Where We’re At
Place: # A better world # --> TronderEnergiKraft AS
Duration: May 15th – May 20th
Badge:


Do consider eating with Chez Base Camp today
We have a choice of:
1. stefada's Cassoulet Toulousain (without duck for those who don't fancy poultry)
2. BladeD's good stuff chicken - it is chicken, isn't it?
3. little mermaid's beet root beefsteaks
- and you'll have all the beer sunfolk doesn't drink

sunfolk,

For IRC under Windows, I use IceChat.




BladeD,

Il faudrait que tu cuisines plus souvent, ça a l'air délicieux ! Je vais demander à Little Mermaid de faire des betteraves tous les jours.
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You would have to cook more often, it looks delicious! I will ask Little Mermaid to make beets every day.




little mermaid,

Vu comment sunfolk sert ses bières, je préfère ne pas prendre de risque, et en prendre dans mon bar. Servez vous si vous en voulez.



Seeing how sunfolk serves its beers, I prefer not to take a chance, and take it to my bar. Serve if you want.

I have thought about pulling the plug several times myself but then when I go to other BOINC projects most are worse than WCG. I didn't participate in the pentathlon this year because of the issues we encountered at the other projects last year. Website would fail, a slight increase in work caused the validators to backup for days, servers would fail and on and on. I guess I'm trying to say that WCG is the least "icky" of all the "icky" BOINC projects. I guess I could stop grid computing altogether but what do you do with 15 "oldish" servers? Plus I've been doing this for almost 20 years if one counts the SETI work before coming to WCG. I would probably move exclusively to TACC since it's a Texas based project but they seldom have any work.

Just read your other post. As far as badges go, they lost me long ago as once one hits 100 diamond, there isn't any other badge to work towards. So I've had to find other ways to motivate myself. Points do nothing for me as they seem so arbitrary. I have never understood the how one project gives more points than another project for the same amount of CPU time on the same machine. Now I use strictly time. I just try to advance each of the remaining projects 5 years at a time until a new project comes along. About a month or six weeks ago, TACC was offering TACC branded merchandise to the top 10 participants. I thought that was a nice gesture... I hadn't made it to the top 10 then. Hope it isn't only a one-time thing.

To get in a better mood I have released a little pre-challenge at GPT team website. No requirements for team membership for pre-challenge and all who solves the questien get the badge. :) https://globalprotectionteam.helkem.dk/

BladeD, it was chicken all right
Leffe is the beer I got with my wienerschnitzel some days ago. A blond one.
Excellent choice, stefada. I’m sure sunfolk will like it as well.
NixChix, Doneske, and Damon I can feel your disappointment.
It’s never good to feel unappreciated or taken advantage of.
I cannot understand how some researchers/scientists can be too busy for feed-back to us.
Also, I cannot understand how a simple wish of a 200 year badge cannot be moved
to the top of someone’s to-do-list …
but then again, I’m only a mermaid
Chris, thank you for doing yours to cheer us up
sunfolk, crunching for Base Camp is such a good idea. You’ll get badges and a sprinkle of TLC

Good Morning Base Campers!
Business
Where We’re At
Place: # A better world # --> TronderEnergiKraft AS
Duration: May 15th – May 20th
Badge:

Crew:
little mermaid
[GPT] Mansden
TLD
[CSF] Damon Hill
[CSF] David White
cswchan
Doneske
Stefada
NixChix
Troge
Jan 649
sunfolk
OldChap
tanner2
Left: Doneske – thank you very much for your contribution
Came: tanner2
tanner2 what a neat surprise you came just in time
– and even if you were late, you would have gotten your Norwegian badge, little brother so good is it to see you
If you out there join now, you still have the chance of earning yourself that pretty badge.

Chit-chat
Let me be silent for once