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The University of Minnesota will be hosting the ACF Fall North region on Sunday, November 4th. NAQT is hosting a juniorbird tournament called Tartan Tussle at Macalester on Saturday the 3rd. We strongly encourage all interested teams from the Tartan Tussle to play ACF Fall, and there will be a disco...

Superbad was the funniest movie I've ever seen. I like most of the ones you've listed, but silly comedy doesn't do it for me like it did when I was 12. I really enjoyed Clerks 2 as well.

ImmaculateDeception wrote:No.

Wow, we didn't even get a -MaS after that one.

Really, you'd have to talk to Jerry about his data mining plans. The point of making the files into docs or rtfs is that that's what Jerry's program uses, that's what most of the files are already saved as, and that's what people use to read documents. It would be a ton more work to make the files i...

I don't understand the clear formatting circlejerk. If Jerry's program can parse .docs or .rfts into searchable html, what's the point of having LaTeX or whatever?

And yeah, I'm not so sure that the whole telling people they should do more work when you're not doing any of it thing is a great idea.

E.T. Chuck wrote:
Bill Buckner wrote:Rocket Man? Can I get a William Shatner anyone?
That's Mr. Tambourine Man.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVbv6r_tKnE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVENWl8uBeg

Not a CCR fan. I'd put the Doors, Beach Boys and Allman Brothers up there. People seem to like the Eagles too. REM, Grateful Dead, Guns N Roses, Aerosmith, Van Halen, Journey, Kansas, and Pearl Jam are probably up there, though I'm not particularly crazy about any of them. But yeah, from Dylan to Pr...

Speaking of "according to Wikipedia," clues containing the phrase "according to Wikipedia" in the Chris McCray set were hilarious and awesome.

For Japanese names, generally I say accept in any order, prompt on the first (non-familial) name. It's really not a quizbowler's job to know the exact naming conventions of different languages. I'm not going to straight-up deny someone points for a question based on that. So an answer line would be:...

I feel like I should address some difficulty speculation. I probably shouldn't have invoked Jerry's singles in this discussion, because this tournament is going to be reasonably close to how CO lit was. I do want to do some things to differentiate the tournaments because otherwise I feel it would be...

Okay, I guess I should let a fraction of the cat out of the bag here. I am committed to writing a literature subject tournament for the Illinois Open weekend. However, this hinges upon availability of players on Friday or Sunday. If a worthwhile field is willing to come down early or stay late for t...

Negging is directly proportional to guessing. So either figure out some way to make them stop guessing so much, or make them learn more things so they're not guessing so much. The second method is probably preferable for obvious reasons.

Back to Edina: median income per Edina household. It was like $66,000 according to Wikipedia. Apparently my hometown of Chanhassen is somewhere around $84,000, but Edina's per capita income is significantly higher. I couldn't find a ranking of household median income on wiki, but based on per capit...

I don't think ACF should be the kind of organization promoting/endorsing list-studying, although it's arguable whether putting lists on the website qualifies as such. Knowing things is knowing things, dude. Doesn't matter how condensed the information is. I'm sure others feel differently, but I hav...

David Riley wrote:It moght have changed, but Edina's MEDIAN income was $80,000--in the 70s!!!! Don't know what it is now, but it has probably risen since then.

So wait, is that median per capita, or median household?

David Riley wrote:And if it gets too crowded, we can ship the extras to Bratenahl, Upper Saddle River, Old Field, Edina, wherever. . .

Wow, I didn't realize that Edina's cake-eating was so legendary.

Yeah, some film is art. But the problem is that the answer space is limited compared to the number of questions that are asked. Far too many questions have been asked on Seventh Seal, Rashomon, Birth of a Nation, etc. relative to their artistic importance.

Listing off really long numbers is something I've seen.

Mike, would you mind posting that question on barrel rolls from your videogame packet? I'd like to see more questions like this. Also, I'm not too big a fan of movies in the fine arts distro. Other visual fine arts like architecture and statue are underrepresented as it is without film questions clu...

Fuck face came up at Chris McCray. Yet another reason that tournament was awesome.

Hey guys, I could still use volunteers for this. I have a good 85 packet sets that need work, and the archive can't be complete until all of them are formatted and scanned. I already have formatted over 85 sets, and I have another 65 that I am responsible for getting formatted. Any help anyone's wil...

Hey guys, I could still use volunteers for this. I have a good 85 packet sets that need work, and the archive can't be complete until all of them are formatted and scanned. I already have formatted over 85 sets, and I have another 65 that I am responsible for getting formatted. Any help anyone's wil...

I've always enjoyed the type of question that Seth wrote there, even though there haven't been many of them. If I recall, Leo wrote one for PACE a few years ago. That seems like a good way to bring math--even semi-computational math--up to par with the rest of the distribution in terms of convertabi...

Still seeking mirrors. Anyone outside the northeast or midwest should drop me a line at [email protected].

http://ai.stanford.edu/~csewell/culture/

To Matt Dennis--

Your email keeps bouncing, even when I send messages with no attachments. Sorry I haven't gotten back to you; that's the reason. Do you have another account I could reach you at?

Andrew

The grabbing motion of buzzing with the Judge is much more reflexive and much more natural than the thumb- or index-pushing that Zeecrafts require. A stick with a button on the end of it is a really uncomfortable thing to push quickly.

What the hell is wrong with you people? The judge is the best buzzer system on the planet.

This is double-posted in the Misc HSQB and Collegiate Discussion forums for maximum circulation. As you may or may not have heard, Jerry has been working on a new packet archive that will have all sorts of awesome features. Anyway, it would help us to have a lot of the older packets (1989-2000) conv...

This is double-posted in the Misc HSQB and Collegiate Discussion forums for maximum circulation. As you may or may not have heard, Jerry has been working on a new packet archive that will have all sorts of awesome features. Anyway, it would help us to have a lot of the older packets (1989-2000) conv...

Trash is good because it's fun and because people should actually know things outside of academic fields and be rewarded for that knowledge. I don't think you'll find too many people opposed to those premises. In fact, most really good academic players that I know will play trash tournaments even if...

I got an email from R. It was the power outage, but it should be okay now or soon.

Steroid McBlooddoper wrote:I hope this is as revealing as the AOL search histories were.

Is that you MAF54?

The legitimacy of trash aside, I don't think the it-exists-now-therefore-it-should-don't-question-it argument is acceptable.

Did we figure out whose internet certain part of the male body is longer yet?

The last two posts warrant a response. Math quizbowl not only fits into the format of the game poorly, it's also often very poorly written. When I said that a previous post sums up everything wrong with math quizbowl, I wasn't joking. The post directly preceding this one merely proves it's no anomal...

However a question like "Billy wants to find the cosine formed by the two vectors <3,4> and <5,12>. Billy can do this by taking the dot product of the two vectors and dividing by the magnitudes of both vectors. For ten points, What is the cosine between the two vectors?" This would warran...

I've noticed that the site goes down for a half-day every so often.

[quote="edited"]17. One forced the gentry of Pskov to kiss the cross and was a deacon named Sidorka. Another failed to break the siege of the Saint Sergius monastery when his former co-ruler called in Swedish troops, after which he turned to Polish King Sigismund III Vasa. Another, known a...

I don't want to sound like a broken record, but this set was awesome. It was perfectly balanced and I don't remember any egregiously transparent questions. For the most part, the power marks were hard but consistent, which is all that really matters. As fun as Chicago Open was, playing lit singles w...

I thought one of the most anomalously transparent questions in the set was the one on "False Dmitris" from my own packet. I don't exactly know how to do this in a way that doesn't sound like I'm complaining about my own questions being rejiggered, but I would have been frustrated by that q...

ImmaculateDeception wrote:Also, Bill Walsh.

MaS

Will anyone else be playing their Super Nintendo or Sega Genesis by candlelight tonight?

The best I could do for an email address is [email protected]. That's apparently the blanket contact, if anyone is interested in shooting off a quick note.

I'd say that margin shouldn't be incorporated. Margin is a forward-looking stat (predicting future wins), actual wins are a backward-looking stat that tells you how teams actually did. Since this is trying to rank how teams actually did at the end of a long season, and there's no reason to try to pr...

Update! We have two teams confirmed for the tournament. We also have a tentative mirror host, which will be announced once I iron out the details with our club and theirs. Also, not like you're writing checks right now or anything, but when you do please make them out to just "University of Min...

Who's the Rick Ankiel of quizbowl?

I think the problem with Pencil and paper ready. A garden is in the shape of an isoceles triangle with side lengths 10, 13, and 13. To determine the area of this garden, one could use Heronâ€™s formula, or one could realize that the altitude of the triangle to the side of length 10 can be found usin...

I'm not a big fan of dog fighting or anything, but I just don't understand why doing it makes someone a bad person. Dog are dogs. And I like dogs a lot, but people who watch them kill each other are pretty far down my totem pole of hatred. It's pretty fucked up. edit: wait, are you retarded? I mean...

I'm not a big fan of dog fighting or anything, but I just don't understand why doing it makes someone a bad person. Dog are dogs. And I like dogs a lot, but people who watch them kill each other are pretty far down my totem pole of hatred.

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