Mon Dec 10 22:40:53 2001
OW, AYB, and IG, captains and Priests of the Tao of the PostWhore, I salute you for guiding me to this point by your steady stream of posts.
Jeremy, thanks for providing this board; it always gives me a laugh.
Paul, thanks for providing many of the aforementioned laughs and my .sig.
Pizza and Madan, thanks for all the info you put in your posts; I've learned a good deal from both of you.
To all I haven't specifically named due to my crack addiction, thanks for being part of OSY.
Mon Dec 10 22:43:44 2001
Congratulations be rendered to thee.
Mon Dec 10 22:47:07 2001
Captains:
AYB
IG (myself)
OW
RQE (who doesn't post anymore)
DuffMan
Socrates
DrPizza's over 900 as well, perhaps over 950.
We need Reimer to add ranks above Admiral so that the board doesn't get top-heavy with them. So far we have no Admirals and AYB will almost certainly be the first.
Mon Dec 10 23:37:39 2001
Mon Dec 10 23:50:10 2001
There's Grand Admiral and Rear Admiral...
OK, go ahead and have fun with that second title!
Tue Dec 11 00:54:57 2001
I will most certainly be the first admiral.
You say that, and yet AYB's roughly 1500-1600 ahead of you, and I'm more than 1000 ahead.
Tue Dec 11 01:33:44 2001
oh, and congrats there Magus of the Unseen.
Tue Dec 11 02:09:53 2001
To all I haven't specifically named due to my crack addiction, thanks for being part of OSY.
Tue Dec 11 03:31:51 2001
I'm hurt.
Seriously.
Tue Dec 11 03:35:46 2001
And yet there are still only two people at 2000 posts or more, although a third is closing in fairly quickly.
Tue Dec 11 03:36:43 2001
Actually I had my 300th post a few days ago, probably in one of my bitching threads. :)
Tue Dec 11 03:38:10 2001
And Madan is closing in on 1000; he'll likely be OSY's 7th Captain -- him or DrPizza, who's also in the 900's.
Tue Dec 11 03:41:27 2001
I wonder if it would be possible to gather as a text file all the input you have done on the board? I wonder just how many raw KB's that would be?
Tue Dec 11 03:52:06 2001
Do that for PeterB's Ars posts. He's over 19,000 and a huge portion of those have been half-pagers. But not as many of those since he started as Battlefront and NT/2K Mojo mod.
A good number of my posts here have been nothing but things like the number that the post was, or a phrase like 'postcount ++ [color=blue]!![/color]'. Or one of the catchphrases I invented.
In otherwords, chaff.
Wed Dec 12 13:10:24 2001
So, I don't count as a regular poster?I'm hurt.
Seriously.
Wed Dec 12 15:03:11 2001
That's actually fairly frightening to think that you have actually typed in that amount of information.
You'd think that would be frightening but whats scarier is that very little of our posts is actual useful information and mostly just inane ramblings of mad men who lead a geek lifestyle which means masturbating to new motherboard specs from ASUS or Intel.
Wed Dec 12 16:52:16 2001
Wed Dec 12 16:58:49 2001
Wed Dec 12 17:41:02 2001
holy crap!
and then i look at AYB and realise that it is indeed a possible dream. That indeed one day i shall indeed be amongst the same ranks as AYB and soon after IG.
However in the mean time i shall be content that the rest of you piddly folks beneath me are beneath me.
I'm just curious to see who's going to last till the very end of OSY. I don't think OSY will last very long.
Ironical that I think Apple and OSY are similar. Small 'market share', people that are very passionate about sillyness and going against the grain.
ha ha ha! jeremy started the Apple of OSY.
And just like Apple maybe doomed so shall OSY follow in its path.
I knew all along that Jeremy idealised Steve Jobs. Probably has a poster of Steve Jobs naked which he has candles and burning incense around the room to add to the auro of holiness that jeremy feels from SJ.
muahahahaha!!!!
you have been found out my canadian friend!
muahahahaha!!!
i shall spread the word.
Wed Dec 12 20:13:39 2001
I knew all along that Jeremy idealised Steve Jobs. Probably has a poster of Steve Jobs naked which he has candles and burning incense around the roomExtremely disturbing thought.
Wed Dec 12 20:55:32 2001
OSY must last forever, just like teh poopy friends of OSY!
AYB's verdict on this is FINAL!
Wed Dec 12 23:59:54 2001
I don't think OSY will last very long.
Why?
Ironical that I think Apple and OSY are similar. Small 'market share', people that are very passionate about sillyness and going against the grain.ha ha ha! jeremy started the Apple of OSY.
And just like Apple maybe doomed so shall OSY follow in its path.
I wonder about Apple being doomed, though. I know I predicted it and made silly posters of Apple Deathlight Vigil t-shirts and whatnot, but it seems to me that the company is clinging on to its 2.72%, seemingly forever.
I knew all along that Jeremy idealised Steve Jobs. Probably has a poster of Steve Jobs naked which he has candles and burning incense around the room to add to the auro of holiness that jeremy feels from SJ.
My feelings towards Steve Jobs are as mysterious as Steve himself. On one hand, he helped bring both the Apple II and the Mac to the world, and while neither were the first product of their kind, they definitely had real influence on the market.
On the other hand, Steve Jobs has always behaved like an asshole, and to be honest, he didn't DO anything of consequence for either projects. Both were engineered and designed by others, and Jobs merely took credit for them.
On a third hand, you have to admire someone with no skills and no qualifications who has nonetheless made himself insanely rich and has affected the industry to a huge degree.
I don't think I'd like to be Steve Jobs-- I don't want to be an asshole with a reality distortion field. But it would be nice to have his money...
Thu Dec 13 01:32:23 2001
Yeah, i'm not a big fan of Steve Jobs my self. I give credit to Wozniack and to Jef Raskin if anybody.
Steve Jobs gift is his charisma and his business skills. He isn't a marketing wizard, oh no hell not, but i've read he's pretty tough at getting the best prices. The irony tragedy being that we don't see this aggressive price on the consumer side.
Meh, i give Apple till the end of next year to set their trend from a spiral downwards or a sudden growth spurt. The main thing is that Apple will only get there in leaps and bounds and not slowly because to slow means the market can counter the growth to stop Apple from gaining any more market share.
As to OSY lasting a long time. I have my reasons. I see things that many people don't. I see into the future but my vision of it is not as clear but enough to get some vauge ideas of what is to be and what is not to be. In the future I see OSY as we see the Roman monuments now. Ruins that reflect a once mighty society.
"We maybe insignificant in numbers but we are significant in silliness. Infact one might say, the only monopoly we have is on silliness."
;)