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(Message started by: JiNbOtAk on Jul 21st, 2009, 4:42am)
Title: To post, or not to post
Post by JiNbOtAk on Jul 21st, 2009, 4:42am
I've had the amazing luck of meeting up T&B for real last week. (something I didn't think would happen with any members, given my location). It was interesting, to say the least. We talked for hours like old friends, despite it being the first time meeting. The topics that we talked about are mostly about this forum, e.g. we tried guessing how old Grimbal really is, how many students eigenray bullied into typing his answers  ;D , we even had a brief discussion on the Icarus' affair. However, one thing that I was thinking that T&B said, was about the quantity (as well as the quality) of towr's post.

It is an escapable fact that towr still remain by far the most profilic poster in this forum. It raises the question, is there a topic on this forum which he hadn't responded to ? Can anyone find one ?

Note : To be fair to towr, topic started prior to 20th Oct 2002 should not be considered. Neither should topics with less than 2 replies, which most probably are spams.
Title: Re: To post, or not to post
Post by towr on Jul 21st, 2009, 5:28am

on 07/21/09 at 04:42:59, JiNbOtAk wrote:
It is an escapable fact that towr still remain by far the most profilic poster in this forum. It raises the question, is there a topic on this forum which he hadn't responded to ? Can anyone find one ?
You can easily find many in the "who am I" and "what happened" forums, and also in the "putnam" and "complex analysis" forum.

A handful from just the first page of "who am i": 1 (http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~wwu/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=what_am_i;action=display;num=1237481134),2 (http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~wwu/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=what_am_i;action=display;num=1245808248),3 (http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~wwu/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=what_am_i;action=display;num=1244084921),4 (http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~wwu/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=what_am_i;action=display;num=1243920120),5 (http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~wwu/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=what_am_i;action=display;num=1239681096)
Title: Re: To post, or not to post
Post by Aryabhatta on Jul 21st, 2009, 8:07pm
LOL. I was kind of hoping to it would be "this one"  :P
Title: Re: To post, or not to post
Post by ThudanBlunder on Jul 21st, 2009, 8:53pm

on 07/21/09 at 04:42:59, JiNbOtAk wrote:
The topics that we talked about are mostly about this forum...

That is not my recollection. I think that should read:
The topics that we talked about are mostly on this forum... :P God, religion, life, etc.

But then, what isn't?
Title: Re: To post, or not to post
Post by Grimbal on Jul 26th, 2009, 8:32pm

on 07/21/09 at 04:42:59, JiNbOtAk wrote:
... we tried guessing how old Grimbal really is, ...

;D
Title: Re: To post, or not to post
Post by JiNbOtAk on Jul 27th, 2009, 7:06am
My guess was around 50 at least..  ;D
Title: Re: To post, or not to post
Post by Grimbal on Jul 27th, 2009, 7:07am
:-X
Title: Re: To post, or not to post
Post by JiNbOtAk on Jul 27th, 2009, 7:16am
Ok ok, I'll knock off 5 years for that sulk. Sheesh..  :P
Title: Re: To post, or not to post
Post by Aryabhatta on Jul 27th, 2009, 10:42am
Grimbal is approximately 47 years old.
Title: Re: To post, or not to post
Post by towr on Jul 27th, 2009, 11:13am

on 07/27/09 at 10:42:01, Aryabhatta wrote:
Grimbal is approximately 47 years old.
How large is the margin of error in that approximation?
Title: Re: To post, or not to post
Post by Aryabhatta on Jul 27th, 2009, 11:29am

on 07/27/09 at 11:13:06, towr wrote:
How large is the margin of error in that approximation?


47 - 5 months to 47 + 8 months.
Title: Re: To post, or not to post
Post by SMQ on Jul 27th, 2009, 11:56am
Aha! (http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~wwu/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=riddles_general;action=display;num=1033780880;start=75#89) ;D

--SMQ
Title: Re: To post, or not to post
Post by Aryabhatta on Jul 27th, 2009, 12:19pm
Yup. ;D
Title: Re: To post, or not to post
Post by Grimbal on Jul 28th, 2009, 12:54am
Damn.  I am now more reluctant to give my real identity on the Internet. :-/
Title: Re: To post, or not to post
Post by JohanC on Jul 28th, 2009, 4:05am

on 07/28/09 at 00:54:27, Grimbal wrote:
Damn.  I am now more reluctant to give my real identity on the Internet. :-/

You seem to live in a beautiful little village at the border of a large lake ...
The internet is quickly moving towards a big brother environment. Sometimes it's frightening.
Title: Re: To post, or not to post
Post by Eigenray on Jul 28th, 2009, 4:42am

on 07/28/09 at 04:05:34, JohanC wrote:
You seem to live in a beautiful little village at the border of a large lake ...
The internet is quickly moving towards a big brother environment. Sometimes it's frightening.

But which of those 11 parking spaces is his?  Perhaps we will know soon; Google of course obeys its own law of thermodynamics: entropy (information) is always increasing.
Title: Re: To post, or not to post
Post by Grimbal on Jul 28th, 2009, 6:26am
Little ??  Hey, there are almost 200'000 people living there.  It's a city, man!
Title: Re: To post, or not to post
Post by towr on Jul 28th, 2009, 12:29pm

on 07/28/09 at 04:42:51, Eigenray wrote:
But which of those 11 parking spaces is his?  Perhaps we will know soon; Google of course obeys its own law of thermodynamics: entropy (information) is always increasing.
Isn't information the opposite of entropy? Or does that depend what field of science you take it from?
Title: Re: To post, or not to post
Post by Eigenray on Jul 28th, 2009, 2:11pm

on 07/28/09 at 12:29:25, towr wrote:
Isn't information the opposite of entropy? Or does that depend what field of science you take it from?

Err.. [link=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy_in_thermodynamics_and_information_theory]yes[/link].  I knew that sounded funny when I said it.  Entropy increases when information is destroyed.


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