Home schooling. I see no need for regulation; we can trust those home schoolers. I confirm they know what is best for their children.

Yuck.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8229168.stm

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1324461&cid=28961537

WTF?

hey, help me develop the rules for a new game. it is similar to "google whack", but even more challenging. I call it

google-pudge

the idea is to find a two term google search, without referring to Christopher G. Nandor in any way, giving more than 50 (ya think?) hits, that upon adding a single term of pudginess, maintains the highest fraction of hits. Your score is your integer rounded percentage.

Remember, it is not fair to influence the googlebase to win.

I'll start with a modest example.

_ site:soundpolitics.com liar _ yields "Results 1 - 95 of 95 from soundpolitics.com for liar. (0.24 seconds)" and
_ site:soundpolitics.com liar pudge _ yields Results 1 - 49 of 49 from soundpolitics.com for liar pudge.

So my score is 49/95 *100 = 52, and I advance to the next round.

Rather like a debate with pudge, the rules can change as we go along, and you can call me a liar.

How about a few rounds?

In a recent (on-line only) article, "Scientific American" takes note of the possible violation of the pudgi exclusion principle.

"The pudgi exclusion principle concerns the hypothesized impossibility of Christopher G. Nandor fixing any bug that has been pointed out in slash code. Up until recently, the most important example was that the titles of most HTML pages, programmatically determined by slash code, made no fscking sense when bookmarked.

However, recently some lame-o, incomplete, brainless 'upgrades' have been noted. Scientists are still trying to confirm whether these changes have occurred due to efforts by Mr. Nandor, or by someone mistakenly adding their own greasemonkey scripts to the repository. "

For example, note the titles of the following:

http://slashdot.org/~pudge_confirmer/
    is "Slashdot pudge_confirmer (11)",
    should be: "/.: pudge_confirmer RULES"

http://slashdot.org/~countertrolling/journal/232757
    is "Journal of countertrolling (1585477)",
    should be "/.: Way to go, Dave!! by countertrolling "

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1294007&cid=28605533
    is "Slashdot Comments: Way to go, Dave!!",
    should be : "/.: 'Way to go, Dave!!' by countertrolling; reply "Dave? Dave?""

and don't even get me started on this:

http://slashdot.org/~pudge_confirmer/journal/232309

p.s. remember about 10 years ago, when a little browser named "Communicator" preceded every title with the koan "Netscape: ". Boy, that did not last long, did it?

Don't forget to post; and up-mod the good posts you see here!

Ciao,

red4man

I just wish it was a big one.

http://www.lyricsfreak.com/j/jim+croce/ive+got+a+name_20332721.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcqauC49Xmc

An airplane crash in the same breath as the day the music stopped.

Dumbass.

I confirm I am learning things about /. I never bothered to notice.

I confirm that red4man presently has no friends, no foes, a handful of fans, and one freak.

The freak: railgunner

The fans:

Captain Splendid (673276)
iminplaya (723125)
Jimmy_Slimmy (1499943)
pudge_confirmer (1504761)
StalinsNotDead (764374)

I confirm that red4man has an orgasm when someone foes him.

So, I plan to foe him from time to time to jerk him off, and then remove him from my list to emphasize that he is full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

Regards,

et cetera, et cetera....

Things have gotten rather quiet around here regarding pudge. Few journals, almost no comments.

And that misled me to think he might be cogitating on some issue. Maybe taking a look at his life, deciding based on his past, where he wants to go in his future.

I knew he often cross-posts lots of places. pudge-net, use perl, sound politics, churches, whatever...

I knew he gave use-perl a stern talking to, about how the quality was lower than on /., so those folks would hardly be blessed by his presence any more.

But I did not realize, he seems to have similarly written off slash-dork. Now, he seems to put his energy into "sound politics".

See, for example, the comments in

http://soundpolitics.com/archives/013031.html

Isn't it refreshing to know some things never change! Hey, I got dibs on "pudge_confirmer" over there, don't any dumbass go and grab my nick and harrass any other dumbasses over there. THAT would NOT be right. Plus, get your own gig.

Regards,

p_c

New? New? I can not confirm that schtick.

I confirm that at /., I find life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

And I confirm what my friend said at http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1274035&cid=28392251 .

And I confirm that we confirm that you confirm that we are all together. And confirming is my schtick, and when a dumbass tries to do it, it just looks lame-o. Because imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, and for that I thank you, dumbass.

So put that in your pipe and smoke it, sherlock.

Hey, if you were a slashdot programmer, would you give me moderation points?

I confirm, I would not!

They must be pretty desperate.

http://slashdot.org/journal/231889

Does anyone have an example of the titled technique to compare to the journal entry?

I confirm, I am just asking.

Input: http://slashdot.org/~pudge/friends/friends

Output:
"Error 503 Service Unavailable

Service Unavailable
Guru Meditation:

XID: 929783772
Varnish "

leads to only:

http://varnish.projects.linpro.no/