Coincidentally, the show will start the same time as seat selection at The Line. We will still be going live from 6-8 though. The good news is that there is internet access in the Ramin Room so the 1000+ people who have to wait to select seats will have something to do for at least the first two hours.
We will talk about the Line for a little bit but spend the majority of show talking about the Red-White game. We'll cover just about every player, particularly the new guys. We'll talk about some possible line combinations and the potential special teams personnel. We will then go into more general thoughts - concerns, question marks, strengths, etc. There will also be some analysis on the out-of-town scores from the past two weekends. Like always, there will be trivia questions dispersed throughout the show.
Listen in from 6-8 PM at www.sloperadio.com. You can get your thoughts on by calling (607) 821-2522, emailing theweeklycowbell@sloperadio.com, or IMing SlopeRadio. Listen in if you can and call/email/IM your thoughts and answers to trivia questions. Hope to hear from you.
There is NO internet access in the Ramin Room. I just ran over to a library really quickly to check e-mail and eLynah. It's been REALLY frustrating not to have internet at Ramin during the long line, particularly since I was counting on it to get some homework done. Isn't CIT trying to make the campus wireless? Where is Red Rover in that area?
Just went to the site to get podcasts... is the Cowbell going to be podcasted ever? I thought all of Slope Radio was, but apparently not.
Yes, I believe it was podcasted for last week and it should be from now on.
Just got my line number (section B, row 7, AMAZING!) and now I get to listen! However, I can't find last week's podcast anywhere? Where do I go?
[quote las224]Just got my line number (section B, row 7, AMAZING!) and now I get to listen! However, I can't find last week's podcast anywhere? Where do I go?[/quote]
I am not able to find ANY of the podcasts of the cowbell show. Since I'm able to get other SlopeRadio podcasts, I have to believe that I'm looking in the correct place. LAS, congrats on the line number; Sec. B, row 7 is very fine.
GREAT show tonight! I was so glad I got to tune in after my line number. Thanks especially for addressing all my questions, and even touching on the ones you had already discussed. I'll admit that last year I went to my first hockey game pretty much as a facetimer, but over the course of the year I got really into it and started attending a lot of the away games as well, and now I want to learn as much as I can about strategy, etc. Your show is really great for someone like me who doesn't know a lot but wants to learn. Thanks again Ari!
I had a line number far enough back (Sec B, Row 13) that I missed the show, so I, too, would like to hear the podcast.
We're working on getting the podcast thing worked out. I'm fairly sure there will be a podcast from last night's show up pretty soon.
[quote las224]It's been REALLY frustrating not to have internet at Ramin during the long line, particularly since I was counting on it to get some homework done.[/quote]You can't do homework without internet access? How did I ever graduate? :-P
Part of the podcast from two weeks ago is available at the Itunes music store. Look for "Prime Time Slide Podcast" (it's mislabeled)
[quote KeithK][quote las224]It's been REALLY frustrating not to have internet at Ramin during the long line, particularly since I was counting on it to get some homework done.[/quote]You can't do homework without internet access? How did I ever graduate? :-P[/quote]How many of your professors put your homework online? (In my day? Zero.) I'll bet a lot of them do now. Printing is for fogeys.
[quote ugarte]How many of your professors put your homework online? (In my day? Zero.) I'll bet a lot of them do now. Printing is for fogeys.[/quote]
For one of my classes, all the readings are online, and online only. It's about 50 pages per class, which I'm not about to print. I survived the hockey line by heading to the library for 20 mins, saving the articles on my computer, then heading back to read. For another class, you can buy the course packet for $75, or you can access the whole thing online and only print out 5 or so pages per week of homework - most people just get it online.
That's not even mentioning professors who require you to post to discussion boards or complete quizzes online. So much coursework is online now (not to mention how often you have to check your e-mail for updates and last minute announcements), that the hockey line is rather difficult without internet access even just over two days.
[quote ugarte]How many of your professors put your homework online? (In my day? Zero.) I'll bet a lot of them do now. Printing is for fogeys.[/quote]
Every single worksheet, homework assignment, syllabus, or anything else for Spanish is online. The student has the responsiblity to print everything out. Even the short movies we have to watch can only be accessed online.
A number of my law school professors did the same thing (putting many or all of the course materials online rather than in hardcopy), and as a group they're hardly the most tech-savvy people I've ever met.
So I guess having worked with keypunch cards makes me something of a dinosaur, huh? :-P
My coworker told me the other day about an 8-inch floppy disk he had. Not 5.5", 8". I hadn't even known those existed! Feel free to insert lewd jokes about your own 8-inch floppies.
But in my defense, I'm old enough to remember the first time my dad bought a 1-gig hard drive. I thought he was lying until I actually clicked on the drive's icon and selected "get info."
[quote ftyuv]My coworker told me the other day about an 8-inch floppy disk he had. Not 5.5", 8". I hadn't even known those existed! Feel free to insert lewd jokes about your own 8-inch floppies.
But in my defense, I'm old enough to remember the first time my dad bought a 1-gig hard drive. I thought he was lying until I actually clicked on the drive's icon and selected "get info."[/quote]
For that matter, how many kids today even remember 3.5" floppies. You don't see those any more. And with flash drives, we might even see CDs on their way out.
[quote las224]For one of my classes, all the readings are online, and online only. It's about 50 pages per class, which I'm not about to print. I survived the hockey line by heading to the library for 20 mins, saving the articles on my computer, then heading back to read. For another class, you can buy the course packet for $75, or you can access the whole thing online and only print out 5 or so pages per week of homework - most people just get it online.
That's not even mentioning professors who require you to post to discussion boards or complete quizzes online. So much coursework is online now (not to mention how often you have to check your e-mail for updates and last minute announcements), that the hockey line is rather difficult without internet access even just over two days.[/quote]Sure times have changed. I'm laughing at how odd this seems to me (I'm not even that old) and how the convienence of the internet can actually make things less convienent sometimes.
Faced with this problem you have two choices. Adapt to it (make library runs like you did) or, in time honored fashion, decide that hockey tickets are more important than a couple days of readings. :-D
I was just reminiscing the other day about how much we all celebrated back when hard drives fell under a dollar per megabyte. Now they're well under a dollar per gigabyte.
[quote Beeeej]I was just reminiscing the other day about how much we all celebrated back when hard drives fell under a dollar per megabyte.[/quote]
Actually, I want to know this. Tell us Beeeej, how much did you celebrate when hard drives fell under a dollar per megabyte? And who else was at this raucous party?
:-D
[quote RichH][quote Beeeej]I was just reminiscing the other day about how much we all celebrated back when hard drives fell under a dollar per megabyte.[/quote]
Actually, I want to know this. Tell us Beeeej, how much did you celebrate when hard drives fell under a dollar per megabyte? And who else was at this raucous party?[/quote]
Well, the second floor of CCC actually rose above a murmur there for a minute. I think we might've even popped an extra 2-liter of Mountain Dew that afternoon. Much forwarding of e-mails was done, I can tell you that.
Sal Gurnani and Assaji Aluwihare can attest. :-P
(Can't believe I remember those names...!)
Reading the disk drive discussion from all you "youngsters" has me in a reminiscing mood:
- First Mini-Computer that we owned: Dec PDP 11/34 with Two 5MB removable platter drives - each platter 18" across. The computer had 256kb of main memory.
- First Micro-Computer System: Chromemco with dual 500kb 8" floppy drives (soft sectored as opposed to hard sectored). If I recall, IBM invented (or outsourced) 8" floppy drives to boot System 34 and Series I mini-computers in the early 1970s.
- We still have one computer in-house that has a 5" diskette drive on it...it also has a 3.5" diskette drive as well.
- Sitting in my office: An original Compaq Portable computer in mint condition! Sold in early 1983 for over $4,000. Presented to me by the original customer as a gift instead of it going to the dumpster. That machine has somewhat less compute power than my Treo 650. Only weighs 28 lbs!
Ah the memories...CU hockey memories compete nicely!
Larry '72
The Computing Center
[quote Beeeej]
Sal Gurnani and Assaji Aluwihare can attest. :-P
(Can't believe I remember those names...!)[/quote]
I can't believe you can spell those names! :-P
The first minicomputer I worked on was a PDP-8 that Professor Howard Howland (physiology) had. You loaded the system with punched paper tape. I can't remember what he used it for, but excess time was available for something like 25 cents/hour.
My first home computer was a Sinclair. I think it's still around here somewhere.