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Dodgers: 26-20 (1st place NL West, 0.5 GA, W1)
Brewers: 28-18 (1st place NL Central, 6.5 GA, L1)
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Posted: Thu 20 Dec 2007, 18:41
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Evening All,
I'm a long-time lurker on this forum, but couldn't resist joining this thread as I work with visually impaired people. The type of interface that djringjr is aiming for sounds like 'Guide' from http://www.softwareexpress.co.uk/, which only works with Windows, but is very easy to use. Costs nearly £400 though...(but it's still cheaper than some other offerings).
I'd love to have a live CD to just chuck in someone's PC (or my laptop if they don't already have a computer) and show them what can be done. Even a dedicated CD that just did one thing would be great - I recently met a 99 year old with failing sight who just wanted to be able use a word processor and nothing else.
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Posted: Thu 20 Dec 2007, 19:34
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What a pleasure for your first post going to this topic. It is a great honor.
The menu system that I've been speaking about was part of the link that Lobster gave us.
Here is the link for the page that shows the menu system.
A developer (that doesn't mean me!) could take this idea and make a Puppy Seeing Eye Dog (bark bark) that could be used by blind, and visually impaired. Opera is wonderful for poor vision as you can preset the magnification and it does pictures and text - Firefox 3.0 does this also - but it is harder to change the zoom.
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Posted: Thu 20 Dec 2007, 19:51
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Okay, I thought I'd play around with this idea for a while. All ready being partially blind, I may have need of it in the future. Far far future I hope.
Anyway I'm not a programmer, nor am I a Linus Guru. So my approach will be trial and error, and a whole lot of questions here, that I hope someone may be able to answer.
The start off point will be Puppy-OneBone-2.10-elinks
A quick look at onebone shows that it does open up into the elinks browser, which does have a menuing stem.
Is here a tutorial for Onebone floating around?
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Posted: Thu 20 Dec 2007, 20:16
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It might be better to build a new Puppy from 2.14 or 2.17.
I'll burn a CD of the iso you mention soon and try it.
I'm not a programmer either - I do other stuff. I just saw the need and saw where it could be made with Puppy and made into a very lightweight distro with a speaking command line.
That's where emacspeak fails the non-expert user.
If a person is blind, they can easily remember to type: web or mail or music (mp3 player) or write (for a text editor with spellcheck) - all with simple and consistant key bindings.
CTRL Q for quit for example. CTRL S for save. Then have the system know that txt files go in the my-documents folder, mp3 save goes to my-music, if an eBook reader is made it gets saved in my-books. All without operator intervention.
When it boots - up and down key to navigate - everything as automatic as possible.
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Posted: Fri 21 Dec 2007, 01:00
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I took a longer look at Onebone, and the menu isn't what I thought.
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Posted: Fri 21 Dec 2007, 01:13
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I can see now that a consistant system that can be used from program to program has to be used.
The M$ Windows keys would be a logical starting place.
TAB to go to up and down on the menu (SHIFT+TAB goes up).
CTRL+P print.
Also a way to go word and letter by letter is needed for word processing. CTRL+right cursor move right one word. and then holding the shift down highlights it and you can move so the synthesizer speaks word for word by going forward CTRL+right cursor or backwards CTRL+left cursor.
Some key - maybe F12 as it is easy to find being on the end, would read the line. CTRL X and CTRL C would cut or copy, etc.
We have to come up with universal commands used in each program and bind the keys so those commands work there.
We have to cover: highlighting, copy, cut, print section, etc.
I can see this coming about now - this is the way to do it.
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Posted: Fri 21 Dec 2007, 04:08
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Sounds good, but first baby steps.
I can remember way back when dinosaurs walked the Earth and DOS ruled the computers, I wrote simple batch files to act as a menu system. They weren't the most elaborate, but they worked.
My thinking at the moment is to use something like :
echo "1. foo"
echo "2. bar"
read choice
case $choice in
1) ./shell_script_1
2) ./shell_script_2
*) echo "unknown choice"
To create a rudimentary menu system A modified form would look ile:
echo "1. WEB"
flite "Press One to access the Internet"
echo "2. Mail"
flite "Press two to read your email"
echo "3. Audio"
flite "Press Three to play Audio"
echo "4. Editor"
flite "Press four to write letter"
echo "5. command Line"
flite "Press five to go to the command line"
echo "6. Quite"
flite "Press six to quit"
echo "7. repeat"
flite "Press seven to herar the options again"
read choice
case $choice in
1) ./shell_script_1
2) ./shell_script_2
*) echo "unknown choice"
That should result in a rudimentary speaking menu system, that would work on a command line puppy.
Tomorrow I'll try to find the time to run through the script on 214rv1.01, then on OneBone-2.10-elinks.
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Posted: Fri 21 Dec 2007, 11:00
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DOS ruled the world! Nice it shows how powerful command line is and how it is accessable to many more people.
Your batch type files are exactly what I was thinking - but instead of numbers - why not simple words?
Have the synthesizer say when at the command line:
Type mail to read or write email, type write thaT'S W R I T E to write a letter, type ocr, to scan a document that you want to read,
Then after you get to email, the voice says type send or receive?
The number method offers a good way also - but it is more to remember when using a computer.
There are amazing things happening for software for the blind and those who are both blind and deaf: Look at this keyboard it uses bar codes and plastic letters that you can feel (braille) with your fingers for the newly blind:
There is a Linux program for reading barcodes for the blind:
http://www.tichnut.de/quikinfo/whatlinu.htm Barcodes are wonderful for labeling canned goods, or even different colored clothes so you can be color coordinated - no stripes and polka dots anymore. The bar code reader can also be programmed to translate the store bar code into "Del Monte French Cut String Beans" when you scan the can.
That page gives a link for yet another synthesizer called rsynth:
The same author has written a nice write program for blind and vision impaired people with giant block cursor and other features - but in Windows only.
He also has written a program that translates Roman letters and Hebrew letters to Morse code then to a electric toothbrush so that the deaf and blind can read.
I also found an excellent editorial - but it is seven years old - on Fresh-meat about blind and Linux command line and X server that has links to programs
if you download that ORCA.iso and when it says "do you want to change desktop" change to the 'easyspeak' desktop - that's the easiest. The emacspeak desktop - while extremely powerful makes very high demands on your ability to remember probably 50 key combinations with alt+key and ctrl+key - too much for anyone with short term memory loss which many of us get when getting older!
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Posted: Fri 21 Dec 2007, 18:18
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Replacing the numbers with words should be fairly simple. First though I want to see if I can get the script working. Both in Puppy 214Rv1.01, and then on OneBone.
The todo list now
1...get script working in 214rv1.01
2..find out how to get OneBone on the net.
3..install the flite.pet on OneBone
4..get the script working on OneBone
5..find out how to have OneBone start the script after booting.
It might be better to build a new Puppy from 2.14 or 2.17.
It may well be. The reason I went with Puppy-onebone-210-elinks is that it is a command line puppy, and has programs for browsing and email, as well as a text editor, mp3 player, and a few others. Also, I believe that 210 was claimed to be fairly stable.
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Post subject: onebone versions
For onebone 2.01, see here:
And the 2.10 version is here:
(Should a newer kernel be necessary, you may want to use barelypup based on 2.13: http://puppyisos.org/isos/2007-01-to-06/ )
The 2.10 version should have more applications:
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Posted: Fri 21 Dec 2007, 20:17
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Well the firststep works. |The menu script works in Puppy 214Rv1.01, and except for a g-dawflu squesl that came over my speakers I could understand what was being said.
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Posted: Fri 21 Dec 2007, 23:25
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I got Puppy to sing - but it was about a year ago and quite a process
you need symphony, miditcl and permission from these guys (which they readily gave)
Festival is a text to speech utility
Download (11 MB):
It is 34 MB extracted on your harddisk.
If you want it on another one, move and symlink /usr/local/festival
Then in a consolewindow type:
talk "this is a test. What do you think about it?"
it uses this synthesizer:
flite (smaller)
(right click and save as)
restart x (not required if using icewm) and use flite test.txt from the console -
where test.txt is a text file of what you want flite to say
or direct from console
flite "A sentence to speak."
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Posted: Sat 22 Dec 2007, 01:30
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Just a comment for everyone's consideration.
One thing that many blind users need or would very much like to have is a braille driver. This outputs to a device like "Braille and Speak" or others and electronically raises "dots" to that blind can read. The "Braille and Speak" also has a braille keyboard which can input text.
Now much of this hardware is difficult to locate, but Ubuntu has drivers, probably Slackware also.
I don't know if generic *nix drivers are available - if so there is no problem, but if there aren't and they ARE available from the Slackware Softeware Reposity - perhaps it would be a good thing to make this out of Puppy 3.01.
I don't use a brailler - but others do - any comments?
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Posted: Sat 22 Dec 2007, 02:19
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Probably 301, either version, would be the better bet, more up to date kernel, I think the retro version uses the same kernel as 214. I certainly think that anything I am trying, at the moment, can be done on 301.
But I like the fact that OneBone saves a different file than the one I use for 214.
Maybe if I ran it as a multisession disk
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Posted: Sat 22 Dec 2007, 03:17
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I tried 301 as a multisession. worked okay with the GUI running. As soon as I tried to run it in command line mode (puppy pfix=nox) it hung while trying to get the dhcp thing going.
It is possible that how the internet stuff is set up will depend on how the OS is run. Either with the GUI or as a command line version.
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A recent trip through the Superior Court records of Rabun County netted an interesting connection: an 1838 petition naming Jemima Kell as the sister of James Kell.1
Years ago, another researcher gave me information on Rabun County's Kells. Not a Jemima amongst them. Ok, no problem, I thought. I'll just contact that researcher and see if she's uncovered anything new. Unfortunately, delivery to the e-mail address I had for her failed, and her web site is no longer up. In desperation, I posted to a message board. The researcher I was looking for hasn't answered yet, but another one has. I've queried back for more information. Not knowing this particular other researcher, my imagination is going into overdrive about our anticipated exchange.
Me: So is it possible that Jemima was a sister to the James who was a son of James Kell, who was a son of Capt. James Kell?
Other: Well, she's not in my database [of 136,489 people I've added all by my own self]. And I have a lot on that Kell family in my database [of 136,489 people, etc., etc.].
Me: Ok. What documentation do you have for those Kells?2
Other: Oh, [expert researcher] gave me all his family group sheets, and that's where all my information [that I've posted about on my two web sites and dozen message board posts where I've asserted absolute authority on the matter] comes from. I've got them right here and I'll be glad to make copies for you.
Me: Sure, I'd love to have copies. 'Preciate it much. Are there any references on those FGS? You know, to wills or deeds or the like?
Other: Hmm. No, looks like [expert researcher] got it from [that heritage book someone wrote where no sources were mentioned]. Oh, and [second expert researcher]'s family tree on [that large online company whose name we daren't mention]. The three of us have spent years researching this family [in publications], and all that hard work means we absolutely have all the connections right. Right? Right?
Me: *facepalm*
Ok, so that conversation hasn't happened, and with any luck won't (probably), and my imagination has admittedly gone into overdrive. But, to be truthful, I've had plenty of conversations with other family diggers that went that way.
Meanwhile, poor Jemima will be left hanging out there, dangling on her own until someone (read: me) can place her with the correct family. It's not that there were a lot of Kells in Rabun County at that time, nor across the state line in then-Pickens Dist., SC. Nor even a lot of Jemimas. It was a fairly unsual name for this area.
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Jemima: *ahem* Yoohoo! *waves* I need a family, please! *waits patiently* Hello-hoh! *taps foot* Anybody home?
Me: Yes, Miss Kell, I'm right here.
Jemima: Did you hear me? I said I need a family.
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Jemima: Wait? Wait? What kind of researcher are you, anyway? *bursts into tears* All I wanted was one measly little family. Is that too much to ask…
Me: *facepalm*
Wait in line. Oh, if only they would.
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1. If you're wondering, another Rabun Countian, Jinsey Carver, was suing James M. Forrester Jr. for saying that she (Jinsey) had accused James and Jemima of incest. People who say the past is boring haven't read any early court records. Source for this particular court record: Petition of Jinsey Carver, April Term 1838; Rabun County, Georgia, Record of Writs A 1836 – 1841: 118; Clerk of Court, Clayton.
2. A polite way of asking about the thoroughness of the research made into this family. Well, polite for me.


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Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Comic 723: Waves of Confusion
Holy crap! Another earthquake comic! Luckily, earthquakes are always a source of vast humor, so I don't mind. Also, it's another twitter comic, but I think that's really in bad taste.
GUYS! Did you know that there is a new-fangled type of "internet" which can make information move very quickly? It is true! You can send information at the very speed of light! It is called "the information super-high-way" because things go as fast AS CARS ON A HIGHWAY! so very fast! One implication of this is that it becomes possible to get information about things like the weather, etc, around the world very quickly! EVEN BEFORE THE WEATHER ARRIVES! this has been true for what, 20 years? maybe only 15.
Anyway, i guess the point of this comic is that twitter can be a funny way to watch people react to terrible problems in what is essentially real-time. Would you agree? That's not a pejorative statement - I expect most xkcd fans would agree with it. No?
OK I was sort of lying - I did mean that as an insult at Randall, but only because he did this exact joke before. Exactly. Do I even need to go into detail on this? How about this: if you doubt me, just read that review of comic 574 I linked to, and note how much of it applies here as well. And vice versa! It's like I posted an xkcdsucks post in the past....from the future! spooooooky!
tl, dr: twitter is dumb, everyone knows it
PS did you all notice that xkcd's very own bitchy whiny jerk Rob made another appearance in today's comic? Why yes, "RobM163" is the twittererer mentioned in the final panel. ROB, does your last name start with an M? (yes, it does).
PPS why are they both twittering in the last panel?
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wait, we have a bitchy whiny jerk Rob? I thought there was just a HELLA DAMN SEXY ROBReplyDelete
they are both twittering because they are both experiencing the earthquake. duh.ReplyDelete
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i can't think of a joke about it, but i love it.
I was expecting this to be more brutal. Then I read the linked review and it was. Randall does you guys a great service by limiting the amount of work you have to do!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 6, 2010 at 10:53 PM
That swine flu joke is quite different. That one was using Twitter to exemplify the more general concept of panic- a panic that would have existed without Twitter but which Twitter allowed to be succintly documented. This one is about people ignoring their immediate surroundings because they're absorbed in an escapist form of socialising. That one wasn't really about Twitter users as such, this one is.ReplyDelete
You don't have to find it funny or clever, but you could be more accurate with your use of the word "exact."
Randall, you get points for placing blocks in Tetris. You're doing it wrong.ReplyDelete
I think you only get points for pressing down so they fall fast. just letting them hit bottom doesn't give you points. maybe?ReplyDelete
- Tetris DudeApril 6, 2010 at 11:14 PM
Yep, the further you make them drop quickly the more points you get but if you don't make them drop quickly at all you don't get any points just for placing them.ReplyDelete
i always liked the last panel of http://achewood.com/index.php?date=11102003 and later http://achewood.com/index.php?date=11182003ReplyDelete
new one is yawn.ReplyDelete
hell is a game you can't beat. wow. tell me more of your new and unique insights, randall.
- AnonymousApril 6, 2010 at 11:55 PM
RobM is probably more likely to refer Rob Malda, but don't let that get in the way.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 7, 2010 at 12:42 AM
I'm surprised Randall missed the chance to instead refer to Hatetris.ReplyDelete
Earthquake comic is lame. This is not a "marvel at the wonders of our technological world" comic.ReplyDelete
Let's rephrase it you will see why:
"Oh Gerald is such a curiosity, he did not leave the post office after reading a tepegraph saying 'EARTHQUAKE INCOMING STOP EVACUATE NOW STOP' but instead inquired to the postmaster about the particular workings of the invention, in spite of the fact that the telegraph was warning him of imminent danger a hor hor hor very droll."
It's a pictoblog post, and one that'd result in more interesting comments than the post itself.
Ha tepegraph. Learn to spell, Keep!ReplyDelete
Latest Tetris comic is Not Bad, but it's imperfect.
It's an immediately grasped visual joke. There's no need to explain it, everyone can instantly see it's Tetris gone wrong. So it'd work a lot better without the "this is hell :( :( awubbawubbawubba" caption.
Today's comic was actually pretty good. Clever joke, nice execution. The alt text ruined it though.ReplyDelete
I liked the new one - nice and simple, doesn't involve naked women, understandable without specialized knowledge.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 7, 2010 at 5:43 AM
Earthquake comic wasn't so bad on my book, except the recycling of premises. And the shitty art that contribute for nothing on the comic. Meh.ReplyDelete
Newest comic... the joke itself is... decent. Too much a "gamer comic" thing, though, and I'm not sure Randall's "Romance, Sarcasm, Math and Language" fits with "gaming references LOL". It's of obvious subpar quality, and yet I know I'll have at least 5 people on my Twitter timeline linking it and saying "today's xkcd is INGENIOUS"... Gotta love the fandom.
Also, I'm abit bothered that, with so many Mario games that could be considered as classic as Tetris he goes for what I assume is Mario 64. Or Galaxy, but I haven't played that much, so I don't remember if it had stars. Still, I think it's a bitchy nitpick, so I'll just try and not think about it.
Mole out.
- AnonymousApril 7, 2010 at 6:58 AM
isn't this comic just thousands of bash.org quotes re: oh no there is a tornado/fire/whatever i should tell irc instead of running?ReplyDelete
I don't get the latest comic.ReplyDelete
I mean, I understand what's MEANT to be the joke - that the game would be unplayable - but... how's that funny in the slightest?
That's aside from that "Tetris with a curved bottom would be impossible to get straight lines on" itself isn't smart or creative. And is just downright stupid when you consider that Tetris does not even work that way, you moron! Gravity is non-existent here!
Alt-Text is just pandering to the fans. OH HEY KATAMARI! OH YEAH MARIO! (Probably got the habit from VGcats. Hurr hurr.) And whatever about round-bottomed Tetris, just taking a basic game objective and making it outright impossible does not constitute as humour. COMING UP NEXT: "PLAYING HALO, BUT WITHOUT A CONTROLLER!" (although that probably wouldn't happen, since Halo is a distinctly non-nerdy game. The gods be damned if Randall would let something like that get in his comic)
Also, note how he doesn't even bother to draw the squares of the pieces!
Actually, just note how he DOESN'T EVEN BOTHER TO USE A RULER!
Wait... what?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 7, 2010 at 7:08 AM
The new comic sucks because the title says "Hell" and the caption also says "Hell." That is all.ReplyDelete
Wait, wait, missed something again.ReplyDelete
He put in "Hell" twice.
Y'know, just in case it wasn't blatantly obvious that you can't match a straight line in a rounded game board.
And another, just to be sure.
Welp, so much for XKCD being an "intellectual" comic!
- AnonymousApril 7, 2010 at 7:11 AM
I liked the new comic. The only suggestion I'd make would be to have more blocks scattered at the bottomReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 7, 2010 at 7:18 AM
If he had more blocks you would have seen that its possible to make a flat surface (leaving an open gap on the side to avoid losing that line) and then could play from there.ReplyDelete
It's not really hell, it's just an inconvenience.
To me a game hell would be an amazing game in every aspect. Great graphics, great gameplay, great storyline but its 200 hours long and you can't pause and you can't save and you can die at any moment so you have to always be playing or you'll have to start over.
- AnonymousApril 7, 2010 at 7:55 AM
Plasma wins.ReplyDelete
My reaction to seeing curve-bottom Tetris was not, "wow, that WOULD be hell." Rather, it was "wow, that would be fun to try and play, and there is quite obviously a way to make lines once your form a secure base."ReplyDelete
The alt text hearkened to Tantalus... perhaps he could have done something funny with that... but it isn't a joke as is.
So I can't decide if Randall was shooting for something that would be possibly a decent comic and didn't get it quite right or whether his terrible comic accidentally came close to greatness.ReplyDelete
The key is the alt-text. So Mario can see a star but can't quite reach it, hmm? That sounds TANTALIZING. I had to look up Katamari, but apparently it involves rolling a large object around (up a hill repeatedly?). I can't figure out a classical antecedent for his Tetris though.
If he was trying to compare classical punishments in the afterlife to frustrating situations in videogames, then there is the seed of a decent comic there. Maybe I'm too stupid to get the situation referenced by Tetris (doubtful though; contrary to popular belief you don't have to be smart to get xkcd).
However, Randy usually spells out his references pretty explicitly. Nobody here or on Randy's forums has picked up on the Tantalus connection, so I'm inclined to think it's coincidental rather than intentional. If this wasn't intentional then the comic is a huge failure since he's ripping off classical mythology without even realizing it.
F-Zero=Dante's punishment for the lustful.
- Charles Augustus FortescueApril 7, 2010 at 8:14 AM
You that don't like the Hell comic, your screens are too big. Me, when I opened it up I just saw the title 'Hell' and the top of a Tetris game. Then I scrolled down and the joke was revealed!ReplyDelete
I like this one a lot. That feeling in Tetris when you're losing and there's nothing you can do about it can get very infuriating. A piquant vision of Hell indeed.
The Mario game with the star out of reach, though... I'm terrible at Mario so that's all Mario games to me.
- AnonymousApril 7, 2010 at 8:36 AM
So the joke relied on you having the resolution of a graphic calculator. Genius.ReplyDelete
And yeah, I picked up on the sisyphus reference, but not the tantalus one.
but still, even with the curved bottom you COULD GET IT TO WORK by using the pieces to make a flat surface. so its just an additional challenge and not really hell.
I'm guessing he didn't really think it through.
- AnonymousApril 7, 2010 at 8:37 AM
Who has the gall to make a comic about video game hell when Desert Bus already exists?ReplyDelete
So a common complaint of trolls here is that we're all a bunch of dumb jocks too stupid to get the awesome obcurely nerdy references in xkcd.ReplyDelete
In the alt-text, Randall writes about a star that is just out of Mario's reach. Hmm, sounds TANTALIZING, doesn't it? In Katanari, you roll a large object around (up a hill repeatedly)?
If Randall intended to have the comic be about frustrating video games and classical punishments in the afterlife, then it's not too bad. I don't get what punishment Tetris references, but that's because I'm a dumb jock (either that, or Randall's comic is a failure).
However, Randall usually beats you over the head with his "obscure" references (which are usually no more obscure than Star Wars). None of the super smart folks in the xkcd forums have picked up on the Tantalus connnection. I'm inclined to think it's a coincidence; Randall ripped off classical mythology without realizing it (if he'd realized it, he sure as hell would've made the reference explicit). In that case, there is no classical antecedent for the Tetris situation, and the comic just sucks.
Are there any racing games that involve airborne vehicles? I'm thinking Dante's punishment for the lustful.
Oh great, now my earlier comment decides to show up.ReplyDelete
Today's comic was decent, which is unfortunate because I was really believing that if Randall continued his suck streal he would finally axe off the rest of his community.ReplyDelete
It didn't cause me to laugh out loud (I'm don't have that style of reaction) but it did give me a little grin.
The idea was nice, but if I look hard enough it's quite easy to see problems emerge. Namely, the similarity to many existing games, the fact that such a concept would actually appeal to a gamer more than the original tetris (at least it did for me, my mind instantly clicked to: oh cool a physics based tetris, I bet if I tried hard I could still clear some lines), and the fact that the original joke is a bit pedantic (durr this is what hell could be like because it is bad and bad = hell, but not demon and eternal torment bad, only clever game annoyance bad).
The concept could probably have been couched in a better joke for a better execution. However, this would require Randall to put in more effort than "oh an interesting concept, comic done."
But, honestly, this comic was the first in a long while that didn't cause me to punch my monitor, and I can't handle any more dead pixels.
I didn't mind today's comic, it was ok.ReplyDelete
Also, would it be possible to form a perfectly straight line with Tetris pieces under those circumstances? I figured it would ALWAYS be slightly off, which the game wouldn't be willing to forgive.
This has been done many times before. Do a google image search of "Tetris fail" for a bunch of good examples. For INCREDIBLE examples, check out the Achewood links 'R' posted earlier in the thread. Those are particularly brilliant.ReplyDelete
I originally also had a gripe with the fact that he has two instances of the word 'Hell', but then I realized that if the image is being displayed somewhere else without the title then it makes no sense without the caption. The only way he could have avoided this really is to have come up with another name for the comic, however I think that the current title fits the comic best.ReplyDelete
Not an incredibly funny comic, but I smiled a little. Could definitely have been executed worse.
- AnonymousApril 7, 2010 at 4:17 PM
xkcd sucks regularly, but I liked this comic. I dunno, maybe because i'm a stupidass fag who deserves to writhe in the flames of hell, but its kinda cleverly funny.ReplyDelete
Also the newest comic is kinda funny, too. I guess it's because I haven't read any other webcomics besides PBF. Nobody in particuluar claims "it's been done and it's not the best, so it is a mediocre piece of shit." But, I think we all have to admit, it's better than the crap Randall usually rolls out.
- AmbivaliciousApril 7, 2010 at 5:07 PM
This one made me almost chuckle just from the gut-level visual gag, but then the Achewood ones were much better.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 7, 2010 at 5:39 PM
So, there is a reason for his choice of games on the alt-text. Nice. I actually can believe he is making a clever reference and his fans just don't get it. Seeing he's been pandering to high schoolers, not many would get any reference that's not to recent popular culture...ReplyDelete
I still hold this sort of game-related comic doesn't feel right in xkcd. It really seems as if Randall is trying to get whatever audience he can get...
Is there really a "reason" for the choice of games in the alt text? I actually found the alt text absolutely horrible: it drags on the joke unnecessarily, and WITHOUT the hard-hitting, quick effect of the visual gag: "oh, okay, here are some more examples of stuff that could be funny." Awful. He should have went for something short and sweet: the short, punch caption really enhanced the effect of the comic.ReplyDelete
Yeah, I enjoyed the comic. It's the kind of thing I would truly love if he had made it back when I was a fan.
Are you mad? MAD? MAD? It sucks. It sucks real bad. The idea of Hell being somewhere where things are just that little annoying bit off is hardly new, and it's not like this Tetris would be Hell anyway - you'd just go 'fuck it, no point playing', I mean Jesus. The alt-text is clumsy too. "Mario with the star out of reach"? That's not Hell. What particularly stunk is that the star comes right at the end of a mission: there's no sense of personal failure or lack of achievement, it's just "The end-of-level token is too far away for you to reach! THUS ETERNAL TORMENT". In general: lazy, pathetic, and stupid.ReplyDelete
Also, maybe a link to a round-bottomed version of Tetris will go viral in the next week, and that makes me sad.
tl;dr You're all stupid and I'm not.
- VeslfenApril 7, 2010 at 6:50 PM
Full disclosure: I'm in high school.ReplyDelete
What makes this in any way relevant is that I fully understood his references to Tantalus (Mario) and Sisyphus (Katamari). I don't consider myself a particularly nerdy person- certainly not by xkcd forumite standards- but I think it's hilarious that nobody else in that forum picked up on those references. Are they really that obscure?
I think there should be a "Alt text extends the joke too far" category.ReplyDelete
Oops that's about half of the comics.
- AnonymousApril 7, 2010 at 9:06 PM
Veslfen, I guess I should apologize for the horrible stereotyping. =PReplyDelete
Anyway, Fernie, I'm not sure anymore, since, you know, the Katamari reference isn't about rolling the ball eternally and getting back to place again. Then again, I never played Katamari Damacy, so I'm not sure, but I guess the alt-text is just a rework of Tantalus in two different forms.
And, driving the point further again... xkcd is highly considered a webcomic enjoyed by smart and educated people, and yet they don't get a simple reference to Greek mythology, if there's one to be got. And let's add this: Greek mythos is in vogue with Percy Jackson and Clash of Titans around the corner.
But, thinking better, I'm not sure why I should bother. If there's an actual reference to the round bottomed Tetris, though, I'd be amused.
Also, I'm guessing this one will inspire another "wetriffs.com", except it'll probably be a wave of shitty badly programmed round-bottomed tetris clones.
All in all, I should be sleeping, but instead I'm here posting inane comments. Ha.
Mole out.
- Charles Augustus FortescueApril 8, 2010 at 7:23 AM
Also Tetris sounds a bit like Tartarus, the Greek version of Hell.ReplyDelete
Also in Dante's Inferno, Hell has a well at the bottom where the ninth circle is.
This comic works in so many ways!
I'm going to have to repeat all this when the actual XKCD Sucks entry for this comic gets put up, aren't I?
If the latest comic were on SMBC, the votey would be a quarter circle and the words "Deus Ex Machina".ReplyDelete
That approach is called an allegory and it requires each element in the symbol to represent something specific in the object to which it is referring. In this case, the dip at the bottom correlates with the well in the ninth circle. What do the pieces represent? Or the score? Or the "next"? It does not make sense as an allegory, so your interpretation is invalid.
The joke is actually very simple. The "L" block and the "Square" block make an opening perfect for the "S" block to fit into, yet it cannot because the two in the well are caved in on each other. That's the essence of it - that being unable to squeeze the block into it would torment you endlessly, just like being unable to pick up anything in Katamari or being unable to get the star in Mario.
- Charles Augustus FortescueApril 9, 2010 at 1:12 AM
I disagree. A text can include allusions without being a full allegory.ReplyDelete
For example, in House, Dr Wilson's name is very close to Dr Watson, alluding to certain similarities between his relationship with House and Holmes and Watson's relationship. But that doesn't mean that every single character in House has to correspond to some character in Sherlock Holmes! Think about what you are saying.
"I disagree. A text can include allusions without being a full allegory. "ReplyDelete
"For example, in House, Dr Wilson's name is very close to Dr Watson, alluding to certain similarities between his relationship with House and Holmes and Watson's relationship."
The allusion is within the House-Watson dynamic, though. It's a clean, well-organized, easily accessible allusion.
Comparatively, your analysis makes very little sense outside of it trying to be an allegory; ok, so Tetris kinda-sorta sounds like Tartarus (which, if that was his intent, *should* imply that everything references the Greek version of hell, but whatever) and there was a well at the bottom of Dante's Inferno (which is an Italian's version of hell). Those are two incredibly disparate allusions that are tangential in relation. It's pretty much like saying "Greek hell is like/leads to/is shitting on Italian hell!"
Honestly, I don't think Randall was trying to make any allusions to Tantalus, Sisyphus, Tartarus, Hades, Dante, Machiavelli, or George Bush; he was just trying to say "Haha, in hell you can't play common games because they're all infernally broken!" It's simple and it fits the comic and the alt-text.


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Sen. John McCain on Tuesday welcomed the Marine Corps' first squadron of pilots who are being called upon to fly the branch's version of the next-generation F-35 fighter jet out of its long and troubled testing phase.
McCain spoke at a ceremony to inaugurate Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 121 at its base in Yuma, Ariz., saying he was encouraged by the recent progress of the supersonic jet program.
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Alexis Sanchez scored his first Barclays Premier League goal only for Ulloa to instantly level in the first half.
But Ulloa missed a glorious chance to win it after the break when he fired wide with just Wojciech Szczesny to beat.
Jamie Vardy was also denied by the goalkeeper as the hosts refused to be fodder for the big guns.
And, despite Sanchez's goal, the game underlined Arsenal's desperate need for striking reinforcements as Yaya Sanogo struggled to make an impact.
Sanogo was given the responsibility to lead Arsenal's attack after Olivier Giroud was ruled out until January with a broken tibia.
And boss Arsene Wenger, who left Jack Wilshere on the bench, was urged to sign a striker before Monday's transfer deadline by the travelling fans.
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Neat play saw Santi Cazorla loft the ball to Sanogo and, when the striker made a hash of his effort, the ball fell to Sanchez to smash in from six yards.
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The goal was all Leicester deserved for their tenacious start and while they lacked the Gunners' style their efforts unsettled their opponents.
Sanogo struggled against the hosts' backline with the Foxes closing ranks to deny Cazorla and Mesut Ozil space but with Sanogo floundering there was little focal point.
Nugent and Ulloa were busy for Leicester though and Chambers was almost caught out by Nugent in stoppage time but wriggled free before Mahrez fired at Szczesny.
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Historical:How to use PTEditor
1. The whole thing is easier than it looks like at first!
2. PTEditor (pteditor.jar) is found in the Panorama Tools (I use version 2.6b1)
3. Make a shortcut to the desktop and be aware of spaces in the root.
4. Doubleclick the icon and it should look like this:
5. Under Menu File click to open panorama and choose the desired equirectangular panorama (possible formats : TIFF, JPEG, PNG, BMP)
6. When the file is opened, navigate with mouse or keyboard arrows to the region who needs retouching. (The navigation is similar to PTViewer)
Shift + leftmouseclick=> zoom in
Ctrl + leftmouseclick => zoom out
7.When you have zoomed in enough (really important, because this way the extracted file isn't that big in size), choose Extract Partial View under menu Edit.
8. A Dialog opens to let you save this partial view. Default setting is Image.tif (I always keep this name as is and save the newer views over it, only to get rid of to much trash on my computer)
9. When saved, open this file in a image editor software like Photoshop, gimp and so on and retouch it.
The final file should be flattened to background after retouching. Save and close the partial panorama file.
10. The retouched Image.tif can now be re-inserted. Go back to PTEditor window and choose Insert saved View under menu Edit.The retouched part (Image.tif) will be inserted in a few seconds.
11. Don't forget to save the modified panorama:
12. Repeat the steps number 7 to 10 as much as you like until the whole panorama is retouched.
I think this is one of the easiest ways to retouch a panorama, also in zenith and nadir regions. No remapping is needed that causes loss of quality (8 bit workflow).
Additional functions:
A. By pressing the key i, you get used version on the bottom border:
B. By pressing the key v; you get the actual position where you navigated to:
This is really useful, when you have to add a special starting position in PanoCube or Pano2QTVR.
Attention: Sometimes you have to hit the key twice to show this dialog on the bottom border.
The used version of pano12 in this workflow is '18.104.22.168'
How to allocate enough RAM for PTEditor
With big sized panoramas PTEditor tends to do nothing because of too little allocated RAM. To avoid this just read the following tutorial:
How to allocate enough RAM for PTEditor
--Peter Nyfeler (Pitdavos)


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Home > Games > Zuma Deluxe
Zuma Deluxe is a game that claims to be the most popular entertainment currently. The software occupy large space secretly destroys the system activities. This may result in slowing down of the system and causing various other problems. this is a big time scam and the fake software does not help. The money from our bank accounts also keeps persistently reducing. Every year millions of users fall prey to such traps and get highly disappointed. That is why we need to be pretty sure about Zuma Deluxe before purchasing one especially online.
Start up your computer, if not already done. Open your start menu and left-click on "Control Panel.
In the Control Panel window, double-click on "Add or Remove Programs." This will lead you to a window with all your currently installed programs. Locate the Zuma Deluxe you wish to uninstall and click on it.
Now that the game is highlighted (for example, "Chess" or "Backgammon") press the "Change/Remove" button on its bottom right hand corner. Follow the steps to uninstall Zuma Deluxe .
You may also choose to uninstall Zuma Deluxe manually. Locate the folder the game is installed in by right-clicking on the game icon on your desktop. Press "Properties" on the menu that pops up. Then press the "Find Target..." button in the new window.
This will now lead you to Zuma Deluxe installation folder. Locate the file named "uninst" or "uninstall" and double click on it. Follow the instructions to remove Zuma Deluxe from your system. Restart your computer


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Friday, April 06, 2007
Colin Cowherd: Douchebaggery, The Sequel
Only when a host of fellow sports bloggers, the good readers at Fark and numerous other non-sports sites across the Internet rallied to our defense, wrote to the ESPN Ombudsman and started to push the story outside the realm of the blogosphere did Coward finally issue an apology five days later.
Unfortunately, we learned yesterday that Cowherd's up to his assclown ways again. And what he's doing this time is even worse.
In a nutshell, on his radio show yesterday, Cowherd - for reasons unknown - urged his listeners to basically launch a DNS attack against a sports site, The Big Lead, for the specific purpose of overwhelming the site and shutting it down (additional info here at Deadspin). Not only did it work but, as of early Friday morning, it was still down.
Thanks to Brian from MGoBlog, below is a partial excerpt of what Cowherd said...
Not only is what he did dicky, childish, immature, douchebaggeriffic, etc., etc., etc., I'm wondering if it's also illegal. I mean, using the public airwaves to incite people to launch an "attack" whose only aim is to purposely sabotage the site?
While that's a question we can't help with, we here at the MZone wanted to throw our support behind the folks at The Big Lead the same way others rushed to our aid last year. As such, here is a link to leave comments for the ESPN Ombudsman:
The person's name is Le Anne Schreiber, a former New York Times sports editor who just took over the position last month. I urge all our readers to write to her - in a calm and respectful tone - about, what I believe, is a blatant abuse of the public airwaves (I make the comment about being calm and respectful regarding any correspondence with Ms. Schreiber so as not to detract from The Big Lead's issue).
Furthermore, if anybody has the email address for ESPN President George W. Bodenheimer and/or ABC Radio head William (John) J. Hare, please let us know and we'll post them so that they may be contacted about this classless - and possibly illegal - move as well. This sort of thing just isn't right.
UPDATE: Thanks to one of our readers...
george.bodenheimer (at) espn (dot) com
john.hare (at) abc (dot) com
UPDATE, PART II: Reader JPL left a good idea in the comments section saying, "If any of you have a digg account, please digg the story here and get it on the front page. If you don't have an account, you should get one. Getting the story on the front page would greatly help expose this guy, since millions read digg.com."
UPDATE, PART III: From Deadspin today regarding the above, "The guys at KSK have been trying to come up with a universally accepted name for which Cowherd shall heretofore be known, and they have settled on 'Schrutebag.' We find that one perfect. From now on, he's Schrutebag."
46 comments:
- Catie said...
I am truly disappointed with the antics of Colin Cowherd. To intentionally send listeners to a site for the sole purpose of shutting it down, and for no apparent reason, aside from his own pleasure, is uncalled for and in my opinion possibly illegal. ESPN is a leader in sports media; I would think that you would have more professional people working for you than him. (And this is not his first poor choice) I hope that you will deal with his actions in a fashion that sends a message to your listeners that they are important to you, and it sends a message to Colin that he cannot act like a child and get paid as an adult.
Sent via the form you posted on the ESPN site. I hope that they listen, he is an ass!
- April 06, 2007 6:06 AM
Who cares, Howard Stern is sabatoging American Idol by telling listeners "On Air" to vote for san dip shit! He is just trying to entertain listeners in a dead period of sports. At Least For Bamas sake he has laid off Saban the whore of college football.
- April 06, 2007 7:17 AM
Stop being such a baby. Colin Cowherd's radio show is one of the few good shows on anymore. He's funny, and brutally honest. What's wrong with that. I found it hilarious about 'the whole go to the website to see if we can shut it down.' oh and by the way, when they do get their site back up it'll be getting record views from here on out. So is it really such a bad thing? You are right maybe not the most mature "professional" thing to do, but so what. it's nice and refreshing to for people to not be so uptight. Why do you Howard Stern is still on the air. Colin will continue to be the best sports-themed radio show on the air.
- April 06, 2007 7:42 AM
Wait a second. There is a BIG difference between Howard Stern telling his listeners to go vote for someone in a method requested by the show and Colin getting his listeners to shut down a site. Yes Stern is not voting for the best singer but he has his listeners doing it in the proper way. If he told his listeners to hack into American Idol and change the votes that would be very different. If his show was as good as anonymous said "Colin Cowherd's radio show is one of the few good shows on anymore. He's funny, and brutally honest." then he wouldn't need to do things like ripoff columns from bloggers or shut down his competitors.
- April 06, 2007 8:40 AM
God, this guy sucks. If ya'll are interested, apparently I was not the first with the "Fire Colin Cowherd" idea. Check it out, probably won't do any good in the long run but I am glad that I signed on.
- April 06, 2007 8:40 AM
anon 4:42 are you Colin Cowherd.if so stop calling people babies or whinny when your being an ass and they point it out
- April 06, 2007 8:42 AM
What an ass. I guess the only good thing about this is that I never heard of The Big Lead before but I'll add it to my favorites when the site gets back up. Yall need to get all the major blogs together for a some type of response. EDSBS, Deadspin, MZone, all of em.
- April 06, 2007 8:44 AM
- Michael Pigott said...
You'd think he would have thicker skin being a nationally syndicated radio show host.
- April 06, 2007 9:14 AM
- Daniel Bastien said...
i'm ann. 4:42. And goblue43 you just proved my point. you are now going to be going there on a regular basis.
- April 06, 2007 9:32 AM
- Bassett said...
i remember once when he did a "this is what goes through Manny Ramirez's head at the plate" versus I think A-Rod...
The voice he used to simulate Manny's internal dialogue (which was about what cereal he likes) sounded EXACTLY like internet cartoon character Homestarrunner of the same website fame. Then he acknowledged the emails that said he was ripping it off on the air and he acted like he had never heard of homestarrunner...
What a douche.
- April 06, 2007 9:37 AM
- fakegeorgebush said...
Denial of service on the net is equivalent to theft in the real world. What if Cowherd had urged all his listeners to go to Walmart and help themselves and they did so resulting in mass shoplifting from Walmart?
This is effectively the same thing in a different realm.
Cowherd can be annoyed, rant and rave as he likes, but his freedom of speech right stops when he commissions others to engage in a crime on his behalf.
This is not a commentary on the man, only the behavior in this instance.
- April 06, 2007 10:10 AM
- JPL said...
If any of you have a digg account, please digg the story at:
and get it on the front page. If you don't have an account, you should get one :). Getting the story on the front page would greatly help expose this guy, since millions read digg.com.
- April 06, 2007 10:27 AM
- JPL said...
- April 06, 2007 10:31 AM
- Unknown said...
Anon 4:42 probably also likes how Carlos Mencia steals other comic's material. This is kind of like the Mariotti thing where everyone knows he's an ass but according to him "you're just making him more famous." They both really suck and I know ESPN does stupid stuff (Salisbury, Berman, etc.) but this is just ridiculous.
- April 06, 2007 10:48 AM
anon 4:42 I mean thats the silver lining on a dark cloud. The website is still down. Probably gonna be expensive to get it back up. It's just an asshole move. I like that the alot of blogs are up in arms over this.
- April 06, 2007 11:15 AM
Mike Harding,
denial of service has nothing to do with theft. In fact, if the website was designed/hosted well, lots of simultaneous traffic wouldn't effect it in any way (except for maybe making browsing slower).
While i strongly dislike Cowherd, i think that him advertising this site on the air does more of a service to the site than a disservice.
Also, just an aside: technically Denial of Service attack is when a site is bombarded with "automated" connection requests (from one or several different users).
- April 06, 2007 11:32 AM
Do you guys have not have any life at all? Do you listen to Colin all day hoping to get something to whine about in a blog? It's like anon 8:32 said... If the site was set up by anyone with a brain, there wouldn't have been any stoppage. Although I don't agree with 8:32's comment that a DoS is always automated... Now, a DDoS pretty much is automated, but not unnecessarily so with a DoS.
And how in the world are you helping The Big Lead to get going again by putting the story in Digg and linking to them on your main page?
I recently found your site, and being a UM fan, I enjoyed it, but if you can't let this Cowherd thing go, then you just need to grow up.
- April 06, 2007 12:28 PM
Anon 9:28,
the only reason i suggested that the connection requests are automated is b/c otherwise you would have to have lots of simultaneous connection requests to bring the site down with a DoS attack. While it's possible, it's not highly probable.
anon 8:32
- April 06, 2007 1:39 PM
- Yost said...
Anon 9:28,
Let this thing go? Uh, it just happened yesterday. We referenced what happened to us last year to point out this isn't his first ass move re: a blog.
As for using digg to link to the story, if more people know, more will probably write in to ESPN. And I'm guessing upper management won't be thrilled with one of its hosts telling his listeners to shut down a website.
Oh, and Anon 4:42,
To say that the guy getting his site shut down is "hilarious" and imply that the guy should somehow be thankful b/c of the traffic WHEN HE'S BACK UP is so stupid, it almost sounds like it was written by someone affiliated with Schrutebag's show.
- April 06, 2007 2:19 PM
- Yost said...
P.S. And the digg link isn't to our main page, it's to the SPECIFIC STORY on this incident.
- April 06, 2007 2:27 PM
- Andy said...
I sent an email to ESPN.
got this is return:
Thank you for writing, Andrew.
Our airwaves should not have been used for this purpose. We apologize.
ESPN Viewer Response
- April 06, 2007 2:43 PM
- OnWisconsin! said...
Colin Cowherd bears a striking resemblence to Gary Danielson...
- April 06, 2007 3:10 PM
- Yost said...
LOL, Wisco. Good catch.
- April 06, 2007 3:21 PM
- SAH85 said...
I too got a reply from the ESPN Ombudsman. She said that she will mention thebiglead.com in her next column.
- April 06, 2007 3:24 PM
- Reed said...
Well, now that I read all the comments, this is clearly late. But here's what I wrote. More people should still write in! Feel free to copy any of the below...
I'd like to see Colin Cowherd reprimanded and/or punished for his recent behavior. I have heard the audio clip of him imploring his listeners to "take down" an innocent website. I don't know if he's still upset because he was caught stealing from bloggers in the past and he thinks this is worth a chuckle, but it is unacceptable for a journalist. This is the equivalent of someone hijacking ESPN's satellite just for fun. I realize that radio is a challenging medium, and that coming up with new ideas is not always easy. But swinging your fists into people's noses can not be tolerated.
- April 06, 2007 6:12 PM
- Yost said...
Oh, and one final ps to Anon 9:28...
I have listened to Colin Cowherd exactly four times in my entire life:
1. After I found out he stole our material, I went to The Herd website and listened to my material being ripped off on the archive.
2. After he was forced to offer his apology, I listened live actually to the end of the show when it was done.
3. Someone sent us a YouTube clip of one of his rants.
4. I listened to the 2 minute or so clip that Brian provided which we embedded in this post.
That's how much I sit around all day listening to this Schrutebag (I think I spelled it right)
- April 06, 2007 7:38 PM
Open letter to all the anons:
What is sad is how you folks act 6'5" 250 from behind the anonimity of a keyboard and your only goal is to come onto a blog just to stirr up shit.
nuff said... back to commenting about this thread:
I find it amazing how many Cowherd apologists take the guy's word as gospel even though he's never been an athlete at any significant level and dropped out of a directional school.
If ESPN is an entertainment network, I suppose Cowherd's behavior is okay (except for his potential violation of the Federal Computer Fraud Act in inciting a DoS attack), but if ESPN thinks their network is a journalistic endavor, then it's time for him to go. Michael Irvin didn't get his contract renewed after making racist comments about Dalls QB Tony Romo.
Go Blue! (and MSU tomorrow in the hockey final)
- April 07, 2007 12:13 AM
- Unknown said...
You are no better than the the anonymous folks here. You don't post your real name either, and you have your facts wrong. Michael Irvin did make some comments, but do you think his last arrest may have affected his contract? Gee, I don't know, and you don't either.
You folks get all full of yourself on the blog like you walk on water or something. Or have played in a National Championship lately. Or that you are even athletes or part of the teams at Michigan.
And the name calling, psst, please (used courtesy of Ozzie Guillen). I got over that in the third grade. When will you grow up?
You folks are using photos on your site that are not credited. Should I contact licensing at Michigan about your thefts of information? They need to protect their trademarks. And Yost, I am sure you took that picture of the real Yost personally. Why don't you credit Getty Images or whoever you stole it from?
Get all stirred up all you want, I am sure it is giving you something to do while waiting for all the transfers from the basketball program. Sit in your parent's basement, trying to think of the next witty thing to post on the blog.
Setting the record straight for you folks, thats all.
- April 07, 2007 1:08 AM
Thanks Prime... thanks for clearing that all up for me and the rest of the blog (and proving my point exactly -- perhaps I should have addressed my letter to all anons and the Cowherd-like "Prime").
- April 07, 2007 2:09 AM
- Unknown said...
Nice try MGoBlue93. Instead of taking it like a man, you spin Karl Rove style. Your posts are unfunny, you get your facts wrong, and when you are wrong, you try to call others names.
That will get you far in life. So, until you can admit you were wrong, step away from the keyboard or your mommy will take away your dial internet access. This is big boy time and you can't handle it.
- April 07, 2007 2:31 AM
- Yost said...
Setting the record straight is coming on here once, making your comment then leaving. I mean, why on earth would you come back to a lowly blog? Especially if those that run them and those that read them are such losers. I'm sure a man of your sophistication has better things to do. B/c to return over and over again to comment would really look insecure.
Furthermore, your comments are THE EXACT SAME as some of the ones we got last year after Colin Cowherd did our material on his show. So similar it's scary. But that must just be a coincidence.
Oh, and sorry you had to go and sign up for a Blogger account after we stopped allowing anonymous comments like the ones you left earlier.
- April 07, 2007 2:52 AM
- Zen Wizard said...
Haven't passed the bar yet, but I think the TORT would be, "Intentional Interference with a Positive Economic Relationship."
In other words, he (under this theory) would be interfering with the site and the people who LIKE the site (and interact with it.)
- April 07, 2007 10:58 AM
- Unknown said...
At least anonymous comments have been banned ... again. Also, "Prime" is an incredibly lame name and sounds a lot like Cowherd.
- April 07, 2007 7:22 PM
- Jim said...
Yeah, seriously "Prime," the Cowherd imitation is so on-the-nose it's creepy. Reminds me of the Rome Clones that would call his show with their best Rome-esque "take," even finishing with "rack me, I'm out!"
Unless Prime is just Colin trolling incognito, but I don't think even he would pull something like that...would he?
And no, "Jim" isn't a clever pseudonym.
- April 07, 2007 8:20 PM
- Unknown said...
Happy Easter all you conspiracy theorists.
Wannabee "Yost": you have to take a picture from Ohio Wesleyan's website, you don't even use one that is from his time at Michigan. Nice work there. And where is the attribution???
You have too much time on your hands. Why don't you identify another sugar daddy that can buy you another Fab 5?
If you truly had talent, you would not be stealing photos from other websites.
And making fun of my name in a world of poser "Yosts" and "MGoBlue93" that makes a lot of sense. I feel so threatened.
Name calling will get you nowhere with me. I can name call with the best, I choose to respond at a higher level. So get back to rehearsing the golden words in your vocabulary: "Would like fries with that sir?"
- April 08, 2007 2:57 AM
- Yost said...
Hey, everybody, make sure you read Prime's comments above. I say that b/c this is the FOURTH time he's posted them. I had deleted them before - b/c he's just being a dick now - but they're obviously so important, I wanted everybody to see them.
For a guy that makes fun of blogs and bloggers so much, please know that he has been doing this for the last 5 - yes, FIVE - hours. On a Saturday night. The day before Easter.
Yeah, if bloggers are losers, what is this guy?
- April 08, 2007 3:25 AM
I had a hard time keeping track of Prime's rants; references to: conspiracy theories, Karl Rove, copyright infringement, fast food restaurants, & "setting the record straight" made my head spin. Still wondering what those rants have to do with Cowherd's behavior or the previously allowed anons polluting this fine blog?
Makes me wonder if Prime resides in Roswell, New Mexico???
Congrats to MSU on the NCAA Men's Hockey Title!
- April 08, 2007 1:02 PM
- LawStudentGuyPerson said...
Maybe not against the law, but probably enough to get into court on a tort action. Intentional interference with a business contract?
- April 08, 2007 9:42 PM
- Unknown said...
I'll make this as simple as possible...
1. this is my first time posting, hi everyone!
2. i am a fan of colin cowherd.
3. i was born a fan of Michigan football.
4. Colin is brutally honest.
5. Honesty doesn't sound good when your fav team is criticized.
6. U don't like colin because he criticize michigan football at least once a day.
7. And he borrowed the wonderlic material from this site.
8. Since you're not a fan of his honesty, you refuse to see ANY truth to everything he says.
9. And that's ok, everyone's entitled to their opinion.
10. But the more you rant, the more publicity he gets, the more popular the show, the more advertiser he will get, and the more money for his studio and himself.
11. You will never get him fired, people from pro wrestling message board tried.
12. And believe me, pro wrestling have more than 20X the members of their message boards. and that was a couple of years ago before he solidify his position at ESPN.
13. So if you don't like his show, then do yourself a favor and stop the rants.
14. Henne for Heisman!
- April 08, 2007 10:20 PM
- Yost said...
What the hell does telling listeners to sabotage some poor bloggers Internet site have to do with "truth?" That's absolutely ridiculous.
And to say "you just don't like him b/c he stole your material" is almost as funny as "other than that, how was the play, Mrs. Lincoln?"
Yeah, we should never criticize a guy who plagarizes and incites Internet attacks on those he doesn't like.
- April 08, 2007 10:25 PM
- Unknown said...
You picture stealing hypocrite. Karma is a bitch and you will be getting yours in spades.
Deleting my posts and calling me the dick, whatever. Take a look in the mirror sometime.
You possess less knowledge than I thought. Maybe you should take your GED and stay off the Internet, for the benefit of mankind. If your head is already spinning, I am sure you get a headache when you try and chew gum and walk down the street. Good luck understanding current events.
- April 09, 2007 7:52 PM
- Yost said...
If you have something to add to the discussion here, you're more than welcome to leave comments - even if they are critical of the site. We can take it.
However, if you're going to simply incite and insult - over and over again - then you are spamming us.
And if that is the case, your comments are no longer welcome.
- April 09, 2007 7:58 PM
- Unknown said...
Simple question then: if you can take the criticism, why not respond to it? A) You can't take it, or you would not have deleted my comments. B) You want to live by two sets of rules. You are taking a photo from OW's website (of a Michigan hero) and then not giving attribution. You likely do not even have permission to use the photo.
I have asked you to respond to this, and you have spun, name called, deleted my comments, and done everything but answer the question.
You want people to be held responsible, but you don't walk the talk. Why?
Another example of this is the photo you took from The Smoking Gun website. You take, but give no attribution.
We are a blog, we don't get paid, are not valid excuses. I would like to here you answer the question.
- April 09, 2007 8:30 PM
- Yost said...
Are you seriously asking about a 110 year or so old photo used as a blogger ID photo? Do you feel people think I really took the photo myself or or am representing that it is my actual picture?
As for the SG pic, that's a police mug shot. It is public record. AND a news story. WHICH we were commenting on. Plus, we linked to TSG in the story (even though it's - as explained - not their photo).
Furthermore, use of the pics has no commercial value for me/us/this site nor are I/we/us attempting to make money off them.
Now, if you agree with me, fine. Disagree, fine. Hate this site? Your prerogative. But I have respected you w/ an answer but am ending my involvement in this debate b/c I'm starting to get a headache (and have LSUoverUSC flashbacks due to the continued repetition).
P.S. Hey, you're not that LSUoverUSC guy, are you? I seem to recall him using the "sugar daddy" refs when talking about USC.
- April 09, 2007 9:25 PM
- Mark Daniels said...
You might be interested in this post on something Cowherd said during his show yesterday: http://markdaniels.blogspot.com/2007/06/am-i-being-too-sensitive.html
Mark Daniels
- June 05, 2007 12:36 PM
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As effective as visualizing success is, it's not the only tool for goal-setting resolution-makers, neuroscientists say. Other promising methods include modeling someone else's behavior as well as engaging in "vicarious learning," which is basically, "If you can do it, I can do it."
Juliette Carstensen, of Antioch, used both methods to achieve her 2013 New Year's resolution to improve in soccer.
"And it actually happened!" 10-year-old Juliette said.
In clutch moments, she says, she'd "think about the players in the bigger leagues, and what they would do."
She arrived early to practice and games to watch older girls' teams play and observe their techniques. She also emulates her coaches.
"I can't do drop kicks very far — yet," she says. "But I feel like when I imitate my coaches' technique, I improve. I'm (kicking it) farther and farther."
Jacob Mitchoff, of Concord, employed vicarious learning, without even knowing it. The UPS worker set a 2013 resolution to stay fit in order to avoid injuries at work.
"I would watch my buddy do something, then I knew I could do it because I know I can do what he does," Mitchoff says. The 27-year-old also boosted his confidence by reminding himself of something he'd heard — that most men should be able to bench their body weight and squat double.
"Knowing that makes it more doable," he said. By keeping that in mind, Mitchoff was able to stick with a workout regimen that required four to seven days per week at the gym and left his body fit, well defined — and injury free.
Mitchoff is looking forward to making new resolutions this New Year's Eve. This year he plans to help a friend who's overweight get fit, as well as the friend's wife, who just had a baby.
"We're going to try to push each other," he says.
As strongly as he believes in the effectiveness of the science of visualizing success, Guffanti points out there's no harm in mixing the old-school buddy-system with the 21st century methods.
"I have helped people who are off by reminding them, 'You have the same greatness you've always had. You have the talent and ability — you just have to remember that and then get out of your own way.' "


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With email and vmail and FaceBook and Twitter and all the information overload, it's always a big surprise to get something real in my mailbox.
And by real, I mean not an unwanted catalog. Or some academic institution asking for money. Don't get me wrong, there are a few things that I do look forward to receiving on a regular basis. All my NY-centric weeklies. And the cooking magazines that I still like to read in print. And then there are the cards that I cherish. Especially the birth announcements, child-laden holiday cards, and wedding invitations. And of course, birthday cards and the ever-so- special, "just because" cards.
But today, I unlocked my mailbox to reveal a package that felt like true validation that I am a foodie. I received my first (kosher) product to try and review! Granted, I found out about this product on Twitter (no comment about the date I was on the other night with a guy who found out that I tweet and asked if that makes me a twit…) and I knew it was arriving. And I was forewarned because I received a call from my "postal delivery person" (her terminology, not mine) asking if anyone named "Zahavah" lived as my address. Since I mainly use Zahavah for food-related things, I knew that this mail was going to be out of the norm.
I don't know about you, but receiving kosher beef jerky in a sealed envelope from across the country is not the norm for me. (But buying it in NY and eating it in one sitting sometimes is).
I can't wait to try my jerky. This time, I will share… my samples with local friends interested in tasting and my opinion with the company.


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Biblical Names Meaning:
The name Fortunatus is a Biblical Names baby name. In Biblical Names the meaning of the name Fortunatus is: Lucky, fortunate.
expression Number: 11
People with this name tend to be idealistic, highly immaginative, intuitive, and spiritual. They seek after spiritual truth and often find it. They tend to be visionary and may inspire others. If they fail to develop their potential, they may become dreamers, or misuse power.
SoulUrge Number: 4
People with this name have a deep inner desire for order and physical creativity, and want to be involved in conventional, safe activities.