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12-07-2012, 05:35 PM
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#176
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Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2008
Posts: 958
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Quote:
Originally Posted by DixyCrat
What are your research interests now iC?
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That was in grad school, I was in AI group, machine learning / statistics stuff. Neither of the two jobs I had since graduating were directly related to that.
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12-07-2012, 05:36 PM
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#177
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Diamond Member
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Greenville, SC
Posts: 3,844
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Quote:
Originally Posted by corwin
As much as some people here have hated on it mine is from the Chronicles of Amber novels...I loved the books and took the name of the main character from the first half of the series
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My wife just started reading these books and she loves them.
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12-07-2012, 05:51 PM
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#178
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Lifer
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: Belleville, MI
Posts: 20,526
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My job before I retired from a forge. We heated up steel to just before it melted and squished it into shapes.
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Quote:
Originally posted by: electron
Forget P&N, we need a new forum for this. I recommend naming it "Cuckoo's Nest"
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Grandkids holding some vermin.
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12-07-2012, 06:01 PM
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#179
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Lifer
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Somewhere over the rainbow
Posts: 32,397
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Originally Posted by zinfamous
/facepalm.
let's not get into this, but they are part of the family that includes racoons and weasels.
they are "technically a panda" just as they are "technically a dog." or "technically a cat."
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They're also very interested in technology and networking.
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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
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12-07-2012, 06:05 PM
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#180
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Diamond Member
Join Date: Sep 2010
Posts: 3,879
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ketchup79
Mine comes from my nickname in Jr. High band. My last name has a brand name of ketchup in it.
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Great grandfather's name...
Oh, and this guy too.
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12-07-2012, 06:09 PM
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#181
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Diamond Member
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Texas
Posts: 5,610
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Mine is actually 2 user names rolled into one.
When I first started posting here, back when the internet was new and shiny, and Anand first set up the board, I was SMOG. I got that name in college. I use to sit outside the computer lab in this little nook formed by the building and smoke and write code on the ground with chalk. Because of the way the nook was positioned it would fill with smoke. So all the freshmen would walk by and see me sitting on the ground surrounded by smoke and furiously scratching symbols on the ground. One day this chick came up and asked me if I had a light and her friend said 'Don't talk to him, that's the smog guy.' My old username had become a little too infamous, so it was time for a change, and I liked being the smog guy, (plus the chick was cute and started hanging out with me) so I changed everything to that.
After a while I lost the password the the smog account here, and no longer had access to the student email address that I had originally set it up under so I started to use Zinn. Zinn was the name of a favorite D&D character. I lost the password to that account as well, so just combined them as smogzinn. I've been using that since 2005, so I guess it stuck.
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12-07-2012, 06:24 PM
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#182
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No Lifer
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Bay Area
Posts: 54,052
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Originally Posted by Atomic Playboy
Also, technically adorable.
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it is scientific fact.
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brianmanahan: zinfamous is such a fool
he's known as AT:OT's tool
mentally he's such a klutz
his head is made of 50 butts
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12-07-2012, 06:44 PM
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#183
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Lifer
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Somewhere over the rainbow
Posts: 32,397
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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
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12-07-2012, 06:48 PM
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#184
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Diamond Member
Join Date: Jul 2010
Posts: 3,523
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My name is Joseph Freeman. You can probably figure it out from there.
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12-07-2012, 06:50 PM
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#185
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Golden Member
Join Date: Feb 2011
Posts: 1,831
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It's my name
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12-07-2012, 08:56 PM
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#186
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Lifer
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Land of Ahs
Posts: 23,171
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Quote:
Originally Posted by lxskllr
http://i.imgur.com/pjy0n.jpg
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lol :d
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12-07-2012, 09:02 PM
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#187
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Lifer
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Land of Ahs
Posts: 23,171
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Quote:
Originally Posted by highland145
Watch out, six, zin will go all genetic on you.  |
Whatever. I didn't name the damn thing.
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“A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot...” ― Robert A. Heinlein
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12-07-2012, 11:30 PM
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#188
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Lifer
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: It's turtles all the way down!
Posts: 21,914
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Quote:
Originally Posted by zinfamous
/facepalm.
let's not get into this, but they are part of the family that includes racoons and weasels.
they are "technically a panda" just as they are "technically a dog." or "technically a cat."
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Apart of the same SUPER family.
That does not make it the same family. Genetics actually place it as an entirely distinct group, but one that shares a lot in common (though almost certainly developed separately) with other families in that super family.
Also - that super family is in the same suborder as the bear family, canine family, etc.
To be clear - it's not in the same family as raccoons and weasels (which themselves aren't even in the same family - two distinct families  ). It's in the same superfamily. In that super family, there is also the family that contains weasels, otters, and badgers (yes, otters  ), and the family that contains raccoons and ringtails, and a third family yet that contains the skunks.
It's just as related to the otters as it is the skunk.
It's closer to all those than true bears, but rather distinctive in its own right - enough, genetically, to not place it in a family with any of the above, but rather, in the same group as those families due to shared characteristics.
yes - wiki is my sole source. I don't care. 
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12-08-2012, 12:33 AM
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#189
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Elite Member
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Edmonton, Alberta
Posts: 20,596
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First name starts with N.
7/7 is my birthday and my favorite number.
Mass Effect stole my name years later, which is irritating. 
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12-08-2012, 02:33 AM
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#190
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Elite member
Join Date: Nov 1999
Location: Shanghai
Posts: 4,732
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It was easy to remember as it is my name. I have been online sine the days of 300 baud modems and I always use some variation of my real name.
Michael
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"Oaths I have taken! I will fulfill them all! To King and Kingdom"
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12-08-2012, 08:33 AM
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#191
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Diamond Member
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Greenville, SC
Posts: 3,844
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Originally Posted by n7
First name starts with N.
7/7 is my birthday and my favorite number.
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It'l be ok. Hollywood stole my last name this past June. I'll manage.
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12-08-2012, 07:23 PM
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#192
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Junior Member
Join Date: Dec 2012
Posts: 2
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Mm. I like teasing guys
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12-08-2012, 07:57 PM
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#193
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Lifer
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: S.C.
Posts: 16,267
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Originally Posted by Pervert
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IPODS, NOW, Twitly.
Or not. Ain't feeling the tease.
Meh.
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12-08-2012, 08:04 PM
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#194
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Golden Member
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Glen Allen, VA
Posts: 1,571
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From the original Tron, "greetings conscript"...dont ask me why just registered it 11 years or so here, hardocp, & rage3d and has stuck
Sent from my Lumia 810 using Board Express
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12-10-2012, 08:46 PM
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#195
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Diamond Member
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Greenville, SC
Posts: 3,844
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Great posts guys. Keep 'em coming.
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12-11-2012, 05:08 PM
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#196
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Madame President
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: For A Moment It Seemed Like The Clouds Stopped Moving
Posts: 16,527
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Catsup>Ketchup!
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