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General => Rants and Stuff => Topic started by: Mad Dr Jeffe on October 13, 2003, 11:38:14 PM
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I was thinking the other day about the space race, and what it meant to the country. Which led me to this line of thought, why did America send up Chimps, while the Soviets sent up Border Collies. Chimps seems like a more obvious choice, especially given their similarities with humans physiologically and genetically. But Dog? Hmmm. Thoughts, comments... leave em at the beep.
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Actually, I have no idea. I'll have to do some research. I thought I had an answer for this, but right now my mind is at a blank. Kind of like google when you search for SaintEhlers.
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Have you tried?
he was my top 3
Arthurian Online Role Playing :
... 7, 199, Event #24 (Saint Ehlers). 13 February 2002 10:16 AM. Wargrave ... 4,
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I never said it was a sound theory.
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Any of you tried doing a Google search on your name, just to see where in the ranking you show up?
I was surprised--I've recently moved up. I used to be #4, but now I'm #2--thanks to my faculty page at BYU. I also have #3 and #6
#3 is the TWG, since my name now actually appears on reviews. #6 is The Leading Edge.
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Wow, what are the numbers on those hits for me?
When I do a google search for my REAL name, I either hit 4 or 6 of the top 10, depending on whether I use my middle initial. Either my sites get more traffic than I think, or there really AREN'T many people named Eric Ehlers in the world.
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Heh. I tried "Charlie Mitchell"... The 20th hit is mine, from the Nobilis mailing list archive, the rest were all sporting personalities. Baseball, boxing, football i think. I'm an active guy apparently. Also a lot of family history stuff, sites in america. I've founded a lot of towns as well.
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how about monkeys that can control robots with their minds!
http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/science/10/13/monkey.brains.reut/index.html
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I thought all monkeys could do that.
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Yeah. But they've got a real problem with typewriters. Takes 'em forever to get anything quality out. But eventually they do.
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Wow. I'm actually #1, so three cheers for me. My full name, however, is uncommon (Robison Wells) so I'm not terribly surprised it's #1.
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Not too many of my name around either. I showed up #1 on my google search as well. But with a name like mine, it has to be good!!! ;)
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My name is so dang common I wasn't in the top 20 of any version of it, and I gave uplooking after that. I did discover, however, that apparently I'm a an honorary Canadian citizen: http://www.jenn.com/canadian/cert.cgi?name=Dan+Wells
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I'm not entirely sure that's something to be proud of.
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I think i should damn well be an honorary citizen, seeing as how they use our queen and all. Bloody freeloading gits.
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Nicadymus your back! Drop me an email with your phone # and i'll give you a call, (I could get it from John but I'm lazy).
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Speaking of monkeys (I side-tracked this thread once already, so I might as well do it again...)
There's a new Barenaked Ladies song about monkeys. Something about postcards. It was fairly strange, but rather catchy.
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Another postcard chimpanzeeee-eeeee
And every one is
addressed to meeeee-eeeee
Then it goes through a bunch of descriptions of chimps doing stuff, like being a mailman and construction worker and all that.
Very amusing song.
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See. Monkeys. Funny. How long will it be to convince you of my statistics?
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I was showing my wife how vanity searches work (no results at all for either her married OR maiden name that correspond to her, a lot of genealogy sites in German and Finnish though) and I did one on me, turning up, in part, this site:
http://www.locusmag.com/2003/Monitor/Magazines01.html
I got props from Locus and didn't even know it. So did GuJiaXian for that matter. Kinda cool.
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Gujia has mentioned that to me before, actually, but it was cool to see the link.
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I can't get myself from my real name, whch isn't unusual, since I never use my real name online. (It's bound to be there somewhere, probably on page 20 or so). The name JamPaladin, however, gets four results last time I checked. Two of me, which are logs for #BIGmog on irc (Which I can no longer connect to for whatever reason...not surprising with the death of BIGmog.com) the other two are some other guy with the same nick, who probably also has [email protected], since it was taken when I wanted to get it.
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I don't mean to turn this discussion into one about TLE (although I don't think anyone would care), but did anyone else notice on that genre magazine listing that the only magazines to beat out TLE for price/page ratio were Analog, Asimov's, and SF&F? That's quite an impressive showing for a little student publication.
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Yeah, It's impressive enough that it gets a listing on my resume. And I bring a copy when talking to people about jobs requiring writing and/or editing. ON the subject of giving props (with a subject like "Space Monkeys" you gotta change topics like dirty diapers), Brett Murrell of Duel of Ages just wrote to compliment/thank me for my review. It gave me a warm fuzzy, and I thought I'd share.
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On the subject of job interviews (one of the twenty subjects we've dealt with so far in this thread), I had an interview this morning for a writing job and found out that the head writer was a big D&D fan. That certainly made things go smoothly.
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sweet. Can you get me on there? Can you imagine the evening "meetings" we'd hold?
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Where's the job?
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Right by your house, actually, EUOL (well, relatively). It's the corner of 800 North and I-15.
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Cool. Makes it easy to go bug you.