Looks Like I Screwed Up - WITH UPDATES
I've been quite busy and didn't realize that the current moderator's terms expired on 6/15 or so. Therefore this site is operating illegally pursuant to a little known codicil to the PATRIOT Act. I think we'll be OK as long as we hold the election this month and claim terminal dyslexia (or palindromia - I always get them mixed up). Therefore this thread is for you to nominate candidates for the next term, which will be either 5 or 6 months depending on whether I remember next time.
Nominate any person or persons who are members in good standing (which means everyone who posts here). I plan to put the poll up on Friday, close voting late Sunday night and announce the winners on Monday. I am somewhat concerned that this is a holiday weekend, but I'm leaving on vacation on the 9th and won't be back until the 17th. If there's a large enough call to postpone the elections until after the 17th, I'll be happy to do so (except if the moderators ask for it - you know they are afraid to give up their powers before they can pardon themselves).
BTW, please don't nominate me, I just don't have the balls time for it in the next six months.
[UPDATE RE STRIKETHROUGH: PARDON THIS MOD, BUT MY DAYS ARE NUMBERED AND THERE'S SO MANY THINGS I NEVER MESSED WITH]
[UPDATE 2 YOU'RE NOT THE ONLY ONE WHO CAN EDIT THINGS, COLIN]
[UPDATE 3 THIS MOD READILY ADMITS UPDATE 2 WAS YET ANOTHER DEEP TRUTH. P.S. CHECK YER SIG.]
[UPDATE 4 YES SIGS CAN BE FUN. ]
[UPDATE 4.1 HANK, YOU"VE SEEN THE (SIG) LIGHT AT LAST CONGRATS! - JOE W.]
[Last update (I hope) I'll call a truce, but I'll leave you with this:
I am the very model of a graduate philosopher
In logic you will find I am a master choreographer
I deal in matters rational and phenomenological
Of subtle thoughts and feelings that are neuropsychological
I spin fine webs of arguments both magical and lyrical
That those without my training find both tedious and typical
Department heads think of me as a tiresome stenographer
In short I am the model of a graduate philosopher
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Lurking more than posting.. As a hitched man.. Back from the honeymoon and enjoying a few days off after a six of seven 12 hours nights...
Best to all .... My only advise is that the next group will have to be prepared for the pie wars that come with the up an coming election cycle.. So that moderation can be challenging to all of us at times... Less we ban the whole board...:)
PS Obama has waffled about half as much as old john boy... :)
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)BG, PM, Wagster.
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)....by making sure the Troika are too busy fighting with each other to care about the rest of you. Devious, sir!
--The ultimate result of shielding man from the effects of folly is to people the world with fools. -Herbert Spencer
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| parent )Some time a few months ago (probably during some tedious overheated shouting match where we had to suspend somebody), I did a 5-digit estimate (that's counting on my fingers to those not initiate in Math for Marzipan-Heads) and came up with mid-July for the next election.
I know, I know, just another self-serving boo boo by those in power. Like "Oops, we liberated Iraq. Looks like we'll have to do the whole Middle East now!"
I say we wait til after the long weekend of beer-sloshed high-explosives. Having an election in these conditions is a good way to wake up married to a Ford Fiesta and sporting a new Hermann Goering tattoo.
--Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes. -JH
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)you're paid to be creative, not accurate. :)
--I blame it all on the Internet
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| parent )I move that EVERY post on the internal mod election feature compulsory name-calling.
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| parent )Stooge Articulator™ working, we could even have remote fisticuffs, perhaps a little eye-poking. I have the sneaking suspicion that it's seeing "dual use" as an alternate beer-tosser (there've been mishaps with the trebuchet). Why I oughta....
--Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes. -JH
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| parent )-o-o-o-
Well, I can never say just one word, of course. The trebuchet is currently in use pitching coconuts from my back yard to the neighbors' three houses down. No direct hit on their hot tub yet, but I did get a lucky bounce that took out the peacock feather cabinet (old Marin County joke).
Anyway, my alibi w/r/t the trebuchet affair:
Guard... Are you suggesting that coconuts migrate?
--Arthur: Not at all. They could be carried.
Guard: What?! A swallow carrying a coconut?!
Arthur: He could grip it by the husk!
Guard: It's not a question of where he grips it! It's a simple matter of weight ratios! A five-ounce bird could not carry a one-pound coconut!
Arthur: Well it doesn't matter! Will you go and tell your master that Arthur from the Court of Camelot is here?
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
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| parent )me and some buddies actually made a miniature trebuchet and used it to fire water ballons at targets of opportunity. Great fun.
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| parent )It's the Yankee Siege, which hurled a pumpkin 1,658.55 feet last November.
From the 2007 Punkin Chunkin in Lewes, Delaware. A great place for siege engines of all kinds. Also pumpkins.
--They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist...
-- General John B. Sedgwick, 1864
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| parent )...bro.
Edit: oops, some context --
http://youtube.com/watch?v=AooRzI2o_T8
--Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes. -JH
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| parent )Either a redundancy. Or an impossibility. I can't quite decide.
--Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes. -JH
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| parent )(Link), modified to use barbell weight plates for an adjustable counterweight. It was a project for my son's medieval history class, but a fully working model, with a hardened steel pivot shaft inside an aluminum tube of slightly greater ID. Pretty scary device when counterweighted with 10 pounds, particularly before the sling release is adjusted so that it shoots away from you instead of straight up.
--In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
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| parent )particularly before the sling release is adjusted so that it shoots away from you instead of straight up.
I hope you only had it loaded with a water balloon!
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| parent )Not my idea, BTW.
--In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
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| parent )or similar aluminum jacketed beverage. :)
--Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes. -JH
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| parent )that I actually am the proud owner of such a device, which I bought at a CVS ten years ago on closeout sale. Lifelike articulated replicas of Larry, Curly, and Moe smack each other with (amazingly painful) golf clubs to the tune of 'Three Blind Mice'. Maybe I could make a Flash version for use here.
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| parent )It's in your contract - read it.
Love the new sig, though - puissant.
--In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
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)For me, whatever that's worth, I'm just doing some drive-by commenting as tiny virtual mind vacationlets from my job, which will remain rather burdensome till the 20th, give or take. So my heart and mind just wouldn't be in it.
Let's invoke the automatic unusual circumstances 45 day extension clause, or something.
--Of course not!
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)for another term, subject to their willingness to continue serving. Either they are very good at moderating, which I don't discount or the community has mellowed significantly.
Two consecutive terms and your out though, fresh blood and all.
--GW Bush, leading contender for worst President ever.
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)Why fix it?
--God help the while, a bad world I say.
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| parent )that not everyone can make. Unless they volunteer (and catchy has already said he has a busy six months coming up) I don't think it's fair to them.
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| parent )And I'm also bowing out next term.
I'd be willing to serve again in future and it was an honor to be trusted with the keys to this place. But the next 6 months are going to be hectic personally + professionally and I already feel a little guilty about my moderating the past month or so.
Plus I think it's a good idea to switch things up.
That said, waiting until the 18th might be a good idea given that it's a holiday weekend.
Best wishes to the future candidates!!!
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)I'll be the first to nominate you after your chosen hiatus.
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| parent )I know you sneaky midwesterners with your sneaky midwestern ways. I cracked the Imperial codes so I've seen the plans you, Jordan and tomsyl have made to turn this into a philosophy/advertising/Hawaiiana only blog. And the titles - William H. Fink chair catchy, Leo Burnett chair Jordan, and Jim Beam chair tomsyl. This will not stand, I tell you!
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| parent )Wow. I couldn't be more impressed.
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| parent )Now wouldn't that be a picture?
--Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes. -JH
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