Quick catch-up and update, since I stopped by for the latest Wi/HT? memberships.
CATCH-UP:
At 6/1/05 01:32 PM, Bahamut7 wrote:
Hey D0GMA, nice to see you post again. :) Last night, I was thinking "D0GMA better return soon" since the summer holidays are coming soon and here you are. :) I did notice you coming online before and I was really happy. :) Oh, and I doubt you will be going to a place in the UK known as Wirral (which is near Liverpool), so I won't see you, sorry. :(
Likely not, however (barring another FAIL on tickets) I'll be in Europe a coupole of times in the next year. See update for details.
At 6/2/05 09:46 PM, gfoxclock wrote:
now... what do I see before me... (GASP)... could it be?
Yes, it might ;)
Anyway, couldn't resist standing up for teh "congratting the father" logic there, moving on!
No worries. I always stand up for the moms :D
Thanks for dropping by your mammoth legacy topic here on teh NG, Dogma. I'm afraid it's been drying up and stalling (on pages 224, 225, and 226) without your guidance.
Looks like carmel is picking up the gauntlet, so it's not completely dead.
What was it that Denvish thought you should see? My "pithy" comments on page 225 to Bonus about tips on running a top 100 manually by raiding your last update for teh raw data? Or Denvish's announcement of the childbirthingness? #;-}>
Well, he didn't specify in the e-mails (I've since white-listed him so he doesn't end up in the Junk folder again lol), but I presume what he intended was the new addition to the family.
You almost walked away in June or July of 2004 after getting upset with liljim, and that was nothing compared to what happened between you and Wade this March, so it's understandable. The whole "why bother if it's just causing me pain/grief" logic is quite sound, so as long as you're happy with it, keep on keepin' on.
A part of me wishes you'd just keep depositing exp, at least, if not ever posting or b/ping again, main OR alt account... but then what would be the point of getting exp for no reason on a site you no longer wish to be associated with, eh wot? So... yeah. I understand.
Last straw and all that ... long since time to move on.
At 6/12/05 11:04 PM, cloned_illusion wrote:
Hey, what happened to this topic? This has pretty good information...
James & Wade are what happened to this topic. After enough crap, I finally had enough and walked away from NG. Without my regular updates, as gfox mentioned, the thread has slowed down quite a bit.
At 7/29/05 03:36 AM, carmelhadinosaur wrote:
That's everyone, especially Master_Inuyasha!
I won't bother looking for new ones for at least two weeks.
Then i'll be able to spot almost everyone to 200, making the list grow to 150 profiles!
Or you could simply ask me for the Excel file I still have with 5000 profile IDs ...
UPDATE:
All of my neighbors, from whom I'd been pirating wireless network connections, finally moved and I broke down and set my own up in May. After 3 false starts, I finally got all of the components to bother to consistently recognize each other this past week.
The move to my new webhost (Hostway) was completed on 30 June, with the last reported DNS issue being on 1 July. In addtion to expanding to 50 GB of bandwidth (from 15) for the roughly the same money, they also provide an SMTP e-mail, so I was able to eliminate the e-mail via GoDaddy that was causing so many issues for gmail users trying to contact me. *snicker* Anyone want a d0gma.com address? lol
With both of those accomplished, and my NP goal (see below) finally achieved, I can now get back to my projects. I've been writing game guides for NP games, and the longest of them (~30k characters) is now in need of a complete overhaul. I've also got two additional guides I need to write and another NP project to do as well. While I'm working on those, I can also (finally) get back to updating my site with some of the more recent images. On my most recent excursion, I went out for the 4th of July fireworks nice and early, showing up so early that more than an hour ahead of time I had my tripod set up ... only to discover (in complete darkness) that there was a tree in the friggin way. I ended up in what I thought was a garbage location, that actually worked out well. Shooting between the trunks of two pine tree, they ended up framing my shots and I ended up with a surprisingly high number of good shots (14). Usually I'll go out and shoot 2-3 rolls and end up with 1 or 2 shots worth keeping.
On the travel front, I'll be in Dublin on 28 September for a 6 hour layover. Rick and I ("the single people" who keep going to our friends' weddings) will be meeting up in Dublin, then catching a flight to Madrid (for, no surprise, a friend's wedding), returning to Dublin on 4 October. We'll boot around for a couple of days, then head back to the States on the 7th. Yes, I plan to spend a day at each playing "tourist," so I'll have plenty of shots to post on the site when I get back. If you'll be in or around either city the dates I will be, give a shout and we'll see about meeting. The next lottery for World Cup tickets isn't until December, so it will be some time until I find out about heading to Europe in June.
Of late, I've been spending the majority of my spare time at Neopets (pronounced poh-kee-petz). If you happen to play over there, give a shout :D In addition to the games and various other things you can do there, you're able to issue a challenge (directed) to another person to play a game, and bet on who scores higher. In May, I finally stumbled across an updated version of this, which allows you to post a challenge (open) on a game for whatever amount, and anyone who happens across it can take you up on it. Let's just say I've been doing well at it lol The past 2-3 weeks, I've put on a major push in challenge play. In the rush I got sloppy and ended up with more losses than I should have, but I hit my end of July target with plenty of time to spare. Unfortunately, there's no system that allows you to view a ranking of other players' challenge ratings, and I'm sure I'm not the best, but I'm definitely up there ...
![B/P ranks 51+]()
