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| 2005/1/31-2/1 [Academia/Berkeley/CSUA/Troll/TJB] UID:36006 Activity:very high |
1/31 After hearing a rumor about a CS student posting angry messages to
the course newsgroups, a little googling turned up the name
"Trevor James Buckingham", including an elusive reference to
TrevorBuckingham.txt. Does anyone have a copy of this document,
or other Buckingham lore? -jenk
\_ TJB was actually mentally ill at the time. That makes it
a lot less funny if you ask me. --PeterM
\_ At the time? I'm pretty sure the dude is mentally ill
period. I think the particular strength of his wackiness
may have been brought on by stress and/or drug use.
\_ Perhaps an entry in the CSUA encyclopedia is appropriate.
http://www.csua.berkeley.edu/encyclopedia.html
--dlong
\_ whoah! need major updates.
\_ ah, tjb, that brings back memories.
\_ AH HAHAHAHAHA... Oh man, I actually used to have a copy of the
write-up somebody did about tjb, but sadly I don't know where it is
at the moment.
\_ You mean this? /csua/tmp/tjb-reply.txt
IIRC, this was after tjb got hit with a spam or something, and
yelled at CSUA, only to have csua shrug him off -- then he sent
that long ass rant to a csua-wide mailing list (I might be off
on the details -- someone correct me if I am).
Many thanks for Mr. Rosariet for his cruel wit >:) . -mice
\_ That is but a brief moment in the complete and unabridged
saga of TJB. -dans
\_ Yeah, so this actually happened twice, once in 61B when Clancy was
teaching, and the following semester in 61C when Culler was
teaching. I was actually the one who compiled it, but since I was
TA'ing 61C at the time I wasn't able to post it. Fortunately,
someone else did. I'm trying to dig up a copy. You might also
consider tracking down the archives for ucb.class.cs61b and
ucb.class.cs61c thought, for the life of me, I can't recall exactly
which semesters that was. -dans
\_ All hail the mighty internet archive:
http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.gelatinous.com/danh/trevor
Okay, so there are actually a fair number of holes, but some
archive is better than none. -dans
\_ ilyas VS. tjb, FIGHT!!!
\_ Criple fight! Criple Fight!
\_ whatever happened to tjb? did he ever come back to ucb after
northwester (?)?
\_ There's an archive dedicated for tjb:
http://csua.com/Academia/Berkeley/CSUA/Troll/TJB
\_ Don't forget jsampson actually partnered with TJB. |
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| csua.com/Academia/Berkeley/CSUA/Troll/TJB -> csua.com/Academia/Berkeley/CSUA/Troll/TJB/ Oh man, I actually used to have a copy of the write-up somebody did about tjb, but sadly I don't know where it is at the moment. txt IIRC, this was after tjb got hit with a spam or something, and yelled at CSUA, only to have csua shrug him off -- then he sent that long ass rant to a csua-wide mailing list (I might be off on the details -- someone correct me if I am). I was actually the one who compiled it, but since I was TA'ing 61C at the time I wasn't able to post it. cs61c thought, for the life of me, I can't recall exactly which semesters that was. We've got a contract that guarantees the rest of us equal time. Meaning ASUC can cut CSUA funds but you can't be charged, sued, arrested or whatever for it. Either way, you, as an officer, are not personally liable. If some know-nothing ASUC student clown tries to say different, I'd tell him to go talk to his lawyer because it aint so. html<DEAD> \_ i don't see anything on that list of events as lame as compiling a list like that about someone. But I think people who follow his story should admit something- the guy's pretty damn smart. He'll either turn out to be the next Steve Jobs if he cleans up, or Ted Kazinski. Can somebody tell me who the following people are (one sentence per user please thanks): tjb- trevor j buckingham. controversial republican that complains about being oppressed and spouts lots of harsh remarks on newsgroups. ") ilyas- russian guy who talks about physics and "AI" and "hard" theoretical problems. I mean, he really believes the things he says doesn't he? All that tripe about dating playboy models and spinning at the best parties in berkeley stuff. I just can't think of anything one could possibly do to his mails. Groovetech, for example, archives a lot of their live shows, so you can also find good local DJs that Techno: 150-160 BPM no spoken samples, washing-machine-like sound, tunderous beat, little melody, if at all way. Here's my list of "typical" albums for each genre: ambience -- Aphex Twin "selected works" trance -- Paul van Dyke "Tranceport" Drum & Bass -- Roni Size "Reprazent" (jungle is d&b x 2) Ambient: no beats, barely intrudes upon your consciousness \_ Does it have anything at all to do with BPM? trip-hop -- Portishead "Dummy" or any Massive Attack big beat -- Chemical Brothers ? "Dig Your Own Hole" \_ music genres are sloppy, inexact things to try to convey a general idea. Became popular much later than house or techno, 1995 Breaks: based on a break-beat, sounds like house in other ways Jungle: deep, dark breaks with lots of bass \_ tjb? wasn't he wanting to have his account moved or renamed or something? This guy is 10x more fun than all the losers we squished throughout the years. Not every email he sends out is up to par with the "I'm sorry" email. I'm trying to find good stuff to send to tjb's highschool friends. It would be fun to get this guy a CSUA membership and let him post on the motd and wall. The motd and wall has been quite boring since we kicked out a couple of fools. Boredcast Message from 'tjb_real': Tue Jan 2 13:07:08 2001 Miss May 2000 gave me a blow job. I think I slept with Trevor once too but I can't recall the entire evening. Do these sorts of fools ever really get hired anywhere that does personal interviews? I've been working for 7+ years at various places and have yet to meet anyone like that who survived a first round interview no matter how good their resume looked to HR. I'd give the guy a huge thumbs down in the first 5 minutes. The job market right now is soo worker-starved that just about any chump can get a job. Sure they might have to only choose between 3 or 4 offers after a week or two of searching, but they'll still get them. He is having to go to a different industry, that's how fast word gets around. Silicon Valley is a *huge* place -- are you trying to assert that the multi-billion-dollar complex of software and hardware companies in the Valley somehow consitute an intimate little "everybody knows everybody" kaffesklatch? Some references may even candy-coat a tjb-style fuckup, because they don't want to get sued for saying something defaming, or because they're the idiot's current co-workers and they want to get rid of him. And even if your name is mud in Silicon Valley, the industry doesn't stop once you leave the Bay Area; By "going to a different industry" I mean going from say network hardware to semiconductor. Yeah shitty people can always get jobs, they just won't get jobs with good people who has been around and keep a very long shitlist. I've been for 4 years and I already have a list of people in my mind that I want to avoid like a plague. Yep, famously obnoxious and annoying people must have trouble getting hired in the Valley. The answer is, if you are bright enough, you will get the job, no matter how evil you are. When *I* am the one in control, *he'll* never work in *this* town again! Please show up on the GM today and join our honorable, professional organization of talented individuals! Anyway, you really _want_ him to show up and bore you to tears? We'd have people who've founded startups as well as people who came on later. I mean, for every Hotbot, is there a Yahoo and a Google? Hotbot is a property of Wired Digital which failed _two_ IPO's and was eventually gobbled up by Lycos. I hope you weren't implying that "Hotbot" was somehow a successful (or unsuccessful) company. It was nothing more than a service once owned by Wired and now Lycos. And yes, Stanford has more startups which are more successful. Berkeley: Inktomi, Ingres Which looks more successful to you? And yes even though most of the Farmers will fail, many will not. They won't all be Yahoos but you don't have to be Yahoo to be considered successful. |