Subject: Eh, not really.
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Posted on: 2013-09-11 13:59:00 UTC
My preservation efforts tend to be marred by my switching over to something else halfway through. So I think my version of the dear departed Oddlots page includes the Buffyverse missions - but all the other links are dead. I guess that means I should do something about that...
hS
Okay, that seems a little out of the blue... let me explain:
In the course of saying hello to Artemis Mk. 2, I talked about the DIA, and specifically Black and Irvine, written by the original Artemis. Their missions used to be hosted on the Bad Roleplay Department website, which, alas, died with Geocities.
Not that I was going to let that stop me! I prowled the web looking for the various sites which had archived bits of Geocities, sure that at least one of them must have something. And finally, I found that the Oocities site has a unified search engine (in the top right corner) - one which will pull up results from all the salvaged Geocities archives!
Brilliant! I thought. I may not be able to find the BRD, but surely there'll be something of value in there!
(Yes, I am getting to the point)
Well... no. Or rather, yes, there is. Among the saved websites are Hellga's SIELU collection, the JAAKSONS, the missions of Dee and Milask, Suicide and Diocletian... whole heaps of pretty important stuff from the early days of the PPC!
And it's all entirely useless, because Neshomeh has saved every single thing I can find (with the exception of a handful of 'I made this page but never posted any missions or anything' sites) to the Lost Tales. So there's nothing left for me to do!
Seriously. I'm very impressed. Well done, Nesh - and thanks!
hS
Between Archiving All The Things and Basically Running the Wiki, I'm pretty sure we should have some kind of PPC-Super-Librarian hat to bestow, or something. You do all kindsa really awesome stuff and keep things running, and just so you know, we really appreciate it. You rock.
...I wanted to add a message, but I actually think that's everything I wanted to say. We really do appreciate everything you do, and you're amazing and awesome and a whole thesaurus' worth of adjectives meaning 'great'. Thank you *hugs*
...oh, right, that's the only thing I can add. Thank you! :D
~DF
At first I thought I'd just offer up some cookies, but then I realized that - true to Dean Winchester's opinion - pie is indeed better. But I can't just cut out the cookies, so I made cookie pie. *offers* Enough for everyone. I made fifty.
It sure is warm under this here spotlight, so I hope it's the kind of pie that's served cold. ^_^
(Seriously, thanks, guys. Wow. I don't even. I'll just. Yeah.)
~Neshomeh
With whipped cream. And hey, if you don't want the whipped cream...
Always down for extra whipped cream...yum. May I?
And if I mayn't, well...*runs off with all the extra whipped cream*
~DF
PS: I have this vision of myself as Obelix, but with whipped cream instead of wild boar. It's...rather odd, and doesn't really hold up, but...
Dawn, I have to ask. Do you...would you be perfectly okay with buying a new container of whipped cream, opening it up, and nomming it up?
Because I mean...whipped cream is kinda sorta one of my addictions...sooo...
I mean, being me, I'd probably put most of it in hot chocolate, which I did a number of times last year, but yessss.
~DF
Pie is good. Cookies are good. But how would a cookie pie work? Is there a pie crust and the filling made out of cookies?
Or is the crust cookie?
...but with a shot like this, I'm not going to ask questions, either.
Oh. That. Wow, okay. Thanks. That definitely came right out of nowhere, but thanks. ^_^;
And, hey, let's not forget you've done some preservation work yourself, hS. Pretty much everything that used to be hosted on OddLots is on your site now, right? Sure made my job a lot easier, especially when I set about archiving the Original Series. If you hadn't saved the OddLots main page, I never would've figured out something was missing and found "The Dark Elf." {= )
... Also, visiting that page again, I can now pin a date on the founding of SIELU, which will be handy for the timeline of the Department of Floaters I've been working on in anticipation of sprucing up its wiki page. And there are several other dates recorded, too, which is awesome—we can know for certain when some of the last TOS missions were released, for instance. So, thanks for saving such valuable historical data!
~Neshomeh
My preservation efforts tend to be marred by my switching over to something else halfway through. So I think my version of the dear departed Oddlots page includes the Buffyverse missions - but all the other links are dead. I guess that means I should do something about that...
hS
And not just for the archiving of stories, but for all the work you do on the wiki as well.
The PPC wouldn't be what it is today if we let ancient writings be forgotten, and Neshomeh's our star archivist. :D Hurrah for Neshomeh!