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parmesian
Senior Cruncher Joined: Nov 16, 2004 Post Count: 203 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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i started with wcg 6 years ago. i saw an article in the local newspaper (Houston Chronicle) and thought the idea of letting my idle computer time be used for something would be a good thing. I think i installed the old program on three machines that day (making me one of the top crunchers). i saw the user forums and the teams thing, but didn't really think much about it. i would check back on my results each day (slightly OCD on things like this) and I kept seeing more and more teams being formed. i'm not a big team joiner, but after a couple of weeks i decided i would throw my crunching in with my home state team. it wasn't any big deal, it just gave me something else to look at each day as my rank rose and my Texas team climbed the list of teams.
----------------------------------------over the next few weeks i started noticing that certain teams were ahead of mine and when i checked the forums, a couple of them had threads for their teams. MOT's founder (the illustrious David Autumns) was especially big on posting and trying to get people to join his little group (i think he was the first one with a separate team web site). he was joined by two of the most prolific posters around (Graham and Dave Bell) in their enthusiasm for MOT. like i said, i'm not a team joiner and his "rah, rah, yeah team" attitude was way too much for me. I kept Team Texas going strong, but my interest was waning. i kept going to the team posts and MOT was always posting. Finally in May of 2005 i made the decision to join the other big hitters in MOT. I'm not sure if it was the offer of the free Porsche or the free beer for life that got me over the edge. in the past five and a half years, i have come to see the wisdom of teams. i feel like i've gotten to know so many people over the years. several have gone their separate ways (Graham, Largethunder, Compudude, and of course, Dave Bell), and while i have never met a member of MOT in person, i consider you my friends. over the years we have had our differences (i left for a while back in 2006) but the attraction of so many wonderful people joining together for a noble purpose was too much for me. I am proud to be part of the best team on the WCG. Happy Birthday, MOT!!! In Memory of Dave Bell |
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RT
Master Cruncher USA - Texas - DFW Joined: Dec 22, 2004 Post Count: 2636 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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i started with wcg 6 years ago. i saw an article in the local newspaper (Houston Chronicle) and thought the idea of letting my idle computer time be used for something would be a good thing. I think i installed the old program on three machines that day (making me one of the top crunchers). i saw the user forums and the teams thing, but didn't really think much about it. i would check back on my results each day (slightly OCD on things like this) and I kept seeing more and more teams being formed. i'm not a big team joiner, but after a couple of weeks i decided i would throw my crunching in with my home state team. it wasn't any big deal, it just gave me something else to look at each day as my rank rose and my Texas team climbed the list of teams. over the next few weeks i started noticing that certain teams were ahead of mine and when i checked the forums, a couple of them had threads for their teams. MOT's founder (the illustrious David Autumns) was especially big on posting and trying to get people to join his little group (i think he was the first one with a separate team web site). he was joined by two of the most prolific posters around (Graham and Dave Bell) in their enthusiasm for MOT. like i said, i'm not a team joiner and his "rah, rah, yeah team" attitude was way too much for me. I kept Team Texas going strong, but my interest was waning. i kept going to the team posts and MOT was always posting. Finally in May of 2005 i made the decision to join the other big hitters in MOT. I'm not sure if it was the offer of the free Porsche or the free beer for life that got me over the edge. in the past five and a half years, i have come to see the wisdom of teams. i feel like i've gotten to know so many people over the years. several have gone their separate ways (Graham, Largethunder, Compudude, and of course, Dave Bell), and while i have never met a member of MOT in person, i consider you my friends. over the years we have had our differences (i left for a while back in 2006) but the attraction of so many wonderful people joining together for a noble purpose was too much for me. I am proud to be part of the best team on the WCG. Happy Birthday, MOT!!! I really enjoyed what you said and how you said it. I would be proud to say that I echo your thoughts, if not in detail certainly in intent. Thank You! |
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keithhenry
Ace Cruncher Senile old farts of the world ....uh.....uh..... nevermind Joined: Nov 18, 2004 Post Count: 18667 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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MyOnlineTeam Daily Statistics for 11/16 - All Members:
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Points milestones report ======================== RT reached 64,000,000 points  xroule reached 8,500,000 points Runtime milestones report ========================= RT reached 76 years of runtime Results returned milestones report ================================== pramodp returned their 1,100th result New members report ================== No new members found.  Retired members report ====================== No new retired members found. For the week as a team: Statistics Total Run Time Points Results Team Records: Results Returned: 12/19/2007 2,522 Points: 11/08/2010 747,548 Runtime: 01/25/2006 1:123:00:53:34 Good crunching folks!!!!! |
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keithhenry
Ace Cruncher Senile old farts of the world ....uh.....uh..... nevermind Joined: Nov 18, 2004 Post Count: 18667 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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MyOnlineTeam Daily Statistics for 11/16 - Active Members
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Note: Active members are those who earned points in the prior 30 days. Top Twenty active members returning points today: 01: RT - 150,134 points 02: Coingames - 62,503 points 03: judson Somerville MD - 57,858 points 04: brown chris - 37,152 points 05: parmesian - 34,479 points 06: David Autumns - 31,801 points 07: NiceMedTexMD - 29,424 points 08: xroule - 27,503 points 09: Blueprint - 20,033 points 10: keithhenry - 16,259 points 11: darth_vader - 13,904 points 12: Rene Punt - 12,462 points 13: lawrencehardin - 12,192 points 14: Vuj - 9,795 points 15: finman - 8,953 points 16: Mike OSullivan - 8,753 points 17: pramodp - 7,652 points 18: Dave Bell - 6,899 points 19: marysduby - 5,937 points 20: PohSoon - 5,752 points Total points returned today: 595,656 Active members returning points today: 44 Average points per member active today: 13,537.6364 |
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keithhenry
Ace Cruncher Senile old farts of the world ....uh.....uh..... nevermind Joined: Nov 18, 2004 Post Count: 18667 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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................................CONGRATULATIONS RT ON REACHING 64,000,000 MOT POINTS !!!................................ |
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keithhenry
Ace Cruncher Senile old farts of the world ....uh.....uh..... nevermind Joined: Nov 18, 2004 Post Count: 18667 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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..............................CONGRATULATIONS xroule ON REACHING 8,500,000 MOT POINTS !!!.............................. |
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darth_vader
Veteran Cruncher A galaxy far, far away... Joined: Jul 13, 2005 Post Count: 514 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Oh, and here's one for you Darth...... Thanks, Keith. Gotta have a beer smiley make an appearance now and then. - D |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
I truly hope you make it in your dream career. Enjoy it while you can as there's a good chance your dream career will change in time. Always keep your options open. Wise advice, Keith. I certainly do agree with doing it all while its all fresh and I'm thirsty for knowledge, then perhaps later in life if I get bitten by the bug again I could always advance to a doctorate (certainly something I'd love to do someday). It's just getting the practical experience and obtaining the right connections to find my calling career and setting myself up there. In any case, its less than 10 days to go until I've completed all the exams for my undergraduate. Am exceptionally nervous about my operating systems unit as I've lost alot of interest in the programming/systems side of IT. But I've yet to fail a unit and not about to start on my final semester! i started with wcg 6 years ago. i saw an article in the local newspaper (Houston Chronicle) and thought the idea of letting my idle computer time be used for something would be a good thing. Six years. It's amazing how time goes. Six years ago I was in my final years of high school. I joined for reasons like most of yous. This team is comprised of great people who despite living on the opposite side of the world and of a completely different generation, I've still come to enjoy talking with. Perhaps one day I'll get to tour America and will try and actually meet some of yous. But until then, I shall keep at my usual lurking routine. Happy birthday MOT and WCG |
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keithhenry
Ace Cruncher Senile old farts of the world ....uh.....uh..... nevermind Joined: Nov 18, 2004 Post Count: 18667 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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MyOnlineTeam Daily Statistics for 11/17 - All Members:
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Points milestones report ======================== judson Somerville MD reached 15,500,000 points Runtime milestones report ========================= xroule reached 30 years of runtime Results returned milestones report ================================== David Autumns returned their 7,500th result Airwolf_Liu returned their 4,000th result Mike OSullivan returned their 2,900th result New members report ================== No new members found. Retired members report ====================== No new retired members found. For the week as a team: Statistics Total Run Time Points Results Team Records: Results Returned: 12/19/2007 2,522 Points: 11/08/2010 747,548 Runtime: 01/25/2006 1:123:00:53:34 Good crunching folks!!!!! |
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keithhenry
Ace Cruncher Senile old farts of the world ....uh.....uh..... nevermind Joined: Nov 18, 2004 Post Count: 18667 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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MyOnlineTeam Daily Statistics for 11/17 - Active Members
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Note: Active members are those who earned points in the prior 30 days. Top Twenty active members returning points today: 01: RT - 140,490 points 02: judson Somerville MD - 98,183 points 03: Coingames - 61,387 points 04: NiceMedTexMD - 39,302 points 05: xroule - 32,969 points 06: brown chris - 31,925 points 07: David Autumns - 31,060 points 08: parmesian - 30,121 points 09: Blueprint - 25,389 points 10: Vuj - 17,299 points 11: darth_vader - 16,613 points 12: keithhenry - 13,489 points 13: Mike OSullivan - 13,244 points 14: Rene Punt - 11,610 points 15: marysduby - 11,395 points 16: lawrencehardin - 9,977 points 17: finman - 8,694 points 18: Dave Bell - 5,841 points 19: Esteban69 - 5,648 points 20: PohSoon - 4,111 points Total points returned today: 640,402 Active members returning points today: 40 Average points per member active today: 16,010.05 |
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