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Quote from: RichH on Today at 01:48:16 AMmay delight you.

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Quote from: The Rancor on September 30, 2025, 10:26:50 PMFirst time in a while that we had a single Captain and two Alternates?

First time since 2023-24.

I remember hearing the news over my Victrola.

Quote from: CowbellGuy on September 30, 2025, 11:36:10 AM

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Quote from: ugarte on September 29, 2025, 06:34:24 PMis there a way to attach image files other than hotlinking a url?

Kind of a quirk of SMF, you can only attach files when doing a full reply (Reply button at the bottom), not a quick reply. I just added a mod that adds an "Add Files" button to the quick reply that effectively takes you to a full reply.

Is there a way to click on a topic that jumps directly to the first new post since the last time I read the topic rather than just being able to click on the most recent new post? That was a lovely feature of the old eLF that I'm hoping exists here and I just can't find it for some reason.

I believe if you click the "NEW" next to the subject it takes you to the first new one?

Looks right. Thanks!

Quote from: CowbellGuy on September 30, 2025, 10:14:59 AM

Quote from: ugarte on September 29, 2025, 06:34:24 PMis there a way to attach image files other than hotlinking a url?

Kind of a quirk of SMF, you can only attach files when doing a full reply (Reply button at the bottom), not a quick reply. I just added a mod that adds an "Add Files" button to the quick reply that effectively takes you to a full reply.

Is there a way to click on a topic that jumps directly to the first new post since the last time I read the topic rather than just being able to click on the most recent new post? That was a lovely feature of the old eLF that I'm hoping exists here and I just can't find it for some reason.

Well, I was not expecting this to suddenly reappear...!! 

Quote from: Jeff Hopkins '82 on September 29, 2025, 02:31:22 PMJust an FYI, my username includes an apostrophe, which is apparently an illegal character.  Fortunately, I just deleted the apostrophe and it let me log in.

I think we call them "undocumented characters" now.

So far it seems pretty good, though in comparison with the old version it's seven feet further away and has less cheese.

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Quote from: BearLoverI'm not even convinced yet he's a great coach—I mean, he probably is a good coach, but what basis do we have? A slightly over .500 record in 12 years at Clarkson?

I admit I don't understand how to evaluate college hockey records with all the OT/SOL point BS from the past several seasons, but FWIW Casey's record on CHN is listed as 234-185-56 for a .552 win percentage.

Keith Allain was 282-254-54 (.524) at Yale.
Schafer was 561-300-117 (.633) at Cornell.

I think there's really no doubt that Casey Jones is at least a good coach, and probably an excellent one. I'm also inclined to think that if Allain was capable of leading a team to a national title Jones is too, although for a good coach in the Ivies I suspect that's mostly a function of luck.

That's the wonderful and yet horrible thing about the NCAA tournament - anything can happen over the course of four single-elimination games. Allain was capable of leading that Yale team to a third-place finish in the ECAC with a reasonably decent 18-12-3 record, yet a loss in the conference tourney semifinals. They were literally the last at-large team into the NCAA tourney. But once you're in, you just have to win four in a row (two of which they did win handily, the other two in overtime). They deserved the championship because they won the four games they had to win, but it was definitely closer to the fluke end of the scale - stepping up in a big moment - than Quinnipiac's title was in 2023. Of course you have to be a good coach to get those four wins out of your team especially when they're not favored - but that win was all the more frustrating to many of us because of the sheer number of regional finals we've been to with Schafer as coach, with only one Frozen Four and no titles to show for it.

All of which is beside the point - Trotsky started this thread to suggest what Casey's aims should be compared to what Schafer's were thirty years ago, not to make predictions for Casey. I think they're perfectly reasonable, and I hope he achieves all three, and soon.

Quote from: TrotskyIsn't Princeton super weird, like they go from 0% sold to 100% sold but then you show up for a "sell out" and the building is 60% empty?

Yes. They are in theory "sold out" to season ticket holders, then you show up on the day of the game and they have a few hundred seats to sell because of "no-shows".

Quote from: TrotskyI think Bearlover is saying that's us, too.  We are just strings of impulses that evolved competitively.  Caring is an illusion and what we are is a text processor that happened upon outputs that gave survival advantages.

He's not saying AI is conscious, but that we aren't.

That's an untestable thesis, because whenever we report a case of care he can respond "and that's just what the evil genie fools you into thinking."  

Now, Descartes responded "AHA!  I have you, because you just admitted there is a YOU that is THINKING.  Bwahaha!  Checkmate!"  But that's dumb.  My refutation of the Churchlandian assertion that will is an illusion is phenomenological:



Our lived reality includes our awareness, consciousness, will, and care.  All we are is that lived reality.  Therefore, it's real.  It is the psychological equivalent of a Durkheimian social fact.  AI lacks that because it lacks an "inside."

Camus made the argument that you see this dramatically when you are confronted with a crisis.  You switch out of auto-pilot and are suddenly directly confronted with the world and recognize your will is a real thing, because right now you are whining that you are NOT HAPPY.  

The proof that we are aware is feeling like a sniveling New Yorker.

These are the sorts of debates you really don't see on the Ferris State hockey discussion board.

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Quote from: chimpfoodFull schedule released

https://cornellbigred.com/sports/mens-ice-hockey/schedule

Interesting that the scrimmage is against a Czech team and not a Canadian one.

Four week homestand in the worst time of year, starting with two out of conference opponents that aren't very independently attractive... Well, guess I'm not travelling this Christmas. But we do get the NTDP U-18 game, which is nice.

Weather (and toddler, and move, and PTO) permitting, I'm tempted to come up the first two of those weekends (maybe even make the first one a four-day New Year's visit), because I really love being there in person to see Cornell play teams I've never seen them play in person before. And with UNO and UAF, you never know when your next chance might be.

Quote from: ugarteThe answer is going to be regional freelancers rather than employees on anyone's payroll.

Play-by-Playmates?

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Quote from: ACMJust posted on Facebook a few minutes ago.

That sucks, I loved those guys. Hope they know that us fans will miss them. Wonder what going in a different direction means. Student broadcasters?

Well, Jason is suddenly available...

Quote from: TrotskyI never understood why WVBR doesn't do the games.  It's not as if their other programming relies on large audiences; well, I shouldn't say that, I am judging by back in the day when Throbbing Gristle was too mainstream for their DJs.

I'm reasonably certain it had something to do with not wanting to spend the money on the rights. That plus the training program for sportsies at VBR never really included play-by-play or color, just reporting and panel, and paying for outside talent was more or less taboo as well.

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Quote from: 617BigRedBesides Love Story, Slap Shot and Mighty Ducks, any other connections between hockey and the big screen?

2004 movie, Miracle

Mystery, Alaska
Cutting Edge

To be avoided at all costs: Puck Hogs