Re: Littleguru, Zeus and Jason interview

Christian Liensberger — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 19:02:45 GMT

JasonOlson wrote:

CompGuy101 wrote:
Is it a fficial&client=firefox-a&um=1&sa=N&tab=wi">Flat Cap?

Yup, that's exactly what it is. I just happen to wear mine backwards.

You are a rotated french dude - harr! ;)

Re: Littleguru, Zeus and Jason interview

Jason Olson — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 18:55:29 GMT

CompGuy101 wrote:

Is it a fficial&client=firefox-a&um=1&sa=N&tab=wi">Flat Cap?

Yup, that's exactly what it is. I just happen to wear mine backwards.

Re: Littleguru, Zeus and Jason interview

blowdart — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 21:37:16 GMT

Charles wrote:
You'll get to see blowdart@TechED twice... Stay tuned. You'll also get to see some London Niners again, including, well, blowdart, but also a Niner you've never met.

I think anangel's description of me as community wh0re is pretty much spot on.

Muahaha. I'm really curious now

Naw, she meant I'll speak in front of anyone or anything. You on the other hand, with your arm around numerous girls ...

Re: Littleguru, Zeus and Jason interview

Christian Liensberger — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 20:02:58 GMT

blowdart wrote:

Charles wrote: You'll get to see blowdart@TechED twice... Stay tuned. You'll also get to see some London Niners again, including, well, blowdart, but also a Niner you've never met (and one you have).

C

Re: Littleguru, Zeus and Jason interview

blowdart — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 14:20:34 GMT

Charles wrote:
You'll get to see http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=240505#240505

And there's more things in the pipeline from teched

Yeah. I hope we are able to get this thing up soon! slow c8...

That one will be interesting. But there's also a CardSapce one as well :)

Re: Littleguru, Zeus and Jason interview

Christian Liensberger — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 12:34:10 GMT

blowdart wrote:

irascian wrote:

rjdohnert wrote: I still would love to see Cybermagellan and Blowdart on C9 sometime.

Blowdart has already appeared on C9 (October 2006). He's a bit late to the party and not sure when he first shows up but if you click at 50 minutes in you can see/hear him
http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=240505#240505

And there's more things in the pipeline from teched

Re: Littleguru, Zeus and Jason interview

blowdart — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 10:05:23 GMT
I'm more bemused by the start of the interview with the female students, where little guru has his arm around them.

Re: Littleguru, Zeus and Jason interview

Sven Groot — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 09:59:36 GMT

JasonOlson wrote:
Wow. Watching friends to learn English. Could that _*BE*_ any more littleguru-esque?

I learned English primarily from old Sierra games. No, I'm not kidding. :)

Re: Littleguru, Zeus and Jason interview

Christian Liensberger — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 09:53:07 GMT

evildictaitor wrote:

littleguru wrote:
One problem is that you learn the foreing language from people who are not native speakers - at least it was that way with my English. I had only 5 years English in total, where the first year was a complete mess - we learned nothing - and afterwards we had only teachers who weren't native speakers. They tried their best, but you never can compete with a natvie speaker. It was the last 5 years before university. It was way to late to learn the language. After my highschool I was very bad in English. I could only speak short sentences and didn't have a good vocabulary.

I always found the biggest problem is that nobody really knows how to teach a language. With maths and law and physics it's easy. You teach it from ground up, but with language no-one knows where "ground" is, which means that you (in my experience) start out utterly confused, and it takes about two years for the confusion to die down, and then after about four or five years, it just "clicks" in your head, and you become fluent overnight.

I don't know if that is 100% true. I always had bad math teachers at school. It was also confusing because at the test we got always stuff that we learned after the test, which was very confusing and disappointing.

There's also another problem with foreign languages: they are dead languages. They are spoken by a lot of people but not in the region. It's like if you learn latin. Nobody speaks it in your surrounding and it is as if you learn a dead language.

Re: Littleguru, Zeus and Jason interview

irascian — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 08:59:25 GMT

rjdohnert wrote:
I still would love to see Cybermagellan and Blowdart on C9 sometime.

Blowdart has already appeared on C9 (October 2006). He's a bit late to the party and not sure when he first shows up but if you click at 50 minutes in you can see/hear him

Next time I'm in New York, I'm gonna pay a japanese person to stand in Times Square with their arms in a big V, look up into the air and cry "Hallo New Yourku!" like from in Heroes.

Re: Littleguru, Zeus and Jason interview

Jason Olson — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 02:31:08 GMT
Wow. Watching friends to learn English. Could that _*BE*_ any more littleguru-esque?

All I know is that I have to go to London sometime just so I can say "LONDON, BABY!" and it mean at least once :P.

Re: Littleguru, Zeus and Jason interview

evildictaitor — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 00:37:15 GMT

littleguru wrote:

One problem is that you learn the foreing language from people who are not native speakers - at least it was that way with my English. I had only 5 years English in total, where the first year was a complete mess - we learned nothing - and afterwards we had only teachers who weren't native speakers. They tried their best, but you never can compete with a natvie speaker. It was the last 5 years before university. It was way to late to learn the language. After my highschool I was very bad in English. I could only speak short sentences and didn't have a good vocabulary.

I always found the biggest problem is that nobody really knows how to teach a language. With maths and law and physics it's easy. You teach it from ground up, but with language no-one knows where "ground" is, which means that you (in my experience) start out utterly confused, and it takes about two years for the confusion to die down, and then after about four or five years, it just "clicks" in your head, and you become fluent overnight.

littleguru wrote:

What made me learn English was watching "Friends". It sounds weird but I watched all episodes (while being at university - the first year) and that was when I REALLY learned English and built my vocabulary.

Oh dear God.

littleguru wrote:

It was different with German and Italian. Both were native speakers and we learned that also very early.

Yay for you knowing german italian and english; those being the only three languages that I speak!

Re: Littleguru, Zeus and Jason interview

Jonathan Merriweather — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 00:17:09 GMT
:P
Cyonix wrote:
Its great having niners interviewed on C9
Fixed

Re: Littleguru, Zeus and Jason interview

PaoloM — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 00:07:10 GMT

Cyonix wrote:
Its great having niners on C9

Well... it's kinda recursive, eh?

I mean, if they are niners it's because they are on C9 :)

Re: Littleguru, Zeus and Jason interview

Jonathan Merriweather — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 00:05:49 GMT
Its great having niners on C9 :)

Re: Littleguru, Zeus and Jason interview

Árni Gunnar Ragnarsson — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 23:57:04 GMT

littleguru wrote:

Minh wrote:Just saw the video. Looks like you guys are having fun!

All TechEd was fun. More niners should attend next year! It was really so cool!

Imagine the scene: Charles comes to me and tells me that he told Jason that I'm also at TechEd. He tells me that Jason was like saying: W-HAAT guru is here! We go to the Ask The Experts corner and Jason sees us coming and he is like: "LIIIIIIIIIIIIIITTLEGURU! NICE TO MEET YOU!!!! how are you doing dude! It's so cool to meet you! FINALLY!!!"

after that some hugging happened that is not explained in all details here - muahaha!
Oh ... and I learned a lot

:o

Re: Littleguru, Zeus and Jason interview

Christian Liensberger — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 23:23:50 GMT

Minh wrote:
Just saw the video. Looks like you guys are having fun!

All TechEd was fun. More niners should attend next year! It was really so cool!

Imagine the scene: Charles comes to me and tells me that he told Jason that I'm also at TechEd. He tells me that Jason was like saying: W-HAAT guru is here! We go to the Ask The Experts corner and Jason sees us coming and he is like: "LIIIIIIIIIIIIIITTLEGURU! NICE TO MEET YOU!!!! how are you doing dude! It's so cool to meet you! FINALLY!!!"

:D

after that some hugging happened that is not explained in all details here - muahaha!

Re: Littleguru, Zeus and Jason interview

Árni Gunnar Ragnarsson — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 23:13:45 GMT

Minh wrote:
Just saw the video. Looks like you guys are having fun!
TechEd was cool, meeting Charles, Jason and lilttleguru was really cool ... get some voices and faced behind the sign-in-names.

Re: Littleguru, Zeus and Jason interview

Christian Liensberger — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 23:13:06 GMT

Zeus wrote:
Hey guys ... I think littlegurus accent is really cool ... just love it. Mine is not that great eather ...

Islandic people tend to speak a better English. I think your language is "nearer" to English.

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