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Re: Longest Running Thread EVER
Oops my bad. it should be (12/10)*Golden Mean Squared.I must be reading this last part wrong. How can pi be 5/6 * 2.6?Coincidentally, e = 2.618033988749895 * 1.0383!! Is there anything that is not related to the Golden Mean?
As to the second question, dunno yet. I have a book on the Golden Mean, but not yet read it.
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Re: Longest Running Thread EVER
I think that was because we were waiting for you to remove the reputation sticky and put up a new sticky (unlocked) on the new requirement to post a bikini picture a day.SS I must say I really like your new bikini avatar.
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Re: A Thread for Random Musings
Nothing like having a dead rat in the workplace for a week to get used to its musky aroma.
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Re: Longest Running Thread EVER
And for those who don't, pi is 3.1415927...Mmmm... pie.
And the Golden Mean is 1.618033988749895. The Golden Mean squared is 2.618033988749895.
And Pi is (10/12)*2.618033988749895.
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Re: Longest Running Thread EVER
For those who give a crap our WGAC is 0.711.
In other news:
Musings about Musing is 0.794
And Musings is 1.043
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Re: Longest Running Thread EVER
Neat idea! Actually could be separate from a misinterpretation thread (and we just did that here I think), but is it too complicated? What do people think?Oh no, we're having a thread about having a thread! Watch out! It's the corporatization of the NGD!
But seriously, do you (all) think it would work?
why not give it a trial run, say a week?
(Another thread spun off from LRT EVER)?
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Re: A Thread for Random Musings
Anyone notice the slight irony with Ben's sticky thread about reputation and we gav him heaps for his birthday?
Does this mean the NGD's present to our BENevolent moderator is "ABSOLUTELY NOTHING"?Surprisingly, Reputation on the Hero Boards means just about as much as your post count.ABSOLUTELY NOTHING
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Re: A Thread for Random Musings
Here I am after another shopping trip. Upset.
I remembered today while reading the boards, I forgot to do something I was going to do today -- get some chocolates for mother's day. My parents are at the moment picking up the gusts (their friends from London) that are the reason I'm sleeping next door tonight and until Sunday next week (they are boarding in my room*). (I may do a day by day musing sort of like a dirary entry kinda thing.)
I quickly rush off to the supermarket, quickly get the chocolates (for me to eat also) and head to the checkout. Knowing that they are reasonably costly I use my credit card -- my first mistake. Unusualy for me, I swipe the card, select the account, yadda yadda yadda, I'm sure you know the drill. I then put my card away and put my wallet in my pocket. The checkout-chick says "I'll need to see your signature on the card". I gnore her and and sign the paper. She repeats her request, and I ignore her a second time. Just about to pcik the chocolates up and go, when a third time I get the card out flash it to her for a second (litterally, I don't know if the signature was upside down or not),put it away, grab the bag and get out of there as quickly as possible. I here the words as I'm leaving "do you want a receipt, but by then I've ignored her for a third time. Upset and very frustrated.
Why simple. I'm tired of proving myself time and time again that I am the same person who owns this card and you treat me like I'm not -- a virtual or potential criminal. I feel like a bit of my dignity is being lost each time I make a simple transaction. Credit card purchases equals a sacrifice of a small part of human dignity. (The proverbial 'pound of flesh' from Merchant of Venice.) At least I don't have to go through this procedure with my friendly Comics Book Guy, who does know me.
So my parents are unawares that I've been out and go my mum her mothers day present. All that would give it away are chocolates int he 'other' fridge.
* I put up a sign "£150.00 per night" on my bedroom door.
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Re: Nemesis
Yes buy him as a follower.Interesting. Thanks. I hadn't thought of that.So you're suggesting maybe buying him as a follower?
That's one reason I posted her. I know you guys would think of things that would slip my mind.
(side note: as a undergraduate accountant to a accountant/auditor, "buying a doctor" seems oh so wrong!
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Re: Longest Running Thread EVER
I thought seinfeld was funny. Although the funniest thing I heard about the show was that it was rating poorly a major German tv network replaced it with Hogan's Heroes. Sometimes the best laughs come not from the shows.
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Did you hear that there is a nekkid' date=' unphotoshoped picture of Mightybec locked up in Rachel and Kara's firesafe? He was posed with the Art Director and his cat![/quote'] Really? Do tell! (Like I believe that. ) -
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Re: Nemesis
It would be nice to have a few more sentences or such on how the doctor realized this woman would be such a force that he would cover it up - such as some mutation evidence (not seriously suggesting that one' date=' just an example), or his familiarity with other super vigilantes doing something vaguely similar, or such. It's a leap in the original text and I'm not so clear entirely, except of course for being genre-familiar enough to take it at face value.[/quote'] Sine the Cartiers are wealthy, why not make him a friend of the family (or family docter). It could be useful if (when) things go wrong for Nemesis and she needs medical help. If she does need medical help, who is she going to call? Everyone else believes her to be in a wheelchair, if Nemesis comes in and they identify her as her civilian identity, the who facade comes to naught. A point-person, contact, in the hospital, would be needed. And if that person is a family friend that strengthens the need to create the facade in the first place.The relevance that he was also a victim of mob violence becomes a side issue not the prime motivation. .
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Re: Longest Running Thread EVER
[gollum]
[/gollum]Do not call upon the Master!
I tried posting the above but encounted this:
The following errors occurred when this message was submitted:The message you have entered is too short. Please lengthen your message to at least 1 characters.
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Anyway' date=' that will make it hard. The thing is that WAG was broken out because it got too big - so what does that say about this thread's future?[/quote'] We do it again? -
Re: Longest Running Thread EVER
saw it and hope to post to it, but got assignment due really soon. I hope to find time to post my thoughts. Bottomline Monterhunter is not a genre -- but a theme.Why is this thread on the second page!? Must move it up or we're DOOMED - only Ben's birthday saved us, he had mercy!Oh btw, do read that Madstone thread about supserheroes versus monster-hunters, I bumped it but my other posts are already putting it to the 2nd page. I guess I have a problem...
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Re: Longest Running Thread EVER
You should change the thread's name to "Post here or we shoot this dog".Wow man' date=' that's like... deep and stuff...
[/quote'] Nar, to really get people to view the thread use three words: Kara, Rachel, Nekkid, any order will do. Or Mightybec's true picture -- un photoshopped.
Or "Art Director proven not to be a cat -- see inside".
That will bring people in.
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Re: A Thread for Random Musings
Random musing.
Linux's mascot, the penguin. Were they aware when they chose it how ironic the penguin is for this open source community? How almost impossible it would be for Linux to be adopted as a desktop machine?
Lets face it, one penguin looks like the next penguin, a photo of 100 penguins and each one would look alike – dressed in an identical tuxedo – hence the name of mascot Tux. You couldn’t get a more Big Brother looking group if you tried. A corporate mindset? No free radicals in this “corporate†penguin community.
The Linux stereotypical appearance is a blue jeans, t-shirt radical/nerd, free spirited, anti-corporate change-the-world-for-the-better neo-hippy. The complete opposite to Big Blue’s famous corporate environment where they reputably dress alike (like penguins).
If I read the Linux community right they want to replace the established corporate OS (Microsoft Windows) with a Linux version. In other words a change of clothes from Microsoft’s corporate dress wear to Linux’s tuxedo, but still in a “Big Brother†one mindset, all clothes are the same environment – penguin tuxedos.
Does anybody else find this ironic – the “free radicals†of the open source community using a mascot that is the opposite of what they say they the want to accomplish?
“From every open source project, a developer will emerge to be incorporated into the corporate ‘Big Brother’ environment.â€
And the fact that IBM is a keen promoter of Linux is an irony not lost on me – tuxedoes for everyone.
Anyone who remembers Apple’s 1984 commercial that introduced Macintosh, Apple then had it right, they portrayed themselves the way the Linux community want to be seen now. Unlike them, Apple achieved it and they didn’t use a mascot where each person (or penguin) looked the same, they distanced themselves from that – pointed the finger at it – “look do you want to look like one of these corporate identicals, or would you like to use an apple, to think different?†(my words).
Conclusion:
Tux is a representation of the corporate “dress alike†environment. Granted penguins (the animals) don’t have much choice in the matter being black and white*, but I find it ironic that a community of hackers would adopt a symbol that they want to distance themselves from – yet infiltrate this same corporate environment and replace Windows with a Linux desktop. Ironic eh?
T.U.X.
Totally Under Xenophobia
*when was the last time you saw a penguin off-colour?
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Re: Longest Running Thread EVER
AA I was thinking of doing the saming thing...well thinking along the same lines anyway. thanks for calculating.Ach! You'll have to speak up, sonny, my ears ain't what they used'ter be ...So while my kids are watching a kid's show and I'm waiting for the pizza to arrive, I decided to check the post rates of various champ threads. You know, to see how long it will take to catch up to the others.
The next highest non-game thread, Random Musings, posted 1604 replies in 162 days. That's 9.9 replies a day.
Right above that in total replies is the Catsuit thread. With 1636 replies in 392 days, its lifetime posting rate is a not-so-impressive 4.2 per day.
The next highest non-game thread is Random About Random: 3200 replies, 161 days, 19.9 posts per day. Wow.
For grins I calculated the all-time reply count king, WAG2: 8010 replies, 154 days, 52.0 replies per day. Criminy!
So I wondered how we stacked up. As of half an hour ago we had 693 replies in 10 days, for a post rate of ... drumroll ... 69.3!
We rule!
And my pizza's here now. Ciao.
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Re: Longest Running Thread EVER
Why not ask Ben to create another custom view where an extra colum beside Views to show WGAC? This being entirely optional, and as a default turned off. Those who want WGAC turn it on.Honestly, I think they are an attempt to make up a number that means nothing.
As a number cruncher, it would be more interesting to run statistical data to determine the z-scores to find out which threads deviate from the norm. But that would involve someone running a spreadsheet to maintain.
That could work.
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Re: Longest Running Thread EVER
Bazza, thanks for the stat work, I love that kind of stuff!Do you have thoughts on the WWGAC I proposed?
(hmmm - WWGAC - yes, I AM a geek I suppose...)
Zorn, I'll have to reread it. Get back to you when less busy. (if not a week, pm me to remind me.)
And about the stat work, no problems (yet, I'll tell you after my uvi exams
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Re: Longest Running Thread EVER
Board WGAC is....
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Re: Longest Running Thread EVER
I present the ultimate a board wide WGAC (more proof I should be doing an uni assignment)
Hero Games Hero System 5th Edition Rules Questions 0.201 Hero System Discussion 1.397 Company Questions 0.976 Online Store & Cafe Press Questions 0.600 Legion of Heroes 0.322 Conventions 0.462 Genres Champions 2.124 Fantasy Hero 1.440 Star Hero 1.231 Other Genres 1.189 Software Hero Designer 0.571 Herosphere 0.459 Other Software & Online Resources 0.648 Digital Hero 0.591 Gaming Player Finder 0.492 General Roleplaying 1.750 Other Forums Non-Gaming Discussion 4.386
If you are wondering what a total figure is, well you are not alone. I forgot to total the above figures and then perform a WGAC on them
AI present a WGAC for the board afew hours after those figures were gathered -- shortly.
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[/quote'] Nar, to really get people to view the thread use three words: Kara, Rachel, Nekkid, any order will do. 
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