How much time have you logged on FOG?

[enderw88]

I can't decide how I should feel about the "Total time logged in:" display.  I have clocked 22.66 hours on the site, which is darn near a whole day...How much have you clocked?

How about a ranked listing of the top users (in the addicted to a drug sort of way)?

 

[Dan Lyke]

I read the FOG via the Atom feed in my email client, so the FOG software doesn't really track how much time I've spent here.

However, it says 1 days, 17 hours and 18 minutes. If that's truly not counting the time I've spent reading... well... I better be pretty well informed.

Just bought a new house, will be doing cabinets and built-ins and will have a place to keep a shop set up (rather than wheeling out the MFT just for the occasion). Hope to move that ratio from "largely reading the FOG" to "mostly using the tools".

 

[Fred West]

Well, I am sitting at 1 day, 14 hours and 13 minutes but believe i am a mere piker in comparison to Brice, Eli, Dan Clark and so many more. ;D : Fred

 

[Matthew Schenker]

Craig,
If you go to the main page of the forum (home page) and scroll down, you'll see the "Info Center."  Inside the Info Center, you'll see "Forum Stats."  Click on that and you will find all kinds of numbers about forum activity -- posts, topics, members, time online, and much more.

The Forum Stats section ranks various details about "top users," including "Most Time Online," just as you are asking.  When you see the stats, I think you'll feel better!

Here's a link: FORUM STATS PAGE.

Matthew

 

[Michael Kellough]

I never log on or off so I don't know how the counter keeps track of how long I've been "on". That said, it says I've been sitting here for over a week  :-\

 

[Matthew Schenker]

I never log on or off so I don't know how the counter keeps track of how long I've been "on". That said, it says I've been sitting here for over a week  :-\

Michael,
If you never log off, the forum stops counting after 60 minutes of inactivity.
Matthew

 

[Daviddubya]

I never log on or off so I don't know how the counter keeps track of how long I've been "on". That said, it says I've been sitting here for over a week  :-\

I don't log on or off either.  It seems to me that the "Total time logged in" is measured as the time that FOG is an active window in a browser.  I usually don't leave an IE window open when I am not at the computer.  However, a few times I have been distracted and left FOG as an open IE window, and the time logged in rises.

I have said previously that I would personally prefer to see the logged-in statistic in another place, like on my profile page, or not see it at all.  This is the only forum I visit that tracks the time I spend.  It bothers me to think I have sat in front of this machine looking at the FOG for 2 days, 13 hours and 7 minutes!  I don't need to know that!!!

 

[SteveD]

Time spent logged into FOG recorded as 20 hours and 43 minutes
Time Enjoyed through the FOG = 20 hours and 42 minutes.

 

[bruegf]

3 days, 11 hours and 48 minutes.

Fred

 

[Fred West]

Daviddubya, I cannot believe that with all of the great advice and help that you so freely give you would care about that counter. I would be proud to see that number if I helped as much as you. Fred

 

[Steveo48]

"Only" 10 hours, 51 minutes.  Too much time sitting on my arse in front of a CRT. 

 

[chippy31]

I would consider myself a professional contractor/joiner who knew a thing or two about wood. Until I discovered FOG.

I am amazed how much I learn each time I am on (a paltry 1day 19hrs ) I also love to see what you guys have made etc.
I was fascinated by the snow pictures, we had 100mm not expected and the place ground to a halt. I find myself talking about people on the sites ideas to my apprentices which worries them I think. Matthew I would like to thank you for this great resource. Gonna shed a tear in a minute.

Tinker write a book. I print off your posts for an old friend of mine who lived Stateside, same era as you talk about gives him allot of pleasure. DEREK

 

[Daviddubya]

Daviddubya, I cannot believe that with all of the great advice and help that you so freely give you would care about that counter. I would be proud to see that number if I helped as much as you. Fred

Thank you for your kind words Fred.  I suppose the time thing is a leftover from my days as a working stiff.  I have an aversion to spending too much time doing any one thing.  Over 2 days looking at FOG makes me wonder how much time I must spend at the computer, when I could be doing something "useful".  Of course my time on the FOG is very useful to me, and apparently to some others, like you, Fred.  Then again, I have plenty of time, since I'm retired.  It's just a thing with me, and nothing at all negative in relation to the FOG and the nice folks I meet here.  Smile!!!

 

[Eli]

I leave it open, so I don't know what it really reflects. It's cool to see the stats though. I hope having so many posts doesn't mean I'm spouting a bunch of useless drivel.

I owe this forum my sanity. Some of you may or may not know that I've basically been on the road with my wife and two young (3 and 1) kids for the last eight months, moving from Los Angeles to Melbourne, Australia. We're finally settled in a house we bought, but other than the constant contact with my family and a few friends, the forum is the only other real socialization I've done.

So thanks to everyone for a nice place to hang out, thanks as always Matthew. A fun group.

8 days, 20 hours and 21 minutes. Probably only a couple hours were really wasted. I enjoyed all the rest.

 

[brandon.nickel]

A paltry 5 days, 14 hours and 7 minutes. 

Did anyone else notice the 263:1 male/female ratio?  Thank God this isn't a bar.  I'd have to go somewhere else...

 

[Fred West]

Daviddubya, you are quite welcome for my kind words but they were simply the truth. I learn so much from so many of you. Eli, sane????? ;D and I even learn from you. : I truly enjoy this board and other than a few flames it is a wonderful place to kick back, learn, relax and enjoy. Other than a better male to female ratio what could you want? ;D Fred

 

[Lancashire Fusilier]

I don't care that I have spent over a day (apparently) on the FOG as it is all on my work time which doesn't really count then does it?  :-\

 

[Eli]

Other than a better male to female ratio what could you want? ;D Fred

Don't joke around. After the third glassy-eyed nod and "mmmm,hmm" I gave her today, my wife said she was going to join up just to meet everyone. I told her if she did she could forget about grout for the bathroom, she'd have to wait for dirt to fill the gaps.

 

[Tinker]

I would consider myself a professional contractor/joiner who knew a thing or two about wood. Until I discovered FOG.

I am amazed how much I learn each time I am on (a paltry 1day 19hrs ) I also love to see what you guys have made etc.
I was fascinated by the snow pictures, we had 100mm not expected and the place ground to a halt. I find myself talking about people on the sites ideas to my apprentices which worries them I think. Matthew I would like to thank you for this great resource. Gonna shed a tear in a minute.

Tinker write a book. I print off your posts for an old friend of mine who lived Stateside, same era as you talk about gives him allot of pleasure. DEREK

Chippy31, A quicky just for you, my Irish Friend.

When i was in HighSchool, i went to Westport (Staples High).  My best friend was in New Canaan High.  We both lived in Wilton but since Wilton had no schools above 8th grade, even tho we lived close and did a lot together, especially camping, fishing and hunting, we lived far enough apart that we were sent off to different towns for our schooling. Actually, the year after the two of us graduated, Wilton moved its HS students into Wilton's own HS.  I'm not sure if they were actually waiting for the two of us to be on our way out of the system, but the thought did manage to seep into a few unsavory peoples' minds.

One day, the two of us were visiting a waterfall area in a different part of the state (Kent Falls for any who are familiar with Connecticut geography).  we were hiking to the top of the falls when we happened to meet up with my friend's high school principal.  The man happened to be Irish, brogue and all.  Don introduced me by my full name.

The prinipal looked at me as we shook hands.  After a few moments and a drag on his pipe, he said, loud and clear, "Tinker!  Tinker!  Aye, don't ivver-r-r tell an Irrishm'n yer name is 'Tinker'."

"Why not" i asked.

"Because, in Irland a Tinker is nothing but a bum."  His words were very emphatic and clipped as only a true irishman can clip.

I immediately took a liking to the man as I already knew what a Tinker was to many from the islands called Great Britain and Ireland.  For those who may not understand (I'm sure Chippy31 needs no explanation), in years gone by, a tinker was an itinnerant tradesman of rather dubious reputation. A type of gypsy.  His trade was fixing pots, pans and/or any other sheetmetal items needing repair. His sidelines might not have been quite so reputable. I knew an Irish waitress who my wife and i both liked very much.  When we would call her restarant for a reservation, we would just tell who ever answered the phone to just tell the Irish waitress, "The Tinkers are comin'".  To a true irishman, such as my friends principal, I'm sure such a remark could be taken many ways, depending on who, where, and how it is said.  ;D
Tinker  (A Tinker who does not care much for metal working)

 

[Eli]

Apologies, this is way far OT, but I couldn't resist. My Mom is third generation Irish American, and I grew up listening to "The Jolly Tinker", it's one of my favorites, and the first thing I thought of the first time I saw your screen name.

"As I went down a shady lane, at a door I chanced to knock
Have you any pots or kettles with rusty holes to block?

Well, indeed I have, don't you know I have?
To me rightful loora laddie, well, indeed I have

The missus came out to the door and she asked me to come in
Sayin': "You're welcome jolly tinker and I hope you brought your tin?"

Well, indeed I did, don't you know I did?
To me rightful loora laddie, well, indeed I did

She took me through the kitchen and she led me through the hall
And the servants cried: "The divil, has he come to block us all?"

Well, indeed I have, don't you know I have?
To me rightful loora laddie, well, indeed I have

She took me up the stairs, me lads, to show me what to do
And she fell on the featherbed and I fell on it too

Well, indeed I did, don't you know I did?
To me rightful loora laddie, well, indeed I did

She then picked up the frying-pan and she began to knock
For to let the servants know, me lads, that I was at me work

Well, indeed I was, don't you know I was?
To me rightful loora laddie, well, indeed I was

She put her hand into her pocket and she pulled out twenty pound
Say: "Take this me jolly tinker and we'll have another round

Well, indeed we will, don't you know we will?
To me rightful loora laddie, well, indeed we will

Well, I've been a jolly tinker for this forty years or more
Oh, but such a rusty hole as that I never blocked before
Well, indeed I didn't, don't you know I didn't?
To me rightful loora laddie
Well, indeed I didn't
http://youtube/watch?v=ue8_DytGuds  (It's Clancy Brothers, they misspelled it)

Eli, (who has been domestically banned by local authority from consuming whisky for one calendar year)

Go mbeire muid beo ar an am seo aris!

("May we be alive at this time next year.")