Post count- Why do we care?

[Torm]

Oh, and I got an 800 on the Writing Skills grammar section too because I knew how to conjugate sentences with "None of them" as the subject

Also, this reminds me of something funny I did to a girl named Angie that I knew back in high school. We were in study hall, and she was talking to one of the cheerleaders about their SAT scores. The cheerleader was depressed because she scored in the 600s and was telling Angie how smart she was because she scored 970, and that she wished she was as smart as her.

Eventually, as I knew she couldn't resist doing, Angie turned and asked me what I had made. I bowed my head sadly, and said, "750." She said, "What happened?!" I let the sad look hang for a another moment, and then grinned evilly and said, "but that was just on the Math part."

This was back before they wussied the tests up, and way before they changed the max score to 2400. I dislike that they do that - I know its necessary to keep the tests updated, but it makes my 1470 look worse and worse.

 

[Xath]

Maybe we should have Michael translate the postcount tag into a character level?

So people would show up as 3rd level, or 2nd level or whatever. That would be kind of neat.

I took care of this in my signature when I reached 1000. See below. You are officially mooching off of my idea.

 

[Goblyn]

we could call the number of posts "experience points". Which supports my call to spend XP on item creation!

edit -- doh, very very slow on the draw here...

I'm posting for XP!

Of course, at the rate I go at, I'll die of old age before level 3.

...

I must be a commoner.

 

[Angel Tarragon]

Its all in the packaging. I worked at NASA running "Legendre Tranforms to Analyse Cosmic Microwave Background Patterns to Discover Trends that Implicate the Density Fluctuations in the Early Proto-Universe." Did I understand it? Hell no! Did my work matter? Again, no. Did MIT think it was good? Yup.

Okay, two questions:
How in the heck did you land a job at NASA?
How old are you?

 

[fett527]

Well, this ballooned quickly! Running to lunch and will try to comment on replies a little later. Thanks!

 

[Rystil Arden]

Also, this reminds me of something funny I did to a girl named Angie that I knew back in high school. We were in study hall, and she was talking to one of the cheerleaders about their SAT scores. The cheerleader was depressed because she scored in the 600s and was telling Angie how smart she was because she scored 970, and that she wished she was as smart as her.

Eventually, as I knew she couldn't resist doing, Angie turned and asked me what I had made. I bowed my head sadly, and said, "750." She said, "What happened?!" I let the sad look hang for a another moment, and then grinned evilly and said, "but that was just on the Math part."

This was back before they wussied the tests up, and way before they changed the max score to 2400. I dislike that they do that - I know its necessary to keep the tests updated, but it makes my 1470 look worse and worse.

I took it before they changed that too. For grammar, I was referring to the Writing SATII. I got 800s on all those stupid things; whatever they'd throw at me. At least in high school. I did take it in middle school though, although I did significantly worse then (1410, 720 Math /690 Verbal)

 

[Rystil Arden]

Okay, two questions:
How in the heck did you land a job at NASA?
How old are you?

I'm almost 20. I worked at NASA because I didn't have anything better to do. More recently, I've done Artificially Intelligent Abductive Inference Reasoning for Diagnostic Problem Solving (so it can make informed guesses like you or I, rather that merely following Deductive chains or using Inductive logic). Also working on a Campaign Setting PDF at the moment. And I've written some papers on Shakespeare and Mythology. One time, a professor was so intrigued by hearing me present my paper on the Metafilm Substructure in Almereyda's Hamlet that he contacted the director to ask him about my ideas. That was sweet!

 

[JimAde]

To answer the original question, I don't really care about my post count. At least I didin't until people started with the "my 1000th post" threads. Then I realized I had missed mine and didn't even get a cake.



And if I could spend my posts I would. That way my post count would stay low and Eric wouldn't expect too much of me.

 

[Angel Tarragon]

Dang, Rystil it sound like like you've got more brain cells than I do.

 

[Rystil Arden]

Dang, Rystil it sound like like you've got more brain cells than I do.

Maybe, but its probably just that I move about quickly and I'm more mercurial (darting about from one thing to another). I doubt that I will ever truly be happy, though, for the idea of staying in any one job for too long makes me feel queasy.

Also, as I told you before, my stuff sounds better than it actually was. Its all about the packaging