Post by BSam on Nov 12, 2006 7:23:17 GMT -5
I'm not Akbar, I'm BSam, you may know me from such threads as "It's the invisable man", Threadu" and "Hey Guys!", Akbar has said that last weeks edition of the 667er would be the last one. i think he is wrong because there is a new one out now.
it's nowhere near the standards he';s maintained for however many years it has been, but i wanted to do it as a thank you sort of thing.
pj helped a lot, even if he is lazy, and george is also fantastic, i love them all.
there has been crazy happenings on the forums in recent times, ADR's DONE SOMETHING WRONG AGAIN, probably, but she's cute so it's ok.
game threads are dissapearing, no-one knows what's up with that.
there's pretty faces in thepost your picture thread and pretty words elsewhere on the forum, life is nice.
i been watching a lot of tv recently, mostly downloaded british programs, a review of one of which appears when you scroll down a little.
i also been working a lot recently, and am kinda exhausted, i'll probably fall asleep straight after posting this.
yeah it;'s kinda short, but i've assaulted most people i've seen online for an article, and the only other answer is to write more myself, but you don't really want to read all that, do you. now i know how akkybaby feels.
it's not a proper issue but i think it's good enough for a nice tribute issue, so sit up, scroll down and enjoy. BSam.
PJ’s Rant Redux
Sup? Yeah. I’m doing a Rant. Wanna fight about it?
I’ve had quite an eventful weekend. I’ve been constantly in the company of people, ever since Friday morning, all the way until Sunday evening. Two parties, and two social events. Lots of people. Including transvestite formerly called Mitch, who now is known as Sasha.
And that poor fellow who got covered in shaving cream.
So anyways. Life is good. Socially, anyways. School I have lots and lots and lots to do, but it’ll all be over soon enough. My only problem in life is that I don’t have the willpower to spend a lot of time studying or doing work.
…or so I thought. But when I realized that I had purchased all of three books in the last three months (The Lost Colony, The Beatrice Letters and The End) I began to worry. All of my munnies was gone!
To blame, of course, are mostly movie tickets. And junk food. So much junk food…And birthday presents. Tommorow is my sister’s. Day after my girlfriend’s. And-
I just realized I was being boring. salsa. Hopefully ADR didn’t read that. If so, it’s a quote from the book “Ice Station” by Matthew Reilly, page 256, word 15. And that’s legit. SO HA!
I’m really excited for the Wii. Tried to get to a tour of it so I could play it, but apparently the official wii touring website lied, and resulted in me and my comrades having wasted the $ 3.60 transport costs to get to Parramata.
I suddenly remembered the purpose of this article. It’s to magee about chemistry!
See, chemistry is a cruel, cruel joke. Some guy once thought it’d be funny to start spouting a load of stuff that at first sounds probable, but under scrutiny, doesn’t make any sense. And a bunch of poor, foolish n00bs, decided to write it down and call it chemistry and teach it in schools (note the comma that outfoxes the filter. Double HA!).
Chemistry is just like maths, see. Except slightly more complicated. In Chemistry, for instance, randomly, you can’t add everything with each other. Certain compounds, elements, just don’t work together. Or maybe they work, except only in certain combinations. So, of course, you have to memorize which elements work together. Which of course, makes things a lot harder.
Luckily, there’s an easier way to tell. Oxidation numbers! So not only do you have to memorize the actual elements, you have to also memorize their oxidation numbers.
…but, oh wait, in some cases, the oxidation numbers are different! So, you have to, of course, memorize in what cases the oxidation numbers change and in which they remain the same. And some elements don’t even have a set number, you need to have a look in a book, for those ones.
Ok, so that makes things a good deal more complicated. But wait – there’s more! That’s only adding two elements together. What about their product? 3 + 3, for instance, equals 6. But in chemistry, you can’t have just one answer. 3 + 3 also equals 4 + 2. And 5 + 1. But whereas in Mathematics, all those are equal, in chemistry, they are not. Only one of those answers is the correct one and…yeah, you guessed it, you have to memorize which.
To conclude, chemistry is just one huge, cruel joke. Seriously. Anyone who claims to understand chemistry is lying, and anyone who gets good grades in chemistry class has only received such on a whim of the teacher. Beware.
-PJ
BSnickets Magic COmputer help
Hi, i'm not actually snicket, but i know just as much about computers as he does. and magic
if you turn around now i can make your apple dissapear.
let me see what computer problems i have today
"Dear BSnicket, i'm having trouble with my computer, "
well, the answer to this is to simply use my magic to tur4n it into an apple, then you'll never have problems again.
I just need my beautiful assistant Steve Jobs.
and i say the makic iWords, and stuff...
i think you all get the idea now, snicket does computers and magic, there's not really much more humour to get out of him. thanks for tolerating this.
i love you all.
kittens.
WTF?
A column with George Dupin
“STUPID THING ADR HAS DONE” OF THE WEEK
Last week, member Linda was voted to become a new Global Moderator, a decision almost everyone was happy with. Has new admin All Due Respect changed her ways and suddenly doing a not so bad job? Of course not.
This week, after complaints that the way of selecting Linda as the G-Mod, ADR started taking in applications for a second position which would be handed out this week. Many people applied, and ADR narrowed it down to two applicants by seeing which was the longest (which she actually got wrong anyway). After people cried that this was the wrong way to choose things and that there should be more than two chosen, All Due Respect made her typical response of ‘stop whining guys!’ and a superb collection of eye-rolling smilies, and refused to change her decision.
She then decided to lower herself to threatening members by saying we’d all better vote “or else.” What could this ‘or else’ be? I suppose only time will tell, but for now, 667 is still under the power of All Due Respect, whom we can only hope (yet doubt) will improve eventually.
“NEW ADDITION TO THE FORUM” OF THE WEEK
Despite Tragedy never letting J become a member of staff, as soon as she became a moderator, she’s started trying to make new additions to the forum, and the major addition was the new “Indecent Ideas” section in Objectionable Other, where members discussed ideas they had for the future of the forum-namely new sections they wanted, and recently three of these have become a reality in the sub-boards of II. ‘J’s Idea 1’ is now a forum dedicated to Poetry. (Pathetic Poetry could be the name?). ‘J’s idea 2’ is for philosophy, a slightly uncommon board found on forums, yet a popular choice from the members of 667. And ‘J’s Idea 3’ is now a movie/book club for members where we can all read/watch a book/movie and then discuss it among ourselves. I’ll be interesting to see how much these sections are what members think of them, but for now, I think J is doing a good job at being a moderator.
THREAD OF THE WEEK
For the utter stupidity of ADR, and for reasons mentioned earlier, the thread of the week is the “FINE! Let’s do it again!” thread where ADR goes on a search for a new G-Mod.
asoue.proboards11.com/index.cgi?board=tree&action=display&thread=1162745509
POLL QUESTION OF THE WEEK
Should I –Dupin-start writing a new 667 fanfiction? PM me with either;
YES
NO
CONTINUE ONE YOU NEVER FINISHED (state the one I should finish)
Thanks for reading WTF? Hopefully I’ll be able to write an article next week.
-Dupin
TV Review - BSam
Torchwood,yay
this is a great show with Captain Jack from Dr. Who as the cheif of the torchwood thing.
it's a group of people who go around and get alien stuff and they are all sex. complete utter sex.
Gwen was a police woman but she discovered somne stuff and now she works for torchwood, 0wen is odd but he's my favorite, he's such a crazy cat.
ianto is the dark mysterious one, but he has a dark mysterious secret, the secret is that he is a dark mysterious emotional twat. he's hot tho/
then there's the asian girl, i don't know what she does but she's asian, which = hot.
wasz there anyone else? i can't reeally remember
there have been 4 episodes so far, the first one was cool, it had gwen discovering stuff, and aliens
the second one was a bit silly and stuff, but it was a bit sexy.
the third one was darkl and remembery, sopme alien technology makes people remember stuff from the past but it all goes wrong.
then the fourth one has CRAZY CYBERLADY (that's not a spoiler it was in all the trailers. this is the one where ianto becomes less mysterious and less cool but it's a great episode
that's all that's been shown so far, it's british and is probably on some BBC channel, go watch it
PJ’s Political Rant
You all know it was coming. For those of you, who, unlike ADR, have been reading my posts, it was blindingly obvious: I really don’t think ADR is a good admin. She’s a nice girl. I talked to her on AIM once. Nice girl. But she’s a really crappy admin.
I won’t go over each individual bad mistake she’s made. Mostly her decisions concerning the new staff have been catastrophical; not to insult the staff she picked, they seem pretty competent, but the way she did in fact pick them.
Her manner is what irritates me the most. It’s her manner that causes her to act in the way she does, so it is not her actions, but her manner that is the problem. She just doesn’t listen. For those of you who know me, you may have gathered that I am quite a hateful person, when it comes to fools and n00bs, (again with the outfoxing!).
And I have been quite neutral. Well, not really, but I’ve restrained myself. I’ve been quite professional, and have stated at every turn what she’s been doing wrong, without needless name-calling or catty remarks. Well, there were a few, but believe me, not as many as I would have liked.
But she just doesn’t listen. We all whine and clamour when she just makes Triangle Eyes and Amanda into mods. We want application forms, we say! So she makes a poll. Better than just picking without consulting anyone first, but still, why not just, you know, do what we wanted? So she gets all angry when we still complain, because she hasn’t done what we asked, and thinks she has.
And then I give her an awesome process, it was really well thought out, brilliant, professional, the lot. I can’t imagine a better way to recruit a staff member, I really can’t.
And she actually follows it. Except for one small thing: instead of actually allowing us to review the application forms and choosing for ourselves, she has done it for us, and given us two choices. Which, essentially, is what she did in the first place by picking Triangle Eyes and Amanda. At least we get a bit more say.
So again we whine, and again we clamor. And again ADR fails to understand that she still, STILL hasn’t done what we have asked, and has instead deviated and done her own thing, which, in general opinion, wasn’t the correct thing to do.
It was at this point that I felt rage surge through me, and felt incredibly rebellious. I really have had enough. We’ve given her time. She’s been admin for, what, three, four weeks now, right? And she’s still acting like a goddamn idiot (on a side note, I can say what I want about her, because she never reads anything I say, anyways).
So I hereby ask you ADR to step down as admin, after 667 had selected a new administrator. I’ve already made a thread about whether the people think you should stay or go…if enough people truly believe that you are incapable, then I suggest you step down. If you like 667 at all, you should act in 667’s best interests. People don’t like you, and worse, they don’t want you to be admin. You’re making bad decisions, and causing a lot of people to fight with each other, but mostly they just dislike you more with each passing day.
So please, please, please, do the right thing, act as an admin should, and use the power you have been given to select another, more capable administrator, and then step down.
Please.
-PJ
And to close the issue, here is the original tear-inducing letter Akbar posted in MMisc,
Dear 667.
I'm sorry, but I am not publishing The 667er this week. Or any other week, unless things change.
I am sick and tired of waking up to an empty inbox, even after about 4 people have promised me articles. Sick and tired of having to hound 'columnists', and irritate them until they give me some sort of half-assed excuse. Sick and tired of having to ask Derik to send me his school projects and random miscellenea to publish; having to make grab people off MSN just because I need filler. Sick and tired of getting that sinking feeling in my stomach every single Sunday morning.
I can't take it anymore.
Robert's girlfriend has apparently put the screws on him; he can't write for us anymore.
Libby and Jemmy both gave up because they felt underappreciated, which they most certainly were.
And PJ and J are just potato ing lazy.
Some people have been great. I'll never forget how committed Linda has been to this magazine; if it wasn't for her, I'd probably have stopped it 2 months ago. And BSam and Derik have always been willing to chip in what they can. So, yeah. This is it then.
Peace out,
Akbar.
we love you akbar, keep it foolish.
BSam.