jefhatfield is retiring

[jefhatfield]

i just want to say thank you everybody for the fun these past 18 months and i may come back as a new member down the line but 635 posts is a little excessive so i would like to hear from the junior members more

that leaves spikey as the posts leader but if he left, too...then i think that leaves mrmacman at nearly 300 or so

keep on spreading the mac faith...we are all on the same team

daniel y
aka jefhatfield of macrumors.com

[dantec]

NOOOO...

Comone man... we wanna see what happens when you reach 1000 posts!!!

Anyway... You've been very active in all the posts... and have been a good contributer to this site.

Bye!

[DannyZR2]

who will post the hour long/2000 word essays now??..

i hope no one steps up to that challenge..

anyway.. i think all the rest too have retired... spikey.. john123, kela, where is thaiyla??

[groov']

Originally posted by jefhatfield
i just want to say thank you everybody for the fun these past 18 months and i may come back as a new member down the line but 635 posts is a little excessive
so i would like to hear from the junior members more

that leaves spikey as the posts leader but if he left, too...then i think that leaves mrmacman at nearly 300 or so

keep on spreading the mac faith...we are all on the same team

daniel y
aka jefhatfield of macrumors.com
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hey jeffhf,

I'm very very sorry. It was not my meaning at all to chase you away from the 'post' button. Just the overrepeating stuff has to be avoided.

In a couple of days I'll start a new thread and I can tell you now that we'll need your opinion on that one.


and a... don't feel ashamed about yourself. I'm probably about the same age as you are (although I'm still a junior).


[Edited by groov' on 01-01-2002 at 07:17 AM]

[Ensign Paris]

You don't have to retire, I am guessing you will still monitor the forums and there for still leave messages!

I always enjoy reading your posts!

Have a nice Life,

Guy

[joey j]

Damn it, is it that important to retire just because your post count is so high? :p

Your essaylike posts always were eminently readable; you always had a salient point or two (or three, or...) to make.

See you in the future some time and take care.

[kishba]

stay until 1000 at least... your commentary is wonderful and appreciated

stay around man... the party is just starting

[eyelikeart]

aw jefhatfield....say it ain't so!

[samy85114]

...and stay until the keynote, we all want your opinion about it... you still
an important " poster" here!!! well , you know how much you had cooperating... good job!!

[spikey]

keep lovin those macs jef. Many congrats on keeping this forum sane. you are the most prolific poster.

This has lost alot, due to kela, john and thayli going.

I have loved watching some of you prudes getting pissed at my language, you are pathetic and will never realise what apple computers are all about, you are what holds apple back. **** you.


Its time for me to leave too. Keep thinking different.

So its goodbye from me, and its goodbye from him.

[dantec]

[networkman]

i am the new hatman and starting at zero so i don't look like a post-hogger like i became...i will now listen more than i talk

but thanks for the compliments and or criticisms alike

spikey, just re-register like that newton guy did and other senior members so to give a chance to the new members to feel freer to post...it's just shedding old skin

daniel y
aka "networkman"
the geek formerly known as jefhatfield

[Edited by networkman on 01-01-2002 at 02:14 PM]

[macboy]

Welcome Back :)

[networkman]

geez,

there i go again

now i am at two useless posts! spikey and kela are going to kill me and i am sure when monkeybusiness wakes up, he will have something to say...and joeyj, he will crucify me

well, twenty eight to go

[Ensign Paris]

Nice to see you are back!

I hope your post quality doesn't change!

Live Long and Prosper!

[eyelikeart]

Ha ha ha!!!!

I love it!

[DannyZR2]

I do hope that others will follow. Yes there are plenty of newbies here.. but it isn't macrumors with out the seniors. and quad-seniors..

i

[kiwi_the_iwik]

Goodbye Mr. Hat...


...hello networkman!

[joey j]

(cue `Closing Time' from Semisonic, or `Only When You Leave' from Spandau
Ballet, as your tastes permit)

Crucify you? Not quite, maybe the prodigal-son routine would be a more apt
biblical analogy :p

[agreenster]

Man, Jef........er, I mean.........NetworkMan (dum dum dum da!!!!!) You had me scared. Only time will tell if you are truly the Jefster, and not an impostor.

Either way, if it IS you, nice to have you back.

-David Z

[jefhatfield]

i

[networkman]

and the hatman

[networkman]

are one and

[jefhatfield]

the same person

[agreenster]

Oh good. I guess Im just like doubting Thomas. I need to feel the nail holes first.

Woah. More biblical analogies.

Good to have you back NetworkMan

Ü

[networkman]

...well not until i hit 200

but i am waiting for macrumors staff to disable the jefhatfield handle since i sent them an email...so as, like i said, to give the new posters some breathing room

it all stated with anonymousposter and anonymouscoward leaving and coming in as newbies many many nights ago in the earliest days of these threads

since then, i think one of them has come back three times and even though he/she is a flamewarrior, they even like to leave room for new posters by retiring on macrumors...i think it's a good idea because new posters bring new life

[agreenster]

Well, you have to have some of the older people on here to keep some stability though. Either way, the info and feedback remains the same.

[networkman]

in another few months, anybody with a handle that shows a registration date in the year 2001 will be the old sages of macrumors

...and of course, anybody with 200 posts (a kela set standard) of which you are almost at

mrmacman and spikey are the oldmen/women/kids of macrumors...i am never quite sure of the gender of the poster and i often question the huge amount of 13 year olds on macrumors but that is the fun of the internet

i literally went to a real "party" with half the people there from these boards and others in california, of course, with siliconvalleyites and others mostly mac related and the host told me, "oh, just answer the door, i have no idea what the people coming will look like"

...i only know them from cyberspace...and guess what, no suprises and everybody was all too normal

our online personalities are much more interesting than our real personalities...i doodle with photoshop or frontpage once in a great while and while i would love to call myself a full on computer artist, i am just a techie/engineer/cableboy/secretary's personal slave who fixes gear and i am no digital davinci

...but i do like the work of 'groov and jack tors and i think they have a link to their actual websites...and one of the anonymous dudes did a real artpice with a parrot perched on his "carrot" for those you you who remember way back (yes, he won that flamewar)...very strange but not shocking for us macfolk who think different

[agreenster]

Parrot perched on his 'carrot?' I think he robbed that picture from 'rotten.com,' under the heading "I swear this didnt happen."

Anyway, yeah. People here are probably pretty normal, but their online personalities are almost always more open and coarse.

Oh, and whenever I get my current animation project done, Ill post it online as well. I ought to put some of my stuff on that I did last year, but its not super-great and kind of embarassing. The company I do websites for is:
http://www.trentonbranding.com

[eyelikeart]

Originally posted by networkman
...i only know them from cyberspace...and guess what, no suprises and everybody was all too normal

our online personalities are much more interesting than our real personalities...

I understand this all too much. I've made a few good friends from the internet, and have found my match made in heaven as well (all in person of course!). I think the biggest part of all this is the fun factor. It shouldn't be too serious. Like I tell my friends, "God bless the internet!" :)

[SPG]

Whew! When I started reading this thread I thought your wife had pulled the plug on your prolific posting. I'm glad you're still on the boards Jef/networkman.
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