Annoying forum behaviour

[CRGreathouse]

Originally Posted by kar_bon

- presenting news nobody knows before but no details given because they're secret and all here have to be shot by some organization/government if you should know about/ask for it

I wonder if that would be less annoying if true.

[Christenson]

Originally Posted by kar_bon

Annoying behaviour:

- coming in here after some month of absence
- posting in a dozen threads (one or more replys)
- 'reactivating' dead-for-months/years threads
- presenting news nobody knows before but no details given because they're secret and all here have to be shot by some organization/government if you should know about/ask for it

Maybe I shouldn't have responded to it...and maybe I should have asked him for help on mfaktc....I'd love to get it extended to non-mersennes....

However, I have had some of the sort of paranoid stuff he talks about go on around me once...nieghbors knowing *way* too many math friends of the gal I was with (PDS), twice, then never talking to us again...stray comments that related to some of the wierd stuff going on in my life...run-ins with security at Wavelet conferences...not that PDS didn't flip out good, and try to take me down with her. But Princeton was fun....if you didn't mind being run into the ground.

I've also heard of some really nutty government agent stuff, where the boys were clueless that Steve Jackson's cyberpunk game had absolutely nothing to do with reality, and so they stole his computers until a judge proceeded to ask the agents why the hell they didn't know the rules...

And there's always the stories that made Roswell, NM famous...pretty clearly some significant pressure behind the scenes, whatever really went on there....any retired UFO pilots on here?

Finally, we have at least one person here with a security clearance...the work done here *can* break codes. If there was an intimidation effort, it would have been like the dutch boy with his finger in the dike...the compute power is now out there anyway. So are the people like JasonP applying the theorems.

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Maybe the ban should just be permanent.

[davieddy]

Originally Posted by Christenson

However, I have had some of the sort of paranoid stuff he talks about go on around me once...nieghbors knowing *way* too many math friends of the gal I was with (PDS), twice, then never talking to us again...stray comments that related to some of the wierd stuff going on in my life...run-ins with security at Wavelet conferences...not that PDS didn't flip out good, and try to take me down with her. But Princeton was fun....if you didn't mind being run into the ground.

Were you pissed (= drunk) when you wrote this Eric?

I usually get the drift of your posts, but there were just two things
that stood out here:
Princeton and PDS.

Paul Douglas Seymour is a prof at Princeton, and among other things
the chief editor of the Journal of Combinatorics/Graph Theory.

(Also my contemporary and best friend at Exeter College Oxford '68 onwards)

Bit of a coincidence there somewhere methinks!

David

[LaurV]

Originally Posted by gd_barnes

Now that is annoying. I find it very annoying when I don't completely believe myself.

Well, for me the most annoying is when someone completely believe himself...

[Christenson]

Originally Posted by davieddy

Were you pissed (= drunk) when you wrote this Eric?

I usually get the drift of your posts, but there were just two things
that stood out here:
Princeton and PDS.

Paul Douglas Seymour is a prof at Princeton, and among other things
the chief editor of the Journal of Combinatorics/Graph Theory.

(Also my contemporary and best friend at Exeter College Oxford '68 onwards)

Bit of a coincidence there somewhere methinks!

David

I had a fine professor at my alma mater named Paul David Smith...not the right PDS...and it definitely wasn't Paul Douglas Seymour...PDS was angry because SHE (and I do mean she, not he) was stuck at Lehigh, even though she had been at IAS Princeton.

But I don't really mean to identify the person; that's not my point here.

And as for getting pissed, no, that was tonight's exercise...a Tall Guiness did the trick.

[davieddy]

Originally Posted by Christenson

And as for getting pissed, no, that was tonight's exercise...a Tall Guiness did the trick.

How tall?
A Yard?
Ever been "sconced"?

David

PS ask Paul!

[davieddy]

Originally Posted by Christenson

I had a fine professor at my alma mater named Paul David Smith...not the right PDS...and it definitely wasn't Paul Douglas Seymour...PDS was angry because SHE (and I do mean she, not he) was stuck at Lehigh, even though she had been at IAS Princeton.

I hadn't missed the "she" bit!

Me and Daphne named our first son "Mark Angwin Eddy".
When I told my great friend (teacher, musico.... ~ 3 years my senior)
he simply said:
Hmmm. I hope he won't get ragged at school about those initials.
Should be OK as long as he doesn't start saying things like
"Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just pleased to see me?"

We called our second son Thomas.
No prize for guessing how he is known

David

[Christenson]

Originally Posted by davieddy

How tall?
A Yard?
Ever been "sconced"?

David

PS ask Paul!

We don't have good liquor laws like Germany, where they have to tell you how much beer or wine is in the glass.....tall was probably a half-yard, somewhere under a Q (as in mind your P's and Q's!).

But it was enough to feel a bit toasty....I don't drink often lately, there's usually this problem of getting home in one piece.