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July 18, 2009 by Lloyd 11 Comments

Okay, here are the names of everyone who only commented once during the current reporting period.

(blank) 1
(Not Lauren’s brother) Mark 1
Amber 1
Andrea 1
andy 1
Angel Elf 1
Ann 1
another sue 1
AQuek 1
arenas 1
arrow 1
B.E.C. 1
Bacon Heather 1
Beth Terry, aka Fake Plastic Fish 1
blah 1
Bozz277 1
brilynn 1
Buesing 1
c 1
Carol 1
carolina 1
Chris 1
Cindy 1
Cindy Carnes 1
Cindy Grice 1
Clinton Kelly 1
Colleen Sullivan 1
Dad 1
Dan Davenport 1
David 1
DeadlyDad 1
debi 1
Derek 1
Dr. Electro 1
Edem 1
ella 1
em 1
Erika 1
Erikae 1
Erin Thomas 1
esau andrade 1
Fiorano430 1
funtime42 1
Ghislaine 1
gladysb2 1
God 1
Gonzalo Estevez 1
Heather 1
iLloyd 1
Jackie 1
jacob 1
james 1
James Sanders 1
Jan 1
Janet 1
Javier 1
Jaye 1
jen 1
Jenn (TinyChoices.com) 1
Jill-Beth’s friend 1
Jill-from Colorado 1
Jim Gaffigan 1
John 1
Kara 1
kelly 1
Kirsten 1
Kitty 1
Laurel 1
Lauren’s Dad & Mom 1
Lauren’s dad (who happens to be the pastor) 1
Liz 1
Lloyd’s Hair 1
Lloyd’s little brother 1
Lloyds Youngest Brother 1
Maggie 1
Marko 1
Marty Chaffee 1
Maxxon 1
MD’ Mayor 1
Megan 1
Mel 1
Melissa 1
Michelle at Scribbit 1
mike 1
Morgan 1
Neshura 1
nings 1
osobo 1
Overlord 1
Paul 1
Petulia Clark 1
Plinio 1
QoE 1
Resale Value of Lloyd’s House 1
rick 1
rungrote athajarusith 1
Scott 1
Sherri 1
shon 1
Some other Lauren 1
Someone 1
Sommerer Sailor 1
Stephen Tvedten 1
Swistle 1
Tara and Tim 1
TeevyfefDerty 1
Terry 1
ThursdayNext 1
Tim 1
TJ Liebgott 1
TKLolicon 1
tom w 1
Tomato Plants 1
Tommy D 1
tonya 1
UROSINHO 1
veron 1
Vin??cius 1
Wilma 1
zokoffecy 1

Bonus info for the number adverse: most commented on posts:

  • Simple Simon (71)
  • Tag. You’re it. (40)
  • I Need a Middle School Movie. (35)
  • Bad Friday (34)
  • Old Heat (33)

There were 3 tied at 30 each.

Finally, in a weird turn of events, three people told me yesterday that they were getting error messages when they tried to view the site. I have spoken to the site, and it has agreed to not give any more errors. However, it will also no longer give foot massages either. You win some. You lose some.

Filed Under: Lloyd Tagged With: comments, geek, Meta

This Just In From Stat Boy…

July 5, 2009 by Lloyd 55 Comments

I’ve done a couple other posts on number of comments, but it’s been over a year since the last one. Lets see where things stand now. This is not a complete total; just the posts since the last summation (which happened on February 9th, 2008)…

Lauren 938
Peggy 663
Brad 623
Beth 591
Lloyd 581
Deanne 481
Karla 397
Annette 221
Curt 193
Deborah 182
Kristi 180
kiwe 132
Lauren’s dad 96
Mark 89
Kitt 81
Michele 77
Christina 74
Cousin Sam 74
Rae 74
Lauren’s mom 63
Jill 57
Brady G. 38
Lloyd’s Mom 30
Gretchen 26
Karla/Arron 25
Stephannie 21
Arron/Karla 19
Kathi D 18
ratty 18
Heidi 17
Beth Marshall 13
Dana 13
Amy 12
Lisa Espinosa 12
Mom 12
Meredith 11
Vera 10
Ribs 9
Sambo 9
Jessica 8
Todd Peperkorn 8
Keren 6
Keren Lowell 6
Marisa 6
Charles 5
Aaron 4
Heidi Thomas 4
Kim 4
Uyek 4
Arron 3
Aunt Lolly 3
Barbara Trujillo Brown 3
beth (sam’s 2nd wife) 3
Brent 3
Gravity Gardener 3
Rachel 3
Rev. Todd Peperkorn 3
Sarah 3
us cellular guy 3
Anita Pointer 2
Barbara & Sarah 2
beth (rachel’s wife) 2
ChiaLynn 2
Cricket 2
Jennifer 2
Karen 2
Kathryn Peperkorn 2
Katxena 2
Lauren (Not Brad) 2
Magickwyrds 2
Mary 2
Mary Gerlach 2
Mokihana 2
Patrick 2
RGBuesing 2
Rolando 2
Sharly 2
Smeagol 2
Stephanie 2
Suz 2
The Crafty Cactus Lover 2
The Exterminator Beth 2
zch24- from Manila, Phils 2

For a grand total of 6435 comments (if you add to these comments the comments by people who only made one comment). Here’s a bonus chart for those of you who don’t like numbers:

This took longer to make than it should have.

Filed Under: Lloyd Tagged With: comments, geek, Meta

The Lauren Made Me Do It.

June 29, 2009 by Lloyd 19 Comments

We were watching a movie on the new monitor a few weeks ago and it was skipping frames. Lauren asked why it was doing that and I said my computer was too slow for the fantastically amazing resolution of the new monitor. She said I should get a new computer.

I actually just changed the resolution on the monitor to something a mere mortal might use, and the movie was fine, but she did say I could get a new computer.

The next day I spent about, no kidding, six hours figuring out what parts to buy. I’m pretty computer geeky, so you might think that I would be up on all that stuff, but the tightwad in me knows that if I start looking at new computer things, I’ll realize how slow mine is and want to buy something new. So I don’t ever look at computer parts unless I’m ready to buy something.

All the little boxes came in a bigger box.

Here’s what I came up with:

  • Motherboard: ASUS M4A78T-E $114 (nice enough)
  • Processor: AMD Phenom II X3 720 2.8GHz $104 (overclocked to 3.4GHz)
  • Video Card: HIS Radeon HD 4850 1GB $114 (4 times faster than my old one)
  • Case: Antec Three Hundred $28 ($54 discount on this & power supply)
  • hec Raptor500 $17 (cables are almost too short)
  • Hard Drive: Seagate Barracuda 250GB $53 (I don’t need this much space)
  • Memory: Crucial 4GB $58 (about what I was using before)
  • DVD Writer: SAMSUNG SH-S223L $28 (I needed a black one)

Total cost was $517 after shipping (which was only $10) and rebates. If you’re interested in this sort of thing you can read all of the details on the various parts. Most of the parts arrived in a few days, but I had to wait on the stupid DVD burner. I didn’t wait, I started putting it together right away.

Before

After

Ready for inspection.

The old computer would get incredibly dirty inside (this happens with all computers that sit on the floor unless your house looks like Annette’s house). We decided to raise it up a few inches to keep that from happening so quickly. Lauren thought a basket would look good. I was really pulling for turtles to support it. Since it was about 4 inches higher, the cooling system had to be re-engineered as well.

At first, I thought I would cut a hole in the bottom.

Filed Under: Cheap, Gadget, Lloyd Tagged With: computer, geek, newegg.com

Lloyd’s Gigantic Day of Fun

May 17, 2009 by Lauren 27 Comments

Well, we went looking at computer monitors at Nebraska Furniture Mart. I never thought that Lloyd could out-Mart me. I went looking at all their cool stuff while he stood in a trance in front of a bank of monitors, looking stoic. Apparently he has been thinking about this decision for quite a while, and had his choices narrowed down to six. NFM had three of those choices, so it took him two and a half hours to scrutinize their features: number of ports / does it have t.v. or not / resolution / blah blah blah blah blah. (I saw some cool toasters! Thanks for asking.)

When I’d check in on him every fifteen minutes to make sure he was breathing, he’s say, “Look at these. Which one looks better to you?”

Me: “That one. It’s red.”

Lloyd: “No. The picture on the screen.”

Me: “The pictures look identical. Get the red one.”

Lloyd: “What do you think about the dot pitch resolution?”

Me: “Ooo! Is that a toaster?”

We took a lunch break at the Burger King inside NFM, and I just have to say that it is genius for large furniture stores to take care of all your physical needs so you never have to leave. We could eat, pee and shower there. Genius.

Anyway, after lunch Lloyd asked, “Is there a clearance section here?” By that time I had already visited it three times, so I took him back there where we found a GIANT monitor that Lloyd had never added to his Original Six lineup because of it’s prohibitive price. It was marked down 65%, so he chose that one. Good thing he stared at those others for so long, right?

It is larger than our television.

Y’know, looking back on the day, I don’t think that I was supposed to shower there.

Filed Under: Gadget Tagged With: computer, day of fun, geek

Tag… You’re It.

March 25, 2009 by Lloyd 40 Comments

Lauren is feeling a bit under the weather (which is strangely cold here now), so I get to write something during the week. That means you’ll be suffering through some more geeky stuff today.

The latest version of WordPress (the software that makes this website toe the line) added tagging. So we’ve been tagging new posts since, more or less, the start of March. You might have seen the little tags at the bottom of posts, or the Tag Cloud over there in the sidebar (Jeffrey Zeldman said that Tag Clouds are the new mullets).

[wp-cumulus]

While adding them as we go has taken care of about 20 posts, there seem to be around 800 more that don’t have tags. There are programs that are suppose to read through posts and “auto-tag” them, but they say that they aren’t very good.

I thought maybe we could do a little tagging experiment. The little box in the bottom right of the post will let you enter any tag you want for that post. Just type it in and hit enter. The link below will take you to a random post. Why not hit a random post or 50 and see what you think about tagging?

Tag them in whichever way you think is best; don’t feel like you can only use the ones in the Tag Cloud, those are only the most popular. There are something like 140 different tags in use now. Oh, three requests:

  • all lowercase
  • singular
  • one word tags

As a sort of incentive, I will send the person who does the best job tagging something of Laurens that she will not notice is gone for a few weeks. May the best man win…

Get me a random post… now!

Oh, and I should point out that all of this is made possible by the folksonomy plugin written by Scott Sherrill-Mix.

Filed Under: Lloyd Tagged With: cloud, folksonomy, geek, icon, Meta, tags

Old Friendz

June 23, 2007 by Lloyd 7 Comments

I’m leaving the typo – it’s very LOLcats, don’t ya think? Anyway, this summer we have all our ducks in a row – THREE computers for the three of us. In past summers, the boys would hog them and play their video games and such, and I had no way to check the weather or my e-mail. (Really, that’s about all I do.) This year we are set up! Now if we could each just get our own pony!

Lloyd's blurry because he's so fast!

Filed Under: Journal, Lauren Tagged With: eek, geek

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