I clearly need to start getting into more arguments so I can boost my post count.

"Performance Metrics." I felt like I was being tricked into enjoying math and hot really really scared.

I'm a big deal now!!!

Well, it's official, my two hours a day at the pool are not enough.  Time to up it to 4.

/joblesssummer

Don't even think about trying to pass me, LSAClassof2000.  I've already planned to launch an attack on that WolvinLA2 asshole.

I look at metrics on my job... so naturally I wanted more job-like stuff mixed in with my Michigan fandom. <shrugs> Interresting to see how the top part lives. Why don't you look at the middle of the pack some and see how much movement there is there...just for fun.

I found a hobby. Either that or got way busier at work...

It appears I offend no one on this board, despite my repeated efforts to defend, in no particular order, watching the Premier league, the conclusion of the last episode of BSG, and the relevance of Big (L)East -- well, two of those three, anyway, one isn't defensible.

I think I need an arch-nemesis, much like Dr. Doofenschmirtz has in Perry the Platypus, until that one episode when he switched to the Panda from Seattle, but that was just to trick Perry and the other animal agents.  (Sorry, spoiler alert there, oops.)

I am therefore taking applications for anyone who wants to battle my wits and creativity in ongoing rants on this Board, so we can mutually increase our points, eventually overtake Brian, and be forced out of the Board (much like PayPay did to Elon Musk) so that we can use our newlyfound earning to build a new blog and rocket ourselves into space (again, much like Elon Musk), and thereby get a cartoon-turned-movie hero based on us and even get a cameo in the sequel (once again, much like Elon Musk).

All of you in the top 20 list:  Send me $100 in an unmarked envelope immediately, or I report you to your supervisors at work.

Don't think I won't. 

I feel like I let the team down and shamed my family name.

I'll do better.  I promise.

200 of my points came from getting front paged. Add 10 for writing the diary, and I'm down to a lowly 41.

But I refuse to give up my 4th place finish, so you haters can back off!

if it's so meta that it hurts?

I need to post more

I need to post more often 

I need to post more often

OOOPS.....darn double post

I need to post more often

Crap...did it again

I need to post more often

Now what are the odds that i'd have my first 4-bagger....I cant believe my bad luck here

I need to post more often

OK...now this is just flat out embarrassing.  You would think someone as experienced as I am would be able to stop posting the same darn thing over and over again.

My bad!

You just reminded me I forgot to give the Diarist of the Week his points.

hart20 gets a 400-point swing.

other day and found it a bit more entertaining.  I think there were 17 pages of members with negative point totals.  Also, the number of people in virtual Bolivia was quite impressive -- a rogues gallery of trolls, flamebaiters, anarchists, and sociopaths.

Please direct some of your analytical firepower to this unsavory group.  The tinfoil hat crowd is always more interesting than internet do-gooders.

When you mentioned some posters jumping 10 spots in the rankings in a single day, my mind immediately went to the sweet spot of point totals, around 4000-9000 points. In this area the posters are frequently separated by fewer than 100 points. Especially in the posbang era it was possible to earn 200 upvotes or more on a single post and jump 401+ points and several rankings in minutes. The distances between posters gradually increase up the list. At present I'm spending quality time snuggled up between Blazefire and aaamichfan while the three of us traverse the great TomVH desert before we reach his abandoned capital city several thousand MGoPointz of desolate, winswept wasteland away.