Thumbs for making "worth while"

No more thumbs up from me.

Sorry, but I have a chip on my shoulder.

Must be a fragment from my C6 vertebrae.

a bit of a cryass, weren't you?

How you healing up?

at least i didn't make a blog out of my injury for attention and pity (don't mess with me...i got even more bitter since my injury/painkiller withdrawls )

Okay. I'm back at the office now. My neck is hurting, but they said it could for up to 12 months. Can't come to KY for the event since I used up all my vacation/sick leave while in the hospital.

I am currently fathoming pulling a deal on the banks, consolidating all of my home debt into one note, then short selling the house and leaving the new note holder with nothing to show.

I am really sick of things, and I don't care if my credit goes in the crapper for whatever reason. I can stay at my job another year, rent a local non-sold spec home for half the money, be closer to work, and can move whenever i want.

My credit will rebound in 12 months because I'll have an extra $9k a year in the bank and will turn around things bought on cards in 1-3 months and show payment ability.

I am just really down still owning the house, but that's because I saw a job I would like to have gotten with a city government in NC and can't because I can't sell the house in no time flat.

Oh well, that's life...I guess.

"sorry, my back hurts to much" (next friday as you are halfway to KY)....



Then again, I at least am sharing the ride, so that will lower expenses and share the driving.

Still only working part-time, so saving where I can is a must.

Leaving Thursday after work and heading back Sunday. While I am not bouncing as much as GG (NO ONE is), this is still going to be cool. A shame you, Mae, and Jessie can't make it. Imagine if we could have also pulled in Jaqui? oh my.... Kentucky would never be the same!

I'd probably end up tucked in a corner with Sonja, GG, and Shellbot drinking in half-lighted accommodations.

I'm not a big social beast...not at least til after the 5th or 6th margarita.

Yeah, I can't make it. No paid leave now. I borrowed $1ks to pay medical expense (btw...out of pocket insurance maximums? crock of $hit...almost paid double mine since April).

but hey...I have two new shiny titanium rods in my neck now...I can set off metal detectors now without my gun or knife!!!!!

what the resale value of titanium is.....

Make sure to leave THAT in your will!

Is that a word you guys use?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7941646.stm

Titanium is worth around 20USD/lb so, unless you're carrying around more than a kilo or so...

I ALWAYS give Soni the worthwhile mark.

So just consider this a part of public awareness. If more people are aware of the check box, more will select it?

(starting with me, of course..... )

but i've resolved more than a few problems since i decided to start helpin and i'm still the lonely "one"

finally got 2

Used to be much worse when it was "Tech points" instead of thumbs up, because newbees didn't realize they GOT points for awarding points. Used to be about 75% of all questions went unrated.

the M$ forums do that??? I seem to remember one of the sites I am a member of I get a point for marking things... maybe it is the ASP.NET forum... hmmm... either way that and $5 will get you a latte at Starbucks. The points don't seem to be good for much.

And Member Spotlights.

JD here is after people who don't normally vote for TROL-OV not the regulars who do.

Col

That counting, it's a huge responsibility!

Yep you are correct Davette your counting and maths is a very difficult thing to try to follow.

Regular habit I got into whilst the audio and video is downloading....

habit I got into ages ago!



GG

Peeked, dincha?

(boing!)

nt

You see an ad?

Between using FF3 and Adblock, I don't see it.

When they started throwing all the video ads on normal pages, it was bad enough. When they started ads that made sound on their own, I had to kill them.

One Thumb, coming up!

And easy. Thumbalina hore

is greatly under rated!

I have to open Opera to even get the video. Which means I have to sit through the damn ad. FF with noscript and AdBlock Plus blocks everything. Including the video.

and you can put in exceptions, ya know. I have noscripts AND adblock on this system and they vid runs just fine.

Doesn't kill me to pop up Opera once a week.

there were just to many pages that it didn't display correctly, so i would have to switch over to FF anyways....

And only on my desktop, where I've configured noscript and AdBlock to block everything I can figure out how to block. Get tired of all the crap that comes with this 'Internet' thing.

But, somehow, I feel unclean. It was not earned.



But I suppose that it makes up for the number of ungrateful scrotes that I have helped in the past without acknowledgement.



Hmm, I an slightly ambivalent, here...

after all, 68 just doesn't have the same ring to it.....

Might be I've actually *earned* one...

but now that you are at 69, I can't bring myself to give you another one!

handing out that 69th thumb, don't you? Never mind the sex of the recipient.

no, seriously.

No Text.

GG

I did it Friday, and on another system today -- only cause of the plea and begging.

fire up a couple of old Systems and logon to add a couple more. 23 at the moment, I'll head for the shed.

I guess JD only gets 2 from me

so I tried to log on with my other account to mark it as Worthwhile and it redirects to the Jacky Howe account. The people name search isn't working either.

Clearing Cookies doesn't reset it?? It's profile specific on the site, and not the local system. Interesting..

that has never been connected to TR and was able to logon to my second account. I went back to another System and deleted everything from IE and was able to connect. I think that the save the automatic logon was interfering. I could only give one Worthwhile for a Thumb though. I did manage to get it to 24.

than profile.

I did it from home on 1 machine and at work on 1 machine. I tried a second system at work and it wouldnt let me. I am now trying a second from home, through a vpn (different IP).

Nope! interesting -- I think it may be profile specific now. More interesting, my other account (shows as that account logged in) cannot either???
Hmmm -- this requires some fiddling when I have more time

it HAS to be looking at your IP.

I did twice from home and once from work.

using the vpn I get a totally different IP than being plugged in at work.

So it cant be from IP, as I opened IE and logged in as the other account, and was able to add #32.

What a twisted set of results I am seeing from here.

I have no pride, and will plead and beg for what I want if that is what it takes!

When I originally Marked TROL Useful I gave it 2 Thumbs because the first one didn't appear to do anything but when I clicked the second time when the page redrew the count had gone up by 2.

Then after the weekly clean of the system when I looked Monday I was prompted to vote again so at the moment I think you'll find that there are issues on the site that are causing some problems.

Though now the count is up to 28.

Col

Your presence will be sorely missed at the big shindig. You and JD play off each other so well that I figure only half of you is going to be there...

The Top or Bottom?

Or the Left or Right?

But Boxy Half a JD and Half a Scummy will not make an entire person in anyones book.

it just sounds a bit painful.

Hmmm, can my head be cut off and put on Benders body? That may be interesting though. Just think of the troubles I could escape

he wanted to give some head to Bender?

like he said he wants to give his head to Bender!

else this will be in vain anyway

which one? link?

I was setting your expectations through the roof.

I think he got over 100 on the password crack one, that keeps popping back up every few months.

http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/window-on-windows/?p=639

yep, quite a bit over 100

looks like dill betwiler is going to remain the worth while thumb king.....

One thing I am waiting to see is, when I started marking them this morning there were 29. I clicked it 7 more times and it is only reading 32? WTF?! How long does it take to catch up? Will it catch up?

so I think they have been trying to program in to keep people from gaming the system like this.

I know it was easy on the zdnet site, as I gave myself at least 10 thumbs up for my "day in the life of a laid tech"...

Maybe you get one vote per IP address?

If that be the case it's rigged. We only have maybe 2 IP's out. What if there are 100 TR members here. Do we only get one vote? Are my other 7 votes hanging chads?

What am I doing wrong?

TR is getting at you now.

Earlier today TROL was showing 37 Votes/Thumbs and now it's showing 34. I think that the PTB @ TR are in the process of getting at you.

perhaps when I wake up tomorrow it will be down to 8.

Col

why hasnt your count been dropped to 333 yet???

That it's just to hard so the PTB at TR have left things alone so that the Number can increase to 667 which they have today.

But just for you look here



Notice the high Visibility URL?

Col

possibly two, from campus tomorrow.

should have thought of that first!

Because I've run some cleaners since posting previously I've Voted once again just to keep you happy.

Col

even if Diver Down was my least favorite Van Halen LP.

1984 -- or van hagar

had some good tunes on it. Girl gone back and drop dead legs rock.

VanHager doesn't count for anything but lining up for the pop music awards.

sweeeeeeet.....

For some reason I was thinking you could only vote if you were logged in. I just vote 5 more times

I feel like I'm from Chicago or something

It still only says 29 even when I votes from a different computer...

that sometimes it takes a few to update the count.

I may go up and walk the floor later. I could probably add another dozen or so. I didn't want to have to log in each time though.

just making sure each system has network connectivity......

you didn't even have to be dead to do it.....


My boys laugh because of the desktop of my system at home.

"When Democrats vote, the dead walk the earth" and it has the cover from dawn of the dead with the zombies saying "Oh-bah-ma".....

a thumb..

eh????

i've still not had enough coffee...what am I doing here?

Getting used to being a Granny Shelly.

Isn't that Obvious?

just need coffee

that is a total granny line -- one of the classics that I didnt post.

Yuppers, your age is showin through. Dont forget to put your teeth in before work

Ok Col, that is it. We have GOT to start a contest for the best granny nick name for shell now!

you don't wanna find out what happens when you cross that line......

Just trying to be helpful, luv! REallY!




seriously, the name you start with is the name you get STUCK with. Do you really wanna be Nana Shelly? :0

But if my Nephews are any thing to go by they will shorten that to just Nana. So Shelly will be from now on known as Nana.

Col

we are going to have to get this decided before next week!

Actually, if we resolve it this week, she will have forgotten all about it by next week so I will be safesafesafe!

nah,
shellynana
grannykins
oldERshelly
granbot

GRANBOT

her logon reflects that name from now on

Tammy! Can you please make sure of this?

How much will it cost to have you "moderate" shells logo to read "GranBot"?

I have diiiieeeettttt cooooooooke!

Ok, it seems some are torn between GRANNYbot and granbot.

Do I have to start another thumb orgy to resolve this?

Hey, Maybe Soni will setup a poll for us!

I had that exact same thought yesterday.


That is before Scummy sucked it out of my head for his own evil purposes.

I dont suck like that -- I drain it instead

I dont suck like that -- I drain it instead

how do you suck then?????

is grass next week!

how long does it take for username to get updated..i changed it..but its not updated yet?

I squirt instead

ok..i'm going home..

scummy..i..i..i just don't know..

Ha ha, Scummy "drains" it....

AND has a DIFFERENT way that he "sucks"?

oh the humanity.....

We definitely brought him to his knees with these snappy comebacks.


Wait thats where this all started......Umm well you all know what I meant. you did didn't you?? Right?

We know, we know.

just more graphically stating what was previously stated

It's changed now to Dieing Worn Out Old GranBot.

Is that what you really wanted?

Col

What did I tell ya about spamming? Every week I warn about spamming.. and do you listen? No... so what did that get you???? Well you ended up in my spam folder - good thing for you I got hungry - or you'd still be stuck in there! Geeeeeee... now pass the grey poupon will ya!

-Tammy

Did Tamminkins just say that she Ate JD?

before or after the grey poupon spread???

NICE

I refuse to answer on the grounds that I may Incriminate myself.

Col

into the belief that anybody else believes that you are nice. Go on now -- the more you state it, the more you believe

Next you can work on the notion that you are trustworthy too

even covered in caviar wouldn't get me to eat them

-Tammy

What if I was to coat the Green Eggs & Spam in Deep Fried Diet Coke?

But to be perfectly honest it is SWMBO that wants me to be Nice I have always been trustworthy even if I did steal a customers pen this mourning, when I went around there to tell her that I had to reload her system. When I got back to base I found one of her pens in my pocket.

Not really sure how it got there either because I don't remember writing anything down while I was there. But no matter I'll just slip it back in with her Books and then probably forget to give them back.

Col

it is almost time for you to leave, isn't it?

Question, flying east to get here vs flying west, do you gain a day one way and lose one the other?

eh, kinda..leave my house on 25th at 9am, and will arrive KY at 7pm..so don't gain, but i get back a few hours i guess..

on way back, ya, i lose..leave sunday afternoon and arrive monday morning..so feels like losing a day

You used to be able to do it on the concorde.

Flights from NYC/Boston/Newark take about 6 hours to get to Dublin...about 7 to London.

Since it's 4 time zones, you can't make up hours.

In conventional airplanes, the only way to do that is crossing the international date line.

Heading the wrong way, If you fly to AU you loose a Day as you leave on a Monday and arrive on a Wednesday if you leave at the wrong time.
Similerally if you leave AU on a Monday you arrive on Sunday when you hit the US.

The International Date Line is West of the US not east but I would love to see Boxy's & Shelly's description of this.

But I don't know if my brain could follow the logic of those two.

Col

There is no transcript of the person presenting the Video. Sonja told a lie last week when she claimed to have prerecorded the TROLOV for the 12-6-09 or as the Yanks say 6-12-09.

Someone else did the bulk of the Video with Sonja only doing the Intro and finish. You'll have to wait to see who did the remainder of the Video.

Col

close... oh so close.....

You have an opportunity in this thread to put him over. I also found an old question thread of mine he responded to. Hmmm...

when he got that "other" account to 666 and Sonja put a bounty on his head.

I went back a year and found one, linked to it, and told them to start the bidding!

I can't bring myself to be the one to do it, though, just like I can't give Neil any more thumbs so he can still get 69.....

I may retire this account to.

Look every one I'm a real person now I have 666 Thumbs.

That is 333 Thumb-less people running around the world.

Actually JD I don't really care any more and I notice that this account didn't take all that long to get this number.

Col

thumb wh0re with a bright blue beard....

Made my day, sweetz!

thanks!


GG

the transcript is a fake.

due to WebSense. I keep meaning to watch at home, but I was able to listen to the audio. I did mark the audio worthwhile, tho.

One thing I actually like about the WebSense, it blocks the ads. I miss that at home.

I have the same problem with the videos also because of websense.

Still gave it a mark worthwhile

I use FF with Adblock on my laptop and I get zero ads.

I wasn't even aware they had an ad play before the trolov.

on my home system I also run scriptblock, and just put in an exception to allow the trolov.

As this is not the first time I have given thumbs out. Did it with my last recipe request question.

I think they have programmed in an "ignore JD" module....

HOOR!

But then... we can't all be prefect.

And yes, I gave it a worthwhile too.

Granbot is already in effect, your vote does not count

I still did my civic duty.

nt

it was just not what you wanted to hear. That goes for all remarks that I make to everyone. I am NEVER mean, I always try to help, be it outta this life, off this board, outta the conversation, or whatever else -- it is all just trying to be helpful!

I guess I am just misunderstood

...thou dost protest too much!

But we love you anyway.

Don't encourage Scummy if we ignore him perhaps he will go away just like W2K did.

Telling him that you love him just has the opposite effect and makes him return way too often.

Right at the moment we are trying to Clean Up TR and Scummy is the number one cause of complaints.

Col

There is more than one way to "smother" someone.

You have your way - I have mine!

get your wish
then again, maybe I like coming here just to bug the cr@p outta you

Now where is that fly swatter?

a bug

Ok, I'll need to remember this for a future assault

Bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.... Splat!!!

Did you tell JD about the 200 + Helpful Marks to one of the most recent one of Bill Detwiler's Blogs? The one about removing Hidden Drivers from Vista and XP.

I'm betting that you enjoyed telling JD about that right?

Edited to add No I haven't misunderstood you at all you Scummy One.

Col

but didnt feel like looking for it, so I decided to downplay it a bit, and set his goal lower to crush him later.

another example of you NOT being mean?

I suppose you could be crushing him NOW.

a lesson in reality

besides, HAL brought it up, not me, so HAL is at fault (and he states he is nice)

But Hal hasn't posted here.

I believe that he is scared of JD and doesn't post anymore.

Col

Was really looking foreword to your attendance.

Add to that hearing GG talk about Danger Mouse and the glow would have been priceless!

What would be priceless is witnessing the glow first hand when GG gets to talking.

Now we need to think of something else that will keep GranBot distracted. Maybe if I drop a bunch of glitter, having something shiny will keep her busy for a while......

post on shiny and distractions -- that was hilarious.

Just tell the Old Dear that Mae has misplaced her favorite Shovel and she'll spend the entire time there looking for it. This is just practice for her running around after all the Grand Kids looking for what they dropped and can not find now.

She may even get her Walking Frame up to 1 mile per hour in her search. So you'll need to warn the others to keep a watch out to prevent getting run over by a Blind, out of Control GranBot.

Col

selling plasma, huh?

Not gametes.............

cant let JD be the one with the most T-Ups for a Trolov