hacker jeopardy questions published and thank you to writers

[Mark Jenkins]

I'd like to thank the many writers who contributed questions to last
Saturday's hacker jeopardy, see attached thank you note written with the
interface in my choice of terminal font.

And now I've published questions from all three times we did this:

https://github.com/skullspace/hacker-jeopardy/tree/master/old_questions/2013-09-13
https://github.com/skullspace/hacker-jeopardy/tree/master/old_questions/2014-06-06
https://github.com/skullspace/hacker-jeopardy/tree/master/old_questions/2014-10-04

Questions I received that were not used will maybe appear in the future,
though Dec 6 is going to be a night of Ron and Mak questions.

Some suggested that I even hold our used questions off from publication.

I say its always good to the spirit gods of trivia to write new ones...
even when inevitably (with good questions that aren't too out there) you
end up covering the same subject matter and fundamentally the same
questions, but you can always find a creative new way to pose them.



Mark

[Adam Thompson]

On Friday, October 10, 2014 01:44:07, Mark Jenkins wrote:
> And now I've published questions from all three times we did this:

> https://github.com/skullspace/hacker-jeopardy/tree/master/old_questions/2014-10-04

I'm curious where the data supporting the answer in
https://github.com/skullspace/hacker-jeopardy/blob/master/old_questions/2014-10-04/mbtel.json
came from, since the last answer isn't quite correct, and even the
parts that are (IIRC) correct are highly misleading.

For the record, I never ran a public BBS, but was instead a Fidonet
"Node" connecting to (i.e. polling) several BBSes for purely-local
aggregation. I don't recall when I transitioned from being a "dot" to
a full "node" in FidoNet-speak, but obviously it was somewhere in
there. You'll also find me in the listings for Ottawa around that
period.
It's kind of like saying that since you have an IP address, you
therefore run a "server" - perhaps true in the most literal
interpretation possible, but misleading.

The funny part is that I would probably have guessed "Leslie Bester" as
the answer :-).

-Adam

[csta...@gmail.com]

I wrote that question, as I was scrolling through bbslist.textfiles.com/204/ around 2AM looking for things some members were likely to know.

I was looking at including a question with Les as the answer, but he's more a supporter while you're an on-site member, and the entry with your name had a more impressive list of BBSes. I should've e-mailed you to confirm, my apologies.

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[Adam Thompson]

On 14-10-10 09:39 AM, csta...@gmail.com wrote:
> I wrote that question, as I was scrolling through bbslist.textfiles.com/204/ around 2AM looking for things some members were likely to know.
>
> I was looking at including a question with Les as the answer, but he's more a supporter while you're an on-site member, and the entry with your name had a more impressive list of BBSes. I should've e-mailed you to confirm, my apologies.

Hmm... reviewing that URL, I'm vaguely reminded that I actually was an
assistant SysOp on Scott's system at some point.

The "488" NXX number is, however, still my parents' phone# - I do recall
them getting mildly (ahem) peeved from time to time once that # escaped
into the Fido lists and random BBSes would start trying to connect to me
in a process highly reminiscent of today's BGP peering.

--
-Adam Thompson
atho...@athompso.net