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NING Virtual Gifts - Deleting soon

Posted by John Richeson on January 17, 2010 at 5:30pm

This site is practically free. I pay $20 a month to have access to the space where the Way Corps Reunion banner is located and to be able to place the annoying ads wherever I want to. (To go competely ad free is more money.) NING recently installed (without asking us Network Creatorts) a new feature called NIng Virtual Gifts. Here are a couple of links about it. http://blog.ning.com/2009/10/introducing-ning-virtual-gifts.html http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10379290-36.html To me it looks like NING wants to make a profit from this silly feature. They say us Network Creators can "share in the profits" as people pay for these gifts. Ha, ha. No thanks, NING. Nice try Mark Andreesen

I intend to delete this feature from our site. I just wanted to announce it before I do. Does anyone object? On another note......God told me to tell you to send me ALL your money or he will take me home. (Cash only please.)

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James Tad Geiger MD April 18, 2010 at 4:32am

NING bubble is bursting.

paying for gifts is just the beginning
Billy Williams February 11, 2010 at 7:33am

Joe, I wonder if people still use that meat tenderizer???

I know my homeowners insurance company, Allied, use to be known years ago by the acronym of AIDS....They not only changed that, but admitted to everybody in their note why they changed it...as if it weren't obvious.

And in the weather business, years ago when they went to the (then) new METAR coding, their codes for precipitation were RA for rain, SN for snow, PE for sleet(ice pellets), GR for hail, DZ for drizzle, and FZRA/FZDZ for freezing rain or freezing drizzle. That setup worked for as long as it took for several stations to come in with a mixture of rain and sleet, forcing them to change to PL for sleet. (put the original codes for rain and sleet together to find out why).
John Richeson February 11, 2010 at 4:19am

Never thought of it before........ Adoplph's. Wasn't New Knoxville a predominantly German town? OMG!

And Joe, sorry to report that indeed I have passed away thanks to the economy and decreased giving. Hope doesn't even know yet. She thinks I am working. She'll killl me when she finds out. I am wiriting to you with that technique we learned about in the Advanced Class, teleport......something, I forget. Needs to be updated for teleport-texting now.

It's not so bad down here. But talk about your global warming!
Joe Kriston February 11, 2010 at 3:17am

John,...I see you're still here...Either someone sent you all their money or the Lord was bullshitting you...

Been to Adolph's a few times back in the day---can't imagine somebody going out tomorrow and opening up a greasy spoon and calling it "Adolph's"...Some names just wouldn't fly today....Like "Osama's Mideast Cuisine", "Dahmer's Steak and Chop House", "James Earl's Soulfood Kitchen" or " Jim Jones' Fresh Drink Stand"....
John Richeson January 23, 2010 at 10:00am

Virtual gifts are now gone.
John Richeson January 23, 2010 at 9:59am

Adolphs was closed when we took this picture in ?? 2002. But TWI did not put them out of business. If anythng TWI was a boom to their business. There are people on this site who have lived near Adolps for decades such as Joel Burke. I'm sure he knows the story of Adolphs closing. I'm guessing but, I bet it was that they just didn't modernize.
Cindy Kuchmy Kelley January 23, 2010 at 2:00am

Oh, and about the "virtual gifts" - get rid of them. Virtually no one will notice. So annoying!
Cindy Kuchmy Kelley January 23, 2010 at 1:59am

Is Adolph's still there? Or did they put them out of business when HQ started serving hamburgers after SNS services? What about the Party Store next door?
John Richeson January 19, 2010 at 12:50pm
John Richeson January 19, 2010 at 12:47pm

I tried to cash one of those Bank of Heaven checks in New Knoxville once at that Adolphs place.My $75 a month didn't cut it that month and I was hungry for a nice chicken dinner. They almost called the Mayor, Dee, and had me arrested. They don't work for material things I tell ya.

The lord gave me another week. Not limited to friends list. No restrictions apply. Hurry!