Countdown to Bad Post-Doc

[wackywizjr]

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What are sporks?

[rleyland]

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What are sporks?

A combination of a spoon and fork, popular for picnics.


At the rate he's going ToSeek could do it over the weekend. Will he become "Bad Professor"?


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[wackywizjr]

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What are sporks?

A combination of a spoon and fork, popular for picnics.


At the rate he's going ToSeek could do it over the weekend. Will he become "Bad Professor"?


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#-o

I still say tomorrow 8)

[ToSeek]

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What are sporks?

Sounds like an insult to me. "You pointy spork, you!"

[wackywizjr]

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What are sporks?

Sounds like an insult to me. "You pointy spork, you!"

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

[Humphrey]

The Spork is the king of silverware. All the usefullness of the fork and spoon with none of the elegance or class.

I await for the Spork to become the silver covered wedding present of the future.

Damn, oh well looks like i wont win this one. Back to the world domination for me.

[Normandy6644]

I believe ToSeek should start a thread for HUb'. HUb' is getting close to kilopi. 8)

The BA is closer.

One more post!!

[Humphrey]

Congraqts BA on getting Kilopi. Now will you switch posters or go past? :-P

[Candy]

ToSeek or not ToSeek. Could today be the day? :D

[Swift]

ToSeek or not ToSeek. Could today be the day? :D
I would think if not today, then first half of tomorrow. Let's all hide and when he hits 10,000 jump out and yell SURPRISE!. #-o

[ToSeek]

ToSeek or not ToSeek. Could today be the day? :D

Could be. :D

[Normandy6644]

How often have you done 50 posts in a day?

[Candy]

ToSeek or not ToSeek. Could today be the day? :D

Could be. :D He's alive!

[ToSeek]

How often have you done 50 posts in a day?

Most of last week, at least.

Oh, and

9951.

[Candy]

How often have you done 50 posts in a day? I bet he answers ONCE. :lol:

[edit to admit I was wrong] :D

[Doe, John]

He's at 9990 and holding, I think there's gonna be a big build up for the final 10 (or would it be 11?) posts. The suspense is killing me :x

[ToSeek]

Some people need to get a life. :P

[Candy]

Hey, I woke up in time to see the big event. 8)

[ToSeek]

Hey, I woke up in time to see the big event. 8)

Maybe. Did you know that '9' is my lucky number? :P

[Grand Vizier]

Hey, I woke up in time to see the big event. 8)

Maybe. Did you know that '9' is my lucky number? :P

Why does the Search now list 10000 posts, while your counter to the left reads 9998?

[edited: Yeah it's flipped over on the Search value of 10,000 - congratulations on your Post-Doc!]

[Doe, John]

Oh no :o It's started 8-[ The apocalypse aieee :P

[Candy]

Hey, I woke up in time to see the big event. 8)

Maybe. Did you know that '9' is my lucky number? :P I won't be happy, until you have 10001 posts. Now, I leave in a little over 1 hour. Make momma happy.

[Fram]

Congratulations! But you're "only" at 9999 now? Apparently your grade doesn't fall back when you delete posts?

[A Thousand Pardons]

Congratulations! But you're "only" at 9999 now? Apparently your grade doesn't fall back when you delete posts?
Contrary to popular opinion (http://www.badastronomy.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?p=342327#342327), he's been a PostDoc for a long time now (OK, a short time (http://www.badastronomy.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?p=169855&highlight=postdoc#169855)) but regardless he's more of a PostDog. Congrats, ToSeek.

[PhantomWolf]

Congrats on the 10,000 ToSeek. (Well when you add you post back. ;))

Hopefully the board won't break. ;)

[Glom]

ALL HANDS! BRACE FOR SONIC BOOM! AAAAHHHH!!!!

[A Thousand Pardons]

(Well when you add you post back. ;))
If ToSeek deleted a post, I'll eat my hat. :)

[kucharek]

I really start to think ToSeek is afraid of the doping test he has to do when breaking the 10000 posts barrier...

Hey, ToSeek: Coward! Coward! Coward!

:D :P :D :P 8) 8)

[Glom]

It would be funny if BA picked this moment to delete the Word Association Game thread. That's about a hundred ToSeek posts lost. Although that's not much for him to make up.

[Fram]

Congratulations! But you're "only" at 9999 now? Apparently your grade doesn't fall back when you delete posts?

Contrary to popular opinion, he's been a PostDoc for a long time now (OK, a short time) but regardless he's more of a PostDog. Congrats, ToSeek.

:oops: I was lead astray by the topic 'Countdown to PostDoc'. When I saw he was a postdoc, I assumed he had rounded Cape Fear. With 9999 posts, he then needed to have backtracked and deleted some post (like I believe milli360 did?). But of course he simply stopped at 9999 and is now enjoying our state of suspended animation (PANIC!). Oh well, I'm over halfway my first milestone (100 posts) and have had my first new sig (every 50 posts), so I'm getting there...

Francis

[Candy]

ToSeek! Wake up! :P

[wackywizjr]

Hey, ToSeek’s search count is now at 10001 :D and his post count is still 9999 :o . does this mean he wont get any credit for any more posts? He will be stuck at 9999 forever? He won't get the title "William Woeful Anus"?

[A Thousand Pardons]

Hey, ToSeek’s search count is now at 10001 :D and his post count is still 9999 :o . does this mean he wont get any credit for any more posts? He will be stuck at 9999 forever? He won't get the title "William Woeful Anus"?
As Grand Vizier noted (http://www.badastronomy.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?p=342327#342327), the discrepancy in the counts happened before he reached 9999.

I'm not sure how it works, but I know for a fact that there are other posters with similar discrepancies. Of course, none of them are anywhere near 9999. :)

[Candy]

HE'S HERE!

[ToSeek]

10,001

I don't know what I can add to what I said before (http://www.badastronomy.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?p=216872#216872), so I'll just say:

Thanks, BA.

Thanks, everyone.

[Normandy6644]

Well done ToSeek. =D>

And way to be so nonchalant. :wink:

[Candy]

=D>

[Swift]

=D>
Congrats ToSeek. As my sig author wrote "Where you lead, I will follow".


Now someone tell wackywizjr to get out of his shelter. :D

[wackywizjr]

=D> Congrats, its a momentous occasion. =D>

[Humphrey]

Damn i lost.....

Thats it no more nice world dominatior. Im using blueberrie pies instead of creame! stains for everyone!!!! :evil:



:-P Seriuously, congrats man. :-)

[ToSeek]

(Well when you add you post back. ;))
If ToSeek deleted a post, I'll eat my hat. :)

I have deleted posts, but only shortly after I've added them. Either I decide I didn't want to say that after all, or I find that I've been ToSeeked.

[Swift]

What better honor is it that ToSeek now has his name as a word, as in ToSeeked. Now we have to just convince Websters and the Oxford English dictionary to add it.

[R.A.F.]

DARN!! At 6AM PST this morning, ToSeek was at 9999 posts...I just got back from running errands, and now his post count is at 10024!! (or so).....

I missed the whole thing!!! :lol:

[ToSeek]

At least it's all recorded for posterity....

[A Thousand Pardons]

But unretrievable. :(

[ToSeek]

But unretrievable. :(

Hey, you're the time-traveler!

[A Thousand Pardons]

That was me then. He don't know nothing yet.

Has anybody looked at the phpBB code to see why this sticks? Maybe it's never come up before on any other installation (you could be a real pioneer!). Might be a simple fix.

[Candy]

That was me then. He don't know nothing yet. I have to tell you, that I love all your senses of humor. 8)

[A Thousand Pardons]

I forgot! I TIVOed it:

9999 Posted: Mon Oct 04, 2004 8:59 pm Subject: P10K by ToSeek (edited) Surprise-No Disaster (http://www.badastronomy.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?p=342336&highlight=#342336)



Buggers, I must go to bed (2:27 AM here :cry:). Could you please ask ToSeek to hold off until I get to work tomorrow (appr, 9:00 UTC)? Please? I wouldn't want the end of the world to happen while I'm sleeping!

I'll see what I can do. :P
](*,) So....how.....was....your.....dinner? :P

Dinner was good but now I need to take a nap. :P

10000 Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2004 9:56 am Subject: Scientific American calls "BA" site one of 5 best! (http://www.badastronomy.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?p=342629&highlight=#342629)
Congrats again, Phil!

100001 Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2004 9:58 am Subject: Countdown to Bad Post-Doc 10,001 (http://www.badastronomy.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?p=342631&highlight=#342631)
10,001

I don't know what I can add to what I said before (http://www.badastronomy.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?p=216872#216872), so I'll just say:

Thanks, BA.

Thanks, everyone.

[ToSeek]

And people say I need to get a life.... ;)

[A Thousand Pardons]

And people say I need to get a life.... ;)
software is my life :)

and it'll be the death of me.

The phpBB software allows simple time-restricted retrievals, so the ToSeek bug doesn't kick in if you restrict the search to the past week. It also allows you to restrict your retrieval to a particular forum, and have the results sorted by topic title--which gives us your Glom Number (http://www.badastronomy.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?p=342525#342525) -- 437. But that's not even close to the record--which, I think, is sitting at 1640 right now, out of 14957 posts. I already have twice as many as kilopi and milli360 combined.

[ToSeek]

You can also do this:

http://www.badastronomy.com/phpBB/search.php?search_author=ToSeek&start=25

But it requires editing the URL by hand.

[ToSeek]

But that's not even close to the record--which, I think, is sitting at 1640 right now, out of 14957 posts.

And who (http://www.badastronomy.com/phpBB/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=3869) could that be? :P

[Candy]

HUb' (http://www.badastronomy.com/phpBB/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=40) could hit Kilopi in a week's time. 8-[

[Normandy6644]

HUb' (http://www.badastronomy.com/phpBB/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=40) could hit Kilopi in a week's time. 8-[

It depends on how much he posts. He's been close for a long time now, but seems to disappear for awhile every now and then.

[ToSeek]

HUb' (http://www.badastronomy.com/phpBB/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=40) could hit Kilopi in a week's time. 8-[

I think it will be the end of the world.

[Candy]

HUb' (http://www.badastronomy.com/phpBB/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=40) could hit Kilopi in a week's time. 8-[

It depends on how much he posts. He's been close for a long time now, but seems to disappear for awhile every now and then.
He's been having trouble logging onto the BABB. He is getting that same error message others, myself included, have been getting.

[Candy]

HUb' (http://www.badastronomy.com/phpBB/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=40) could hit Kilopi in a week's time. 8-[

I think it will be the end of the world.

Hey there, sweet talker. http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/1/1_4_98.gif

[Swift]

HUb' (http://www.badastronomy.com/phpBB/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=40) could hit Kilopi in a week's time. 8-[

I think it will be the end of the world.

Hey there, sweet talker. http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/1/1_4_98.gif
It might be the end of the world, but we won't be able to comprehend that it is. :D (hubbish is still beyond my little brain)
And Candy, don't be so catty. :lol:

[Candy]

And Candy, don't be so catty. :lol:

Purrrrrrrr!

HUb'ie is getting closer! (http://www.badastronomy.com/phpBB/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=40) 8)

[mickal555]

start his own kilopie thread......

[ToSeek]

Bpd * 3

[Vaelroth]

Arr, post cound +1!

And you all have no life if you're determining where "doctorites" and "masters" are in terms of posts. ;)

[Swift]

Did we ever determine at what quanitity of ToSeek posts the information density gets high enough to create a blackhole? ;)
Congrats ToSeek, can't wait for 100k.

[Jeff Root]

I don't know what "BPD * 3" means, but I see that ToSeek
currently has a post count of exactly 15,000. You'll have
to abstain from posting for a week so we all have time to
appreciate and savor it.

Oh, okay, as soon as I click the button I realize "BPD" means
"Bad PostDoc".

-- Jeff, in Minneapolis

[Van Rijn]

Shucks, and I was happy when I hit BPD/2. It was a week or two before I noticed I had passed 2000, but 2500 was more noticeable, somehow.

[mickal555]

Heh, congradualtions Toseek!