Happy Australia Day to all Ozzie Buffistas!
:)
The girl's not playing with a full deck, Giles. She has almost no deck. She has a three.
Buffy ,'Same Time, Same Place'
Sunnydale Press
Having a party? Organizing a local F2F? Know something that we all really need to know? Announce it! Want to discuss anything posted here? Take it to Natter. Any natter here will be deleted.
jengod - Jan 26, 2004 10:12:24 am PST #1066 of 4091
victor infante - Jan 26, 2004 5:35:03 pm PST #1067 of 4091
To understand what happened at the diner, we shall use Mr. Papaya! This is upsetting because he's the friendliest of fruits.
Sunday, Feb. 1st, 7p.m. (Yes. Super Bowl Sunday) I'm reading poetry at the Java Hut:
The JAVA HUT 1073A Main Street (Webster Square) Worcester, MA (508)752-1678 [link]
Also, a fairly unofficial birthday party (My birthday being the 5th, which I am, of course, working.)
No gifts neccesary, but would LOVE to see you!
Allyson - Jan 26, 2004 8:50:24 pm PST #1068 of 4091
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Maya & I will be on The Succubus Club internet radio show on Wednesday, January 28th at 7PM Pacific time. I know, it's a new Angel night. But hey, West Coasters can post n' listen to me be a jackass on the radio.
DCJensen - Jan 26, 2004 10:50:52 pm PST #1069 of 4091
All is well that ends in pizza.
The iTunes Pepsi 100 million songs promotion starts on Sunday, February 1st.
Elena - Jan 27, 2004 1:11:29 pm PST #1070 of 4091
Thanks for all the fish.
Xandering
Elena "The Quotable Buffy 2: Two Quotes Enter, One Quote Leaves." Jan 27, 2004 3:10:56 pm PST
Elena - Jan 28, 2004 12:42:11 pm PST #1071 of 4091
Thanks for all the fish.
Elena "The Quotable Buffy 2: Two Quotes Enter, One Quote Leaves." Jan 28, 2004 2:41:23 pm PST
Still Xander.
Anne W. - Jan 29, 2004 6:33:55 am PST #1072 of 4091
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
Attention all yarn, floss, canvas, and fabric addicts in the Baltimore/DC area:
Three large craft stores near my house are having their annual Superbowl Sale this Sunday, February 1, from 1 to 5 pm. One store specializes in embroidery and needlepoint, another in quilting, and yet another in knitting and spinning. Discounts are usually around 15% or so.
If anyone is interested in going and possibly meeting up at my place before or after, please contact me at my profile addy.
Elena - Jan 29, 2004 8:00:00 am PST #1073 of 4091
Thanks for all the fish.
Elena "The Quotable Buffy 2: Two Quotes Enter, One Quote Leaves." Jan 29, 2004 9:59:04 am PST
It's the end of Xander as we know it.
Volans - Jan 30, 2004 3:46:51 am PST #1074 of 4091
move out and draw fire
General favor, please: if you visit any site that has a list of items and allows you to select more than one of them and perform an action (like "purchase" or "delete"), please send a link to that site to me. I'm working on a web design standards project and need a lot of case examples!
Thanks in advance - profile addy is good.
Jon B. - Jan 30, 2004 10:49:07 am PST #1075 of 4091
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Voting is now open for the following proposal:
Proposal: I (erinaceous) propose that the board agree to individual members allowing their posts to be added to the American National Corpus, in order to further language scholarship and research (and not incidentally make it easier to get "foamy" in the dictionary).
Information on the ANC is at http://americannationalcorpus.org.
How will it work?
First of all, only currently closed threads will be eligible for the ANC. Which ones, yet, are not determined, but most likely Natter, Music, and the Show/Spoiler Threads. Bitches will not be one of the threads (too much personal info). Unamericans/Canadians will not be included, either (supposed to be for American English). FanFiction and San Sacre will not be included (too hard to separate fiction from nonfiction).
Secondly, individual posters have to opt in filling out a form to be located on buffistas.org. Voting "yes" on this proposal does not opt you in! There will be a separate form for that purpose. The form will send me (erinaceous) an email, the text of which is below, giving permission. It will only be available to logged in users and will automagically include your screen name.
Text of Permission Opt-In Form: By submitting this form, I, <screen-name-inserted-here>, hereby grant to the American National Corpus Consortium (ANCC), a worldwide, perpetual, royalty-free license to use, reformat, reproduce, and distribute through the Linguistic Data Consortium of the University of Pennsylvania, in electronic form or any and all media hereinafter developed, my anonymized posts to the Phoenix Board/Buffistas.org as part of a collection of American English-language material. I agree to the terms of use (outlined here) and understand that the collection will be made available to others for the purposes of linguistic education, research, and development.
Thirdly, I (erinaceous) will be doing the stripping out of non-opt-in-ers, so no UnBuffista eyes will see the data until posts from people who don't want their posts included in the ANC have been removed.
Fourthly, the posts, once in the hands of the ANC, will be further anonymized: all screen names and personal names will be replaced by tags that say "SCREEN NAME" and "PERSONAL NAME", essentially.
The posts will be part of a 200 million word corpus of American English, used mainly by language researchers and lexicographers to figure out how people actually write and speak. It's difficult to get online material that is both reasonably good English (although of course I think the Buffistas are more than reasonably good writers of English!) and organized enough to be of value. Contributing your posts will help to advance language research in the U.S. a great deal.
Voting closes Monday at Noon (PST).