bcmn

Lesson of the last six months: never underestimate my ability to get the wrooong end of the stick.

Ahaha oh dear, you might start losing me when it comes to Scots slang unfortunately.

I am not! North-East Scotland here. Hope you find some more Bay Area folks though, sounds like a fun idea. I'm sure I've seen a fair few readers from that area through Twitter, etc. so it seems like it should be possible.

Hey. I'm relatively quiet on the forums here, but I do read some semi-regularly. I notice the topic of keeping in touch with uni friends was on discussion recently. It felt related to some recent happenings, so... I'm still in uni. Throughout, I've built up groups of people I'd talk to every day, some of them much less pleasant than others, and ultimately I've lost touch with a number of them already. But recently the guy I was closest to for the last few years has been getting more and more distant, and it's felt weirdly deliberate/personal/whatever at times. It's an odd experience feeling like something's changed when nothing visibly has. Sometimes it's fine, and then others it's been really not and he's made some really barbed comments. Inconsistency is just puzzling. But it felt as though it culminated the other night when I really needed somebody to talk to and he blanked me completely. Ouch. Combined with other people just being outright confusing... I dunno. People. Needed to write this I guess. So hi, and thanks for tolerating my rant.

So apparently I've never said hi, despite reading the forums on and off for quite a while, and listening to the podcasts for a looong time. So hi there, I'm Ben. I'm from Scotland, study Computing, and love systemic games.

Sounds like Soundcloud is performing maintenance on their RSS services, so that's why the Thumbs feeds and streaming are down.

Oops, my mistake, somehow I completely missed that post when I looked before. Cheers for pointing it out

Does anybody know the whereabouts of the article Jake described as detailing a Chinese Room implementation for a South American computer? It was a really intriguing description.