Disqus - Latest Comments for alexis

Re: No stars for the early

alexis — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 08:33:13 -0000

That's no moon...

Re: Join reddit for All Hallows' Eve in San Francisco (drinks are on us!)

fujbuj — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 20:45:51 -0000

I do... FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!

Re: Fare Thee Well, reddit!

Edgarc1981 — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 07:03:57 -0000

Bye alexis and thanks for your help on my t-shirt woes!

Re: Join reddit for All Hallows' Eve in San Francisco (drinks are on us!)

BobCat — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 04:29:42 -0000

NYCity feels left out. Make it right.

Re: Ask Karen Armstrong Anything

alexis — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:28:08 -0000

Submit all questions here: http://www.reddit.com/r/religion/comments/9xwud...

Re: Ask Karen Armstrong Anything

alexis — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:28:01 -0000

Submit all questions here: http://www.reddit.com/r/religion/comments/9xwud...

Re: Join reddit for All Hallows' Eve in San Francisco (drinks are on us!)

Name — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:20:47 -0000

They serve food at the Yankee, so you should be able to at least get in

Re: Fare Thee Well, reddit!

alexis — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:00:46 -0000

Thanks, Ivan! Sorry I missed your bday, but I hope it was grand.

Re: Join reddit for All Hallows' Eve in San Francisco (drinks are on us!)

alexis — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:25:33 -0000

I just hope you don't have an early flight.

Re: Join reddit for All Hallows' Eve in San Francisco (drinks are on us!)

tugteen — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:50:08 -0000

whoops!

Re: Fare Thee Well, reddit!

Spez9/11dosomefnresearch — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:48:32 -0000

9/11 9/11 TO: Dan Marcus and Steve Dunne
From: Kevin Scheid, Col. Larry Fenner, and Gordon Lederman
Date: October 2, 2003
RE: Executive Branch Minders’ Intimidation of Witnesses
During the course of Team 2’s and other teams’ interviews, we have observed three trends concerning the Executive Branch’s representatives (“minders”) at those interviews.
First, agencies lack a common understanding of the minders’ purpose in our interviews. Agencies’ perspectives include (1) minders as agency representatives, ensuring that Commission staff abide by the agreement between the Executive Branch and the Commission on the substantive scope of the Commission’s inquiry. (2) minders as participants in the interviews, answering questions directed at witnesses; (3) minders as agency monitors, reporting to their respective agencies on Commission staff’s lines of inquiry and witnesses’ verbatim responses.(4) minders as counselors, for witnesses to consult during interviews; and (5) minders as records of action-items generated during interviews, such as transmitting documents offered by witnesses to Commission staff. We suggest that Dan Levin give the agencies a common understanding of the purpose of minders’ presence at interviews.
Second, minders have on occasion answered questions directed to witnesses. Critical to our investigation is determining not just how the Intelligence Community is supposed to function pursuant to its policies and procedures but also how the Intelligence Community functions in actuality. When we have asked witnesses about certain roles and responsibilities within the Intelligence Community, minders have prompted witnesses’ responses by referencing formal polices and procedures. As a result, witnesses have not responded to our questions and have deprived us from understanding the Intelligence Community’s actual functioning and witnesses view of their roles and responsibilities.
Third, Minders have positioned themselves physically and have conducted themselves in a manner that we believe intimidates witnesses from giving full and candid responses to our questions. Minders generally have sat next to witnesses at the table and across from Commission staff, conveying to witnesses that minders are participants in interviews and are of equal status to witnesses. Moreover, minders take verbatim notes of witnesses statements, which we believe conveys to witnesses that their superiors will review their statements and may engage in retribution. We believe that the net effect of minders’ conduct, whether intentionally or not, is to intimidate witnesses and to interfere with witnesses providing full and candid responses. Moreover, the minders’ verbatim note taking facilitates agencies in alerting future witnesses to the Commissions lines of inquiry and permits agencies to prepare future witnesses either explicitly or implicitly.
We request that you raise the subject of minders’ conduct with the Executive Branch in order to prevent minders from imposing themselves in these ways in the future. Perhaps the attached statement of principles might help define minders roles and conduct. We look forward to your assistance. Thank you.

Re: Fare Thee Well, reddit!

Spez9/11dosomefnresearch — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:40:12 -0000

9/11 TO: Dan Marcus and Steve Dunne
From: Kevin Scheid, Col. Larry Fenner, and Gordon Lederman
Date: October 2, 2003
RE: Executive Branch Minders’ Intimidation of Witnesses
During the course of Team 2’s and other teams’ interviews, we have observed three trends concerning the Executive Branch’s representatives (“minders”) at those interviews.
First, agencies lack a common understanding of the minders’ purpose in our interviews. Agencies’ perspectives include (1) minders as agency representatives, ensuring that Commission staff abide by the agreement between the Executive Branch and the Commission on the substantive scope of the Commission’s inquiry. (2) minders as participants in the interviews, answering questions directed at witnesses; (3) minders as agency monitors, reporting to their respective agencies on Commission staff’s lines of inquiry and witnesses’ verbatim responses.(4) minders as counselors, for witnesses to consult during interviews; and (5) minders as records of action-items generated during interviews, such as transmitting documents offered by witnesses to Commission staff. We suggest that Dan Levin give the agencies a common understanding of the purpose of minders’ presence at interviews.
Second, minders have on occasion answered questions directed to witnesses. Critical to our investigation is determining not just how the Intelligence Community is supposed to function pursuant to its policies and procedures but also how the Intelligence Community functions in actuality. When we have asked witnesses about certain roles and responsibilities within the Intelligence Community, minders have prompted witnesses’ responses by referencing formal polices and procedures. As a result, witnesses have not responded to our questions and have deprived us from understanding the Intelligence Community’s actual functioning and witnesses view of their roles and responsibilities.
Third, Minders have positioned themselves physically and have conducted themselves in a manner that we believe intimidates witnesses from giving full and candid responses to our questions. Minders generally have sat next to witnesses at the table and across from Commission staff, conveying to witnesses that minders are participants in interviews and are of equal status to witnesses. Moreover, minders take verbatim notes of witnesses statements, which we believe conveys to witnesses that their superiors will review their statements and may engage in retribution. We believe that the net effect of minders’ conduct, whether intentionally or not, is to intimidate witnesses and to interfere with witnesses providing full and candid responses. Moreover, the minders’ verbatim note taking facilitates agencies in alerting future witnesses to the Commissions lines of inquiry and permits agencies to prepare future witnesses either explicitly or implicitly.
We request that you raise the subject of minders’ conduct with the Executive Branch in order to prevent minders from imposing themselves in these ways in the future. Perhaps the attached statement of principles might help define minders roles and conduct. We look forward to your assistance. Thank you.

Re: Join reddit for All Hallows' Eve in San Francisco (drinks are on us!)

alexis — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:55:19 -0000

Hope you accept my fb friendship request ;)

Re: Join reddit for All Hallows' Eve in San Francisco (drinks are on us!)

alexis — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:54:50 -0000

Argh, yes, we owe it to beloved Cambridge. OK, tell you what, I'll throw a bash when I'm in town for the next xkcd book event. Spez should be able to come up from VA and Keysersosa has fam all over Boston. I think we can get a good chunk of the team out and I know a few lovely Boston startup folks who'd want a drink or six.

Re: Join reddit for All Hallows' Eve in San Francisco (drinks are on us!)

alexis — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:53:14 -0000

I thought jedberg already had... well, by all means snag the karma for it and submit away :)

Re: Sold! ROFLaptop Fetches $521 For Charity

alexis — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:52:39 -0000

Sure thing... AloeVeraBlogger...

Re: Sold! ROFLaptop Fetches $521 For Charity

alexis — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:52:24 -0000

There wasn't a very glamorous handoff (I just boxed it up and mailed it to Europe), but here's the ROFLaptop with all its signatures http://breadpig.com/blog/2008/05/16/xo-roflapto...

Re: I love, I love, I love my reddit Calendar Girls!

alexis — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:47:13 -0000

I think you'd better direct that to the female redditors who thought up, orchestrated, and submitted photos for the calendar.

Re: Fare Thee Well, reddit!

alexis — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:38:55 -0000

That's our favorite kind of feedback. I expect to be leaving Disqus comments on websites (including this blog!) for a long time. Just don't let reddit affect your release schedule too much ;)

Re: Join reddit for All Hallows' Eve in San Francisco (drinks are on us!)

alexis — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 02:37:38 -0000

Nothing about reddit is too strict :) you shouldn't have any trouble getting in.

Re: Ask Karen Armstrong Anything

alexis — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 02:31:44 -0000

Submit all questions here: http://www.reddit.com/r/religion/comments/9xwud...

Re: Ask Karen Armstrong Anything

alexis — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 02:31:38 -0000

Submit all questions here: http://www.reddit.com/r/religion/comments/9xwud...

Re: I love, I love, I love my reddit Calendar Girls!

alexis — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:30:00 -0000

Better talk to the Ladies of reddit about that :)

Re: I love, I love, I love my reddit Calendar Girls!

alexis — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:46:00 -0000

There's always the 2011 calendar :)

Re: I love, I love, I love my reddit Calendar Girls!

alexis — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:45:27 -0000

Not yet... but if you can find 12 lizard redditors willing to submit photos...