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2013/1/25-2/19 [Recreation/Computer] UID:54587 Activity:nil |
1/25 Seymour Cray's UCB Lecture on the Cray-1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtOA1vuoDgQ \_ this is VERY BORING. Why should we care? UCB is dead. |
2009/12/4-26 [Recreation/Computer, Politics/Domestic/President/Bush] UID:53565 Activity:nil |
12/4 Why aren't there as many comedians making fun of Obama as there are making fun of GWB? \_ he's not as ridiculous. \_ No one was making fun of Dubya after only one year in office either. In fact, making fun of him after 9/11 was likely to get you lynched. Wait until O's second term, then people will really start to light into him. \_ I don't think Obama is god or 100 successful, but there really is a lot less to make fun of than GWB. \_ because making fun of Obama would make you a racist, and no one wants to be a racist. \_ Unless you are Chris Rock. His black vs. n****er line a decade ago was hillarious. \_ GWB was a personality, Obama is boring. They could work the boring angle; like have a comedian giving a speech to bored people, but that starts to become political, instead of just pure comedy. |
12/25 |
2009/7/24-8/6 [Recreation/Computer] UID:53193 Activity:kinda low |
7/24 I am trying to come up with a list of bands that have played the Berkeley co-ops. So far I have the following: Primus - Barrington "Frizzle Fry" Green Day - Cloyne & Chateau Digital Underground - Cloyne Bluchunks - Chateau and Cloyne Broun Fellinis - Chateau Black Flag - Barrington Flipper X - Barrington NOFX - Barrington X - Barrington Operation Ivy - Barrington and Cloyne The Dead Kennedys - Barrington Idiot Flesh - Barrington \_ I dunno if Green Day ever played Chateau, but I was there when they played at CZ. \_ Yeah, I saw them at Chateau, in fact I did security at that show, which includes a pretty funny story... Digital Underground - Cloyne Bluchunks - Chateau and Cloyne Broun Fellinis - Chateau Black Flag - Barrington Flipper X - Barrington NOFX - Barrington X - Barrington Operation Ivy - Barrington and Cloyne The Dead Kennedys - Barrington Idiot Flesh - Barrington \- nee Acid Rain, if that counts --psb see also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrington_Hall_(Berkeley,_California What am I missing here? \_ The Offspring - Cloyne (at least 2x, prob. more) Also at Cloyne: white trash debutantes The Mentors Subinicision (I assume) If you want less famous bands like this I could probably come up with a lot. -crebbs \_ Chumbawumba, too. \_ The Donnas? \_ did AFI play there? The dude "Davey" was at Cal. also don't forget Rick Starr! -brain \_ I think Lawsuit played at Cloyne when I was there -emarkp \_ Oh, I remember I saw No Doubt at Cloyne back when they were first touring. \_ 'Davey' still lives in Berkeley. AFI, Rancid, Hepcat played Cloyne. \_ Spunky Brewster - Cloyne The Flying Jesuses - Stebbins, Hoyt \_ ok lets change this to 'bands' that people 'went to see' and possibly more than 100 people 'bought a cd from', not bands whos audience was chiefly the bands girlfriends. \_ then take out Greenday, Offspring, Mentors, Hepcat, AFI.... \_ what are you talking about? i guess i was unclear. collectively, greenday / offspring / afi have sold millions of albums. I'm sure the mentors sold at least a 1000 cds in their lifetime! \_ AFI didn't really seem to go anywhere after Answer that and Stay Fashionable (the punk band which is who you woulda seen at a co op). I think another band is using their name now. \_ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AFI_(band Same members, different sound. \_ Did Digital Underground play the co-ops? I thought I heard them at Cloyne during a hip-hop night. Anyone remember any hip-hop bands that played the co-ops? |
2008/2/26-3/4 [Recreation/Computer] UID:49268 Activity:nil |
2/26 http://origin.www.spike.com/video/2650367?cmpnid=800&lkdes=VID_2650367 Really really cute blonde with wardrobe malfunction (nsfw) |
2008/2/25-29 [Recreation/Computer, Computer/HW/Drives] UID:49246 Activity:nil |
2/25 Are there any DVD players that will remember the position of the last X movies played? I know most remembers the one currently being played, but what about previous ones? Thanks. \_ DVD Player in MacOS X remembers the last played position for all of my DVDs. \_ Yes. My old Sony player (second generation) remembers the positions of up to 5. |
2007/8/29-30 [Recreation/Computer] UID:47793 Activity:nil |
8/28 this guy looks fun http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=cpotato2004&p=r \_ Yes! This is just exactly what we need more in this world! Yet more opinionated political drivels! We love it, we want more! |
2007/7/6-7 [Recreation/Computer/Games, Recreation/Computer] UID:47197 Activity:nil |
7/6 Marta Domachowska: bustier than other Eastern Europe tennis players http://www.mfwweb.com/tennis/IW05/#Marta_Domachowska http://www.icelebz.com/celebs/marta_domachowska/photo13.html |
2007/6/30-7/3 [Recreation/Computer, Recreation/Activities] UID:47137 Activity:kinda low |
6/29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Am%C3%A9lie_Mauresmo Amélie Mauresmo, former #1 tennis player, strong like a man, plays like a man, walks like a man, and has the figure of a man. Hmmmmm... command: \_ Plus, she is a cheese-eating surrender monkey, what more do we need to know? \_ Why was this posted? Is there something I'm missing? \_ I find it unfair that yesterday's Wimbledon on NBC showed 70% Sharapova (hot hot hot) and only 10% Mauresmo, even though both played well. Obviously, the person responsible for yesterday's broadcast was biased overwhelmingly towards Sharapova, and I suppose they did it because they wanted to attract viewers by showing pretty people over ugly people. Life is sad and unfair. -not attractive guy \_ I think Anna K is a little hotter than Sharapova, but both are hot. \- are you blind? does anybody agree with you? \_ I dunno, in the wikipedia hits she looks pretty hot to me. -!pp \_ Damn. He ... er ... she is more handsome than I am. -- guy \_ This French looks like she's from former Communist Russia. |
2007/5/8-9 [Recreation/Computer] UID:46563 Activity:low |
5/8 What month is the most popular birthday? February? \_ Yes, that's what I heard. Maybe May is a good month to have sex, or it's a bad month which people tend to forget contraceptives. I don't know. I wonder if Social Security has some stats. \_ Here's one data point. My gf and I were pretty wild in May. Maybe it's the weather or something, I don't know. It is in fact the month where you experiment a lot, like not using any protection (fun fun fun) and suffering from the consequences (kids). Enuff said. \_ Ah, must be because of the start of summer break for schools under the semester system. -- PP |
2006/10/25-27 [Recreation/Computer, Recreation/Humor] UID:44976 Activity:low |
10/25 Rush thinks it's funny to make fun of Michael J. Fox by miming his movements: http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/10/25/olbermann-gives-us-the-visual-to-limbaughs-attack-on-michael-j-fox \_ Rush is a Republican. Of course he's evil! You don't need any evidence. \_ obFollowTheDamnLink \_ No reason to follow the link. Evil! \_ Has Rush dropped his whole Compassionate Conservative shtick (that he ripped off from Michael Savage, BTW)? I never hear him mention that anymore. It must be too egregious, even for Rush. \_ Just the ravings of a junkie. |
2006/6/16 [Recreation/Computer] UID:43419 Activity:low |
6/16 Friday Flash Fun: http://img252.echo.cx/img252/8159/006wo.swf \_ extremely boring. \_ also old \_ You're a tough, cranky crowd. \_ and? \_ also old |
2006/1/26-27 [Recreation/Dating, Recreation/Computer] UID:41534 Activity:nil |
1/25 lots of fun: http://www.craigslist.org/sfc/rnr/126401122.html \_ http://postsecret.blogspot.com \_ http://grouphug.us |
2005/12/9-11 [Recreation/Computer, Academia/Berkeley/CSUA, Computer/SW/Security] UID:40941 Activity:nil 77%like:40940 |
12/9 Looking for a job? Come work with us at Snapfish (now a service of HP). It's fun and neat and all that stuff. Take a look at /csua/pub/jobs/Snapfish for the latest postings, and feel free to drop me a line with questions or whatnot. - ajani |
2005/12/3-6 [Recreation/Computer] UID:40832 Activity:nil |
12/2 Has anyone played Age of Mythology? Is it fun? |
2005/11/8-10 [Recreation/Computer] UID:40496 Activity:nil |
11/8 Can someone show up to this and asphyxiate every person speaking at this? thanks Internet: Friendster, MySpace founders debate online communities Nov. 8, 7-9 p.m., Andersen Auditorium, Haas School of Business The founders of the wildly popular online communities http://MySpace.com, recently bought by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp for $580 million, and http://Friendster.com, will discuss the future of these virtual neighborhoods in an event sponsored by the Fall 2005 Pledge Class of Delta Sigma Pi, a business fraternity. The event is free and includes the chance to win an iPod Nano and other cool door prizes. |
2005/10/28-29 [Politics/Domestic/Gay, Recreation/Computer] UID:40305 Activity:nil |
10/28 Sulu, you have the helm. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051028/ap_on_en_tv/people_george_takei \- in an odd coincidence, SPORK previously played the same role in EqEqEquus. I believe that HOMOSEXUAL DATA FELLOW has hit on \- in an odd coincidence, SPORK previous played the same role in EqEqEquus. I believe that Homosexual Data fellow has hit on the brother of a sloda user. |
2005/8/31 [Recreation/Computer] UID:39379 Activity:nil 57%like:39355 |
8/31 Post the cutest azn gurl you can find on Friendster. Cutest defined as having small or no boob ***and over 18***. I'll start: http://www.friendster.com/user.php?uid=12144925 http://www.friendster.com/user.php?uid=3663001 http://www.friendster.com/user.php?uid=1286225 http://www.friendster.com/user.php?uid=3111058 \_ Umm... does anyone else find this a little creepy? \_ Well, it's certainly less creepy than say, browsing for porn. At any rate it's safe for work (SFW). That's very important. \_ um, just a "little" creepy?? \_ Every woman I've talked to that has tried online dating or using such forums as Friendster to meet men has tons of stories about creepy guys trying to get in touch with them. Apparently being even a somewhat attractive woman on one of these services is an invitation to a deluge of requests. For instance, one girl I knew put a profile on Myspace and got 200 responses from men in the first *day*. You must be one of those creepy men. \_ Most of these women look like spammers. |
2005/8/30-31 [Recreation/Computer] UID:39358 Activity:nil |
8/30 Do you guys have good ideas on increasing the readership and the participation on motd? With fierce competition from newsgroups, Yahoo groups, friendster & orkut network, and many other facilities, how can we keep our unique 70's style of newsgroup going for \_ http://ucb.org.csua decades? Serious responses please. Thanks. \_ Does it really need more participation? I don't think I'd want to read much more traffic than it gets now. -- FT job haver \_ Seconded. I think we have enough traffic. \_ Enough traffic, but not enough variety. ;) \_ I think we should turn automatic motd display back on for new members. \_ I think this by far the simplest and most effective method. The motd is dominated by old farts. It's time to get new blood. jvarga, help? \_ Hey, kchang: how about adding an RSS 2.0 or Atom feed to KAIS Motd? \_ this will only increase the motd addiction for existing users. it's like adding more nicotine in cigarettes. it won't increase the number of suckers who are interested in smoking. |
2005/8/30 [Recreation/Computer] UID:39355 Activity:kinda low 57%like:39379 |
8/30 Post the cutest Asian female you can find on Friendster. I'll start: http://www.friendster.com/user.php?uid=12144925 http://www.friendster.com/user.php?uid=3111058 http://www.friendster.com/user.php?uid=2693650 |
2005/8/29-31 [Recreation/Computer] UID:39342 Activity:low |
8/29 So after changing a few pics on friendster, I got 2 emails from two different women. One works at Coca Cola down in Africa, and the other one with a generic hello, eager for a reply from me. I didn't post anything spectacular or anything and I'm suspecting that this is a spam attempt. Has anyone gotten a similar response after changing pics or specs? Thanks. \_ Any unsolicited message on one of those services which asks you to email an outside address is almost certainly a spammer harvesting addresses. Myspace is plagued with them - the typical approach being with a profile short on details but featuring a really cute picture and an insistence that you email as soon as possible. \_ I dunno. I had some cutie 18 y.o. Brazilian email me on orkut out of the blue last year. Turns out all she wanted was an English speaking penpal. \_ Well, did you "teach" her anything? Come on... \_ Did she ask for your bank account number so she could transfer $5M to you? \_ This is a follow-up. I'm the op. I went back to check their stats, and friendster says "This user doesn't exist." I guess they are indeed spammers. Whew. When 2 semi-attractive women send a chubby guy who's not particularly interesting (me), you've got to wonder if it's too good to be true :( |
2005/6/2 [Recreation/Dating, Recreation/Computer, Consumer/TV] UID:37937 Activity:nil |
6/2 So is the infamous 49ers training video available somewhere online? \_ http://tinyurl.com/dav7r - danh \_ What the fuck is this? |
2004/12/3-4 [Recreation/Computer] UID:35165 Activity:low |
12/3 So is this person using Friendster to grab clientele, you think? http://www.friendster.com/user.php?uid=13507503 Kind of NWS |
2004/9/20 [Recreation/Computer, Health/Women] UID:33630 Activity:moderate |
9/20 For the guy looking for gangster manga/anime, you might enjoy Sanctuary by Ryoichi Ikegami. -John \_ You can always recognize his work because while all the pictures are beautifully draw and shaded, everyone is wearing the same expression. \_ related question, does anyone know ANY women who enjoy Hentai? \_ One of the hentai review sits I've seen was all women (apparently). The reviews tended to favor vids with, you know, a plot. They had a separate "etchi" rating to let you know just how well it might get one's rocks off as far as tentacle rape and such. \_ gosh this is like young healthy straight men who hate sex \_ I found 8 in the Bay Area on Friendster. http://www.friendster.com/viewphotos.php?uid=8776826 |
2004/7/14-15 [Reference/Military, Recreation/Computer] UID:32279 Activity:kinda low |
7/14 A farewell to the Marine Corps, Colonel Wayne Shaw, USMC, Quantico, Virginia http://www.usna63.org/tradition/history/Farewell_Shaw.html \_ Great find. I love his 10 questions. |
2004/6/30-7/1 [Recreation/Computer] UID:31091 Activity:high |
6/30 Google may have stolen the code for orkut: http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,64046,00.html \_ Sensationalist, and overblown. He may have written the code while working for them. They may have exclusive rights to the code. And perhaps not. \_ We should put the greedy turk in solitary confinement for 3 yr. \_ "I've never seen a man take so quickly to a Turkish prison" \_ IANAL, but it seems to me the proper target of a suit like this would be the programmer, for breach of contract, theft of intellectual property, etc. The employer using it can hardly be expected to keep track of all its employees previous obligations... a temporary restraining order would seem more appropriate for google... \_ How do you get a temporary restraining order? You usually have to sue. |
2004/6/14 [Recreation/Computer] UID:30788 Activity:high |
6/14 http://www.thewebshite.co.uk/nickelback.htm Nickelback is recycling. \_ http://www.wtfomg.com |
2004/5/17 [Recreation/Computer, Industry/Startup] UID:30259 Activity:high |
5/17 Long, but worthwhile (found on http://www.fuckedcompany.com of all places): post the URL instead. Okay: http://www.csua.org/u/7c3 -- A simplistic but pretty concise explanation to the question: "Why do people in the 'red' states vote overwhelmingly for Bush when they always get screwed hard by his policies?" \_ Can't view fuckedcompany from work. Care to put this in /csua/tmp? \_ /csua/tmp/fcompany \_ Thank you. \_ Not worthwhile. Just another partisan rant, full of wild assumptions and faulty conclusions. \_ Okay, replace the word "republican" with "lawmaker". It still holds true. \_ It's sad when the proletariat fail to see that they no longer have in their hands the means of production. \_ Help! Help! I'm being oppressed! |
2004/4/29 [Recreation/Computer/Games, Recreation/Computer] UID:13452 Activity:very high Edit_by:auto |
4/28 Playtested "Shinteki" last weekend. Day-long puzzle-road-rally event. Well run and should be lots of fun for both experienced players and folks who haven't done something like this before. http://www.shinteki.com (May 8, 15, or 22). -jowens \_ This sounds like fun, but I'd like to know more. Could you do a write-up on your experience? ok, tnx \_ Well, that would be kind of giving away the whole thing, since what I playtested is exactly what it will be like. Here's a writeup of another one from the same group that's running Shinteki (in Las Vegas, and more elaborate of course): http://csua.org/u/744 Let me know if you want more info. |
2004/4/28 [Recreation/Computer] UID:13429 Activity:very high |
4/28 Why is it that hategroups all gravitate towards ASNs? are there any on orkut too? http://csua.org/u/73p (note his close knit friends) the Jessica chick there is the smartest (and scariest one). in good ol' LBC. \_ ASN? LBC? 1. Artifical Social Network (friendster, etc) 2. LBC (long beach, CA) I believe danh found a bunch of skinheads on friendster last year \_ What makes you think Jessica is any smarter/scarier than the rest of these retards? \_ What makes you think they "gravitate" toward them? I suspect they are equally represented. |
2004/4/21 [Recreation/Computer] UID:13303 Activity:nil |
4/20 One man's take on Friendster (warning: Quicktime) <link deleted> http://www.zefrank.com/smallworld \_ stupid shit... stop re-posting it \_ God, you're an asshole. I found it amusing. Why do you bother? Eat a bug. -John |
2004/3/31-4/1 [Recreation/Computer, Reference/Religion] UID:29891 Activity:high |
3/31 Some of you happy fun people need this shirt: http://christ-killer.com \_ anti-semite \_ dumbass, the site was featured on http://jewnews.com. FJBJ \_ FJBJ?! For Jews By Jews?! \_ Insert your humor chip. It's a play on FUBU. \_ how does FJBJ map to FUBU? you do know what FUBU stands for, don't you? \_ Hey, as long as we're just throwing stupid insults around, can I call you a humorless tard? \_ why is anti-semite an insult? \_ This is exquisitely bad. \_ thanks! we aim to please. |
2004/3/24 [Recreation/Computer, Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Israel] UID:12841 Activity:nil |
3/24 Oh, where is the outrage? http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=62930 \_ From the article, I'm not sure what I'm supposed to be outraged about. He's a lying journalist, fire him, put him in prison, whatever they do these days. I don't care what COLOR his is. What's with all this crap about him being white? \_ Because dearie, when Jayson Blair was caught with his pants down the race card was played in full. The column was satire, if you hadn't noticed. \_ Yeah, but that's because old Blair had played the racecard to get where he was. (Or at least the people around him had.) \_ Sorry, not taking your bait... |
2004/2/25 [Recreation/Computer] UID:12396 Activity:moderate |
2/24 A while back someone complained friendster was ass slow. I just got on friendster after a long time, and it appears blazing fast! \_ that's because all the pissed off / bored users left. Reminds me of the dot com days when we ordered tons of machines to scale our web site before the <DEAD>finance.CNN.com<DEAD> announcement, only to realize that it was a total waste because of all the pissed off users. \_ Try it at 8PM. \_ All the cool kids are on orkut now. \_ You mean I'm not cool? \_ You really didn't need us to tell you that \_ There are no cool people using orkut, friendster or any other net.trash to meet people. \_ So are you saying that anyone who posts to CSUA motd is a loser? \_ You don't even know what cool is. |
2004/2/12 [Recreation/Computer] UID:12216 Activity:nil |
2/11 Having fun tawei? |
2004/2/7-8 [Recreation/Computer] UID:12154 Activity:high |
2/7 How is it possible that Phillip Nunez doesn't have an Orkut ID, yet? \_ Does Phillip read mail? Cthulhu does, evidently, since he's got an Orkut ID. \_ shut up, nweaver \_ Orkut? Who cares? The whole thing is a waste of bits. Almost as bad as blogs. Google should spend more time fixing their broken search engine and not wasting time on this garbage. What is this now, their 4th or 5th failed IPO? Stick a fork in it, Martha, it's done. \_ Hmm, google has shitloads of revenue and is apparently turning something like a $300 million annual profit at the moment. Stick a fork in it? |
2004/1/27 [Recreation/Food, Recreation/Computer] UID:11969 Activity:nil |
1/27 Going to Santa Barbara this weekend, what is fun to do there? BTW I don't club/bar/dance so that's outa the question, thanks. \_ Skate/bike/run on the beach. you can go up to the cliffs which are nice. you can do lame shit like go to the mission. walk down state street and have a nice lunch. \_ beach is nice. Seafood. Why don't you club/dance/get drunk? It's so fun to pick up on women when you're drunk, get laid, and wake up with a hangover and not give a damn about the world. \_ what do you do when you visit santa cruz, san diego, la, etc? take pictures, go on picnics, hiking, look at architecture, go to historical museums, shop, walk around, find cool bookstores, eat at nice restaurants, hang out in cafes, MUD, surf, scuba? \_ there's some pretty good hang gliding sites down there. -ERic \_ Pick up chicks. As an out of towner you should score easy with the one-nighter types that don't want to hear from someone again. |
2004/1/25-26 [Recreation/Computer] UID:11932 Activity:nil |
1/25 friendster is backed by Kleiner Perkins & Co. How can they not afford to upgrade their server to something decent? With $10 million is seems like throwing hardware+bandwidth at the problem should solve the problem. \_ Knowing inside dope, it comes down to the fact that they have hardly any employees and thus can never keep up with their spiraling system load. It seems logical that they should hire more people but of course, hiring people takes time and its hard to get that time set aside when you're putting out fires. \_ I wonder how much money they made selling my email address to the spammers. \_ what part of kleiner perkins do you not understand? \_ Don't worry, only the paranoid soda geeks believe the friendster as Spam meme. \_ http://socialsoftware.weblogsinc.com/entry/3341461825857782 |
2004/1/21 [Recreation/Computer] UID:11872 Activity:nil |
1/21 http://www.booble.com google for porn/boobs and http://eurekster.com for google+friendster in one |
2003/10/21 [Recreation/Computer] UID:29580 Activity:moderate |
10/20 I'm 35 years old and I'm on friendster. I have about 80 friends on friendster, and I'd say 65 of those are either from HS or college while the other 15 are acquaintances that I met after college. Is it normal to not make any real friends after college? \_ I have made some. It is not normal. \_ Let's step back a bit here. You say you have 80 friends. You 'know' them and maintain contact via friendster. Those aren't friends. They're just people you know and maybe even like. Friends are people who are there for you and willing to risk your friendship to save you from yourself and others. Friends will sacrifice time and money and go out of their way for your benefit even when you're being a dweeb. No one has 80 friends. To answer your question now: people make just as many real friends after college as they do during or before. You just have more people to party with from your earlier days than most. \_ don't be a loser! Get out of the house! Here, make a movie this weekend: http://www.48hourfilm.com/sanfran_2003.htm \_ normal? who cares what's normal? it's normal to spend most of your time sitting in front of the tv, driving around, working in a cubicle with people you hate, and getting wasted with the poeple from work who you hate the least. \_ hey that sounds like me, except the driving around part since I live only 3 miles from work -happy sysadm who lives in mountain view \_ So you RIDE BIKE! to work to USE LINUX! and LIGHT CANDLE? Once there do you USE SHOWER? \_ less the driving around part, it sounds vaguely japanese salary person -ish. \_ you should question whether the friends from HS and college are really "close" friends, or are they just "acquaintances"? most of my friends from HS and college turn out not to be as great of friends as the ones I made after college. or maybe the friends you made after college are too mature for friendster ;) j/k. \_ I keep in contact with one friend from HS and none from college, unless you count my gf. Most of my friends I met after college. \_ Do you count siblings? \_ They're never friends. You're splitting the estate with them. They're just competition. \_ 7 HS, 3 College, 11 Post-College. I went to Cal, so I made no friends in college. 25 years old. \_ Only 80? I have 29,000+ friendster friends. |
2003/10/13-14 [Recreation/Computer] UID:10615 Activity:kinda low |
10/13 http://www.friendster.com/user.jsp?id=6031 Can someone explain kchang's testimonial? I don't get it. \_ curse you! i just wasted an hour looking at the profiles of half the dorks from my highschool. i blame you. \_ If you have to ask... \_ nonono, the right phrase is, "Those who know, don't tell, those who tell, don't know". \_ Again. If you have to ask... \_ Wait, since when is kchang lila's friend? |
2003/10/3 [Recreation/Computer] UID:10435 Activity:nil |
10/2 I enjoy trolling the motd as much as the next guy, and I find it very fun writing half truths and seemingly logical statements that simply aren't and then letting it go where it goes. Today's motd is so full of flat out lies and complete and utter illogic fueled solely by personal agendas and general bad-think that not even I, your friendly neighborhood part time troll, find it fun to read. Hate, hate, hate. What the hell is wrong with you people? Where's the censors when you need them? I suspect the same people who would normally wipe all this and mostly never post are the ones who just turned the motd from a fun troll hangout and tech question center into their own personal realm of hatred spewing. It was better when you clowns kept to yourselves and just hit the delete key a lot and otherwise left us trolls and techies alone. --!happy,!hateful,+troll \_ vi or emacs? \_ this post is boring and sucks. \_ good example of missing the point. it isn't supposed to be exciting. you want exciting? get off your thumb and go be useful to someone somewhere in the world. \_ I don't care about your point. I was making my own point. Are you a fat sysadmin by any chance? \_ You're fired. -John, King of the Trolls |
2003/9/8-9 [Recreation/Computer] UID:10117 Activity:nil |
9/8 Is there php or other sw to help me make a www site for having profiles? like friendster / dating sites, but for a sports group. \_ search sourceforge \_ apparently http://tikiwiki.sourceforge.net/ can do anything. - danh |
2003/8/30-31 [Recreation/Computer] UID:10005 Activity:nil |
8/30 woohoo! partied with georgy russell! \_ So? Did she go down on you? If not don't bother us. \_ You're just jealous you didn't blow him. \_ You mean.. HER.. \_ speaking of partying, how is it that nweaver is not on friendster? I was expecting a user profile for him full of 'I partied with Nick Weaver' testimonials. \_ I'm not on friendster either. --friendless and forlorn |
2003/8/12 [Recreation/Computer] UID:29316 Activity:moderate |
8/11 Anyone notice an increase in spam since joining Friendster? \_ You can just create a yahoo mail acct with a user name that no spammer would ever guess and sign up for friendster. If you start getting spam then you know that friendster is an e-mail harvest. \_ nope, and I'm still a 5 digit member |
2003/8/7 [Recreation/Computer] UID:29262 Activity:kinda low |
8/6 is there a way to remove a friend from friendster? \_ Someone should start a CSUA Motd profile on this so that all the motd losers will know every other motd loser by one degree of separation. \_ wow! we should all be on friendster then we can be losers twice over! \_ [Edit Friends] -> [Delete Friend] \_ :'( \_ There, there... |
2003/7/8 [Recreation/Computer] UID:28959 Activity:nil |
7/8 Lila has 109 friends on friendster (mostly guys). How much does she charge per night? I'm interested. -geek |
2003/7/8 [Recreation/Computer, Academia/Berkeley/CSUA/Motd, Computer/SW/SpamAssassin] UID:28956 Activity:very high |
7/7 What's the best resource for finding contact info for Cal alumni? I'm trying to look for a friend in Civil Eng. that graduated ~96-97. She probably was not a Soda user, but was definitely a uclink user. \_ <DEAD>cal.berkeley.edu<DEAD> -tom \_ Wow, I never even knew <DEAD>cal.berkeley.edu<DEAD> existed. You should definitely sign up for some email and phone solicitiation spam so you can find out your friend didn't know about it either. I suggest google and various 411 phone style people finders on the net. If you're really into stalking and want a chance to tell her years later how much you always loved her only to hear her say, "Uhm, did we know each other?" then try paying a private investigator $50. \_ I bet you have no friends, get a life. \_ All my friends are on <DEAD>cal.berkeley.edu<DEAD>! Sign up now to find us and hang out with the kewlest Cal graduates! \_ Cal alumni association, http://classmates.com, http://alumni.net, people search, google, 411 services, yellow pages \_ I see I'm not the only sodan who's honed my stalking skills. \_ and don't forget the latest craze: friendster \_ http://www.friendsreunited.com I signed up my spam account there and some of my high school friends found me for a reunion. Bit weird... -John \_ Post her name. We'll find her. The MOTD is the best resource. I have copies of hardcopy and online directories and email addresses from that period. Seriously, you can also send her a letter care of the UCB Alumni Records Office or the Civil Engr Alumni Records office and they will forward it, if they have an address. Same with the DMV. But then you'll let her on to your stalking plans. \_ I didn't know we had our own resident expert stalker here. How much do you charge other csuaers for your services? \_ Hmmm...I knew a girl that fits your description. is she asian? and if so, which in particular? |
2003/7/3 [Recreation/Computer] UID:28915 Activity:high |
7/2 Friendster is Temporarily Unavailable The site is down for scheduled maintenance. We are working to improve the performance of the message subsystem. Please join us again at 8am Pacific Time. \_ "Now that we have 26 million known-good active email addresses worth approximately $1 each to commercial email marketers we won't need to do a fake IPO and run! With only 3 of us here, that's a cool $5.5m each after taxes! Thanks America! Only _you_ could be that stupid! --Spamster Management" \_ I bet you think p2p is really funny. - danh \_ funny? Why would I think that? I've no idea what you're trying to say. Do you? \_ if you're dissing danh you are just a hater. Fuck you. \_ No I'm trying to figure out wtf he's talking about. Maybe *you* could explain. Talk about 'haters'. You said 'fuck you' without even knowing anything. Meds, lately? Missed em a few too many times? |
2003/6/30-7/1 [Recreation/Computer] UID:28869 Activity:very high |
6/30 Is anybody doing the Friendster thing? Just curious about this thing/fad and i'd like to test it out. -sl \_ Moments after danh forced me to sign up I got a message from some random bozo in Iowa. It scares me. -John \_ The Iowa email or that danh has control over you? \_ it's a dotcom style fad. it's free now but they'll be charging a monthly fee later this year to friendsterise anyone outside your immediate circle or something like that. most people already know who their friends are and aren't interested in finding people they used to know. thats why they *used* to know them and dont now. \_ for a fad, kinda interesting. found a coupla friends from several years back that i had lost contact with. \_ It might be, if they had a decent IT/dev staff that could keep the thing up under load. \_ staff? what staff? it's just one guy and 2 employees. \_ you're asian, just do it. everyone on friendster seems to either be asian or gay/punk. \_ "everyone" on friendster is related to who your group of friends is. everyone on friendster to me is either a raver, goes to burning man, or is a friend of danh -ausman \_ I have the best profile on friendster! - danh \_ I guess all my friends of friends are either asian or punks. i think you'd fall into my punk category (raver, burning man, punk rock, goth, etc) \_ who said anything about being *your* friend? \_ "Punk" is a pretty specific term. I would hardly categorize ravers or goths as "punks." \- it's also a quite general term. i'm using punk how an old person would use the term "whippersnapper", not someone who listens to blackflag or thinks they are punk because they listen to Sum41 and JEW. \_ dict synecdoche \_ unix apps don't work with cable modem. \_ much as a mirror reflects the narcissitic idiot in front of it. \_ Friendster is Temporarily Unavailable We are experiencing heavy site traffic. Please try back in 5 minutes. We apologize for the inconvenience. \_ yay. new feature. before, you'd just timeout 90% of the time. \_ andd lose any typing you did. \_ i'm so paranoid about this now that i always copy what i type (whether it be friendster, blog, email) before sending and paste it if needed. \_ I thought http://sixdegrees.com already drove this business plan through to bankruptcy. \_ nothing says the same plan cant be driven twice or more, eh? \_ FRIENDSTER IS JUST WHAT AMERICA NEEDS. And 870 page kidbooks. \_ it was better when books were under 50 pages so we could get back to pong. \_ sounds like an email harvesting scheme to me... \_ one of my idiot friends 'invited' me to get spam, I mean join friendster using my primary email address. \_ Unless spammers are now routinely stripping off +detail stuff from email addresses, I have not received any spam directed at the address I gave Friendster. -geordan \_ Have you gotten any spam because of it? I think you are being overly paranoid. Not everyone is out to spam you. \_ It's only been 3 days. Wait until their 'business model' doesn't pan out and they need *something* to sell to pay their bankruptcy lawyers. |
2003/3/29-30 [Recreation/Computer] UID:27906 Activity:high 66%like:27899 |
3/28 Favorite pr0n starlet? \_ bunch of fucking stereotypical unwashed overweight boring geeks, please kill yourselves now, thanks \_ why you gotta be hatin'? \_ Kobe Tai . \_ Lynn Cheney \_ is this for real? She's not dick cheney's daughter is she? \_ Tera Patrick \_ Aria Giovanni, natural boobs. \_ mmmm, the best ever. \_ Yup. Actually I think she looked even better in her earlier days when she didn't put on that much make-up. After her Penthouse days her face looks like a painting. \_ Ah, the early days. Including fisting. \_ She did fisting??? Pics please? \_ http://www.bomis.com/rings/aria (link #27) \_ They have names??? \_ Yes. And furthermore, as I just learned on the motd yesterday, pron also has seasons. \_ And vintages. Don't forget vintages. \_ Seasons and vintage? I'm still back on names.... \_ Silvia Saint \_ Most are failed wannabe real actors/actresses. most describe their real dream as "make enough money to leave LA" \_ Yeah, and so? That's like saying a baseball player's goal is to win the World Series (ie, duh) \_ most of the best baseball players are actually failed cricket players. \_ the clincher is that cricket players are mostly failed pron stars \_ and the crazy thing is that both cricket AND baseball ALSO have seasons! \_ And vintages. Don't forget vintages. |
2002/11/22-23 [Recreation/Computer] UID:26602 Activity:nil |
11/21 Friday fun: http://csua.org/u/5eb link:csua.org/u/5ec |
2002/2/22 [Recreation/Activities, Recreation/Computer] UID:23951 Activity:very high |
2/22 Michelle Kwan is a perfect example of an over-ambitious Asian who stopped skating for the sake of fun and just fell flat on her face. \_ You're over reaching on the troll-o-meter. Anyway she didn't fall on her face. She fell on her ass. You must not have seen it. \_ What does being an Asian have anything to do with that? \_ obviously, you don't have Asian parents. They push you too hard and make you miserable unless you become a doctor (or get a gold metal in some cases) -miserable asian kid \_ lol, you are miserable because you are weak, and can handle the challenge. You have no will to excel. So what she fell on her ass, but she earned the respect from many. You know what she said at the end "I didn't give up". \_ Yes, and I think she contributed more to the sport than say, Tara Lipinski, who won gold at a young age, and immediately turned pro. \_ Please tell us how she 'contributed to the sport'. By doing commercials for Chrystler? \_ By setting a high standard for an extensive period? Take her away from this year's competition and it would be much more boring. The sport would be much more boring if all the competitors are happy-go-lucky 16-year olds. \_ Yesterday's news, pal. The best got the medal. \_ Don't feel obliged to continue arguing if you have no point to make. \_ You missed the point. There's no argument. Bronze medal winners are yesterday's news. Gold medal winners are champions. No one likes a loser. Get used to seeing the new girl. Bye Michelle, now go away, loser. \_ Really? How about Anna Kournikova? \_ Duh. Great tits and skirt. \_ Good. Now you are getting brighter. \_ medal. Train harder. \_ I think Michelle wanted to skate. Her parents worked several jobs so she could train. I believe her sister was her inspiration. \_ A whole bunch of skaters on the men's side fell, and most were not asian. The Russian guy who won and his Russian rival also seem to care a lot about winning. It's good if you are skating for fun cause it makes you relaxed, but if winning is important, as it is for many of the skaters, no point pretending that it isn't. \_ "most were not asian". Meaning? Asians are more talented? \_ Olympic skaters do not compete for fun. I assure you that by the time someone becomes competitive at the National/International level, any sense of fun has been ground out of them and replaced with a desire to win at all costs. Skaters have learned to put on a happy face, and make faux-sportsmanlike/inspirational statements like 'I tried my best, but xxxx really deserved the gold.' when on camera because they know that people will fawn over how gracious they are for doing it. That, and sore loser skaters have a history of becoming total paraiahs for expressing their disappointment. If you have the chance, try catching a skater's off camera reaction in the locker room after a bad performance. Reality and media images are very different. And yes, skaters are pretty much universally like this, regardless of nationality or skin color. -dans |
2002/2/15 [Recreation/Computer] UID:23870 Activity:high 50%like:25165 |
2/14 motd poll: Who do you think should have won the gold for pairs figure skating? The Russians: .. The Canadians: The Martians: yermom: .. not important: ... \_ Exactly what happened? -- not a fan \_ This has already been /.'d to death. \_ This may be a shock, but some of us don't read slashdot and don't intend to start anytime soon. \_ why? because the Canadians are whining cry babies \_ crybabies or not, doesn't obscure the fact that the french judge was pressured by the FRENCH to vote russian. \_ I am glad the Canadians lost. They were so damn smug and I disliked Jamie Sale's attitude. I would've voted against them, too. Now in defeat, they are proving to be the loser primadonnas they appeared to be before the competition. --dim \_ I thought they were pretty gracious. Certainly much better than those American volleyball players who shaved their heads or those American hockey players who thrashed up the Olympic Village a few years back. \_ Only gracious in comparison to cretins. The gracious thing to do was shutup about it already. then they were just mostly having fun going \_ Yes that would have been even better. But then they were mostly just having fun going on Jay Leno show, and this Canadian band (what's it called?). I kind of think that their performance. Still it was reasonable given what they did. they should not have celebrated like they already won the gold medal right after their performance, in terms of not unnecessarily alienating any judges. Still it was reasonable given what they did. |
2001/9/12 [Recreation/Computer] UID:22397 Activity:insanely high |
9/12 Some people try to deal using humor: http://www.binaryvista.com/WTC/M-ebay.jpg \_ that's humorous? -tom \_ Making fun over thousands of innocent death? \_ Making fun over thousands of innocent deaths? \_ Making fun over thousands of innocence death? \_ Hey, if it works for the bastard palestinians. |
2001/7/26 [Recreation/Computer] UID:21958 Activity:insanely high |
7/25 What is fun? \_ Anal sex with 18 year olds is fun. \_ dude! now I'm all hot and bothered. Now I'm going to have to find someplace to masturbate at work (ideally w/o losing my job). bitch. \_ I read a poll that a good number of men jack off at work. That just can't be right. You mean the guy in the next stall while I'm taking a dump ain't doing the same? \_ Damn. How can someone jack off knowing that there's another guy just next door? Unless he's gay. \_ Hell, I work in an open office pool and I've jacked off sitting at my desk. No one noticed. \_ No, I thought it was too disgusting to mention. \_ I guess licking my desk clean afterwards gave me away, huh? oops. \_ Sex with a 32D-22-32 is fun. \_ Why thank you. --tjb \_ I prefer 34C. |
2001/5/28 [Recreation/Computer, Politics/Domestic, Academia/Berkeley/CSUA/Motd] UID:21369 Activity:very high |
4/422 Hey, I know! How about blowing away the motd and replacing it with nothing? That would be fun, huh? Restored. \_ NUKE THE MOTD! NOT NUKING THINGS WOULD BE EVIL, COMMIE, AND LIBERAL. \_ Uhm, is there a point to all this? Are you trying to be funny? Sarcastic? Witty? Something else? Obviously your intelligence far surpasses mine and I'm unable to figure out what you're getting at without it being spelled out for me. \_ Yeah! Thanks for the suggestion! \_ get the date right. \_ Done. APRIL NEVER ENDED. \_ what's this recurring "April never ended" thing? Yes, yes, if I have to ask, I don't know... \_ That's the clueless version of the line. The Real Thing goes, "Those who know don't tell, those who tell don't know". \_ That's really stupid. |
2001/1/22 [Recreation/Computer, Industry/Startup] UID:20402 Activity:high |
1/22 berkeley needs a page like this: http://ic.www.media.mit.edu/people/gilberte/Startups.html \_ There's already a place like this. It's called http://www.fuckedcompany.com \_ take a closer look. i'd be ashamed to work for most of these companies. |
2000/11/16-17 [Recreation/Computer] UID:19793 Activity:high |
11/16 Are we having fun yet? \_ Welcome to the desert of the real. \_ Hi Paolo! \_ When Gore stops trying to steal the election, sure. \_ Can we not have anymore political bullshit below? \_ Yes. \_ No. \_ Maybe. \_ I don't know. |
2000/11/14 [Recreation/Computer, Politics/Domestic/SIG] UID:19773 Activity:high |
11/14 Yes we're all tired of election crap but you can check out this: <DEAD>madison.hss.cmu.edu<DEAD> for a scientific approach to the palm beach question. \_ Perhaps, but this doesn't change the fact that recounting selected counties is bad practice designed to put Gore in the white house. \_ yeah. in fact the entire electoral process was bad practice designified to put gore in the white house. -- junior \_ No. In order for the recount to be meaningful it must be complete, not partial. Gore doesn't want a complete recount, since that wouldn't really help him. \_ As a student I worked in the Stat. Dept. The one book you found in most grad student offices was titled, "How to lie with statistics". Being rather naive at the time, I found the mere existence of such a thing shocking. That so many grad students owned a copy left me speechless. --Naive no more \_ I think you might have misunderstood the point of this book. The point of the book is not to teach the reader how to lie with statistics in order to deceive others. Instead the book discusses many ways to misrepresent statistics so that the reader can recognize when such tricks are used and prevent himself from being deceived. It's an excellent book. -emin \_ where can I get a copy of that book? - never took stat \_ url: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0393310728/qid=974189709/sr=1-2/102-9687828-6208930 |
2000/9/18-19 [Recreation/Computer, Computer/SW/OS/Windows] UID:19279 Activity:high |
9/18 Just for fun: Two ropes take exactly 60 seconds to burn. Both are of different lengths and both burn inconsistently. Using only those two ropes and a match, measure exactly 45 seconds. \_ Burn,burnburn; block; burn; block \_ burn,burn,burn;burn (a faster bersion) \_ How many seconds faster is your 45 seconds? \_ I like fruit loops. \_ Job interviews huh? Answer is on a <DEAD>.eecs.berkeley.edu<DEAD> web site. \_ Answer: On a chilly night, trade the two ropes and the match with some pan handler down at Shattuck who happens to have a working watch. \_ what does burning inconsistenly mean? So the "velocity" of the fire of the rope is random? \_ For example, it might take 40 seconds to burn halfway through the rope and take 20 seconds to burn thru the 2nd half \_ First you fill the 5 gallon jug. Then you turn on the middle switch for a while and then turn it off. Duh. -geordan \_ You forgot to carry the troll across the bridge. \_ Actual Microsoft questions /csua/tmp/usoft if you're interested. \_ #9 is funny, because I actually had one of those cube calendars at home when I was little, before there was MS-DOS. |
1999/2/27-3/30 [Computer, Recreation/Computer] UID:15495 Activity:nil |
2/26 http://www.angelfire.com/sc/tinkywinky fun with teletubbies. |
1998/9/26-28 [Recreation/Computer, Science/GlobalWarming] UID:14681 Activity:high 66%like:14987 |
9/26 Nuclear Launch Detected \_ Look for the red dot!!! For God's sake look for the red dot!!! \_ COMSAT! \_ damn those ghosts! if it's not lockdown, it's the nuke! \_ How plausible is it that you nuke a bunker, and all the people inside survive without a scratch? \_ Details? \_ You don't want to know anything beyond "someone needs to cut back on playing Starcraft and get a life." \_ What's wrong with having some fun? CSUA a fun-free zone? \_ there's a difference between having an interst in having fun and being obsessed. \_ Granted. But the above statements are far from obsessed, imho. Then again, it is hard to read into something without context (facial expressions, voice levels, etc) \_ Don't play co-op LAN Rainbow 6. It's too much fun. :O |
1996/11/13 [Politics/Domestic/President/Clinton, Recreation/Computer, Recreation/Media] UID:32001 Activity:nil |
11/11 Did anyone tape the Tyson/Holyfield fight, or have Showtime? (They'll be rebroadcasting it Sun at 8:00, but I haven't got ST... It'd be fun to see the fight though!) -- Marco \_ Who won? \_ It's only worth watching if holyfield won (and he did) \_ clinton \_ I taped it, but the reception was relly bad so it's black-and-white. It's your only chance to see Tyson really get his ass kicked. -Benny \_ at least until they release "America's Funniest Prison Videos" |
1995/3/1 [Recreation/Computer, Academia/Berkeley/CSUA] UID:31775 Activity:nil |
3/1 Anyone want to go to qzar tonight? I remember playing that one time the whole CSUA got together and played, it was very neat and I want to try it again. Mail me. -mlee |
1995/2/1 [Recreation/Computer] UID:31740 Activity:nil |
1/29 On The Edge players, mail davebrok if you want to get it touch with other players and you don't mind sending mail to me. --davebrok |
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