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Hi all! I was going through some things from my ex boyfriend and I had a date book compiled, and thought I'd share some of the ideas here before I toss the book out.
Bob Ross Follow Along: Bob Ross has his own Youtube channel that you can go to. Scroll through the video selection and choose a painting that looks appealing to you. Buy canvases and paint and a bottle of wine and have a fun night in following along with Bob.
Murder Mystery Dinner: This would be fun for an at home double date. I found a cheap kit at Tj Maxx but you could also probably find ideas online or a cheap kit online. My kit had invitations that were to be mailed out to guests inviting them to the dinner (could use fb invite), pamphlets with the characters background for the guests to study, dinner ideas (could be as simple as spag and meatballs) and a storyline to follow to solve a murder.
Make Tipsy Bartender Drinks: If you like drinking you could have a fun night in by going to Tipsy Bartenders Youtube and see if there are any drinks you have the supplies to make laying around. He has drinks of varying budgets so if you need something simple and cheap hes got you.
Board Game Night: If you have some board games enjoy a night in playing them. If you don't there is a website called Board Game Online that I find quite fun that you could burn some time on. There is also Drunk Pirate for an online drinking game.
Science Experiments: After a quick trip to the grocery store for some supplies you can enjoy a night in doing various different science experiments such as making a rainbow jar, aqua sand, slime, and whatever other fun experiments you can find online.
Make Clay Sculptures: You can buy a packet of clay at Walmart and mold some figures with it. Let it harden overnight and enjoy date night #2 by painting them.
Fantasy Box: Fantasy Box is a really cool company that creates boxes for different sexual desires. They have costume boxes with fantasies like playboy bunny, school girl, as well as bondage boxes, playful boxes, etc. The boxes are already pretty cheap compared to buying the items individually but you can also find referral codes online for an additional $20 off.
Break a World Record: Look online at Guinness World Record and see if there are any records that you and your S/O can break.
Time Capsule: Buy a lunch box and find various items around the house that are memories that signify your relationship. This could be photos, receipts, trinkets. Put them in the box and open in 1 year with a bottle of wine.
Make each other t-shirts: Buy plain white t-shirts, fabric pens, different craft supplies and decorate t-shirts for each other.
Decorate kitchen supplies: Buy ceramic markers and mugs/plates/shot glasses/etc and decorate some kitchen supplies.
Answer Questions: There are various websites online that have long lists of silly/serious/romantic questions to ask your s/o. Sit down with some mixed drinks and go through the lists with each other.
Puzzles: Find a puzzle that you both like and get to completing. Once done buy some mod podge to seal the puzzle and use it later to decorate your living space!
Draw/Paint Each Other: Depending on your budget this could be as simple as paper and pencil or canvas and paint or both. You can choose to paint each other live while looking at each other (might be harder) or print photos of each other to paint.
$10 Dollar Tree Challenge: Go to Dollar Tree with each of you only allowed a budget of $10 = 10 items. Buy the randomest stuff that might make the other person laugh. My boyfriend and I found minion night lights, anal wart cream, douches, etc.
Youtube Challenges: Do various popular Youtube challenges. Boyfriend Does My Makeup, Chapstick Challenge, Tincan Challenge, Chubby Bunny Challenge, etc.
Buy Books For Each Other: Go to a library and find a book for the other person without telling them what it is. Get home and curl up with each other and read the books.
Taste Test Chocolate & Wine/Cheese & Wine: Buy chocolate and wine and taste test different chocolates with the wine. Could do the same but with cheese and wine instead.
Date Box: Datebox creates a fun, unique date night, and sends you everything needed to enjoy it with your special someone. Each month you get something new and exciting. They have an online only version for a cheaper price or a box you'll receive in the mail. There are referral codes online you can find to make that first box cheaper.
Hunt a Killer Subscription Box: This is an interactive box that takes place over a 6 month period. You will get a new box each month that gives you clues to solve the murder mystery. There are various different themed boxes.
Massages: Buy some massage oil and set the mood by setting up a room by laying a sheet down on the couch/bed, placing a pillow, and playing some peaceful music.
Newly Wed Game: Typically this would require a group of 4 and you can definitely double date and play that way. However, you can also just play with your s/o by printing out the questions, answering them separately then comparing together. Loser could take shots or take a sip of their drink.
Personality Test: You can take a free version of the Myers Briggs personality test and see how your personalities mesh with each other.
Instant Chemistry Compatibility Test: Take a dna test with your s/o by sending in your saliva and see how compatible you really are. These tests are on sale for Valentines day.
Tie Dye: Buy white t-shirts and a tie dye kit. I found one at Walmart that included the ties, bottles and dye. Use a giant plastic tub or your bathtub to make the shirts to save a mess.
Fondue: There are various different fondue recipes online whether it be chocolate or cheese related. Find a recipe and recreate it at home.
At Home Photo Shoot: Use your phone camera, a cheap throwaway polaroid or buy a fujifilm. Set up a room with a backdrop and do photo shoots with each other. You could make it silly by picking out each others outfits for the photos.
Paint Each Others Body: Buy edible paint if you're into that to lick it off each other. Or buy non toxic paint and paint actual art creations on each others backs.
Bubble Bath: Set up a nice warm bath with bubbles, a bath bomb, dim the lights, and play some ambient music.
Paint Snow with Food Coloring: Buy some bottles of food coloring and after it snows go outside and decorate the snow.
Make Maple Candy with Snow. After a fresh snow take some of the snow inside with a tub and take 100% maple syrup and drizzle it along the snow. It will harden into maple candy.
Make blessing bags for homeless: Make a trip to the Dollar Tree. Buy bags, gloves, snacks, hygeine products, etc. Go home, stuff the bags. Then put the bags in the back of your car and whenever you see homeless you can give them a bag.
Travel to new country via Internet: Open up your laptop and choose a country. Travel to that country via the internet. Open it up on Google Maps. Look at local images, learn some words in that language, watch videos.
Karaoke: Open up Youtube and find different Karaoke compilations that have duets.
Dance Lessons: Youtube has various step by step dance videos. Find one that you both like, clear out the living room, and get practicing.
Build a Snowman: After a sticky snow, gather some supplies around the house and go build a snowman outside.
Scratch Tickets: Go to the gas station and buy $10-20 in scratch tickets. Spend some time in celebrating or contemplating how much money you just lost.
Half Hand Video Games: If your s/o and you have a ps4/xbox/nintendo etc you can play this. Each of you get half of the controller and you have to work together to finish the game. This can be fun for games like Spyro, COD and Mario Kart.
Cook-Off: Choose a meal that you both have to prepare such as strawberry short cake or apple fritters. Each choose a different recipe and make your own style. When you're done post on social media and see what your friends and family think on who did best.
Strip PokeStrip Trivia: Get a deck of cards or find some trivia questions online. Loser removes a piece of clothing each time they lose.
Glowstick Party: Go to the dollar tree and buy a BUNCH of glow in the dark sticks. Decorate the room, turn off the lights, play some music, have some drinks, and PARTY.
Walmart/Car Bingo: Make bingo cards for every time you go to Walmart or go on a road trip. The Walmart bingo could be like the people of Walmart. Everytime you see someone without a shirt mark here. The road trip could be signs that you see or things like cows or planes.
Green Eggs and Ham: Want some nostalgia? Remember Dr. Seuss? Prepare green eggs and ham and watch one of the Dr. Seuss movies.
Cartoon Night: Get in your pjs, get some of your childhood favorite cereals and sit down in front of the tv like its Sunday morning and watch some old childhood cartoons.
Meditate: Set up some space in your living room, lay down a blanket, and pull up Youtube videos that will play calm music and instruct you when to breathe in and out.
Yoga: Set up some space in your living room, lay down a blanket, and pull up Youtube videos that will have an instructor telling you what positions you need to do and how long to hold them.
Make a relationship montage video: Depending how long you've been together you probably have a lot of photos and videos. Get sappy and pull up Imovie or Windows Movie Maker and compile all these memories together in a video that you can later watch together.
Themed Country Date Night: Pick a country. For this example I'll use Italy. Make an Italian dinner like pasta or pizza. Dessert could be Italian ice. Play Italian music while you eat. Watch movies based out of Italy.
Learn Your Love Language: There are five ways people receive and process love. Receiving Gifts, Quality Time, Physical Touch, Words of Affirmation and Acts of Service. Take the quiz with your s/o and see which one they are and incorporate it in your relationship.
Airsoft Gun Fight: You can buy a really fancy one or get really cheap ones at the dollar tree. Set up the room for battle, load your guns and get shooting!
Goodwill Trip: Go to Goodwill and go seperate ways and pick out outfits for each other. The crazier the better. Than go somewhere in public wearing them.
One Actor Movie Binge: Choose your favorite actoactress and make a list of movies they're in. Spend a night binging those movies.
DIY Escape Room: There are various DIY tutorials for this online with different themes. Essentially set up the room with different mysteries for your S/O and have them solve how to escape the room with you.
Rainbow Dinner: Prepare a rainbow dinner for your S/O. Ideas could be a colorful pizza, acai bowl with fruits, peanut noodles, etc. There are various recipes online.
Name That Treat: Have your S/O go in the kitchen without you and grab 5 different items. You follow them and grab 5 as well. Feed each other these items and see if they're able to name them. You could also go to the grocery store if you want to make it gross and pick up stuff you don't think they'd guess.
Iron Chef: Prepare a meal where one ingredient is incorporated in everything. For example chocolate. So chocolate needs to be in the app,entree, dessert and drink.
Hawaiian Vacation in your living room: Lay down a tan sheet to look like sand. Lay down another small blanket or towel above it. Set up a mini picnic with foods that are Hawaiian themed. Make a trip to the Dollar Tree and go to their luau party section and buy cups and different decorations to fit the theme. Make a mixed drink like pina colada. Play tropical music.
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[Table] I am Dave Plummer, author of Windows Task Manager, Zip Folders, and worked on Space Cadet Pinball, Media Center, Windows Shell, MS-DOS, OLE32, WPA, and more. (pt 1/2)

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Space Cadet Pinball, how does it feel to be the most played "bring your child to work day" game? I remember it fondly. The best part is that I used to "teach" computer lab when my kids were in K through 6th grades, back when Pinball was still included and well known. The kids could care less about anything technically hard or interesting that I'd worked on, of course, but Pinball gave me instant street cred with them.
Especially cool was being able to walk over and enter a secret code that only I knew that would turn on all the cheats, like infinite lives. They thought I was a wizard at that age!
The code, by the way, is "hidden test" without the quotes! Then various keys do different things, you can click and drag the ball around, and so on. Google it for the gory details!
I always like to point out that I was working with a full set of original IP from Maxis, so I had nothing to do with the design of the game, or it's art, etc... that was all done! My contribution was volunteering to port it, including a partial rewrite from asm to C, to work on MIPS, Alpha, PowerPC, IA64, ARM, and so on, which was actually a lot of work. But I got it into the Windows box, which is how and why everyone knows it today. But all credit for the gameplay and so on goes to Maxis, all I did was not screw it up in that case!
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To add a bit of detail re Space Cadet Pinball: we built Space Cadet originally at my company Cinematronics and did a deal with Microsoft to ship it with the Plus Pack that accompanied Win 95 and Win 98. While it technically didn't ship w/ Windows, the Plus Pack had something like a 25% attach rate and pinball wound up on most systems anyway. Microsoft actually had an option in our original contract from 1994 to ship it with the OS itself or the Plus Pack. Maxis was our publisher for the subsequent retail version, and later bought my company. More germane to this thread: I believe Dave's port entered the picture a few years later, after Win 98, and was likely critical to pinball continuing to ship on later iterations of the Windows OS (i.e. 32-bit). I definitely appreciate the time he put in to give the game extra years of life on the Windows platform. Kevin Gliner, game designer and producer for 3D Pinball, and co-founder of Cinematronics. Pleased to FINALLY put a name to the game design! You should update the Wikipedia article for the game, as I think it lists Matt Ridgway, who might have been sound? I've been crediting Maxis for years, not knowing the role of Cinematronics who was who. One thing that confused me: wasn't there a company that did video games in the 80s called Cinematronics? Any relation? Star Castle, Armor Attack, etc...
As for timing, this likely between the Win95 and Win98 Plus! packs. It was very early on at least, and shipped at least in NT4, and perhaps earlier in "SUR" release that ran atop NT 3.51, but I don't have access to any source files to check dates!
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I keep meaning to fix that wikipedia article, there's a significant number of people that worked on the game and for some reason only Matt (an independent sound guy who did some excellent part-time contract work for us) is listed. There's also a lot of confusion about the timing of various releases and the companies involved, and who owns it now (EA). I actually have all the original source, although no rights to any of it anymore. Hard to say on the timing of the port. I was working in Redmond in '99 when I got word someone had done an NT4 and Win2000 port (I'm assuming that was you), so that was the first time the port showed up on my radar. I have a more confident memory (and contracts, email, etc) of all the events related to how pinball came about and the first couple years after it was released. I like to think pinball was the very first Win95 game (it was fun to watch Gates and Leno pretend to play it on stage at the Win95 launch event), but of course there were other games that shipped with the launch too. You're correct, there was an 80s arcade game company called Cinematronics that went out of business long before we started in 1994, and someone had let the trademark lapse. How we came to be called Cinematronics is a long story for another time... NT shipped in 96, so the version I did for it would have been done in 95. I remember working on it about the time Win9X was shipping or in late beta. I could be wrong on that part, but Nov 95 would be my guess.
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Damn dude, porting assembly? You are a legend! Thanks - we actually did all of our debugging in assembler. We didn't have any source-level or line-level debugging at all (except as noted below). So you'd connect to a machine through an ssh-like tool and then, if the symbols were right, you could get a callstack and inspect memory, disassemble functions, and so on. But since we spent much of our day staring at assembly, I became reasonably adept at it.
I say "reasonably" as I was lazy enough that I would compile the components of interest to me with Visual Studio PDB symbols so that, if I could repro on my own machine, I could then source-level debug it. That made me fast at some stuff that others were slow at, but I likely never got as proficient at asm debugging as someone who never had an alternative. I had a developer friend named Bob whom was an ntsd (our debugger) superstar, and he'd write expressions inside of breakpoints to fire conditionally, that kind of thing. So I did learn that trick, but I'm sure there were dozens I just never knew.
That all said, we rarely if ever coded in assembly. All coding was in C/C++.
In the Pinball case, parts of the original were written in hand-coded in asm by Maxis, like the sound engine, and wouldn't have had a hope of working on anything but an x86. Rather than be lame and not have sound on the RISC platforms, I opted to rewrite that stuff in C so that it was portable.
The RISC platforms also bring their own set of problems like 32-bit alignment for data. And being on Windows NT (now just "Windows") meant being Unicode, but fortunately there isn't a TON of text in a pinball game!
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boytekka: damn, the only time that I did assembly language is when we tried moving a small machine through the printer port.. I miss those days LordApocalyptica: Only time I did assembly was when I wanted to make a game on my TI-84, and decided that I didn't want to. I miss those days too. First game I wrote in assembly I did in a machine language monitor on my C64. You can't (easily) relocate 6502 so to add code you'd have to jump out, do stuff, and jump back... Crazy!
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If I can ask a question, how does it feels to go from coding with basically zero help to working with modern IDE and code editors that give you a lot of infos, tips, error notifications and so on? I've started programming like a year ago from zero, and I don't think I could be able to program like y'all did 20 years ago or more. Thanks for doing this AMA anyways! You're very welcome! The progression in tools has been amazing, really. I remember HESMON and my first machine language monitors for the PET and C64, then really nice ROM dev environments, and CygnusEd for the Amiga... all the way up to PlatformIO and Visual Studio Code.
My most recent "WOW" moment was adding a line to my lib_deps line in platformio, which magically included the library being developed at the URL on github. So you can link to online projects... cool.
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Just wanted to say thanks for the Alpha port! Alpha AXP was by far the hardest to debug! "Branch later, maybe"
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I just want to thank you for my first experience with pinball. I am now a top 100 competitive pinball player and own 16 pinball machines. That's cool, which do you collect primarily? I was always a fan of Williams, and am FB friends with a couple of their older devs like Steve Ritchie, Larry DeMar, and Eugene Jarvis (but I should be careful, Bill Gates warned me never to name drop :-) )
I have a Black Knight 2000 as my own machine right now!
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I have a wide range. Some modern Sterns like Metallica, Jurassic Park, Tron and Iron Maiden. Older Bally’s like Frontier and Fathom. 2 classic Bally/Williams Dr Who and Attack From Mars. Plus a few EMs. I like them all! Attack From Mars was the game that got me into the physical world of pinball. Collecting has been more of a recent pandemic thing since I can’t go out and play. I miss traveling around the country playing in big tournaments. Oh yeah and Steve Ritchie is quite the character. You must meet him some day. I’ve met him a few times and each time has earned a place in my pinball stories I talk about with friends. Congrats on the collection, that's a nice set! I've never met Steve - I did meet Larry DeMar in vegas. I was playing at a slot machine and he was next to me, and had a name tag, and I was like... "Excuse me sir, but does the word Robotron mean anything?" and it turned out to be him!
Asking as someone pretty new in software development, did you experience impostor syndrome? If so, how did you deal with it? My first couple of years were very productive, so I wasn't insecure about my output, but even so I definitely experienced imposter syndrome. I think most people who achieve aspirational roles do... I have a friend who was in the NFL who describes the same feeling.
Being as productive as your peers is sort of the pre-requisite, and if that's true, then remind yourself that when you were in fifth grade, the eighth graders on the playground seemed so old and mature! It's odd in that I started in 1993, but to me anyone who started in the 80s was a "true" Old Timer and remains so in my head to this day. And similarly I'm no doubt the grizzled veteran to people I hired a few years later.
I know when I started I felt like the dumbest guy in the room, and by the end I felt like the smartest guy in the room, and I don't think I'd gotten any smarter along the way. So it's all relative and perception. Well, that and the stock caused some serious attrition of the "really smart"!
I remember visiting Google a couple of years ago in the bathrooms they had posters that read "YOU ARE NOT AN IMPOSTER", and info about seminars and so on about it, so it's very common! I wish I had a concrete strategy for you, but I don't other than "It's commonplace, and I bet there are a ton of resources on the Web. Don't be surprised you're experiencing it!"
What would you encourage someone to start learning today related to your field? I'm learning React at the moment. Let's face it, the web development experience is utter nonsense. So I kept hoping for something that would make it clean, and easy to make components, and to work with REST apis. So I went looking for a solution. Then I read about Angular, and it seemed like "too much" to learn for the sake of making a SPA.
But React seems understandable enough and solves a ton of problems with web development, not the least of which is being able to intermingle HTML and Javascript (via JSX).
As for languages, I'd probably start with Python. I prototyped a complicated LED system a couple of years ago and it was admirable what it could accomplish for an interpreted language. And you probably have to know modern Javascript as well.
Now, would you be rather interested in working for windows, macos or linux ? I work in all three. For my own projects I write to the ASP.NET Core 3.1, and that's available on Windows, Mac, and Linux. I originally wrote my LED server to it under MacOS, then moved it to Windows with about 5 minutes of changes (related to the consoles being somewhat different). Then I moved it to Linux, where I made it work and then containerized it with Docker. I got it up and running on my Raspberry Pi and in a Windows HyperV and under WSL using Ubuntu. To me that kind of stuff is super cool.
Once I had it working in a Docker container I deployed it to my Synology NAS, which is some variant of Linux. So my NAS runs my Christmas lights!
I love stuff like that when it works!
My main workstation is a Dell monitor that has an internal KVM. I have a 2013 Mac Pro connected to it, which is maxed out and then has an eGPU and eRAID setup via Thunderbolt. And then I have a 3970X Windows PC connected as well, and I can jump back and forth with a button.
I spend most of my day in Windows now, unless it's video related, in which case I use Final Cut Pro.
Hi Dave, thanks for the AmA! In regards to task manager - often times I have to click the 'end task' button more than once to get the frozen program to actually close. Why is this? Thanks again. Remember that, at least in my day, End Task is different than End Process. The former sends a "Please close yourself" message to the app, and if it's hung, it should then detect it and so on, but doesn't always. Imagine the app is in a weird state where it's still pumping messages, it's not hung, but it's broken. End Task likely won't work.
That's when you need End Process, which tears everything down for you. The substantive difference is that the program gets no choice in the matter and no notification. End Task can be graceful. End Process is brutal.
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What about when the task manager stops responding? We need a task manager manager to manage the task manager. Lol I've never seen that happen, ever, unless the system itself or the window manager is bunged in some way. Your puny Task Manager cannot save you now.
Then again, nothing can, save a reboot.
What cool new tech are you excited about? Right now I'm actually trying to productize something of my own, a system for doing hidden, permanently-installed LED holiday lighting. It receives the effect entirely over WiFi, or it can fall back to built-in effects and so on. Quick demo from 4th of July here:
https://youtu.be/7QNtj2hZtaQ
I'm done the software on the ESP32 and on the desktop, and working on the phone app now. So the next step is to find someone to manufacture the actual addressable LED strip fixtures. They'd be like under-counter LED strips that snap together end to end, but weatherproof, and with WS2813 LEDs internally.
In terms of stuff that I'm just benefitting from, the latest CPUs from AMD are amazing. I have the 32-core 3970X and the raw computing power is hard to comprehend. That you can buy a 32-core chip for $2K (or 64-core for $4K) amazes me! Now I need to learn AI or something to make use of all of that hardware...
After the rise of WinRAR, did you continue to use the trial or did you pay? From: [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected])
Sent: Saturday, April 29, 2006 3:14 PM
To: Dave
Subject: Your BuyRAR.com Order #: 122229610 License Key
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​ Attachments: rarkey.rar
My WinRAR order number, from about 15 years ago, is above. And my WinZip license is much older than that. As someone who (a) made their real living in shareware and (b) worked on Product Activation, I'm the kind of guy who always licenses everything! You'll notice in my PlatformIO/"Arduino" video I even walk people through how to contribute to show how easy it is. I love good, cheap software.
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Would you download a car? My wife's Tesla downloads update all the time. I'm sure they're just as complex as the mechanical components of the car, so in a sense, we already do!
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But... why did you keep the email? I have a folder on my OneDrive called Registrations where I keep copies of license keys and registrations. So it was handy. Looks like Telix is my oldest registration from 1989 or so.
Also what was Microsoft really like back in the 90s? As a user of MS-Dos 3.30 forward till now. I’m assuming there has just been a whole tide of changes. Was double space really as funny on the dev side as it was on the user side with the slowness and the pufferfish as a logo :) I worked on Doublespace in that I wrote a thunking layer that could live in low memory and then moved the rest of the code into the HMA. I didn't work on the compression, but odds are the guy who did is reading along right now, I bet!
I don't really know if it was faster or slower than its contemporaries like Stacker. I wrote one for the Amiga, though didn't get it quite finished before starting at MS, and it's an interesting and hard problem to do well. At least on the AmigaDOS it was, FAT would be a tad easier.
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I mean for its time it was great. But back then floppy disks and 10M RLL-MFM drives were more the norm. It was actually awesome to have it included IN the OS instead of having to buy stacker. I think this is why I get so much of a kick out of every phishing AD that says download this to double your RAM. It just takes me back. RAM Doublers are a whole 'nother ball of wax. Raymond Chen, in his blog "The Old New Thing", covers them well. If I understand it correctly, in the most famous case the code to do the actual memory compression was disabled, so it literally did nothing, but did it with overhead.
On the other hand, I note that current Windows, the HyperV, and even my Synology NAS offer "Memory Compression" now so perhaps there's a time and a place on modern cpus and systems.
I'm an Engineer and regularly use MS Office to produce reports and calculations. Subscript and Superscript are something I use all the time. For at least the last 15 years, in MS Word I can hit "Ctrl +" & "Ctrl Shift +" to make the highlighted text Subscript or Superscript. But MS Word sucks for calculations, so I use MS Excel. But MS Excel it's about 8 clicks to make something super or subscript, and the hotkey technology hasn't made it in. So my question is, why was MS Office 2003 the best version of office that was ever produced? I retired in 2003. Coincidence? I'll leave that one up to the scholars.
If you could go back and change anything about Windows without consequences or worrying about backwards compatibility, what would it be? Format! I wrote that and since I was used to using the Visual Studio Resource Editor for dialogs, but couldn't in this case, I just laid out a stack of buttons and labels, content in the knowledge that a Program Manager or Designer would come up with a proper design for it that I would then code up. But somehow, no one did, and no one has for 25 years! So it's a big tall stack of buttons like a prairie grain elevator.
Ever met Bill Gates or have an interesting personal experience with him or another higher up you can share? Yes, even when I was a new college hire he had the 30 of us or so over for beer and a burger in his back yard. It was a nice touch and quite informal. Obviously, at some scale, it wasn't 30 people anymore and they couldn't continue it!
Ever play the video game Star Castle? It was like that. Concentric circles of people standing around BillG each armed with what they hope is a question or comment so clever they'll stand out in some way!
If every software you need would be available for both systems. Would you use a Linux distribution or Windows 10? Right now I'd use Windows 10 because, if the same client software is available, I'd do it on Windows simply because I have a new 3970X w/ 128G of RAM and triple RAID0 SSDs plus an Optane stick. All for about 1/10th the price of a Mac Pro. Since the hardware is so cheap and powerful, it's really hard to resist.
Even if all the client software were magically available, or Parallels for Linux were a thing, I'd stick with Windows because I haven't seen a Linux UI that I really like. I know everyone has a favorite... if there's an actually good and attractive one that works out of the box, let me know what distro, and maybe link a screenshot!
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Give Mint 20 with Cinnamon a fair shot! I have struggled for years trying to like a Linux distro but never found one that felt and looked right which I think had been the reason Linux hasn't been adopted mainstream but Mint20 with Cinnamon is possibly it..if not its very very close.. Has awesome multi-desltop winodws feature and you can make it basically just like Win10.. Would love to know what you think of it! 20.1 BETA just dropped and has a super interesting feature called Web Apps that needs to be checked out asap! Heres a link to the 20 long term support version.. some people do not like the Minto Logos/Backgrounds out of the box..keep in mind there are a ton of nice ones included and many more you can get quickly if that's something you don't like..what is really neat is that you can make Mint20 look like any OS.. there are themes that make it exactly like MacOS I just have not personally tried those out yet. https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=3928 Thanks, I'll check out Mint!
I am looking at my copy of Douglas Coupland's "microserfs". Although it's fiction, do you think it resembles the Microsoft Culture of the time? Lord no, that book bugged me. On the one hand, they're a bunch of pretentious and precocious, annoying kids. I worked on a team (NT) where the tone was set by Dave Cutler and the guys he brought over from Digital, so it was rather different. On the other hand, it's such a big company that odds are those four main people DID exist somewhere in the company. Just not around me!
Why was (is) a monolithic registry preferred over distributing the settings in a number of files like Unix? Why did windows remain single-user focused for so long when Unix was multi-user since the 70s? In my understanding, if there is just one user, that user has to be admin which opened Windows up to security issues. (I don't even recall any sudo-like privilege escalation in pre-XP Windows.) Windows NT was multiluser from birth. And there's nothing about the Windows architecture that requires users to be admin; the reality, I think, is that most apps started out in Win95 land and just didn't work if they were run as non-admin, so people ran as admin because the apps required it.
We couldn't just break all those apps and say "Oh well, get better apps" so what you got was a convention of people running as admin. But again, there's no need to. Same as Unix.
The one exception is that under Unix it's easy to sudo and so admin work briefly. I wish Windows had (or exposed) a simpler mechanism for letting me run as a non-admin credential and escalate when needed. I know UAC does the same thing, more or less, if used cautiously.
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Yeah NT did eventually get around to fixing it. My question was really about the earlier systems, because I think you said you worked on MS-DOS? Since there were existing systems with multi-user and privilege escalation even before the first Windows, somebody must have made a conscious decision to not include that functionality. MS-DOS was only the second or third OS I can think of for a Microprocessor (CPM, SCP, then MS-DOS). What existed for mainframes and minis didn't matter much in the memory limits available on the desktop.
What was the inspiration for Space Cadet Pinball and what is your high score? I don't know, I wasn't the designer, the inspiration part happened separate, I provided the perspiration part! I was actually pretty good at the game, since I was literally paid to play and test it... but I don't know the score, sorry! I do have the world high score on Tempest, though! But not Pinball :-)
1. What's something super useful within Task Manager you think even seasoned Windows users don't know they can do? 2. What do you think a future version of Task Manager should be able to do? I think CTRL_SHIFT_ESC is a surprise to a lot of people!
I think Task Manager needs Dark Mode, and a way to show who has locked what file or device so you can kill the offender when needed.
Why is it that I can still find dialogs in Windows 10 that were clearly built using 16 bit Visual Studio 97 version? This should explain it. When you achieve perfection, you leave it alone:
https://youtu.be/l75a8CvIHBQ
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Please for the love of God, use your Microsoft contacts to stop the snipping tool from going away. It's literally perfect but they keep trying to discontinue it. One Compound Word: SnagIt. It's what you need to make your life complete.
After my time, but I heard the new snipping and history that's being built in to replace it is pretty good. It better be if they kill snipping tool!
Thanks for task manager! I use it for so many things. How do you feel about newer versions of Windows de-emphasizing the control panel in favor of their new settings app? I'm all for it if they made sure they had 100% coverage of all settings. It's sort of weird that in this day and age, with an R&D budget in the billions, we still have a mix of new control panel and old property pages. But I like the new stuff if it covered all cases!
Hello Dave! Why does Windows have such a rough time transferring a lot of small files? Is it a limitation of NTFS? It's not Windows, it's all operating systems. Part of it is filesystem related:
Imagine copying a file takes 200ms of overhead plus 10ms per MB. Coping 100M of large files will take 200ms + 1000ms = 1.2 seconds.
Now imagine you have 100M of 1M files. Now you have 100*200ms + 1000ms = 20000ms or 20 seconds. 20 times as long for the same amount of data.
Did you ever get a chance to work in/on OS/2? I stuck with OS/2 until 2005/2006, before moving onto Linux, and would love to hear any opinions and stories you might have. I didn't! I used OS/2 a bit but never had a chance to work on it. Many of the people I worked with did, though... but if OS/2 were Kevin Bacon, I'm one degree removed.
I had waited more than 20 years to ask this... What the fuck is Trumpet Winsock? That's what you need to use TCP/IP on Windows before it was included in Windows. You're welcome.
What was the idea behind having "generic" activation keys starting in Windows XP that would activate any version, it was said they were for [educational purposes], did Microsoft provide them to 501c3/non-profit schools, or was there a different reasoning? I'm not sure what you mean by "generic". I remember retail and oem, but what was a generic key?
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There was a set of keys that became public knowledge partway through XP life that appeared to activate unlimited machines as valid, though added a banner "For Educational Purposes Only". I remember trying it back in the day and always wondered what the intention was that was important enough the key activations were never blocked. [I did have multiple legal keys, but curiosity killed the cat and I had to swap one to the "educational" key to see for myself, lol] I don't actually know! But I can surmise that if it was displaying a banner down in the bottom right corner of the screen, it knew it was not licensed and was likely limited or time-limited in some way. Unless you could actually ACTIVATE them with that key, which would surprise me.
How does OLE still work? I can't think of anything else that complex and old that still runs. We've got a legacy piece in our application that uses it and I can build against it using .net 4.0, in an Azure pipeline and deploy to windows 10 hosts and a piece of 90s technology still works perfectly. How and why? It was complex, but pretty well written and very well tested. That's not to say there aren't a lot of bugs outside the common case codepaths, but I bet if Office used it, it's pretty solid, and will be forever.
Other than your personal phone number, did any Easter eggs make it to general availability? There was one in the Win9X shell, but I think we removed it for Windows XP and later. So not that I'm aware of!
Have you ever wanted to make a "sequel" to Space Cadet? There are actually two other tables available in the original Maxis game that should work, in theory, but I think Space Cadet was the best of the 3, so...
Were there ever any 3rd party edit/change to shell that made you think, "Why didn't we think of that?" Not offhand, but "Stacks" on MacOS where it tries to rescue your mess by grouping things by filetype (Images, Docs, etc) is pretty clever. So that's something I wish we'd though of!
Have you worked at all with Bryce Cogswell and Mark Russinovich?? Also, what was your initial response to Process Explorer /the Sysinternals stuff?? No, but the SysInternal guys are geniuses of the highest order, so far as I'm concerned (and I say that based on their products, no knowing them). They know their stuff.
What are your best/oddest purchases you were able to justify as a work expense (for example, were you able to get MS to buy pinball machines as an R&D cost)? I had DirecTv in my office! I was working on the Media Center prototype and we couldn't get cable on campus, so I got the dish installed on the roof, etc....
I had a Tempest machine in my Office but at my own expense. I started right around the days of the "shrimp vs weenies" memo, so they were pretty cost conscious.
Is it true that you and Dave Cutler got into a knife fight over a hand of poker gone bad? A broken bottle is not a knife.
Was DoubleSpace stolen from Stacker? No. As I understand it, DoubleSpace was licensed from an Israeli developer. Then I heard that Stacker had somehow been awarded a patent on using a hash table in compression, which sounds pretty ludicrous if true. There was a trial, and even though it revolved around hash tables and math and compression engines, and no one on the jury had been to college, as I heard it. So the big guy lost. That's the story I heard, your mileage may vary. I'm not a spokesman, etc.
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MS-DOS 6.21, the most useless version. I remember writing an extra "2" on my 6.2 OEM disks when the update came out (no point wasting disks). You say "useless", I say "canonical".
I think I actually worked on 6.22, not sure. It was 6.2 something. In terms of usefulness, the features I added to it personally were:
- Moving Doublespace to HMA to free up a lot of low mem, as noted
- Giving Diskcopy ability to do it in a single pass with no swaps
- I wrote a new version of Smartdrv that added CD-ROM support
- I wrote a special version of Setup that worked via deltas and put everything on a single floppy (no point wasting disks).
Mind you, I was just a summer intern when I did that, and it took me about 3 months.
What are your favorite DOS command-line tricks that still work in Windows 10? doskey!
What actually happens if someone deletes Win32? Human sacrifice, cats and dogs living together, mass hysteria. Do not attempt.
Did Bill ever swing by your cubicle and tell you'd he'd take your assignment home and finish it in a weekend if you didn't hurry up? Cubicle? It was the 90s at Microsoft! I had a corner office with a table, chairs, a Tempest machine, and a sofabed.
What is the best project you worked on or had friends work on that was canceled, that you would revive if you had the resources? Windows Media Center, I'd say! And I wish they'd done a great AutoPC that the OEMs could have licensed and made common to most cars.
There has been a lot of hate on Windows / Microsoft from the Unix / Linux advocates. What are some narratives that you disagree / don't think are true? I used to love the Amiga, so I know what it's like to feel a sense of advocacy for a platform that you feel is superior but overlooked in the marketplace.
I think the most untrue narrative I've heard about them is that they all have neckbeards. I think it's only "most", not all.
How do you introduce yourself at parties? "Does anyone here know how to update my Groove subscription on my Zune?"
What OS are you using now? What's your favorite OS of all time? What's the worst OS of all time? What's the worst Microsoft OS (if different)? The best OS of all time was Windows NT 4.0 with the Shell Update Release.
The worst OS of all time was the TRS-80 Model 1, Level 1 DOS that didn't have the keyboard debounce code in ROM yet so you couldn't even type on the thing.
[deleted] No, I never put a true easter egg in anything. Especially in an operating system, I don't believe in them. You have to be able to trust the OS, and I think it goes against that.
How did you get started in this specific field? I first wandered into a Radio Shack store in about 1979 when I was 11, where I saw my very first computer. It was not connected yet, as the staff had not figured out how to set it up yet. Being somewhat precocious, I asked if I might play with it if I could manage to set it up. On a lark they said, “Sure kid, have a shot”, and ten minutes or so later I had it up and running. This endeared me to the manager, Brian, enough that every Thursday night and Saturday morning I would ride my bike down to the store: I’d type in my crude BASIC programs and they were kind enough to indulge my incessant free tinkering on their expensive computer. So that's pretty much how I started!
Do you ever have moments where you’re like “they have it so easy nowadays” or do you think that because of the groundwork put in place 30 years ago that systems have become exponentially more complex? Only when someone spools up an entire docker instance to pipe something to it on the command line... then it's like "Really? You're basically booting a virtual computer as a command?"
What's the best C++ expert tip you can share for fellow programmers? If you make anything in your class virtual, make the destructor virtual, particularly if there's any chance that anyone might delete an instance of your derived class through a base class pointer. Otherwise, the behavior is undefined, I think, but even if it works, it's not what you want!
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Wow this is eerie. I literally fixed a bug a couple weeks ago that was this specific case. They can be weird bugs to track down, too!
Tabs or spaces? Spaces on an indent of 4, tabs set to 8.
How can I open an MS Binder file? Push down on the metal tabs at the top and bottom of the central spine of the binder. That will release the 3-hole punch claws, and then you can remove your printed file.
"It's now safe to turn off your computer" Why was this splash removed? I think most current BIOSes can do it on their own by now!
Do you have any insight as to why MS decided to build Windows 95 from the ground up instead of building off of an existing *nix system the way Apple did with OSX? Was it just for backwards compatibility or were there other reasons? Also, had you gone this way, how do you think Windows, and the industry in general, might be different? I'm asking as someone who thinks that WSL is the best thing to happen to Windows in years. Windows 95 was not built from the ground up, but NT was. The most succinct reason (and just a guess, I'm not a spokesman) is that even though MS had Xenix on hand, there were fundamental problems in the way Unix handled SMP multiprocessor locks and so on at the time. I presume these have long since been solved in Linux, etc, but not without significant work.
WSL is one of my favorite things too, but for the library of tools and software, it makes available to me, not because of some fundamental architectural superiority, I don't think!
What are your feelings about "Microsoft Bob"? https://youtu.be/rXHu9OmLd8Y
What did source control look like in the 90's? How did MS keep its code from leaking out to the public? How did you handle versioning and different developers working on the same feature? We used a tool called SLM, or Source Library Manager. It was sort of available briefly as a product under the name Microsoft Delta.
It was OK for smaller teams but did not support branching, so just before I left we moved to Source Depot.
Why was Ctrl + Alt + Delete changed to Ctrl + Shift + Escape? It wasn't! Ctrl-Alt-Delete raises the "Secure Alert Sequence" which triggers the OS to switch to the secure desktop, where you have the ability to click a button which will start task manager upon return to your regular desktop.
Ctrl-Shift-Esc is a feature built into Winlogon that launches a TaskManager on the current desktop without switching to the secure desktop.
There are theoretically hacks and exploits that can only be caught by switching to the secure desktop, so if you're ever in doubt, ctrl-alt-del is the more secure way to go.
How did DOS ever get away with just pulling device names like "COM1" out of thin air when it came to output redirection etc..? That's for compatibility with MS-DOS.
What are you currently working on? Mostly on LED and Microcontroller projects that I detail on my YouTube channel, and the channel itself takes a fair bit of my time! If you're curious, you can check out my current successes and failure adventures at http://youtube.com/d/davesgarage
Did you work with Kris Hatleid on Super Hacker and the game Evolution? I worked with Kris on an unreleased title called "Commander Video". That's largely where I learned assembly language, since he did the bulk of the coding, I watched and did level design, etc. 1982 or so I believe!
Got any dev back door mainframe access codes for pinball? hidden test
Dave, how did you manage to do all that without being able to google everything? That's one of the craziest things... I got a degree in computer science before you could even look anything up!
The hardest part was OLE2. Coming form a different platform (the Amiga) it was a monster to wrap my head around, and the book (Inside OLE2) was not the best for introducing devs to OLE. It scared me, and I sure could have used a YouTube tutorial or two!
Hi Dave! So here's a bit of an odd one. I loved your Space Cadet Pinball! I must have spent countless hours on it as a kid, and even now I still occasionally try to find ways to boot it up. A legitimate classic. But lately, the version windows offers just... don't feel the same. They aren't as nice. Is there a game you can name that you would say feels like a worthy successor to Space Cadet Pinball? Or even any more general pinball games you would recommend? I have a real Black Knight 2000 machine here in the house that I fully restored, so I'm a fan of physcial pinball as well!
I think the two best video games are (a) arcade Tempest, and (b) XBox Geometry Wars 3.
GW3 is a classic, or should be!
Woah woah woah, University of Regina?!? Are you from here? Cool to see a UofR grad had such a major impact! Yup! Check out the regina sub for a recent article
When working on MS-DOS what did you think of alternatives such as 4DOS, NDOS or DR-DOS, were they source of inspiration for new features or not at all ? No in general, but Norton had NCD. It was a change folder command that could jump around the disk, so if you typed "NCD drivers" from the root, it could go down to "C:\windows\system32\drives". Super handy.
So I tried to write one for NT, but it meant changing the working directory of the PARENT process (cmd.exe) and I could never figure out a clean and elegant way to do it without modifying CMD itself!
Which is the best version of Windows? (Figuratively speaking). Windows NT 4.0
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Bored? Looking for something to do? Start with this list of things to do in the Sacramento area.

(Credit for the below list has to be given to u/BurritoFueled, who created the original list in 2014 and updated it a year later. Almost two-thirds of the items below are still from that original list. All I’ve done with the list is revive it a little bit by updating dead links and making little tweaks when necessary. Also, thanks to those that submitted new additions to the list last week. Over a third of the below items are new and a lot of the original items have had newer information added onto them.)
People are always looking for something to do around here. Maybe you’re a transplant, unaware of what this area has to offer, or maybe you’re a lifelong resident, tired of the same old thing. Well friend, if you fall into the latter category, do not despair. There’s actually plenty of things to do in the Sacramento area – things of interest to almost any lifestyle, personality, or budget.
So, whether you’re an athlete, geek, eccentric, hipster, weirdo, sexual deviant or just a normal person looking for a new activity, below is a list of activities for you to try. Please note that it includes only activities that take place at least a few times a year – no one-off events or festivals here.
Enjoy this list. If you have any suggestions of your own to add, comment below in this thread. I'll try to keep this as up to date as possible.
Away we go.
UPDATED 10-6-20
(Note: Due to the current pandemic, some of these activities may be curtailed or not offered at all.)
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[S] King's Survivor Sicily: Brains Vs Brawn Vs Beauty III

For the first season after the incredible Heroes Vs Villains II, we are bringing back one of my favorite themes in my series' history- the triple B, or Brains Vs Brawn Vs Beauty. This time, it will have 24 contestants, the first time there will be that many on a full newbie season. This will be the last season before I do three seasons that are sort of a "back to basics", so no twists like larger casts, Edge of Extinction, even swaps, Exile, and idols won't be a thing. This season, idols, swaps, Exile, are all a thing, and this has a huge cast of 24. Now it's time to get into the cast:
Note: This post was so long, I had to remove the backstories so it could fit the 40000 character limit
Animosum (Latin for Brawn) tribe:
Ariel Emmits, 41, Firefighter, u/Gemini_B
Gumi Chooni, 25, Party Clown, u/swoldow
Keone Mahoe, 29, Surfer, u/TDSwaggyBoy
Kian Banks, 27, Baseball Player, u/swoldow
Neema "Queen" Khalid, 23, Activist, u/Angolan_Desert
Nicole "Siggy" Sagame, 26, Olympian, u/Twig7665
Tevin Plaskett, 34, Pro Volleyball Player, u/SilverOwl24
Yhondra Willions, 42, Weightlifter, u/asiansurvivorfan
Cerebellum (Latin for Brains) Tribe:
Daeva "Dee" Morrien, 43, Psychiatrist, u/Gemini_B
Kacia Nikolaidis, 30, Unemployed, u/swoldow
Kara Wells, 27, Personal Injury Lawyer, u/TDSwaggyBoy
Stefano Jourtier, 37, Jeweler, u/asiansurvivorfan
Vincent "Vince" Slim, 26, Poker Player, u/swoldow
Yuuma Kobayashi, 29, Professional GameVoice Actor, u/Troopher
Yvonne Parrish, 35, College Professor, u/ghetra
Pulchitudo (Latin for Beauty) Tribe:
Donovan Grant, 32, Real Estate Agent, u/Twig7665
Holland Smith, 20, TikTok StaStudent, u/TDSwaggyBoy
Julia "Pryce Tagg" Stowell, 24, Drag King, u/Gemini_B
Jumanah Muhammad, 27, Model/Activist
Laurin Plaker, 25, Aspiring Actress, u/asiansurvivorfan
Miles Hammond, 26, Bartender, u/SilverOwl24
Odalis Knox, 44, Masseuse, u/swoldow
Toh Matashuma, 28, Clothing Store Clerk, u/asiansurvivorfan
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Episode 1: The 24 new contestants arrive on the Italian island of Sicily, where they learn that they will be split into three tribes of eight, one containing people who use brawn in their day to day lives, one which uses brains, and one containing people who use their looks to their advantage. They are then instructed to do a reward challenge, where they will receive food, and also one tribe will get fire. That lucky tribe turns out to be the Beauty tribe, and they feel amazing after winning. At their camp, they begin working on the shelter, where Jumanah and Odalis start to bond. They then pull in Grant and Miles to form a strong four, and Odalis tries to get Laurin with them, but she chooses not to. Instead, she bonds with Pryce, and the two grow a dislike for Jumanah and Holland, but those two end up getting in a fight, and they end up wanting to target each other. Over at the Brawn tribe, Kian and Queen bond over both being originally from Africa, and they begin to trust one another. Not much else occurs, so over on Cerebellum, Dee and Kara bond, and Kara rises up into a leadership role in the tribe, and forms an alliance with Dee, Yuuma, and Vince. But Vince chooses that he wants to shake up the game, so he pulls in Sean temporarily to get his vote, if they were to go to tribal council. The Brains and Brawn win immunity, sending the Beauty tribe to tribal council. Holland becomes a target for his arguments with Jumanah, but then, Pryce starts to worry about their position in the game, so they talk to Odalis, and try to get her vote to take out Holland, and Pryce does it in a very pushy way, and this causes Odalis to feel threatened by Pryce, and she talks to Grant, who talks to outsiders Holland and Toh, and asks them if they want to blindside Pryce. Holland is reluctant, while Toh chooses to go with the majority, and in the end, Holland chooses to side with the majority as well, and Pryce becomes the first person voted off in a 6-2 vote.
Episode 2: After Pryce's boot, Laurin feels like she's on the bottom, so she talks with Odalis, trying to find a way into the majority. It doesn't work, so she satisfies herself by talking to Holland as well, who was not fond of Grant. At the Brains tribe, Vince finds the idol, and he tries to leverage this idol to his advantage by planning something down the road. Dee and Kara grow a strong bond, so Yvonne, seeing this, tries to form her own alliance with Sean, Stefano, Vince, Yuuma, and Kacia. Kacia doesn't want to remain loyal to the alliance, but stays with them for the time being. At the Brawn tribe, they continue to stay a big, strong tribe, nobody has any fights, and Ariel tries to form a bond with Kian, but it results in her being seen as a threat down the road, and talk of blindsiding her circulates around camp, but no alliances really form. The Brain and Brawn tribes win immunity again, sending the Beauty tribe back to tribal council. Grant figures there are too many dominant males in the tribe for him to take a stranglehold on the game, so he chooses to target one of their stronger members in Holland. Holland figures this out, and he calls out Grant for it, and Laurin, thinking that others will side with Holland, votes with Holland to take out Grant, while the rest of the people on the tribe vote for Holland for being a liability with puzzles, and for playing too fast. When the votes are revealed, Holland is voted out 5-2. He's pretty pissed and calls his tribe sheep as his torch is snuffed.
Episode 3: After Holland's explosive vote out, only six tribe members remain on the Beauty tribe. Jumanah finds the idol, and she uses the idol to form bonds with Odalis and Toh, who she wanted to get closer to. Toh catches a shark, causing the entire tribe to become impressed with his survival skills. At the reward challenge, the Brawn and Beauty tribes win reward, sending the Brains back to camp with nothing. At the Brawn camp, Gumi tries doing what Ariel did last episode by bonding with Kian, and he also collects some firewood so that his tribe likes him more. The Beauty tribe finally wins immunity, and so does the Brawn tribe, sending the Brains to their first tribal council. Vince sees Kacia as his biggest threat, so he talks to Sean, Stefano, and Yuuma, trying to get out Kacia, but Stefano felt bad about voting out the socially awkward girl, so instead, he and Kacia plot to get rid of Yuuma, who was incredibly likable, and a real threat. Yvonne is also approached by Vince to vote out Kacia, but she instead wants to vote out Kara for an argument they had a few days back. Dee decides to vote for Sean, since she didn't like Sean all that much. Kara decides to vote for Stefano because she distrusted him from the moment they got to camp. Right before tribal, Vince sees his opportunity and places his found idol note in Sean's bag, hoping to cause a commotion after tribal council. When they get to tribal, nothing happens to change the votes dramatically, other than Kacia saying that she thinks she knows who was going home, and when the votes are read, a crazy 2-2-1-1-1 split happens, with the last vote going to Kacia, blindsiding her, and making her the third person voted out. She is surprised and disappointed, but wishes her tribe good luck when she leaves.
Episode 4: After Kacia's blindside, Vince tells Dee that he suspects that Sean has the idol after being secretive with him. This causes them to grow suspicious of Sean, so they check his bag and find the idol note. Vince's ploy ends up working, and Dee tells Kara and Yuuma that Sean has the idol, and that she wants to blindside him, so they better keep quiet about this plan, and that she has Vince with her. At the Brawn tribe, it seems to finally be splintering, as Gumi gets into a fight with Queen, and Kian and Yhondra have a fight that results in them completely distrusting one another. Ariel seems to be doing well on the other hand, and she catches food for the tribe. At the Beauty tribe, almost nothing happens except for Odalis trying to make sure Toh feels as safe as possible, since she wants to blindside him. The Brains lose immunity again, and the situation is dire, as they are only going to have six members after the vote, so Sean and Stefano plot to get rid of Dee, since she was avoiding the two of them earlier. Yvonne decides to vote for Kara again, thinking that everyone will follow suit. Nobody does, and another crazy, but not as crazy split happens, with Sean being blindsided in a 3-2-1-1 vote, and just like that, Dee, Kara, and Yuuma believe that the idol is out of play for now, so now they need to find it.
Episode 5: The night after Sean's boot remains awkward as nobody knows quite what happened except for Vince. Vince decides to leave his alliance with Stefano, Yuuma, and Yvonne, not wanting them to backstab him first and instead backstabbing them. They don't even notice, and Vince then goes to Dee to try and take out Stefano the next chance they get. She is up for it, and she tells Yuuma about the plan, and Yuuma tries to convince Stefano that he is not the target, while Dee tries to pull in Kara to create a majority, and it works. The Brawns lose a challenge for once, the reward challenge, and Queen blames it on Yhondra and Ariel, causing her to lose their favor. Siggy and Tevin grow a strong bond, and they form a final two deal as well, extremely early in the game. At the immunity challenge, it is revealed that only one tribe will win immunity, and two tribes will go to tribal council. The Brawns win their fifth immunity challenge in a row. At the Beauty tribe, Jumanah bonds with Miles, who has remained in the background up to this point. She unsuccessfully tries to convince him to vote out Toh, who she found annoying, but instead, Toh tells the majority he wants to get rid of Laurin, and Grant and Odalis come up with a split vote plan in case one of them had an idol, since they had no idea Jumanah had the idol, and she decides to roll with it. Laurin herself wanted to vote Jumanah, but fails to find anyone to be willing to vote with her. At the Brains tribe, the vote seems to be everyone voting for Stefano, but then all of a sudden Yvonne decides to flip, and she tells Stefano all about the plan to blindside him. This causes them to target Kara of all people because Yvonne is paranoid enough to believe that Kara was conspiring against her. At tribal council, the twelve that go are told after they vote that this tribal will be different. The people voted out will be voted into the other tribe, and they get to bring one person along. The Beauty tribe's votes are read first, and Laurin becomes the person switching to the other tribe in a 3-2-1 vote over Toh and Jumanah. She chooses to bring along Jumanah due to hoping that the other tribe will vote her out instead of her. At the Brains vote out, Yvonne, due to being paranoid earlier on, is voted out in another 3-2-1 vote because Kara misunderstood the plan and thought they were voting for , and she chooses to bring along her closest ally in Stefano, who voted with her to get rid of Kara. Stefano and Yvonne join the Pulchritudo tribe, while Laurin and Jumanah join the Cerebellum tribe.
Episode 6: After a crazy double tribal council, The Cerebellum and Pulchritudo tribes are shook to the core, and at Cerebellum, Laurin tries to integrate herself into the the majority on her tribe by bonding with Kara, and forming an alliance with Dee. This backfires as Kara starts to think that she is a threat. Yuuma decides to go rogue and cut ties with Stefano and Yvonne for whatever reason. At Pulchritudo, Odalis tries to get the tribe hyped for the next challenge, which works and gives her better standing within the tribe. At the Brawn tribe, Yhondra finds the idol, and Queen sees that, and gets into a fight with Yhondra over it, but nobody believes her as she doesn't have any proof. Ariel and Siggy bond, and so do Keone and Tevin. An alliance on the Brawn tribe finally forms between Ariel, Gumi, Siggy, Tevin, and Yhondra, but they win immunity for this episode, and the same goes for the Pulchritudo tribe. At the Cerebellum tribe, Dee, Kara, and Vince decide to target Laurin for being too closed off and for being a newcomer, but Yuuma tries to vote out the other newcomer in Jumanah. Jumanah votes for Yuuma as well, not trusting him at all. Laurin votes for Dee after Dee confesses that they will be voting for Laurin tonight. At tribal council, Laurin becomes the fifth person voted out in a 3-1-1-1 vote.
Episode 7: After Laurin's boot, there are only five people left on the Cerebellum tribe, and they know the walls are closing in. Yuuma tries to talk to Jumanah to see where her head was at, but it causes Jumanah to feel threatened by Yuuma, as he was trying to play the game very hard and fast. Jumanah bonds with Kara, and the two go to Vince and Dee, and they ask them to vote out Yuuma if they were to lose. The Brawn and Pulchritudo tribes win reward, and at Pulchritudo, Miles and Toh catch fish for the tribe, and they bond in the process. Over at the Brawn tribe, Keone bonds with Siggy, and they form another alliance with Gumi and Yhondra, because they were worried about Gumi, due to him having a fight with Ariel earlier and wanted to make sure he was safe for the time being. The Brawn and Pulchritudo tribes win immunity again, and they grow increasingly cock about their position in the game. Yuuma becomes a target due to his weakness in challenges and willingness to play the game and his reckless approach to the game. At tribal council, Yuuma becomes the first unanimous boot of the season as he is taken out 4-1. He wishes his tribe luck, because they'll need it, since they're so down on numbers.
Episode 8: After Yuuma's blindside, only four members of the Cerebellum tribe remain. They feel like they need to win the next challenges at all cost if they want to make it to the swap. When the challenge occurs, the host announces that it will be a special reward challenge, and the winners could change the course of the game. The Cerebellum tribe finally wins something, and they get to choose the tribes for the swap. They decide to split off, knowing that they won't have majority no matter what, and Jumanah, Dee, and Vince join the Pulchritudo tribe, and Kara joins the Animosum tribe, formerly known as the brawn tribe. They then go back to their camps, awaiting the next immunity challenge.
Episode 9: After the tribe dissolve, there are nine members of each tribe, with Ariel, Gumi, Kara, Keone, Kian, Queen, Siggy, Tevin, and Yhondra on the Animosum tribe and Dee, Grant, Jumanah, Miles, Odalis, Stefano, Toh, Vince, and Yvonne on the Pulchritudo tribe. At the Animosum tribe, Ariel and Siggy collect firewood, impressing the rest of their tribe. The Pulchritudo tribe wins the first reward challenge, and they gloat about it, thinking they're David beating Goliath. Stefano and Yvonne bond quite a lot, and try to get their Brain comrades to lead a revolution against the Beauty tribe members, and they think Jumanah has flipped to their side as well. The Animosum tribe wins immunity, and at the Pulchritudo camp, Odalis leaves the alliance she had going, but still votes with them, and Jumanah does indeed flip on her alliance, going with the original Brain tribe members to split the votes between Toh and Grant, with Dee, Jumanah, and Vince voting for Grant, and Stefano and Yvonne voting for Toh. Grant sees this oversight, and gets his alliance to pile votes onto Dee, their weakest member, and Vince is having none of that. He plays his idol for Dee, but Jumanah flips to vote out Toh, sending him out in a 3-2-0 vote, effectively blindsiding both the Beauty tribe members and Vince in one move.
Episode 10: After Toh's blindside, Vince is annoyed that he was flipped on, but shrugs it off for now, since Jumanah stayed in the majority. Jumanah then bonds with Miles as an attempt to get him to flip. It does not work. Stefano and Yvonne bond, but Stefano starts to distrust in Vince because of his stranglehold on the tribe. At the Animosum tribe, Gumi gets into a fight with Siggy over the latter's wishes to try and keep him in the game, saying he can keep himself in the game. Keone and Kian bond, but Keone secretly wants to target Kian for some reason, maybe because they have similar names. Tevin decides to leave his five person alliance to play a more individual game. Tevin mentions targeting Ariel to Kara, and Kara is all for that, but Tevin is more interested in voting off Kian with Keone and Yhondra, since he was quite secretive about his past, and that worried Tevin. The Animosum tribe finally loses an immunity challenge, only ten episodes in. Kara becomes the target due to being the only non-Brawn on the tribe, and most of them are content with voting her off, except for Kara herself, Keone, Tevin, and Yhondra. Kian suddenly randomly decides to throw away his vote to Gumi for his outburst at Siggy earlier, and it causes Kara to be voted out 4-3-1-1.
Episode 11: After Kara's swap screw, the Animosum tribe becomes the Brawn tribe yet again, and not a single Brawn tribe member has been voted out yet. At that tribe, Queen realizes that she has made many enemies on her tribe, and needs to get back in their favor, so she bonds with both Gumi and Tevin, which to them was a transparent attempt to get them to vote with her, so they don't trust her. The Pulchritudo tribe wins reward, and at the Pulchritudo tribe, Odalis tries to seduce Vince into voting with her, which makes Vince see her as a social threat, so he talks to Yvonne about blindsiding her, which she agrees to, and they go into the immunity challenge hellbent on finally besting the mighty Brawn tribe. Unfortunately for them, they lose pretty handily, meaning that after this tribal council, the majority of people left in the game will be brawn tribe members. Stefano chooses to go rogue and try and get the kingpin himself, Vince out, thinking that no man should have this much power, so he talks to the Beauty three about blindsiding Vince, but those three are more interested in taking out Vince's right-hand woman, Dee. This choice turns out to be fatal for them, as Odalis becomes voted out in a 4-3-1 vote over Dee and Vince, leaving Grant and Miles way down on numbers.
Episode 12: After Odalis's blindside, the seven remaining Pulchritudo members vow to never lose a challenge again, and at their camp, Jumanah decides to flip back to the remaing Beauty tribe members, and tries to flip Stefano and Yvonne. Stefano is happy to flip, but Yvonne decides not to flip. At the Brawn tribe, Ariel and Kian bond over something, and the most unlikely alliance in Keone, Kian, and Queen decide to come together, put aside their differences, and vote together for the time being. They don't have to worry about it yet, and the Brawn tribe wins immunity yet again. Vince decides that Grant is his biggest strategic competition, so he, Dee, and Yvonne decide to vote for him, but then Miles tries to trick Yvonne into playing her idol, since he thought she had one, while the Beauty tribe members would vote for Dee. Stefano still votes for Vince, and at tribal council, Dee is blindsided in a 3-2-1-1 vote, blindsiding her and Vince in the process.
Episode 13: After Dee's blindside, Vince is livid at Yvonne. He doesn't let his emotions take control however, and he politely talks to Stefano to find out why he voted for him. Vince and Stefano then bond over the experience, and Stefano, feeling better about himself, goes into the ocean to catch fish, and supplies the tribe with a decent one for their dinner. The Brawns win reward again, and their egos are so fueled at this moment, that they start feeling bad for the Pulchritudo tribe because of the amount of carnage coming their way. Also, Gumi and Kian bond a little bit, but not a super big amount. The Pulchritudo tribe finally pulls through and wins immunity, sending the Brawns to tribal council, where they finally have to cannibalize one of their own. They also learn that one of the other tribe members will spectate tribal council. Tevin tries to lead the charge against Ariel, who he didn't like. Yhondra and Kian have a huge fight that blows way out of proportion, and they start to target one another as well. Ariel herself wants to get rid of Keone, who she felt was too big of a threat going into the merge, and at tribal council, it is revealed that Stefano will be taking someone to the Pulchritudo tribe, and he chooses to bring along Keone, and Keone becomes a member of Pulchritudo.
Episode 14: Keone is welcomed onto the Pulchritudo tribe, but he feels like it was all a ploy to make him not worried about being voted out, and he wouldn't be wrong with that assumption. He feels like he was betrayed by his tribe for some reason, and leaves his alliance with Kian and Queen. At the Brawn tribe, Ariel and Kian form an alliance, and Kian pulls in Tevin, despite Tevin wanting to vote Ariel off at the previous tribal council. The Brawns win the final premerge immunity challenge, which came with a reward, and the Pulchritudo tribe, minus Keone, has a discussion and plans to vote out Keone for being a physical threat come merge. Despite Vince wanting to vote out Grant, he understands that voting out Keone would be his best move going further in the game. Stefano decides, almost randomly, to vote Vince out again, thinking that he needed to go so many rounds ago. At tribal council, Keone's fears come true, and he is voted out 5-1-1, just shy of the merge.
Episode 15: The day after Keone's vote out, the 13 remaining contestants come together and learn of the merge. They get new, dark green buffs, and they decide to name the tribe "Insulam", Latin for Island. Still in the game is Ariel, Grant, Gumi, Jumanah, Kian, Miles, Queen, Siggy, Stefano, Tevin, Vince, Yhondra, and Yvonne. They are then told that the Survivor Auction will commence. Kian, Vince, Miles, Queen, Yvonne, and Gumi win food and luxury related rewards, Vince wins a vote stopper power, and Ariel gets a clue to the idol. Stefano tries to shut down Ariel's potential idol-related shenanigans by racing through the forest and finding an idol, which isn't noticed by anyone somehow. Vince tries to get Stefano to stop voting for him by bonding with him. Grant and miles, the two remaining Beauty tribe males, bond a decent amount, and then the first individual immunity challenge occurs. Gumi proves why he was on the Brawn tribe by winning the immunity challenge, and guaranteed himself a spot in the top 12. Ariel, Gumi, Siggy, and Tevin discuss voting for Yvonne because of Vince saying that she was a shaky ally. Kian and Queen have a falling out, and no longer trust one another that day. Vince forms a deal with the Beauty three to not vote him off until jury, and they actually agree to it. Kian, Queen, and Yhondra decide to vote out Jumanah for allegedly having an idol, effectively causing a split vote to happen in the majority, and Vince and Grant see their opportunity and take it. They pin all their alliance's votes onto Ariel, and Vince plays his vote stopper on Tevin as a failsafe, causing a 6-3-3 vote, with Ariel being blindsided and the twelfth person voted out.
Episode 16: The top 12 compete in the next immunity challenge, with Siggy winning. Back at camp, Vince chooses to go back on his deal with the Beauty three, and goes rogue. Kian tries to recruit Yvonne, and it doesn't really become effective. Kian, Queen, and Tevin start to see Miles as becoming too cocky of a character, so they decide to vote for him come tribal council. Miles and Yhondra have a bit of a disagreement, but Gumi and Siggy are able to convince them to put aside their differences, and to take out Queen, who had been annoying around camp. The whole Pulchritudo alliance gets on board with this plan, and they all vote for Queen at tribal council, who remained cocky. When the votes are read, Queen becomes utterly blindsided, as she is voted out 9-3, one vote shy of the jury.
Episode 17: After Queen's blindside, the Brawns are now in the minority. Siggy and Tevin form a close bond that makes them want to take each other to the end, if they get the chance. Tevin then breaks his ties with Kian, and Grant forms a new alliance with Miles, Siggy, Tevin, Yhondra, and Yvonne, with the intent of running the entire endgame of the season. At the first real reward challenge post merge, the remaining contestants are split into two teams of five, with Kian sitting out, but being able to guess who wins reward. Thinking that the second team had more strong men, he chose them, but the first team wins, due to Kian underestimating their strength. At the immunity challenge, Siggy wins immunity again, and back at camp, Gumi, Kian, Siggy, and Yhondra start worrying about Jumanah, since she seemed quite comfortable with her position. Gumi tries to pull in Yvonne, but then she decides to vote for him for some reason. Grant tries to turn Vince and Kian against each other, seeing them as the titans, but it doesn't work, so Grant talks to Stefano and Tevin and they vote for Vince, while Vince, Miles, and Jumanah vote for Kian. Jumanah plays her idol for herself, and Yhondra decides to play her idol for Yvonne to gain her trust, and in the end, a 3-3-1-0 split happens. Yvonne tries to rectify her mistake by voting for Vince, but Siggy and Gumi both voted for Kian, not trusting him, and Kian is voted out 5-4, becoming the first juror.
Episode 18: After the crazy tribal council that sent Kian home, Miles feels like he needs to go rogue, so he ditches his majority alliance, and calls out Yvonne for screwing up the plan at the last tribal council. Gumi and Siggy also have a bit of an argument over something. At the immunity challenge, Gumi wins, and it is revealed that the first four eliminated contestants will go to Exile, those being Grant, Jumanah, Stefano, and Yvonne. Yvonne, not wanting to be seen as the screw-up, finds the idol hidden at Exile, and keeps it a secret from everyone. The four people on Exile make a pact to vote for Vince, since he had a lot of power in this game. Yvonne also finds an idol. In the actual game, Gumi, Siggy, and Yhondra decide to vote for Jumanah again, and Vince and Miles, completely out of the loop, decide to vote for Grant and Yvonne, respectively. When they get to tribal council, Grant whispers in Tevin's ear to try and get him to vote for Vince, and Yvonne casts a petty vote against Miles, who she didn't like at all. It ends up not mattering, as Vince becomes the second juror in a 4-3-1-1-1 vote.
Episode 19: After Vince's blindside, the final nine compete in another reward challenge, which Gumi sits out of, and he predicts a group of Siggy, Stefano, Tevin, and Yvonne will win the reward, and he is right, so he gets to reap the benefits of the reward too. Miles starts getting paranoid about whether he would be next, so he starts helping out at camp a suspicious amount, causing everyone to think he's faking wanting to be helpful. It turns out, he wasn't. Yhondra finally realizes that she wasted her idol a few episodes ago, and she freaks because of it. Gumi and Siggy have another argument, and it ends up with them losing trust with one another. Stefano wins immunity, saving himself until the final eight, and Miles becomes a target for Siggy, Tevin, Yhondra, and Yvonne decide to vote for Miles. Stefano is also approached, but he felt threatened by Yhondra's physicality, so he decides to vote for her. Jumanah helps him. Grant and Miles, the two remaining Beauty males, vote for Yvonne, who they felt didn't really deserve to still be in the game. Gumi, completely out of the loop, decides to vote based on emotions, so he votes for Jumanah, who he was the least close to. When the votes are read, Miles becomes the third member of the jury in a 4-2-2-1 vote, one of many pluralities so far.
Episode 20: Now down to the final eight, Gumi tries to make sure he's in the best position at the start of the endgame. He and Stefano bond, and so do Siggy and Yvonne. At the immunity challenge, Stefano becomes the second person of the season to win two straight immunities. Back at camp, the tribe seems to be split down the middle, with one side, consisting of Grant, Gumi, Siggy, and Yhondra, want to vote for Jumanah, a strategic and social threat, while Jumanah, Stefano, Tevin, and Yvonne want to vote for Gumi, a physical threat. At tribal council, nobody flips, and we end up with a tie, and during the revote, no one is willing to flip again, leading to a rock draw. The person drawing the bad rock ends up being... Yhondra, who is not pleased to go out by random draw. She becomes the fourth member of the jury.
Episode 21: The final seven, shocked by the rock draw, spend the night mostly in silence. They then compete in a reward challenge, which is won by Siggy, She then chooses to bring along Grant, wanting to form a bond with him. It is somewhat successful, and Grant tells Siggy he wanted to target Stefano. As it turned out, Siggy was aligned with Stefano at the moment, and they wanted to vote out Gumi, a physical threat, and someone who Siggy and Tevin really did not like. Gumi, not respecting Yvonne's game, decides to target her. Jumanah wins immunity, and nothing happens at camp to shake up the vote, so at tribal council, Gumi becomes the fifth juror in a 5-1-1 vote. He is annoyed, but surprised he managed to last so long with such terrible social skills.
Episode 22/23: After Gumi's blindside, the final six compete in a reward challenge, which Grant wins, and then a second reward challenge is announced. That night, they compete in a challenge where they had to answer questions about each other, which Siggy is able to win. Grant and Siggy then get to share the reward with a third person, so they share it with Yvonne, thinking that she'll join their cause. As it turns out, Yvonne says yes to what they want, but in reality, she doesn't want to join their alliance. The other three contestants go to Exile, where they don't find an idol, they figure that one of the people on reward have it, so they try to split them up. Jumanah decides to flip when they get back, and so does Yvonne. Grant apologizes to Stefano for not taking him on reward, but it results in Grant not trusting Stefano. They then compete in immunity, which Siggy wins for the third time. Yvonne makes a speech to Tevin to try and get Jumanah out, since she didn't trust her, and Tevin decides to help her for this round. Stefano felt like Tevin was trying to take his position, so he votes for Tevin. At tribal council, Stefano, feeling threatened by what the majority three have said, plays his idol, and in a 2-1-0 vote, Jumanah becomes the sixth member of the jury, and only five remain.
Episode 24/25/Finale: With only five people left in the game, the walls are beginning to close in. Tevin, knowing that the idol would be rehidden, and worrying that he was next, finds the idol. Siggy wins immunity again, and starts to panic, thinking that she's becoming a threat to win. In the end, most of the tribe is satisfied with voting off Stefano, but at tribal council, both Yvonne and Tevin play their idols, and Stefano is voted out in a 4-0-0 vote, with Tevin negating one vote and Yvonne negating none. Back at camp, the final four discuss what could be next, and whether it was a final two or final three. Tevin wins immunity, and Siggy starts to become extremely paranoid that she would be going home. It was enough to make Yvonne start thinking that it would be a good plan to vote her out, so she decides to vote for her, the biggest threat left. Siggy is able to convince Grant and Tevin to vote out Yvonne, and Yvonne becomes the eighth juror in a 3-1 vote over Siggy. The next day, the final three compete for the final immunity. Tevin drops out first, being a big guy, exhaustion really set in for him easily. Grant says he'll take Siggy to the final two if she drops, but Siggy persists, and after about four and a half hours, Grant drops out, making Siggy the winner and the fourth person and first woman to win five immunities in a single season. Grant and Tevin try their best to appease Siggy, even getting in arguments between one another, but at tribal council, Siggy decides to vote out Grant for being a wildcard, and for not being as close to her, since Tevin and Siggy started out on the same tribe. The final two, both from the brawn tribe, is Siggy and Tevin. Siggy was criticized for not having much of a strategic game, and for having to win her way to the end, but she does a good job justifying herself, saying that she had one of the best social games ever, never receiving a vote until day 52, which is a record I think, and was able to stop a pagonging. Tevin tries to say he preached loyalty throughout the entire game, only betraying the untrustworthy and people who betrayed him earlier, but the jury overall, besides Jumanah, is more impressed with Siggy's game, so they award her the win in an 8-1 vote, and the fan favorite is revealed to be Gumi, for being an underdog throughout his time on the season.
Winner: Nicole "Siggy" Sagame, u/Twig7665
Fan Favorite: Gumi Chooni, u/swoldow
The next season will take the cast back to a simpler time, where idols and advantages and islands that allow people to return to the game aren't a thing, it will be King's Survivor Japan: Back to Basics!
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Who is Scott Borgenson? Profile from 2016 in “Institutional Investor”

(Note the connections)
CargoMetrics Cracks the Code on Shipping Data
Scott Borgerson and his team of quants at hedge fund firm CargoMetrics are using satellite intel on ships to identify mispriced securities.
By Fred R. Bleakley February 04, 2016
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One late afternoon last November, as a ping-pong game echoed through the floor at CargoMetrics Technologies’ Boston office, CEO Scott Borgerson was watching over the shoulder of Arturo Ramos, who’s responsible for developing investment strategies with astrophysicist Ronnie Hoogerwerf. At Ramos’s feet sat Helios, his brindle pit-bull-and-­greyhound mix. All three men were staring at a computer screen, tracking satellite signals from oil tankers sailing through the Strait of Malacca, the choke point between the Indian Ocean and the South China Sea where 40 percent of the world’s cargo trade moves by ship.
CargoMetrics, a start-up investment firm, is not your typical money manager or hedge fund. It was originally set up to supply information on cargo shipping to commodities traders, among others. Now it links satellite signals, historical shipping data and proprietary analytics for its own trading in commodities, currencies and equity index futures. There was an air of excitement in the office that day because the signals were continuing to show a slowdown in shipping that had earlier triggered the firm’s automated trading system to short West Texas Intermediate (WTI) oil futures. Two days later the U.S. Department of Energy’s official report came out, confirming the firm’s hunch, and the oil futures market reacted accordingly.
“We nailed it for our biggest return of the year,” says Borgerson, who had reason to breathe more easily. His backers were watching closely. They include Blackstone Alternative Asset Management (BAAM), the world’s largest hedge fund allocator, and seven wealthy tech and business leaders. Among them: former Lotus Development Corp. CEO Jim Manzi, who also had a long career at IBM Corp.
Compelling these investors and Borgerson to pursue the shipping slice of the economy is the simple fact that in this era of globalization 50,000 ships carry 90 percent of the $18.5 trillion in annual world trade.
That’s no secret, of course, but Borgerson and CargoMetrics’ backers maintain that the firm is well ahead of any other investment manager in harnessing such information for a potential big advantage. It’s why Borgerson has kept the firm in stealth mode for years. In its earlier iteration, from 2011 to 2014, CargoMetrics was hidden in a back alley, above a restaurant. Now that he’s running an investment firm, Borgerson declines to name his investors unless, like Manzi and BAAM, they are willing to be identified.
“My vision is to map historically and in real time what’s really going on in economic supply and demand across the planet,” says the U.S. Coast Guard veteran, who prides himself and the CargoMetrics team on not being prototypical Wall Streeters. “The problem is enormous, but the potential reward is huge.”
According to Borgerson, CargoMetrics is building a “learning machine” that will be able to automatically profit from spotting any publicly traded security that is mispriced, using what he refers to as systematic fundamental macro strategies. He calls the firm a new breed of quantitative investment manager. In unguarded moments he sees himself as the Steve Jobs or Elon Musk of portfolio management.
Though his ambitions may sound audacious, one thing is certain: Borgerson doesn’t lack in self-confidence. Over the past six years, he has secretly and painstakingly built a firm heavy in Ph.D.s that can manage a database of hundreds of billions of historical shipping records, conduct trillions of calculations on hundreds of computer servers and systematically execute trades in 28 different commodities and currencies.
For his part, Borgerson seems an unlikely architect of such a serious, ambitious endeavor. Easygoing and fond of joking with his colleagues, he is a hands-off manager who credits CargoMetrics’ investment prowess to his team. His brand of humor comes through even when he’s detailing the series of challenges he had starting the firm. After using the phrase “It was hard” several times, he pauses and adds, “Did I mention it was hard?” Although Borgerson declines to provide any specifics about Cargo­Metrics’ portfolio, citing the advice of his lawyers, performance during the three years of live trading apparently has been strong enough to keep his backers confident and his team of physicists, software engineers and mathematicians in place. “Hopefully, it won’t be too long before we can make a more significant investment,” says BAAM CEO J. Tomilson Hill. Former Lotus CEO Manzi is optimistic about the firm’s prospects: “It has an unbelievable edge with its historical data.”
CargoMetrics was one of the first maritime data analytics companies to seize the potential of the global Automatic Identification System. Ships transmit AIS signals via very high frequency (VHF) radio to receiver devices on other ships or land. Since 2004, large vessels with gross tonnage of 300 or more are required to flash AIS positioning signals every few seconds to avoid collisions. That allows Cargo­Metrics to pay satellite companies for access to the signals gleaned from 500 miles above the water. The firm uses historical data to identify cargo and aggregation of cargo flow, and then applies sophisticated analysis of financial market correlations to identify buying and selling opportunities.
“We’re big-data junkies who could not have founded CargoMetrics without the radical breakthroughs of this golden age of technology,” Borgerson says. The revolution in cloud computing has been instrumental. CargoMetrics leverages the Amazon Web Services platform to run its analytics and algorithms on hundreds of computer servers at a fraction of the cost of owning and maintaining the hardware itself.
At his firm’s headquarters — where the lobby displays a series of colored semaphore signal flags that spell out the mathematical equation for the surface area of the earth —Borgerson leads the way to his server room. It’s the size of a closet; inside, a thick pipe carries all the data traffic and analytic formulas CargoMetrics needs. That computing power alone would have cost $30 million to $40 million, Manzi says.
CargoMetrics is pursuing a modern version of an age-old quest. Think of the Rothschild family’s use in the 19th century of carrier pigeons and couriers on horseback to bring news from the Napoleonic Wars to their traders in London, or, in the 1980s, oil trader Marc Rich’s use of satellite phones and binoculars for relaying oil tanker flow.
Other quant-focused Wall Street firms are latching onto the satellite ship-tracking data. But, Borgerson says, “I would bet my life on a stack of Bibles that no one in the world has the shipping database and analytics we have.” The reason he’s so convinced is that from late 2008 he was an early client of the satellite companies that had begun collecting data received from space and on land to build a large database of all the world’s vessel movements in one place.
That’s what caught Hill’s eye at Blackstone when he learned of Cargo­Metrics a few years ago. BAAM now has a managed account with the firm. “If anyone else tries to replicate what CargoMetrics has, they will be years behind [Borgerson] on data analytics,” Hill says. “We know that a number of hedge fund data scientists want his data.”
But too much reliance on big data can go wrong, say many academicians. “There is a huge amount of hype around big data,” observes Willy Shih, a professor of management practice at Harvard Business School. “Many people are saying, ‘Let the data speak; we don’t need theory or modeling.’ I argue that even with using new, massively parallel computing systems for modeling and simulation, some forces in nature and the economy are still too big and complex for computers to handle.”
Shih’s skepticism doesn’t go as far as to say the data challenge on global trade is too big a puzzle to solve. When informed of the Cargo­Metrics approach, he called it “very valid and creative. They just have to be careful not to throw away efforts to understand causality.”
Another big-data scholar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor of electrical engineering and computer science Samuel Madden, also urges caution. “What worries me is that models become trusted but then fail,” he explains. “You have to validate and revalidate.”
Borgerson grew up in Southeast Missouri, in a home on Rural Route 5 between Festus and Hematite. His father was a former Marine infantry officer and police official, and his mother a high school French and Spanish teacher. The family traveled 15 miles to Crystal City to attend Grace Presbyterian Church, which was central to young Borgerson’s upbringing: There he was a youth elder, became an Eagle Scout and received a God and Country Award. The church was across the street from the former home of NBA all-star and U.S. senator Bill Bradley, whose backboard Borgerson used for basketball practice.
When it came to choosing what to do after high school, Borgerson was torn between becoming a Presbyterian minister and accepting an appointment to the U.S. Coast Guard Academy or West Point. He went with the Coast Guard because, he says, “the humanitarian mission really appealed to me, and I had never been on a boat before.”
At the academy, in New London, Connecticut, Borgerson played NCAA tennis and was also a cutup, racking up demerits for such antics as placing a sailboat on the commandant of cadets’ front lawn and leading bar patrons in a rendition of “Semper Paratus,” the school’s theme song. Still, he graduated with honors and spent the next four years piloting a 367-foot cutter — which seized five tons of cocaine in the Caribbean — then captaining a patrol boat that saved 30 lives on search-and-rescue missions. From 2001 to 2003 the Coast Guard sent Borgerson to the Fletcher School at Tufts University to earn his master’s of arts in law and diplomacy. While at Tufts he volunteered at a Boston homeless shelter for military veterans and founded a Pet Pals therapy program for senior citizens.
Following graduation, from 2003 to 2006, Borgerson taught U.S. history, foreign policy, political geography and maritime studies at the Coast Guard Academy, and co-founded its Institute for Leadership. While there he would get up at 4:00 each morning to work on his Ph.D. thesis exploring U.S. port cities’ approaches to foreign policy. He would also travel to Boston to complete his course work at Tufts and meet with his adviser, John Curtis Perry.
Borgerson’s military allegiance runs deep. One weekend last fall he played football in a service academy alumni game. On another he attended the Army-Navy game. Still militarily fit at age 40, the 6-foot-5 Borgerson works out regularly at an inner-city gym aimed at helping youths find an alternative to gang violence; a few weeks ago he was there boxing with ex-convicts and lifting weights.
Leaving the Coast Guard was a hard decision for Borgerson, resulting in part from his frustration with the military bureaucracy’s stymieing of his bid to get back to sea for security missions. With his degrees in hand, he applied for a fellowship at the Council on Foreign Relations. During the application process he met Edward Morse, now global head of commodities research at Citigroup. Morse was on the CFR selection committee in 2007 and recommended Borgerson as a fellow.
Morse introduced Borgerson to commodities, and to trading terms like “contango” and “backwardation.” Morse himself had, earlier in career, gotten the jump on official oil supply data by hiring planes to take photos of the lid heights of oil tanks in Oklahoma’s Cushing field.
Working for the CFR in New York reconnected Borgerson with his Missouri roots. Bill Bradley’s aunt called the former senator to say: “The son of a family who went to our church in Crystal City is in New York. Would you welcome him?” Bradley did — and would later play a part in Borgerson’s career development.
While at the CFR, Borgerson became an expert on the melting of the North Pole ice cap, writing numerous published articles on its implications; this led him to co-found, with the president of Iceland, the Arctic Circle, a nonprofit designed to encourage discussion of the future of that region. Borgerson recently spoke to 50 international generals and admirals about the Arctic and is co-drafting a proposal for a treaty between the U.S. and Canada that would help resolve the differences the two countries have in allowing international ship and aircraft travel through the Northwest Passage.
His Arctic research led to an aha moment early in 2008, while he was still with the CFR, on a visit to Singapore and the Strait of Malacca with his Fletcher School classmate Rockford Weitz and their former Ph.D. adviser, Perry. Seeing the mass of ships sailing through the strait, Borgerson and Weitz decided to build a data analytics firm using satellite tracking of ships.
Like many successful entrepreneurs, the two struggled to find financing before reaching out to a network of friends and their contacts. One was Randy Beardsworth, who had sat with Borgerson at a 2007 Coast Guard Academy dinner, where Beards­worth, then the Coast Guard’s chief of law enforcement in Miami, was the guest speaker. Borgerson “made references to history and literature, and I thought, ‘Here is a sharp guy,’” recalls Beards­worth. “We have been friends ever since.”
But Borgerson didn’t turn to his new friend in his initial fund-raising. “He came to me in 2009, after he had been turned down by 17 VCs, was maxed out on his credit card, was married and had a newborn son,” says Beardsworth, who was reviewing the Department of Homeland Security as part of the Obama administration’s transition team. Beardsworth came to the rescue, not only committing to invest a small amount but introducing his friend to Doug Doan. A West Point graduate and Washington-­based angel investor, Doan took to Borgerson right away. “To be honest, it wasn’t his idea, it was Scott I invested in,” says Doan, who provided $100,000 in capital and introduced Borgerson to a few friends, who added $75,000. Manzi came on board as an investor in 2009, having been asked by Bradley to check out Borgerson’s plan for a data metrics firm. (Manzi knew Bradley from the late 1990s, when the latter was considering a run for U.S. president.)
With Doan, Doan’s friends and Manzi as investors, CargoMetrics was finally able to garner its first venture capital commitment in early 2010, from Boston-based Ascent Venture Partners. That gave the start-up the capital it needed to hire a bevy of data scientists to build an analytics platform that it could sell to commodity-trading houses and other commercial users. In 2011, CargoMetrics added Summerhill Venture Partners, a Toronto-based firm with a Boston office, to its investor roster, raising roughly $18 million from venture capital and angels for its data business.
By then Borgerson had already begun to contemplate converting CargoMetrics from an information provider into a money manager; he saw the potential to extract powerful trade signals from its technology rather than share it with other market participants for a fee. Among those he consulted was serial entrepreneur Peter Platzer, a friend of one of CargoMetrics’ original investors. Platzer, a physicist by training, had spent eight years as a quantitative hedge fund manager at Rohatyn Group and Deutsche Bank before co-founding Spire Global, a San Francisco–­based company that uses its own fleet of low-orbit satellites to track shipping, in 2012. “We had lengthy conversations on how to set up quant trading systems and how [commodities giant] Cargill had made a similar decision to set up its own in-house hedge fund to trade on the information it was gathering,” recalls Platzer. So Borgerson reset his course. Doan describes the decision as a “transformative moment” for the CargoMetrics co-founder. “The military trains you to be a strategic thinker,” Doan explains. “Scott had been tactical until then, making small pivots, and like a general who sees the theater of war, he moved into strategic mode.”
Borgerson’s ambition to succeed was in no small part fueled by the early turndowns by many venture capital firms and a fierce determination to best the Wall Street bunch at their own game. “There’s a lot that motivates me, including — if I’m honest — I have a big chip on my shoulder to beat the prep school, Ivy League, MBA crowd,” he says. “They’re bred to make money, but they’re not smarter than everyone else; they just have more patina and connections.” (Bred differently, he spent last Thanksgiving visiting his parents in rural Missouri. After breakfast he and his father were in the woods, shooting assault guns at posters of terrorists, with Gunny, his father’s Anatolian shepherd dog.)
Borgerson’s plan was not met with enthusiasm from the company’s then co-CEO, Weitz. CargoMetrics had been gaining clients and meeting its goals, and was on its way to becoming a successful data service provider. Weitz, who now is president of the Gloucester, Massachusetts–based Institute for Global Maritime Studies and an entrepreneur coach at Tufts’ Fletcher School, did not return e-mails or phone calls asking for comment. For his part, Borgerson says: “A ship cannot have two captains. The company simply matured and evolved into a streamlined management structure with one CEO instead of two.”
Eventually, Doan went along with Borgerson’s plan. “We believe in Scott and that shipping holds the no-shit, honest truth of what the economy is doing,” he says. But buying out the venture capital firms several years ahead of the usual exit time would require a hefty premium over what they had invested.
Once again Borgerson’s early supporters played a key role. Manzi, a fellow Fletcher School grad who had mentored Borgerson since the company’s early days, put up more money (making CargoMetrics one of his single largest investments) and introduced him to a powerful group of wealthy investors. Separately, the CFR’s Morse suggested that Borgerson meet with Daniel Freifeld, founder of Washington-based Callaway Capital Management and a former senior adviser on Eurasian energy at the U.S. Department of State. Impressed by Borgerson’s “intellectual honesty, vigor and more than four years of historical data,” Freifeld brought the idea to a billionaire third-party investor, who took his advice and became one of CargoMetrics’ largest backers. “I would not have suggested the investment if CargoMetrics had not done the hard part first,” adds Freifeld, declining to name the investor.
A chance encounter in the fall of 2012 gave the CargoMetrics team its first taste of real Wall Street trading. Attending an Arctic Imperative conference in Alaska, Borgerson met the CIO of a large investment firm, whom he declines to name. When Borgerson confided his ambition and that CargoMetrics had developed algorithms to trade on its shipping data once it was legally structured to do so, the CIO suggested CargoMetrics provide the analytical models for a separate portfolio the money manager would trade. Live trading using CargoMetrics’ models began in December 2012. Manzi brought in longtime banker Gerald Rosenfeld in 2013 to craft and negotiate the move to make CargoMetrics a limited liability investment firm. Rosenfeld acted in a personal role rather than in his position as vice chairman of Lazard and full-time professor and trustee of the New York University School of Law. The whole process took a year and a half. During that time Blackstone checked in as an investor.
Bradley, now an investment banker, has yet to invest in CargoMetrics, explaining that he is unfamiliar with quantitative investing. But he may eventually invest in Borgerson’s firm, he says, because “we are homeboys. I believe in him and that things are going to work out ” — pausing to add with a smile, “based on my vast quant experience, of course.”
Borgerson has been in stealth mode since CargoMetrics’ early days, when he moved the firm from an innovation lab near MIT because the shared space was too open. He is much more forthcoming when boasting of the firm’s “world-class talent.” The team includes astrophysicists, mathematicians, former hedge fund quants, electrical engineers, a trade lawyer and software developers. Hoogerwerf, who has a Ph.D. in astrophysics from the Netherlands’ Leiden University, built distributed technical environments for scientists and engineers at Microsoft Corp. Solomon Todesse, who works on quant investment strategies, was head of asset allocation at State Street Global Advisors. Aquil Abdullah, a team leader in the engineering group, was a software engineer in the high-performance-computing group at Microsoft. And senior investment strategist Charles Freifeld (Daniel’s father) has 40 years’ experience in futures and commodities markets, including nine with Boston-based commodity trading adviser firm AlphaMetrics Capital Management.
“All were self-made people; none were born with a silver spoon,” Borgerson notes. One of his blue-collar-­background hires was James (Jess) Scully, who joined as chief operating officer in 2011, after his employer Interactive Supercomputing was acquired by Microsoft.
“The team we built treasures team success, which is Scott’s motto,” Scully says. “We want shared resources, one P&L, not ‘How much money did my unit make?’” Both Scully and Borgerson say Cargo­Metrics is like the Golden State Warriors, a leading NBA basketball team known for putting aside personal glory and playing as a band of brothers having fun.
Borgerson says he fosters a no-ego policy with “lots of play because investment teams are built on trust, and playing together builds trust.” Team building at CargoMetrics includes pub crawls, picnics at Borgerson’s house, poker nights, volunteer work in a soup kitchen for the homeless, Red Sox games and visits to museums.
Trips to the Boston docks or Coast Guard base are intended to remind the CargoMetrics team of the real economy. There are also occasional “touch a tanker” days. On one visit to a tanker, everyone was amazed that the ship was the size of a city building, Borgerson says. “They could smell the salt on the deck,” he recalls. “Wall Street can lose sight of the real fundamentals in the world. I don’t want that to happen here.”
Unlike the Rothschilds 200 years ago, only a small percentage of the trades that CargoMetrics makes relate to beating official government data. Most simply are aimed at identifying mispricings in the market, using the firm’s real-time shipping data and proprietary algorithms.
At a whiteboard in his conference room, Borgerson sketches out CargoMetrics’ general formula. He draws a “maritime matrix” of three dynamic data sets: geography (Malacca, Brazil, Australia, China, Europe and the U.S.), metrics (ship counts, cargo mass and volume, ship speed and port congestion) and tradable factors (Brent crude versus WTI, as well as mining equities, commodity macro and Asian economic activity). Using satellite data with hundreds of millions of ship positions, CargoMetrics makes trillions of calculations to determine individual cargoes onboard the ships and then to aggregate the cargo flows and compare them with historical shipping data. All that leads to the final comparisons with historical financial market data to find mispricings. If CargoMetrics observes an appreciable decline in export shipping activity in South Africa, for example, its trading models will determine whether that is a significant early-warning sign by considering that information alongside other factors, such as interest rates. If Cargo­Metrics believes a decline in the rand is forthcoming, it might short it against a basket of other currencies. “This is like a heat map showing opportunity,” Borgerson says, noting that CargoMetrics is not trading physical commodities. “We are agnostic on whether to be long or short, and let the computers spot where there is a mispricing and liquidity in the markets.” He sums up his simple, but still less than revealing, process by writing on the whiteboard “Collect, Compute, Trade.”
Borgerson says CargoMetrics is building a systematic approach that will work even when cargo cannot be identified — on containerships, for instance. It already knows a large percentage of the daily imports and exports into and out of China and island economies such as Japan and Australia. And although the firm cannot glean from its calculations on satellite AIS data the type of cargo, such as iPhones from China, it can measure total flow, which shows present economic activity. Cargo­Metrics’ data scientists are working on linking such activity to the firm’s data set of the past seven years to measure the evolving global economy. That will lead, Borgerson maintains, to more trades on currencies and equity index futures and, eventually, trades on individual equities. “Uncorrelated” is a mantra of Borgerson and his team. Well aware that correlated assets sent the performance of most asset managers, including hedge funds, plunging in the financial crisis, CargoMetrics is determined to come up with an antidote. Careful not to say too much, Borgerson lays out the simple principle that the process starts with placing many bets among uncorrelated strategies in different asset classes, like commodities, currencies and equities.
The goal is diversification, staying as market neutral as possible and remaining sensitive to tail risk in different scenarios. CargoMetrics’ analytic models help find asset classes that are outliers. Those may include a publicly traded instrument such as oil, another commodity or an equity for which shipping information was a leading indicator during times when other asset classes marched in lockstep. The historical ship data is then blended with this new information to seek opportunities. Identifying mispriced spreads among different trades within an asset class is another way of avoiding the calamity of correlation. Borgerson says the firm’s models will find instances where one type of oil should be a short trade and another a long one. The same goes for whole asset classes — shorting one that will benefit if virtually all asset prices plunge and buying another that will rise when oil prices gain. “We’re counting cards with the goal of being right maybe 3 percent more than we are wrong, as a way of making profits during good times and staying afloat during times of sudden, unpredictable but far-reaching events,” Borgerson says. The key, he adds, “is to know your edge and spread your risk.” CargoMetrics’ uncorrelated approach worked during the dismal first three weeks of this year, says Borgerson. Dialing down risk as volatility in the markets soared, the firm was on track in January to have its best month since it began trading.
To improve the firm’s models, eight of its data scientists hold a weekly strategy meeting, nicknamed “the Shackleton Group” after the band of sailors shipwrecked in the Antarctic from 1914 to 1917. Hoogerwerf and Ramos co-lead the group. At one recent meeting they were deciding how much risk, including how much liquidity, there was in a possible strategy; reviewing whether to keep previous strategies; and assigning who would research new ones.
The Shackleton Group’s meetings are free-form, with a lot of “I’ve got an idea” interjections that disregard official roles. “We hit the restart button a lot,” says Ramos, a former director of business intelligence and a quantitative economist at law firm Dewey & LeBoeuf who joined CargoMetrics in late 2010. “That’s why our motto is ‘Never lose hope.’” A bet on oil, related to Russia’s production, was stopped at the last minute in 2014, when Russia invaded Ukraine. Some currency-trading strategies have been abandoned in theory or after failing. Strategies the Shackleton Group likes are passed on to the firm’s investment committee of Borgerson, Scully and Ramos for a final decision. CargoMetrics has a unique set of big-data challenges. Historical shipping patterns may not be as useful in the new global economy now that shipping freight prices are plunging, a sign that trade growth rates may be changing. And analysts point out how hard identifying oil cargo can be in certain locations and instances, even in more-­predictable economic times. “While it may be easy to say that ships leaving the Middle East Gulf are typically carrying crude oil, knowing the type of crude is sometimes quite difficult,” says Paulo Nery, senior director of Europe, Middle East and Asia oil for Genscape, a Louisville, Kentucky–based company that analyzes satellite tracking of ships. Borgerson maintains his team is well aware of the dangers of data mining and getting swamped by noise. “If you run computers hard enough, you can convince yourself of anything,” he says. To make sure CargoMetrics’ algorithms for identifying cargo are valid, the firm spot-checks manifest data filed at ports and imposes statistical confidence checks to guard against spurious correlations.
Getting the jump on official government statistics is likely to become tougher too thanks to the recently formed High-Level Group for the Modernization of Official Statistics. Although the U.S. is not a member, Canada is a key player helping to lead the mostly European nation group (including South Korea) in coming up with a global blueprint for measuring and reporting economic activity.
Reflecting on his journey to Wall Street — raising money, hiring employees with different skill sets, making changes to Cargo­Metrics’ culture, overcoming legal and regulatory hurdles — almost gives Borgerson second thoughts about whether he would do it again. “I’ve sailed ships through tropical storms, captured cocaine smugglers and testified before Congress [on his Arctic research],” he says, “but this was the hardest.”
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