~~~ AnandTech Forums Happy Holidays Thread ~~~

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T'was the days before Christmas, and all through the boards,
The Ferengi were searching for discounts in hoards.
The networks were working, computing distributed,
And more Junior Members logged on and contributed.

In GH, the Intel and AMD minions
Continued to voice their strongest opinions,
Of chipsets and motherboards, and techniques that beckoned,
And promised a few extra cycles per second.

In Video they talked ATI's and Nvidia's,
While dreaming of gaming at frame rates insidious.
And members in Tech Support helped all the noobs
Configure their systems, X-boxes and Cubes.

In Cases & Cooling, the members were thinking.
Their spirits were high, 'cause the temps were a-sinking.
And that's a good thing, because in Overclocking,
The members were racing, and their systems were rocking.

While off in Off Topic, they neffed unabated,
Of so many things not computer-related.
The Mods were all modding in general good cheer,
But still keeping watch should a new troll appear.

When, all of a sudden, and thinking quite quickly,
They posted this Holiday thread with a sticky,
For all of our members from far and from near,
To post their own Holiday message of cheer.

From all of the Mods, our own special toast:
To all of our members, we wish you the most,
joyous of Holidays. May you prosper and thrive,
In a happy and prosperous 2005.

So now we've arrived at the end of this verse.
It could have been better. It could have been worse.
From the newest of Juniors to the oldest Elite,
Seasons best to you all, and <Ctl + Alt + Delete>. :D

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Gaard

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Ok, I have to tell this story, it's Xmas related...

Sunday I wrapped all the presents. I did it in the bedroom so my 4-year-old wouldn't see them as I was wrapping them. (He was too busy watching Mucha Lucha anyway) I brought them out one at a time...as I wrapped them...and everytime I brought another one out he'd say "Wow! Another one for me!". When I was done I plopped down on the couch and said that I was done. He hopped right up and said "Ok. You're done. Now let's open presents." I told him we had to wait for Xmas and brought over a calender and did my best to explain to him what the days meant and that we had to wait 6 more days till we got to the day that had the 25 on it. I told him when we went to bed we'd put an "X" over the day and do that till we got to the 25, then we'd open our presents.

Monday morning I feel a tug on my hand while I'm still sleeping. I open my eyes to see my kid holding the calender in front of my face. He had "X"ed out every day leading up to Xmas. He pulls on my hand and says, "Look Dad. It's 25. Let's go open my presents now."

I swear, you had to be there. :laugh:


Happy Holidays to everyone. (and I mean everyone ;) )
 

Perknose

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Merry Christmas everyone! May all of you hear that in whatever words and spirit in which you celebrate this time.

I have already lit a candle for James Cecil Francis, Engineer's brother, taken too soon from this Earth. We are not our bodies, my late wife Jessie firmly and explicitly believed that. It is our spirit which endures, untouched and untouchable by the ravages and insults of time.

Gaard, if you'd pm me with your son's name, I'd like to light a candle for him and place it next to the aforementioned one. Each loved young'un is a rebirth of hope for this world, hands linked accross the all too fragile generational chain, the ages old drama of cyclical human renewal with which we spit in the eye of entropy and dare dream of immortality.

Whatever this journey is, we are all it together. Brother with brother, and from father to son. And we get by with a little help from our friends.

In his Nobel Prize acceptance speech, William Faulkner perhaps said it best:
I decline to accept the end of man. [ . . .] I refuse to accept this. I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.

Merry Christmas.
 

Harvey

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Wishing everyone a merry ChannuKwanzaRamaDistmas. :gift: :cool: :wine:

That should cover almost everyone's choice of holidays.
 

chess9

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Cute verse and thanks for that.

Happy holidays to everyone. Yes, EVERYONE. :)

-Robert