The Wally Banner

Lets see, in the beginning, we have an overwelming upswell of suport for a tribute to our dear friend Wally. Techie graciously donates her own time as a PROFESSIONAL WEB DESIGNER to make a banner. She does this gratis. Woolfie comes in and states that he is having trouble with the MB, and thinks the banner may be at fault. He does this in the wrong forum, but hey, he’s new. What we don’t see is Wolfie making any reply to the suggestions offered, but he has apologised and that’s fine. What I take umbrage to is all those who feel the need to pick at the slightest thing, particularly when the scab is barely forming over the wound. So to all those negative posters, trolls and sock people out there I say:

Get a real fucking life, preferably far, far away from here. You sit hunched in the basement, both brain cells furiously rubbing together as you try to impress us all with your wit and chutzpa.“My name shall be legion” you state, and parade before us not a herd of pigs, but of inane sock puppets. Despertly you search the kiddie porn archives bookmarked on your computer, searching for an ID that will convince us of your masculinity, might and enormous genetalia. Of this last, you may be suprised to learn, I am utterly convinced, not because of your nome de net, but because of the content of your posts. I am sure that your penis is large enough for you to pleasure yourself in unconventional ways. The pity is that it is clear that rather than oraly gratifing yourself like any sane auto-eroticiser, you obviously went the extra mile. I can see you busily chiseling a hole in your forehead in order to engage in self-squicking, and as a result your brain is now all gummed up and the neurons don’t fire right anymore. The fact that the sour smell impregnateing your bedsheets now eminates from your forehead should have been your first clue. Get yourself a bottlebrush and clean all the rotten jizz out of your brain. Don’t forget your hypothalamus! Next, hose off the sheets until you can bend them enough to fit in the washer, throw out all the pizza boxes and empty Dorito bags, take yourself a shower( use soap for a change), and move out of your mom’s basement, she needs the space to store all the crack her “boyfriends” give her. Find a nice apartment, walk outside, marvel at that bright light in the sky(it’s called the SUN), and walk to the nearest bus stop. When you see the next bus aproaching, stand, streach, smile at the people around you, and throw your sorry ass under the wheels. It will save the rest of us the trouble of hunting you down.

:wally:

Dear techchick-

I love your banner, and it has not affected the performance of my computer IN ANY WAY. It is a beautiful and fitting tribute to your dear friend Wally, and I for one appreciate the time and effort it took to do it.

I also loved the SDMB men’s pages, and was looking forward to the woman’s pages. I like to be able to put names to faces. You did an amusing and impressive job on the men, and I am sure your women’s page would have been just as good.

Once you calm down, would you please consider not making the rest of us pay for the few? Some people will always find something to gripe about, and if they can’t find it they will make something up. It is an unfortunate fact of some human’s natures.

Shayna, I love you dearly and I am sorry you even saw this thread. Everyone loved Wally, even people like me who didn’t have the priviledge of knowing him very long. I will assume that the people complaining about the banner did not realize how much hurt it would cause, but please just quit reading it. You have been through enough this week. And this thread is NOT representative of 99.9% of the board. Trust me.

Cheri

Geez, I have a 14.4 modem and I’m not having any problems with the Wally banner loading (or at least, not any problems that I don’t get with other animated graphics).

I haven’t said yet, but I really appreciate it, techchick.

Count my voice, too, TechChick! I might not have a 14.4 modem, but I wouldn’t be surprised to see my computer appear as a prop in the next Flintstones movie. I have experienced no problems with the banner and greatly appreciate the tribute to WallyM7.

I haven’t got the time to personally visit those who would rather bitch about such a generous gesture than appreciate the sentiment (so I can beat them senseless), but if any of you track them down, just mail them to me and I’ll take care of them as they arrive. Please include return postage. Extra condideration will be given to bodies arriving in still-breathing condition and/or including stain-remover (my carpets are ratty, but bloodstains would be a bit much).

~~Baloo

Using AOL and no problems here. The banner looks great and I am sad that it isn’t a permanent fixture.

Handy - You’re an ass.

Weirddave:

Now that had a great beat, and boy, could I dance to it. Best flame I’ve seen in months.

I give it a 9.2–Jesus Christ, if we ever meet IRL, remind me to wear my asbestos longjohns.

I guess the thing that ticks me off the most about this is that it’s EXTREMELY tactless to complain about something like that so soon after the man died. I mean, whether you knew him or not, have some common sense man! I mean, if your problem only happens when you have a bunch of window open close some of the fucking windows!. Trust me, it’s not that hard. It’s just a click away. Keep practicing, and maybe one day you’ll join be able the rest of us in “Opposable Thumb Club”. Ya mook.
Wow, that felt great. I might like it here in the pit.

FUCKING EVIL KEY BOARD YOU DIE!!!
Oh, yeeeeaaaaahhhhhhhhh…

OMG weirddave, that was fucking priceless!!! :smiley:

Jumping Jesus on a pogostick people, what the fuck is your problem? You instantly jumped on one part of the OP and ignored the rest of it, namely,

at the beginning and

at the end. And then you fucking jump all over him as though he were trolling! He wasn’t being insensitive to Wally or Wally’s friends and family, he was just wondering what was wrong with the .gif. As for myself, I can see where he’s coming from, because on a 500 MHz Pentium 3 with 128 MB of memory and barely any windows open, the animation slows down the computer, when other .gif animations and banner ads of larger size do not - it is a reasonable supposition that something’s wrong with the file.

As a permalurker, I’ve always gotten a kick out of Wally’s posts, and I’m sad to see him go. I feel sympathy for his family and those others who were close to him. I also recognize that he made great contributions to the atmosphere, knowledge, and lingo of this board and that a memorial, such as a banner, is a good and appropriate idea. But suggesting that maybe it should have been checked better, or that it should have been unanimated (the “In Memorial” in the upper right and the dates in the lower right) is not trolling, or otherwise baiting or showing disrespect for the dead. It’s a legitimate concern and I think all that jumped on wolfie should be ashamed of themselves for venting their grief on him in such a fucking childish manner.

And since this is the pit, anyone who wants to suggest that I’m a sockpuppet despite the lengthy existence of my board name and my lengthier time lurking can go fuck themselves.

Guess I’m not a pit virgin anymore…

I’ll take you on Mr. Micro Putz. Get some fucking glasses, learn to read, or just stay a damn lurker, k?

Since Veb said it best, I’ll just quote her…

Got it now, Einstein?

The nicey-nice shit was just to candy-coat the fact that he was BITCHING about the memorial banner. He did it in an inappropriate forum and he didn’t take any of the advice or suggestions offered, just came back and threw it all back in everyone’s face when they’d been kind enough to try to assist in the first place. You can dress up a pig and call it a dog but it’s still a fucking pig. This post was an insult dressed up with pretty compliments, not a sincere request for help or he would have tried the advice and come back and reported the results and said thank you.

Putz!

Now go felch yourself and stay the fuck away from me.

Oh, and dave, I bow to you Oh King of Flames. I am not worthy to share the same thread with you.

Scotti - luv ya, girlfriend. But I’m ok here. I’ve actually enjoyed doing what Wally would have done had he been here to roast these bastards. I kindof feel like he’d be proud of me right now. :slight_smile:

I miss and love you, Wally!

On a whim I decided to try it with my little 233MMX, with 64 MB of RAM, 8MB video card…cream of the crop in 1997.

Keep in mind that machine is not built for todays internet experience!

Going back on memory, it didn’t matter what page I was loading it was slow. Yes it is slower than my 600 Pent III with 128 MB RAM and 32 MB graphic card…but it certainly was not painful nor was it slowing down the machine to a degree that I couldn’t do other things while those pages were open. This is exactly what I would expect from that machine.

I was in chat with 4 SD windows up, mIRC and another website. It did fine except when I would transfer windows. This I suspect is do to the video card RAM combined with my motherboard.

Hey, if you have a slow computer you expect things to be slow. If you have a Toyota Corolla, you can’t expect it to get the speed of a Ferrari nor handle like one either.

If you have the Ferrari computer (which I don’t have, I have a Land Rover – it does the job and is a work horse but I don’t expect miracles out of it on the highway) and you notice that big of a difference then your browser/computer needs a tune up.

Clear out your cache. Check your disk settings, do you have enough virtual memory? How long has it been since you have done a defrag and scan disk?

I admitted the file is larger than some, but I do have many in my cache that are between 25k and 30k so the file is within standards.

So I ask, have you done maintenance to your computer? If so then what is your video card’s memory?

There are a lot of people on here with slower machines than my 233 and aren’t experiencing a problem, so how can a slower machine be able to handle it when faster, more capable machines can’t? Please answer that.

'Sides you only have to deal with it for 2 more weeks. Can you not deal with a little inconvenience for the sake of our friend? It’s either that or get your computer tuned up.

Oh and yes Micro Furry,

I didn’t jump because I felt anyone was trolling, I jumped because the OP did not listen to a word anyone said, then someone else butted in.

Hey Micro, careful with the waters you are treading here…I undertstand you have an opinion on this subject but you don’t see the whole picture here.

I was content on keeping my mouth shut and deal with it as diplomatically as I could, given that most people love it, that someone said the “I told you so” shit and the OP didn’t consider for one sec that it could possibly his own machine…it pissed me off.

For TWO FUCKING WEEKS PEOPLE, deal with it I optimized that damn file as best as I could…so fuck you all.

K? You fucking lurkers come out of the wood work only when things don’t suit you.

FUCK THIS SHIT…JUST FUCKING FUCK IT ALL.

BYE

I AM TAKING A BREAK FROM HERE…I don’t need this shit from a bunch of fuck ass lurkers…kiss my ass.

I’m now formerly asking The Reader to find a capable graphics designer to fix my fucked up graphic seeing as it is not acceptable to a few in here…

To the rest of you, I love you but I will be doin other things for a while. I might lurk but I need a break from this shit.

FUCK

< I usually have a thick skin but when 99% of the people agree with me on the issue it must mean I am doing something right…but this is over the fucking top…a tribute to our dear friend Wally has become a bitch for a minor few, something I did out of my heart >

techchick, would Wally want you to let these putzfuckers win?

Would he let them win?

I don’t think so.

Dave, you ROCK. Glad you like me, so I never get flamed like that.

Second, the banner works fine for me. I also have a copy of tonight’s chat log where techie says she has about 8 things open and IT WORKS FINE. I will send said log to whoever wants it. Email me.