Well folks, by popular request (or was that poplar? i speak to the trees, forgive me), we will be having our first annual week4paug.net Awards, 2007 Extra Special Happy Edition, Volume II.
read the thread "paug awards 2007" to get some ideas for what is to be included: http://week4paug.net/index.php/topic,7027.0.html
we need a few volunteers for this: a host, some presenters, a house band, vote tally-ers, some decision-making people to pick the top 5 or 10 nominees from each category... i figure we should have a few volunteers who will wade through the crap and post some polls where we can vote over the course of a few weeks.
i envision this as running through the end of the year - all posts from 12:01am 1.1.2007 until 11:59pm EST on 12.31.2007 should be considered as eligible for these awards. therefore, start collecting things that should be nominated, make some posts about em now, and we can add to it as the year draws to a close.
while i'd love to be in charge of this, i simply don't have the time to do it diligently, so hopefully a few of you can step up to the task here and organize this shit.
sounds like fun, I nominate auggie to do all the work and PM me the results :wink:
are we gonna do secret santa again this year?
disco... how come you left the barn out of your avatar? that shot is one of the most iconic of all national park locations.
I'd be happy to do the tallies.
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watch out for the hanging chads
I'm game to help out in any way necessary.
For the actual event, does anyone know anything about internet radio streams like livephish radio? if we did we could nominate a dj for the event...get our own from the archives show going... :-D
One question to think about: how will we hold the event? Forum style would be okay I guess, but there would probably be a lot of scrolling/refreshing to do...maybe we could set up a chat room? theres gotta be a chat room application that we could add to the site for the event like the homepage of LL. just my 2 cents...
Oh and also:
Quote from: rowjimmy on November 17, 2007, 08:59:53 PM
I'm game to help out in any way necessary.
we could flood the hub :lol:
Quote from: jedifunk on November 17, 2007, 01:35:33 PM
disco... how come you left the barn out of your avatar? that shot is one of the most iconic of all national park locations.
the pic is from our last anniversary when we drove up....my wife took that shot from the moving car. It's posted as is. The other one has the side mirror in it :roll: I'll switch it up
New pic, this one has more of the tetons, the first one is more of Mt. Moran and the north section of the range. Still pretty amazing either way, one of my favorite places to be :banana:
there actually is a chat mod i could install here, but there are some hitches to that which i'm not sure if we'll be able to overcome.
a podcast is an interesting idea, if someone wanted to really put some production time into it... otherwise, i'm happy using the forum as, errr... a forum for this. :)
maybe just decide a time for the awards show, and post an award every 15 minutes or something. Then everyone can reread the threads and comment in the awards thread. And maybe we could make a drinking game out of it too, I know I will.
ok. shall we set an arbitrary date? should be in January or beginning of February at the latest. it should take just a few weeks to do all the voting... leave each poll open for 5 days? the results should be kept private for the person running that award thread, and the complete results of that will be posted to announce the winner.
the winners shall get cake.
(note: if you haven't played Portal yet, i'll let you in on a little secret. there is no cake)
Quote from: tet on November 18, 2007, 04:05:47 AM
ok. shall we set an arbitrary date? should be in January or beginning of February at the latest. it should take just a few weeks to do all the voting... leave each poll open for 5 days? the results should be kept private for the person running that award thread, and the complete results of that will be posted to announce the winner.
I like this idea. When, I don't know. Weekends work better for me, but this place is only really hot when peps are getting paid to do other things. Randomly, how about starting voting on Fri 1-11 or Sat 1-12. That gives us a little over a week from the end of the year to weigh our decisions.
And I don't mind helping out in any other capacity I'm needed either.
5 days should work...
Spanning weekends makes sense, as well as there are def. people who post with less frequency during the weekdays.
Also, I think holding it in the forum would work just fine.
Quote from: disco on November 18, 2007, 12:47:09 AM
New pic, this one has more of the tetons, the first one is more of Mt. Moran and the north section of the range. Still pretty amazing either way, one of my favorite places to be :banana:
(http://week4paug.net/tet/get%20a%20brain%20morans.jpg)
will the actual votes be by post or PM?
Polls.
After the initial rounds on nominating, bickering and threadjacks, we'll initiate polls.
as i just noted in the w00kieguide to nominating thread, we'll need to figure out a system to get a max of 5 nominees for each category. whether we elect a panel of 3 judges to pick em or have run-off polls, having too many choices for the final nominees will just water down the votes.
Quote from: tet on November 19, 2007, 01:04:37 PM
as i just noted in the w00kieguide to nominating thread, we'll need to figure out a system to get a max of 5 nominees for each category. whether we elect a panel of 3 judges to pick em or have run-off polls, having too many choices for the final nominees will just water down the votes.
Agreed.
what about hosting a web conference with skype? ive sat in one of those once and it was pretty cool. the host picks who can talk at any given moment.
or perhaps in an irc channel? or the chartroom on the hub. i dont think the forums are real-time enough for something like this, but it could work.
don't worry, i believe we'll have an adequate system in place by the time the Awards come
the hub would die :evil:
users would quadruple, I'm sure it would crash which would be ok cause we're all good at blaming whitey already whenever anything goes wrong :roll:
(fyi - whitey is a user at the shnfam hub)
When?
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Quote from: August on January 13, 2008, 10:04:39 PM
When?
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if you're asking
WHEN are the awards....
i was wondering the same thing, yesterday actually...
so, is this gonna happen fo'realz?
i dunno, with the writers strike still ongoing... :evil:
yeah, we'll do this soon i guess.
word. i'm down. it will be funny. :clap:
So January is pretty much over...any ideas?
yeah, when is this shit going to hit the streets?
Negotiations with the WGA aren't going too well.
Quote from: rowjimmy on January 30, 2008, 08:59:56 PM
Negotiations with the WGA aren't going too well.
Dude!
I got a TON (one metric boatload) of new shit I've been working on.
I can help with some of the monologue and SOME speeches.
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August = scab.
well all i know is, i'm showing up drunk, and you only get 10 seconds for a speech before the music starts (and the STFU music this award show plays is BBFCFM, turned up to 11)
Quote from: tet on January 30, 2008, 10:45:09 PM
well all i know is, i'm showing up drunk, and you only get 10 seconds for a speech before the music starts (and the STFU music this award show plays is BBFCFM, turned up to 11)
why not make it 10?
You see, most blokes, you know, will be playing at ten. You're on ten here, all the way up, all the way up, all the way up, you're on ten on your guitar. Where can you go from there? Where?
Nowhere. Exactly. What we do is, if we need that extra push over the cliff, you know what we do?
But why don't you just make 10 louder?
These ones go to eleven.
:lol:
I've seen bong water dehydrate in less time than its taking to get this shit out of production and actually into action.
due to the writers strike, the awards ceremony was canceled. You didn't hear?
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How dare ye blaspheme Jr. like that.... :x
This is better
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