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Saturday, October 16, 2010
Comic 806: Technical Problems
[Your editor would like to start by apologizing for being late. Your editor knows that you are used to Carl "Won't Return My Phone Calls" Wheeler's lazy "oh hey the day before the next comic is up is good enough for me!" style, but we are aiming to be prompt. The blame lies squarely on the shoulders of today's poster, a mysterious and terrible monster known only as "shufti." Your editor hopes you are somehow capable of enjoying it. Your editor certainly was not. -Ed.]
Welcome to every nerd's wet dream, where "experimental" operating systems (whatever that means) don't have anything to do with internet connections, every office has a stereotypical Linux girl ready and waiting to respond to your mighty call of "Shibboleet", and "lingering problems from sever moves" can be fixed in, like, three seconds.
I mean, seriously, a stuffed Linux penguin and a poster of xkcd's version of Richard Stallman? If she knew, like, two programming languages and treated everyone who was like her as some sort of secret society, complete with password, she'd be the stereotypical xkcd girl too.
...Oh wait.
Hilarious wish-fulfillment aside, this is, at its core, yet another comic frustrated that the world isn't good with technology. We've seen those before. It's also a comic about how superior people who use Linux are. We've seen that before. Hell, we've even seen the exact inverse of this comic - remember #278? Hey guys, if you use Linux you are so smart and your tech support is so awesome that getting bad tech support for a Linux distro is a HILARIOUS concept because of how IMPOSSIBLE it would be. Oh, and, hey, remember that time Randy himself sent a check to Verizon for $0.002 because of a HILARIOUSLY bad tech support phone call? Remember how HILARIOUS that all was? Well hold on to that thought, because I need to barf.
Alright, I'm back. You know, I'm pretty much constantly confused why any group, nerds or geeks or otherwise, would feel the need to insist that their group is "better" than another group. I get chauvinism; giving opportunities to people like yourself over people not like yourself is basic human behavior. I get the juvenile reasoning behind superiority complexes; "if you're not 'better', you're 'worthless'" is exactly the sort of thing an insecure adolescent would think. See, I just don't get why this juvenility is so damn pervasive even amongst post-pubescent groups. I'm going to say something that'll probably surprise you - I think Randy is a pretty smart dude.[The views contained in this post belong solely to shufti, who is a wretched fiend and must be wiped from the face of the earth, and do not necessarily reflect those of Aloria and Rob, God-Queen and King of Hatred -Ed.]. Broadly speaking, in fact, I think he's probably a smarter dude than I am [This, however, is true. -Ed.]. Randy's got a physics degree, he's worked at NASA, knows several programming languages, and has a great aptitude for technology. Hell, he's even written some short fiction that was pretty good. Me? I'm just some undergraduate going for an English degree. I run a rarely-updated flash fiction blog and a somewhat-more updated blog dedicated to remixing xkcd. The combined hits for both of those blogs over their entire lifespans probably don't even come close to the hits any single xkcd comic gets on any single day. Why is it that Randall is the one who feels the need to keep asserting how awesome he is, while I'm the one content when I get one or two constructive responses to some poem I throw up [BLAAARGH -Ed.] on my Facebook?
I know what a lot of you will say - he's famous for a horrible comic which is causing him seven levels of existential torment, etc. etc. I'm sure that's at least partially why. But that can only be significant if his standard for legitimacy is still tied to beliefs he should have outgrown by the time he started working through college. And that's my question - why didn't it? And why didn't it for so many others, including so many of xkcd's current fan base? Comics like this (and the slavering support it so consistently gets) just make me sad for exactly that reason. [They also make your editor sad because they suck, horribly. -Ed.]
To: Randall Munroe
CC: xkcd fanbase
You are smart in your own right. You don't need to prove this to anybody. You're only holding yourself back by forcing other people to deal with your own issues.
(Two notes: one, I'm not railing against people with legitimate social disorders like SAD, and two, I'm not saying that all fans of xkcd are socially retarded basement-dwellers. All I'm saying is that I wish that Randall and those like Randall could learn to see more value in themselves and others without obsessively clinging to the metric of peer approval.)
91 comments:
- AnonymousOctober 16, 2010 at 7:48 PM
I'll be the first to post and say that Shufti has moved on to the bargaining phase.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 16, 2010 at 8:21 PM
i'll be the first to post and say that shufti has moved on to the treacherous douchebag phaseReplyDelete
- Nobody in particularOctober 16, 2010 at 8:44 PM
There was so much wrong with this comic that I actually feel cheated that so little was said here.ReplyDelete
The smart tech support was, of course, because Randall can pretend that not only are cute, interesting, internet savvy girls real, but they are within vision range of any given cubicle of any given technical support station.
(RANDALL MONROE RELATIONSHIP WATCH: Randall Monroe currently does....*NOT* have a girlfriend)
The comic basically is mocking the fact that Technical support people have a script, even though one would assume that, a good portion of the time, the calls are from technically inept people whose problems can be solves as simply as "restart it". So it is not only time saving but completely rational to go off the script. It is designed to work the best with the most people. Randall assuming that he could make a better system is hubris bordering on sheer egocentrism.
Besides, what kind of jerk argues with the person who is trying to give you technical support? I mean, even if that person is not being as helpful as they can be, they are trying to be nice to you. Don't be the guy they tell their friends about.
This all accumulates into probably the worst and most cliched punchline of all time, which is it was all a dream. Why bother? Why did it have to be a dream? What does that add, besides reminding us all that Randall operates on a "Bad Two and a Half Men episode" writing standard? It is useless. Try harder.
So. In conclusion. I believe we should try our damndest to make sure that we point out these things. Because XKCD isn't bad in the broad, obvious ways. It doesn't kill people, and its humor isn't outright insulting or awful or morally reprehensible. But for every comic, there are many, many ways it is poorly made, poorly conceived, and poorly delivered. While 806 may not have given us pictures of vaginas while we were at work, it certainly is a dreadfully, awfully, terrible made comic. And we must note this, mark it, and write it down in this blog. Hopefully he'll either improve or he'll stop. I'm thinking it'll be the latter long before the former.
shufti, I feel compelled to some modicum, or perhaps modica, of compassion and empathy towards, if only because 1) you seem like a pretty decent and level-headed and, yes, smart sort of person 2) Rob took the opportunity to utterly savage you parenthetically, but, dude, did you feel cheated or what by the vitriol in 805's comments? Because, really, you shouldn't have. Lay into the guy. That's what we're here for.ReplyDelete
CAPTCHA: gogywart. I feel no need to add to the awesomeness of this 'word.'
i'll be the first to post and say that rob is fucking awesomeReplyDelete
also parenthetically isn't the only way I savage shuftiReplyDelete
What you and shufti do privately is your own businessReplyDelete
and the cameraman'sReplyDelete
and the ownerReplyDelete
and the paying customers
I AM A QUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEENReplyDelete
A Queen of HeartsReplyDelete
broken ones
- AnonymousOctober 16, 2010 at 9:51 PM
I knew this was a dream when I saw XKCD TECH GIRL levitating in her chair--what? His art is always like that? Oh...ReplyDelete
But, besides that, this comic is basically, "WOMEN, AND LINUX/eXpErImEnTaL OS USERS (in that order) ARE SO MUCH FUCKING SMARTER; LOOK AT THIS SAD PLEBEIAN--READING A GOD DAMN SCRIPT, HAHAHA. I KNOW A WORD: SHIBBOLETH!"
Also, some things I noticed (of possibly little-to-no importance): XKCD TECH GUY is hip enough to have a wireless headset with his phone... In fact this guy has only a desk, his headset, and a phone. XKCD TECH GODDESS, on the other hand, has merely a stuffed penguin, a laptop, headset and unseen poster of XKCD GOD RICHARD STALLMAN. Also, her headset changes between frames.
- AnonymousOctober 16, 2010 at 10:20 PM
"(...)its humor isn't outright insulting or awful or morally reprehensible"ReplyDelete
I present you... One Two(674), Joshing(707) and Anatomy Text(631). I rest my case.
- AnonymousOctober 16, 2010 at 10:33 PM
You know, every time I've had modem problems and called tech support, they've always been able to fix it when it was on their end, and I never got "could you restard your computer please"ReplyDelete
I guess I'm just fucking lucky.
I would like to be the first to post that Rob is a fat, lonely bastard who should be defenestrated something proper (and not behind the privacy of closed parentheses either).ReplyDelete
@Anon 8:44
Unfortunately I didn't feel the need to rehash, like, EVERYTHING that Carl and Rob and the rest have ever said. I'm sorry that apparently "cheated" you. I guess I will just have to hang my head in shame for not being able to validate your views for you.
By the way, I would like to point out that hubris *IS* sheer egocentrism. Just so you know.
There would be more vitriol, but it dried up a good bit by the time I finished posting over on my blog. I recommend going over there if you want to see more swearing and seething hatred. Or, alternatively, be in IRC when the latest xkcd comes up and I go through my obligatory "FFFFUUUU" moment. Still, I *did* call Randy emotionally stunted and insecure. That has to count for *something*.
- UndercoverCuddlefishOctober 17, 2010 at 2:45 AM
the title text on the image in the post makes up for any shortcomings of the post itselfReplyDelete
"XKCD TECH GUY is hip enough to have a wireless headset with his phone..."ReplyDelete
i'm gonna just say itReplyDelete
that blanket in the last panel? not a blanket. it's a wave of jizz, and it's happened before.
randall munroe writes from life
In case you ever wondered why call centre workers don't jump for joy at every word you bless them with from your lips.
Liza: Hi you're through to Liza at customer service.ReplyDelete
Mr Munroe: My computer is broken.
Liza: In what way?
Mr Munroe: My computer is broken.
Liza: ...And?
Mr Munroe: It doesn't work. Could you get someone who isn't a complete retard, sugar? Preferably a man?
Liza: Uh...
Mr Munroe: Not that women aren't as good as men or anything. I'm all for womens' rights and shit. You hot?
Liza: Sir, I'm not-
Mr Munroe: Aw fuck it. SHIBBOLETH!
Liza: What?
Mr Munroe: SHIBBOLETH! SHIBBOLETH!
Take that, Verizon!
- AnonymousOctober 17, 2010 at 8:21 AM
Needs more hate.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 17, 2010 at 8:56 AM
It being a fantasy aside, why does the first guy have a land-line phone AND a headset?ReplyDelete
I like how we can naturally assume the girl must be cute, and specifically "cute" not hot/etc.
Also, PFSC's original story arc did call centres much better. Although, that is not remotely surprising, I'm just link-whoring because John Campbell is a god.
- AnonymousOctober 17, 2010 at 9:37 AM
how the fuck is he gonna dial numbers with a headset, you motherfucker?ReplyDelete
that's why he needs the phone.
- AnonymousOctober 17, 2010 at 10:15 AM
It was also listed in the comments to the 805, but the fellow in the fifth panel does seem to have a stick figure erection... i keep trying to see it as something else, an arm across his lap, a leg cocked up (no pun intended). It's the two faces turning into the vase picture that i just can't turn into the vase!!! Why does call center dude have an erection?! He is looking at the tech guru girl, do girls who like stuffed linux penguins and bearded swordwielders turn him on? I mean yeah they turn me on, but i'm pretty sure i'm just twisted. Anyway the erection ruins a comic i might have almost liked.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 17, 2010 at 10:20 AM
9:37, he's receiving calls, not making them.ReplyDelete
Anon 1015: Funny, the terrible humor, smug self-righteousness, and philosophical red herrings are what ruined a comic I might have almost liked if it weren't XKCD.ReplyDelete
@ Nobody in particular: "Bad two and a half men episode" is redundantReplyDelete
@ randy's truly awfully shitty art, specifically panel 5: There is no way that is anything but a boner, or randy having a stroke while drawing. Look at it up close- all the limbs are accounted for. The only other explanation is that Hair Bro has an additional forearm attached to one of his hands, or he has a gigantic thick throbbing cock.
perhaps an unconscious slip, showing what randy really thinks about the hypothetical ignorant-douchebag-who-inexplicably (to randy and his ilk)-gets-laid?
No matter which it is, randy comes out looking like a tool.
oh holy shit, that is a gigantic cock.ReplyDelete
I thought at first that maybe people were looking at one of the doodled-on penises that xkcdexplained likes doing, when you first started talking about it. then more people started mentioning it and I went to XKCD and found that Randy has given tech support man a giant raging boner.
- AnonymousOctober 17, 2010 at 2:41 PM
Um I thought the boner thing was obvious. I mean, he IS talking to a girl who uses Linux and uses TWO programming languages it'd be weird if he DIDN'T have a boner.ReplyDelete
but bonerman is a non-nerd who doesn't know anything but how to read from a script. he wouldn't appreciate the true beauty of megan if she let him make anatomy slides of her genitals in a TGIF.ReplyDelete
It's just his fist.ReplyDelete
"oh holy shit, that is a gigantic cock."ReplyDelete
it's randall's dream, remember
oh yeah. I rescind my "oh holy shit"ReplyDelete
- UndercoverCuddlefishOctober 17, 2010 at 4:16 PM
he is going to use that gigantic cock to fuck the shit out of the tech support girl once she finishes with the callReplyDelete
she might fix your prissy little connection issues randy but at the end of the day she will go home to bang the guy that knows how to interact in the real world without being a socially retarded prick
- CuddleToadOctober 17, 2010 at 4:32 PM
Perhaps Randall, having finally defeated his archnemesis Carl, is now preemptively adding dicks to his comics in an attempt to defeat xkcdexplained.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 17, 2010 at 7:55 PM
I am avoiding things, so this naturally followed. Regarding 806: decomposition by Written and Drawn [or "Dialogue" and "Art" if we were talking about, say, anything else], panel by panelReplyDelete
What is it with you and Haiku? It's a real OS you know. Just sayin'ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 17, 2010 at 8:45 PM
I am not a computer nerd, and I am alright with that. I'm just saying, of ALL the possible OSes to pick, he chose "Haiku" to give pleasure to its few proud followers, and any new followers resulting will probably just say "I like the name Haiku" as justification for a few days. The first people are, with little to no doubt, computer geeks. The second group are not and will shortly revert to their commercial Windows OS [or Macs and tell their friends that they're "edgy like that"].ReplyDelete
Really, I just don't get the whole open source OS infatuation. I am a bigot when it comes to OSes, but I am admitting that here and now.
Also, there are more problems here than the choice of "Haiku" -- keep on topic!
- AnonymousOctober 17, 2010 at 9:04 PM
Randall: Single and apparently loving [liking very much*] it.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 17, 2010 at 9:10 PM
Apparently Randall misses the fact that "ah, young love" is a phrase most commonly used in a sarcastic fashion for the very sort of reason that he's ridiculing it there.ReplyDelete
As for the alt-text... do you think he could ever give up on his contempt for soft fields of knowledge and maybe have a few sessions with a psychologist? Those of us who aren't desperately lonely are perfectly realistic about what we mean by "love."
- AnonymousOctober 17, 2010 at 9:29 PM
Randall thinks in Binary absolutes, though, emulating his beloved computers. It is complete, or it is nothing!!!ReplyDelete
Seriously? I hate Randall Munroe, too!ReplyDelete
I bet no woman and blog in the history of the world have ever been so connected!
- AnonymousOctober 17, 2010 at 9:43 PM
Wow, 807 is an astoundingly bad effort. He's put in some decent ones lately (I liked the pumpkin carving one and apparently was the only person in the world to laugh at Paradise City), but this one (a) has no joke and (b) has no insight either.ReplyDelete
I can vaguely imagine a good comic based around the theme of the naivety of youthful romantic experiences, but this ain't it.
Randall must have seen a couple of high school kids out on a date and gotten so jealous that he had to write a comic going "Young love is so STUPID amirite?"ReplyDelete
It's kind of funny and sad at the same time. But mostly funny.
Not the comic, I mean. I meant Randall's bitterness and jealousy.
- AlsworthOctober 17, 2010 at 10:01 PM
re: 807ReplyDelete
Option #1: Randall is being deliberately obtuse to make an ironic statement.
Option #2: Randall is being completely retarded.
- AnonymousOctober 17, 2010 at 10:38 PM
So much for a webcomic of ROMANCE, sarcasm, math, and language.....ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 17, 2010 at 11:14 PM
I have to say #807 actually made me laugh, but only because of how utterly pathetic randall soundsReplyDelete
"boohoo love doesn't mean anything waaaah, no one will suck my dick *emoface*"
Randy: Wa wa waReplyDelete
Me: Ha ha ha
- AnonymousOctober 18, 2010 at 1:21 AM
I actually quite like the alt text of the new one. It is certainly true. But yeh... old idea and terrably executed. Was there any hint they were 'young' beofore the punch line text? No there wasn't which meant it was a nother observation not a joke and not funny.ReplyDelete
Hey rob where do I email my hate for a guest post. All I see is carl ugly wheeler's addressReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 18, 2010 at 2:36 AM
Man, I never though I'd post about XKCD again... but talk about perfect timing. I just got out of a two year relationship I was engaged in.ReplyDelete
In fact it reminds me of this comic: http://xkcd.com/291/
I want to punch my screen in. It's too fucking true. Especially the line "I bet no two people in the history of the world..." I used to know better. I used to tell myself "Love isn't enough to work." But I wanted my last relationship to prove that wrong. It was the only factor making it work. Then she dropped the ball, and basically could have saved us a lot of heartache and grief if she would have just simply told herself and me that she wasn't ready to be serious. I told her a million times it's okay to wait. RAGE. Why woman... WHY!
Randall, I don't know how you fucking do it, but you mention things that at least I, and I'm sure thousands others, think about it on the same wavelength. At least I know I'm not alone there.
- AnonymousOctober 18, 2010 at 3:44 AM
XKCD is epic, in every sense, concept, or viable iteration of the word. the fact that you don't think it is means one or all of three things:ReplyDelete
1) You don't understand the content/concepts being used to convey the author/animator's jokes and ideas.
2)You don't like having to learn something new to understand something.
3)You don't like smart things.
Bottom line: stop "don't-ing" and start doing. Especially when it comes to reading AND liking XKCD.
So Randall still has no girlfriend?>ReplyDelete
The amount of sand in your vagina and your GOOMHR shit just gave me an aneurysm. Thanks a lot jackass.
Anyone who still uses the phrase 'epic' is probably retarded and an obvious troll.
806 - The best part of this was until I just checked out xkcdsucks. I genuinely thought the first 6 panels were the entire comic because at my resolution, the first two rows perfectly fit into my RSS feed reading panel. As a result I thought the punchline was just "haha, if you ask for the Linux nerd you will get your problem fixed immediately as opposed to the dumbasses they normally hire". It was wishful but slightly amusing.ReplyDelete
The full comic is in some ways worse, shibboleet, tech support backdoors, etc. and I was inclined to say the first 6 panels only were better than the full comic, but while it doesn't bring the "funny" per se in the way Randy intended, the full 9 panels do kind of bring a dark humor if you just think about how hilarious it is that geeky Randy would dream about such a thing. Also, there was a bit of "funny" brought when I saw the last panel as a literal wet dream. At first I just thought it was his frustration at it not being true.
807 - LOL Randy is frustrated because Megan left him for some guy that she had more in common with and who did not over analyze their relationship
I'm pretty sure 2:36 is just Kirk crossposting an emotional breakdown from the forum topic on 807.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 18, 2010 at 6:48 AM
Yes, Anon 4:33. I'll start reading and liking XKCD just because you told me to! Disregard that it is UTTER SHIT, right?ReplyDelete
Anyway I'm here because guess what was Retweeted on my timeline today? Yep. XKCD #807. Let's see...
Oh, dear.
Maybe Randall would have a girlfriend if he stopped being such a dick. Also, I don't think we romanticize "young love". As far as I know, there isn't anything more transient and unstable than young love.
Oh, and there he goes. Smug McSmuggy Munroe is above such human feelings like "love", you see. No, siree, he doesn't need that over-romanticized shit. He can live perfectly well fantasizing and obsessing over the same woman again and again, while the rest of us fools are pursuing happiness with other people, even if those relationships aren't perfect. It must have something to do with people in general not being perfect, but Randall "God Himself" Munroe has no time for that. He's too busy scribbling badly proportioned stick figures with captions.
Seriously: only good thing in this "comic" is that it has a landscape. It sort of adds to the image. Besides that? Utter lameness!
- AnonymousOctober 18, 2010 at 7:33 AM
What the fuck is with Randall? It's like he heard "XKCDSUCKS IS SHUTTING DOWN" and said "EXCELLENT. I NOW NO LONGER NEED TO TRY."ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 18, 2010 at 7:34 AM
HAS RANDALL GOTTEN OVER MEGAN YET?ReplyDelete
@Professional MoleReplyDelete
"Also, I don't think we romanticize 'young love'."
You mean besides Romeo & Juliet, Twilight, Titanic, etc. etc.
To prove my point I googled "movies young love" and behold what came up:
"Something really good and sad"? "The notebook, it's amazing"?
Fuck. That. Shit.
- AnonymousOctober 18, 2010 at 7:40 AM
Randall is transcending humanity, don'tcha know.ReplyDelete
Oh, and thank you Cap'n: I went through a "phase" and dated someone who would literally say "For the win!" and "epic" and by the end of the relationship I started thinking they had some serious social problems or something. I now think that of basically anyone who says these things out loud along the vein of "geekness is cool!"
And anonymous344, I will just give you one counter-proof because at least your troll is slightly different from the standard trolls [well, it's basically three trolls rolled into one, so bonus??], and I kinda like your cheesy "stop don't-ing" line.
XKCD is NOT epic in every sense of the word because the standard XKCD comic turned out is one panel. Latest XKCD? 3 lines. I don't care if he does likeomgtotally roll out some crap posters occasionally, and then proceed to advertize the shit out of them. Say THOSE are epic, and you know what? En masse we don't dislike those posters as much as the standard comic because yeah, it shows SOME effort. Not always a lot [see his latest internet diagram], but more than, say, 807. But XKCD in general? Nope. If you want aesthetically pleasing representations of information, kindly direct yourself to Information Is Beautiful. Afterwards, come back to Randall's scrawled map of the internet and tell me that Randall's twice-a-year made-for-sale posters are "epic".
"Epic" should only ever be used before the word "Poem" or you're doing it wrong [no, really, any other usage: 96% chance you're making yourself sound functionally illiterate].
I'm not so sure we romanticize young love; rather, we romanticize FALLING in love (which happens to be manifested most often in young couples). And you know why we do it? Because even if it's illusory and transient, falling in love is probably one of the most wonderful feelings in the world. There's a reason so many romantic films exist. There's a reason so many songs are about falling in love. It's because when you're in that state, you're literally obsessed with it and with your partner. It's a freaking big deal.ReplyDelete
Yes, that feeling won't last forever; even people who are married for half a century aren't in that "fallen in love" state. It would be too exhausting to keep it up. And yes, after a breakup, you often look back bitterly, thinking, "Wow, I was really an idiot there. What caused me to do all that?" I'll tell you what. You were in love. It's darn powerful, and that's why we romanticize it.
- AnonymousOctober 18, 2010 at 8:24 AM
- AnonymousOctober 18, 2010 at 9:09 AM
OMG, I can't believe they feel connected just because they like the same song either! Get out of my head Randall!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 18, 2010 at 9:09 AM
Romeo & Juliet: ended up dead.
Titanic: ended up in disaster(and one of them dead).
Twilight: creepy hundred-years-old vampire stalking teenager. Teh creepeh.
If any thing, young love is intense and mesmerizing(and Gamer2k4 gives some good insight on that), but it seldom lasts. The thousands of cliché "long married couples who hate each other" are there to prove that.
- AnonymousOctober 18, 2010 at 9:48 AM
@Mole: In Twilight, Bella asks Edward to kill her and make her a vampire. So technically they both end up dead then, too. It's perhaps even worse because they've romanticized WANTING to be dead and with your lover -- the act, not just the state.ReplyDelete
And I seriously thought this comic was going somewhere about those darn indy hipsters whose sole romantic connection is based on "liking the same band". Which makes a good story but a poor ACTUAL relationship. Yes, this is personal experience talking.
- AnonymousOctober 18, 2010 at 9:52 AM
Oh, and knock out that "perhaps" in the first line. As I've said before, I enjoy Twilight but I'm not deluding myself into thinking it is actually good -- it is without doubt worse as a piece of literature than most things you can name. Well, except for some raunchy sex fantasies, 'cause those bring a whole new level to "failure to suspend disbelief" and "jarring different levels of prose".ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 18, 2010 at 10:11 AM
One little cuddlefish mentioned how cool it was to view romance from a Martian's point of view. After which I thought to myself: "why yes, yes it would be COUGH http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2030#comic COUGH"ReplyDelete
goomh randy i was just thinking about how stupid it is when two people care so much that they both like or experience somethingReplyDelete
fuckin' philistines
Raven: "I am not a computer nerd, and I am alright with that. I'm just saying, of ALL the possible OSes to pick, he chose "Haiku" to give pleasure to its few proud followers,"ReplyDelete
Then again, that's what he always does with memes and references.
"Really, I just don't get the whole open source OS infatuation. I am a bigot when it comes to OSes, but I am admitting that here and now."
"Really, I just don't get the whole OS infatuation." Fixed that for you, because, really, this phenomenon isn't restricted to free/OSS OSes.
"Also, there are more problems here than the choice of "Haiku" -- keep on topic!"
Just commenting on what bugged me ;-)
"Randall thinks in Binary absolutes, though, emulating his beloved computers. It is complete, or it is nothing!!!"
Don't ya tell me. This, along with the misuse and following alteration of the word "multi-tasking", is what bugs me about most with people using tech terms (for things they were not meant to be used (and might be incorrect or confusing) for).
In other news: Randall knows jack shit about programming, thank you very much.
3:44: Huhahahahah.
Mole: "He can live perfectly well fantasizing and obsessing over the same woman again and again, while the rest of us fools are pursuing happiness with other people, even if those relationships aren't perfect."
Randall is Megan.
basho: use the email link in my blogger profileReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 18, 2010 at 1:14 PM
Aren't most of XKCD's comics about how great love is, often between people who may or may not be young, given that they have no distinguishing features?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 18, 2010 at 1:42 PM
Repeat OffendersReplyDelete
These categories of comics get made ALL THE FREAKING TIME and to prove it, I categorized them. So if you're thinking, yeah, he makes a shitload of dumb internet meme jokes, no, it's not just you.
These have changed over time - the dead horses he is consistently beating now are not the same as those from a year ago. You can see all of them, old and new, over here.
• More like, SEXkcd!
• All my relationships seem to end in despair...
• Look everyone! I know of some COMMON JOKES OF THE INTERNET!
• We're quirky...and so is our relationship!
Even the forummers are less than impressed with this one.ReplyDelete
i think i just went crazy from the xkcd forumsReplyDelete
- Dr. SkullthumperOctober 18, 2010 at 4:40 PM
hey rob remember when you were like "we're going to be more punctual than Carl was with posting?"ReplyDelete
um, we are on comic 807. it was released today. carl would post his review of 807 on midnight wednesday.ReplyDelete
so, we are still more punctual than carl. also, die
- Ranarius WebfootOctober 18, 2010 at 6:03 PM
I'm too lazy to do an edit so I'll just describe it.ReplyDelete
The girl is sitting alone at a computer, and maybe it's a dude instead.
"I like that song" is replaced by "I've heard of that middle school math formula".
The second sentence remains as is.
"Young Love" is replaced by Randall Munroe.
- qwantzuxOctober 18, 2010 at 6:52 PM
Seriously? –
I Like Linux penguins and Richard Stallman too! I bet no two people in the history of the world have ever been so connected! –
Caption: I'm not sure why we romanticize "engineers".
- irridescentferretOctober 19, 2010 at 2:25 PM
The fact that he suggested an idealized xkcd Linux girl was the only one that could solve problems bothered me, as did the random Haiku reference.ReplyDelete
Oh, and it wasn't funny.
However, calling an ISP for technical support has always a painful experience for me. Specifically ISPs, I've never had a problem with technical support elsewhere, maybe because they used their knowledge instead of a script (but still probably weren't hot xkcd-loving Linux geeks).
- AnonymousOctober 19, 2010 at 7:12 PM
A reference to previous strips, computer issues, and linux glorification....
See, you're jaded, stuck-up and technologically ignorant adults. The people who read and enjoy this--from my perspective, me and a bunch of nerdy highschool friends (I'm the only girl I know who reads this)-- this is funny. His graphs are funny. His young romance remarks are funny. Anything scientific is interesting.
Its a young, nerdy thing, and you are walking all over it. Fuck you.
so basically what you're saying is the insufferable idiotic high school kids Randy is writing for like his comic, and you think we shouldn't make fun of you for being insufferable?ReplyDelete
Randall is making fun of stereotypes and that's bad because you feel insulted? This blog initially sets the bar so low for xkcd that when a new strip is up they just come up with stuff to fit it in that xkcdsucks mold. I just don't get it, because it very effectively nullifies 90 % of all the remarks.ReplyDelete
shit guys we're technologically ignorantReplyDelete
i guess aloria better quit her job huh
because highschoolers have excellent tasteReplyDelete
and nerds have even better standards
oh wait
- LeonardQuirmOctober 21, 2010 at 2:23 PM
I have a somewhat suspicious feeling that this entire comic grew from the word "Shibboleet" - an utterly hilarious play on the word "Shibboleth", meaning some sort of distinguishing practice that could be used as identification, while tying it into L337 speak! Why do I think that this pun may have been the driving force for this comic? Because I suspect that Randall, like I, learnt this word very recently - it's used and described in the latest Terry Pratchett book, I Shall Wear Midnight. The train of thought is fairly obvious from there: what sort of context would "Shibboleet" be most hilarious in? Oh, I know, it is a password itself, for people too smart to be passed around by L1 Customer Support and who should go straight to L3!ReplyDelete
Which word is used in the book, Shibboleth or Shibboleet?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 23, 2010 at 4:33 PM
check != chequeReplyDelete
I guess someone needs spellcheck to check the spelling when they spell cheque.
"check" is the correct spelling in the US, dude.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 23, 2010 at 8:04 PM
um no Rob cheque is the correct spelling EVERYWHERE americans just mispell things all the fucking time. I would think being as WELLl-READ as you are you would realize this.ReplyDelete


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Many of them are mean and stuck up. My aunts cat was evil, and any time I'd fall asleep and it had access to my room, it would sit on my head or rub up against my face. Horrible way to be woken up.
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Jersey City's long-running Artists' Studio Tour last fall coincided with the second annual Golden Door International Film Festival, which posed something of a challenge for anyone who wanted to catch both events.
While that scheduling conflict will not be repeated this year, many residents still missed a number of the best films screened during last year's film festival.
As a way to boost interest in the upcoming 2013 Golden Door International Film Festival, organizers have planned a Best of the Fest evening on March 16 that will highlight three of the top movies that were screened last year. This one-night mini festival, to be held at Art House Productions, will also give those who missed the festival last year a chance to see some of what they missed.
"Because of the overlap last year, a lot of people probably did miss a lot of what we screened," said actor and festival founder Bill Sorvino, a Jersey City native. "But we want to keep up a certain momentum, keep people interested in the festival. We want the community to remember us and remember that we'll be back with our third festival later this year."
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Best of the Fest will include screenings of three films, two shorts – "Pollination" and "My Time with the English Tourist" – and one feature, "Maybe Tomorrow."
Sorvino said these three films were selected because most of them have some tie to Hudson County or New York City.
"John Dunstan, who made 'My Time with the English Tourist,' lives in Jersey City and he's just a great local guy. He's got so much talent that I feel like I just want to promote him, 'cause his work is so good. So that's why we're screening his movie again. 'Pollination' by Sam Borowski comes from the shorter end of the short films we screened last year at the full festival and it was the best of the short shorts we had. Sam is a Jersey guy. And 'Maybe Tomorrow' by Michael Wolfe, who lives in New York, was the best feature length movie we had at the 2012 festival and it won a lot of [Golden Door] festival awards. So, we really wanted to give people another chance to see that. All of these films have a local tie, but they also happen to be among the best films we had."
All three of the filmmakers, Sorvino added, will be on hand for the screening and may participate in a Q&A with the audience.
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Recording machine was apparently on during the trial, but failed to record anything but silence and some music from an unidentified radio station during Barber's testimony.
Missing testimony from the recording of Arnold Stephen Barber's felony witness tampering trial is just that - missing.
Adair County Circuit Clerk Linda Decker said during a meeting with local media Thursday the recording of last June's trial has approximately 30-35 minutes of silence when the questions and testimony of Barber should be present.
Barber had been convicted last June of two counts of felony witness tampering and sentenced to five years in prison before his successful appeal. The appellate judges ruled Tuesday in his favor because his testimony was not available to review.
It is not known when the new trial will begin.
Both the original trial recording at the Adair County Courthouse and a copy sent digitally to Jefferson City just hours after the trial feature the currently unexplained audio problem.
The silence starts when Barber's examination began. Audio returns in the middle of a sentence spoken by Adair County Prosecuting Attorney Matt Wilson during Barber's cross-examination.
Also present at one point of the recorded silence is country music from an unidentified radio station.
Decker's report of the recording's content is in contrast to the Western District Court of Appeals ruling issued Tuesday. In that document, the judges, who reversed Barber's conviction and ordered a new trial, pointed fingers at Adair County court personnel, seeming to place them at fault for the error.
"Somehow the machine that recorded the trial for transcription was not turned on during most of Barber's testimony," the filing read.
Decker said all indications are the machine was turned on, though there is no explanation for why the recording failed during those moments of the trial.
"This particular case, I still don't feel like I have a good, hard answer to what the problem was. I think there is a lot of finger pointing and I don't have any problem accepting responsibility that there was not a complete transcript made. Anything that happens in this office is and will be my responsibility and I'm happy to accept the blame for that," Decker said.
Decker said in her 22 years at the courthouse there have been no other problems with the recordings, either with the former tape system or the current digital system.
Decker would not speculate on whether the recording could have been tampered with.
"I would have no knowledge of that. I wouldn't want to say that. I'm a little concerned that there was a radio station being picked up on the recording, which has never happened before or since, but it might have been one of those unexplained occurrences," she said.
In a statement Wilson issued Wednesday, the prosecutor lamented the fact a court reporter was not used due to budget constraints.
Decker elaborated on that Thursday, saying while circuit judges are assigned full-time court reporters for their proceedings, the state budget does not allow for court reporters at proceedings handled by associate circuit judges.
The Barber trial was presided over by Associate Circuit Judge Karl DeMarce.
In place of a court reporter, courtrooms across Missouri use a state required digital recording system for associate court proceedings.
Decker said those recordings as well as all court business are saved to a secure local hard drive and also transmitted digitally to a backup server in Jefferson City each day around 2 a.m.
Nothing was done with the Barber case recordings until Barber's attorney J.R. Hobbs filed a request of appeal, in which he also requested a copy of the trial transcript.
When that request was made and approved, several months after the trial, Decker said she made a CD copy of the recording and sent it to the Office of State Courts Administrator in Jefferson City, where it was to be transcribed.
The OSCA notified Decker there was the missing audio segment and also country music on the recording. That was her first indication of a problem.
"I couldn't believe it when I got this email," she said.
She verified the problems on the original copy at the Adair County Courthouse, and confirmed the copy in Jefferson City contained the same strange errors.
Decker said she contacted tech experts at OCSA and requested they examine the local hard drive, but was told because more than 60 days had elapsed since the recording they would not be able to make a determination as to what caused the error.
A phone message left with OCSA was not immediately returned.
Decker then contacted the agency that services the computer itself and had the unit examined. That individual told Decker he found nothing wrong and believed the problem was "clerk error." He was not able to explain the country music.
But all indications are the unit was activated and court personnel had no reason to believe there was a problem. Decker said the record shows the clerk operating the machine was making docket entries - noting when an attorney began questioning a witness, court rulings, etc. - during Barber's testimony.
"Part of my being a little upset is one of the comments from a judge, something about a clerk not turning on a switch. That clearly did not happen," Decker said. "There was much more to it than that. We would have taken responsibility, and if a clerk has simply not turned on a switch I think she would have been aware to stop the judge at the proceedings and it could have been corrected at that time."
Decker said the clerk running the computer that day has nearly 30 years of experience. No action was taken against the clerk, who Decker refused to identify.
"I have every confidence that she did everything that was needed to do," Decker said.
Decker said since learning of the problems with the Barber recording she has considered investing in a backup recording system for the courthouse, calling the current set up a "ticking time bomb."
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As the days go on, I feel like there will be an even longer version than the one below. Oh, or there will be lost footage or something like that with commentary. In the longer version, there is extended yelling by Solange directed towards Jay-Z. During that entire period, Beyonce just stands there and Jay-Z basically stands as far away as he can get in the corner. Solange and Jay-Z clearly have been arguing before they step on the elevator. Something which should also be noted is the bodyguard is Beyonce's bodyguard and not Jay-Z's. I always found it odd they hire their own bodyguards who are only loyal to their personal employer. Several times her bodyguard speaks into his microphone to alert someone about their status. The announcements are so short that I doubt he is saying anything about the fight.
When everyone does finally reach the bottom floor, that last kick from Solange appears to be after Jay told her to get her game face on because the world was going to be watching. Maybe that is why Beyonce is so quiet during the whole thing. She thinks that someone will see her if she starts yelling or that she might tear her dress.
Yes, Solange has had a drug problem and she could be wasted. She did yell at Rachel Roy earlier in the night. The thing is though I feel like there must have been some provocation. Something was said or done or Solange saw someone that triggered the entire episode. If Beyonce thought Solange was in the wrong do you think she would have joined Solange and let Jay-Z go off by himself? Last night Jay and Beyonce showed up at the Nets-Heat game because that is what they do. They keep their brand going and act as if nothing bad ever happens between them.


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A letter writer ("Who is Metcalfe?" published July 9) asks, "but who is Daryl Metcalfe?" I would like to answer:
God is looking for a few good men and women who will not compromise. He found that man in state Rep. Daryl Metcalfe regarding the stand he took regarding supporters of same-sex marriage. I'm sure he knew when he made the stand for truth, that the consequence would be great, to stand up against opposition.
We need a few more good men and women who will boldly stand for God's truth and not back down.
I am speaking to myself here also. If I had been in Metcalfe's position, would I have taken a stand for truth, or would I have cowardly compromised by being silent or looking the other way?
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Officials from a Christian arts academy in Bloemfontein, South Africa, claim they can "cure" gay students of their sexual orientation through a "rehabilitation" program, South Africa's Sunday Times reports.
Gay rights activists, however, have criticized the Creare Training Center, which is located in the capital city of the Free State Province, by calling the situation "tragic, shameful and deeply hurtful," the newspaper notes.
Creare bills itself as a "theocentric arts, skills and ministry training centre." Crear mostly specializes in Bible studies, arts and missionary work.
The school's prospectus claims it only wants to improve "the quality of life" for its students, Pink News points out. The school boasts it cane cure homosexuality with its "rehabilitation" program.
According to Creare's prospectus, gay students who do not want to change their lifestyle, will not be accepted into the school. The academy's founder, Cornelius Van Heyningen, denies Creare's policies are anti-gay.
"We are catering for those who say 'I want to change as a homosexual,'" he told the Sunday Times. "That's not saying no homosexuals are allowed."
According to the Bloemfontein Volksblad, the school offers a "ministry" for those who want to change their sexual orientation.
"We believe that all people are precious to God and that He has a fantastic dream [for] everyone," Van Heyningen told the Volksblad. "No person may be discriminated against. Nobody has the right to judge another, or in any way harm. As every man may exercise his rights to position himself as gay, either by his belief that he was born or external experiences, that person may exercise his rights by choosing to change his orientation as gay."
"We believe that the human rights of the person who wants to change his sexual orientation should facilitate, as the human rights of such people often disregarded," Van Heyningen continued. "The facilitation of its human rights should take place in an environment that is supportive of his process of change."
LGBT activists are slamming the school's officials. Dawie Nel, director of an organization called Out, told the Sunday Times that the school is breaking South African laws. "Their comments fuel violent discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender people, such as the rape of gays and lesbians to 'cure' them; or even murders being committed," he said.
Melanie Nathan, a South African LGBT rights advocate and lawyer based in the U.S., told Gay Star News that the school's discrimination against gay men and lesbians is illegal under the nation's constitution, the only one in the world that guarantees LGBT rights.
"Not only is this blatant discrimination under the South African Law, 'Promotion of Equality and Prevention of Unfair Discrimination Act of 2006', but worse is Heyningen's assertion that gays can be 'cured,'" she said. "It is a myth and quackery to assert such claims, whether done in the name of the Bible, God or therapy. The American Psychiatric Association refers to the great dangers of these types of assertions: 'The potential risks of 'reparative therapy' are great, including depression, anxiety and self-destructive behavior, since therapist alignment with societal prejudices against homosexuality may reinforce self-hatred already experienced by the patient.'"
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For more than 50 years, American children have enjoyed Anatole, a Caldecott Honor Book that tells the story of a friendly French mouse who is shocked to discover that humans don't like it when he feasts on their leftovers. What does the tale offer in the age of Webkinz and Dora the Explorer? And why has it inspired more than a half dozen sequels? A review will appear tomorrow in the "Classic Picture Books Every Child Should Read" series on One-Minute Book Reviews, which reviews books for children or teenagers on Saturdays.
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Wildcats win over Ridgeview at home
The Taft varsity baseball team injected drama into their first games of the season Wednesday with a 2-1 and 5-4 victory over the Ridgeview Wolf Pack at home.
It took the teams until the fourth inning to make a move on offense. Ridgeview made the first move in the top half of the fourth by scoring a run on two errors, a walk and a force out.
Taft nearly tied the score in the last half of the fifth on a walk to Anthony Rodriguez and Jacob Lopez followed by a passed ball but the runners were stranded.
The Wildcats tied up the score in the fifth on Jeremy Harmer's walk, a stolen base and Steven Gee's single.
Taft went ahead for good with a pair of singles including Miguel Rodriguez's run scoring hit in the last half of the sixth inning.
In the second game, Ridgeview struck early with a run in the second and two in third. Taft bounced back in the fourth with an error,a ground out and Kyle Adkins double.
After adding an insurance run in the sixth, the Wildcats had their big inning by scoring two runs on three walks, a wild pitch and a single.
Taft pulled out the victory in the seventh thanks to a passed ball on a called third strike, an intentional walk and three singles.
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This makes a chewy anise-flavored candy that you can eat out of hand or use to garnish fruit salads and desserts. The syrup is great for making lemonade or mixing into subtly flavored cocktails.
MAKE AHEAD: The candy can be stored in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 4 days. The syrup can be refrigerated in an airtight container for up to 2 weeks. Adapted from "Root to Stalk Cooking: The Art of Using the Whole Vegetable," by Tara Duggan (Ten Speed Press, 2013).
Makes 3/4 cup candy and 1 cup syrup
1 cup sugar
1 cup water
5 to 6 ounces (4 to 6 stalks, fronds removed) fennel stalks, cut on the diagonal into thin slices (1 1/2 cups)
Preheat the oven to 250 degrees. Line a rimmed baking sheet with parchment paper or a silicone liner.
Combine the sugar and water in a small saucepan over medium-high heat. Cook, stirring, until the sugar has dissolved, about 5 minutes. Add the fennel and reduce the heat to medium. Cook for 3 minutes, until the fennel is crisp-tender. Remove from the heat and allow to steep for 10 to 15 minutes, then strain the syrup into a container.
Transfer the syrup-coated fennel slices to the lined baking sheet, spreading them in an even layer. Bake for about 30 minutes, then separate any fennel slices that are sticking together. Bake for 30 minutes or until the fennel is dry and just a bit sticky.
Cool completely on the baking sheet before serving or storing.
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Snowfall ranges for the most part were in the 8 to 14" ballpark. Pretty close to what we were thinking region wide.
Check out the new record in Rochester set in Rochester yesterday that had been standing since 1907! We easily took care of that weak record! Officially the Rochester Airport ended up with 12.9", bringing the season total to 69.8".
After some quiet & cold weather through Saturday, later Saturday night into Sunday at least a minor accumulating snowfall appears to be in the making. It does not look like a big deal now, but I'm still not going to rule it out quite yet. Either way, it will turn colder with some decent lake snow possible Sunday night through the first half of next week. Then mid to late next week will have to be watched, as models are hinting at potentially something, but that is a week away, so don't get too excited about it yet. We'll see...Active month ahead? I think so. Stay tuned.
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DAMN and you didn't invite me?Originally Posted by Frizzle Fry
DAMN and you didn't invite me?Originally Posted by Frizzle Fry
I think we all should make this promise, make the next Tuna Ball the biggest he has ever seen!Originally Posted by AGD
I'll go talk to my wife
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Good luck with the recovery, when it rains it pours. Just make sure you take it easy and listen to the docs, dont be like my father and decide you need to mow the yard a month from now.
I like this and fully support this.Originally Posted by BTAutoMag
I can't promise, but I will try.
Yeah, I think I have to go rearrange some things on my calendar now....Originally Posted by Beemer
I think we are going to need a bigger boat
I mentioned this early this year to my wife to give her time to make arrangements. Having it in early June may make it possible for me to actually drive and thus more likely it will come to pass.Originally Posted by BTAutoMag
I'm going to try to make it. Maybe I'll take a detour and we can carpool.Originally Posted by OPBN
Keep me in mind too. Might make things easier on everyone.Originally Posted by bbotts77
anyone located on the way between WI and NJ? or is WI on the way for anyone?
Im in NW Ohio about an hour away from I80/90.
I believe you said this for TB6 as well.....Originally Posted by BigEvil
Get your rest, Tuna! Sounds like you are going to have a lot of fans to shake hands with come June!
Best of luck and here's to a speedy recovery.
My grandfather went through this same routine, cancer, heart issues... 12 years later he is still working. Hang in there and this will just be another story to tell.
Im burning a phat one for ya!
I'll find a huge van and we'll make an AO party busOriginally Posted by OPBN
That sounds good. All four of us and gear probably wouldn't fit too well in my Accord.Originally Posted by BTAutoMag
That and my wife said "If you go, I go" and I have 2 kids too
EDIT: Tom should be part of the Tunabus. He is on the way
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Looking forward to seeing EVERYONE at the next Tunaball.
Give it hell Tuna. Looking forward to seeing you too. Kick it's butt and then we'll work out a way to go Fishing.
And a BIGGER PigOriginally Posted by BigEvil
My wife said about the same. I'm thinking caravan might be more in order. I know the only reason my wife is going is because NYC is within an hour or so drive away. I'm not kidding myself into thinking she actually wants to spend 10 hours in the car with me just for fun. She will definitely want to have her car available to go into the city.Originally Posted by BTAutoMag
yea, mine said no to the tunabus idea. caravan it is!
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I will have my sister bring a friend next year.
I'd love to attend a TunaBall and meet all you guys (and Tuna, of course) in person but being in Brazil and working for a huge company makes timing really critical. If only it was possible to do it in the beggining of July...
We did Tb5 last August. It was BRUTALLY HOT AND HUMID. I would never do it that late in the season again, and im actually a little hesitant to even go into June. However, it was the best date to accommodate the most people.Originally Posted by mpsd
With that said, sack up and book you're flight Mendel!!!
Hope you recover well Tuna
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Here's to a speedy recovery! I've got four life long mag users here in Ohio that would make the trip. Keep me posted on details
Am grieved to hear this. Our thoughts and prayers are with you. Get better soon.
Sorry to hear about this Tuna,
Wishing you the BEST with your health and well wishes to your family.
You may not know me but I've been here for a while but life got in the way.
Here's to TUNA
This thread has been too quiet.
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Sixth Grade Students played with state-of-the-art military robots, explored wind technology, danced to music of the past several decades, and discovered static electricity at 4-H Days: Back to the Future, held this week on Fort Leonard Wood.
4-H Days: Back to the future gave students the opportunity to explore science and technology through several work stations including Video Game technology, Mad Science - All About Polymers, Wind Works, Robotics, American Bandstand to Now - Dance to be Fit, Worm Holes in Space Challenge, and Shock Wave Static Electricity.
4-H Days is a collaborative program with 4-H, Fort Leonard Wood, Pulaski County Missouri Extension, the Waynesville School District, and Child Youth and School Services.
"This introduces the sixth graders to the Pippin Youth Center and the 4-H Program. And gives the staff an opportunity to share their talents with other students in the community," Waita Karcher, 4-H Program Assistant, said.
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The Importance of Performing Thorough Research
My grandfather, Sylvester Roy Woodfork Sr., was a World War I veteran. His funeral program indicates he was a member of a special class of soldiers trained in radio technology at Howard University and that he experienced combat with the Battery F, 351 Field Artillery. I did some research and learned the 351st Field Artillery was one of several units where Negro soldiers were trained as artillery officers.
After obtaining his military records from the National Archives, I learned my grandfather was not in this unit but the 52nd Company 13th Battalion 153rd Depot Brigade in Camp Dix, New Jersey. The records also show he was a private, not an officer. The situation illustrates the importance of performing thorough research.
Many families have family history that has been passed down from generation to generation. In many cases this information has not been verified yet everyone accepts it as a statement of fact. Most family historians would like to uncover exciting information about their family. We would love to have ancestors who were movers and shakers in their community or made history in someway or another. The truth of the matter is not every one will be that fortunate. Some of us are the descendants of ordinary folks whose major focus in life was working hard to maintain the basic necessities of life.
As family historians we should not embellish the truth or make up stories to make our family more interesting. We must remember it is our responsibility to have respect for the truth and the whole truth. In cases were the truth is not pretty; there is no need to air the family's dirty laundry or change the facts to make it better. Just remember the old adage, "If you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all".
I try to keep the following rules in mind when I am performing research: 1) Just because it is published does not make it true and 2) Just because someone says it does not make it true. We must remember that researching is the systematic process of collecting, analyzing and verifying information in order to establish facts.
A systematic process is repeatable. You can demonstrate how you came to the conclusion again and again. If another person follows the same steps, they will come to the same conclusion.
Collecting, analyzing and verifying information are three very important components of performing research. Collecting is gathering information. Memorabilia, ephemera and artifacts are excellent sources of information. However, after the information is collected it must be analyzed. We must ask ourselves: Does it make sense? Does it seem accurate? Is it from a credible source? Verifying information requires us to locate a primary source and to cross check information against a variety of sources to determine the validity. A lot of people collect information, but they don't analyze or verify it. All three steps are important.
The end result of research is to establish facts. We must be careful to make a distinction between facts and opinion. A fact is objective information that is verifiable. Opinion is a judgment, view or assessment. It is subjective and is not verifiable
Although it is disappointing when we find information that contradicts well-known family history, we must resist the urge to ignore the truth. It may possible that my grandfather was a member of that special unit in World War I or he may not have been. I have to do more research to determine the facts.
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LOS ANGELES — Moviegoers had an appetite for fright this weekend, sending "Insidious: Chapter 2" to the top of the box office.
The haunted-house horror sequel debuted in first place with $41 million, more than tripling the opening take of the 2010 original.
Debuting on Friday the 13th, FilmDistrict's "Insidious: Chapter 2" scored the highest September opening day ever, said box-office analyst Paul Dergarabedian of Hollywood.com.
"It was a perfect release date for this movie," he said. "James Wan has cracked the code on making great horror movies."
The director had another first-place opener earlier this summer with the "The Conjuring," another haunted-house thriller starring Patrick Wilson. Wilson returns in "Insidious 2," playing a husband and father with some scary personal baggage.
FilmDistrict's president of distribution, Jim Orr, said the film's ticket sales nearly doubled studio expectations.
"It's great to be in business with Blumhouse Productions and James Wan," he said. "They're just ridiculously talented and delivered a phenomenal film."
Another newcomer, the Robert De Niro-Michelle Pfeiffer crime caper "The Family," opened in second place with $14.5 million. That bumped last week's champ, "Riddick," to third.
"Lee Daniels' The Butler" continued its strong performance with a fourth-place finish that saw North American ticket sales cross the $100 million mark.
The Jennifer Aniston-Jason Sudeikis road-trip comedy "We're the Millers" rounded out the top five.
Both "The Butler" and "We're the Millers" have been in theaters for more than a month, contributing to a hearty box-office that's been up the past four consecutive weeks after a record-breaking summer season.
"These movies have legs week after week, and that's bolstering the entire marketplace," Dergarabedian said. "If you just have the brand-new movies doing well and the holdovers are dropping like rocks, then you have a problem."


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Sage grouse and wind power. With more than 50% of the state designated as sage ecosystem, Wyoming is home to the rare sage grouse as well as a draw to wind turbine power companies seeking to construct towers on flat stretches of windy, open land. The overlap is proving more controversial than originally anticipated. The Audubon Society is proposing smart development of wind power to keep turbines and construction away from the notoriously fickle and sensitive sage grouse. Wyoming...
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If you think the political atmosphere has become more complicated lately, you're right. A recent poll by the Pew Research Center found that fewer Americans are willing to call themselves Republicans or Democrats than ever before, leaving our once-binary system in a state of multilateral flux.
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Schools should answer pay questions before asking for tax increase
In regard to Paula Noonan's (Jeffco school board member) editorial: Taxpayers are "threatened" with increased class size every time the Jeffco School District wants more money. It sounds like Paula Noonan has many questions about compensation. Perhaps the Jeffco school board should figure out the answers before asking the taxpayer for more money. Seems more logical.
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GROTON -- Following up on a Memorandum of Understanding with the local teachers' union, officials at the Groton-Dunstable Regional School District unveiled more details on how teachers would be evaluated in the future.
In a presentation before the School Committee Wednesday, Accountability Director Kerry Clery and teacher Cheryl McCobb explained how a new educator evaluation system would be implemented and conducted.
It all begins with a "five-step cycle" covering 50 percent of the district's instructors that includes teacher self-assessment, goal-setting, implementation of teaching plans, a formative assessment of the results of the teaching plans, and a summative assessment of the previous four steps.
The other half of the district's teachers, said Clery, will enter the system next year.
The teaching plan, to be prepared by individual teachers, is to address curriculum, planning and assessment; teaching to all students; engagement of family and the larger community and encompassment of the professional culture of the district.
The four standards to be included in the teacher plan are intended to show what good performance looks like in a successful instructor with teachers gathering "evidence" in the form of 33 "elements" that make up each standard.
When the teaching plan has been completed and after it has been implemented in a classroom setting, the results will be assessed by supervisors and graded on a scale that rates performances as exemplary, proficient, needs improvement, or unsatisfactory.
A teacher's final rating will be determined following an assessment that includes multiple "mini-observations" in a classroom setting, the teachers' participation in staff meetings and other school events, the collection of evidence such as the frequency of communication with parents, student work samples, photos showing class activity, MCAS testing results, and discussions recorded at team or departmental meetings.
"It is time-consuming," said McCobb of the process.
The complexity of the process was noted by School Committee member John Sjoberg, who wanted to know how anyone could be certain that the "enormous amount of work" succeeded in its intention.
According to Clery, the only thing that could be done was to review the process and question teachers about it to determine what worked for them.
"The hope though, is that all this will revolve around student learning," said Clery, reminding committee members that the airtight system could not help but yield improvement.
"We're very much in a formative stage with this," cautioned interim Superintendent Anthony Bent. "It hasn't even unfolded completely yet. But one thing is for sure, for the foreseeable future this is the currency of the realm."
Committee member James Frey felt the new system was a positive step giving administrators a better sense of how the teachers were doing and a better idea of what they were doing.
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On Feb. 8, assessments of teacher performances will be announced with subsequent one-year plans based on evaluations.
On May 15, final evaluation of teacher performances is submitted.
By June 1, a further and final evaluation of teachers who have been assessed in the needs improvement or unsatisfactory ratings will be reviewed with a decision on their status.
Before May, feedback from evaluators, teachers and the education evaluation working group will be sought on the evaluative process and compare how the process fared against the goals outlined in the Memorandum of Understanding.
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Augusta's boys basketball team will have a chili feed at 5 p.m. Friday prior to the girls and boys basketball games against Abilene for the teams' home opener.
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Annual Holiday Exhibition
Trees and trimmings decorated by local garden clubs and the Friends of the Monmouth Museum with a golden theme celebrate the Museum's 50th Anniversary in 2013. Our refurbished model train layouts play a prominent role in the holiday festivities. Join us for special Holiday Programs & Activities scheduled at the Museum on Sunday afternoons from 2 - 3 pm in November and December. For more information call 732-747-2266 or visit www.monmouthmuseum.org
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Bastrop United Pentecostal Church will be hosting Youth Quake 2013.
The theme this year is Break Every Chain. They will have speakers as well as baseball/softball tournaments. Wednesday night speaker will be Bastrop United Pentecostal Church's Pastor Dwight Fulton. Day speaker will be Brother Travis Houston. Night speaker will be Brother Cortt Chavis. Participates in the tournaments must bring appropriate equipment and clothing. Age groups are 15 and up for boys softball, 5 through 14 for boys baseball and 12 and up for girls softball.
Kickoff service will be at 7 p.m. on July 17. Day and night services will be at 10 a.m. and 7 p.m. respectively on July 18 and 19. Kids Quake for ages four to 11 will be held in the Sunday school building during Thursday and Friday services starting at 10 a.m. The tournaments will be held between services. Games will begin at 12 p.m. All star game will be played Friday night after the evening service. Registration deadline is July 15.
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EAA's new downtown gallery emblematic of Evergreen's potential
That valiant ex-Green Beret Paul Koentges just staged a stunning victory in downtown Evergreen. Koentges, now in his second run as president of the Evergreen Artists Association, has established the EAAs first "home" since its founding a half-century back with a highly visible member-owned gallery on Main Street.
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