fatcatfan
03-31-2005, 06:18 PM
More than the cost of my first car.
Less than the sum total of my student loans.
Roughly how many miles I drive in a month, lately.
Less than the number of days I've lived.
Almost the right amount to buy that suped-up Athlon XP 64 laptop I want.
Approximately the number of bugs in ZC. :waggle:
A bit less than the current number of AGN members.
Has a cube that contains only even digits.
Apparently the number of years women have been involved in science (http://www.astr.ua.edu/4000WS/4000WS.html).
An exciting turn-based, play-by-email strategy game of galactic exploration and conquest (http://www.4000ad.com/).
A club of mountaineers (http://www.club4000.it/English/index_en.html) who climbed at least 30 summits higher than 4000m.
And, for a few minutes at least, my post count. Actually, I think I've have 4000+ in the past, but lost some in prunings. Maybe not, since I don't really pay attention to my post count anymore. I wouldn't have made this thread if SB hadn't brought it to my attention.
So, I've been here a little over four years, that's roughly 1000 posts a year. I like to think I've contributed something to AGN in that time:
1. My suggestions and requests convinced DN to add single-file quest export format to ZC, the QSU file.
2. A looooong time ago, I came up with a "Magic String" which could aid you in discovering the way through a "lost woods" style repeating path in the fewest steps possible (if I can find it, I'll repost it)
3. Also a long time ago, I showed everyone how to circumvent remote image hosting restrictions on free web space providers like geocities by using the anonymizer.com image proxy. Today, places like photobucket and company make this method all but obsolete.
4. I added OGG and MP3 support to ZC. I've done several other things for ZC, but I honestly can't recall them all. DN has done far more than I ever have, and PM started it all of course.
5. And, of course, I created MapMaker. Sadly the source was accidentally lost and I've never yet completely reconstructed it. When I complete the next incarnation, I'll probably make it open source as well so that someone else can take over.
There's probably more to that list, but more importantly I've made at least two very good friends and met a lot of other interesting people that I enjoy talking to around here.
So.... um.... yeah... YAY ME! 4000! whoopee! :shrug:
Less than the sum total of my student loans.
Roughly how many miles I drive in a month, lately.
Less than the number of days I've lived.
Almost the right amount to buy that suped-up Athlon XP 64 laptop I want.
Approximately the number of bugs in ZC. :waggle:
A bit less than the current number of AGN members.
Has a cube that contains only even digits.
Apparently the number of years women have been involved in science (http://www.astr.ua.edu/4000WS/4000WS.html).
An exciting turn-based, play-by-email strategy game of galactic exploration and conquest (http://www.4000ad.com/).
A club of mountaineers (http://www.club4000.it/English/index_en.html) who climbed at least 30 summits higher than 4000m.
And, for a few minutes at least, my post count. Actually, I think I've have 4000+ in the past, but lost some in prunings. Maybe not, since I don't really pay attention to my post count anymore. I wouldn't have made this thread if SB hadn't brought it to my attention.
So, I've been here a little over four years, that's roughly 1000 posts a year. I like to think I've contributed something to AGN in that time:
1. My suggestions and requests convinced DN to add single-file quest export format to ZC, the QSU file.
2. A looooong time ago, I came up with a "Magic String" which could aid you in discovering the way through a "lost woods" style repeating path in the fewest steps possible (if I can find it, I'll repost it)
3. Also a long time ago, I showed everyone how to circumvent remote image hosting restrictions on free web space providers like geocities by using the anonymizer.com image proxy. Today, places like photobucket and company make this method all but obsolete.
4. I added OGG and MP3 support to ZC. I've done several other things for ZC, but I honestly can't recall them all. DN has done far more than I ever have, and PM started it all of course.
5. And, of course, I created MapMaker. Sadly the source was accidentally lost and I've never yet completely reconstructed it. When I complete the next incarnation, I'll probably make it open source as well so that someone else can take over.
There's probably more to that list, but more importantly I've made at least two very good friends and met a lot of other interesting people that I enjoy talking to around here.
So.... um.... yeah... YAY ME! 4000! whoopee! :shrug: