http://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/24011044/message-boards-...
ESPN just put out this pretty interesting article on the dynamic and impact of CFB Message Boards. It has some pretty interesting stories and definitely led me to say "hey that sounds like TKP" a few times.
Welcome to the bizarre world of college football message boards. In the NBA, Twitter is the platform of choice for breaking news and trading gossip. In college football, it's the message board, where today's conversation can turn into tomorrow's scandal or internet meme.
"It's the corner pub that people go to at the end of work -- or, you know, a lot of times during work," Brandon Jones said. "And they're there to socialize and to talk about topics from politics to sports, to laugh sometimes and be crass..."
As a side note it tells a story about the former president of A&M going undercover on a message board for a while until he left the school. This got me thinking. If you had to make a guess as to which TKPer is Sands or Whit incognito, who would it be and why?
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Whit = Hokie Fireman.
Case closed.
Lol low hanging fruit I guess.
Gotta start somewhere :)
i know for a fact hokie fireman is just a weakass fornite player
I'm going to let you die from now on.
isn't that what all teammates do anyway?
or they build a wall around you and dance, fun times
Not me, I'll risk my life to revive someone or help them when they get attacked.
yeaaaaa sure
Yea that game where I revived you twice didn't happen.
i mean i can't remember it...
Does this mean Rich Rod isn't our next head coach???
Haven't seen this in a while.
Looks like it put on a few pounds over the off-season. Hopefully will get back into shape before kick-off.
Forums are a great way to gauge how the community is feeling about whatever the forum is about. In our case college football and the Hokies.
It makes perfect sense why someone in an administration would be a learker. They don't necessarily have to post.
My vote would be one of the users with 0 posts and no picture.
Butch Jones didn't go undercover. He put it all out there.
Wait, I was supposed to get on my own team's message board?
No way. I am sure they were a bigger dumpster fire than the Football Program you were at the helm of.
Fun fact: I registered my account on TKP after lurking off-and-on over several years. When I did, I thought about making my account VTSandsman and then logging out and continuing to lurk, just to be able to exploit it for the lols later on.
I know which TKPer is undercover Paul Johnson...
Something something imma speak the damn truth
Whoever they are they better have a key next to their name, they can afford it...
That was a fun read. Wouldn't be surprised if this is happening across all schools.
I laughed out loud at my desk.
Maybe I should share this with my girlfriend so she is less judgement about how much time I spend reading TKP.
...and TKP with my other hand
I'm definitely not at work right now... Nope, not at all.
Hey, I have dual monitors. It's called multitasking.
"I'm not drinking and driving...I'm drinking with my right hand and driving with my left. Yeesh officer, ever heard of multitasking?"
All you have to say is you're waiting on a geoprocessing tool to run.
Let's pour one out for anyone who programs in interpreted languages.
You can still get time like that working with interpreted languages. Like today with me for example. I am debugging some Python code on a new development power supply board with the hardware designer. I am talking to him over the phone while running commands manually and I hear "Oops. I just made a spark..." "Wait, what???" "I accidentally touched the 5V supply to ground. I think I just fried the board. I will get the other board and call you back." There are only 3 boards in total and we are supposed to have to ready for the customer by Wednesday (not happening) and one has already been destroyed the day after they were delivered from our vendor. Is it too early to start drinking on a Friday? Stupid no drinking at work rules...
Hah, I'm just a n00b programmer myself. I like to dabble in vba and python to automate tasks at work.
Two key xkcd cartoons here...
This is why I can never work for you in the GIS world. You know my tricks...because you're doing the same.
Hey, as long as the work gets done and done well.....the rest is just "creating a positive workplace culture" and "work/life balance."
I have a USB monitor that I use when I travel, but still connect it when I am at my desk or at home... when you combine that with the monitors I have on my desk and the laptop itself, I am running with 3 or 4 at all times.
I just got a new laptop and I accidentally figured out how to use my dual monitors plus the laptop screen while trying to figure out how to plug in the docking station without having to restart. I was very excited about finally having 3 monitors. Sometimes I need a map screen, an attribute table screen, and an excel sheet on the 3rd.
My coworker has a 34" wide screen, and two 24" monitors hooked to his primary desktop and two 24" monitors hooked to his second desktop. Being in IT has some perks.
MEGA DESK
Totally rocking megadesk right now. We are ina open floor plan (which is ridiculously worthless for engineers, btw) and my desk is on the inside of one end of a u and no one sits behind me. I had to bring in my desktop from home because I had started designing a project in my own software so I wanted to carry that through to detailing before converting. So work CAD and work email is on one end of the desk and home CAD is in the other. I've been called Dwight multiple times.
As someone who has never worked in a true office setting I'm dreading getting my first office job after I get my degree done. Open offices are the devils work.
I've seen them work well in more creative, collaboration driven environments, but putting a bunch of electrical and mechanical engineers in the same room as just torpedoed efficiency. We are most efficient when all of us put on noise cancelling headphones and block everyone else out...so what's the point?
Alt-tab is your friend.
Everyone knows the rule as long as one of your monitors looks like work you're good. Got TKP on one monitor. My Outlook and IDE sharing one monitor. Laptop is streaming The Open. Happy Friday.
Bud Foster is Leonard
Is BetaEta576 Galen Scott?
Both seemed to disappear around the same time.
That gif in your signature is life giving