Thursday, October 18, 2007

Coup d'Taco 10-17-07

All the podcasting issues seem to be sorted out (for now). Hope you like the new set.


Coup d'Taco 10-17-07

3 comments:

bonerici said...

hmmm yummy podcasts

bonerici said...

now that I've finished listening to all your podcasts, i have two things to say:

1) the REASON you always always always have to explain your web address when you broadcast is that podcasts like yours get saved on ipods or mp3 players and given to friends or get burned to cd and played in the car while on a road trip to go play some magic the gathering tournment with 4 sweaty cheeto eating youngsters in the car, and THEY want to know where to get the podcast from and I have to say "Can't remember, sorry dude". So you should have a radio blurb explaining your web address and download, just like they do for that awesome canadian podcast, radio 3, I think it's called. I can't remember where I got it from, but I have one of the podcasts saved and I only have a listen to a little bit of it to figure out where to download the red of the podcasts for that show.

2) my fast forward finger is worn out. You have more blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah than commercial rush hour AM top 40 radio. In one of your podcasts there's more than a full minute of you going "Uh, uh, gerr, ahh, what?" while you sit there reading your chats and reacting to them with grunts and exclamations.

bonerici said...

one more thing. . . your meat betting system is a variation on the system called "The Martingale"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martingale_(betting_system)

Originally, martingale referred to a class of betting strategies popular in 18th century France. The simplest of these strategies was designed for a game in which the gambler wins his stake if a coin comes up heads and loses it if the coin comes up tails. The strategy had the gambler double his bet after every loss, so that the first win would recover all previous losses plus win a profit equal to the original stake. Since a gambler with infinite wealth will with probability 1 eventually flip heads, the Martingale betting strategy was seen as a sure thing by those who practised it. Unfortunately, none of these practitioners in fact possessed infinite wealth, and the exponential growth of the bets would eventually bankrupt those foolish enough to use the Martingale.