Christopher Rasch

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• January 31, 2000, on Using the Internet to Pick up Babes and/or Hunks:

  Poor graduate students are not the only ones to have difficulty attracting mates. From David Buss's _The Evolution of Desire_: "The importance of resources to attraction is not limited to Western cultures. Among the Siriono of eastern Bolivia, one man who was a particularly unsuccessful hunter and had lost several wives to men who were better hunters suffered a loss of status within the group. The anthropologist A. R. Holmberg began hunting with this man, gave him game that others were told he had killed, and taught him the art of killing game with a shotgun. Eventually, as a result of the man's increased hunting prowess, he 'was enjoying the highest status, had acquired several new sex partners, and was insulting others, instead of being insulted by them.'" (pg. 101)

• April 25, 2001, on ArsDigita: From Start-Up to Bust-Up:

  First, let me express my thanks to you, Tracy, Eve, Jin and the other arsDigitans who helped create the ACS community. I've enjoyed working with the ACS, and I've learned a great deal from your writing in particular. With respect to the current conflict, have you considered splitting aD in two? Please note that what follows comes from a sympathetic, but ignorant, outsider. Take it for what it's worth. Here's the scenario: you form a second company--let's call it aD2. Any current aD employees may come and join your company. aD2 would also get some seed capital (perhaps equivalent to aD's capitalization before the VC's came on board plus interest). aD2 would also get any existing clients who wanted to switch to the new company. Both companies would get equivalent copyright ownership rights to the existing code base. In exchange, you would drop your fight for control of aD. aD would also get, say, a 20% non-controlling stake in the new company. If you'...