Learned League

Greg, did you send your testers a PM thank you as well as thanking them in the recap?

Anyway, y'all come on and come and play my Isaac Newton 1DS if you feel it is in your wheelhouse.

Shocked that your last name isn’t Redd or even Blecch

Heh

Okay, I've recently gone north of 200 submissions so I can die young, stay pretty and you can bury me happy. Well, um, anyway, I think you catch my drift.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cUi9iPEXtk

I have never PM'd to thank testers except once or twice for a couple of testers who really went above and beyond, but a lot of people have mentioned on the message boards that they like it. I test for a lot of 1DS's myself and it's pretty rare to get any messages from the smith.

I did it just now. I received a bunch of these but they were very formal, which was still sort of nice. I tried to make it informal and I sent it right today
as a reminder in case they want to look at the actual contest.

Okay, I've recently gone north of 200 submissions

Newton > Joyce shockah!

Tell you why later.

Also

quality != quantity

amirite

^Redd's Law

Wait, silby, I just noticed your alma mater.

And?

I spent a summer there once.

Which I believe has something to do with the current campus speed limit.

Ah you did the math camp?

You know it. Everybody did back in the day, except for the greatest of us all.

I just went there and got a degree in something. I’m not so good at math.

The worst math camper better at math than most Hampshire students probably, which is funny

Heh, one of the student teachers was a Hampshire student. He had a bit different angle.

There were a bunch of other summer things going on at the same time, Feldenkrais camp, drum majorettes, you name it.

...and another Top 20, barely, finish, in Classic Reggae Music.

4 out of 12 on the Ike Newtie quiz!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxY3FtlLc-M

Did I tell you about Tony Orlando and the Brill Building?

Sorry, wrong quiz.

Oh, good anonymization there, Leee!

May I ask you what your usual threshold is for submitting?

Also want to remark upon some midpoint lull in submissions.

Looking back at my recent performance, I seem to be hovering around 6 where I can at least enter a reasonable (if not the correct) answer, though I played the Islam one despite only getting 3 correct.

My moneying has been disastrous though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16qsYreBJZE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxpb0-_NkQo

Sorry.

Thanks for playing, Greg and Leee!

Got my recap in. Was quite a bit of work didn’t want to let it linger.

Anyway, that was exhausting but fun. Over to you.

Also, noticing that some of you are doing pretty well in the MLs, particularly one of you, not to jinx.

Man, some of these recaps just sit there with no replies. I think I will give some love to your Ulysses recap over the weekend.

I always write my recaps in advance.

The Newton 1DS was fun but I am really kicking myself over not listening closely enough to the Jackson 5 clip (a song I know well - to be fair it does sound exactly like "ABC").

I wanted to write it in advance but ran out of road. Certainly planned quite a bit of it in advance.

I don't know if it's the done thing, but before I finished the recap I PMed some of the top finishers to congratulate them and thank them for playing.

Man, some of these recaps just sit there with no replies. I think I will give some love to your Ulysses recap over the weekend.

Aw, thanks! I was disappointed at first but given how few participated in the first place, it's understandable and the sting lessened over time.

Greg, do you know what rock song came from a musical version of Peer Gynt?

Also, I also for some reason left "In the Mood" blank even though I knew it. Does anyone else do this? Is there an LL name for it?

Wonder if I should ask the question of who we are really writing the recaps for. Even if nobody else posts, it still seems like a cheat if there is no recap at all.

I supppose I want somebody to read it eventually, some hypothetical audience but for now I guess I wrote it mostly for myself.

I know ELO did a version of "In the Hall of the Mountain King" but that's about all I know re: Grieg and rock music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-olDjUy4540
Nothing to do with Grieg.

The Loneliness of the 1DS Recap Poster.

While I am waiting to pitch my next potential 1DS maybe I will try to run an ILX POLL.