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RE: When you read about your opponent in the news....
Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2011 4:20 pm
by Canoerebel
Steamboateng, thanks for trying to explain it to me, but all you've done is add in some Swahili to the previous mix of Norse, Arapaho and Aramaic. What the heck is a data set?
P.S. No need to explain. As you can see, I'm illiterate in these matters and trying to educate me would just take time on your part, and I guarantee you that you can better use that time.
RE: When you read about your opponent in the news....
Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2011 4:45 pm
by steamboateng
I'm a basic a wrench & hammer type, but I did diddle a bit w/C++ for mental excersize (rehab?).
A dataset is what you define it to be. No more. No less.
RE: When you read about your opponent in the news....
Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2011 5:07 pm
by carnifex
Pretty sure I'm playing this guy right now in my 42 campaign game:
RE: When you read about your opponent in the news....
Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2011 5:24 pm
by jeffk3510
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RE: When you read about your opponent in the news....
Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2011 5:25 pm
by jeffk3510
Actually carnifex, that is Bill Gates 3 days prior to hitting it big with Microsoft.
RE: When you read about your opponent in the news....
Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2011 5:33 pm
by Canoerebel
I have referred carnifex to the Kangaroo Court.
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RE: When you read about your opponent in the news....
Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2011 6:01 pm
by Nikademus
I much more liked the other photo of prospective PBEM opponents.....call me crazy but.....
RE: When you read about your opponent in the news....
Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2011 6:05 pm
by Schanilec
ORIGINAL: Canoerebel
LOL...I am totally clueless to what Bullwinkle is saying. I know it's right there before my eyes, but dang if I can figure it out.
I'm with you. In my heaviest Germanic: `I like to pick thing up and put them down.'[:)]
RE: When you read about your opponent in the news....
Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2011 6:28 pm
by zuluhour
OMG
RE: When you read about your opponent in the news....
Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2011 6:53 pm
by DivePac88
This is my visualization of my opponent Roger Neilson II-
RE: When you read about your opponent in the news....
Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2011 6:55 pm
by DivePac88
Then my visualization of my other opponent vettim89 -
RE: When you read about your opponent in the news....
Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2011 6:57 pm
by DivePac88
Plus my visualization of me, as a General - [:D]
RE: When you read about your opponent in the news....
Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2011 8:08 pm
by Bullwinkle58
ORIGINAL: jeffk3510
Actually carnifex, that is Bill Gates 3 days prior to hitting it big with Microsoft.
Nah, he was a skinny little guy. This is Microsoft in 1978. I wonder how many of these folks are at least centi-millionaires?
RE: When you read about your opponent in the news....
Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2011 8:10 pm
by Graymane
ORIGINAL: Bullwinkle58
ORIGINAL: Canoerebel
I might humbly suggest that this would be a good thread for forumites to post photos of their opponents that they happened to come across in unexpected ways. I'm sure this kind of occurence is quite common....
Caught mine with unwashed hair. Begged me to not post, but . . . life is unfair.
I'm sure there is something cute in there somewhere, but what does a strange attractor have to do with unwashed hair? =)
@carnifex - Thanks for ruining my dinner =)
RE: When you read about your opponent in the news....
Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2011 8:17 pm
by USSAmerica
ORIGINAL: Bullwinkle58
ORIGINAL: Canoerebel
I might humbly suggest that this would be a good thread for forumites to post photos of their opponents that they happened to come across in unexpected ways. I'm sure this kind of occurence is quite common....
Caught mine with unwashed hair. Begged me to not post, but . . . life is unfair.
Wow, Bullwinkle, you've stumped almost everyone! [:D]
Gentlemen, how many times has Mr. Bullwinkle mentioned to us who the only opponent he ever plays against is?
The picture in his post above is what Andy Mac really looks like. [:'(]
RE: When you read about your opponent in the news....
Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2011 8:20 pm
by Bullwinkle58
ORIGINAL: USS America
ORIGINAL: Bullwinkle58
ORIGINAL: Canoerebel
I might humbly suggest that this would be a good thread for forumites to post photos of their opponents that they happened to come across in unexpected ways. I'm sure this kind of occurence is quite common....
Caught mine with unwashed hair. Begged me to not post, but . . . life is unfair.
Wow, Bullwinkle, you've stumped almost everyone! [:D]
Gentlemen, how many times has Mr. Bullwinkle mentioned to us who the only opponent he ever plays against is?
The picture in his post above is what Andy Mac really looks like. [:'(]
Yes, you've got me. Andy's middle name is indeed "Lorenz." I had thought that a dead giveaway . . . .
RE: When you read about your opponent in the news....
Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2011 9:42 pm
by Canoerebel
Geez! Talk about foisting an obscure factoid on us innocent forumites! You mean we have to be familiar with computer programming language and know that Andy Mac's middle name is Lorenz to decipher this?
I thought Bullwinkle was hinting that he had forsaken the AI to take on String in a match.
RE: When you read about your opponent in the news....
Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2011 11:23 pm
by tocaff
I believe that this is what Steve really looks like, not the photos I've gotten from him showing a guy and his family.
RE: When you read about your opponent in the news....
Posted: Fri Oct 21, 2011 3:12 am
by ChezDaJez
ORIGINAL: Canoerebel
Like most of you, I've never met my opponents. I don't know what they look like, I really don't know anything about their private lives, but I do kind of form a mental image over time, kind of how a listener might form a mental image of a disc jockey they've heard for years but have never seen.
Well, I've been playing my current opponent, Chez da Jez, who is also called Chaz on occasion, for most of this year. I've never seen him and don't know very much about him. But I've formed this mental image of a man of impeccable taste and rugged good looks. He is a cross between Stone Phillips, Cary Grant, and Mattew McCanaughy. He's the intellectual equivalent of the love child of Albert Einstein and Natalie Portman. He has more integrity and credibility than Daniel Webster and Walter Cronkite.
I was wrong. So wrong.
When I logged onto the Internet this morning, there was a news item about my opponent. To say the least, I am shocked. Here's the text of the "headline":
"Chaz Skewered by Ex-'Dancing' Star." Here's the photo attached to that story:
Oh my gawd! I was flabbergasted when I read this. At first I thought you had pegged me correctly then as I read on and finally saw the picture, I realized you had confused me for someone else. My true persona was captured quite well when I posed for a magazine article a few years back. I'll see if I can't find it...... ah, there it is! I'll post it below.
Chez
RE: When you read about your opponent in the news....
Posted: Fri Oct 21, 2011 3:26 am
by ChezDaJez
And I do know what you mean about forming a mental image of your opponent as the game progresses and you get to know him better. I've done the same with Dan.
Canoerebel (Dan) always struck as one of those men who eschew the modern conveniences of man in return for a simpler, less complicated life... the type of man who prefers pulltops to twist tabs, the type of man who doesn't need a map or GPS to navigate from point a to b.... someone like the man in the picture...
Chez
