Well unless Vbulletin screws up, this should be post number 200 for me taking me into "godhood".

First I'd like to start by thanking Duster, Annette, Martie, BC, angela,...I know I'm forgetting others, and DanielP without you guys and some of our discussions, I could have not made it this far.

I'd also like to send a big thanks to the staff of BurstNET and TrueHosting (the old owner), your lack of support and nasty e-mails have helped me to achieve my current status. Thanks Guys!!

Next I'd like to thank my wife Angela, she's stuck with me through thick and thin.

Lastly I'd like to thank....sniff....sniff....the general users of this board. I take this award knowing that I've helped or confused several of you in your quest for the perfect host.

Originally posted by MikeA
Well unless Vbulletin screws up, this should be post number 200 for me taking me into "godhood".

First I'd like to start by thanking Duster, Annette, Martie, BC, angela,...I know I'm forgetting others, and DanielP without you guys and some of our discussions, I could have not made it this far.

I'd also like to send a big thanks to the staff of BurstNET and TrueHosting (the old owner), your lack of support and nasty e-mails have helped me to achieve my current status. Thanks Guys!!

Next I'd like to thank my wife Angela, she's stuck with me through thick and thin.

Lastly I'd like to thank....sniff....sniff....the general users of this board. I take this award knowing that I've helped or confused several of you in your quest for the perfect host.



Us mere mortals will miss you! *G* ...untill we meet again when Godhood(I still want to be a goddess instead!) is given to me (Sly Grin)....Congrats for adding so much to this board!!:) I look forward to hearing more from you:)

:emlaugh:
Well, the only reason Im not listed in your directory...is because we do not offer a reseller plan..I know ya know that though..the site is looking great Mike..GOOD job!

HALE to the all mighty god MikeA. The gods in the heavens of web hosting are increasing!! Shucks!!
I am gonna have to make more sacrificies, to make the gods happy, in turn making the already poor me more poor!


sorry abt the bikering! :)

Well, Mike, welcome to Olympus ;-D (even though I renounce any knowledge of godhood). At least your acceptance speech was shorter than most at Emmy and Oscar awards.

Dana,

How interesting that a synonym for your new hosting company is so like that of such a horrid defunct company. :-) You can only be better.

I thought of a slogan that goes along with your little cyanotic friend, ":eek: our service will leave you breathless"

:wavey:

LOL @ Duster!

Welcome to Mt. Olympus, Mike.... We've got a few spare portfolios you can manage if you like... Uhmmmm... Let's see...

*rummages through file cabinet* Uhmmmm.... Messaging's taken (by Duster for Mercury)... Uhmmm... Beauty's taken (by Annette for Venus).... Chicken's taken the portfolio of the sea (underwater Chicken? sorry - no animal God, unless you want to have a sex transplant and become Ceres)... And I've taken the Sun and music (as Apollo)... Zeus has been reserved.... So what would you like to be? Cupid? Vulcan? Mars? Bacchus? :D


Anyway, welcome up - remember, you can't fall down from here! :p

I am just a Wannabe. I will miss MikeA, web authorites will be better than ever b/c it is now ran by a God. SO Have fun on Olympus. And remeber don't be like Zeus, He had relations with mortal and had a son named Hercules. Who was a bad guy.

Venus? I think you have lost your mind, BC. You obviously haven't seen any pics of me. :)

I think I'd rather be Prometheus, all things considered. Or maybe Vesta (Hestia if you're a Greek mythology buff) or Juno (Hera)...

BTW, BC, we're at this very moment watching NBC for a live tape of the opening ceremonies of the festivities Down Under. Now if we could only get them to show some of the fencing matches in addition to the more well-known or popular sports. :)

Sorry Annette, I've already seen the cam, and I think you're worthy to be Venus (unless you really don't want to be, in which case you can be Juno).

I watched the entire ceremony from start to finish last night - it was quite extraordinary. And it was an inspired choice to have ***** ******* take the torch. (in case you haven't watched the entire thing) Quite extraordinary - it's made a believer out of a cynic like me.

In fact, right at this moment, the 400m freestyle trials are going, and Ian Thorpe's taking it at half pace, for a 3:45:00 swim - 2-3 seconds ahead of the rest. He's a super-freak.

*Sniff Sniff*

I guess that makes me Hercules hu?

hehe

*sniff*

Oh well, you gods are nasty anyhow lol I'd rather be a mortal guru! lol :)

Actually, I've already been to olympics.com (nice site - ranks with the Nagano site from 98, which was also very well done), so I've already seen the final torchbearer and osme of the first results from competition.

I'm quite impressed thus far, both with the ceremonies and with the sheer beauty of the country. One of the things on the master to-do list for us is to visit Australia, among other places (a couple of clients in Malaysia, Singapore, and Argentina have volunteered to be tour guides, should we visit their countries).

The only thing I could do without is the constant over-commentary. However, the Aussie accent of some of the interviewees more than makes up for it. :)

Tee hee! I'll volunteer to be a tour guide if you like, when you *eventually* get down to Australia and happen to be around my neck of the woods....

And yes, I have to say the commentary so far has been rather disappointing. And it's worse when you're used to the accents. Greg (akashik) will know precisely who I'm talking about when I'm whinging about Garry Wilkinson and Bruce McAvaney.

Funniest line so far:

Bob Costas (during the parade of nations): "The Central African Republic is located in central Africa."

Thanks for the tip, Bob.

*lol* I know EXACTLY what you mean. We're not too good at commentary in this country. Whatever the rest of the world thinks about americans, they do know how to do TV well :) We have a bit to learn in that regard.

Speaking of americans, what it is with you guys and our accents. My fiance (an amercian) is the same and digs our backward, convict induced, slurring attempts at good speech. *chuckle*

As for that opening ceremony I have to admit I was pretty non-interested at first till I took a look at it. I was looking forward to more of those ghasty blow-up kangaroos on bicycles, or something equally as horrid, but what I saw what actually damn impressive! In fact, until John Farnham and Olivia Newton-John started up I was enjoying it a lot! Nice to see someone actually earnt their pay check.

As I type this Australia's just got it's first silver medal in the triathlon *Aussie Aussie Aussie Oi Oi Oi*

My only issue is, not having cable means I miss the 24 hr a day, 16 days of Simpsons! :)

Greg Moore
http://www.akashik.net

ROFLMAO @ Annette!

Well, duh...

Dunno about the accent thing. I've always been a bit of linguistics nut, and fascinated by accents (among other things linguistics-related). I'm also a very good mimic. Plus, it's just darned sexy, IMO - there was a student in some of my college classes from Australia...well, we'll leave her story for another time. :)

Think of how exotic it all sounds to us. Americans, as a whole, are simply not exposed to that many accents.

Just saw the delegation from Ireland - another country for great accents!


[Edited by Annette on 09-15-2000 at 10:05 PM]

I'm with you on the Irish thing. I was at an Irish bar a few weeks ago and this extremely cute bargirl was asking me if I needed another drink. Umm.. well this is going in an odd direction right from the start, so I'll just agree and shut up *lol*

Short of CNN you guys aren't exposed to the world very much are you. :) I was in seattle last year and the local news was pretty much just as far as I could drive in 20 minutes, with almost no overseas news at all. Of course there was enough news to fill that 1/2 hour so I guess that's why. Plus we had the WTO riots to watch which filled in time *chuckle*

Oh yeah, I dig U.S. accents too - as long as it's up near the border (Washington, Oregon, over to Wisconson or so). Texas and Georgia is pretty nasty though *sorry to all the southerners here*. Florida just seems to be a melting pot for them all :)

hehe, I guess we've gone a little offtopic here...

Greg Moore
http://www.akashik.net

Hey, this is general conversation - these things always drift. :)

Anyhow, as long as no one gets annoyed by constant Olympic commentary and talk about linguistics:

Best moment so far (for those of us seeing everything for the first time): Korea walking in as one group.

Funniest commercial so far: the Coke commercial where the hosting family tells the exchange student that they don't have any Coke.

Re: US and coverage of the rest of the world (what rest of the world?!?!?) - CNN does provide the bulk of what people know about other places around the globe. For those who aren't curious enough to go find out more, that's all they know. Local news stinks, no matter where I've ever been in the States. National news isn't much better. I stopped watching long ago, and stopped getting the paper for the same reason.

Accents down here in the South are quite interesting. It's much the same as the differences between territories where you are, I'd imagine - quite pronounced sometimes and very subtle at other times. North Florida (where we are) is more similar, linguistically, to southern Georgia.

Originally posted by MikeA
First I'd like to start by thanking Duster, Annette, Martie, BC, angela,...I know I'm forgetting others, and DanielP...

* Chicken bows head and settles for being one of the "others" *

After the way Annette took on TH I think she should be Athena! or even Xena! *G* And Stephanie can be The Goddess Nerd Woman!" faster than a zip drive more powerful than Win2000 Its Dat da da daaaa Nerd Woman! ROTFL!!

Not tall enough to be Xena, sorry. :)

And you may laugh, but Nerdwoman was actually going to be an ongoing comic series, with her trusty sidekick GeekGirl.


OK, so the opening ceremonies are over. Quite impressive, with some sincerely touching moments. Korea entering as one, the paralympians represented, East Timor and their independence, "Deep Sea Dreaming", Julie Anthony and a very stirring anthem...

Excellent choices on the final torchbearers, and technically speaking, a great feat on the cauldron. The shot of Cathy Freeman standing in front of the waterfall with the torch held aloft was enough to give even those who care nothing for sport chills. As always, I am hopeful that the same spirit with which these ceremonies and these Games are held will foster change elsewhere.

Enough of my ramblings on this. :)

You wanna know a funny thing? Fosters isn't even close to the most drunk beer over here. It's more famous outside Australia than locally :) Umm, unless you're in New South Wales maybe. Victorians prefer VB (Victorian Bitter of course) while up here in Queensland most people drink XXXX (pronouced Four-Ex). The rest of the states (both of them plus two territories), don't really matter to anyone so we tend not to know what they do - I hear Western Australia had a boat race about a decade or so ago and won some trophy off the Americans (the Kiwis have it now).

Oddly the occasional time I have a beer I usually prefer Fosters to anything else if I go domestic but given the choice I'll probably go for Miller Draught. Local rumour is they make XXXX from Brisbane River water, which they've *just* declared safe enough to swim in again *lol*

Greg Moore
http://www.akashik.net

Well I'll be a redneck then i dunno. But I do agree with you some southern accents are too much for me to bear. But the draw is sometimes annoying, anyone see Gone With The Wind, I never seem to get much from that movie. I like the south thats why I live in North Carolina. But some people may think I am uneducated because I do have a verypart of an accent, but not a one you may think most people have. Orgon, Washington state all have a little different accent, but to each his own on which accents turn them on. i personally like a f female with a little one, not a crude one but a hint of one. Like a little of sugar and spice and everything is nice.

Chris

Mike, I am on my way to be with the Gods, I am half wy up to the top of Mt Olympus.

This should put me to Guru not a wannabe. Gods prepare me a place among you.

how do you get from junior, to wannabe etc ... ? I wasn't aware it was by number of postings :) .. what's the number of posting needed to get out of "new member" ?

1-50 new member,51-99 wannabe,100-149 guru,150-199 evanglist,200-over God

Slight correction : 1-30 is new member, 30-100 is guru wannabe.

Greg : we're on a roll!

Annette : yeah, the ceremony was superb. If anyone recalls the sequence of the lighting, you may recall that the cauldron suddenly stopped half way up for a few minutes while it wobbled around - that was a tech glitch, and it should have risen straight to the top. I think Cathy Freeman just froze in those 3 mins or so ;)

Yeah it was a screw-up, but thankfully the only one :) I've just finished reading The Sunday Mail and it turns out some safety switch got tripped, though with the hundreds of possible problems, they didn't know what it was that set it off. :) Cathy Freeman may have been holding her breath but can you image the tech guy looking after it? Poor fellow must have gone grey the moment it stopped moving *lol*. As with most things, there's always a million little things all working together to make something look easy. (I'm sure everyone here knows that). Full marks to thay guy as he got it right pretty quick (3 minutes I think it was)

Greg Moore
http://www.akashik.net

BC?? WHERE YOU FROM?? Who cares abt tech glitches and ****? Enjoy the Show!! :D



grrrrrr.... im bored! :)

Kunal, as you might have guessed, I'm from Australia (Melbourne, to be precise).... And well, the glitch and all was noted in all papers. I'm just being picky (the cynic trying to take over me again) :D

Originally posted by Chicken
Originally posted by MikeA
First I'd like to start by thanking Duster, Annette, Martie, BC, angela,...I know I'm forgetting others, and DanielP...

* Chicken bows head and settles for being one of the "others" *

I knew that I forgot someone. Sorry Chicken. :(

Originally posted by TheComputerGuy
Well I'll be a redneck then i dunno. But I do agree with you some southern accents are too much for me to bear. But the draw is sometimes annoying, anyone see Gone With The Wind, I never seem to get much from that movie. I like the south thats why I live in North Carolina. But some people may think I am uneducated because I do have a verypart of an accent, but not a one you may think most people have. Orgon, Washington state all have a little different accent, but to each his own on which accents turn them on. i personally like a f female with a little one, not a crude one but a hint of one. Like a little of sugar and spice and everything is nice.

Chris

The southern accent cant be as bad as the Boston Accent PAAAK the CAAAAA Translation Park the Car ... *ponders how she is guilty of that accent LOL*

*lol*

well if it makes you feel any better, my issues with a lot of 'southern' accents is the same as the one I have with my own... and yeah, it's the drawl. *shudder* I think that's why I like Seattle so much. With the highest supposed consumption of coffee in the world, the don't have time to drawl *grin* - that and they destroy Starbuck's places during riots :)

BC, Melbourne huh? Had a friend of mine who won a 'mystery flight' down there for the day. To quote him it was "the most depressing looking city I ever saw." Still I also hear there's a lot of fun to be had in that town - must drop down one of these days and take a look for myself. Any place that kept voting 'Bloody Jeff' back in has to be worth a look!

After all, we've only had Pauline Hanson and three decades of Joe. *chuckle* Hmm... suddenly Melbourne looks like a good idea.

Greg Moore
http://www.akashik.net

Greg, ain't it! hehehehhee

Tell yer mate that either he was looking in the wrong places, or he was describing the bottom end of a beer glass. He probably came with his eyes closed! :D

And yes, any state voting in Jeffy consecutively must have had its head in its **** but seriously, he did a lot to restore economic order after what the Labor govts. did back in 89-91 *cough**hack* so he deserved it. Pity Bracksy stunned him and he's riding on 75% popularity (beating Jo, I believe).