system lords

Stargate reference.

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massage -> message

I mistyped the first for the second once, to great amusement of assorted board readers.

leach verb
(with reference to a soluble chemical or mineral) drain away from soil, ash, or similar material by the action of percolating liquid, esp. rainwater: [ with obj. ] : the nutrient is quickly leached away | [ no obj ] : pesticides that leach into rivers.
• [ with obj. ] subject (soil, ash, etc.) to this process.

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paper -----> Primatech

Primatech Paper Corporation - Heroes, Heroes Reborn.

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Spammers (are being banished)

Good one Jord.
When I saw that post I thought "Hang on, that's more than one wo..."
"Oh."

I thought it was also somewhat of an answer to the previous stalkers. Both are rather annoying. ;-)

But yeah, only 'spammers' is the word, while it's a warning to the stupid who continued to post his spam in that thread and who got his a$$ kicked twice in a row. With thanks to Katherine for picking up on the second time he did so. :)

Just to be clear to all, I wasn't talking about Jord's post, but the single sentence post that's been removed, from someone who had the words in the wrong order, making it sound as though it was from Yoda. But the hot link at the end to somewhere spammy was enough of a clue.
Jord's post in it's place was/is justified.

I didn't think of the second meaning of my post until latter. As usual.

How does one get from Gold to Jailed?

Oh! A thread! I better defend myself.. I have to apologize, I'm a newb. The gold-jailed transition is a 'goaled' pun. It's quite a good pun, imho, so I'm not going to apologize even though I probably should.

And I thought themes were ok.. oh, well. As you can see, I'm new to the tribe and still bumping into things.

As for me, my name is Ed, I'm a ex-mercenary technician from Silicon Valley, 60, semi-retired near Seattle, AE7LH. I went to school at St. Joseph's of Cupertino church, across the street from the old Apple HQ. Worked at over 25 different companies, from Atari to Plantronics, and I've enjoyed it immensely.

Now that I have some spare time I've been getting back into boinc, and marveling at how much it's grown over the years.. and I see a great future ahead for @Home

Thanks! I'm glad to be here.. I've been following the threads for a couple of months now, and it's definitely a great group. And caught up on British politics, too.. I lie somewhere along the independent-telegraph axis, myself, but that's just me. American politics is all scripted now, unfortunately, not worth following.. and brace yourself for Hillary. That's why I live at the border.

'Mercenary technician' is known locally as a 'job-shop tech'. Hired through an agency and are sent out projects, mostly prototype development, large orders, vacation or vacancy relief, etc. It's a very popular arrangement in an industry with very short product cycles and rabidly evolving technology and staff. I had a whole lot of fun, an experience like none other.

Thanks for the link on the recent budget.. I'm not surprised that something like this could happen, anything with 'aliens' is too tempting target to be negotiated away.. oh, well. It seems to me like '@Home' is more concept than organization right now.. maybe redefining boinc as the '@Home' standard, with seti as just another project, and find funding under the @Home banner? It seems to be a natural step of evolution

I have to admit I'm getting deeper into boinc than most. To me, it's an amazing phenomenon, 15 years of purely organic growth, only by word of mouth, with active users growing by ~2000 people a day. I think many newcomers aren't ready for the chaos, though. To that end I'm thinking of starting a directory site for boinc, a listing of projects and a few tutorials to get the newcomer started and prepare them for what lies beyond.

That's it for me.. I have to go think of a word that has to do with 'stumped'..

Good luck with that.

Yes! Thanks! It'll be a big project... I went on an expedition one afternoon and filled a spreadsheet with ~200 projects, current and closed, not counting Moo! and other multi-project projects. Swing by boinc.info, we can talk about it more there (and any other interested parties are invited, too.)

Confabulation... Sums up many of those on the Seti forums

Agreed! I was a MUFON UFO Field Investigator for a few years, and I've met some of the most.. amazing people.

MUFON is short for 'mutual ufo network', it's the largest US UFO society, and their site is mufon.com They maintain a national network of investigators that respond to ufo sightings, they are very professional, too. I was an investigator until ~2013 or so, I live at the Canadian border and when drones started to appear I figured it was time to move on.

MUFON is very agnostic about UFOs, "we don't know one way or another", the mission is to log activity in the sky and gather physical evidence. And believe me, that's interesting enough even without any extraterrestrials involvement, but 95% of the reports are explainable. As for UFO websites, it's a damn goofy field and it's hard to find serious researchers, however, they're out there.. and as for alternative websites, I'm afraid all my knowledge is old and wouldn't be of much help. I'm a mundane, unfortunately.

child ---> Star

2001 A Space Odyssey: The Star Child.

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Yeah, I changed my handle.. Ed in Seattle is more my style, my days of precocious genius are over. =] Sorry for any confusion. Please update your Rolodex.