Scoreboard
The paper of DOOM is getting written. I came home yesterday and banged out enough pages to break the 20 page barrier. I figure I can finish the rough draft tonight and have enough time to get some good revisions in.
The scary part is that there's another, equally long paper to be written immediately after this one. It, too, is due by noon on Monday. This is gonna be good, but I'm on pace to come out of this one in one piece. Always a good thing.
The FAQ is also getting finished up, seeing as how it's what I've been doing to keep my mind off the impending paper of DOOM. Expect to see that one up this weekend, methinks. It still needs to be revised and formatted but then it'll be rock and roll, baby.
The next blog project is going to be a reviving of the old scoreboard.
What is the scoreboard, you might ask? Well, the scoreboard's roots go way back to high school when Fesser, Gunder and I used to publish our "Sucks to Be You" awards online. The premise was simple, every week we would find someone who it sucked to be and then publish a quick bio on them along with a reason why they deserved the award. Sometimes it'd be someone who got dumped, other times it'd be someone like Steve Forbes (remember him) who spent I forget how many millions of dollars in New Hampshire to try and win the 1996 Republican primary down there, and, well, he didn't do too well.
Over time, the concept behind the "Sucks to Be You" award shifted towards a desire to reward people who did cool shit. As a result, I started viewing life as an amateur wrestling match, where I was the referee who would dish style points whenever I saw fit.
The concept followed me to college and by the Fall of 2000, there was a scoreboard up in my room where my friends and I would keep tally of who all was earning points.
More recently, the guys at KvO have adopted the scoreboard for their own use, though they've asked me to chime in from time to time on who deserves points. Thing is, though, I've decided to re-create the scoreboard over here at nenie.net and am going to add to it by fusing it with the old "Sucks to Be You" style. Not sure how this is going to work, yet and folks are more than welcome to give me suggestions.
Yeah, so, suggestions on how this should work, or folks who've been racking up points?
There was an actual, physical scoreboard in your room in college?
You don't remember? It was on the wall by the bathroom in Hill. Not on that wall, over the fridge, but on the wall perpendicular to it over the stereo.