Longtime ILXors - how has this board changed over time?

Nah, Alan McGee has been ghost-written by Doomie for the past 10 years. You're an impostor.

as a pretentious teenager I named our cats Sanctus and Benedictus; my mother hated these names with a passion and called them BC (for Baby Cat) and Benny

after years of perspective, my mom OTM

Our 6th grade class voted the class guinea pig to be named "Demon Child" and it was made "Squeaky" by teacher fiat.

which one of u two used to post as icecream?

lagoon

almost posted icecream on the ilx milk carton recently, shit is hard to keep up w/

np: shirley ellis "the name game"

as a pretentious teenager I named our cats Sanctus and Benedictus

Haha wau that is literally the most pretentious thing I have ever heard.

my cats name is mittens - some ilxor

some people really get off on being bored - it makes them "wet"

xp Really I think those are pretty awesome cat names
Might've gone too far in naming your children Gloria and Angus tho

I think you are there confusing "most people" with "you", which

― Andrew Farrell, Friday, August 10, 2012 10:49 AM (12 minutes ago)

there you go, zing cru style

ILM doesn't exactly give off an enthused and excited vibe

Then you're reading the wrong threads.

after years of perspective, my mom OTM

considering this as my first tattoo

Half the reason I haven't really got the grip of twitter is because ilx has been doing the job better for me for so long. Between ilx and Facebook who needs it? I feel with twitter I'm just throwing stones down a well waiting to hear them splash.

seriously

i find ilm to be a hospitable place most of the time, but i only have the time/inclination to talk about stuff i like
why waste time talking about stuff i don't like?!

oops that was an xp

WCC/Ned: Doomie stopped being a surrogate Alan more than two years ago, when burned out by indulged-rich-person conspiracy theories/Illuminati nonsense; he's in Toronto with a decent job now.

Haha wau that is literally the most pretentious thing I have ever heard.

it gets better; the names were inspired by our high school concert choir performing John Rutter's Requiem

for reference:

http://youtu.be/rRff-exdac0
http://youtu.be/WRTLCxs12Rk

(I posted the Agnus Dei link because at the time I thought it was AMAZING)

that reminds me of how I wanted my yearbook quote to be "FATUM IUSTUM STULTORUM" because of bungie's Marathon

I think sometimes ILX can be te sounding board more than the person to person deep discussion - like no Ann LAndry or rue mclahanan is gonna come up in tihs niotch and show her waushy wuashy to t wrold

The big change in ILX for me is that I struggle to think of anything to say on it. Or indeed anywhere.

...I feel like there are some Ilx stalwarts who were whipped into shape via constant hazing, tho part of it is prob people started to feel affection toward them via having abused them so much

yeah i think that reverse stockholm syndrome is a real thing

or just strong dislike or feeing repulsion towards someone ending up creating strong connection. at least in romcoms... but they also reward stalking behavior, so

lol boring is p much the perfect go-to dismissal of anything. fn plain text message board.

ilx: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturally_occurring_retirement_community

see dumb shit like this is why I've stuck with the same (admittedly stupid) ID since I got here. the "who's who" schtick is so tiresome

― hologram sticker of Ken Griffey Jr. at Denny's (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, August 10, 2012 1:53 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

good job

lol boring is p much the perfect go-to dismissal of anything. fn plain text message board.

― judith, Friday, August 10, 2012 8:15 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

aha but u do agree it is perfect

...I feel like there are some Ilx stalwarts who were whipped into shape via constant hazing, tho part of it is prob people started to feel affection toward them via having abused them so much

i dunno that i'm in terribly good shape, but i attracted a hail of well-deserved brickbats from zing cru (among others) when i started posting here. i resented it, of course, but i think it's been helpful in the long run.

In re Nath's question about where I am: hi there!

Hurrah! Ah, I suddenly remember you visiting us (T and I) in Bruges. Going to M.I.A. Me with a pregnant belly. She's SIX now. Gosh, time flies!

Wait, the zing cru helped you refine your posting style? They _do_ have a lot to answer for.

I think ned trifle said something similar at one point

okay, that's two for the list, andrew and mh, noted

what are you making a list of?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMo_HcRBnUY

lmao

He has an enemy list thread on his secret borad

the enemy is everywhere

sometime poster/lurker collardio is in my store right now. seems like an okay guy. i think that's his name...

mr. gelatinous

"Thanks, Mister Horrible Gelatinous Blob!"

I was wondering about the "posts have got shorter" thing, because I didn't really feel that, so I did some crunching. First is numbers of posts per month, second is the average post length per month. Seems stable at around 200 characters (as defined by MySQL, includes HTML tags)

http://i1060.photobucket.com/albums/t443/stet999/60098a19.png
http://i1060.photobucket.com/albums/t443/stet999/b9b7f0e1.png

beware the first of december

Clearly we can see that there was one 600 character post in December 2011 - someone must finally have been definitely OTM about something.

myth: busted

ah, the wordy autumn of 2011

stet, it's been said time and again, but you rule.

i assume the downward spikes in frequency are outages, what's with the upward spike in length in dec '11?

zp lol u guys

zp?

zing post, as distinct from the more common xing post

Posts do look like they were noticeably longer in the first year of our existence. Which feels like it was yesterday so that is probably warping my memory.

stet, it's been said time and again, but you rule.

seriously dude. you should link a wishlist or something, you are the business imo

Dec 11 was our last outage and I posted some jumbo debugging logs to my board, which I think accounts for the average going way up. I think April/May 06 was when we were deciding what to do post-Andrew, so I suppose lots of long posts going on then.

In the first year, there were also vastly fewer posts, so fewer very short posts to bring the average down as there were in later years. Interesting that even then the average is below 600. Always been (relatively) terse, ILX.

xps blush