348. Tom 7 (gs82.sp.cs.cmu.edu) – 28 Oct 2002 20:45:48 [ CT Info ]

I might be back for Thanksgiving, for Winter break I don't know yet...

347. Karthik (216-54-219-234.gen.twtelecom.net) – 28 Oct 2002 10:57:56 [ CT Info ]

yay for CT!

When are you going back to this great state for the winter?

346. Tom 7 (h-64-105-108-15.phlapafg.covad.net) – 28 Oct 2002 09:57:28 [ CT Info ]

Neal: They have drive-through liquor in Ohio, still!
Anyway, CT is not all good: we also have (I believe) the largest economic gap... I think I remember that we have a top-5 richest city and a lowest-5 poorest (or something like that).

Hock: Well, I don't have any more info than what the page said, but unlike the countless places that claim they invented, say, the hotdog (the O?), Louie's looks like he really could have. That place is old and his equipment is victorian. He sort of reminds me of the soup nazi from seinfeld, too, because he only lets you order one thing at his restaurant and you can't get it "your way."

345. Neal (sf-du412.cybermesa.com) – 28 Oct 2002 02:10:34 [ CT Info ]

Wow, nice state Tom.

My state is the only state with two official languages.

It ranks shittiest in pretty much anything worth ranking including Education, Drunking Driving, Poverty, Literacy, and Infant Mortality.

We were the last state to outlaw drive-up liquor stores.

We are the first state to have a cop dougnut run executed with a police helicopter.

We are the only state where people still die from the Plague.

The Atomic Bomb was invented here, thanks to a bunch of people all of whom were not from here.

344. Hock (66.190.63.213) – 25 Oct 2002 22:53:19 [ CT Info ]

Louis' Lunch's claim is highly debatable. See http://www.geography.ccsu.edu/harmonj/atlas/burgers.html
Quote:
"The drive to claim primacy began when the restaurant was threatened with urban renewal and may have been a publicity action to save the family's livlihood."

343. Tom 7 (h-64-105-108-15.phlapafg.covad.net) – 21 Oct 2002 11:40:08 [ Multi.Babel! ]

Hey.

342. Tuuur (to-kamst.edte.utwente.nl) – 21 Oct 2002 08:20:36 [ NEW: Taut Blue Quality AAD: You Will Be Towed ]

She's got a really nice voice. Great album!

341. Anonymous (213.42.1.171) – 21 Oct 2002 07:04:49 [ Multi.Babel! ]

hello

340. Jake (ny-norwich1a-263.aburny.adelphia.net) – 20 Oct 2002 22:21:12 [ Quake 3 Done! ]

I just finished the last of the levels on Nightmare. I think hunter with the lighting was the toughest. The last level was hard though but I out foxed him.

339. Anonymous (rstr-164-107-229-98.resnet.ohio-state.edu) – 20 Oct 2002 15:30:58 [ The Party Of Helicopters ]

yeah.... these guys kick ass.

338. Tom 7 (h-64-105-108-15.phlapafg.covad.net) – 19 Oct 2002 00:35:01 [ Slashdot and Your Rights ]

Certainly it's a good thing that RSADSI has a contest with cash prizes for cracking their cipher. But somehow the difference between "it *would* take 8 bajillion computers ..." and "it *did* take 8 bajillion computers" doesn't seem worth all that computing power. That's all I'm sayin'.

337. Hock (p-proxy-1-int0.net.wisc.edu) – 18 Oct 2002 18:14:04 [ Slashdot and Your Rights ]

Re RC*-cracking: It is a waste of time to you and me, but it helps convince actual people (e.g. the unenlightened masses) about the true difficulty (as it stands today) of breaking encryption. "It took eight bajillion computers eight bajillion days to break this, so I guess I can safely send my credit card info over the web." This is presumably why companies are willing to sponsor this stuff. And if I get a chance at the prize for participating, why cough at it? Then again, GIMPS also has prizes associated. Finding giant prime numbers is sort of helpful because it may help establish a pattern which will lead to a conjecture which will lead to a cool proof, which allong with a collection of other proofs will lead to a comprehensive theory which will fundamentally change the way processes are undergone and thus revolutionize people's lives. But far, far likelier than not, all of those giant primes (which are produced at an excruciatingly slow rate) will remain an intellectual curiosity to a comparatively very small set of people.

Of course, I like GIMPS much more than distributed.net.

336. Tom 7 (h-64-105-108-8.phlapafg.covad.net) – 10 Oct 2002 21:52:47 [ My Brain ]

That's where I keep all my stuff.

335. Jeff (phd15.cs.yale.edu) – 10 Oct 2002 14:28:37 [ My Brain ]

What's that big hole doing in the middle of the second slice? You should have that checked out.

334. MrBawn (polystyrene.weh.andrew.cmu.edu) – 09 Oct 2002 23:26:28 [ My Brain ]

Tom's brain is WRINKLY! Which means he's smart. Big surprise there!

333. Tom 7 (h-64-105-108-8.phlapafg.covad.net) – 09 Oct 2002 09:53:28 [ My Brain ]

Don't touch it!!

332. ASA (cobamide7.bio.pitt.edu) – 09 Oct 2002 09:43:52 [ My Brain ]

Yes, That is concrete evidence... Tom has a brain. Now if he would only stop using his amazing mental capacities for evil ...

331. bot the bot (amarseille-107-1-6-90.abo.wanadoo.fr) – 09 Oct 2002 05:10:57 [ My Brain ]

groovy :)

330. Anonymous (63-100-210-100.reverse.newskies.net) – 09 Oct 2002 02:32:24 [ FLAMING TEXT ]

IMRAN

329. Anonymous (couch2-52.reshall.ou.edu) – 09 Oct 2002 02:21:06 [ My Brain ]

Neato and yet strangely unsettling....

328. Zombor (the zombie) (hsa038.pool023.at101.earthlink.net) – 08 Oct 2002 03:02:29 [ My Brain ]

Rrrrrarrrrr....sweet....delicious....braiiiiiiiiiiiinnnnnsssss.

327. Tom 7 (gs82.sp.cs.cmu.edu) – 07 Oct 2002 13:12:39 [ D.O.B. ]

Who you callin' skinny!

326. jetfuel (yahoobb218176130008.bbtec.net) – 07 Oct 2002 06:35:56 [ D.O.B. ]

All geeky creative skinny white guys are born in the same 2 month span, I swear.

325. master kabuki (proxy2.iu13.org) – 04 Oct 2002 08:44:29 [ KILLER JAPANESE SEIZURE ROBOTS ]

they were cool man, i enjoyed every seizure it gave me

324. Tuuur (to-kamst.edte.utwente.nl) – 02 Oct 2002 08:57:40 [ D.O.B. ]

Congrats!!