What I like about Tone (he really knows how to dance)
 

This thread is for what you like about Undertoad, Tony, our board's adminstrator. Why is he so great? Are there any reasons? Be prepared to defend your answers, and there may or may not be a quiz at the end of the session.

What I like about Tony:

• His neverending quest for perfection in brevity, which makes him an awesome writer, even if he does go overboard sometimes. :)
• Somehow, nearly everything he posts is insightful, intelligent, or witty. Meanwhile, I manage to make an ass of myself by saying something stupid nearly every month. Has he made a deal with the devil or something?
• How he can take a seemingly innocuous-looking photograph, create a writup about it, and then make the picture interesting and thought-provoking.
• He admits when he's wrong, and that he could be wrong -- a philosophy I personally believe in.
• He's the only one I know who understands how to create a good, lasting online community. I never thought I would recapture that feeling my BBS days gave me. Thanks, Tony.

I have sudden obligations. More later!

"what I like about choo"
 

He builds a mean computer. Thanks again man! :D

Kudos (the congratulations, not the candy) to you, Toad, for keeping The Cellar running in it's many incarnations.

It's a labor of love, and one that I, having survived several of the transitions, truly appreciate. There is a special kind of magic in the ability to bring together people from various places and backgrounds like this.

And all the stuff that Juju and LadySyc said, and that everybody else will say.

(amazing how supportive hateful web lemmings can actually be, isn't it?)

He's got a great Cellar and an Awesome Mom.
It's a shame he's got that kind of dogs that'll grab your throat and drag you off stage.:D

Backup tapes
 

Yeah, backup tapes.

Back in the day when The Cellar was running on the waffle BBS software, there was some hideous hardware crash or other. UT got everything back up & running and apologized for the amount of time it took to get everything back from the backup tapes.

See, your average BBS went bust when it had its first hardware crash. The sysop (often operating out of his parents' basement) had other things to do, and didn't feel like re-installing the software to start over from scratch. (It goes without saying there were no backups.) The very fact that there were any backup tapes whatsoever said a lot.

I love blowing sunshine up a deserving ass, and there can be no more deserving derrier than that of the generous, intelligent and talented Undertoad!

Since I first found The Cellar on a rather depressing New Year's Eve this past Winter, I have come to admire this man who gives so much and gets so goddamn little in return. He spares no expense to keep a fast data pipeline open so that we, the unwashed and unworthy users of The Cellar, can pour out gigabytes of written drivel, photographic garbage and countless insults to people we (mostly) don't know. Undertoad has taken the sum total of his life experience, and converted into entertainment and electrosocialization for people who, in all honesty, probably wouldn't help him across the street if he were blind and lame.

That takes a special kind of person...someone willing to take a lot of abuse, misspend his own money gratuitously and often, someone who, let's face it, has no self-respect or real purpose in life. UT, provider of electronic codependence, are you barking mad?!! :D

Seriously, Tony, I thank you from the bottom of my heart for what you do for this online community. I only wish I'd found it sooner, or at a more dicey point in my life. I could have used the support on many an occasion. If I had a drink, I would lift it high in your honor, and toast you with something along the lines of "May only good things happen tae ye, may the oil of a thousand virgins glisten upon your thighs, and may the keg never run dry as long as ye'er hand pulls the tap!"

UT is THE man, and that's no shit.

Yeah....what they said plus you have cool dogs.

It was nice meeting you for the cellar GTG over the summer and thanks for you patience with me.

Sometimes I get on peoples' nerves.

Welp, I'm going all gooey over y'all embarrassing me like this.. but you know my emotional bond to the Cellar and to all y'all is strong. It will never die. If it ever goes all Error 404 on you, just wait and it will be back.

I have many debts to repay in my life but this is one of the biggest and most important ones.

1. He's as insightful as hell.
2. He is impressive in wordcraft.
3. He has strong opinions but is open to debate.

...as well as what everyone else said. Except for the part about the dogs... I have no opinion on the dogs.

      Two excellent qualities. Ethics and belief in his views.
      No abuse of power. There have been several people through here that clearly annoyed the shit out of and often flat insulted UT. His responses have been like that of a common Dwellar. I've never seen him abuse his position in the least. Even when some people called to have Radar kicked UT refused saying that whether the discussion was rational or not people were having it. He wouldn't kick the guy for that.
      I respect that. The fact that he's got all the power around here and doesn't abuse it suggest that he has an ethical nature. Also, he must believe in his words because he doesn't try to bolster them unfairly.

He uses strn to read Usenet, which is a sign of intelligence.

It's more likely to be techno-crotchetiness on the part of somebody who was around before all these new-fangled graphical interfaces came along. :cool:

Well I used to use strn. But there are no Usenet groups I care to participate in any longer.

In 1979, the first thing I loved about our young Tony was that he was wicked funny, wicked creative, and wicked smart. Then he revealed himself to be honest, ridiculously generous, and amazingly kind and then proceeded to live that...what are you gonna do? Thank your stars that you happened upon such a good friend. We're a lucky bunch.:)

Yet another sign of intelligence.

(I do still raid the alt.binaries groups from time to time, but I use Gravity 2.6x or PowerGrab for that, as those files would blow my 10MB Net Access quota straight to hell.)

Enough of this gooey stuff. Find him a good woman - when he is ready.

The thing I like best about Tony is that admitted breaking one of my guitar strings when I wasn't looking.

Or a group of not-quite-as-good-but-willing-to-try women.

More Gooey Stuff until we get thumbs up on pimpin'
 

Tony rocks because he exposed me to a kind of community I didn't even know existed. That is pretty damn cool. Keep grinding brother better times are ahead.

Enough of this gooey stuff. Find him a good woman - when he is ready.
Ma, you crack me up. Rest assured that given the official nod, the zealous, international search committee will snap into action.

Just don't come lookin' after my daughter, you dirty old man!

You're going to name her Davette, right?

I've already got my eye out. Course - granted - I'm in Oregon. But heck - ya never know right??!!

Tone - have to say - I havent' been here long. But this is a very nice board to come to and shoot the shite with. I find it a relaxing and entertaining way to break up my day. (cause well - work sucks.) My loves and huggles to ya man.

Better yet, find him a*bad* women in the meantime.:D

I already got that covered.

I like the fact that Tony has been relatively good about not making his soon to be ex-wife out to be a villain. That's maturity.

The "anger" phase is supposed to begin any minute now.

If you make it through the whole process without saying anything nasty about the ex, it is grounds for committment.

No matter how well-intentioned we are, sometimes it is impossible for it not to slip out. It is an emotional yelp of pain, I think.

      In that case, I highly recommend the wood chopping or heavy bag coping methods covered in the coping thread. Lets you express your anger in a productive method.

Alright, well let's channel that anger into something else. For example, picking on some of the dimwits on here. No one gets hurt in your circle of intimates, we have a few laughs...it's all good!

      Nice post flurry... Seems like a few of us have dealt with anger around here...

Not in Toad's county of residence, not if I have anything to do with it ... (I'm there for yah, buddy).

That was facetiousness, you know... :D

Yes, I did figure that out. so was mine.

It may or may not be facetious on my part to point out that the eventually to be former mrs. toad also resides in toad's county of residence ...

...at least until 11/1.

That's me waiting for him to start posting altered pictures in "Photoshop Phrenzy!"

uh-oh.

I was dragged in here kicking and screaming (juju) and promptly made an ass of myself (thanks, dave). so, although i respected UT's opinions et al, i didn't know he was Lord of All until recently.

I love the language, and people with a keen grasp of all things verbal--who can back it up with smarts---garner my respect. UT, you are a gifted wordsmith, and you make me feel dumber than dirt by comparison.... that's a compliment. You have managed to maintain a community of personalities with great intelligence, who are real people in spite of the fact that this is a cybercommunity. You hold them all together with wit, grace, and sarcasm.... =)

In short, you're a class act.

Ta-DA! (thows rose petals at UT's feet)