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Anonymous Wes said...

That's funny about the computer thing - I was once the go-to guy in my family, when personal computers were all new. They thought I was quite smart. Now, I have no special advantage - in fact, I am falling behind. Kids out of college can handle excel like it's a 2nd language, while I still have to think through things.

5/26/11, 12:41 AM

Blogger Dregs said...

Luckily, YouTube has a video of the plunge for distance, so we don't have to miss the excitement.

The video only had 77 views when I visited it, but now that it is posted on iSteve and will be twittered about by Steve, I'm sure it will go viral overnight.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LuZqvJJOt8

5/26/11, 12:43 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Luckily, YouTube has a video of the plunge for distance, so we don't have to miss the excitement.

That's the dumbest thing I've ever seen.

5/26/11, 1:06 AM

Blogger Steve Sailer said...

I could have been a contender!

5/26/11, 1:09 AM

Blogger Kalim Kassam said...

I think there's a tradeoff: Twitter is simple, and therefore unintuitive. Facebook is intuitive, and therefore complicated.

An even more anonymous way to follow Sailer (since anyone could learn what that second account is from this blogpost or by looking at the public feed) is to create a private twitter list that includes @Steve_Sailer. Someone else already suggested this in the previous thread.

[self-promotion warning]. Other readers of this blog less concerned with anonymity might like to follow my curated public list of crimethink reactionaries, which naturally includes our esteemed host.

5/26/11, 1:12 AM

Blogger Kalim Kassam said...

Apologies, that link was not the best to give (sometimes confusing even for an old hand!). For all your reactionary needs, click on this subtly different one.

5/26/11, 2:05 AM

Anonymous dearieme said...

Golly: I too was once a computer chap. Now they bore me to tears.

5/26/11, 2:33 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Dude, learn to hyperlink; taint hard:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LuZqvJJOt8

With a name like that I was expecting someone jumping from a very high distance into a very deep pool. The reality is less exciting, but I suspect natural talent and training would rapidly eliminate the iSteves of the world from world competition if this were still an Olympic event. Events get eliminated from the Olympics due to politics and popularity and money making potential (yes, even way back then) and this ain't exciting viewing.

Mind you, the people running the USA and Western civilization in general also appear to be engaged in their very own real life version of Plunge for Distance, albeit they aren't in competition with anyone else. They just seem determined to crash us as deep as possible.

5/26/11, 5:15 AM

Anonymous eh said...

Real men don't twitter. Or tweet. Whatever. They just don't.

Funny remark about Twitter: There Is No Switch

5/26/11, 5:30 AM

Anonymous rjp said...

Louis Manley wastes entirely too much energy defending "distance plunge".

Anonymous could be corrct with his statement that "That's the dumbest thing I've ever seen."

The thing that seems odd to me though is the demonstrator doesn't even seem to be going half the distance of the pool .... which is very weak.

5/26/11, 6:41 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Kids out of college can handle excel like it's a 2nd language

Does Excel have row or column manipulations yet?

Or do you still have to visit each cell in the row/column if you want to do anything with it?

The last time I tried to goof around with Excel [three or four years ago], you couldn't write code at the "meta" level of e.g. adding two columns together; instead, you had to write code to visit each cell and add the cells together [within a FOR loop]:


C3 = C1 + C2;

-vs-

for(i = 0; i < n; i++)
{
C3[i] = C1[i] + C2[i];
}


When I saw that, I threw my hands up in frustration, and swore I'd never again play with Excel until M$FT could give me some halfway decent "meta" functionality.

5/26/11, 7:17 AM

Blogger BigStraightPhil said...

"It occurs to me, now, that some of you might not want to be publicly identified as a follower of Steve_Sailer"

Good grief, have things really come that far now?

I think the world needs an 'I'm Spartacus' moment here.

I'm Steve_Sailer.

5/26/11, 9:28 AM

Blogger Garland said...

Some people say "tweeps" instead of "followers," as in
"How are all my tweeps today?" and "Good night, tweeps, talk to you tomorrow!" I guess it's thought to be cute but I think it's also to use a less cultish-sounding term than "followers." I prefer "followers."

5/26/11, 10:21 AM

Anonymous One refusing to hide behind 'anonymous' said...

"An even more anonymous way to follow Sailer (since anyone could learn what that second account is from this blogpost or by looking at the public feed) is to create a private twitter list that includes @Steve_Sailer. Someone else already suggested this in the previous thread."

This is why we suck. We are so chicken. Sailer ought to have some chutzpah and say IF YOU'RE TOO CHICKEN TO SHOW YOU READ MY BLOGS, SCREW YOU, PUNK!!!

5/26/11, 10:30 AM

Blogger Garland said...

Everyone be sure to keep an eye on
@mattyglesias' follow list to see if he follows the Steve_Sailer account or the anodyne one.

5/26/11, 10:32 AM

Blogger Geoff said...

The onus should be on the follower to create a separate anonymous account. Not the other way around.

5/26/11, 11:52 AM

Blogger Geoff said...

The onus should be on the follower to create an additional anonymous account if they so choose. Creating a duplicate twitter account that tweets the same thing as another is not the solution.

5/26/11, 11:53 AM

Blogger James Kabala said...

I like the way Snrub thinks.

5/26/11, 1:17 PM

Anonymous glib, facile n snarky said...

"I had a dream one night in the 1990s that I had once won an Olympic gold medal. When somebody challenged me in the dream, I explained that I had won my gold medal at the 1984 L.A. Summer Games in the Plunge for Distance, an obscure but still extant Olympic swimming / diving event in which the eight finalists stand on the edge of the pool and dive in and the one who goes farthest before having to take a breath wins. "

OK. You can probably help me disambiguate the term "California Dweebin'". Is it what Steve was doing when he had that dream or is it the new penalty to drinking games when an otherwise hot chick has to take the virginity of a dweeb upon losing?

5/26/11, 2:47 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

"I had a dream one night in the 1990s that I had once won an Olympic gold medal. When somebody challenged me in the dream, I explained that I had won my gold medal at the 1984 L.A. Summer Games in the Plunge for Distance, an obscure but still extant Olympic swimming / diving event in which the eight finalists stand on the edge of the pool and dive in and the one who goes farthest before having to take a breath wins. "

Freudian interpretation: Sailer imagined himself to be a penis penetrating a woman's vagina deeper than all the other guys.

5/26/11, 3:04 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

"I had a dream one night in the 1990s that I had once won an Olympic gold medal. When somebody challenged me in the dream, I explained that I had won my gold medal at the 1984 L.A. Summer Games in the Plunge for Distance, an obscure but still extant Olympic swimming / diving event in which the eight finalists stand on the edge of the pool and dive in and the one who goes farthest before having to take a breath wins. "

Political interpretation: Sailer chose politically incorrect line of thought that is not allowed to wade and make splash on the surface. So, he imagines working under the radar but eventually pulling ahead of everyone else.

5/26/11, 3:07 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

"I had a dream one night in the 1990s that I had once won an Olympic gold medal. When somebody challenged me in the dream, I explained that I had won my gold medal at the 1984 L.A. Summer Games in the Plunge for Distance, an obscure but still extant Olympic swimming / diving event in which the eight finalists stand on the edge of the pool and dive in and the one who goes farthest before having to take a breath wins. "

Cinephile interpretation: Sailer saw DAS BOOT and imagined himself to be a submarine.

5/26/11, 3:08 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

"I had a dream one night in the 1990s that I had once won an Olympic gold medal. When somebody challenged me in the dream, I explained that I had won my gold medal at the 1984 L.A. Summer Games in the Plunge for Distance, an obscure but still extant Olympic swimming / diving event in which the eight finalists stand on the edge of the pool and dive in and the one who goes farthest before having to take a breath wins."

HBD interpretation: As a believer in biology, Sailer remained submerged under water--the source of life--to study the origins and processes of life. It was like FANTASTIC VOYAGE.

Sci-fi interpretation: As a fan of Heinlein and Cameron, Sailer wants to escape into other worlds or different lifeforms. It was his ABYSS adventure.

Name interpretaion: His name is Sailer and he just feels close to water.

5/26/11, 3:16 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Steve, I've never laughed so much at one of your posts before - great stuff.

5/26/11, 5:10 PM

Blogger Steve Sailer said...

Well, if you like it so much I'll have to post, one of these days, a rambling reminiscence about how when I was a kid I had five successive identical blue parakeets named Tweeter. I disapproved of death on principle, so whenever a Tweeter would die, my parent would have to buy me another one exactly like the last one.

5/26/11, 5:21 PM

Blogger beowulf said...

Instead of 3gdhxw3, perhaps Plunge for Distance would be catchier.

5/26/11, 7:51 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

"Does Excel have row or column manipulations yet?"

Yes, it has had this capability for decades. Look up array formulas.

5/27/11, 12:48 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Yes, it has had this capability for decades. Look up array formulas.

URL?

Thanks.

5/28/11, 2:01 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I just sent a tweet showing one way (among many others) I use Twitter. I also sent a link to a group that you should avoid pandering to very a large number of reasons.

I've tweeted almost 11,000 tweets from one account alone, and I wouldn't do that if it weren't at least occasionally effective at achieving various goals.

As for FB, I've written several FB apps and I've tried to "get" it and I just can't. Unless you're social and you're there for social reasons, or you're a company building a brand and have lots of customers, it just leaves me cold. Their privacy/control issues and attempt to be an alternative to the open web are also very creepy.

5/28/11, 2:23 PM

Blogger milowent said...

the history of the plunge for distance, i just wrote it. enjoy!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plunge_for_distance

7/30/11, 5:12 AM

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