Subject: ackanomic Digest V4 #150
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Date: Wed, 09 Jun 1999 00:00 EDT

ackanomic Digest	Tuesday, June 08 1999	Volume: 04  Issue: 150

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From: Thierry Joffrain <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: MTG*: *ping*
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 1999 01:42:00 -0400 (EDT)

Today is Tuesday, the 8th day of June, and the Machine That Goes *ping* Has
Gone *ping* today. Since I have been scholar, the Machine has gone *ping* 4
times.

CnH

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From: Duncan Richer <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Just for fun?
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 1999 04:13:57 -0400 (EDT)

On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, K 2 wrote:

> Interested parties so far:
> K 2
> Vynd
> King Felix
> IdiotBoy
> BLMP
Put me down on that list.

--------The Proposal Exists Bellow this line------------
 
The Plastic Spatula is a type of Motorized Shovel.  All attempts to dig
with the Plastic Spatula fail unless this rule explicitly describes why
they succeed.

-- 
Duncan C. Richer aka Slakko the Lost Warner Brother | Queens' College
http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~dcr24/    Ackanomic     | U. of Cambridge
Web-Harfer, Clerk of the Court, Map-Harfer, Justice | 2nd Year PhD(PMa)

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From: Duncan Richer <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: web-pages
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 1999 04:13:59 -0400 (EDT)

On Sun, 6 Jun 1999, John Frederic Mc Coy wrote:

> On Sun, 6 Jun 1999, Duncan Richer wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, Gavin Logan wrote:
> > 
> > > Rule 6-4-1 states "If any game state information or data needs to be
> > > tracked, and the rules do not specify who is to track it, the Speaker is
> > > required to do so, and is required to make it available to any player on
> > > request or as needed [e.g. player locations and thread splits]."
> > 
> > Interestingly, I keep player locations as part of my job as Map-Harfer -
> > after all, I should know where everything is located, including the
> > players.
> 
> Chances are this is a left-over from before I reworked our rules on
> locations.

I never actually officially had the responsibility for tracking locations
- I just did it because I knew what locations existed as Map-Harfer.

> > > I've had a good check about, but everything seems to be being tracked by
> > > somebody. Does anyone know of something I should be tracking? Or does anyone
> > > want me to keep track of something they have been maintaining in an acting
> > > or unofficial capacity?
> > 
> > Given that the Speaker is OiCORT as well, I'd rather see this particular
> > fallback harfed off to someone else.
> > 
> 
> What fallback, exactly? That the Speaker is required to track things that
> aren't assigned to anyone else?

Precisely.  IMHO the Speaker should not have that much responsibility - as
there are much more stable offices in the game than that of Speaker.

> I think it would be better for that to
> remain a part of the Speaker's job, since the Speaker is the one office
> that should always be filled in some capacity. Or am I missing the point
> here?

The Web-Harfer is supposed to know where the information lies, so that
people can access it.  That would make that Office a more logical one to
have default responsibility for tracking stuff.

Yours,
Slakko
-- 
Duncan C. Richer aka Slakko the Lost Warner Brother | Queens' College
http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~dcr24/    Ackanomic     | U. of Cambridge
Web-Harfer, Clerk of the Court, Map-Harfer, Justice | 2nd Year PhD(PMa)

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From: "Gavin Logan" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Commission d'Arts
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 1999 05:48:43 -0400 (EDT)

>Towsner wrote on **14 Apr 1999 16:42:15**:
>
>> And the members are:
>> Studge
>> IdiotBoy
>> BLMP
>> else...if
>> rufus
>> two-star
>>
>> I leave and am replaced by Robin Hood.
>
>I have a sneaking suspison that the commission has failed in eir duty....
bad
>members
>
>K 2
>

The final list for this Commission d'Arts was:

Studge
IdiotBoy
Robin Hood
two-star
O Olde Alpha

This was because the original list was incorrectly reported and else...if
left and was replaced by Robin Hood. But you are correct, they didn't do
their duty.

King Felix

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From: "Gavin Logan" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Announcement
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 1999 05:48:43 -0400 (EDT)

>The PE/score pages are now uptodate... rush over and take a look
>
>K 2
>

Who is this "else...if" character? And why is he speaker?

King Felix

p.s. and where am I?

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From: AARON KEESLER <[email-masked]>
Subject: RE: Acka: non-elder (Fortunato)
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 1999 09:00:24 -0400 (EDT)

Alas.  Though I would have truly enjoyed being enshrined with the likes of
Malenkai and my sponsor, Alfvaen, I really don't think I deserved the honor.
:)

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Gavin Logan [SMTP:[email-masked]]
> Sent:	Monday, June 07, 1999 5:43 PM
> To:	ackanomic
> Subject:	Acka: non-elder (Fortunato)
> 
> The confirmation period for elder is over. Fortunato received 10
> confirmation points out of a required 14. The fickle players of Acka have
> decided not to grant him elder status.
> 
> King Felix
> (Speaker)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

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From: [email-masked] (John Bollinger)
Subject: Re: Acka: DeeJay (Trent)
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 1999 09:39:43 -0400 (EDT)

>To celebrate, I go to the library and play 'We Are the Champions' by Queen.
>-- T. T. Ren

I don my Champion's Cloak and go to the library for the occasion.

ThinMan

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From: K 2 <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Austudy
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 1999 10:53:45 -0400 (EDT)

After some debate I have decided to declare myself a student of History.
I pay A$20 to cover the general service fee.

My intention is to write this as an "Oral History". As a first step I
would like to get interested players to relate one of thier favourite
events that have occurred while they have been playing Ackanomic. The
event can be anything; e.g. a scam, set of proposals, an interesting
CFJ, public dissuasion etc. Preferably the event will have occurred
quite a while ago (>6 months), although earlier events would be good
too.

To start with I'll need an indication of when the event occurred, as I
intend to provide some back ground commentary. Additionally, a
description of the event(s) would be appreciated - (ie What occurred,
what was involved, how events transpired, your part in them and what you
thought of it ... etc)

K 2

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From: Gabe Drummond-Cole <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: K 2's Treasures
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 1999 12:03:13 -0400 (EDT)

At 11:00 AM 6/8/99 -0400, you wrote:
>> ----------
>> Treasure 272
>> Contains: Flashback worth A$50
>>
>> For once the trinket forms no part of the clue :-)
>>
>> The aim is to guess the date on the old PE page
>> (www.acaknomic.org/~k2/finance/pe.htm). This is just a Colder Warmer
>> thing - I'm surprise no ones tried it yet....
>
>TT Ren. pointed out that this link is dead.... the page is now at
>http://www.acaknomic.org/~k2/treasure/pe.htm
>
>K 2

January 26, 1998 
-- T. T. Ren

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From: Gabe Drummond-Cole <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: K 2's Treasures
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 1999 12:26:06 -0400 (EDT)

>>> ----------
>>> Treasure 272
>>> Contains: Flashback worth A$50
>>>
>>> For once the trinket forms no part of the clue :-)
>>
>>TT Ren. pointed out that this link is dead.... the page is now at
>>http://www.acaknomic.org/~k2/treasure/pe.htm
>
>
>January 26, 1998 
>-- T. T. Ren

If it's not too late, I'd like to change this to January 23, 1998.  Time
forthcoming.
-- T. T. Ren

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From: Gabe Drummond-Cole <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: K 2's Treasures
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 1999 13:51:53 -0400 (EDT)

>If it's not too late, I'd like to change this to January 23, 1998.  Time
>forthcoming.

According to my reading of the archives, this page would have to have been
generated between 17:54:48 on 1/22/98 (When Slakko gave Rex Mundi A$150 for
go-fishing /dev/joe) and 05:37:59 on 1/23/98 (When rico destroyed DEMO FOR
RICO to give A$1 to Bill the Pirate King).  Financier Alfvaen's posts in
that duration occurred at 22:39:36, 22:43:00, 22:59:09, 00:13:10, 00:42:26,
and 00:46:59.  In his time zone (-700), these posts occur between about
8:40 and 10:45.  There are three posts in fairly rapid succession (the
22:59 one took longer because it was an in-depth analysis of Valaraukar,
then a long pause, another post, another, shorter pause, and two more
posts.  The final post was a non-player announcement made while he was
harfing something.  The obvious conclusion is that Alfvaen did his harfing
work between 00:13:10 and 00:42:26.  
The second to last message adds believability to this proposition: in it,
Alfvaen announced a minor thread split as to the loacation of the Machine
that goes *ping*.  My contention is that, while harfing entity possession,
e noticed this discrepancy, and this is why the machine that goes *ping* is
not present on the webpage.  

Slightly less likely, but still definite possibilities would be Alfvaen
harfing during the longer break and Alfvaen uploading the harfing after
sending off his last message.  However, I feel the sequence of events
outlined above is more intuitively likely, so I will guess 

January 23, 1998 at 00:27:48

-- T. T. Ren

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From: K 2 <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: K 2's Treasures
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 1999 14:44:49 -0400 (EDT)

Gabe Drummond-Cole wrote:

> harfing something.  The obvious conclusion is that Alfvaen did his harfing
> work between 00:13:10 and 00:42:26.
>
> January 23, 1998 at 00:27:48

T. T. Ren has found T272.

The map was:
The player who correctly guesses the date and time of the old pe page will find
this treasure.

The date and time at the top of the page was "Generated at Thu Jan 22 22:45:27
1998 MST" ie "Fri Jan 23 00:45:27 1998 Acka".
I didn't think it could be done with such accuracy.  It seems that Alfvaen
realised there was an error on the pe page, posted the fact, updated the page
and went to bed - sounds familiar; after uploading four or five times I usually
go to bed knowing there are still errors :-)
My only extra hint was to check Alfvaen's posting times - but by that time TT
had already close enough to find the treasure.

Congratulations T. T. Ren

K 2

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From: K 2 <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Proposal 4186
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 1999 14:50:38 -0400 (EDT)

#harfy 4186
#end

use it or lose it :)
K 2

[email-masked] wrote:

> Proposal 4186
> A Minority of One
> Slakko
> Due: Mon Jun 14 12:38:46 1999
> Sphere: Hypnotist of Ladies

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From: Gabe Drummond-Cole <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Harf, boring stuff
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 1999 19:41:45 -0400 (EDT)

#harfy 4189

I don my champion's cloak
I go home

-- T. T. Ren

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Subject: Re: Acka: Phoebe (/dev/joe)
From: Joseph DeVincentis <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 1999 20:13:42 -0400 (EDT)

Gavin Logan wrote:
> 
> /dev/joe has found Phoebe's matchbox.

Somewhere amidst the Games Magazines, NPL Enigmas, dictionaries, piles
of letter tiles, drawings of figures made from 30-60-90 triangles,
leftover puzzles from last weekend's World Puzzle Championship qualifying
test, other puzzles, lists of *ping* dates and possible truth fills,
unpaid bills, and to-do lists that surround my computer, I encountered a
strange multi-colored matchbox this evening.

Thinking it looked somewhat familiar, I opened it, and out popped our
favorite steel flea.

"Phoebe, how pleasant to see you again!  I thought I saw your mailbox
drop into my house a couple days ago, but I was too busy to try to dig
it out from all these papers then, and besides, I figured you needed a
break from your whirlwind tour of Ackanomic."

The flea responded in that voice that always sounded surpisingly loud,
no matter how many times you heard it, "That's the truth.  I guess the
people are upset after I went on vacation a while back, so now they're
tossing me around like a hot Magic Potato."

"The Truth? That doesn't match the pattern of *s in the Truth."

"No, not the Truth, just the truth, silly Ackan.  Oh, but you did a
good job helping avert that war with Canada.  What were those Ackans
thinking??  Everybody knows Canada has the firepower to wipe us right
off the bottom face of the earth!  Or at least enough to wipe out
the Monument and a few other buildings."

"Did you have some wisdom for me, Phoebe?"

"Oh, yeah, wisdom. There's gold in Eternity!  Er, money, anyway.
But beware of offset polyrectangles."

And with that, she leaped into the matchbox, which closed seemingly
automatically, and flashed out of existence.

/dev/joe

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