Only 154 threads?? C'mon, DU, you can do better than that!!

[TahitiNut]

Let's have every DUer start a new thread (or MORE) to put their own unique, awesome perspective regarding the premature death of a corporate media whore - or sainted champion of a Free (Corporate) Press - on display for all to see! Let's get a REAL netgasm going! Switch hands if you must! C'mon DU ... we can do it!! Every brainfart deserves its own thread!

:party: :party:

[Pool Hall Ace]

1. I love your Barbara Jordan avatar.

She was a terrific lady who left us way too soon. :(

[babylonsister]

2. Not better than you, my friend. You apparently counted them.

:party:

[TahitiNut]

5. Math and Computer Science - worked as Corporate Auditor - It's a compulsion.

Genetic. DNA. Twisted. Double helix.

:dunce:

[Boojatta]

77. Did you count the thread at the link below?

Have been away from DU since Friday morning. Anything happen since then?

Also, if I were to create a new thread similar to the one here but without the word "Russert", then would it be counted?

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

3. My perspective on Russert's demise...

:boring:

[Joe the Revelator]

37. I'm sorry someone's death bores you

Classy.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

53. What's "classy" about displays of faux grief and admiration for a 2nd rate talking head.

No, make that 3rd rate.

[proud2BlibKansan]

4. Best thread of the day!!

:applause:

[TahitiNut]

13. That's really a depressing thought.

:cry:
:dunce:

[PsN2Wind]

6. How's it going Mike?

I was hopeful that after the primaries the DU would return to its former level of insanity. But it seems it's going to continue with post after post by names not seen a year ago, but with thousands of posts in their short time here.

[JohnnyLib2]

7. Desperate, must fill the recent vacuum.

:evilgrin:

[Retired AF Dem]

8. When I first heard the news yesterday

I knew it would be a waste of time to visit DU this weekend.

[tekisui]

9. Is this thread number 155?

:P

[JohnnyLib2]

11. and counting.

[TahitiNut]

12. Of course. "We must be the change we wish to see in the world." (Gandhi)

I try hard to practice what I preach. :silly:

[Canuckistanian]

10. I was just wondering, "Where are all the Russert threads?"

Then it hit me.

My computer was turned off.

[EFerrari]

14. Hey -- help combat brain death! Kick and rec Viva's BookTv thread!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3449723

We've been getting just under five recs every week for a while now. And that's a shame.

:hi:

[TahitiNut]

15. "Book TV"??

That's an oxymoron if I've ever heard one. :dunce:

[EFerrari]

16. LOL!

It is. But since Viva got me watching, my reading pile has become nice and thick and diverse. Every weekend there is some requisite number of fake books by NeoCon related interests but also, presentations on the voyage of the Beagle, on the "race beat", on election fraud and reform, on lives of statemen -- like The Master of the Senate / LBJ or a retrospective on RFK'S run. BookTv is where I learned about the round ups after 9//1, about contemporary slavery in Florida, and about that perfect expression of BushCo, Black Water.

:)

[arcadian]

17. Somebody doesn't have to start one if they don't want to

Because I started two.

:evilgrin:

[BlooInBloo]

18. But MY grief is SOOOO much greater, so much more sublime and poignant than anybody else's!!!!

[arcadian]

20. You for got to add that your insight into the matter

is unique and that everybody should be made aware of this. ;-)

[BlooInBloo]

21. Heh - I thought I'd leave that for DUer validation...

:rofl:

[TahitiNut]

22. Hey! If we couldn't exploit someone's death by showing we're more righteous than someone else, ...

... then what possible good could come from them dying?? :crazy: :dunce: Can't let it go to waste, ya know. :grr: :cry:

[hfojvt]

19. Everybody sing along

"You'd think that people would have had enough of silly Russert threads
but I look around me and I see
it isn't so
some people wanna fill the board with silly Russert threads
What's wrong with that?
I'd like to know
because here I go
again ..."



Maybe this one would work better

"There were shills on the air
but I never heard them flinging
no I never heard them at all
'till there was Tim

and there were white lies
and there was corporate spin - they tell me
and sweet doctored intelligence
of weapons
en masse

there were lies all around
but I never gave them credence
no I never bought them at all
till!
there!
was!
Tim!!"

But that really gives him too much credit.

Plus death has enough of a sting, without adding bad parody on top of it.

[TahitiNut]

23. Way to go, DU!!! Yes!! We now have 189 threads! Keep it up! We can do BETTER!!!

:party: :party: :party:

[kath]

24. Are you SERIES?!!1!!1 189?!!1

How many by canonizers (or at least the "it's EEEEE-VUL to say ANYthing bad about the dead" crowd), how many by reality-based types? Or aren't you twisted and geekified enough to be able to figure that one out? :-)

[TahitiNut]

25. Well, I'm sure twisted enough ... but age has dulled my geekiness.

:evilgrin:

[countryjake]

33. It's been two hours...twenty more?

your challenge has been answered!

I think I'll recommend your post now, just to keep a perspective on the Greatest Page.

[AlCzervik]

26. i'm really lazy.

so lazy i haven't even started one.

[Greyhound]

27. LOL, I always suspected that you were a professional nerd.

Thanks for the chuckle.
:thumbsup::rofl::thumbsup:

[TahitiNut]

30. (grin) Once upon a time, I qualified for padded cell status.

I'd be lost in Nerdvana and coworkers would toss pizza and cola in at me when it looked like I needed it. It wasn't unusual for me to do 24-hours or 36-hours straight. Getting lost in a virtual surreality of bits and bytes was, at one time, my 'Matrix.' There's something I miss about that ... being so completely consumed in concentration and keeping all the mental "balls in the air" while building a new construct in that universe was enthralling. Until I get into it, I never knew how much a person could actually concentrate on a complex problem. In school, I was a pretty lazy student - it all came pretty easy - so I'd not learned how to realy study and get deeply into a subject. Computer systems programming was a mental Disneyland - portable and all the rides were free.

Nerd? Ubetcha. :silly:

[Greyhound]

32. OMG. Nerdvana is the name of our home network.

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

I miss being able to earn a living doing that which so few are capable of. Oh well, at least I can rest easy knowing that Clinton's backers were able to steal billions more while ruining millions of lives and destroying a profession.

[TahitiNut]

36. Well, for sure it's a label that fits the "mental space" I'd get into.

I think many systems programmers understand what I mean. It seems nearly impossible to explain to "linear thinkers." I'd guess only about 1/3rd of us thought that way. The only times I discovered that it was 'different' were, first, when Gerry Weinberg wrote his books about "systems thinking" and, then, when Hofstadter wrote "Godel, Escher, Bach." Until then, I really didn't much realize that there was a "modality" ... it just seemed like a mental 'playground.' I have to credit that practice/experience with being able to understand meditation (first TM then other forms) and get so much from it.

I agree with what you say ... with no small degree of disgust. The "state of the art" has gotten appalling - fat, clumsy, buggy, inefficient, and largely ineffective software seems to be the rule these days. The hardware horspower and capacity seems almost completely consumed by the crap - like dragging dozens of sandbags behind a Ferrari with flat tires.

[ForeignSpectator]

52. Sometimes, I have a hard time concentrating,

"I let the first ball drop as soon as I toss the second in the air". Had my times of "being consumed in concentration" and loved when I managed to be in that "state of flow". Then I had a period of maybe two years of "mental laziness" and I keep thinking 'that never happened to me back then', for example when I forget how sentence started by the time I read its end.
Trying to get back to my "mental fitness" since recently...

Do you maybe have some effective tips of yours on how you train concentration/short term memory??

[TahitiNut]

54. I wish I knew.

I've always loved puzzles, mysteries, riddles, and such. Since I enjoyed it, I was exercising concentration as a side-effect of just being fascinated. These days, when I find that I'm easily distracted and absent-minded, I meditate and let myself discover what's depressing/haunting/preoccupying me ... and "let it go". It's a process - calm reflection in the "here" and "now." But I haven't been in Nerdvana for over 10 years. It's a Memory Lane thing, now.

[ForeignSpectator]

55. Thanks! Read about the meditation and "letting it go" somewhere on the net, too.

So far, I do with simple concentration exercises I found and after the first few times they already helped. That's how down I was/am. It seems to be like training your physical stamina. If you do nothing, your muscles become weak ( or you get dumb, as in my case :silly: ).

As I ask among friends, I don't seem to be the only one with this problem, though, kinda like a disease of today's times.

Did you have that "going to Nerdvana" under control, meaning you could "go there" anytime you wanted? Or was a matter of luck/right circumstance for it to work?


PS : "K&R" for your OP btw!

[TahitiNut]

71. OK, grasshopper ... here's the 'secret' I discovered

When I became a programmer, I was enthralled. It was a mental activity that could be all-consuming. I found myself getting tapped on the shoulder at the end of the day and told it was past quitting time - and it amazed me how much time had passed. This was a repeated experience for years.

I, of course, did the usual thing and gave the ACTIVITY the credit. IT was what 'made' me concentrate.

We do this ... us human beans. We externalize. She 'makes' me happy. That thing 'gives me' pleasure.

We fail to take responsibility for our choices ... even, sometimes, the 'good' choices.

"School is boring." (Well, don't we yet know it's NOT the school doing that?)

So, once I accepted the fact that *I* was doing it - *I* was concentrating - *I* was choosing to be fascinated - I accepted the fact that I could make such a choice ANY time.

That's the key, I think, to a LOT of life. If we realize how we can shape and choose our own experiences - how we CREATE our own realities - we get the keys to the Toy Store.

Enjoy. :hi:

Oh... and I also discovered I wasn't the first to 'discover' this - not by a long shot. Nonetheless, I take credit for it. Some things have to be 'discovered' by each person. It seems to be a birthright.

[Reterr]

28. So on the the John Edwards' House scale where would this be?

;):D
I feel as though that went on for days (as this conceivably could too). 3 days later someone will start a thread with the brilliantly original idea (that sounds like it is borrowed from Faux News' 'fair and balanced' crap): "Well humph both sides hated him-clearly he was a brilliant and objective journalist harrumph". or "HE WAS A FATHER AND A HUMAN BEING-YOU PEOPLE ARE WORM-EATERS".

[devilgrrl]

29. I think The Christmas Tree should be renamed after Tim Russert

He was a good Christian boy. It's only fitting.

[Swamp Rat]

42. O TannenTim,

O TannenTim, du füllst mein' Blase voller. :D

[countryjake]

43. You fill my bubble more fully?

Is that a reference to all the artistic opportunities the guy presented?

[Swamp Rat]

48. not 'bubble'

'bladder' :D

Nacht :hi:

[kath]

49. Swamp Rat, I just love your graphics!

they;ve given me so many smiles over the years.

[countryjake]

51. oops! That's what I get for using Free Translation

Danke for clearing that up...auf Wiedersehen! :silly:

:hi:

[countryjake]

31. LOL! Can't wait til the funeral! n/t

[Solly Mack]

34. I've been fighting the urge.

Wasn't hard as I didn't care

[bigwillq]

35. Is this post included in the tally?

:shrug:

[TahitiNut]

38. I'm SOOO proud of DU!!! We've got 214 threads, now!! Keep it up, folks!!!

We didn't let that downtime slow us!! We just kept on obsessing! Yeah!

:party: :party: :party: :party:

[Swamp Rat]

40. Damn!

And I've hidden about half of them. I can't keep up!!!





Oh, and shame on you TahitiNut! :spank: and shame on me too! :spank: .... SHAME ON US!!!! :spank:



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[kath]

45. 214! WOOT! Hey Mr. Twisted Nerd Guy, a question.

oh great nerd who has figured out how to count threads on a topic -- I know about the buddy list (but I'm not really sure how to use it) and the ignore list. What I'd like to make up is a personal "Ignorant list" for my own use, maybe divided into categories such as Ignorant, Willfully Ignorant and Freeakin' Stubbornly Willfully Ignorant (I, WI & FSWI). 'Cuz, boy-howdy, are people revealing their critical thinking skills (or lack thereof) and their "Ignorance level" this past day or so, and it might be useful for future reference. People who write well and/or are part of the Reality Based Community have gone into the Buddy List. Don't want to put all the I's on ignore, since they might make an interesting anthropological study or something, and can be amusing to read in measured doses. :-) My computer skills aren't great, but I'm educable.

Okay, maybe I'm an asshole. Flame away. But the level/frequency of ignorance has been gobsmackingly high, and it's put my brain on the fritz :crazy: :crazy: So many have been assimilated.

On the bright side, quite a few very thoughtful, informed DUers, many of whom have patiently tried to educate others, have been revealed to me. Cheers to them!! :toast: And may the ranks of the Reality Based Community grow. :toast:

Can't wait for the next DUzys. We could all use some good laughs.

[Rex]

39. And this surprises you?

We can't kill eachother now that Obama is the one, so back to the basics. :eyes:

[emmadoggy]

41. You know, I was starting to think my eyes were going wacky or something

because all I could see everywhere I looked on DU was the word "Russert".

Phew! Thanks for letting me know that it's not some weird degenerative eye disorder and really is just an epic case of DU craziness. Good thing there isn't anything important going on in the world right now.
:crazy:

[NuttyFluffers]

44. i gnashed my teeth and rent my garments, isn't that enough?

what more does the Compassion Orgy demand? blood? is this the Passion of the Russert? and will it be an annual thing?

[nadinbrzezinski]

46. The Passion of the Russert,

coming to a theater near you

As long as Mel Gibson does not direct...

(yes some of that gallows humor that I refereed to in another thread for the young amongst us)

[kath]

47. oh, yes, an annual World Timmy Day is in the works.

I saw it one of those threads...

[texanwitch]

76. I stated in thread that we should have a national Timmy day.

A federal holiday so we all have another day off.

[Kickin_Donkey]

50. Stop, STOP ...

you're dancing on his GRAVE!!! <sarcasm>

[NuttyFluffers]

57. "you're dancing on his GRAVE!!!" ... and some of them have no rhythm!

with Arthur Murray studios there is no excuse for bad dancing. :cry:

[DearAbby]

56. I am saving my OP's for something really

not so important, like the wear and tear on chickens asses laying eggs. The interest in that topic should be minimal.

[K Gardner]

58. TahitiNut rocks :-)

[TahitiNut]

59. I'm just busting with PRIDE! We now have 253 threads!!! DUers are nothing if not obsessive!

Yippee! :party: Wahoo! :party:

The hits just keep on coming!! Brainfarts RULE!!!

:party: :toast: :party:

[McCamy Taylor]

60. It's the KO effect. If KO's dog died, there would be 100 threads about it.

[TahitiNut]

61. Wow! We've got 292 threads!! Hang in there, DUers! You can do MORE!! MORE!!

Let's get those self-righteous juices flowing! Get those noses aligned! EVERYONE gets to have the "CORRECT" opinion on this one! No degree, no study, and no special skill required!! "Reason" and logic be damned! Feel that sense of innate superiority! Go for it, DU!!

:party: :party: :party:

[KoKo]

62. Aww...come on....there's just so much "new stuff" coming out....

I just posted a new one....! I think I'm up to three so far... Countering the "spin" is too important.

Don't be a "party pooper." :D

[TahitiNut]

63. Keep it up, DU! Obsess! Obsess! Obsess! Obsess! Obsess! Obsess!

:party:

[taterguy]

64. Shall we do it RIGHT FUCKING NOW?

[TahitiNut]

65. We now have 344 threads!! The Timgasm continues! Let's FEED, DU! Death fascinates!!

:party: :party: :party: :party: :party: :party:

[kenny blankenship]

66. Can we do better than 154 threads? YES WE CAN!

[Occam Bandage]

69. How did you count them?

By thumbing through the archives? Google search!? REGULAR EXPRESSIONS!?!?

I MUST KNOW!

[asdjrocky]

67. I want to go on record saying that I did not post a single one.

Where's my button? I want my button.

[TahitiNut]

72. They were obviously posted by 344 people, each of whom had the other 343 on Ignore.

After all ... why else would there be so many duplicates???

:evilgrin:

[Occam Bandage]

68. I'M GONIG TO GO POST 5 THRAEDS ON HOW THE MSM OBSESES OVER RUSSET!

[papapi]

70. I'm not into thread for thread's sake. Although my threads usually seem to flop.

too much competition I suppose. Oh well. My interests are probably different from the mainstream.

[Swamp Rat]

73. Obey the images on your Jesus Box.

Americans are TV Zombies.

[TahitiNut]

74. Ohhh, NOOOO! We only have 282 active necrothreads!! C'mon, DU ghouls!! You're slacking off!!!!

:bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

[HughMoran]

75. Even Bush was saying something incoherent about a "Brazillion" posts

...or some such shit :rofl: