MAy 12,2005 10:52 am central
Users online
17 Guests, 5 Users
Jimmy Cason, Pox_Eclipse, chrisbrowning, rwalter, Daddymem
Will our popularity spoil us?
Only time will tell...
(http://countryplans.com/images/great-to-be-popular.jpg)
Today we passed 500 members and we're getting close to 5,000 posts. That's when the search feature starts to become really useful.
I talked to a friend a couple days ago, who I'm going to build a building for. He was really impressed with the information on this site and gave someone else the URL for it. :)
Why won't the search function allow periods? I can't search "1.5 story" because of the decimal.
Jared
I'm not sure why you had a problem - I just tried it and got 15 posting replies. Glenn
Now it'll take the decimal but I get this:
The requested number of results is higher then the maximum number allowed by the system.
Maximun Search Results Allowed = 15
I'm getting irritated
Jared
Try it again - see if it works now.
QuoteMAy 12,2005 10:52 am central
Users online
17 Guests, 5 Users
Jimmy Cason, Pox_Eclipse, chrisbrowning, rwalter, Daddymem
Remember the good old days?
Look at what we have now..... As of Saturday Jan.14th 2006
Most Users ever online was 35 on Yesterday at 7:58am
Most Members ever online was 13 on Jan 12th, 2006, 6:30pm
Most Guests ever online was 29 on Jan 12th, 2006, 5:56pm
I've been watching that, Jimmy--- they seem to keep coming in spite of us. :-/
Note that we reached 800 members today too, and a great bunch they are. :)
Yes, amazing. Still no one who seems bent on pissing everyone off. Seems almost Unamerican doesn't it? 800 members and not at least one jerk!?? :-?
QuoteYes, amazing. Still no one who seems bent on pissing everyone off. Seems almost Unamerican doesn't it? 800 members and not at least one jerk!?? :-?
I can fill that role if you need me too. ;D :D j/k I'd rather not. I like how everyone here gets along. I've only found two boards where so many people get along so well. This one and a motorcycle board.
Most Users ever online was 41 on Feb 12th, 2006, 4:48pm
Most Members ever online was 13 on Jan 12th, 2006, 6:30pm
Most Guests ever online was 40 on Feb 12th, 2006, 4:48pm
The 12th of the month seems to be the day to be on country plans web site.
What is the difference between users, members,and guests?
Are users members that have not logged in?
Users include members and guests. Guests can include members who have not logged in or non-members. High amounts of guests and members don't seem to occur often at the same time, so user high can occur at a different time.
Hey, I just put the 10,000 post in the general section.
Wow, Amanda! :o 8-) For some reason it makes me think of the Greek "alpha & omega..."
"A"manda posted the 10,000th post & "Z"imZum was the 1000th member to sign up... don't know if there is any meaning to that... :-/ ;)
durned if I know! It may be just because 1,000 follows 999 (and 10,000 follows 9,999).
Why, it's:
"Design -Build Forum "A" to "Z";
Thousands and thousands served"
With apologies to Micky D's.
[smiley=vrolijk_26.gif]
Lots of web spiders here indexing us lately. Probably going to get busier.
I'm not sure the spiders can actually read and link to the forum topics. I would love it if they could but I'm not sure YABB can do that. (It would also make searching easier!)
As a second topic... Let me know if you like (or at least can tolerate) the Google ads I added to the forum today. I notice that the ads will adjust to the topic of discussion. One question on water softeners had information in the ads on water softeners, supplies, etc. That might actually be helpful sometimes! (and it does help the site, of course).
Maybe Google can read the topics :D - it may be smarter than I think. (I think, therefore I Google :))
Sometimes the google ads are really funny in context.
The treehugger bit about the bicycle powered washing machine kind of buffaloed them--so we got a link so we could learn about how Colorado has soooo much oil.
Not a really funny one, though. Those come when we are asked to go to eBay for Kantian philosophy.
By the way, Google advertisers are kind of a weird bunch. Caveat Emptor. Buyer beware.
Amanda:
Doesn't that same advice hold for the Internet in general?
Probably including the advice we all spout off with here! :D
As for the Google ads, most of us will soon ingore them... However, I found this neat little tutorial on pole buildings from a Google Ad link this evening. Quite valuable.
http://www.easybuildings.com/features.html
I'm not sure why the spiders are here - Inktomi - AOL MPC? lots of them swoop in on us per IP addresses.
You do find us on Google searches quite often.
The Google adds are no problem for me ---they must be able to read it if they can apply relevant adds.
Not from a spider search but check us out - mention in LA times--
http://www.latimes.com/classified/realestate/printedition/la-re-smaus30nov302003,0,5283273.story?coll=la-class-realestate
Well, I'll be danged! That was a pretty nice write up. :D
Glenn: How are you watching the spiders crawl our site? I don't think I know how to do that.
Quotemention in LA times--
http://www.latimes.com/classified/realestate/printedition/la-re-smaus30nov302003,0,5283273.story?coll=la-class-realestate
Is Robert Smaus a member here? If not, I think should we invite him to post progress pictures of his place as he builds.
Robert Smaus can be reached at rsmaus@earthlink.net.
We are almost Famous!
I cant wait for one of those DIY Channels to do a piece on Johns Designs, They could tour a project or two each week built by our members!
Jimmy... maybe you could host a showing of your house on the "Country Style" show that airs on HGTV. I watch that most mornings hoping for a great cottage/cabin showing to get ideas from and I'll be darned if they don't take me to a New York apartment trying to be what they call country or a backyard in Miami. I've seen much more appealing interiors on this site!
Checking for spies and Black Choppers --- I run the IP addresses as a batch on a program called IPnetinfo available here--
http://www.nirsoft.net/
Highlight all the guests IP addresses on your main page with admin function on-- copy them including comma's -- just the whole block of numbers -- then paste them into IPnetinfo and submit -- it will run the addresses on all of them at once. Usually groups of them - 6 to 10 appear at once and remain here for quite a while --- or maybe they are government spies------- ;D
Report data example tonight.
1 66.196.91.30 Succeed USA - California INKTOMI-BLK-3 Inktomi Corporation 66.196.64.0 66.196.127.255 Yes Inktomi Corporation 701 First Ave, Sunnyvale netblockadmin@yahoo-inc.com +1-408-349-3300 cdt4002.inktomisearch.com
2 66.196.91.40 Succeed USA - California INKTOMI-BLK-3 Inktomi Corporation 66.196.64.0 66.196.127.255 Yes Inktomi Corporation 701 First Ave, Sunnyvale netblockadmin@yahoo-inc.com +1-408-349-3300 cdt4012.inktomisearch.com
3 66.196.91.29 Succeed USA - California INKTOMI-BLK-3 Inktomi Corporation 66.196.64.0 66.196.127.255 Yes Inktomi Corporation 701 First Ave, Sunnyvale netblockadmin@yahoo-inc.com +1-408-349-3300 cdt4001.inktomisearch.com
5 66.196.91.31 Succeed USA - California INKTOMI-BLK-3 Inktomi Corporation 66.196.64.0 66.196.127.255 Yes Inktomi Corporation 701 First Ave, Sunnyvale netblockadmin@yahoo-inc.com +1-408-349-3300 cdt4003.inktomisearch.com
6 66.196.91.32 Succeed USA - California INKTOMI-BLK-3 Inktomi Corporation 66.196.64.0 66.196.127.255 Yes Inktomi Corporation 701 First Ave, Sunnyvale netblockadmin@yahoo-inc.com +1-408-349-3300 cdt4004.inktomisearch.com
7 66.196.91.57 Succeed USA - California INKTOMI-BLK-3 Inktomi Corporation 66.196.64.0 66.196.127.255 Yes Inktomi Corporation 701 First Ave, Sunnyvale netblockadmin@yahoo-inc.com +1-408-349-3300 cdt4029.inktomisearch.com
8 66.196.91.35 Succeed USA - California INKTOMI-BLK-3 Inktomi Corporation 66.196.64.0 66.196.127.255 Yes Inktomi Corporation 701 First Ave, Sunnyvale netblockadmin@yahoo-inc.com +1-408-349-3300 cdt4007.inktomisearch.com
11 66.196.91.50 Succeed USA - California INKTOMI-BLK-3 Inktomi Corporation 66.196.64.0 66.196.127.255 Yes Inktomi Corporation 701 First Ave, Sunnyvale netblockadmin@yahoo-inc.com +1-408-349-3300 cdt4022.inktomisearch.com
13 66.196.91.39 Succeed USA - California INKTOMI-BLK-3 Inktomi Corporation 66.196.64.0 66.196.127.255 Yes Inktomi Corporation 701 First Ave, Sunnyvale netblockadmin@yahoo-inc.com +1-408-349-3300 cdt4011.inktomisearch.com
10 66.249.72.34 Succeed USA - California GOOGLE Google Inc. 66.249.64.0 66.249.95.255 Yes Google Inc. 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View arin-contact@google.com +1-650-318-0200 crawl-66-249-72-34.googlebot.com
12 65.214.45.100 Succeed USA - Virginia UUNET65 UUNET Technologies, Inc. 65.192.0.0 65.223.255.255 Yes UUNET Technologies, Inc. 22001 Loudoun County Parkway, Ashburn swipper@mci.com +1-800-900-0241 crawler100.ask.com
9 24.18.215.231 Succeed USA - New Jersey WASHINGTON-9 Comcast Cable Communications, Inc. 24.16.0.0 24.19.255.255 Yes Comcast Cable Communications, Inc. 3 Executive Campus, 5th Floor, Cherry Hill CNIPEO-Ip-registration@cable.comcast.com +1-856-317-7272 c-24-18-215-231.hsd1.wa.comcast.net
4 195.177.196.72 Succeed Poland EURONET-BIALYSTOK-PL Euronet 195.177.196.0 195.177.197.255 Yes Norbert Saniewski Euronet, 15-666 Bialystok, ul. Powstancow1, Poland norbert@euro-net.pl +48 502 773395 lesna3-8-0-127.euro-net.pl
Thanks Glenn - most interesting. Glad you know how to do this kind of stuff... :D
Slowly learning -- I used to do them one at a time -- way too slow then found IPNetinfo. -
Actually I just think it is interesting sometimes to see where in the world our guests are coming from, but then when we get our spammers I know who to complain to and who and where to block.
We get reviews.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/customer-reviews/B00006DN46/ref=cm_cr_dp_2_1/104-8124265-9167149?%5Fencoding=UTF8&s=theweb
amazing.
I thought about trying to post something negative just to interrupt the flow.
Couldn't.
I think many of those reviews came from, what was it, Alexea. They were doing website reviews and I mentioned it in the old forum and several folks wrote a review for them. Looks like Amazon has picked up on this. The full link is below and feel free to write a review yourself!
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00006DN46/103-1860589-7751011?v=glance
(Since August 1997 - seems lke just yesterday! :D)
Just made 1700 members
26015 Posts within 2571 Topics
8 members on
38 guests
8 Members
and 52 guest right now.
Remember back in 2005 when I thought 17 guests and 5 users seemed like a lot of people?
QuoteMAy 12,2005 10:52 am central
Users online
17 Guests, 5 Users
Jimmy Cason, Pox_Eclipse, chrisbrowning, rwalter, Daddymem
You must be doing something right....... Do you feel the love?
Most Users ever online was 190 on Jun 30th, 2007, 9:54am
Most Members ever online was 17 on May 1st, 2007, 6:29pm
Most Guests ever online was 189 on Jun 30th, 2007, 9:54am
I feel it Jimmy but could you please post the hippy group hug instead of the big shiny guys? ;D
Made 2000 yesterday -
We gain a few - lose a few -- but all are valuable members, and even if we don't make it back, we are better for what we have learned and shared with others. :)
Most Users ever online was 217 on Aug 2nd, 2007, 9:28am
We continue to build unstoppable momentum... The only question is, "where are we going?" :-?
PS - Here's an updated link to the Amazon Reviews page (http://www.amazon.com/CountryPlans-com/dp/customer-reviews/B00006DN46) for Countryplans customers and forum members to post reviews.
Do we need a direction besides teaching people to do something they previously thought they could not do on their own -- or at least had questions about it. :-?
I hope you don't decide to do a "mission" statement -- they are so full of it, they drive me nuts. ;D
I enjoyed the 200sf contest. Maybe having some more of those contest.
I agree SB. We had a great turnout for that one.
What kind of a contest could be interesting?
• A one story house under 600sf
• The best 1000sf family home
• The house that maximizes these three factors:
...inexpensive and quick to get up.
...expandable and adaptable to different uses
...same building system can be sized up and down
Hmmm?
Up to 600 sq. ft. (outside measurements like the tax assessor does)
one story
no loft
no basement
porch areas not counted
:-/ :-/
Maybe a something a little bigger like 600 sf would be fun, but a 1,000 sf would be fun too. ;D I can sit for hours and hours looking and creating floor plans, it's like crack to me.
So you enjoy Fred's picture too, eh, Stink? ::)
Glenn I am a woman with issues, I am opinionated and yet subject to change my mind at any moment. It's my curse.
Since I have been about 8 years old I have been drawing out floor plans. I do not know why I am slightly taken with space manipulation, balance and flow. Whenever we pack our truck to go off and play or to work, Hog always thinks we have way to much stuff and it wont fit. For what ever reason I can look at a load of all our stuff and mentally pack it. I can visually see that it will fit and it does.
Fred, fred, fred, what does his avatar look like?
(https://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g166/jraabe/moon.jpg)
Fred
Sorry Stink. :-[
You mentioned that you have issues. Don't we all -- as soon as you mentioned that design was like crack to you all I could think of was Fred. :(
For some reason while you look at the car and try to pack it mentally, I always look at things upside down and backwards. Therefore your mention of crack became.....Fred. :-?
My 7 year old suffers from Fred :'(, its cute now but when he get older it will be awful! ;D
I have always seen my floor plans as art. :D
...and that it is. :)
Hey Stink, I used to draw floor plans all the time while sitting in class - don't remember when I started, probably about the same age as you - what does that say about us?
I can also fit an exceptionally large amount in my cars - I've put large pieces of furniture in my SUV & gone to Costco & bought a cartful of stuff - no one ever believes I can fit it all in. And my Dodge Stealth - just a hatchback - I've fit an incredible amount of stuff in that too -in fact, I can always pack the shopping cart much better than the people at the check stand can... :-/ I'm soooo talented... ::) ;D
And Fred... that's another issue :D
So there you have it -- two highly talented and ever changeable female members here on Countryplans. Hopefully John will get that new contest going so they can display their talents for us all to enjoy.
...and PEG suffers from Fred too. He doesn't have the problem himself. He just actually suffers from viewing Fred. :-[ ;D
I think we were separated at birth Sassy. ;)
I can also go into rooms and tell you the size. When we bought the house we were in I got about 95% (room size) correct.and the other 5% out by a few inches. When hog fells trees if he can get it to fall right(in the direction we desire) I can tell you where the top will end up. This and cooking are the only two gifts I have, and I think the floor plans I do better then the cooking.
Not true, Stink. You are also a heavy equipment operator-- and an occasional miss doesn't change that. :)
Glenn
I guess it will be OK once you are used to it. Got this today thought you might like it.
New Element Found
Heaviest Element Yet Known To Science
Seems that this new element exists practically everywhere, but because
it is inert, no one recognized it until the major research institution
was given a mega-dollar government grant to determine why everything
slowed down around governmental bodies.
The recent hurricanes and gasoline issues are proof of the existence of
a new chemical element. A major research institution has recently
announced the discovery of the heaviest element yet known to science.
The new element has been named 'Governmentium.'
Governmentium(Gv) has one neutron, 25 assistant neutrons, 88 deputy
neutrons, and 198 assistant deputy neutrons, giving it an atomic mass
of 312. These 312 particles are held together by forces called morons,
which are surrounded by vast quantities of lepton-like particles called
peons.
Since Governmentium has no electrons, it is inert. However, it can be
detected, because it impedes every reaction with which it comes into
contact.
A minute amount of Governmentium can cause a reaction that would
normally take less than a second, to take over four days to complete.
Governmentium has a normal half-life of 4 years; it does not decay, but
instead undergoes a reorganization in which a portion of the assistant
neutrons and deputy neutrons exchange places.
In fact, Governmentium's mass will actually increase over time, since
each reorganization will cause more morons to become neutrons forming
isodopes. This characteristic of moron promotion leads some scientists to
believe that Governmentium is formed whenever morons reach a critical
concentration. This hypothetical quantity is referred to as critical
morass.
When catalyzed with money, Governmentium becomes Administratium, an
element which radiates just as much energy as Governmentium since it
has half as many peons but twice as many morons.
Want to race through your inbox even faster? Try the full version of Windows Live Hotmail. (It's free, too.)
© 2007 Microsoft Privacy Legal
Very true...
..but you really don't want to get me started do you? ??? ::) ;D
Just thought it was fitting for a day like this.