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[Demon]

So are you a post doc or a professor?  How long do you expect to be in Texas?  And what's the last bloat you added?

[Toady One]

I'm a post doc, but also a "Visiting Assistant Professor", so technically I can be called Prof. ToadyOne.  I'm here for 3 years unless they let me go.  I've forgotten the last bloat...  I'm away from my laptop...  I'll let you know.

[Toady One]

Looking back over my log, it's been a long time since I've added a bloat.  Mostly core stuff and bug fixes recently.  I should get a chance to work this weekend, if I finish grading exams tonight.

[Toady One]

Hrm, the site seems un-dead now.  Undead even.

[Aristharus]

At last.. I was starting to panic already.

[Ancient_Sleeping_Dude_Rei]

You haven't made the connection yet, have you?

I return, all goes quiet. I think some wizard or witch cursed me with an anti-forum-attendence curse.

[Captain Mayday]

*Weeks later, after Ancient Sleeping Dude's post, someone actually replies.*

 

[Toady One]

Apparently that downtime of the site over the last few days was caused by my hosting company's facilities being damaged by Hurricane Wilma (and their backup generators didn't work.)

[Aquillion]

See what happens when the Ancient Sleeping Dude posts here?  The curse works in strange ways.

[Ancient_Sleeping_Dude_Rei]

*insert Jason music here*

Scene: A dark server room. A tech is sitting at the computer, typing frantically to make sure the backup generators work. He hears something, and looks around, camera pans to show what he looks at, nothing. He turns back the monitor and starts typing again, camera pans to show monitor. You see in the reflection of it a man in a hockeymask appear. The techie turns around but to late, the masked man attacks...

End Scene

And that is what happened  

[Toady One]

It just keeps going -- the router for my apartment complex died, so I'm stuck without the net (except for work) for a while.

[Toady One]

All right, so the countdown has been a little thin lately because I've decided to convert a lot of the 2002ish code to 2005ish code.  This will slow things down in the short term and speed them up in the long term, which will probably result in no change in the release date of the first version, but should make future additions quite a bit easier to write.

[Ancient_Sleeping_Dude_Rei]

Do you have any estimate now? btw, Im on movie 22 now, and I have to ask... WHY do you ignore so many of those neat £ signs, and what do their colors represent? and what does % mean?

[Toady One]

No estimate, though the official release date is still August some big number, 2006.  Who knows how long whatever will take...  lots of time has been going in to the job since I have 200 students to take care of.

The pound signs, which I have no idea how to reproduce on this forum, are metal veins, and the colors are whatever the ore color is that I found in my geology book.  Malachite is a green copper ore for instance.  I think I ignored them because I already had enough metal for my small number of works.  Later on, when you have more people, or if you allocate more people in that direction, you can mine out the veins, and make more metal bars and more metal objects.

[Ancient_Sleeping_Dude_Rei]

I was kinda hoping for a colorcoded list of the various metals  

August? aaargh, but after watching the movies I so want to play this now  

If only you had some bug hunter ppl that included me on the list...

Another question? What on earth does potash do?

[ November 06, 2005: Message edited by: Ancient_Sleeping_Dude_Reinc ]