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Re: Electronic Mausoleums (Post-Mortem Peak Oil Posters)
by Devin » Mon 21 Apr 2008, 17:21:22
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('BigTex', 'O')ne of the things about forum exchanges that are handy, though, is sometimes I need an hour or a day or longer to really digest something I have read and respond to it, and that's hard to do when someone is sitting across from you waiting for a response to their last comment.
That is handy, yeah. It's also nice to be able to link people to various resources and so on. I think it can go both ways, though, as far as people having more time to respond. Whereas in person, not necessarily on guard, someone might be more open to new ideas, on the internet they might have more time to do some confirmation-biased research and support pre-existing notions.
So I'mma venture a hypothesis here, that it depends more on who you're talking to than the particular medium through which you're conversing.
There is an extremely diverse crowd here, you're right. It does make things interesting, though often it seems to decrease the signal-to-noise ratio. I haven't experienced the same amount of sportsmanship that you have, though, at least not here.
Interesting coincidence that you'd link to table tennis, I was just watching some table tennis videos on youtube the other day. Amazing stuff, I love to play. I was trying to imagine my short-term strategy for trying to win a few points vs a pro, but the more games I watched the more I got discouraged. Those fuckers can return anything, except against other pros. Pro games are so much fun though, in one very small niche of a small niche of a computer game I was #2 in the world, lol
... but there's nothing like playing someone who is equally skilled. I spent many happy hours of many days in epic battles with the #1, him edging me ever so slightly. The sportsmanship and community at the highest level in that one niche was pretty awesome too, we all had great respect for each other and so we'd constantly and harmlessly talk trash. 
Good times.
Ramble ramble ramble.
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Re: PO.com members you want to see consumed by the die off!
by threadbear » Mon 21 Apr 2008, 17:27:22
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Lumpy', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Tyler_JC', 'M')aybe I'm just morbid but I think about that too.
If, God forbid, one of the regular posters were to die...would we ever find out?
Would their inbox just fill up over time and their threads be slowly pushed off of the front pages into obscurity?
If I die tomorrow, what exactly would happen?
If, God forbid, one of the regular posters were to die...would we ever find out?
Would their inbox just fill up over time and their threads be slowly pushed off of the front pages into obscurity?
If I die tomorrow, what exactly would happen?
Very interesting -- because I had been thinking about this lately, too. As Tex mentioned regarding his sister-in-law ... it has become one of the unique and new parts of "handling the details" after a death ... going on line to the dead person's forums, e-mail, etc, and notifying cyber-friends/acquaintances of the death.
My husband and I don't share our e-mail passwords with one another ... just the way it is. Maybe we ought to consider higher level of trust, and share those passwords -- "just in case" we ever have to do such notifications, God forbid.
We don't have one another's forum passwords, either. But it would be easy enough to log on to forums under my own user name ... and announce the news of his death, and that (unbeknownst to others on the forum) we were married.
Of course, I don't keep track of all the forums he is on -- and he doesn't keep track of mine. But at least on Peak Oil, we could let you know the news if either one of us were to die.
However, we really can't afford for either of us to die, since this getting the farm place ready for the kids/grandkids is a more than full time job for us, plus the guy we hire for about 15-20 hours/week.
So don't expect anything in the near future with regard to our deaths.
On the other hand, we just watched an old Twilight Zone DVD the other night (Netflix) -- about this woman who lived holed up in an old building for years, never going outside for fear that "Mr. Death" would show up and grab her and take her away. He did show up one day, but she couldn't believe it was him because he appeared in the form of a (then) very young Robert Redford. So she let him it. It all worked out cool. But I ramble ....
The point is none of us knows when Mr. Death will arrive for us -- regardless as to how NOT done we might THINK we are with our jobs here on this earth.
Wow ... that WAS a ramble.
Lumpy
Robert Redford as the grim reaper? God, I'd welcome him, even if he was the grim raper.
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Re: PO.com members you want to see consumed by the die off!
by BigTex » Mon 21 Apr 2008, 17:52:54
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('threadbear', 'R')obert Redford as the grim reaper? God, I'd welcome him, even if he was the grim raper.
What if he paid you $1,000,000 to do the wild thing?
I thought the premise of that movie was stupid. Given that Woody Harrelson was her husband, Robert Redford should have offered them $50 and a bag of dirt weed.
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