Heh
― A Stop at Quilloughby (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 5 May 2021 14:05 (three years ago) link
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.
― A Stop at Quilloughby (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 5 May 2021 15:31 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cUi9iPEXtk
― A Stop at Quilloughby (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 5 May 2021 15:39 (three years ago) link
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.
― justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Wednesday, 5 May 2021 15:41 (three years ago) link
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.
― A Stop at Quilloughby (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 5 May 2021 16:11 (three years ago) link
Okay, I've recently gone north of 200 submissions
Newton > Joyce shockah!
― Tahini Coates (Leee), Wednesday, 5 May 2021 18:26 (three years ago) link
Tell you why later.
― A Stop at Quilloughby (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 5 May 2021 18:27 (three years ago) link
Alsoquality != quantity amirite
― A Stop at Quilloughby (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 5 May 2021 18:36 (three years ago) link
^Redd's Law
Wait, silby, I just noticed your alma mater.
― A Stop at Quilloughby (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 5 May 2021 18:40 (three years ago) link
And?
― Clara Lemlich stan account (silby), Wednesday, 5 May 2021 18:49 (three years ago) link
I spent a summer there once.
― A Stop at Quilloughby (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 5 May 2021 18:55 (three years ago) link
Which I believe has something to do with the current campus speed limit.
Ah you did the math camp?
― Clara Lemlich stan account (silby), Wednesday, 5 May 2021 18:55 (three years ago) link
You know it. Everybody did back in the day, except for the greatest of us all.
― A Stop at Quilloughby (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 5 May 2021 18:57 (three years ago) link
I just went there and got a degree in something. I’m not so good at math.
― Clara Lemlich stan account (silby), Wednesday, 5 May 2021 19:27 (three years ago) link
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.
― A Stop at Quilloughby (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 5 May 2021 19:35 (three years ago) link
There were a bunch of other summer things going on at the same time, Feldenkrais camp, drum majorettes, you name it.
― A Stop at Quilloughby (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 5 May 2021 19:36 (three years ago) link
...and another Top 20, barely, finish, in Classic Reggae Music.
― A Stop at Quilloughby (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 5 May 2021 19:46 (three years ago) link
4 out of 12 on the Ike Newtie quiz!
― Tahini Coates (Leee), Wednesday, 5 May 2021 21:04 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxY3FtlLc-M
― A Stop at Quilloughby (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 5 May 2021 21:11 (three years ago) link
Did I tell you about Tony Orlando and the Brill Building?
― A Stop at Quilloughby (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 5 May 2021 21:12 (three years ago) link
Sorry, wrong quiz.
Oh, good anonymization there, Leee!
May I ask you what your usual threshold is for submitting?
― A Stop at Quilloughby (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 5 May 2021 22:06 (three years ago) link
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.
― Tahini Coates (Leee), Wednesday, 5 May 2021 22:59 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16qsYreBJZE
― A Stop at Quilloughby (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 6 May 2021 01:47 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxpb0-_NkQo
― A Stop at Quilloughby (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 6 May 2021 14:13 (three years ago) link
Sorry.Thanks for playing, Greg and Leee!
― A Stop at Quilloughby (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 6 May 2021 19:24 (three years ago) link
Got my recap in. Was quite a bit of work didn’t want to let it linger.
― A Stop at Quilloughby (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 7 May 2021 04:49 (three years ago) link
Anyway, that was exhausting but fun. Over to you.
― A Stop at Quilloughby (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 7 May 2021 12:28 (three years ago) link
Also, noticing that some of you are doing pretty well in the MLs, particularly one of you, not to jinx.
― A Stop at Quilloughby (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 7 May 2021 13:31 (three years ago) link
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.
― A Stop at Quilloughby (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 7 May 2021 15:16 (three years ago) link
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").
― justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Friday, 7 May 2021 16:44 (three years ago) link
I wanted to write it in advance but ran out of road. Certainly planned quite a bit of it in advance.
― A Stop at Quilloughby (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 7 May 2021 16:55 (three years ago) link
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.
― A Stop at Quilloughby (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 7 May 2021 16:58 (three years ago) link
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.
― Tahini Coates (Leee), Friday, 7 May 2021 17:27 (three years ago) link
Greg, do you know what rock song came from a musical version of Peer Gynt?
― A Stop at Quilloughby (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 7 May 2021 18:23 (three years ago) link
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?
― A Stop at Quilloughby (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 7 May 2021 18:25 (three years ago) link
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.
― A Stop at Quilloughby (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 7 May 2021 19:30 (three years ago) link
I supppose I want somebody to read it eventually, some hypothetical audience but for now I guess I wrote it mostly for myself.
― A Stop at Quilloughby (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 7 May 2021 19:38 (three years ago) link
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.
― justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Friday, 7 May 2021 20:13 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-olDjUy4540Nothing to do with Grieg.
― A Stop at Quilloughby (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 7 May 2021 20:34 (three years ago) link
The Loneliness of the 1DS Recap Poster.
― A Stop at Quilloughby (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 8 May 2021 17:12 (three years ago) link
While I am waiting to pitch my next potential 1DS maybe I will try to run an ILX POLL.
― Working in the POLL Mine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 9 May 2021 01:05 (three years ago) link
Smithing 1DS's is definitely a time consuming and pretty thankless process but it's one of my favorite things about LL. Not something I would do if I didn't find writing and tinkering with questions fun though.― justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Tuesday, 13 April 2021 14:47 (three weeks ago)
― Working in the POLL Mine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 9 May 2021 20:18 (three years ago) link
You appreciate the art of writing trivia questions in a much more concrete way, smithing your own 1DS, that's for sure.
― Tahini Coates (Leee), Sunday, 9 May 2021 22:45 (three years ago) link
Indeed. Also keep obsessing about the one trace element of Wikipedia that crept in despite my best efforts.
― Working in the POLL Mine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 9 May 2021 22:48 (three years ago) link