Crunchyfrog @ Borean Tundra

Who is Leroy Jenkins?

So to “go Jenkins” is to retreat from the economy and create a new faction at Black Rock Spire? A faction in which petty disagreements of Alliance and Horde are overlooked to create a libertarian paradise?

Interestingly, didn’t actually comment in VC until after quit playing WoW. May be something to mine in there somewhere.

Took up LOTRO recently while recuperating from surgery for something to do (and because I had a free disk). Yes, I know it’s passe, but the graphical details in DX10 on a hot machine are aMAZing. Mountain meadows, rolling hills, dramatic mountains, water effects so much better than WoW, plus much quieter, less PvP, easier to switch out to do other things while crafting.

thecabbage: Clearly, Ilya Somin is the Leroy Jenkins of Volokh.

Who is Leroy Jenkins?

So remember: Every time you visit the Volokh Conspiracy, more people discover your inimitable charm and appeal.

I agree. :)

(The soon-to-be-mentioned are more than welcome to identify themselves, but I’ll avoid “outing” them here and now.) I’ve gotten to know a handful of VC readers off-blog and am amazed that the wonder of the internet (specifically, the utter coolness of the VC) has made it possible to befriend people whom I would otherwise never have gotten to know. I’ve even met a few of them in person (one just last month, in fact). Some have been kind enough to send things like chocolate chip cookies during exams and chocolate before the bar. :)

Is that your way of letting us know that you and ArthurKirkland are no longer an item?

I’m holding out for theobromophile. Fellow chocoholics have to maintain a, pardon the expression, popular front.

Actually, my fiancee was a longtime VC reader before she met me in the real world, and she first heard of me by reading the blog.

Further evidence of her good taste.

Mark Field:
Charm and appeal won’t be anything more than propaganda until the VC has its first official couple. I’m waiting for the announcement from Randy and Dangermouse.

Is that your way of letting us know that you and ArthurKirkland are no longer an item?

Actually, my fiancee was a longtime VC reader before she met me in the real world, and she first heard of me by reading the blog.

Every time you visit the Volokh Conspiracy, more people discover your inimitable charm and appeal.

Charm and appeal won’t be anything more than propaganda until the VC has its first official couple. I’m waiting for the announcement from Randy and Dangermouse.

Oh, come’ on, that was a good one :-)

PeteP that is totally uncool, eventhough what you said was funny. You just have to let things take their course. You win a few and you loose the rest.

I wish the Stuff From Us section of the website included cool shirts or mugs or sweatshirts. Or a tie — that would be great — I could wear it to class and radiate coolness while I taught. As it is, I wear a Tin Tin tie and suspenders with Mona Lisa on them.

You should try here for that.

intimate friends, which is close to the 2.08 level that was found in the 2004 General Social Survey. In 1985 that figure had been much higher, at 2.98. So if these surveys are to believed, Americans have, on average, one fewer intimate friend than they did during the Reagan administration.

Maybe it’s because we are working harder/longer, or that our family and friends have “moved with their feet,” or maybe it is the internet. But if it is the internet, in exchange for the VC I can live with that.

Also, my guild has turned out to be an excellent addition to my “friendship network”.

“A report released Wednesday by the Pew Internet & American Life Project suggests that the Internet and other new communication technologies have, if anything, a modestly positive effect on the size and diversity of people’s friendship networks.” So remember: Every time you visit the Volokh Conspiracy, more people discover your inimitable charm and appeal.

Not here, but on another board that allows private messages from one poster to another, that has indeed happened. It’s a hockey board, and I actually have met a number of posters and talked to others on the phone.

Everything is much more abstract here, which is okay; I already know plenty of people. But some commenters have their own blogs, and you can interact with them that way if you want.

ASlyJD: Ah, yes, we have trolls. Though Volokh trolls have a distinct lack of Jamaican accents, I imagine their dancing skills are about the same.So in World of Volokh, is Sarcastro a world boss or faction leader?

He’d be a mage, but his only spell would be “summon strawman”. Low INT penalty, you know.

So in World of Volokh, is Sarcastro a world boss or faction leader?

Anderson: What about those of us huddled over our computers playing World of Warcraft AND reading the Volokh Conspiracy? I’ve done both at the same time before.Just don’t mix ‘em up.Though “World of Volokh” is an interesting idea.Different character classes:the Expert, the Palinite, the Snarkster, the Libertarian …

classes or monster types?

Torandin on Kel’thuzad, in case you’re curious.

Anderson: What about those of us huddled over our computers playing World of Warcraft AND reading the Volokh Conspiracy? I’ve done both at the same time before.Just don’t mix ‘em up.Though “World of Volokh” is an interesting idea.Different character classes:the Expert, the Palinite, the Snarkster, the Libertarian …

Either way, you’ve got Trolls.

So remember: Every time you visit the Volokh Conspiracy, more people discover your inimitable charm and appeal.

I certainly hope so – Maybe I’m just being paranoid, but I’m really afraid that people are just discovering how opinionated and obnoxious I can be.

Oh, come’ on, that was a good one :-)

They’re all good for an occasional snort ! :-)

None of them are in my kitchen…

You might think differently, if you were stuck in Mississippi and regularly encountered no more depth in conversation than “how ’bout them Saints?”

Just don’t mix ‘em up.

Though “World of Volokh” is an interesting idea. Different character classes: the Expert, the Palinite, the Snarkster, the Libertarian …

“A report released Wednesday by the Pew Internet & American Life Project suggests that the Internet and other new communication technologies have, if anything, a modestly positive effect on the size and diversity of people’s friendship networks.”

Size and diversity, yes. Depth, not so much.