JRF......ITRCs first Olympian

[Patrick Wallek]

Well, we all knew it was inevitable and that it wouldn't take him long to do it, but now it is official.

James R Ferguson is the ITRC Forums FIRST Olympian. He has eclipsed the 20,000 point barrier.

Congratulations Jim. You do GREAT work here. I certainly hope you continue this for as long as you are able and the forums run.

I feel privileged to call you my friend!!!

[I just wish there was a way to embed the Olympic theme in here. ;) ]

[Patrick Wallek]

Just out of curiosity, I hunted up JRF's 15,000 point congratulations post (Oct. 17, 2001).

In it I predicted he would hit 20,000 on Feb. 17. Apparently he picked up his pace so he could hit it 10 days early.

So which is better Jim, 8 crowns, or 1 wreath? The wreath is lighter I guess. I just hope they didn't make it out of poison ivy or poison oak!!! ;)

[someone_4]

cool cool Mr. JRF
the wreath is soooooo cool!!
It was killing me cuss you was sooo close !! But I noticed you were working hard on it too.. Looks great !! Keep up the good work Mr. James aka Zeus!

Richard

[Michael Tully]

Congratulations Jim on being the first ever Olympian! Well in ITRC anyway.....

Your posts are always *full* of information that is helpful to all who read it.

Well done Sir!

3 Cheers!
-Michael


Jim's profile

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/UserProfile/1,,CA114842!1,00.html

[S.K. Chan]

If anyone deserve this honor, it's got to be you. One of a kind and I truly enjoyed your contributions. I noticed you always go the extra mile. No many people are willing to do that nowadays. Congratulations !! Doesn't mean you can stop or slow down .. keep going !!

[Alexander M. Ermes]

Hi there.
I am on vacation at the moment, but i check the forum every now and then.
I could not help laughing, when i saw the new hats. If you all remember, we had a d discussion about the new sysmbols. The HP guys took them from these proposals i think.

JRF, that is the right symbol for you.
Rgds
Alexander M. Ermes

[Wodisch]

That's great news in the very early morning!

Salve, Jim, my deep respect to your newest and formidable achievement!
..and I believe you will not take a rest, will you? Even that "holiday" you took in december did not slow you down, so to what level of magnificence will you lead the forums now?

Oh, what is the proper way of addressing an Olympian?
"Champion" or "Lord"?

Vale,
Wodisch
PS: I know, that's only latin, but I not know greek :-(

[Volker Borowski]

Good morning,

I never intended to be so close...
From 11:00 am GMT yesterday to before Patrics post on 03:25 am GMT is less than 17 hours for 105 points.
That is an extremly good milage I guess.

Excellent work.

Start up the icon editors, this man obviously needs a target. Next step at 50.000 pts ?

Volker

[T G Manikandan]

Hello,
The administrator's have a great trust on this specific forum for all the activities carried out on their servers.
JRF...
You were one of the senior person who worked hard for the name.
It's great for me working with you...(through this forum)

Congrats!

[Alex Glennie]

Congratulations on the head gear JRF !

Can you throw thunderbolts now too ?

Regards

Alex

[Paula J Frazer-Campbell]

Good morning to all

Congrats to JRF.

Out of interest what hat is next for him?


Very well done James your answers are as always a delight to read.

Paula

[Kenny Chau]

Congrats James, you are the first Olympian and it can be said "the King of the ITRC forum".

Well done. Keep it up.

Regards,
Kenny.

[Marino Meloni_1]

Congratulation to the first OLIMPIAN,
what is the next step?

bye

marino

[harry d brown jr]

JRF, the crown looks awesome! Hail to the chief! I say we sacrifice a M$ box by slaying it with linux to honor our new leader!

Will they have more "crowns" before any of us get to 20K, because JRF will be, what, like at 40K? It will take me about another week to hit 7500, and to get to 7500 took me 4-5 months. At that pace It'll be next year, if I'm lucky, to hit 20K.

live free or die
harry

[Patrick Wessel]

I love the new hats and I think that the Olympian is something that fit's much better to JRF than any other hat before.
Congratulation JRF, you really deserve it!

[A. Clay Stephenson]

Very well done, Jim. You are truly in a class by yourself.

Warm regards, Clay

[Darrell Allen]

Excellent! Well done Jim!

Your answers are to the point yet you provide additional insight and background info where helpful. You address the questions asked which often I, as well as others, do not. Thanks for setting the pace and for being an example for the rest of us!

Congratulations!

Darrell

[Joseph C. Denman]

WAYTOGO Jim. Your the man!!!


I, as well as others, appreciate all your responses.


Keep it up forum.


Joe...

[Kurt Beyers.]

Congrats JRF! And the games start today in Salt Lake City, so you are just in time.

Kurt

[Victor BERRIDGE]

Congratulations James,
Closer to Nirvana, or walhala or Heaven every day?
You seem to already have some divine attribute:
Ubiquity....


All the best

Victor

[Christopher McCray_1]

I don't think these ITRC guys are going to keep up with you, JRF!!!!

I hope you enjoy your new place high atop the HP-UX Mt. Olympus because you earned it.

Outstanding job and may your knowledge continue to shine on all of us.

Thanks for everything!!!

Chris

[Deshpande Prashant]

Congratulations James.
Such a coincedience, first Olympian on 1st day of Winter Olympic.
You are great.

Prashant Deshpande.

[Uday_S_Ankolekar]

Sir James,
You are definitely deserve a different kind of headgear then everybody else, simply because your contributions to this forum is really great. Congratulations to you.
Best wishes,
-Uday

[Mark Vollmers]

Congrats on the wreath; you've really deserved it! Thanks for all the help, too. You're quite the insperation. Kinda scary how quickly you jumped from a few crowns to this, but it's well deserved.

Mark

[John Bolene]

Hey JRF, what a crown of thorns.

Finally can post again, not sure what was going on.