MBlume comments on Rationalist Fiction - Less Wrong

27 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 19 March 2009 08:22AM

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Comment author: MBlume 20 March 2009 03:18:39AM 2 points [-]

I'm...assuming this isn't the same Bloodhound Gang which went on to record The Bad Touch and Foxtrot Uniform Charlie Kilo?

Comment author: Court_Merrigan 20 March 2009 03:54:29AM 1 point [-]

I believe the segment on the Electric Company is where that group derived its name. Although I'm not sure. No taste for that sort of thing.

Comment author: MBlume 20 March 2009 04:00:44AM 2 points [-]

checks wikipedia

you're quite right =)

It's odd I don't remember the original Bloodhound Gang then, I do remember 3-2-1 Contact...did the Bloodhound Gang perhaps either replace or predate Mathnet? Because that's what I remember -- two faux-FBI agents solving crimes by triangulation and the fibonacci sequence and so forth.

Comment author: Annoyance 20 March 2009 02:45:13PM 5 points [-]

The Bloodhound Gang predated MathNet. They were a subshow of 3-2-1 Contact; MathNet was a subshow of Square One, which followed 3-2-1 by many years.

Comment author: MBlume 20 March 2009 06:10:14PM 2 points [-]

Thank you! I was completely mixing up Contact and Square One -- it's been too long.

Comment author: Annoyance 21 March 2009 03:17:09PM 1 point [-]

Ah, the Angle Dance. So many memories...

Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 29 March 2013 03:04:56PM 0 points [-]

Mathman, no! 7 minus 4 is not 4!

Aaargh! How could you do this? You almost NEVER win a level!

Comment author: ricketybridge 12 January 2013 08:06:24AM *  0 points [-]

I loved Mathnet! ^_^ 1 1 2 3 5 -- eureka!

Comment author: Court_Merrigan 20 March 2009 04:18:03AM *  1 point [-]

3-2-1 Contact - that was the name of that show - not the Electric Company. That's the bad 80s hit, isn't it ...?

I don't remember seeing anything called Mathnet. My 3-2-1 Contact memories are roughly 1980-1984, somewhere thereabouts. Yours?

Comment author: MBlume 20 March 2009 05:24:10AM 1 point [-]

ah, about...1991-1994, so that explains it nicely. Did you get Reading Rainbow and Where in the World is Carmen San Diego before and after, by any chance?

Comment author: Court_Merrigan 20 March 2009 06:19:20AM 1 point [-]

Did see Reading Rainbow, although I think this was later ... late 80s?. We had Where In The World Is Carmen San Diego as a computer game, late 80s, also, I believe. The game was boring as sin.

Comment author: ricketybridge 12 January 2013 08:07:22AM 0 points [-]

Truth. :P