Eddo Stern backchannel log 1/30/08

imdbot entered the room.
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6:04
ericsiucm 
hello
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6:06 
Max Geiger 
is the scraper up?
I live in fear of a scraper faux pas
6:06
michaelnaimark 
hi
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6:12 marientina entered the room.
6:13
kasskat 
New rule... speakers only get free bottled water if they can find ZML without any help and on time.
"imdbot"
6:14
AlaDiab 
you just want them to dehydrate !!
6:14 Peter Van Dyke entered the room.
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6:15
kasskat 
I am merely attempting to encourage promptitude!
And if that isn't a word, it should be.
6:15 
Max Geiger 
IMD will break you of your punctuality. This is where punctuality comes to die.
6:16
marientina 
scott is running late
he had to deal with some drama
6:16
kasskat 
Isn't he always?
6:16
marientina 
is Eddo there?
6:16
kasskat 
No.  >_>
6:30, Perry said.
6:17
marientina 
we pay him to create and partake in drama
do you all want an assignment?
6:17
kasskat 
Is this a trick question?
6:17
marientina 
always
6:17
edeaasylum 
Does the assignment feature cookies in any way?
6:18
Diana Hughes (TruffleDi) 
Warning: assigments from Marientina always result in being sleepy, but well paid
6:18 
Max Geiger 
hah
6:18
marientina 
how about this:
you have 10 minutes to jot down what the interactive blog needs to get rejuvenated so we can create some job security and pressure for Cynthia
6:19
kasskat 
Oh god.
6:19
marientina 
put ideas on the wiki
time starts NOW
go
6:19
kasskat 
 /run
Btw... good time for a reminder about MySQL?  :P
6:20
marientina 
yes
i know
6:20
kasskat 
Just checking.  :x
6:20
marientina 
doesn't let you off the hook on the assignment
come on people
6:21 Mike Rossmassler entered the room.
6:21 
Max Geiger 
what about trackback
6:21
marientina 
i don't want to hear "what about"
i want a list of ideas
6:21 
Max Geiger 
ok
6:21
edeaasylum 
Well, the wiki is a large place, where do you want us to spam?
6:21 
Max Geiger 
Trackback
6:21
marientina 
no time for discussion
6:21 
Max Geiger 
turn it on
6:21
marientina 
first page
6:21 
Max Geiger 
link
6:21
marientina 
this is a short brain dump exercise
make a new link that says the future of interactiive.usc.edu
so we can find it
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6:22
edeaasylum 
Lemme go get my brain out of the dryer...
6:22
marientina 
wants, hates, needs
can't be that hard
6:22
kasskat 
Unless it's already perfect.
6:22
marientina 
so you don't want the job?
6:22
edeaasylum 
lol. No such thing! Only good enough.
6:23
kasskat 
I already got a whole pile of things to do.  >_<
6:23
marientina 
uhuh
6:23 
Peter Van Dyke (lamesarkas) 
perhaps
6:23
marientina 
but you also have 2 more years of school
6:23 
Peter Van Dyke (lamesarkas) 
we should do something that would allow people to tag their entries with different general subjects, and then have subject blogs that are viewable around the site
for example, if I write about music and tag my post with "music" it will aggregate on a page (like /music) on which people can see posts about music
I write this here because I don't know where on the wiki we're supposed to put this
6:24
kasskat 
Yeah, there's something like that planned.
6:24 
Max Geiger 
link
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6:29
edeaasylum 
in case she was serious: http://interactive.usc.edu/wiki/index.php/Future_of_interactive.usc.edu
interactive.usc.edu
6:29 
Max Geiger 
finally, a link
6:30
edeaasylum 
come on scrapper, http://interactive.usc.edu/
6:30
kasskat 
lolcats?
Someone wants lolcats?  :\
6:32
edeaasylum 
lolcats? I am unfamiliar with the term.
6:32 
Peter Van Dyke (lamesarkas) 
google it
6:32
edeaasylum 
Bah. But I'm lazy.
6:34
kasskat 
Who wrote templates/skins?
Cause I want to kill you. Or hug you. Not sure.
6:34
edeaasylum 
Check the history.
6:35
kasskat 
Stupid contests. ::LOL::
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6:35 
Max Geiger 
so far this is pretty much me
it's a brain storm. good ideas and bad
6:36
kasskat 
I guess that's what they keep teaching us anyway.
""games" "mobile" "immersive" are all hard to find in their own right." They're going to be even harder to find eventually...
6:37
edeaasylum 
Say wah?
6:38
kasskat 
Just reacting to Max's ideas.  :x
"A robot that lives in the lab, and anyone can log in and control him and see what he is doing on a little page. I want to drive this robot into your feet."
6:38 
Max Geiger 
it's annoying, because some people will post something to the "games" page, and not the "main" page/slug/category, whatever we call it.
6:38 
Peter Van Dyke (lamesarkas) 
this is a priority, in my opinion (the robot)
6:38
edeaasylum 
Ah.
6:39
kasskat 
I'm pretty sure the robot thing is out of my league.
That sounds like a Peter issue.
6:39 
Max Geiger 
Interactive.usc.edu: needs moar mischief
6:39
Mike Rossmassler (ThTruffleShuffle) 
http://www.lolcatbible.com/index.php?title=Main_Page
6:40 
Max Geiger 
In other news, the elephant seal who got famous as "the bukkit lolrus" died in 2005
what is the video that's running at the head of the room?
6:41 peterp101 entered the room.
6:43
peggyweil 
ask naimark
6:44 ironman28@mac.com entered the room.
6:44
kasskat 
... was that... it is.
Hi!
6:47 Scott Fisher entered the room.
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peterp101 
http://www.eddostern.com/
6:48 
Max Geiger 
Why World of Warcraft, aside from the community?
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6:49
kasskat 
What other reason do you need, besides the community!
6:49 
Max Geiger 
this is a good answer-- the rules, ethics, and business not allowed in the game, transgressive material
I'd like to hear his take on Taser Tag at some point ( http://a.parsons.edu/%7Erandy/tag/ )
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6:55 
Max Geiger 
A Tale in the Desert seems like a good reference for talking about real-player actions influencing the game
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6:57 
Max Geiger 
Hardcore mode in Diablo
6:58
kasskat 
Oh, that Serenity Now thing.  -_-
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ironman28@mac.com 
Serenity Now is screening at the 24/7 DIY festival next weekend -- a program of machinima videos Friday Feb 8th 6:00PM at Davidson Conference Center
http://www.video24-7.org/
7:07 
Max Geiger 
http://serenity-now.org/
http://www.video24-7.org/
how strong of a shock?
7:11
peterp101 
http://www.eddostern.com/tekken_torture_tournament.html
7:24 Anthony Ko entered the room.
7:25 
Max Geiger 
It's a "Dutch Fugue" simulator
7:25
Mike Rossmassler (ThTruffleShuffle) 
+1 achewood
7:26 
Max Geiger 
these guys do some really interesting work with blind/deaf gaming
http://www.game-accessibility.com/
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7:34 
Max Geiger 
Shades of Doom http://www.gmagames.com/sod.html
7:39 
Jamie Antonisse (bableblast) 
...braveheart remix?  odd choice
but the face o' shields is cool
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7:41 
Jamie Antonisse (bableblast) 
man i am waiting for that third head
7:41 
Max Geiger 
Whose voices are these? They are almost childlike, which makes it sound like it really did come from the internet.
really helps to undercut the "Internet Tough Guy" vibe of a flame war
7:43
kasskat 
Sounds like a pretty standard flame war, though.  :P
::LOL:: I take it back.
7:46
edeaasylum 
I remember reading about a flamewar were one of them drove to the other's house and tried to burn it down
7:46 
Jamie Antonisse (bableblast) 
this guy is so helpful
7:51 
Max Geiger 
Why this flamewar in particular?
7:52
edeaasylum 
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070726.wgtpsycho27/BNStory/Technology/?page=rss&id=RTGAM.20070726.wgtpsycho27
http://interactive.usc.edu/
7:56
kasskat 
(Must not... link own WoW machinima...)
7:57 
Max Geiger 
it's very like the YTMNDs where people do "dramatic" interpretations of flame wars, cease and desist letters, etc
7:57
kasskat 
Oh yeah.
"reading of a real breakup letter"?
7:58 
Max Geiger 
or the Eric Bauman letter
7:58
kasskat 
Not sure I saw that one.
7:58 
Max Geiger 
it was early, part of their flame war against ebaum's world
7:59 peterp101 left the room.
8:01 
Max Geiger 
Chuck Norris Solos Onyxia is a very Brandon Bird title
http://www.brandonbird.com/arete.html
8:02 
Jamie Antonisse (bableblast) 
thank you
8:02 
Max Geiger 
"Arete"
8:02
Mike Rossmassler (ThTruffleShuffle) 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/photo_gallery/2956349.stm
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8:04
peterp101 
http://clients.arranschlosberg.com/chuck/
8:04
Mike Rossmassler (ThTruffleShuffle) 
http://www.lightningdrink.com/
8:05 
Max Geiger 
speaking of politicians-as-heroes from the age of legend, since saddam's art is in my head now
http://centennialsociety.com/cheneyfullview.htm
interactive.usc.edu
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8:06 
Max Geiger 
http://interactive.usc.edu
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8:10 
Max Geiger 
it's almost like the company making its own Filk
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filk_music
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8:21 
Max Geiger 
isn't that an age old complaint, about any art or entertainment?
*cough* the novel
Pandaren Brewmaster from Warcraft III
http://www.battle.net/war3/neutral/pandarenbrewmaster.shtml
http://www.battle.net/war3/pandaren/
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