Old Weather Forum

Hanibal94 wrote:Fri Feb 10, 2017 5:17 pm Glad to hear your Internet connection is better, Joan!

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This is the image that pops into my head when I'm talking to Caro or Randi:



Moderator at her workstation.

Randi wrote:Fri Feb 10, 2017 5:35 pm I'm not nearly that dressed up!
(and not quite that gray )

Helen J wrote:Fri Feb 10, 2017 6:18 pm I love the lace! Do you have to earn it by years of service, like stripes in the forces? ;D ;D

Randi wrote:Fri Feb 10, 2017 6:58 pm Yup

Craig wrote:Fri Feb 10, 2017 7:36 pm It comes with a bit of arsenic for trouble makers.

Caro wrote:Fri Feb 10, 2017 8:43 pm Mwahahaha! Yes, I always dress like that while moderating.
I am a tad more casual at other times.

Hanibal94 wrote:Tue Feb 14, 2017 5:47 pm You're not a veteran OW'er until this happens to you:



"Oh my goodness - I just realized I have visited more foreign countries via OW logbooks than in real life!"

Hanibal94 wrote:Sun Feb 19, 2017 12:13 pm

"Ya see this skull here, laddie? This be all thats left of the last Logkeeper-From-Hell I ran into!"

Hanibal94 wrote:Mon Feb 27, 2017 8:25 pm (Thanks to Caro for making this one forum-appropriate!)



Having gone as far as he possibly could on OW Classic, a veteran OW'er sets off in search of new projects to work on.

Hanibal94 wrote:Fri Mar 03, 2017 8:08 pm This guy is awesome!



Dr. Philip Brohan, the best scientist a Zooniverse project could ever ask for.

Hanibal94 wrote:Tue Mar 07, 2017 4:45 pm

"Alright then - today is the day I finish off the last logbook in my stream!"

Hanibal94 wrote:Sat Mar 11, 2017 4:01 pm

Scientists gathering data for yet another Zooniverse astronomy project.

Dean wrote:Tue Mar 14, 2017 7:40 pm

Moderator preparing to meet with one of those recalcitrant Transcribers.

Hanibal94 wrote:Tue Mar 21, 2017 5:09 pm Must have been the Patterson...



"Ugh... That was the worst ship I ever worked on... Never again!"

Hanibal94 wrote:Sat Mar 25, 2017 10:24 am

"What the ... I just heard a strange, disembodied voice telling me to make sure all my logbook entries are clean and neat, or my descendants will regret it!"

Hanibal94 wrote:Wed Mar 29, 2017 4:24 pm

Retired OW'er looking back at the fruits of her labor.

Dean wrote:Sat Apr 01, 2017 1:10 pm A Transcriber/Editor/Mod after viewing some of the Original Logs.

Craig wrote:Sat Apr 01, 2017 8:56 pm In my experience with the Yorktown typed logs are often worse than handwritten ones. The spacing is irregular, there are many typos and a fresh ribbon doesn't last long. When this is combined with slanted pages that are not aligned on the fold I was weeping like the poor little angel.

Hanibal94 wrote:Wed Apr 05, 2017 7:23 pm

The more Zooniverse projects you work on, the more weird and wonderful things you shall encounter.

Hanibal94 wrote:Sun Apr 09, 2017 9:49 am

Hanibal94 searches for new material for his Art + OW jokes.

leelaht wrote:Sun Apr 09, 2017 11:53 pm Which of the three gents is you?

AvastMH wrote:Mon Apr 10, 2017 5:52 pm There's a fourth character lurking in the doorway. But I think that hanibal is the discerning chap with his coat on

Thursday Next wrote:Tue Apr 11, 2017 6:40 pm I agree - I'm sure he's the guy in the coat

Hanibal94 wrote:Thu Apr 13, 2017 9:54 pm Yep, that's me alright! I can be quite a dapper gent when I want to.

Hanibal94 wrote:Thu Apr 13, 2017 9:54 pm

Moderator asks to see transcription of clueless newbie.

Hanibal94 wrote:Wed Apr 19, 2017 8:25 pm

Joan gets flooded by questions and requests for help after Penguin Watch gets another explosion of newbies.

AvastMH wrote:Wed Apr 19, 2017 9:19 pm

That is exactly how it feels...spot on my friend...spot on!!!

(PS - wish I had a figure like her though )

Hanibal94 wrote:Sun Apr 23, 2017 2:10 pm

Addicted OW'er babysitting nephew: "How much longer do I have to watch this brat? I wanna get back to my ship!"

Hanibal94 wrote:Thu Apr 27, 2017 4:15 pm Congratulations on completing your epic quest of 4.5 years!



Matteo admiring his transcriptions of every single thing that ever happened on the Unalga, ever.

propriome wrote:Thu Apr 27, 2017 5:56 pm
Had not realized it took that much.. until i checked my first post on the discussion thread!

Yup, i was quite younger, with one less kid and one more dad (may he rest in peace - he did love history and he was just fascinated when i showed him OW) when i started this awesome voyage in her logbooks.

I'd be dead curious to see her transcripts, i wasn't used at all in transcriber's science (does a thing like that exist at all?), therefore i'd probably be a little ashamed in reading back my very first goofy attempts (i expect many typing and/or reading errors in more or less 20 years worth of logs). Also future editors will have an hard time reformatting events (since i had no way to add carriage returns in transcribing watches ).

Thank you Hanibal, the picture is very well placed, as pretty more every other you posted here

Hanibal94 wrote:Sun May 07, 2017 7:24 pm

"Well fellas, there's only three ships left in this project - which one do you think will be the last?"

(I'm pretty sure the Yorktown will be last due to sheer size)

Hanibal94 wrote:Sat May 13, 2017 7:02 am

"There we go... THIS ought to make him follow TWYS for good!"

Helen J wrote:Sat May 13, 2017 2:23 pm I'm especially intrigued by the woman with a book on her head - maybe it's a new way of absorbing knowledge?

Bob wrote:Sat May 13, 2017 3:04 pm I've tried that. Didn't make me smarter, but did improve my posture.

Randi wrote:Sat May 13, 2017 3:48 pm Hard on the book in my case

Craig wrote:Sat May 13, 2017 4:57 pm Maybe the scientific knowledge on display is over her head