ackanomic Digest Friday, December 18 1998 Volume 03 : Issue 451 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Mueller Subject: Acka DeeJay Results Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1998 03:57:58 -0500 (EST) The voting on DeeJay is complete! *** The nominees were: Trent JT *** The voting turned out thusly: K 2 used his Good Ballot stuffer Trent: Trent JT K 2 Studge JT: Vynd Burn the Witch!: smallpox blanket *** Results: Trent is the new DJ. Studge ------------------------------ From: Mueller Subject: Acka: Grey Council Results Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1998 03:58:02 -0500 (EST) Voting is complete on the worker grey council seat. *** The nominees were: Trent rSiE *** The Votes were: Trent: Trent + EBS Thinman + EBS Rsie: None (K 2 voted rSiE has no caste) (JT voted for rSiE but is a warrior) (smallpox blanket voted "Burn the Witch!" and is a warrior) **** Results: Trent is now on the grey council as a worker. Studge ------------------------------ From: jobollin@iumsc4.chem.indiana.edu (John Bollinger) Subject: Re: Acka: Rejoining Elders Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1998 09:12:23 -0500 (EST) >Our very own Matt Miller has asked to rejoin the game under the name >IdiotBoy. Please join me in welcoming him back. Welcome back, IB! Always pleased to have you around. ThinMan ------------------------------ From: John Frederic Mc Coy Subject: Re: your mail Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1998 09:19:30 -0500 (EST) On Thu, 17 Dec 1998, Gabe Drummond-Cole wrote: > Everyone PLEASE vote no on 3905... it changes the rules based on the > assumption of passage of else's failed heirarchical rules... It will break > stuff now. > -- > Trent > > Acting CotC, Acting Map-Harfer, Butthead, Crazy French-Scotsman, Daring > Adventurer, Dungeon Master, Really Weird, Rules-Harfer, Worker Caste, Weird > > Vynd laughs at silly Mr. "Who Needs Retractions?" and votes in favor... :) ------------------------------ From: John Frederic Mc Coy Subject: Re: Acka: Rejoining Elders Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1998 09:23:56 -0500 (EST) On Fri, 18 Dec 1998, John Bollinger wrote: > > >Our very own Matt Miller has asked to rejoin the game under the name > >IdiotBoy. Please join me in welcoming him back. > > Welcome back, IB! Always pleased to have you around. > > > ThinMan > > Yes, welcome back. :) Vynd jmccoy@umich.edu ------------------------------ From: Towsner Subject: Re: Acka: Rejoining Elders Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1998 15:50:53 -0500 (EST) >Our very own Matt Miller has asked to rejoin the game under the name >IdiotBoy. Please join me in welcoming him back. Yeah! Welcome back. -- -Henry Towsner Thank heavens, the sun has gone in, and I don't have to go out and enjoy it. -Logan Pearsall Smith ------------------------------ From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" Subject: Acka: Vacation Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1998 16:12:32 -0500 (EST) Alas, the time has come. I have reached the point in my move to a permanent job in Boston at which I must remove my computer from my office at UT. All services on wilma.che.utexas.edu will cease momentarily. You will still be able to email me at devjoe@mail.utexas.edu for the time being but I cannot promise to read this mail in a timely fashion within the next few weeks. I go on vacation, with an expected date of return of February 1 (though I will probably return in mid-January). JT will take over my offices and the bot from me in the interim; you should continue to vote and submit proposals in the same way you have always done. /dev/joe ------------------------------ From: jobollin@iumsc4.chem.indiana.edu (John Bollinger) Subject: Acka: Phoebe Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1998 17:17:28 -0500 (EST) Phoebe dropped by Vulcan HQ the other day to visit me. There was the typical matchbox discovery and subsequent recognition, yada yada yada. Phoebe and I are practically old school chums by now, she comes to see me so often. And that's what we talked most of the time, in a chit chatty sort of way. We got around to the business of Wisdom, though, when I asked about voting: "Tell me, Phoebe, what do you think of the new simple majority rule for proposal passage?" "Well, if there is one thing I have learned in my many eons of existence, it's that people are fickle. We can't change the fact that one vote will make or break a proposal, but its a bit much that the same one vote will make or break the proposal's total reversal," the wise flea replied. "That's what I think," I nodded. "I think that there should be some inertia to the status quo. The current system couldn't be much worse for that." "Inertia, yes," Phoebe replied, "but it could be worse. Did you know that the Ancients once tried approving proposals on just 40% YES ratio?" I shook my head, amazed. "In fact," Phoebe continued, "I don't remember much more about the Ancients after that...." She tossed her tiny head, a motion that anyone less familiar with her would probably not notice. "Enough of that. Hey, TM, what do you say to a ride on that catapult thingy?" "No problem," I replied. "Say hello to the aliens when you get to the inner wall of the rest of the universe." With that I fired Phoebe and her matchbox out of the catapult, confident in my belief that she had her flight plan well under control. ThinMan ------------------------------ From: "Gavin Logan" Subject: Re: Acka: Grey Council Results Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1998 17:58:13 -0500 (EST) >*** >The Votes were: >Trent: >Trent + EBS >Thinman + EBS > >Rsie: >None > >(K 2 voted rSiE has no caste) >(JT voted for rSiE but is a warrior) >(smallpox blanket voted "Burn the Witch!" and is a warrior) I vote "If you don't have any friends in the same caste, at least remember to vote for yourself you fool". My EBS votes "Burn the witch!". rSiE ------------------------------ From: "Gavin M. Doig" Subject: Re: Acka: Machine that Goes *ping* (smallbox blanket) Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:28:12 -0500 (EST) >The machine has appeared to smallpox blanket, who has 1 week to inform us >of the heavily marked up truth. > D'OH! sb. ------------------------------ From: JT Subject: Re: acka: IRC Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1998 23:10:13 -0500 (EST) On Sat, 19 Dec 1998, Gavin M. Doig wrote: >Now that wilma is no more, is there an alternate IRC server for acka? I seem >to remember that someone set one up, sometime, somewhere, but as you can >imagine, that level of vagueness doesn't help me much. Yes, there is in fact another IRC server. It is herne.dragoncat.net 9942 I just got my machine up on ADSL today. It's still a little 'finicky' so if the server isn't up when you try, please try again in a bit. Hopefully the hostname and the new IPs will propogate out soon and be correct. --JT [-------------------------------------------------------------------------] [ Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty. ] [ It's hard to seize the day when you must first grapple with the morning ] [-------------------------------------------------------------------------] ------------------------------ End of ackanomic Digest V3 #451 *******************************