– I just finished an interview with EEDAR’s Jesse Divnich. I wanted to get his perspective on the business as a prominent analyst, but it was also important for me to interview him for potential analyst RPadholic bsukenyan. It was a really fun chat on the gaming business, Jesse’s background (dude lived in a trailer park!), and his relationship with other analysts.
– Five minutes ago I bumped into David Jaffe. He once went off on me on his blog for (jokingly) calling out his use of the chicken-and-egg analogy (I subscribed to Aristotle’s view that the chicken came first). I was worried that he was mad at me for the last year and wanted to clear things up. It turns out that he was just calling me stupid and there was nothing more to it than that. Jaffe is all kinds of awesome, by the way.
People keep asking Richard Garriott (Lord British) about his experience in space. Can you really call what he did going to outerspace?
Didn't he go aboard the ISS in 2008?
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@Ray. I can't wait to hear/read the interview with Jesse!! Thanks for the personalization of the site! Lol.
And I always say it was the chicken first, as well. I believe more along the lines that God created life, not just the potential for life.
Chicken, egg, tho hell with it. Now I want an omelet.
Closer than I’ve been
@ Sandrock
That's what I was gonna lead up to, the question opens up a theological debate. If you believe in evolution, you side with the egg. If you're a creationist, it's the chicken.
It's a tricky question to discuss.
Aristotle's view was that the egg is a potential chicken and a chicken is an actual chicken. Since actuality precedes potentiality, the chicken came first.
@R-Pad
Yes, but that potentiality became actuality when the egg hatched, thus making the egg an actuality as well. Just because the chicken is no longer in the egg, doesn't mean the egg no longer exists or count. The act of hatching a egg became the proof that the egg came first.
@N8R
God could have created the egg first.
@ R Pad
Also, Aristotle predates Darwin. This guy thought Zeus was responsible for thunder.
And Zeus was a guy that was apparently easy to mistake for a rock wrapped in a blanket and liked to seduce Earth women. If only that still worked:
"Pstt… don't tell anyone this sweetie… but I'm really Zeus in disguise. Giving it up to me will secure your place on Mt. Olympus. What, you don't believe me? Partake of some more mead and let's see if you believe me then."
mmmmmmmm…. omelets…..
I say the egg came first. The species that came before the chicken, most likely laid eggs. Therefore, that species laid the first chicken egg when it finally made the evolutionary leap to the chicken.
I like to think that Dionysus would have given him wine. Zeus is a little more old school. Mead goes back to 7000 BC and was cheaper than wine back then.
But potential chicken was in an actual egg. Nowhere does it state it has to be an egg laid by an actual chicken.
Anyone else a little worried about what our president was doing in Vegas?
@ Smartguy
You're missing a key factor…. no matter what laid the egg, it's still an egg. The chicken was not born live. It more than likely evolved from dinosaurs (or whatever). Either way, the egg that the chicken came from was first.
Easier to make does not necessarily mean cheaper by the serving. This is why a can of PBR is cheaper than a 12oz glass of wine. The same held true then.
Mead was what the peasants drank and wine was held in reserve for the upper class. Hell, grapes were hard to come by for poor people. What did (not does) it cost to run an organic (by default) vineyard back then? Think about it. They couldn't just go to the grocer and pick some up.
@Sandrock323 He was here to drum up support for Harry Reid.
@Everyone Obama's intrusion was mostly annoying — the cab ride took longer because we had to go around the blocked airport entrance, the fare cost more, and I missed my flight to LA. I now have to fly (a few hours later than originally planned) to Palm Spring then LA. The one cool thing is that I got to see Airforce One take off while I was stuck in traffic.
@ Smartguy
Ultimately, my joke was centered around Zeus being a cheapskate and getting girls drunk off the Mad Dog 20/20 of the time.
@Raymond Padilla
Were you the one that yelled "TWISTED METAL" when Jaffe was presenting as award?
@RRODisHere Nope, I was too busy drinking and sneaking out for quickie conversations.
@Everyone My LAS to PSP to LAX flight didn't work out. The flight to PSP was delayed, so I would have missed the connection to LAX. I'm back on the 8:22PM to LAX, which has been delayed until 8:40. Meh. This is a pretty crap airport.
@ R Pad
But the egg is an actual egg, not a potential egg. It may be a potential chicken, but it’s actually an egg.
The question isn’t “Which came first, the actual chicken or the potential chicken?”
Wouldn’t Zeus have given them wine?
Potential chicken came first. Egg was evolution of offspring born on land.
Everyone knows that Thor is responsible for thunder. Duh.
(Stuck at LAS because Obama was here, which led to traffic and one of the airport entrances being closed. )
@ Sandrock
He’s getting a Clinton from a pro.
@ R Pad
My mother in law’s boyfriend was stuck in his truck up there last night for the same reason.
@Sandrock
Not meeting the mayor! Hiooo!
@N8R
Hence the word potential. Whatever the chicken came from, the chicken was first. The egg was second because of evolution lol. Chicken first wins.
Honestly wine is cheap to make. I have a degree in brewing. I went to Siebel in Chicago close to 10 years ago. Mead requires more patience in the fact that the yeast is more volatile. Beer would be even harder. Rule of thumb: the more alcohol, the easier to make.
@ Smartguy
Wine has ALWAYS been overpriced.
We started at the time of Aristotle which was (give or take) 350 BC. They had vintners. These vintners were pretty much hired by the emperor himself or shut down by the emperor in order to inflate the price of wine (among other things). Also, before certain health practices, it was a good idea to know your vintner. Hence the thing about station and quality has a long tradition.
Distillation was around then, but not in that part of the world. It wasn't introduced to Europe until medieval times.
@ R Pad
You're just bummed now. Name another American airport with slot machines. It was also the last airport to ban smoking.
I totally preferred layovers in Vegas as opposed to Phoenix (where most of my layovers end up, either/or).
@N8R
most wine is overpriced. There is a perception about station and quality that inflates the price.
We could keep going on about the egg, but ultimately it’s a point of view lol.
@Obama
you have doomed Harry Reid now.
@ Smartguy
Reading over my last post, Greece had a democracy by then (instead of an oligarchy, excluding Sparta which I think was done by Aristotles time)… but you know what i meant. Wine was still a high commodity.