October 2 2002 RussCon Report

News

russcon.org exists! Thanks PJ for the domain name administration assistance! Right now it just serves as a synonym for the familiar russcon.place.org. But I figured it was about time I acquired the russcon.org domain name. Sometime I plan to do some major reorganization to my website, now that I'm learning a lot about XML and XSL at work. Fun stuff.

If you are interested in opposing a war with Iraq, there is a march & rally Saturday (gather at 2pm at Republic Square Park, 5th and Guadalupe); more info at http://austinagainstwar.org/.

Lots of work this week is delaying hammering out the details on my second programming/testing challenge, but it is on the way sometime relatively soon.

Meta Game

Too many people show up every week and lamely decline to play the metagame. This metagame is dedicated to those lamers, er, I mean non-players. This time, either bring or when you show up write on a piece of the abundant scratch paper a reason why you either hate or like the metagame (the metagame as a concept, that is, not this particular metagame.) At 10PM, we'll have a simple majority-wins vote for the "best" reason among the reasons to hate the metagame. Everyone present gets to vote, and use whatever criteria pleases you to determine the best. Whoever wins the "hate" vote is then the metadevil and inherits the metadevil tile and gains the admiration of all present. Then he reads through the reasons for liking the metagame and picks the one he thinks is best. Whoever wrote that reason is the metadevil for next week.

Two different lazy lamers said they hate the Meta Game because it is too much effort, but there were also some other amusing reasons to hate the Meta Game, such as all the clueless idiots who walk in and ask "What's the Meta Game tonite?" The most popular reason by far was Dan's: The Meta game is bad because it has made me its bitch. So Dan took over as the evening's Meta Devil briefly (during which time he took the opportunity to deface William's lovingly constructed plaque from last week) and picked his favorite reason for liking the Meta Game, which was JP's: I love the Metagame b/c so many people hate it. So JP is next week's Meta Devil and will design the next Meta Game!

New Multiplicative Rank Ratings:    
 5.1160 166.6667 JP (8)
 2.7081 15.0000 MarkH (3)
 2.4849 12.0000 Steve (5)
 2.1972 9.0000 RussW (8)
 2.0794 8.0000 MarkY (5)
 1.0986 3.0000 JeffF (2)
 0.6931 2.0000 JimG (3)
 0.4055 1.5000 Marty (2)
-0.6931 0.5000 RussD (5)
-0.6931 0.5000 PJ (3)
-0.6931 0.5000 Clay (2)
-1.0986 0.3333 Ben (4)
-1.4508 0.2344 Dan (7)
-1.6094 0.2000 Clayton (3)
-1.6094 0.2000 Fina (2)
-1.7918 0.1667 Whindy (3)
-1.7918 0.1667 William (5)
-2.0149 0.1333 Matt (3)
-3.2189 0.0400 Whendy (8)

New Multiplicative Win Ratings:
 6.8024 900.0000 JP won 5 of 8
 2.3671 10.6667 MarkY won 3 of 5
 2.0149 7.5000 MarkH won 2 of 3
 1.8563 6.4000 Steve won 3 of 5
 0.6931 2.0000 RussD won 2 of 5
 0.4700 1.6000 Clayton won 1 of 3
 0.4055 1.5000 Marty won 1 of 2
 0.2877 1.3333 JimG won 1 of 3
 0.0124 1.0125 Dan won 1 of 7
 0.0000 1.0000 PJ won 1 of 3
 0.0000 1.0000 Whindy won 1 of 3
-0.3693 0.6912 RussW won 1 of 8
-0.3693 0.6912 Whendy won 1 of 8
-0.4463 0.6400 Fina won 0 of 2
-0.5108 0.6000 JeffF won 0 of 2
-0.7340 0.4800 Matt won 0 of 3
-0.8109 0.4444 Ben won 1 of 4
-0.9163 0.4000 Clay won 0 of 2
-2.3026 0.1000 William won 0 of 5