Kuramarujo

BTW, I voted for Other. Moderation will not help the list and I'm still subscribed there.

My first computer was a mini about 6 feet tall and 2 feet square. We had to use TTY's to code paper tape for writing programs. Ah, the fun we had. I could break into someone elses TTY and make it type all kinds of $#!t out. The first real program I wrote was in BASIC. It would build ICBM's then launch them randomly from different places on the page. ;-)

both are here Perhaps ILS means Joe Klemmer (current host for the SML) rather than Joe Kuroda? Technically I'm here, too. At least I'm a member. I usually check in once every blue moon or so but for me it's to much effort to try and participate in a discussion or thread on a forum due to it being all scattered and stuff. I process better if everything is in one place in a chronological order. Maybe it was all those years doing COBOL programming. :-P

With one click of your mouse you can read the list in the same style as the forum. Or use various 'Net tools to have the list presented in a forum format. For me, the forum format is far to unwieldy and splintered to use. IP.Board seems to be fairly decent but it's still to disjointed for my data input style. As for the poll and going back to the list, that's up to each individual user. I would like to throw out there that there is a way for the information content providers to make sure that they have their stuff on both formats with little or no effort and never have to actually read or participate in the list. You can be subscribed as a post only member. Your messages go to the list but none of the list goes to you. I can even set this up with a double blind setup so that not only will your posts be unidirectional but your email addresses will be hidden from the list so no one can reply directly to you. Just let me know privately.

Would that be 7-bit or 8-bit bits? I'm guessing that, being in Japan, it was encoded in UTF-8 so that makes it 8-bit bits. If she had fallen on it, though, would that mean scraping out bytes or many, many bits? K-jo, who is speaking useless techno-babble in a humorous way (not Ironic nor Sarcastic, just Lunatic)

I have setup an webform for submitting your PTYW entries that will hopefully make things easier. I am waiting on word from Oshirokita-san before announcing it, though. I have already used it to submit my entry for Aki. K-jo

I'm no vinyl enthusiast but I have a bunch of great albums that were never released in the US from when I grew up in Germany. I only wish I had something to play them on. Someday I want to get them transferred to CD so at least I'll be able to listen to them occasionally. Better yet, get them all loaded into iTunes.

Thanks to Kintamayama's fantastic Browser Toolbar, I believe I will be able to potentially participate in the forum now. For those who may not know me, I am Kuramarujo. I currently host the Sumo List and occasionally post messages there. Well, maybe more than occasionally. I also play a few Sumo Games, most notably Bench Sumo, which I am also the Oyakata for the Sakura Ichimon. Other games I play are RotoSumo, Sekitori-Toto, Sekitori-Oracle, Totoro's Hoshitori, ISP, Chain Gang, PTYW and the Juryo Game. I also am quite (in)famous for my futility in GTB. I've been on the Sumo List since April 19th, 2003 but have loved Sumo since the first time I saw the old Sumo Digest sometime in the early to mid 90's. As for my background, I was born in Bremerhaven Germany and spent most of my early life in Germany and Italy. My current location is Northern Virginia USA, about 25 miles south of Washington DC. The only other notable thing I can say is that I am also the father of Kokuramarujo, who is 9 & 1/2 years old as I post this.