Subject: ackanomic Digest V4 #199
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Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 00:00:02 -0400 (EDT)

ackanomic Digest	Monday, July 26 1999	Volume: 04  Issue: 199

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From: Matt Miller <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: On Dictionaries.
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 11:58:33 -0400 (EDT)

Ok, I've just made life evan more complex.

Now accessible from the brain DICT server, MOO and MOO IRC bots is the
YAWL word list.  The YAWL list is a superset of the ENABLE list, including
additions from the OSPD, etc.

Considering that there are now MANY dictionaries accessible via the
[corrected] URL given, we should be mre specific on how to use it.  (There
is a generic DICT client on the MOO, as well, which uses Websters 1913,
the Gazetter, FOLDOC, teh Jargon File, WordNet, etc.)

I would suggest that it would be wise for use to defer to /dev/joe on the
advantages of using YAWL over ENABLE, or vice versa.

(BTW, if you're using the MOO or on the #ackanomic channel, try @yawl
<word>  Your generic dict client will check both, unles you pick a
database.. oddly enough named "enable" and "yawl")

Your PITA-
IB

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From: JT Traub <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: *Ping*
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 12:15:07 -0400 (EDT)

Today is Monday the 26th day of July, and the Machine That Goes *ping*
has gone *ping* today.  Since I have been scholar, the Machine has
gone *ping* 9 times.

--Dragon Mage

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[ It's hard to seize the day when you must first grapple with the morning ]
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From: Gabe Drummond-Cole <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Herald, Rule-Harfer
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:20:19 -0400 (EDT)

I have herald info up.  The Honour scores are included on my DM page at 
www.ackanomic.org/~sten/dm/index.html

The Armorial is at
www.ackanomic.org/~sten/armorial.html

I don't have any main herald page or any outside links to the armorial,
because, let's face it, how often does ANYONE look at the armorial?

In an attempt to up my automation as rule-harfer, and to fix the '' in the
titles that was irritating me, I have renamed all of the rules by ancestor,
but I have not yet updated the main rule by number page.  I'll probably
update it later today, perhaps even tomorrow; meanwhile those pages should
just be ruleX.html, where X is the ancestor.
-- Emperor Ai! Pedrito!
 DeeJay * Dungeon Master * Harfmeister * Herald * Rule-Harfer * Wrangler
 Crazy French-Scotsman * Really Weird * Weird

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From: "Gavin Logan" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: phoebe (IdiotBoy)
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 15:40:20 -0400 (EDT)

Studge failed to post Phoebe's wisdom.
IdiotBoy has found Phoebe's matchbox.

King Felix
(OiCoRT)

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From: "Gavin Logan" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: magic potato (Calvin N Hobbes)
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 15:40:23 -0400 (EDT)

On Sunday 25th July, at noon (Acka time), Calvin N Hobbes received the
magic potato and Sir Galahad received the Great Tuba of Ackanomic.

King Felix
(OiCoRT)

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Subject: Acka: Return
From: Joseph DeVincentis <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 19:01:42 -0400 (EDT)

#state /dev/joe Voting
#end

I change my state to Voting.

I growl at the ghost players and ref, who seem to have conspired to
drag this game out long enough to cause me to be eliminated by vacation.

Some really amazing lists were submitted for the Odd Man Out contest
while I was away, even more so than the ones I posted before I left,
which I showed to Ed Pegg personally at the convention.  Hopefully I
will finish slogging through the backlog of e-mail tonight and get these
out.

I note that the bot observed a tyranny on one proposal due to else...if
voting against it and no other players from the proposal's subcommittee
voting against the thing at all.  I was careful to implement the letter
of the rule in the bot; the rule doesn't care that the proposal was
rejected by subcommittee, and neither does the bot.  (Of course, with
the current rules, this is the only way we are likely to have a tyrannic
proposal, since a voting characteristic of, say, 12 now only allows votes
up to 340.)

/dev/joe

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From: Gabe Drummond-Cole <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Return
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 19:04:37 -0400 (EDT)

At 07:01 PM 7/26/99 -0400, you wrote:
>#state /dev/joe Voting
>#end
>
>I change my state to Voting.
>

Welcome back, traitor.

-- Emperor Ai! Pedrito!
 DeeJay * Dungeon Master * Harfmeister * Herald * Rule-Harfer * Wrangler
 Crazy French-Scotsman * Really Weird * Weird

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From: Gabe Drummond-Cole <[email-masked]>
Subject: well, i've been sitting on it thus far
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 19:16:25 -0400 (EDT)

#harfy 4273
#end
-- Emperor Ai! Pedrito!
 DeeJay * Dungeon Master * Harfmeister * Herald * Rule-Harfer * Wrangler
 Crazy French-Scotsman * Really Weird * Weird

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From: Gabe Drummond-Cole <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: a vote for ACKA!
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 19:29:51 -0400 (EDT)

#vote 4276 140
#vote 4276 200
#end
(I vote my maximum possible, positive, on P4276.)
-- Emperor Ai! Pedrito!
 DeeJay * Dungeon Master * Harfmeister * Herald * Rule-Harfer * Wrangler
 Crazy French-Scotsman * Really Weird * Weird

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From: Gabe Drummond-Cole <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: oops, I forgot
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 19:46:34 -0400 (EDT)

I once again pseudofound an Institution to be called the Twits.
-- Emperor Ai! Pedrito!
 DeeJay * Dungeon Master * Harfmeister * Herald * Rule-Harfer * Wrangler
 Crazy French-Scotsman * Really Weird * Weird

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From: Eric Wald <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: oops, I forgot
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 20:02:33 -0400 (EDT)

> I once again pseudofound an Institution to be called the Twits.
> -- Emperor Ai! Pedrito!

I may wish to join the Twits.  Do you have any more information?

-- and

from -> [email-masked]

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Subject: Re: Acka: oops, I forgot
From: [email-masked] (Aaron V. Humphrey)
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 20:09:43 -0400 (EDT)

> I once again pseudofound an Institution to be called the Twits.

I would not mind being a member of this Institution.

--
--Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.connect.ab.ca/~alfvaen/ )
Song In My Head--Donald Fagen:Green Flower Street
Current Book--Barbara Hambly:Dog Wizard
A fool and his monkey are soon parted.

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From: Matt Miller <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Tsk, Tsk.
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 20:21:50 -0400 (EDT)

A sad day in Ackanomic when we discover that /dev/jooe is an Agoraphobe.

IB

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From: Gabe Drummond-Cole <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: oops, I forgot
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 20:25:31 -0400 (EDT)

At 08:02 PM 7/26/99 -0400, you wrote:
>> I once again pseudofound an Institution to be called the Twits.
>> -- Emperor Ai! Pedrito!
>
>I may wish to join the Twits.  Do you have any more information?
>
>-- and
>
>from -> [email-masked]
> 

The Twits are a throwback to an earlier age in Acka.  Generally, when a
player made a stupid blunder, e would donate some small amount of money
(A$1 for most errors up to maybe A$10 for something colossally stupid.
When organizations were repealed, the twits went the way of the dodo.  I
wish to revive em.

-- Emperor Ai! Pedrito!
 DeeJay * Dungeon Master * Harfmeister * Herald * Rule-Harfer * Wrangler
 Crazy French-Scotsman * Really Weird * Weird

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From: Eric Wald <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: oops, I forgot
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 20:39:23 -0400 (EDT)

> The Twits are a throwback to an earlier age in Acka.  Generally, when a
> player made a stupid blunder, e would donate some small amount of money
> (A$1 for most errors up to maybe A$10 for something colossally stupid.
> When organizations were repealed, the twits went the way of the dodo.  I
> wish to revive em.

Stupid blunder, as in sending a prop to the wrong Sphere?
Sounds interesting; I declare my desire to join.
Any Institutional Powers in the works?
The choices are currently Spherical Rator and Printing Press.

-- and

from -> [email-masked]

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From: K 2 <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Kontrived Zonnet Presented Just Cause.
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 22:56:36 -0400 (EDT)

JT wants me to write em a sonnet,
positioning letters, striving for meter,
perverted rhyme and demands on letter.
Just one thing I need - what is a sonnet?
Questions that I have stated on the net
present to me the answer, should it matter.
Just fourteen lines with unusual order,
just to entertain the writer, I bet.
Zut! Six lines remain for me to write.
Can't do this any longer without a fight.
Kobbling the various bits together,
contrive to say the method is in error,
cause everyone one fathoms a billion
can never be a thousand million

K 2

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