Posts by Rookie_69

1) Message boards : SETI@home Science : The future of SETI@home (Message 985435)
Posted 30 Mar 2010 by Profile Rookie_69
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The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence... Someone said that...
2) Message boards : Technical News : Out of the Frying Pan (Feb 17 2010) (Message 971911)
Posted 19 Feb 2010 by Profile Rookie_69
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Well, after due consideration, and the seeming lack of interest from the seti staff to resolve or even engage with contributor's about what is (or not!) happening, I'm ceasing my contribution to this project.


I say again, in the words of Douglas Adams, don't panic.


DNA also wrote about planet where most of the people were unhappy for pretty much of the time.

He wrote that most of the suggested solutions were largely concerned with "the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green bits of paper that were unhappy."

The work isn't moving, but it isn't unhappy about it.


The "digital watch" that I'm looking at right now doesn't seem to mind not having much to do...
3) Message boards : Number crunching : anyone thinking of summer yet? (Message 971393)
Posted 18 Feb 2010 by Profile Rookie_69
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We broke the sailboat out of the ice and went for a sail last month... Always thinking about summer.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rookie_69/4279401025/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rookie_69/4280133260/
4) Message boards : Technical News : Out of the Frying Pan (Feb 17 2010) (Message 971384)
Posted 18 Feb 2010 by Profile Rookie_69
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Bye.

I mean, It's above freezing here and I don't need seven old heater boxes running to keep my apartment warm, so I'm not really worried. If it get's colder, I can always switch back to my second favorite project for a while.(Or turn the thermostat above 5C.) That's kinda why they developed BOINC, isn't it?
Oh wait... That's six old boxes. I cleaned one up and donated it to a friend so she could access her Facebook account without going over to her mom's. Hmm... Maybe I should have left BOINC running on it...
Oh well... Too late now.

Been searching almost seven years here...
5) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Show off your computer desk, patch, or farm... (Message 271691)
Posted 30 Mar 2006 by Profile Rookie_69
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@ Dogbytes:
How often do you get up at 0600 to feed the Llamas?
;-)
6) Message boards : Number crunching : Berkeley Bandwidth problems? (Message 231428)
Posted 15 Jan 2006 by Profile Rookie_69
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Cricket shows network activity grinding to a halt on 668...
7) Message boards : Cafe SETI : IRC (Message 216982)
Posted 18 Dec 2005 by Profile Rookie_69
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If irc.freenode.net won't work for you, try chat.freenode.net. They're having some nuisancebot problems.
Glenn.
8) Questions and Answers : Windows : 0.01 WU's. (Message 188204)
Posted 12 Nov 2005 by Profile Rookie_69
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http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/show_host_detail.php?hostid=1350397
This guy's going to bring us down... :-(
9) Message boards : Number crunching : No schedulers responded ? (Message 89034)
Posted 22 Mar 2005 by Profile Rookie_69
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Server is deluged with requests though...
10) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Atheist thread (Message 85201)
Posted 12 Mar 2005 by Profile Rookie_69
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> > That show was so cheesy... it had more cheese than all of Wisconsin.
>
>
> <font>BLASPHEMER</font> :)
>
> .
>
I resemble that remark!
11) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Atheist thread (Message 85198)
Posted 12 Mar 2005 by Profile Rookie_69
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> well I know its not atheist but i figured you all would be the only ones i
> could ask this to without getting shot down or preached to,
> I was raised christain but for it hit me that there are A LOT of different
> religions out there. what if mine is the wrong one. so now I think "what if my
> religion is wrong and its buddism or shiism thats right or atheism for that
> matter," Is there any name for that way of thought?
>
Realism?
12) Message boards : Cafe SETI : How about the weather in your neck of the woods? (Message 85197)
Posted 12 Mar 2005 by Profile Rookie_69
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Snow's mostly gone now thanks to the rain and winds up to 140 km/h tuesday night, but this weekend is supposed to be bad... A nor'easter with rain or snow, 15 cm or 25 cm or 40 cm, or no snow, just rain... Nobody wants to commit to anything...
I dunno...
13) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Board FAQ (Message 77195)
Posted 6 Feb 2005 by Profile Rookie_69
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I'm pretty sure that Donna's not the WormWanker...
14) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Music thread (Message 76966)
Posted 6 Feb 2005 by Profile Rookie_69
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I'm listening to Mason Williams' Classical Gas... What are you listening to?
15) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Red Ant Army (Message 73287)
Posted 23 Jan 2005 by Profile Rookie_69
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> Personally I don't want to have a conversation with a person where I am
> required to carry a dictionary to extrapolate the meaning of what is being
> said.
>
>
I 2.
16) Message boards : Cafe SETI : How cold is it where you are? (Message 72907)
Posted 22 Jan 2005 by Profile Rookie_69
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A crisp -4 F here tonight. I think NA's storm is supposed to head this way this weekend. Hope not though. Two winter storms this week is enough...
17) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Movie Thread (Message 72213)
Posted 20 Jan 2005 by Profile Rookie_69
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Wrong Turn was one AFU movie. I kind of enjoyed it.
18) Message boards : Cafe SETI : who's your favorite sci-fi writer? (Message 72211)
Posted 20 Jan 2005 by Profile Rookie_69
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Heinlein's Stranger was a really good read for me, but Anne McCaffrey's Pern books probably held my attantion the longest... I still don't think I read them all. I got poor and sold all my books, so I don't really have an easy way to tell any more...
I read Doug Adams' Hitchhikers and two or three Dirk Gentlys too. Loved them!
19) Message boards : Cafe SETI : who's your favorite sci-fi writer? (Message 71863)
Posted 19 Jan 2005 by Profile Rookie_69
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> > Did you read The Salmon of Doubt?
> > As far as I know this is the "would be" part 3 of the Dirk Gently series
> > togheter with a collection of essays and stuff, found on DNA's Apple.
> > But I didn't read it myself, so I could be wrong there.
>
> You're right! Althoug there are as well several things more or less connected
> to the Hichhiker, the main part is Dick Gently. I was tricked by the cover.
>
I thought there was only five books in that trilogy!
... And to think I almost ran out to the book store...
20) Message boards : Cafe SETI : who's your favorite sci-fi writer? (Message 71442)
Posted 18 Jan 2005 by Profile Rookie_69
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Now some of his work was barely readable or worse, but I really enjoyed L. Ron Hubbard's Battlefield Earth. I spent a weekend and a couple of nights after work reading the 1064 pages or whatever. There were some parts where I felt that I was Johnny Goodboy Tyler, and the rest of the book that I was just there with him.
The movie left way too much out.

Glenn.


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