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[The JoJo]

We've got almost 300 users (296), but not too many new ones seem to be posting. I've been watching with eager the slow growth in users here, we better get prepared for the big party when we reach 300 ;)

Bartender, you better fill the stocks and see to it that Tea is prepared to help out .

(Why party at 300 you ask? Why not? It's a nice round number...Although 8 is an even nicer number, just think about the curves and slopes and....... 8) )

[Bartender]

I think we're stocked up with plenty of food and drink for all three hundred people, if they decide to party with us. I wish Tea would help out more, but ever since her little vacation and the start of her new diet, she just hazn't been the same. She spendz most of the day playing gopher for Tannin, and the other half taking naps, mumbling 'bananaz, bananaz'. Poor girl, my heart goez out to her.

[Buck]

Uh . . . Bartender. You don't have a heart, you're a sock puppet.

[Bartender]

Thanks, now you've really depressed me.

[Buck]

Get over it and get back to work before I put you back in the drawer with the other socks.

[The JoJo]

Have a drink on me bartender, it'll help. Better yet, let me mix some Stroh for you, that'll give you a nice, warm, sleepy feeling ;)

[Bartender]

Thanks JoJo, but I'm not supposed to drink on the job. Plus you have to clear it with 'opened-another-can-of sit-down-Buck'. He should be put to work, and help out with some of the heavy duty work. It would do his lazy butt some good.

[Buck]

That's it, back in the drawer you go.

[Bartender]

(Don't worry JoJo, I know a back door to the drawer. Me and the lonely sock that lost its mate in the dryer figured this out a couple of weeks ago.) :wink:

[The JoJo]

No it has happened:

Our users have posted a total of 52187 articles
We have 300 registered users
The newest registered user is knightinight

Welcome everyone!

[The JoJo]

Argh, lets try that again:

NOW it has happened.

[Mercutio]

Everyone be sure to say hi to BooST. He's one of my students, and has been a regular lurker here for a while.

[EdwardK]

Hello BooST. Good to see you posting at last here :wink:

Cheers.
Edward

[The JoJo]

Hi BooST!

Welcome!

[Bartender]

Welcome BooST. Drinks on the house for BooBoo!

[sechs]

Don't we already have a welcome-newcomers thread?

[Buck]

Don't we already have a welcome-newcomers thread?

We have several of them.

[sechs]

Ahh, but which one is the *real* one. None of this Jimmy Bond schtick.

[Buck]

Indeed, which one is not the sock puppet?

[Mercutio]

There was an influx of non-posting users from SR which got a thread, our regular stream of Russian Porno Spammers who sort-of got a thread, and now there's someone new who has actually posted something.

BooST was asking me questions about benchmarking his RAID (3ware 8500-based RAID5) array yesterday that I didn't have good answers to. Hopefully he'll get around to actually asking them here, since benchmarking in general isn't something I'm terribly interested in, and the topic would be swallowed alive at SR.

Slightly off topic, but of some interest: Where's jtr been lately?