According to our calculations, Webado has made nearly 10,000 posts in
our group here and in the process has helped countless webmasters. To
celebrate, we're running a just-for-fun contest in her honor.
If you're up for a bit of entertaining prognostication, drop a reply
here guessing when Webado will make her 10,000th post (both date and
also time in Eastern Standard Time) and we'll see who gets closest.
Or feel to just chime in with those of us from the Google Webmaster
Help team in giving Webado a warm thank you for being such a great
member of our community.
> According to our calculations, Webado has made nearly 10,000 posts in
> our group here and in the process has helped countless webmasters. To
> celebrate, we're running a just-for-fun contest in her honor.
> If you're up for a bit of entertaining prognostication, drop a reply
> here guessing when Webado will make her 10,000th post (both date and
> also time in Eastern Standard Time) and we'll see who gets closest.
> Or feel to just chime in with those of us from the Google Webmaster
> Help team in giving Webado a warm thank you for being such a great
> member of our community.
> I quickly found that multiple people guessed the same day/time so it
> was nice to keep track on a calender (google has one of those)
> On Dec 13, 5:26 pm, Adam Lasnik wrote:
> > According to our calculations, Webado has made nearly 10,000 posts in
> > our group here and in the process has helped countless webmasters. To
> > celebrate, we're running a just-for-fun contest in her honor.
> > If you're up for a bit of entertaining prognostication, drop a reply
> > here guessing when Webado will make her 10,000th post (both date and
> > also time in Eastern Standard Time) and we'll see who gets closest.
> > Or feel to just chime in with those of us from the Google Webmaster
> > Help team in giving Webado a warm thank you for being such a great
> > member of our community.- Hide quoted text -
> > I quickly found that multiple people guessed the same day/time so it
> > was nice to keep track on a calender (google has one of those)
> > On Dec 13, 5:26 pm, Adam Lasnik wrote:
> > > According to our calculations, Webado has made nearly 10,000 posts in
> > > our group here and in the process has helped countless webmasters. To
> > > celebrate, we're running a just-for-fun contest in her honor.
> > > If you're up for a bit of entertaining prognostication, drop a reply
> > > here guessing when Webado will make her 10,000th post (both date and
> > > also time in Eastern Standard Time) and we'll see who gets closest.
> > > Or feel to just chime in with those of us from the Google Webmaster
> > > Help team in giving Webado a warm thank you for being such a great
> > > member of our community.- Hide quoted text -
Yay, 10k posts :-). Thanks for being such an active member of our
community, webado!
That's a good approach, JLH. However, don't you need to take the
holidays into consideration? Does this mean webado will have more or
less time on her hands? Hmm. What are your holiday plans, webado?
By applying my own formula [which I have now patented], I would
reasonably expect Webado to reach the 10k post mark around noon
[12.31?] on December 29th.
HOWEVER... as JohnMu pointed out, this formula does not take into
account the fact that Christmas [Damn! I do apologise to any ethnic
minorities reading this for my flagrant use of the 'C' word, which
seems to cause so much offence all round, when I should really have
said 'Holidays'**]
In any case... Given the fact that 'The Holidays' fall right into the
middle of my calculations, I've had to make certain
adjustments[assuming of course that Webado celebrates Chr - DAMN!
DAMN! DAMN! - the Holidays in the traditional way, which bring my
'official guess' to January 3rd [mid-afternoon around 3.20]
Well done Chris :-)
Cheers
Sasch
**Ok, Sorry, but I'm off on one now.
I know I shouldn't rant, but I haven't had enough coffee or nicotine
yet today, so I'm 'in a mood'.
Anyway, seeing as we're not allowed to call it Christ - oops, almost
did it again - anymore, I vote that Hanukkah henceforth be known as
'Temple Rededication Day' and that Ramadan becomes 'Not Eating Month'.
Not being familiar with Buddhist holy festivals, I have no suggestions
to offer on that score.
Isn't it about time political correctness was curbed just a little
bit?
I mean 'Snowperson'? Honestly...
Gimme two potatos and a cucumber, and I'll prove to you it's a
snowman...
Oh you are getting tricky...so you think...of course I included the
holidays in my calculations, weekends, 2 hours of sleep a night,
Canadian stuff, birthdays, new years, et. al. All I showed is the
final formula all of the modeling that went into getting to that was
the hard work. It gets complicated when you consider the time
constraints required by holiday celebration weighed against the
natural human feelings of the desire to help more people that time of
the year. I finally arrived at the conclusion that it was not
solvable by standard mathematical means and resorted to a converging
iterative process. I of course didn't have enough computing power
here at the house, so I had to set up a SETI like network of 100s of
volunteers each running the simulation. After all known scenerios
were calculated, I quickly set up a WOPR like room in the back of the
house (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WOPR)
Soon kids will be quoting Y = -9E-09x^2 + 0.0214x + 5535.6 like they
say E=mC^2 without knowing the proof or the work behind it.
> By applying my own formula [which I have now patented], I would
> reasonably expect Webado to reach the 10k post mark around noon
> [12.31?] on December 29th.
> HOWEVER... as JohnMu pointed out, this formula does not take into
> account the fact that Christmas [Damn! I do apologise to any ethnic
> minorities reading this for my flagrant use of the 'C' word, which
> seems to cause so much offence all round, when I should really have
> said 'Holidays'**]
> In any case... Given the fact that 'The Holidays' fall right into the
> middle of my calculations, I've had to make certain
> adjustments[assuming of course that Webado celebrates Chr - DAMN!
> DAMN! DAMN! - the Holidays in the traditional way, which bring my
> 'official guess' to January 3rd [mid-afternoon around 3.20]
> Well done Chris :-)
> Cheers
> Sasch
> **Ok, Sorry, but I'm off on one now.
> I know I shouldn't rant, but I haven't had enough coffee or nicotine
> yet today, so I'm 'in a mood'.
> Anyway, seeing as we're not allowed to call it Christ - oops, almost
> did it again - anymore, I vote that Hanukkah henceforth be known as
> 'Temple Rededication Day' and that Ramadan becomes 'Not Eating Month'.
> Not being familiar with Buddhist holy festivals, I have no suggestions
> to offer on that score.
> Isn't it about time political correctness was curbed just a little
> bit?
> I mean 'Snowperson'? Honestly...
> Gimme two potatos and a cucumber, and I'll prove to you it's a
> snowman...
You need to track Santa via NORAD coz Webado will submit her post
#10,000 when he crosses Anchorage coming from the north pole. Forget
all the holiday BS, that's for kids, geeks KISS. ;)
Sebastian
> Oh you are getting tricky...so you think...of course I included the
> holidays in my calculations, weekends, 2 hours of sleep a night,
> Canadian stuff, birthdays, new years, et. al. All I showed is the
> final formula all of the modeling that went into getting to that was
> the hard work. It gets complicated when you consider the time
> constraints required by holiday celebration weighed against the
> natural human feelings of the desire to help more people that time of
> the year. I finally arrived at the conclusion that it was not
> solvable by standard mathematical means and resorted to a converging
> iterative process. I of course didn't have enough computing power
> here at the house, so I had to set up a SETI like network of 100s of
> volunteers each running the simulation. After all known scenerios
> were calculated, I quickly set up a WOPR like room in the back of the
> house (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WOPR)
> Soon kids will be quoting Y = -9E-09x^2 + 0.0214x + 5535.6 like they
> say E=mC^2 without knowing the proof or the work behind it.
> > By applying my own formula [which I have now patented], I would
> > reasonably expect Webado to reach the 10k post mark around noon
> > [12.31?] on December 29th.
> > HOWEVER... as JohnMu pointed out, this formula does not take into
> > account the fact that Christmas [Damn! I do apologise to any ethnic
> > minorities reading this for my flagrant use of the 'C' word, which
> > seems to cause so much offence all round, when I should really have
> > said 'Holidays'**]
> > In any case... Given the fact that 'The Holidays' fall right into the
> > middle of my calculations, I've had to make certain
> > adjustments[assuming of course that Webado celebrates Chr - DAMN!
> > DAMN! DAMN! - the Holidays in the traditional way, which bring my
> > 'official guess' to January 3rd [mid-afternoon around 3.20]
> > Well done Chris :-)
> > Cheers
> > Sasch
> > **Ok, Sorry, but I'm off on one now.
> > I know I shouldn't rant, but I haven't had enough coffee or nicotine
> > yet today, so I'm 'in a mood'.
> > Anyway, seeing as we're not allowed to call it Christ - oops, almost
> > did it again - anymore, I vote that Hanukkah henceforth be known as
> > 'Temple Rededication Day' and that Ramadan becomes 'Not Eating Month'.
> > Not being familiar with Buddhist holy festivals, I have no suggestions
> > to offer on that score.
> > Isn't it about time political correctness was curbed just a little
> > bit?
> > I mean 'Snowperson'? Honestly...
> > Gimme two potatos and a cucumber, and I'll prove to you it's a
> > snowman...
> You need to track Santa via NORAD coz Webado will submit her post
> #10,000 when he crosses Anchorage coming from the north pole.
North Pole?
Have you not been listening to the news?
Santa's located in the mountains on the borders of Kazakstahn, because
that's the optimum location on earth to get all his deliveries out of
the way in one night, whilst taking maximum advantage of time-
differences...
It is quite obvious that your formula is fundamentally flawed, despite
your use of WOPR** and SETI-like networks, as you have plainly
neglected to take the winter solstice and the northern lights into
account where your calculations are concerned...
By using my superior intellect, an old Abacus, and with the incessant
help of a load of Persian cats and the little green gnome who lives
under my hat, I can safely state that Zero-Hour will be on January 3rd
at 3.21PM (and 34 seconds)
**I remember going to the cinema to see WarGames. How sad is that?
