Shall they call it the P3 5000?
Posted on December 18th, 2007 – 12:15 PMBy Michael Rand
Danonymous passes along this month-old story that nevertheless we really enjoy. The article headline boast of the end of online stupidity, and the subheading says, “Finally, software developers are building a filter that blocks unintelligible comments.” Among other nuggets: The stupid-filter team is trying to accommodate this behavior with a variety of rules of thumb. For instance, Ortiz, who studied linguistics as an undergrad, recently noticed a pattern in the way some writers use letter repetition. The clueless tend to repeat consonants: “This video is amazinggggg!!!” By comparison, says Ortiz, “when you repeat a vowel, you’re being sarcastic — ‘Yeaaaaaah.’ We’ll be using several different methods to try to mediate this.”
We’re very curious how this would apply to RandBall, and we’d like to get our hands on it immediately.
34 Responses to "Shall they call it the P3 5000?"
Woooooooow….that’s amaaaaaazing.
It’s the ACCESS VIKINGS apocalypse!
OOhhhhhhhhhhhhh Myyyyyy Gawwwwd !!!
The Strib would lose half it’s blog audience if this was enacted. I picture guys walking out of their basements, computer in hand, going toward the dumpsters not knowing why their posts aren’t being read.
Cheeto sales would plummet…Chester Cheetah would be in the unemployment line.
I went to the hyperlink above only to discover what arrogant and fasc..t fools these software makers are. Case in point (their words)…
“Your spam filter sees V.a.ra (an aid used at times by aging Viking fans, my words)and without rolling its eyes flicks the offending missive into the junk folder, where it can be deleted along with the rest of its filthy brethren.”
My concern is that why is this aid, used by so many, and even pitched by Mike Ditka, lumped into “the rest of it’s filthy brethren” ? If anyone is filthy here it’s the computer geeks working on their judgemental software. Shame, Shaaaaaaaaaaaame.
Can we take up a collection for customized programming to filter out Favre references?
I’ll donate 100,000 Schute bucks after I win the RBFFL.
OFF-TOPIC: Redactular Recap.
ITEM: the assembled throng? Disturbingly normal. I figured one of us would be kind of “off,” like Dwight’s cousin Mose. Unless that’s me, and you guys were just being polite, in which case, thank you.
ITEM: RandBall married good. She even watches 30 Rock.
ITEM: I hugged Marthaler. To his credit, he did not try to kill me.
ITEM: the DJ effectively killed whatever future nostalgia I may have had for Sublime or Bush. “Santa Monica” was still good, though.
ITEM: the dude in the Payton jersey (Anthony?) needs a haircut.
ITEM: Joker and his entourage. Nicely done.
ITEM: seated at one table at the same time: myself, Toonces, Super Rookie, Roughkat, Dave and Jon. You simply aren’t going to get intarweb beefcake like that outside of Bear Force One. Ladies, you missed out, but you probably would have gotten pregnant as hell through simple osmosis.
ITEM: Fasolamatt and I bonded about having kids and wept softly about how much it’s going to cost to send them to college.
ITEM: I didn’t think anyone swore as much during a Vikings game as my dad. Then I met Michael Rand.
Let’s do this again, gentlemen. Somewhere with better music, though.
P3 - “We’re coming….”
Stu: You wept softly. I cried like a two year old getting immunization shots. All the way back to St. Paul.
roughkat
What are Schute bucks? I was yelling Shute a lot during the game but I am not familar with Schute bucks.
So who was the one guy that had about 5 too many drinks and made an [redacted] out of himself? There is always one of those guys isn’t there?
I predict it was Toonces.
I’m sure if I could have attended it would have been me after watching what was called a football game.
http://www.tobyhilden.com/schrute_buck.html
Maybe someone has some Stanley Nickels they can contribute to the cause.
1 stanley nickel = (1 schrutebuck * 1 leprechaun)/ 1 unicorn
1 stanley nickel = $ (1 leprechaun/1000)/ 1 unicorn
Whatever, Toonces was busy throwing rocks!
Stu: More importantly, how was Girl Scouts?
I still want to know who brought their own bowling ball and shoes. Rand? Do you and the RBBH have matching ones?
Kat, excellent summary hyperlink. I printed it out…so confusing is it now…think how much better w/o the also rans…Hardehar
and Stu..also an excellent play by play..almost makes me want to be there…not
Az, w/o Favre who would this blogging talk about ?
AZ: my daughter was Game Leader, whatever that means.
I did not see anyone with their own gear, but I was so bitter about
a) the Vikings almost losing, and
b) having to drive home
that I could have missed it.
I had my own ball. I was alone in that.
I don’t have shoes though. Just the ball.
almost makes me want to be there…not
Whatever, Borat.
Borat Rocks !! Yes
Dave
You brought your own ball? You now are officially related to Screech (I make my own porn) Powers. Is your ball blue?
Nope, grey.
I don’t mean to be a jerk or sound like I’m insincere but this might be good for all parties involved.
While he’s out, Lou Holtz can fill in:
Diaper Dandiesch! Coacsch K is the greatescht!
Howard Cosell
Is P3 actually Sid???
I had my one whiskey and that was it, thank you very much. I didn’t even stay for the post game festivities–I decided to beat the traffic.
get todays paper.
open to page A2.
look at the picture of the guy with the beard in the left column. look to the left a little bit more and you will see me in it.
this marks the 8th time in 3 years i have been featured in the star tribune, and tomorrow will make it the 9th time.
rand, your welcome for helping the strib sell papers. 
what paper ? There is more than one rag people in these little boxes read. How parochial of you to just assume, lil rook
I just now noticed the title of this piece o’ schtick is P3 5000. I understand that was pure accident and no shot at me.
He must have been talking about a different P3.
Kat, I refer to myself as P to the third, being a math major and all. P3 looks like something from Sesame Street, so it probably does fit better here..
