The Chat Thread

[PaulR]

Got new glasses today

[Mn Dave]

You look good in them. Very studious. 

[PaulR]

Now, only if they made me studious   

http://www.lenscrafters.com/eyeglasses/14/dviations/6602650  Got those in brown. 

[Opus106]

Well, he didn't make a lot of money and didn't manage the production of particularly shiny objects, but he did contribute MUCH to computer science: Dennis Ritchie, the inventor of the C programming language and a developer of the UNIX operating system, passed away on the 8th. It's difficult to sum up how much these two creations of his have influenced the world since their inception. For one, Mac OS X is Unix-based. And for all this, much of the world learned of this news through a post in Google Plus nearly a week after the event.

[ibanezmonster]

Well, he didn't make a lot of money and didn't manage the production of particularly shiny objects, but he did contribute MUCH to computer science: Dennis Ritchie, the inventor of the C programming language and a developer of the UNIX operating system, passed away on the 8th. It's difficult to sum up how much these two creations of his have influenced the world since their inception. For one, Mac OS X is Unix-based. And for all this, much of the world learned of this news through a post in Google Plus nearly a week after the event.

Mac is Unix-based and most video games are written in C or C++, yet you don't hear about this guy on the news... 

[Mn Dave]

The new Sarge.

http://dccomics.com/dcu/comics/?cm=20160

[Opus106]

The new Sarge.

http://dccomics.com/dcu/comics/?cm=20160

I really didn't know a comic book was based on a member of GMG!

[Mn Dave]

I really didn't know a comic book was based on a member of GMG!

[Opus106]

On a serious note, I didn't know Sarge's namesake was a comic book character until I saw your post.

[Mn Dave]

On a serious note, I didn't know Sarge's namesake was a comic book character until I saw your post.

Yep. An oldie.

[ibanezmonster]

On That Metal Show, they feature Graham Bonnet mentioning Andy's band, Lyraka. He can't pronounce Andy's last name! 


http://www.vh1.com/video/that-metal-show/full-episodes/rick-nielsen-graham-bonnet/1672642/playlist.jhtml

[Mn Dave]

Yeah, that was embarassing. He should change his name to Andy D. so these old rockers can pronounce it.

[karlhenning]

I thought his name was Andy D . . . made it easy for us composer types . . . .

[DavidRoss]

It's a seasonal thing with the Davids of the board. One minute, they're here; and in the next, they vanish -- only to come back a few months later.

Who told you about the annual gathering of the Davids?  (It makes Burning Man look like a Sunday School picnic!)  Every year we have to go for a refresher course in how to be annoying, taught by:

[PaulR]

It's middle of October and basically all registered for spring semester!   

[Coco]

Cool. Our first day of reg isn't until Nov. 6th. I'll be there the first day so I can get in on all the classes I want.

[PaulR]

I also want to do it early so I get in the classes I want.  The grad school is smaller than undergrad, so I should get into the only other class I want to get into.

[ibanezmonster]

I would be registered by now, but I have to get my high school transcripts.

[Coco]

BTW Greg, I'm going to register early next semester so I can take Japanese

[PaulR]

Well.......I am taking Schenkerian Analysis......