That’s right, folks.  The first ever TMO Forum contest is here!  Here’s how you win:

1) Observe the history-making moment when Bryan posts his 2000th post in these forums.

2) Head immediately over here to this thread and post that YOU saw his 2000th post, and provide a link to the thread in which he posted it.

3) There is no step 3.  Hehehehe.

If YOU are the lucky winner, this is what you will win:

A copy of “Bryan Chaffin: An AppleScript for the Ages.”

That’s right, if you win, you will receive the award-winning autobiography of the AppleScript we all know and love as Bryan Chaffin from his early days as a five-liner, to his current state as Editor and Forum God for TMO (a fully developed, fully matured, 10,000 page AppleScript).

What you’ll read about:

- his first “tell application ‘finder’”
- his first crash (it wasn’t pretty)
- the creation of “the Bryan persona”
- the creation of “the other TMO personas”
- and plenty more from this groundbreaking AppleScript with AI

Good luck! 

Best regards,
Brad

tell application “OmniWeb”

set thePostCount to postCount of user “Bryan” of bulletin board “TMO forums”

repeat until (thePostCount = 2000)

tell application “Bryan”
create new post in forum named “The Chain Gang” of bulletin board “TMO forums” with properties{Subject:“This is my ” & thePostCount & “th Post”, Message Body:“Only ” & (2000 - thePostCount) as text & ” posts left until Retro wins!”}
end tell
set thePostCount to thePostCount + 1

end repeat

set thePostList to posts of user “Bryan” of bulletin board named “TMO Forums”
set thePostPath to path to 2000th item of thePostList
create new post in forum named “Announcements, Suggestions, & Comments” of bulletin board named “TMO Forums” with properties{Subject:“I win the contest!”, Message Body:“Here is Bryan’s 2000th post - ” & thePostPath & “. Now give me my prize, please!”

end tell

Edit:  Hmm.  Didn’t work.  Must be a bug in the script.  Darn.

<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: Retro on 2001-10-29 19:41 ]</font>

Funny.  However, you spent way too much time on that

Hey, I am impressed!

‘course, another way would be to hit the server directly and then parse the incoming HTML. I dunno… say maybe something like this.

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I AM DYING, HERE!

ROTFLMAO!

I can top all of your little sites.  I setup my own Bryan Chaffin shrine at http://www.bryanchaffinclub.com —Top that.

<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: Justin on 2001-10-30 16:48 ]</font>

Bryan has posted 2000.

Courtesy of Rob’s script:

Bryan has made 2,000 posts.
The last post was in the forum The TMO Lounge
The topic was Ovaltine Commericials: Could They *Be* Any Worse?
Posted 2001-10-30 at 04:56 pm

You lucky sod—it’s 2,000 on the nose!

<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: Justin on 2001-10-30 17:01 ]</font>

Sure, I hit the damn page every 15 minutes all day (I’m sure Bryan wasn’t intentionally being sadistic by making his 1,999th post at 6:50 in the morning ) only to get distracted by phone calls at the crucial moment! d’oh!

WTG Justin! Bert, tell ‘im what he’s won!

Good going Bryan too—both for hitting the double century mark and for overseeing the finest Mac Forum on the web.

( “Where’s my elephant?!! Where’s my elephant?!!” )

Actually, I did deliberately make my 1999th post this morning… 

Thanks for the comments, someToast.  We do have the best forums, but it wouldn’t be possible without you and all of the other great members and mods.  Heck, even our Anonymous posters are almost universally a good lot!

Bryan, congrats on your 2000th post on this great forum. Absolutely the best in the Mac forum world.

only 98 left till the 500 mark
_________________
hoytt
 
“Der Herr Gott wÑŒrfelt nicht”
Albert Einstein

<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: hoytt on 2001-10-30 18:38 ]</font>

Thanks, Hoytt! 

What I want to know is, who’s going to be the first 5-star poster?

I guess I should start writing that bio….WAIT…I did say AUTObiography, didn’t I?  Hey Bryan, would your AppleScript-ness like to get started on that autobiography for our good friend Rob?

Brad