From: owner-acka-games-digest@muppetlabs.com (acka-games-digest) To: acka-games-digest@muppetlabs.com Subject: acka-games-digest V2 #190 Reply-To: acka-games@muppetlabs.com Sender: owner-acka-games-digest@muppetlabs.com Errors-To: owner-acka-games-digest@muppetlabs.com Precedence: bulk acka-games-digest Saturday, November 15 1997 Volume 02 : Number 190 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 15 Nov 1997 00:25:07 -0500 (EST) From: John Frederic Mc Coy Subject: Acka: Third Salvo Vynd's Third Salvo: wahoo bacon galah nabob - Vynd jmccoy@umich.edu ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Nov 1997 00:27:08 -0500 (EST) From: John Frederic Mc Coy Subject: Re: Acka: Third Salvo Response to Alfvaen's third salvo: > > pleon 2 > kloof 5 > cloot 3 > groom 2 > Once again, my opponent in Double Crash is reduced to cheating after only two rounds... sad, really. - Vynd jmccoy@umich.edu ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Nov 1997 00:48:52 -0500 (EST) From: John Frederic Mc Coy Subject: Acka: GAD Round 2 Round Two ended, oh, about 5 hours ago, when three days had passed since it began. Sorry I didn't make good on my threat, but I've been busy. Perhaps soon we will have a Mr. Lunatic Fringe memorial round... In any event, here are all the plays made, minus those who just stood and stared: Two-star attempted to grab Red Barn's donkey, but was foiled by its owner's deft use of a blanket. /dev/joe grabbed Karma's flaming donkey. Fortunato and Crackfoo both made a grab at Robert Sevin's distinguished donkey, thus hopelessly entangling themselves. mr cwm grabbed Calvin N Hobbes savy donkey. Rex Mundi grabbed Crackfoo's mighty donkey. Thinman hid his donkey under a blanket. Slakko hid his donkey under a blanket. As a result of the above, Karma, Calvin N Hobbes, and Crackfoo will be eliminated at the begining of the next round, which coincidentaly enough is now. The current GAL is: Antimatter Archie Leach Darth Vader /dev/joe Fortunato mr cwm Red Barn Rex Mundi Robert Sevin Slakko SonofWu Thinman two-star Voting Gnome Scores: Crackfoo 1 (eliminated) mr cwm 1 Red Barn 1 Thinman 1 breadbox 1 (eliminated) Rex Mundi 1 /dev/joe 1 Again, reply to this message with your moves, the clock is ticking.... - Wrangler Vynd jmccoy@umich.edu ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Nov 1997 07:07:01 -0600 From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" Subject: Acka: *ping* Today is Saturday, the 15th day of November, and the Machine That Goes *ping* Has Gone *ping* today. Since I have been scholar, the Machine has gone *ping* 7 times. /dev/joe Scholar of *ping* ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Nov 1997 13:09:58 +0000 () From: Duncan Richer Subject: Re: Acka: *ping* On Sat, 15 Nov 1997, Joseph W. DeVincentis wrote: > Today is Saturday, the 15th day of November, > and the Machine That Goes *ping* Has Gone *ping* today. > Since I have been scholar, the Machine has gone *ping* 7 times. > > /dev/joe > Scholar of *ping* > Exsqueeze me? The Machine only got to your place on the 12th. Do you count previous machines visits as well or something? 7 times? Yours, Slakko student of *ping* - -- Duncan C. Richer -- aka Slakko the Lost Warner Brother -- Now Really Lost! Queens' College -- PhD, Pure Maths, Graph Theory -- Cambridge University "Equipment malfunction." "Well, whack it." -- Obscure P&TB Quote http://dcr24.quns.cam.ac.uk/Nomic/27/Index.html <-- Imperial Nomic Game 27 ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Nov 1997 12:30:07 -0600 (CST) From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" Subject: Re: Acka: *ping* > Today is Saturday, the 15th day of November, > and the Machine That Goes *ping* Has Gone *ping* today. > Since I have been scholar, the Machine has gone *ping* 7 times. Doh! Look what I get for not resetting the file where my *ping* script keeps track of how many times it's gone off. Of course, since I have been scholar this time, the machine has only *ping*ed once. Fortunately we fixed that rule to excuse trivial errors like this.. :-) /dev/joe ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Nov 1997 12:38:30 -0600 (CST) From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" Subject: Re: Acka: *ping* > > Today is Saturday, the 15th day of November, > > and the Machine That Goes *ping* Has Gone *ping* today. > > Since I have been scholar, the Machine has gone *ping* 7 times. > > Doh! Look what I get for not resetting the file where my > *ping* script keeps track of how many times it's gone off. > Of course, since I have been scholar this time, the machine > has only *ping*ed once. Fortunately we fixed that rule to > excuse trivial errors like this.. :-) And while I'm at it, I guess t as the Magick Character for Malenkai's treasure. /dev/joe Running the *ping*s from a cron job has the side-effect of taking away some of the advantage the scholar might otherwise have in choosing the Magick Character... :-) ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Nov 1997 15:39:16 -0700 (MST) From: alfvaen@telusplanet.net (Aaron V. Humphrey) Subject: Re: Acka: Third Salvo > Vynd's Third Salvo: > wahoo - 1 > bacon - 1 > galah - 1 > nabob - 1 Figured out it had an 'a' as the second letter, did you? :-) So, I am now the tentative winner, and should post my word, which was 'larva'. - -- - --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/alfvaen/ ) Current Album--REM:New Adventures In Hi-Fi Current Book--Dave Duncan:Future Indefinite Conform, go crazy, or become a writer. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Nov 1997 15:42:32 -0700 (MST) From: alfvaen@telusplanet.net (Aaron V. Humphrey) Subject: Re: Acka: Third Salvo > Response to Alfvaen's third salvo: > > pleon 2 > > kloof 5 > > cloot 3 > > groom 2 > Once again, my opponent in Double Crash is reduced to cheating after only > two rounds... sad, really. Well, I suppose it depends on what you consider cheating. I mean, I wrote a Perl program to provide me a list of words matching the salvos to date, but there's nothing illegal about that any more than my program to calculate the results of various potential Viruses moves. It's up to you whether you consider it unsporting or not; if so, I might consider a match against you without using it(though using any resources you have available...) - -- - --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/alfvaen/ ) Current Album--REM:New Adventures In Hi-Fi Current Book--Dave Duncan:Future Indefinite Too many cooks spoil the universe. --Mark Buda ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Nov 1997 15:10:26 -0800 (PST) From: Brian Raiter Subject: Re: Acka: Third Salvo > Response to Alfvaen's third salvo: > >> pleon 2 >> kloof 5 >> cloot 3 >> groom 2 > > Once again, my opponent in Double Crash is reduced to cheating after only > two rounds... sad, really. Heh. 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