     By Shawn Hanna (Shawn) on Tuesday, July 18, 2000 - 03:22 pm: Edit |
It's a race to the finish on the Survivor-O-rama contest. 95 total votes and Jeff and Meeshi are battling towards the finish line. I can see it now, will Lisa form an alliance to vote the lazy men off the dance floor? Can Chris get Shauna to conspire against Jeff & Meeshi? Who will win!?!?!?!? |
| By Ian Campbell (Ian) on Wednesday, July 19, 2000 - 02:40 pm: Edit |
The more appropriate question is, is Denis Djing or Ron?? |
| By Shawn Hanna (Shawn) on Wednesday, July 19, 2000 - 04:25 pm: Edit |
The real SURVIVOR show is on tonight. I admit it, I'm hooked. Sometimes I try to pretend I am viewing on a higher level (all the game theory voting implications), but the truth is it's just a great "real" vicious soap opera. Days of our Backstabbing Island Life. Certainly safer than the Days of our Petty Swing Scene. J |
| By HopMichael (Mhwang) on Wednesday, July 19, 2000 - 04:46 pm: Edit |
Ooooohh! Game Theory! So Shawn, what's the optimal strategy in this situation? Alliances? Demonstrate competence? Show more skin? I don't think there's a Nash equilibrium here because a player is constantly eliminated. |
| By Shawn Hanna (Shawn) on Wednesday, July 19, 2000 - 09:26 pm: Edit |
Michael! You remember your coursework. I think you are right about the Nash equilibrium. It doesn't really fit as most players are not behaving optimally (alas). "A Nash equilibrium is a strategy profile in which all players choose strategies that are best responses to the strategic choices of the other players. " We do have simple collusion, albeit imperfect (they may not be able to detect breaches to the agreement). |
| By Ian Campbell (Ian) on Thursday, July 20, 2000 - 11:50 am: Edit |
ah, a classic prisoners dillema...sigh |
| By Shawn Hanna (Shawn) on Thursday, August 03, 2000 - 01:47 pm: Edit |
One less stripper on prime time TV! I didn't watch the Big Brother show but anytime I learn the number of dancers (exotic or otherwise) on air is reduced, I feel it is just criminal, right? (For those who don't know, my mom's work is as an expert witness in legal cases where strip clubs are threatened with closure. She argues dancing is a first amendment right.) I will confess that I am addicted to the Survivor show, and it is nice to see that the rumors that Gervace won the won the whole thing were false. I am particularly pissed that my almost-namesake Sean is such a dummy. I wonder if that (or the nipple ring) will hurt his career as a physician? |
| By Andy (Hitman) on Thursday, August 03, 2000 - 02:08 pm: Edit |
Man, I'm glad they finally ditched Gervase! He was slacker-teflon boy. Like when he made the "girls are dumber than cows" comment, and joel got the bad rap for it. Nothin' ever stuck to that dude. I guess the pizza sharing couldn't save his ass! Rich is screwed, though. The alliance stuff was smart to get him near the end of the game, but at the end, when there is two left, the whole cast votes for the winner. If Rich is there, everyone pissed by the alliance (including sue and kelly in the alliance) will vote against him. Seriously doubt he'll win. I bet the alliance soured Kelly and Sue will grab colleen and Greg and get rid of Rich next week. Poor Rudy will be the obvious next choice. The three girls will send away feeble greg. Buddies Sue and Kelly will out colleen, then ...shit, I dunno, vote for the "dumb hick" as Sue puts it? |
| By Shawn Hanna (Shawn) on Thursday, August 03, 2000 - 02:46 pm: Edit |
An alternative scenario - the Alliance participants have all agreed to share the prize money if they make it to the final four. Then it doesn't matter which individual wins, as they all take $250,000 home! This way, the penalty for not staying the course is awfully steep. Rich, for all his self proclaimed cleverness, isn't smart enough to hide his arrogance. It would be something if the girls banded together (ahhhhh, Coleen...) and aced Rich, Rudy & Sean. The Immunity games could screw it all up (alliance stays together and the remaining outsider wins it). Fun! We need to have a swing-survivor party. It would be great to get the Cannibal bar to air the show on the drop down screen before the music started... |
| By oopapadoo*Aletha* (Oopapadoo) on Thursday, August 03, 2000 - 04:06 pm: Edit |
Wouldn't it be great to have all women in the final 3? It could happen..... Swing-survior party, Yes! Awww, I just realized that I'd miss it. Drats. |
| By Ian Campbell (Ian) on Wednesday, August 09, 2000 - 08:52 am: Edit |
MP3.COM HOSTS MUSICAL TRIBUTE TO A FALLEN SURVIVOR "Gervase, My Man" Offers a Lament For a Pop-Culture Hero SAN DIEGO —August 9, 2000—The tribe has spoken, the flame is extinguished, and Gervase is gone. For the millions of Americans who sit glued to their television sets every Wednesday night, the dismissal of popular contestant Gervase from CBS’ reality-show Survivorä came as a shocking surprise. Gervase, widely rumored in chat rooms and around water coolers everywhere to be the eventual winner of the million dollar castaway challenge, was recently voted off the island by his fellow tribal members. It was just a matter of time before a tribute song was posted on MP3.com. Digital artist Thirty-Nine Days made "Gervase, My Man," a song for the fallen survivor, available for streaming and downloading on MP3.com (www.mp3.com/thirty-ninedays). A witty, acerbic tribute to the many charms of Gervase, the would-be survivor, the song features the already immortal line "Gervase, my man/Slashdot said you would survive forever." " ‘Gervase, My Man’ is a very funny song and we’re glad to have it on the site," said Michael Robertson, chairman and chief executive officer of MP3.com (www.mp3.com). "What the song may lack in slick production values, it certainly makes up for in passion, humorous spirit and sincerity." Thirty-Nine Days joins over 81,000 digital artists who post music on MP3.com. To register to post music on the site free-of-charge, please visit www.mp3.com/newartist. |
| By Shawn Hanna (Admin) on Wednesday, August 09, 2000 - 03:55 pm: Edit |
I almost forgot Survivor was on tonight! |
| By Jeff Eldridge (Jeff) on Wednesday, August 09, 2000 - 04:01 pm: Edit |
Thanks "Rainman" for the reminder. Right after Wapner? How 'bout dancing at the Catamaran tonight? I need to practice my Las Vegas stuff from Balboa classes, Shesha and Steve. Anyone interested? |
| By Anonymous on Thursday, August 10, 2000 - 04:51 pm: Edit |
From another board From: DIABLONYC 12:06 pm To: ALL Well, it looks like there's no one sympathetic left on the island, time for "The Storm of the Century" to hit it....somewhat of an irony that Colleen had parasites on her legs, don't you think? I have to admit, I liked her in the end; after all that diversity, you do see people's true colors. The level of stupidity that Sean sinks to is amazing; I can't say I'm surprised what his father turned out to be (dopey). I couldn't help think what would have happened if Greg was still there and he won; his sister would have been the visitor and they would have immediately run off to one of the rooms to play 'Pirate and Princess'. That last challenge was interesting, personally, I would have roundhouse kicked Rich in the teeth for being so damn obnoxious in that song, •••• the immunity idol. I don't even feel like watching the rest of the program, but it's like an occurring huge car wreck in slow motion; you don't want to watch but your compelled to see it through. Maybe they should change the format of the show now: [Jeff Probst walks up to the remaining survivors the next morning]: "Well you guys actually did it, you managed to vote off all the contestants any of the viewers would actually give a rat's ass about. I was talking to the producers last night and we decided to change the rules since we have several weeks of programming left and we need the viewers to keep tuning it. From now on, any remaining survivors voted off will suffer an agonizing death over several hours. The rest of you get to eat his or her carcass the next day. The last survivor will also be killed, but the up side is that his or her heirs will receive the million dollars and your death will be quickly expediated in manner worthy of a Caesar; the jurors who voted you as the winner will stab you to death thereby sparing you a much more painful and time consuming death. Now for today's challenge; you will all be slathered in peanut butter and chicken blood and have to scramble up a large mutant fire ant hill, and you are allowed to hinder each other's progress on the way up. As an inspiration, you will have hungry Komodo dragons nipping at your heels. First person to grab the flag pole at the top will win the hershey's kiss. Now survivors, are you ready?" ... |
| By Shawn (Adminorama) on Wednesday, August 23, 2000 - 10:16 am: Edit |
Tonight is the night! You are going to be late to the "Big Daddy Orchestra" at the Cannibal Bar if you want to watch the finale. I figure it will be Rudy...but immunity screws it all up. I hear they expect 40 million viewers! Perhaps we can get that swing survivor contest going at the Firehouse next week? |
| By HopMichael (Mhwang) on Wednesday, August 23, 2000 - 04:12 pm: Edit |
To win: that son-of-a-gun old-salt Rudy. Rich to place Susan to show. And it's off to the races! |
| By Shawn (Adminorama) on Thursday, August 24, 2000 - 12:15 am: Edit |
I guess we were all wrong. Figure that - the schemer earned enough respect to get the votes and pocket the dough. |
| By Ron (Ron) on Thursday, August 24, 2000 - 09:37 am: Edit |
I finally tuned into the show for the last episode to see what all the fuss was about, and I was hooked! Yeah, that guy didn't seem that nice, but I guess you don't have to be the nicest to win. |
| By oopapadoo*Aletha* (Oopapadoo) on Thursday, August 24, 2000 - 12:18 pm: Edit |
Ron, Lucky for you CBS is going to rebroadcast prior episodes(with extra out-takes and commentary)up until the SuperBowl. Now that you've crossed over to the Dark side, there is no turning back! |
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