Comments on: about name tags

By: junoksun

junoksun — Tue, 13 May 2008 18:45:40 +0000

I want my first ribbon to be a scatterplot ribbon! How COOL!!!!!

By: pitse1eh

pitse1eh — Wed, 07 May 2008 18:39:29 +0000

Well, Belle, one of us could get you a visitor’s registration of 10 bucks. Then it’s just flight and finding a corner in someone’s room.

I totally want one.

By: belle lettre

belle lettre — Tue, 06 May 2008 04:29:25 +0000

PS: I live in the bourgie part of Oakland, so no one need worry about getting shot.

By: belle lettre

belle lettre — Tue, 06 May 2008 04:27:09 +0000

Aw, this makes me wish that ASA in Boston weren’t prohibitively expensive with the flight + registration (seriously, can’t I just crash the confernece with a ribbon and no one would notice?)

Save me a ribbon when y’all come to SF! I will throw a Scatterparty in Oakland!

By: jeremy

jeremy — Tue, 06 May 2008 04:11:14 +0000

Yes, ribbons for all.

I love Mobius strips, so much so that a good friend knit me one awhile ago.

By: shakha

shakha — Tue, 06 May 2008 04:02:11 +0000

I strongly believe what others have said: tags for all who want them! We make no requirements. And graduate students out there can do a masters paper on the social movement of scatterplot or network dispersion (ASA being your data). How unbelievably awesome would that be? If I got that paper to review I’d demand that it be published.

By: auderey

auderey — Tue, 06 May 2008 01:36:23 +0000

my housemate (a poli sci student starting TT in the fall) just says to me:

our ribbon should be a moebius strip, in light of the self-reflexive nature of both shamus’s post (overlapping layers of self-reflexivity) and the self-indulgent nature of the entire project.

so - moebius strips made out of header dots? these might, however, be too labor-intensive.

By: auderey

auderey — Tue, 06 May 2008 01:24:51 +0000

yeah! (i want a ribbon.) i vote for just the dots, per anomie, and i also like the snowball style to catch folks who can’t make the party, or just to allow each of us our own insider-invite, like gmail in the early days. speaking of which - does anyone who wants a ribbon get one? we should, after all, think clearly about this important rite of passage and who qualifies. does one have to demonstrate in some empirical way that one has read a certain minimum number of posts? does one merely have to be friends with (but not a reader of) a scatterbrain/reader? or would these people have to wait an agonizing but growth-filled year to wear the ribbon themselves, acolyting to our superior knowledge and insideryness?

By: tina

tina — Tue, 06 May 2008 01:01:27 +0000

I think we should give them out snowball style. Or, maybe if the party is early on, we can give them out there.

Also, to be 100% clear: Readers count as part of this blog and will be beribboned accordingly.

By: Anomie

Anomie — Mon, 05 May 2008 23:31:17 +0000

I want one! And I think the dots would be just as useful as a promotional tool: they would be memorable and require people to actually interact with the wearers of the ribbons. This interaction should solidify the information more so than merely reading it.

Or maybe I’m just trying to justify the dots cuz I want to be in on some method for signifying insiderness….