Not tea, father. KOHI!

And not just any coffee... FRESH PORTAL-POURED COFFEE.

GAWWWWDAYUM my first newspost had better comments than this one has so far.

But things are looking up. Thanks for stopping by, resident friendly neighborhood statwhore man!

NICE USERNAME (but then, I already told you that a couple weeks ago over at yer place, now didn't I)

Repenting sins is what Catholics do every damned mass, man. Why does it have to be Armageddon?! #;-}>

Technically, it reached 130, but if you subtract comment #38 (which I made myself) and comment #130, which I made myself, then 128 is the number of comments from non-gfoxy persons. (and minus Betty's, when the Betty account was deleted, also).

Hey, at least my music review responsecount is now "2" so "Music Review ResponseS:" is accurate. Otherwise, it'd look quite silly with a "1" next to it. #;-}>

HELL NO, WE WON'T GO.

But... you just did one. O_O 18th, 17th, whatever. This'll be open for 365 days, man. There be no rush.

Realising that if I never made a new newspost, there was never going to be a comment #36 again, or a comment #42... ;_;

So now, there can be a new #36 and #42... EVERY YEAR. Well, as long as you guys post at least 1 comment per week. #;-}>

Also, I thought to myself "what year will it be once I've posted 36 news posts" so long as NG + gfox are still both around?"... and.... well, it'll be 2042 when I hit 36 news posts on all three accounts.

FTW!

So? O_o I either live through age 37 or I don't.

Besides.... 37 isn't a black cat crossing my path. I love black kitties, anyway, and I never worry about that superstition. I'm an all-37-all-the-time-and-nothing-e lse kinda guy, when it comes to worrying about bad luck.

Now, if EXACTLY 37 black cats were hanging around me, I might start to worry. #;-}>

There's SEKRIT LEMONPARTY encoded in that portal coffee picture, LLL. If you can't see it, you don't have the proper decoder.

OMG PORTALS is correct. PORTAL FTW.

... come to think of it, I really need to redo my "top 10 games" list in my profile's faves section. I included 5 console games and 5 classic (i.e. early 90s) PC games, but TF2 and HL1/HL2 and Portal... or just "Orange Box" really needs a mention. Plus Bioshock. and... OMG. :::head explodes due to not enough room in a top 10 list for all the awesome console + PC games... need separate top 10s... STAT:::

Awesome! Glad I inspired you to find something practically useful for you. I never see things like "10 hot keys" advertised on the little placards next to every keyboard at say a Best Buy, but I guess it shouldn't be too much of a surprise that such macro-ful keyboards are still out there.

Oh wait, though. By hot key do you mean like the "pictures" button and the "documents" button, and the "media player" button? Because those are some of the buttons I was referring to when talking about how all new keyboards do seem to contain media center sections and all. And yeah, usually Microsoft or Logitech (or whoever) does let you change what those buttons do (but then you've got remember that the button with the musical note on it does "ctrl-alt-delete" #;-}>).

But I didn't know those things would let you do long strings of text, I thought it was just generally simple windows functions, launching a single application, or doing any simple keypress (i.e. any key, or any key in combo with alt/shift/ctrl).

But if you found one that does (or they all do and I'm just clueless, either way)... WTG!

Cool beans, my man.

13,432. Good number. CONGRATULATION!

76,242 saves, ladies and gentlemen. This man is the master. When he took me and ramagi down from our spots at the top of the top 50 saviours... he took up the mantle of protection with style. :::bows to Toocool:::

There's something about this girl I know, there's something about this girl.
I can't remember what her fucking name is though... I think... maybe Pearl?

THIS MAN IS THE ANTITHESIS OF TEH TOOCOOLS. IGNORE HIM!

First with the movie quoting, now with the song quoting! What IS it with this guy! Oy gevalt. </old jewish man>

I AM EXPERIENCING SEVERE DEJA VU.

Too late. And there's no way in hell I'm gonna post #37. #;-}>

If you really wanted me to have it, you shoulda coordinated when it was at 34 comments, and you coulda gotten me live, then you posted one, then me. Or somethin'.

So anyway, unless you're gonna delete a comment, IT'S TOO LATE. #;-}>

Oh, really? Cause yeah, I thought it was an intentional double-comment, I never woulda guessed it was an error. #;-}>

YOU CAN GO ANYWHERE IN THE WHOLE FREAKING WORLD IN FFX-2 RIGHT AWAY? Holy crap that is so wrong. #;-}>

I have X-2, but I never finished X, so I haven't played X-2 as a result.

Yep, I was only involved in teh X and XII convos as a result of that.

Ah, my good friend EKR. As I told someone in my RD1 (redesign year 1) newspost's comments/responses, I got 5 free stickers along with a t-shirt from Tom Fulp back when I was a mod along with all the other mods at the time, and I'm not that bit of a "sticker person," so no... still no paid-for stickers in my profile. If there was ever some "package deal" in the NG store with stickers + shit I really wanted... maybe then. But that's one stat I don't care to pad just for padding's sake. (GASP, I know) #;-}>

Thanks.

Yep. Been here for 11,000+ straight days and counting. NG sure has been amazing ever since I was born in 1977!

But you know what's strange?

I've been using NG every damned day of my life, just like you said... only I was born a few months before Tom Fulp was born... how weird is THAT, eh? O_O

No...

...thank you.

But thanks for the offer! And no worries about an error like that, dude. You didn't really need to post a third one in a row just to explain the other two, but hey... #;-}>

I AM AWARE OF THAT, AND ALL OF THE OTHER IMPLICATIONS IT ENTAILS.

My ppd has been between 3.45 and 3.75 for the past 2 years. So yes, it is 3.7 from time to time... it's bound to happen when my ppd has been stuck in such a small range for so long. You'll note it was 3.69 at the time of the redesign anniversary, however. NYAH. #;-}>

Congrats on the 29, then!

Hey, there was a brief moment when the whistles were introduced and I saw the lovely green colour of the garbage whistle... that was back in June 2003, mind... and I was envious. Then I noted the cracked appearance of said whistle, and that together with the lame status it denoted dissuaded me from wanting to have it. I was quite happy with normal for 2 days, silver for years, and then deity after the whistle system change. #;-}>

43 was good, yep. 56, eh? 56 is one of the last few ones before the "final suck level icons," I know, but 55's the one for me. Either way, good luck to us both, yes. Thanks for dropping by!

[edit: Sorry, dude... it's comment #28 now, thanks to that spam account that posted here a day before you did now being being deleted... and its comment here deleted along with it... ;_;]

Nothing you would understand, most likely. But trust me... it's far more than "just" interesting.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/36_(
number)

The above doesn't show ALL the cool things about 36, but it shows the basic cool things about it. The rest... are just things unique to me as an individual, and perhaps a few other mega-36 fans, and... again, you probably wouldn't care to know those... things... yes. But to sum them up:

6 is my favourite single digit number. 6 squared is 36. It's hip to be square (you do the math, eh?)...

Or, if you prefer, I could delete your first comment and this one would be #29.

Eh, it was #29 when you made what is now #28, and that's what matters, "in spirit." #;-}>

~250 and counting, my man. Gonna break last year's haul of 465 on CD07 (562 saves total including 2 hours into 8/16, also).

Aiming for... eh... 800 or so, would be nice.

HAPPY CLOCK DAY TO EVERY BOY AND GIRL IN THE WORLD!

Jumping? Who said anything about jumping? Maybe you refer here to PORTAL jumping thanks to all the portal coffee references? #;-}>

4 hrs? PFFFFT. I slept Thursday evening instead of sleeping Thursday night/Friday morning. SIMPLE SOLUTION.

CART IS NOT MOVING. PUUUUUSH LITTLE CART!

Because I deposited on only 90 days between 2000 and the end of 2002. It is... my greatest sin.

No idea on the whistle. I was a silver whistle from the very beginning, due to much whistling and review flagging before June 2003 (when the whistle system began)... and the whistle system had a huge change in 2005 or 2006, not sure when exactly, and so many of us high-silvers jumped to deity. Just a totally different scale now, so no idea there.

Supreme Commander? Well, it depends on how much you're going to use the portal. I had 0 saves and 0 blams at the start of 2003. I started gaining them around Jan 5th 2003. I hit 30,000/EGSC on March 4th, 2004, approximately 14 months later.

My pace was not as high as some. You could get EGSC anywhere between... say... 10 months... and 2 years... if you're a good paced NG statwhore. Or it could take forever if you don't gain many blams or saves. #;-}>

Just deposit your exp every day, that's the main thing. LEARN FROM MY MISTAKE. Keep your days deposited/days of account existence ratio as close to 100% as you can.

Mine used to be under 10%, and now it's 70%. But it's taken 5 years of work to get it up there. And it'll never be close to 100%, even when I hit the top ... eh, top 25 exp, let's say. (I should be #5 in exp right now, if I had 95%+ deposits instead of ~70%)

My ratio (from http://nglog.denvish.net/browse.p hp?id=127 <---NGlog will calculate it for you automatically every day if you want it to) is:

Deposit rate: 68.46% (this means I have deposited nearly 70% of the days possible since creating my account)

Your ratio can be found from the following two bits of info from your profile:

Sign-Up Date: 2/7/08
Exp. Points: 530 / 550

53 deposits / 191 days since you created your account = 27.75% deposit rate

Yours right now after a few months of account existence... is far better/higher than mine was on January 1st, 2003 after nearly 3 years of account existence (90 deposits / 1045 days = 8.61%). So it's not too late to fix it/increase it. Stop missing deposits, if you don't want to miss out on those golden Pimp levels. #;-}>

While I would have preferred a random Wi/Ht?er picked up #36 like happened last year (with NEVR accidentally snagging it), I noticed that my back and forth was spiraling ever closer to the mark, so I had to go ahead and snag it myself to make it... count, as it were.

BUT I KNEW THERE WAS A RISK. A HIGH RISK OF IMMEDIATE PASSAGE OF THE HOLY MARK AND CARRY OVER INTO THE UNHOLY LANDS. Fortunately, I already discovered the counterbalance to this technique LAST YEAR, and I shall employ it once again.

I type 100+ wpm. Whether the fact that I type at that speed allows me to type a lot and so I just DO...... or whether I like to type a lot, and being able to type quickly encourages that fetish...

... is a condundrum that not even I am 100% sure about. As much as I DO type a lot, it ends up wasting a ton of my time when I'm not concise on NG BBS, say (which I don't enjoy very much, and ends up causing me to stay away from long threads therein for days or weeks at a time, causing me to spend more time catching up when I finally do try to catch up there).... and wasting my own time (unless I'm in the mood for killing time) I DO NOT LIKE.

But every human has a little masochist (and sadist) inside them... and that probably has something to do with it.

But anyway, you asked me to explain the "ratio" I spoke of. And it's not exactly something you can explain fully in one sentence. After all, my prior long-ass reply to you had left you going "huh?" and if I'd just said "it's how many days you've deposited divided by how many days your account has existed," you likely would have still not gotten the point/understood its importance.

Whether you do even now... is another matter for another day. Ta!

Well, if you add RD yr 1's comments to RD yr 2's comments, it should definitely hit 256 by mid-2009.

But as for an individual news post's comments count... yeah, not likely. Still, I had more comments on this year's post in the first month of its creation (just a few days ago marked that event).... than I did in around 6 months after last year's posting.

So... eh. It's up to youse guys, of course. #;-}>

Wii News? As in you're quoting the above oil jump from the Wii News Channel, and it has a funny pic? I'll have to check it out (or not... depends on how lazy I am... I actually have been playing some Guitar Hero Aerosmith tonight, though, so once I quit it, I could check DAT OUT).

67.2% is not embarassing, man. If it is, then what's my 62.x%? (yeah, I've been on a losing streak lately + not answering every poll... been going on it maybe 1-2 times a month as of late).

CMOC surfer dudes? WTF? From the Mii contests? I stopped doing those three months ago, TBH...

YES, MAYBE, PROBABLY, MAYBE NOT, POSSIBLY, DEFINITELY, ABSOLUTELY.

SOOOO SHINY!!!

fuck?

My % is 5 points lower than yours, man. I've missed dozens of votes over the summer, but that's neither an excuse nor a reason. The votes I HAVE made.... I have done worse on than you, overall. But this is nothing new, your % has always been higher than mine. I just like to keep mine over 60%, though I really wish I could keep it over 66.6%...

LOL! TBH? You really had to look up TBH, man? Oy.... It's not even on that crazy list you found:

To. Be. Honest.

Come on, iscrulz. The 1990s are over. You should know the acronyms we all learned back then by now. It wasn't like it was during the 80s, which you have teh POP CULTURE AMNESIA from. #;-}>

WTF = What the fuck. BRB = Be right back. BBIAB = Be back in a bit. BTW = By the way. AFAIK = As far as I know. LOL = Laughing out loud. HTH = Hope this/that helps/helped. IIRC = If I recall correctly. And yes... TBH = To be honest.

Do we need to cover any more of the good ol' '90s basics? (cough)

No, I do not. I heard from my gf that you can do AIM stuffs inside Gmail, though.

I don't go on Gmail much, either, before you ask. #;-}>

The main place I am reachable for real-time chat funs, actually... is Steam:

http://steamcommunity.com/id/gfox cook

Screw poker wagering... I'll just trade you my 100 grand for that Snickers. Mmmm... Snickers.

I, too, will always take dark chocolate over milk... but I'm a super peanut AND almond fan. I love them both so much, so I could be in the mood for either at any given time.

Now, nougat/mashmallow vs. just nougat... ooo... I gotta try those. Thanks for the heads-up! #;-}>

I.... don't know? o_o :::edges away slowly:::

Thanks... I didn't specifically MEAN to not show it off to you guys... and all, but... um... yeah.... My gf had all four of her wisdom teeth out (at age 27, 28 this Saturday... a little late to be doing that) on Monday, you see.... and I've been playing nurse to her patient all week.

SUPER SWOLLEN AND PAINED GF FTL.

So... yeah. But I was thinking of swinging around. Maybe for a quick LUL levelbrag and attempted catch-up session... we'll see. WE'LL SEE.

Anywho, it's just 23 hours since I got the scythe, too, so it ain't exactly old news (YET). I'd better hurry, though... before it is.

BRIMFUL OF ASHA ON THE... FOURTY-FIVE.
WELL IT'S A BRIMFUL OF ASHA ON THE... FOURTY-FIVE.
BRIMFUL OF ASHA ON THE... FOURTY-FIVE.
WELL IT'S A BRIMFUL OF ASHA ON THE... FOURTY-FIVE.

EVERYBODY NEEDS A BOSOM FOR A PILLOW...
EVERYBODY NEEDS A BOSOM
EVERYBODY NEEDS A BOSOM FOR A PILLOW...
EVERYBODY NEEDS A BOSOM
EVERYBODY NEEDS A BOSOM FOR A PILLOW...
EVERYBODY NEEDS A BOSOM
...
MINE'S ON THE RPM

Weird is the new "cool," man.

...

Anyone wondering if I lived through Hurricane Ike.... yeah, I did. No worries, I ain't a zombie or nothin'.

My apartment's power supply wasn't so lucky, however. It started flickering Friday night around 9:30PM (about... 45 minutes after the above comment I posted that night)... kept dipping or going out for a second or two on and off for the next few hours. It bravely kept our A/C and fridge and lights on... for many hours, however.

Finally... gave up the ghost... and ceased functioning at at 1:52AM, just 15 minutes or so before the eye of the hurricane came ashore down at Galveston.

42+ hours without power and counting... if we go past 60 hours without power, I'll start to regret living through this. Sleeping in still air, no breeze through the windows, at 82 degrees Fahrenheit... was not fun last night. ;_; But the weather forecast says it'll be more like 81 during the days and 65 during the nights for the next 48 hours, so... that's tolerable.

(I'm typing this at my parents' house 40 miles west of Houston, but I'm heading back into the "dead zone" in a few minutes to pick up my gf from work at the police department downtown, and then head back to our apartment in the Medical Center)

Dunno when I'll next be able to get back on NG. See yas, folks. Wish me luck.

I'M BACK, BITCH!

144 hours without power.... OVER.

Well, for the past 20 minutes or so, at least. :::crosses fingers::: DON'T CHANGE YOUR MIND, PLEASE, POWER... PLEASE DON'T CHANGE IT. ;_;

Oh. Hi there, I didn't see you come in!

THERE YOU ARE. Dragons must be allergic to hurricane victims. WHAT TOOK YOU SO LONG, LATE-DROPPER-BY-ER? #;-}>

I noticed a few of those premature madness day flashes, as you so accurately call them, from Sunday eve, yep. A TWO DAY EVENT. I guess a lot of flash creators were jumping the gun because a Monday holiday tends to be no fun, especially on the INTERNETS. Or maybe they were all just in super-eastern time zones. EITHER WAY.

If I was going to do a hurricane-destroyed-my-internet troll, shouldn't I have done it... oh, I dunno, back the week I didn't have power? It's a little late now. #;-}>

You forget what? O_o
Fight... about... what? o_O
NDS = Nintendo DS... GTA = Grand Theft Auto... CW = .... The CW??!!? @_@

gfox's mind = blown

And is that last bit your GTA GPA? #;-}>

hah. Huzzah. And woot.

Good question. I meant to on the weekend, but I was BINGING ON STEAM GAMES due to my weeklong no-gaming-except-for-a-little-DS-
every-now-and-then-due-to-NOTABLE TORECHARGEIT-and-all powerlessness.

Mmmm... so much Team Fortress 2, BioShock, and Far Cry. SO MUCH BLOOD.

Ahem... yes... so... uh. When I get around to it? #;-}>

Give it a month or so if you don't mind. Still recovering from the meteorologic warface courtesy of Mr. Ike. No needs no more right nows. ;_;

I just lost power for 144 hours, that's all. Don't you read the last few comments before you post a comment, man? #;-}>

My point was that it was psychological warfare from Ike that I had endured, more than physical warfare (though the physical discomfort of sleeping in a hot, sticky, sweaty mess with windows open, no breeze, and one tiny little battery-powered fan (which we didn't get until after the first night, which was the worst of the 6 nights)... that's some physical warfare, too)... and since you were offering me some additional "psychological warfare" on top of that, I had to take a pass.

For now. Like I said, give me awhile, then feel free to continue. #;-}>

Coolies. I'll be around, it's weekend time and I don't have plans for both days like we did last weekend.

Thanks for the heads-up.

Thanks. Which one? :::checks:::

I am... beh.

My apartment's parking garage is being repaired, so everyone in the complex is fighting for spaces for the next 1-2 weeks.

My Astros didn't make the playoffs and the Texans just had the worst "give up a sure win" game since the Oilers dropped a playoff classic to the Bills in the early 90s (though at least the Cubs got swept out of the playoffs and the Yankees never made it in, so... baseball wise, I'm happy... and I ain't that much of an American football fan).

And finally, disc 1 of my 4 CD Planescape Torment game has a break in it (only about an inch break, but enough to make the game uninstallable on the desktop AND the laptop, and can't copy all the files over, either... most of them make it, 3 are damaged beyond repair by the crack).

On the upside (for your purposes), I started catching up yesterday, and that shall continue this afternoon in a moment.

Yeah, the garage had tons of cars in it due to people being scared of their car flooding out in the parking lot itself, and as a result of too many people with SUPER HEAVY SUVs driving all over it and parking all over it, there's a few spots in the garage now with crumbling pavement/structure. (sigh)

Steam name is gfoxcook, of course.

BTW, if you're planning to add me as a friend on Steam, better hurry up. I fluctuate between 145 and the max 150 friends, and IIRC I'm at 149 right now. HURRY! ACT NOW. #;-}>