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Former Member
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I'm a reporter from the Columbia News Service (Columbia School of Journalism) working on an article about the effect of teams in grid computing. I'm fascinated by your work and interested to know why you are a part of a team, how you found yours, why you are participating in this project, and what is the incentive to keep going: the competion, the cause, etc.? Why is your team the best/unique. I'd love to hear some anecdotes/short stories on any of these questions. I'm interested in hearing from top teams and producers as well as smaller ones that haven't gotten a lot of attention.
You can resond in this thread, or e-mail me at tim.mcmanus@gmail.com The only caveat is that I need your age, name, and occupation. I'd also be happy to do phone interviews in the United States. If interested please e-mail me. To anyone who participates I'll send a copy of the article and my deepest thanks. With your help this can be a great piece and you can spread the name of your team and the project as a whole. Thanks and I look forward to hearing from you! Tim McManus Columbia News Service Columbia School of Journalism tim.mcmanus@gmail.com |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Paging BrassTax
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Im just a member of a web forum called tribal war. When someone makes a post telling you to join up to anything you simply have to do it cause it makes you e-cool. Especially if they are Vet³ or higher.
I think most peoples reason from tribalwar for doing this is just in spite of MyOnlineTeam. They are smack talkers, but we are like a thousand pissed off bees. We will own you if we want to. :) Name: Mapper Age: 24 Occ: Gigolo |
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Dude, we're much bigger smack talkers than those MOT newbs.
I was smack talking before most of them were a twinkle in their father's nether regions |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
I joined Team TW for the chicks, and the free cinammon rolls.
That, and whooping MOT(e) is all the motivation I need. Oh ya, and the kids with messed up proteomes. I hate it when my proteomes are messed up, and when you're a kid, it's way harder to get your proteomes straightened up. Crooked proteomes must be stopped at all costs. I'd type some more but my free date from TW is here, and I've got icing on my keyboard. Phyzx ![]() TW: We eat MOT for breakfast ![]() |
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Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Well, I joined because the moon was in retrograde and my odometer just went over 76,000 miles.
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Hi, Tim.
Some of the people here who have been around for a while would be a good starting place. I have emailed some of them to reply to you by posting on this thread. Members like Lawrence Hardin and Graham, for example, spend a great deal of time staying current on the project, related research and maintain ongoing relationships with the projects principal researchers. As they have been around here since the 7 deadly plagues, they will certainly be able to provide you with some great color, as well. Good luck with the article, Tim. If you need anything, just post. Once the members know you are here the turnaround time will improve dramatically. ![]() |
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Former Member
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Thanks for all the help I've gotten privately over e-mail. I'm in the middle of thanking everyone individually and asking some follow up questions. It would be great to hear from some of the people mentioned in the last post. Anything you could contribute to help me capture the feel for this would be really appreciated. You probably can explain it better than any set of questions I can ask. At this point the article could use some color, scene, or anecdote. Something that really catches the personality of the people involved. Thanks again!
Tim McManus Columbia News Service tim.mcmanus@gmail.com |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Tim:
Thanks for stopping by the GRID. A member of the press is always welcome. Press generates interest and interest generates CPU time. More CPU time equals happiness. Happiness brings in the press and so on. This is only one of the doctrines that we teach at our initiations. My Indoc was in New Mexico at the first Tribal Council. Sound like the TV show "Survivor"?. We are still in litigation over their misuse of the term. It was originally used by TribalWar in preparation for SETI. However, this is another story. Most people don't have a clue why they join the grid. Perhaps they are drawn as a moth is to flames. Not a bad analogy considering the heat thrown off by one of our server dens. Sure, I have seen the rather quaint single system installations that exist. TribalWar is different. TribalWar has vision. Once you have been through Indoc you look at the world in a different manner. Once you have worn the Shades of Time you see truth. "Shades of Time?", I hear you query. It sounded weird to me too until I gazed at the first ripping farm through infrared day gear provided to me by one of the Time Keepers. My core temperature rose considerably while I basked in that eerie, somewhat sensuous red glow. Words cannot do justice to the feeling a TribalWar member achieves through accurate, diligent processing. We pride ourselves in our combination of computational and memetic skills. Our message is packaged to spread like a virus and we are all positive agents of our cause. Sometimes we joke that "it's in the water" around our base. You would truly have to arrange a virtual tour of our technical exostructure. It is nothing short of amazing and is a welcome sight to those wishing to experience the future. More information can be obtained on VirtualTour times and dates by contacting us at the following address. news@tribalwar.com Good luck with your article on the GRID. |
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