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Title: Jamail Jones Facebook Status
Post by: Ron Paul on January 11, 2010, 10:21:31 AM
Could be nothing but I thought I would post it...

"Jamail Eazy Jones starting to second guess myself about my decision..."
Title: Re: Jamail Jones Facebook Status
Post by: 4everwarriors on January 11, 2010, 10:27:03 AM
Welcome to today's world of college athletics. That's why I wouldn't want my livlihood dependent on 18-22 year olds and their families. This could get ugly.
Title: Re: Jamail Jones Facebook Status
Post by: Brewtown Andy on January 11, 2010, 10:27:36 AM
That could literally mean anything.
Title: Re: Jamail Jones Facebook Status
Post by: HoopsMalone on January 11, 2010, 10:28:49 AM
We can only speculate what it means. Maybe he broke up with his girlfriend?

If it does refer to bball, coming to Wisconsin from the south is a tough decision on its own.  It's probably natural to have some cold feet.  Hopefully it is nothing more than that.
Title: Re: Jamail Jones Facebook Status
Post by: TallTitan34 on January 11, 2010, 10:30:54 AM
Maybe he had some bad food for breakfast. No way of knowing what he is talking about.
Title: Re: Jamail Jones Facebook Status
Post by: Brewtown Andy on January 11, 2010, 10:31:27 AM
If it does refer to bball, coming to Wisconsin from the south is a tough decision on its own.  It's probably natural to have some cold feet.  

Maybe he looked at the Weather Channel and is concerned about literally having cold feet.
Title: Re: Jamail Jones Facebook Status
Post by: mu03eng on January 11, 2010, 10:33:47 AM
Pretty sure this thread servers no good purpose but to cause rampant panic....that status could be anything including as significant as his having switched high schools for his senior year or benign as his deciding to eat too many wings last night.

I think the mods should blow this thread away.
Title: Re: Jamail Jones Facebook Status
Post by: GOMU1104 on January 11, 2010, 10:36:41 AM
Agreed...so many things can be interpreted by this. Gotta love facebook...

Less than 24 hours ago, in response to a question about Vander and Reggie Smith, he tweeted:


@mark_strot I've played against them at the camps but we have a good class coming in nxt yr and I can't wait to play with them
Title: Re: Jamail Jones Facebook Status
Post by: LON on January 11, 2010, 10:37:48 AM
Pretty sure this thread servers no good purpose but to cause rampant panic....that status could be anything including as significant as his having switched high schools for his senior year or benign as his deciding to eat too many wings last night.

I think the mods should blow this thread away.

Agreed 100%
Title: Re: Jamail Jones Facebook Status
Post by: wyoMUfan on January 11, 2010, 10:39:13 AM
I wouldn't worry too much, he always seems enthused to comment / like my insane status updates before/during marquette games.
 He is pumped to be a golden eagle!
Title: Re: Jamail Jones Facebook Status
Post by: Ron Paul on January 11, 2010, 10:40:32 AM
As I said it could mean absolutely nothing, maybe someone with better connections than I have could find out.  Didn't know this message board wouldn't be able to contain its panic.
Title: Re: Jamail Jones Facebook Status
Post by: bma725 on January 11, 2010, 10:46:42 AM
Didn't know this message board wouldn't be able to contain its panic.

It's a message board, what exactly did you expect the reaction to be.
Title: Re: Jamail Jones Facebook Status
Post by: HoopsMalone on January 11, 2010, 10:53:09 AM
Maybe he looked at the Weather Channel and is concerned about literally having cold feet.

haha.  Florida and Georgia are having some big cold spells.  I think the Orange Bowl was the coldest on record in Miami.  That weather could have been a slice of life for him.
Title: Re: Jamail Jones Facebook Status
Post by: Warrior1 on January 11, 2010, 11:15:17 AM
On some good news, here are Vander Blue's Facebook status' of note over the last few weeks

"Let's go MU we need 1...."

"Yeeaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh MU!!!!!!Let's get moneeeeeyyyyy!!!!!"

"Im flyin like a golden eagle...."

"I love Marquette!!!"
Title: Re: Jamail Jones Facebook Status
Post by: VegasWarrior77 on January 11, 2010, 01:26:53 PM
On some good news, here are Vander Blue's Facebook status' of note over the last few weeks

"Let's go MU we need 1...."

"Yeeaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh MU!!!!!!Let's get moneeeeeyyyyy!!!!!"

"Im flyin like a golden eagle...."

"I love Marquette!!!"

Swe-e-e-e-t!
Title: Re: Jamail Jones Facebook Status
Post by: akmarq on January 11, 2010, 03:19:42 PM
I would worry more about Vander and Jamail reading MU Scoop and thinking its super creepy that people are monitoring their facebook statuses.
Title: Re: Jamail Jones Facebook Status
Post by: MerrittsMustache on January 11, 2010, 03:24:20 PM
I would worry more about Vander and Jamail reading MU Scoop and thinking its super creepy that people are monitoring their facebook statuses.

It's already creepy enough that these people feel the need to be online "friends" with high school students.

Title: Re: Jamail Jones Facebook Status
Post by: akmarq on January 11, 2010, 03:25:43 PM
It's already creepy enough that these people feel the need to be online "friends" with high school students.

It's less weird if the people doing the "friending" are students...at least they're only 2-3 years older than the player. But yes, I agree.
Title: Re: Jamail Jones Facebook Status
Post by: Jay Bee on January 11, 2010, 03:54:21 PM
re: Jamail's status - I think he's talking about something non-bball related.

re: "creeps".. I think the kids have an official term for this... when Vander grabbed 22 boards, he put his stats in a status update... some kids were posting random things.. and then Mark Miller posts something like, "wow 22 boards, really?  that's great!".  And so next to his comment, there's a picture of Mark Miller (older dude).. some girl then replies, "Creeper?"





Title: Re: Jamail Jones Facebook Status
Post by: Clam Crowder on January 11, 2010, 05:58:18 PM
just saying thinking about it florida is in a cold spell like its been 30 degrees for a bit hes prob feeling that temp and feeling like its what up in milwaukee. its prob a job. and yeah the person that posted this for one ignorance is bliss, and two thats pretty creepy that u checked out a 17/18 year olds fb status and have him as a friend
Title: Re: Jamail Jones Facebook Status
Post by: TallTitan34 on January 12, 2010, 11:45:10 AM
Back in my day the facebook was only for college students with a college email address.
Title: Re: Jamail Jones Facebook Status
Post by: MUEng92 on January 12, 2010, 12:07:07 PM
Are you allowed to use the phrase "back in my day" when you are discussing something involving the Internet?
Title: Re: Jamail Jones Facebook Status
Post by: MU B2002 on January 12, 2010, 12:09:05 PM
Are you allowed to use the phrase "back in my day" when you are discussing something involving the Internet?

Yes.

It says so on pg 52 of the manual written by internet creator Al Gore.
Title: Re: Jamail Jones Facebook Status
Post by: LastWarrior on January 12, 2010, 12:21:41 PM
Are you allowed to use the phrase "back in my day" when you are discussing something involving the Internet?

Yes... remember dial-up and Netscape Navigator?
Title: Re: Jamail Jones Facebook Status
Post by: MUEng92 on January 12, 2010, 12:30:08 PM
Yes... remember dial-up and Netscape Navigator?

Are you kidding, I remember Commodore 64's with cassette tape drives.  When we got an external 5-1/4" floppy drive I thought it couldn't get any better!
Title: Re: Jamail Jones Facebook Status
Post by: GOMU1104 on January 12, 2010, 12:31:26 PM
Back in my day the facebook was only for college students with a college email address.

How about when not every college had access to facebook...

I went to a UW Hyphen school my freshman year, and could not get on Facebook because my school wasnt listed.
Title: Re: Jamail Jones Facebook Status
Post by: damuts222 on January 12, 2010, 12:34:32 PM
 Yea but now on Facebook your parents can get on it, I think it is kind of weird. Regardless it is kind of weird that you look at his facebook status and certain things about facebook have allowed people to pretty much keep tabs on others.

  Is he truly your friend??
Title: Re: Jamail Jones Facebook Status
Post by: GOO on January 12, 2010, 12:36:05 PM
Well on my TRS80 by radioshack I got the upgrade to 16k of memory I think. The reloading and saving to cassette tapes was risky at best. Those were the days. Man was I living large with a full 16k of memory.
Title: Re: Jamail Jones Facebook Status
Post by: MUEng92 on January 12, 2010, 12:42:35 PM
Well on my TRS80 by radioshack I got the upgrade to 16k of memory I think. The reloading and saving to cassette tapes was risky at best. Those were the days. Man was I living large with a full 16k of memory.

My best friend's dad owned a Radio Shack so he had one of those.  I can't even remember what we did on those computers besides writing 3-4 line programs to type your name over and over to fill the screen.
Title: Re: Jamail Jones Facebook Status
Post by: MR.HAYWARD on January 12, 2010, 12:46:47 PM
The "word processsssors" at the old library were pretty sweet.
Title: Re: Jamail Jones Facebook Status
Post by: mu-rara on January 12, 2010, 12:56:21 PM
When I was a student we were all jazzed because we had a terminal connected to a DEC mini computer.

UWM had to submit punch cards to run a program.

We all had to take a semester of FORTRAN.

Last year at MU we had a PC lab
Title: Re: Jamail Jones Facebook Status
Post by: mu_hilltopper on January 12, 2010, 01:07:46 PM
I used to be pretty good at FORTRAN .. then got hooked on Pascal .. my career took me toward COBOL and RPG.
Title: Re: Jamail Jones Facebook Status
Post by: groove on January 12, 2010, 01:18:39 PM
It's already creepy enough that these people feel the need to be online "friends" with high school students.



Yeah, I only track the potential female student-athletes who may have their eye on marquette. Those 17 year old girls out there are interesting to follow on facebook. :)
Title: Re: Jamail Jones Facebook Status
Post by: Clam Crowder on January 12, 2010, 01:19:48 PM
if u wanna rely solely on facebook to see what our recruits are thinking you will see that Aaron Bown is still in the MU network.
Title: Re: Jamail Jones Facebook Status
Post by: Skatastrophy on January 12, 2010, 01:23:23 PM
I used to be pretty good at FORTRAN .. then got hooked on Pascal .. my career took me toward COBOL and RPG.

Man... there aren't many AS400 programmers around (that I've run into in the past 5 years, anyway).

We learned FORTRAN IV at MU in a programming languages class, but it was for historical purposes only :P  I'm a tad younger so I started on True BASIC and made the jump from that straight to Java (while developing plenty of DOOM levels in between :p). 
Title: Re: Jamail Jones Facebook Status
Post by: larrym on January 12, 2010, 01:34:58 PM
Yes.

It says so on pg 52 of the manual written by internet creator Al Gore.

My first exposure to the internet and world wide web came in 1993.  I attended a seminar at UW-Madison about it.  The book that came with the seminar was authored by Al Gore.  If only Tipper and her PMRC buddies knew what the internet was going to make available to their children, maybe history would have been different. :o
Title: Re: Jamail Jones Facebook Status
Post by: Jay Bee on January 12, 2010, 02:00:00 PM
Wow, there are some big time geeks on here.

Nothing beat a 1200 bps WWIV BBS.  Amazing how things have changed. 



Title: Re: Jamail Jones Facebook Status
Post by: ErickJD08 on January 12, 2010, 02:15:54 PM
Are you kidding, I remember Commodore 64's with cassette tape drives.  When we got an external 5-1/4" floppy drive I thought it couldn't get any better!

I had Transformers the game for that system and it was literally impossible to beat.
Title: Re: Jamail Jones Facebook Status
Post by: mu_hilltopper on January 12, 2010, 02:17:36 PM
Man... there aren't many AS400 programmers around (that I've run into in the past 5 years, anyway).


Sure there are.   Dozens of AS400 shops in the Milwaukee area.  It's a minority, sure.  But there's probably 1000 IT workers in the field near here.

Wow, there are some big time geeks on here.

Nothing beat a 1200 bps WWIV BBS.  Amazing how things have changed. 


1200 bps?  Surely you jest.  That's like 4x faster than my trusty 300 baud modem.  I mean, after the 110 baud accoustic coupler, there's no way bytes could fly faster than 1200.
Title: Re: Jamail Jones Facebook Status
Post by: Fullodds on January 12, 2010, 02:22:48 PM
I think now I understand the unnecessary excitment of the "Marquette Mammories" photo and thread. 

Title: Re: Jamail Jones Facebook Status
Post by: Boone on January 12, 2010, 02:30:41 PM
+infinity!
Title: Re: Jamail Jones Facebook Status
Post by: JWags85 on January 12, 2010, 03:00:28 PM
How about when not every college had access to facebook...

I went to a UW Hyphen school my freshman year, and could not get on Facebook because my school wasnt listed.

I remember thinking Facebook was pretty damn stupid when I first heard about it.  I only got on because my gf at the time insisted on me joining so as to put up our relationship status.  That was in the fall.  By that spring, it exploded and every new person you would meet would add you as a friend. 

Now, post college, I still use it frequently as its a good way to keep in touch with friends from college and HS.  However, i miss the days when it was just college based.  The first downfall was opening it up to HS and then everyone (unless you were grandfathered in by college usage) and then the explosion of applications, damn those things are annoying.  I hardly recognize it anymore.
Title: Re: Jamail Jones Facebook Status
Post by: NavinRJohnson on January 12, 2010, 03:13:04 PM
I think now I understand the unnecessary excitment of the "Marquette Mammories" photo and thread. 



This board never disappoints. Well done.
Title: Re: Jamail Jones Facebook Status
Post by: muball on January 12, 2010, 04:21:51 PM
I remember the mini computer phase and Dec going under, a tape drive board for the GE CT scanner was 18" by 24"   which is larger then a server board today. Writing the original software for TYME ATM so numerous banks  could share transactions. Point of interest I believe it was a first in the US were Banks shared an ATM system. Additionally TYME stood for Take Your Money Everywhere and I guess took quite a few meetings for execs to come up with the name.
Title: Re: Jamail Jones Facebook Status
Post by: larrym on January 12, 2010, 04:31:56 PM
I remember the mini computer phase and Dec going under, a tape drive board for the GE CT scanner was 18" by 24"   which is larger then a server board today. Writing the original software for TYME ATM so numerous banks  could share transactions. Point of interest I believe it was a first in the US were Banks shared an ATM system. Additionally TYME stood for Take Your Money Everywhere and I guess took quite a few meetings for execs to come up with the name.

That was a great name.  Only recently have I started calling them "ATM Machines" instead of "TYME Machines".  Everybody knew what I was talking about in Wisconsin when I asked where the nearest TYME machine was, but elsewhere in the country people didn't know what to make of that.
Title: Re: Jamail Jones Facebook Status
Post by: Sir Lawrence on January 12, 2010, 04:46:26 PM
That was a great name.  Only recently have I started calling them "ATM Machines" instead of "TYME Machines".  Everybody knew what I was talking about in Wisconsin when I asked where the nearest TYME machine was, but elsewhere in the country people didn't know what to make of that.

I was kicked out of a casino in the Bahamas for asking where the "Tyme" machine was.  They thought I was off my rocker. 
Title: Re: Jamail Jones Facebook Status
Post by: Hards Alumni on January 12, 2010, 04:49:16 PM
That was a great name.  Only recently have I started calling them "ATM Machines" instead of "TYME Machines".  Everybody knew what I was talking about in Wisconsin when I asked where the nearest TYME machine was, but elsewhere in the country people didn't know what to make of that.

ATM Machine is redundant.
Title: Re: Jamail Jones Facebook Status
Post by: GOO on January 12, 2010, 05:03:03 PM
That was a great name.  Only recently have I started calling them "ATM Machines" instead of "TYME Machines".  Everybody knew what I was talking about in Wisconsin when I asked where the nearest TYME machine was, but elsewhere in the country people didn't know what to make of that.

One blank look from a clerk when you ask for the Time machine, and you learn quickly that other parts of the country didn't/don't  have TYME machines.
Title: Re: Jamail Jones Facebook Status
Post by: AZWarrior on January 12, 2010, 05:03:23 PM
Its from the Department of needless redundancy department.   ;D
Title: Re: Jamail Jones Facebook Status
Post by: GOO on January 12, 2010, 05:05:33 PM
I think now I understand the unnecessary excitment of the "Marquette Mammories" photo and thread. 



This is almost up there with "thanks for keeping me abreast of the situation..." or some similar comment you made.  Two, posts of the year.
Man, I hope Jamail Jones doesn't read this thread.  He won't know what we are talking about and will think he is coming to a land of geeks.   But, all he has to know is that there is a lot of $$ in IT (too bad I'm not an IT guy). 
Title: Re: Jamail Jones Facebook Status
Post by: Litehouse on January 12, 2010, 05:05:52 PM
That was a great name.  Only recently have I started calling them "ATM Machines" instead of "TYME Machines".  Everybody knew what I was talking about in Wisconsin when I asked where the nearest TYME machine was, but elsewhere in the country people didn't know what to make of that.

I moved to Boston after undergrad and asked a construction worker on the street if there was a TYME machine somewhere nearby.  He was your stereotypical Southie-type with a thick accent, he looked at me funny and said "What are you, f*&@in Buck Rogers or somethin'?"  I just said "nevermind" and walked away.
Title: Re: Jamail Jones Facebook Status
Post by: Nukem2 on January 12, 2010, 05:07:46 PM
I suspect there are a lot of posters here who don't know what a TYME machine was..... :D
Title: Re: Jamail Jones Facebook Status
Post by: 77ncaachamps on January 12, 2010, 06:12:05 PM
Coming from CA, I didn't know what a TYME machine was...much less a bubbler.

Thank you, Milwaukee. Thank you.
Title: Re: Jamail Jones Facebook Status
Post by: jficke13 on January 12, 2010, 06:23:34 PM
I grew up in Milwaukee and never heard TYME machine; in fact, I know what it is but have only ever actually heard people call them ATMs
Title: Re: Jamail Jones Facebook Status
Post by: GGGG on January 12, 2010, 06:24:51 PM
I suspect there are a lot of posters here who don't know what a TYME machine was..... :D


Do people actually know what the acronym stands for?  Take Your Money Everywhere.
Title: Re: Jamail Jones Facebook Status
Post by: Avenue Commons on January 12, 2010, 06:25:59 PM
ATM Machine is redundant.

Kind of like RBIs. It already stands for runs (plural) batted in. RBIs, taken literally, is runs batted ins.
Title: Re: Jamail Jones Facebook Status
Post by: ChicosBailBonds on January 12, 2010, 06:58:38 PM
Kind of like RBIs. It already stands for runs (plural) batted in. RBIs, taken literally, is runs batted ins.

Frozen Tundra

Tundra is already Frozen...taken literally, frozen frozen ground