A Momentous Occasion

[Pat Logsdon]

<img src="http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/images/web/2003/logsdon_20040720_janakposts.gif" /><br /><br />35 years ago today, the Eagle landed on the Moon. 19 years ago today, treasure hunters found the Spanish galleon <i>Nuestra Senora de Atocha</i>, which sank off the coast of Key West, Fla in 1622. The ship contained over $400 million in coins and silver ingots. What's all this got to do with Pocket PC Thoughts? I'm glad you asked! <br /><br />You see, we have our own first to celebrate today, from one of our most valuable members. I'm referring, of course, to Janak Parekh's ascension to the peak of 10,000 Posts. Quietly, stealthily, like a panther with a moustache, he <a href="http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=29950&start=0">slipped past our Illustrious Founder</a> and planted his flag firmly at the peak of the mountain, the first poster in the Thoughts Media family to hit that giddy height on one site. And he did it all without a Sherpa. :mrgreen: While Janak is obviously the most prolific poster here, he's also one of the most informative and helpful. Without people like Janak, this community of ours would be a much poorer place. Salutè!

[suhit]

Quietly, stealthily, like a panther with a moustache, he
Dude, that is a fantastic description.

Suhit

[Janak Parekh]

:oops:

[Andy Sjostrom]

There's only one way to say it: big daddy! 8)

[marlof]

Congrats Janak, and thanks for all of your posts, esp. since there's very little noise in your signal. ;)

[arnage2]

i just noticed that u hit 10,005 this morning. WOW!

[Jon Westfall]

Again.. Congrats Janak.

[OSUKid7]

3.87% of total / 11.19 posts per day
yup yup :mrgreen:

[dommasters]

Truly prolific ! Crikey that's a book ! Maybe even a volume of books !
Dom

[Jereboam]

I like to think that our over-comprehensive conversation about headphones tipped you over the 10k mark...but whichever way you look at it you have made a serious contribution here...well done and I think I might not be alone in saying keep up the good work...here's looking forward to the next ninety thousand posts... :D

J'bm

[Jason Dunn]

Congrats Janak - I didn't even see you pass me you did it so quickly! :mrgreen:

[ctmagnus]

8O 10k! I noticed Janak getting up there. I always thought Jason would hold the top spot at all his sites, but I guess not!

[Mark Johnson]

Does this mean he gets to wear Lance Armstong's yellow jersey now?

[JonnoB]

Now, just don't let what happened (http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=29964) to PocketPCPassion happen here and have to start from zero again.

[Kati Compton]

8O 10k! I noticed Janak getting up there. I always thought Jason would hold the top spot at all his sites, but I guess not!
Hey - it's not fair to expect someone to be the top poster at three major sites! ;)

[Kati Compton]

Now, just don't let what happened (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=428d5727-43ab-4f24-90b7-a94784af71a4&displaylang=en) to PocketPCPassion happen here and have to start from zero again.
Hey - I wonder at what point the postometer flips...

[dean_shan]

Now, just don't let what happened (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=428d5727-43ab-4f24-90b7-a94784af71a4&displaylang=en) to PocketPCPassion happen here and have to start from zero again.

PowerPoint 97 viewer?? I think you refered us to the wrong link.

[Paragon]

Now, just don't let what happened (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=428d5727-43ab-4f24-90b7-a94784af71a4&displaylang=en) to PocketPCPassion happen here and have to start from zero again.

That would be a huge bummer for sure!

Congrats, Janak!

To be honest it's probably not that difficult to put up 10,000 posts, but to put up that number of high quality, informative, and helpful posts is incredible. Good work Janak!

Dave

[beq]

Big congrats to bdj! :D

Sheesh it seems we have celebration after celebration recently. People's birthdays, posting achievements, etc. But that's a good thing.

Next up, Jason D's 10,000 milestone :)

[Ed Hansberry]

:oops:
See, it is this kind of thing he does to get his post count up! ;-) :rotfl:

[JonnoB]

Now, just don't let what happened (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=428d5727-43ab-4f24-90b7-a94784af71a4&displaylang=en) to PocketPCPassion happen here and have to start from zero again.

PowerPoint 97 viewer?? I think you refered us to the wrong link.

That's what I get for multi-tasking - attempting to respond to two things at once. This is the thread I intended to link to. (http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=29964)

[Jonathon Watkins]

:angel: What a guy! :angel:

Always patient and helpfull - congratulations Janak! :mrgreen:

(Pat - love the cute little PPC on the mountaineer graphic! :lol: )

[Hyperluminal]

Wow, 10,000 posts!

Great job, Janak! :D

And your posts have been very helpful. Specifically.. the time you recommended I try ClearType.. I don't what I'd do if I had to use regular text rendering again... ;)

Keep up the good work! As for me, I'll be working on breaching like 400... :oops:

[BGinWA]

First things first, Janak, GET A LIFE! OK, someone had to say it.... Next, The Atocha was discovered off the Tortugas not Key West. Lastley, congrats, your posts are helpful and we all appreciate them!

[felixdd]

So what were the contents of post number 10,000?

[Pat Logsdon]

The Atocha was discovered off the Tortugas not Key West.
http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~mars/expedit.htm :wink:

On July 20, 1985, sixteen years of treasure hunting paid off. At about one in the afternoon, Mel's marine radio crackled to life in his Florida office. It was his son, Kane, Captain of the Dauntless. "WZG 9605. Unit 1, this is Unit 11. Put away the charts; we've got the mother lode!" While diving about 40 miles west of Key West, Florida, Andy Matroci had discovered a hoard of gold bars that unquestionably marked the discovery of the Atocha.

[BGinWA]

Pat, Look at a map 40 Miles off Key West is the Tortugas. I used to fix Mel's PC's. Nice guy.

[Kati Compton]

Pat, Look at a map 40 Miles off Key West is the Tortugas. I used to fix Mel's PC's. Nice guy.
I think we've got enough accuracy here in treasure history for a PPC site. It's not like Pat was trying to slight a geographic location, or was making it up.

Let's move on. ;)

[maximus]

:oops:
See, it is this kind of thing he does to get his post count up! ;-) :rotfl:

Ha ha ha.

{OK, the ROFL emoticon is gone (from "view more emoticon"), who stole it ?}

So Janak just reached cubic age, and 10,000 posts. A good year indeed :D

Congrats !!

[shawnc]

While Janak is obviously the most prolific poster here, he's also one of the most informative and helpful. Without people like Janak, this community of ours would be a much poorer place. Salutè!

I'm glad you mentioned this. All of the PPCT staff is helpful, but without a doubt Janak has provided me with the most. He is the primary reason I decided to become a member. It's not just the quantity, but the quality.

Job well done Janak. Congratulations and thanx for all of your efforts.

[dean_shan]

So what were the contents of post number 10,000?

This (http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=265510&highlight=#265510)

[Jason Dunn]

This (http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=265510&highlight=#265510)

So....his 10,000th post was a screenshot of his 10,000th post? Gee, it's a good thing he wasn't counting, just waiting for it....hehe. :lol: Just kidding Janak - you deserve the kudos. Way to go!

[dean_shan]

So....his 10,000th post was a screenshot of his 10,000th post?

Well technically his 10,00th post was
10,000th post ;)
The edit was from adding the picture.

[Mike Temporale]

Congrats Janak,

May the best post of your past, be the worst post of your future. :mrgreen: Keep up the excellent work.

[juni]

That definately earned Janak the dancing banana award:

http://www.kolumbus.fi/anders.ruohio/banana.gif

:)

[manywhere]

Hey, congratulations to Janak for reaching the magical number of 10 000 posts. :D


{OK, the ROFL emoticon is gone (from "view more emoticon"), who stole it ?}
:rofl:

It's still there in the view more emoticons drawer... (Use ": rofl :" without the spaces and "-marks to get it quickly)

[maximus]

I was looking for the other one, the actual-rolling-yellow-ball emoticon. I remember we have that sometimes ago.

edit : sorry. found it already. I forgot that I turn off "Play animations in webpages" setting in my IE, hence the yellow-ball is not rolling. :oops:

[opus]

As someone who has shared an office with BigDaddyJ, I thought I would let you all in on one of the secrets of his massive post count:

He types faster than you do.

No, I mean, he types, way, way faster than you do. He assaults the keyboard, and the letters fly. Curious passerby poke their noses in the door to see what the weird noise is.

He also thinks fast and talks fast, but the mad keyboardin' skillz are truly freaky.

Here's to post 20000 :)

-- Opus

[maximus]

No, I mean, he types, way, way faster than you do. He assaults the keyboard, and the letters fly. Curious passerby poke their noses in the door to see what the weird noise is.
-- Opus

No wonder his keyboards only have average lifespan of 3 days. :rotfl:

[Steven Cedrone]

He also thinks fast and talks fast, but the mad keyboardin' skillz are truly freaky.

He's definitely the fastest I know... :werenotworthy:

Steve

[sponge]

While contributions to the community can be debated, one thing's for sure, without Janak, there'd be quite an emptier board :P

[omikron.sk]

Hey - I wonder at what point the postometer flips...

AFAIK whole PPCT runs on the PHPBB, I've just installed one and counter is the type "unsigned mediumint", which is a 8-byte unsigned integer. So maximum value for it is 256^8 - 1 , what is equal to 18446744073709551615. Something tells me, that Janak should post a bit more than 11 posts / day, if he want to make it in this life. (It's 842317080991304 posts / day if he want to make it on the next 60 years). :D

[Janak Parekh]

(It's 842317080991304 posts / day if he want to make it on the next 60 years).
:rotfl:

That said, in the interest of true geekiness, I looked it up. UNSIGNED MEDIUMINT as a SQL datatype has a maximum value of 16,777,215 -- so there's some disagreement here as to whether it's actually 4-byte or 8-byte. That's only 45,000 posts per day if I want to make it in the next year... ;)

--janak

[Kati Compton]

It's the geek train - all aboard!

[Steven Cedrone]

That said, in the interest of true geekiness, I looked it up. UNSIGNED MEDIUMINT as a SQL datatype has a maximum value of 16,777,215 -- so there's some disagreement here as to whether it's actually 4-byte or 8-byte. That's only 45,000 posts per day if I want to make it in the next year... ;)

I think it's doable! :wink:

Steve

[omikron.sk]

(It's 842317080991304 posts / day if he want to make it on the next 60 years).
:rotfl:

That said, in the interest of true geekiness, I looked it up. UNSIGNED MEDIUMINT as a SQL datatype has a maximum value of 16,777,215 -- so there's some disagreement here as to whether it's actually 4-byte or 8-byte. That's only 45,000 posts per day if I want to make it in the next year... ;)

--janak
I just took a look at it and I'm think, that you're right. Probably my phpMyAdmin is a bit old (it wrote me mediumint is a 8byte long). Good luck in filling the limit. :D

[Pony99CA]

I'd have posted this in the thread I started about the "race", but some #%#9(_)! locked it. :evil: ;-)

Anyway, I picked Janak even though he was behind Jason. I'm glad my faith was well-placed. :-) Not that that takes anything away from Jason, of course; where would Janak be without Jason? (Probably graduated by now. :lol:)

I was gone for almost a week, and the biggest surprise is that both Janak and Jason didn't pass 10,000 posts (as of now, Jason has 9974 posts, while Janak is at 10,073). It's nice of Jason to wait a bit to avoid stealing Janak's moment. :-D

Steve

[Steven Cedrone]

Jason has quietly slipped past the 10,000 post mark as well... :way to go:

[dean_shan]

Yes and only a week behind him. Not bad.

[maximus]

So, who is next ? :D

Ed, Steve C., Kati, Pony, ctmagnus ?

[Jonathon Watkins]

Kati - the dark horse. :wink:

[Steven Cedrone]

I think it will be a long, long, long time before another team member hits 10,000! :wink:

Steve

[ctmagnus]

I predict Kati (currently 4367) will pass Steve (4752) and Ed (5595), making her #3 to join the 10k club.

Edit: this prediction was made before I noticed this thread has a page six. I have not been influenced by any gerbils!

[Pony99CA]

So, who is next ? :D

Ed, Steve C., Kati, Pony, ctmagnus ?
I doubt it will be me. Steve C. already said he'd ban me before I could pass him. :lol: (He did reset my title text once to "I *really* joined just for the contests" or something similar.)

Ed has a pretty big lead, but nobody is really close to 10,000. Plus, nobody posts like Jason and Janak. Kati used to (when she first joined, she had over 9 or 10 per day), but now that she's working, she seems to have tapered off to under 7.

Steve

[Janak Parekh]

Plus, nobody posts like Jason and Janak.
...and it's not at all easy to post at that rate. I think you'll see most of us slow down a little bit after the slow summer ends and we head into Fall.

--janak

[Jonathon Watkins]

Plus, nobody posts like Jason and Janak.
...and it's not at all easy to post at that rate.

Or at that quality level Janak. :werenotworthy:

:wink:

[Kati Compton]

Kati - the dark horse. :wink:
If you'd ever seen me in person, you'd never describe me as "dark" anything. ;)

And I think Steve may keep ahead of me. Remember I was ahead of him at one point... then I got a job. ;)

Personally, I'd predict Ed. Or Pony if he doesn't take another break. ;)

[maximus]

I predict Kati (currently 4367) will pass Steve (4752) and Ed (5595), making her #3 to join the 10k club.

Kati - the dark horse.

Couldn't agree more with both of you. Kati it is. Seven posts a day is good enough. :mrgreen:


Edit: this prediction was made before I noticed this thread has a page six. I have not been influenced by any gerbils!


:rotfl:

Yeah, I was a bit curious, how come there is no thread on "Who shot PDA Gerbils?" just like this one (http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=30464) ?

[Steven Cedrone]

And I think Steve may keep ahead of me. Remember I was ahead of him at one point... then I got a job. ;)

Nah, I think you went on vacation... :wink:

Steve

[Steven Cedrone]

I doubt it will be me. Steve C. already said he'd ban me before I could pass him. :lol: (He did reset my title text once to "I *really* joined just for the contests" or something similar.)

Guilty as charged! And for the record it was "I really did join just for the contests!" :wink:

Steve

[Steven Cedrone]

Yeah, I was a bit curious, how come there is no thread on "Who shot PDA Gerbils?" just like this one (http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=30464) ?

I'll bet not one person actually clicked on the picture of JR... :twisted:

Steve

[Janak Parekh]

Yeah, I was a bit curious, how come there is no thread on "Who shot PDA Gerbils?" just like this one (http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=30464) ?
We did have an intro post on Jonathon way back when. Steve just took a more humorous route in titling his. ;)

If you'd ever seen me in person, you'd never describe me as "dark" anything. ;)
She's 100% correct. :P "Light horse" doesn't have quite the same effect, though.

--janak

[dean_shan]

I'll bet not one person actually clicked on the picture of JR... :twisted:

Didn't till you told me. I just thought you where showing his avatar.

[Jeff Rutledge]

Yeah, I was a bit curious, how come there is no thread on "Who shot PDA Gerbils?" just like this one (http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=30464) ?

I'll bet not one person actually clicked on the picture of JR... :twisted:

Steve

:rotfl:

That's great!

[Jonathon Watkins]

Yeah, I was a bit curious, how come there is no thread on "Who shot PDA Gerbils?" just like this one (http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=30464) ?
We did have an intro post on Jonathon way back when. Steve just took a more humorous route in titling his. ;)

Well there's my first front page post:Big Hello from Jonathon (http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=24417&) - made when I became an admin-in-training.

Indeed, don't let those pesky Gerbils influence you Ctmagnus. Bad Gerbil, BAD Gerbil! :devilboy:

[maximus]

So, who is next ? :D

Ed, Steve C., Kati, Pony, ctmagnus ?
I doubt it will be me. Steve C. already said he'd ban me before I could pass him. :lol: (He did reset my title text once to "I *really* joined just for the contests" or something similar.)

Steve

With the same logic, it will be interesting to see the total post race between Steve C. and Kati, since both have the access to ban users.

Steve C. {hmm ... I'll ban Kati if she ever came near 100 posts from me}
Kati {hmm .. maybe I should ban Steve for a day or two to get him slow down a bit ... I can always tell him that it is due to a glitch in phpbb}

:mrgreen:

[Kati Compton]

Steve C. {hmm ... I'll ban Kati if she ever came near 100 posts from me}
Kati {hmm .. maybe I should ban Steve for a day or two to get him slow down a bit ... I can always tell him that it is due to a glitch in phpbb}
;) I don't *want* to "win". My post count could be turned off for all I care - especially since my posts are less "content oriented" than Janak's or Jason's, my post count doesn't really mean that much (to me, anyway).

[Pony99CA]

My post count could be turned off for all I care - especially since my posts are less "content oriented" than Janak's or Jason's, my post count doesn't really mean that much (to me, anyway).
&lt;Gasp!> But what about your many fans? We need our cracked egg/cat ball fix. :-D

Steve

[Kati Compton]

My post count could be turned off for all I care - especially since my posts are less "content oriented" than Janak's or Jason's, my post count doesn't really mean that much (to me, anyway).
&lt;Gasp!> But what about your many fans? We need our cracked egg/cat ball fix. :-D
:P I'm not saying I'm not going to *post*, just that I don't particularly care about my post *count*.