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Re: Any parties planned for the odometer clicking one over?
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lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos
Date: 
Thu, 27 Jan 2000 16:13:35 GMT
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Mmmmmmmmmm, pitchers of Guinness ....

This calls for a non-weekday meeting, I daresay.

In a pitiful attempt to bring this into the realm of LEGO rather than just a
personal obsession with the black liquid gold, has anybody made any
Guinness-related LEGO projects?  Having been scrambling to make this
lugnet-relevant, I've hit upon the idea of modeling one of the old Guinness
Trucks used to transport the kegs ... maybe make it about 8880 scale?  A minifig
one would be cool too ...

*still drooling*

shaun


Todd Lehman wrote:

> In lugnet.admin.general, Eric Kingsley writes:
> > I noticed that LUGNET will be hitting a milestone very soon.  If my
> > calcultions are correct on Thursday of next week if current averages hold
> > LUGNET will receive its 100,000th post.
> 
> Hey, you're right -- good estimate! -- looks like it will indeed happen
> sometime tomorrow.
> 
> > Now I won't be sitting hitting refresh just to try
> > and get the 100,000th post but it seems like a nice milestone for LUGNET
> > and I was wondering if anything was planned?
> 
> Mmm, like pitchers of Guinness at the Bison Country BBQ?  ;-)
> 
> > We should at least pop the cork on a virtual bottle of champagne or
> > something.  Hey if its virtual champagne I will even offer to virtually
> > pay for it :-).
> > 
> > Now in the future I doubt 100,000 posts will mean to much seeing the rate
> > at which LUGNET is growing but we should at least celebrate the first
> > 100,000.
> 
> I'm surprised how quickly it's gotten this high, because I think it took RTL
> about four years to get to 100,000.
> 
> > Either way thanks Todd and congratulations on the current and future
> > success of LUGNET.
> 
> Thanks!  One other almost-coincidence BTW, if you like numbers:  earlier
> this week, the 2,000,000th logged email went out.  Since 22 Feb 1999, when
> I started logging the outgoing mail, there have been 163,590 digest messages
> plus 1,868,934 regular individual news-by-mail messages sent.  I'm not sure
> how many went out before 22 Feb 1999, but oh well, two million still feels
> like a fun milestone.  Figure about 3x that for news articles viewed via the
> web interface, plus who-knows-what for NNTP messages served (individual
> article fetches aren't logged -- only connections), and then the numbers
> really get big.  Anyway, the overall article count is nice and
> straightforward.  :-)
> 
> --Todd
> 
> p.s.  BTW, I once read a few months ago that AOL's webservers together serve
> 28,000 page views per _second_!



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  The Great Guinness Toast (was: Re: Any parties planned for the odometer clicking one over?)
 
(...) Hey!--The "Great Guinness Toast" is coming up soon! This Saturday night (2 days away!) at 11:30 pm EST, February 26: (URL) like the same day as the NELUG "TCS dry run" (URL) if people happen to be back in town by then, this could be a fun way (...) (27 years ago, 25-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, lugnet.org.us.nelug)

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(...) Hey, you're right -- good estimate! -- looks like it will indeed happen sometime tomorrow. (...) Mmm, like pitchers of Guinness at the Bison Country BBQ? ;-) (...) I'm surprised how quickly it's gotten this high, because I think it took RTL (...) (27 years ago, 27-Jan-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)

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