On February 7th in one of the Diplomacy threads in MPSIMS I passed 4000 posts. Good enough.
I looked down today, February 13th six days later, and I’ve got 4127 posts.
Holy fuck, that’s more than 20 a day!
Then I realize that when I started my new job on November 4 I was sitting somewhere in the low 2000s.
Holy Waltzing Matilda! That’s getting towards 2000 posts in a little over 3 months.
Excuse me a minute, please…
What the fuck is wrong with me?!?!?
Have I no life? Is my job that dull?
Or have I slipped over the edge of some terrible, nameless abyss? Am I even now descending farther into madness the likes of which have claimed the others with such a high post count?
Is it permanent or is it just a stage? (I could quote Rush here but I won’t.)
I’m actually (no fooling) stunned by this development.
How the hell did this happen and why wasn’t I paying attention when it did?
You have more to say, or more time to say it, or you have a better connection, or you’re more bored at work, or something.
Me? I just have big posting bones, so my post count looks bigger than it really is. I can’t possibly have 8600+ posts. I don’t remember posting that many times…
Ruby, I worked in a job with total freedom of Internet usage. I also had about an hour of work a day, but was paid a full-time salary. That, plus I was a posting freak when I first started. Now, I’m just a freak.
My first thought was that Jonathan Chance would have to Pit himself because there’s no reason for anyone else to do so!
I’ve gone on posting sprees myself (although not of the 2000 post kind) and wondered where they came from. Of my posts, a good 500 or so came in a five month span.
Don’t worry about it, just let it be, and post more – you post good reading, Jonathan Chance!
You mean there is something called a *Life * out there?
Akin to *Bigfoot * or *Nessie *?
I refuse to believe this. Even though I have never pitted myself, I won’t believe in this *life * thing until Leonard Nimoy does a bit on it. Yet, I remain completely and totally pathetic ( in a happy dweeb way.)
I’d just like to take this opportunity to say “Gooble Gobble, Gooble Gobble,” which is partly a sly way of alluding to the homey fraternity/sorority (Can I say ‘siblingity’?) of those freaks among us who probably ought to be vaguely ashamed of the amount of SDMB posts we have amassed, and partly the sort of information-free contribution that so often exacerbates our condition.
JC posts are valued posts, though – don’t slow down, or it’ll look like the ign’rnt are catching up.
And if it makes you feel better, you can call that Nameless Abyss “Lorna.” As long as you avoid the gynecological Nietzsche_jokes.
And Michael Ellis, I suggest you think about baseball during your next thousand. Works for me.
In “real life” you can’t shut me up. No, really…I am the Goddess of Yack.
Here, OTOH, I can actually listen to everyone else and not let my mouth overload my ass. This is called a “good thing”. I doubt seriously if I will ever be a posting freak simply because I enjoy everyone else’s comments…and also because I have a huge lazy streak.
Be very glad you don’t have that lazy streak, Jonathan Chance. I, for one, am quite happy you’ve zipped past the quiet and into the storm.
And, to my recollection, your ass hasn’t been overloaded at all. Keep up the good work!
I used to have a job where I literally did maybe 15 minutes’ worth of work in an 8 hour shift. Did a lot of posting then. Now I have a job where I only work every other week. I do a lot of posting now, too.
Of course, I’m proud of the fact that I don’t have a life.
