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Activity Summary
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Reviews Written: 69
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Member Visits: 2,909
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Total Visits: 29,091
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About ruff
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These are epinions of which I'm particularly proud, in no order.
The Story of Psychology
The User Illusion
Rage Against the Machine
The Complete Slob's Guide to Dorm Equipment
Why Paypal Can't be Trusted
Napster, RIAA, and your $480 million
Compaq, ugly like a dog
Quick tips for better epinions
The Internet Explorers Society
American Airlines Cargo
The Stamps.com Conspiracy
How Microsoft Frontpage got to Heaven
A short one for credit-starved college students
A little poem about rating epinions
Silly but true, I review MI-2
and finally, RTFM and why you should.
About My Person
I'm here to make some money.
What? Huh? Huh? What?
I said, I'm here to make some money. I write stuff. You read stuff. I get some money. That's the deal on epinions. That's why I come back. And I'm not embarrassed to say so.
Fortunately for you, most of my reviews are pretty good. (It's a poor dog that can't wag its own tail.) If I do say so myself, I think I'm an asset to the occasional person who reads my work in order to make purchasing decisions--as opposed to those of you who came here wanting to know just who I think I am giving you a "Somewhat Recommended"--even though I have no pretenses about saving the world with my review of an electric shaver. At least I'm honest about it: I come here for the money.
On a more personal note, because people are nosy, I'm a 20 year-old senior at San Francisco State University, in San Francisco, California. I study computers and psychology, and my epinions here reflect that. As for my appearance, I look like a dog. Online, anyway. Woof, woof, throw me a bone.
If you truly feel the need to do so, you can e-mail me at the address above. I really can be awfully friendly, and I've been known to respond to marriage proposals from supermodels within 30 minutes or less, or the nuptial is free.
Ruff's Mailbag
"I've read several other epinions addressing 'the language problem' but I'd have to say this is the one I enjoyed the most." -c-option(This Epinion is for grown-ups only.) |
My rating criteriaWhen I started working epinions in September of '99, I was afraid I wouldn't be able to rate others' work fairly, so I designed a scientific equation to rate epinions. First I add the number of illuminating statistics (I) about the product, then I rate the subjective "cohesiveness" (K) of the prose on a decimal scale from 0 to 1. I calculate the ratio of paragraphs (n) to grammatical errors (G).Then I lookup the mean (M) rating from all of the epinions I've ever rated, and throw in its divisor, D, just for good measure. The resulting equation,
(I)(M)=K/I(2D)^I+ n/G
proves utterly useless. So I'm back to using my gut. If you feel I've rated your work unfairly, drop me an e-mail. But check out my suggestions for better epinions first. I don't want to have to repeat myself.
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