LOL I'm laughing tears!

Hear hear, Trav you're a champion of the people.

Trav,

I dont know about all this hype.... I mean I love you and all, but some of these cats are launching you out there with the likes of Indiana Jones and 007 James Bond. Wow!

After what you've done with the Nexus, going that extra and keeping it up. I kinda had you more in a Bill Gates type image.

Anyway You are the man Trav. I hope that some day I will be able to show my gratitude.

Once upon a time when I served in the USMC I was taught The Golden Rule of Leadership

Traveler you impress me because this last week you have epitomized that golden rule.

The rule reads-

The people under your charge will never care how much you know until they know how much you care.

You went the extra mile and did everything in you power to keep us in the Nexus. You could have closed shop for a week or two. You didnt. You made it happen captain! People now know how much you care.

Thanks,

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Give me a T...

and so forth!

Kisses!!!!

I think anyone who has dabbles in internet forums can see immediately what a special place the Nexus is, and I firmly believe that Trav's steady hand at the helm is a crucial factor in making this place the wonderful environment that it is. I was moved that such effort was taken to keep this place going underground while weathering the DDOS attack.

Thank you Trav for all that you do here

I just want to add I fully concur with all these views.

There's a Robert Oppenheimer aspect (more than Bill Gates I think) to The Traveler too. Though The Traveler is doing good work that is less morally questionable, so I sincerely hope he is not nearly such a tortured soul as Oppenheimer was.

Oppenheimer was the miracle man of the Manhattan Project. He was the administrator-manager who kept it all going, led the project, mediated between military, government entities and raw university scientists. He understood the big picture, the small picture, the social structures, the math and the science. He had immediate moral concerns before it was even fashionable. And he coordinated it all. He made it happen and saw it through, no matter the obstacles, personal, scientific or professional. Be it problems with the Berrylium reflector and initiator unit, problems with worms and mud coming out of faucets, problems with government accusations of communism, etc. he got it done, he saw it through.

Thanks So Much Traveler!

I also thought about what it would be like without Nexus. How sad. Time passes so damned quickly and . . . well you know my grim rant. I would really hate to pass the next few years without you folks. What a horrid diminishment that would be. Community is so hard to find in this jaded, post-modern world that seems to abhor the family (Turn 18 and gtfo).

And the thought of loosing the knowledge base in the teks and wiki's. Thank goodness that is backed up. The idea of that being lost makes me feel physically ill, just like the loss of any library or knowledge base does.

I know it's just another attachment and doesn't really matter, but hell, I'm here now and I do love this community. It may all be ash in a century, but this is THE moment, right now. So glad we are all still together.

I'm still voting for Captain Picard

Can a1pha make it so?

Thanks!

How about replacing jesus with, let's say, Gandhi...

(and, of course, a Buddha representation would fit, too--maybe it would be the MOST apt, actually)

LMAO - the image is nearing PERFECTION!

+ this:

aaaaaaaaah this image is so funny I want to have a poster of it on my wall. the only danger is that I would probably piss my pants from laughter every time I passed. seriously "let#s spice things up a bit" with that pic.... too funny. I can't get over it.

man, time to change my pants again...

^

^hehe LOL. That's about right. Yup, that's the guy!