clarity

Comment on Truer words… by Walter R. Moore

Walter R. Moore — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 15:26:35 +0000

I know you meant snapped up by a parent or teacher, but I’m still amused by how you put it.

“…want to meet regular girls? Go tutor math at the local elementary school. You’ll be snapped up in no time.”

Comment on lesson learned… by jb

jb — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 15:06:32 +0000

Ruby spits back arcane error statements that seem to be referring to a piece of code that you wrote, and basically saying that a class can’t be found.

It would be far better if the underlying software spit back an error “don’t use the word ‘type’ as a column name.

Comment on lesson learned… by Davy

Davy — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 14:56:19 +0000

What happens when you do?

Comment on Best head coach in the world by Bill

Bill — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 14:47:46 +0000

Another coach to add to the mix. My boss’s high school coach.

Gary Kehler - he has a pretty great record in all three sports he coached; football, wrestling, and golf.

Comment on Best head coach in the world by Bill

Bill — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 00:22:31 +0000

That is an impressive record. A close contestant for that record might be this guy: Larry Kehres head coach of DIV III football team Mount Union.

Before he was the coach there the schools record was about 51% at 381-361-34

His record is 260-21-3 and 10 of his losses came in the first four of his seasons as the coach! So in the next 18 years he has only lost 11 times.