Author Topic: Free Topre Realforce all 55g giveaway! (Read 27287 times)

JulienC · « **Reply #150 on:** Thu, 18 March 2010, 22:27:19 »

That sounds fair. If I were to win it, I would try it for a week to compare with the HHKB, and then pass it on to the next geekhacker for trial as others have suggested.

cryticfarm · « **Reply #151 on:** Thu, 18 March 2010, 22:27:29 »

Quote from: Ranma13;165292

Just checking in. Will do the lottery in a few hours. I live in Hawaii so it'll probably be in the middle of the night where most of you guys are .

For those of you with the HHKB, I will throw your name in, but at reduced weight. If you don't own a keyboard with Topre switches, your name will be entered twice. Otherwise, you will be entered only once.

fuuuu, i'm going to bed in 30 minutes

LordGurciullo · « **Reply #152 on:** Thu, 18 March 2010, 23:36:44 »

I personally don't own any topre keyboards and, (as stated before) am dying to try one.

As nerdy as this sounds, I've actually told my mom about what you are doing and her exact words are "That's Wonderful!". "You should always keep your word, and Tylie (her nickname for me) if you win, you better pass it on like you said you would".

anyways

. If I was lucky enough to win I certainly would be ultra elated, and resist the temptation to keep and definitely pass it on to the next person to try.

I am amazed you're actually doing it and salute you for it!

Thanks for reading

javifast · « **Reply #153 on:** Fri, 19 March 2010, 01:27:43 »

Hello, I don´t have any topre keyboard. Please enter my name on the lottery. Thank you.
I´ll pay shipping costs.

Ranma13 · « **Reply #154 on:** Fri, 19 March 2010, 01:29:13 »

Alright, I'm writing the program now, so this is the cutoff right here!

Ranma13 · « **Reply #155 on:** Fri, 19 March 2010, 01:56:12 »

Ok, I've created the list of people who posted in this thread, excluding those that either already have a Realforce Topre (I'm not counting the HHKB) and those who said they don't want to participate. So far I have:

HaaTa
caecusum
TexasFlood
msiegel
Brodie337
Sorian
kishy
Xuan
Arc'xer
hyperlinked
sixty
Viett
Ogsy
Phaedrus2129
JulienC
nijikon5
spolia optima
trievalot
warakawa
Julle
nanu
kriminal
didjamatic
porgo
mrbill
salcan
itlnstln
C.S.
ch_123
Rajagra
JBert
asdf
Ranma13
poonsmjj
platon
elservo
ricercar
Mental Hobbit
Computer-Lab in Basement
zwmalone
EverythingIBM
bionicroach
Hak Foo
devilcm3
cryticfarm
SAL36864
InSanCen
LordGuriullo
Stevie Wonder
vils
GenEric35
javifast

That's the entire list. Sorry if I accidentally left your name out, but I don't have the time to double-check it. Gonna write the program now. For the sake of expediency, everyone's weight will be only 1. Be back in a few minutes.

HaaTa · « **Reply #156 on:** Fri, 19 March 2010, 02:07:31 »

Woot!
first post == first in the list == win

Ranma13 · « **Reply #157 on:** Fri, 19 March 2010, 03:34:00 »

We have a winner!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58--OmKfNrg

Congratulations, poonsmjj, please check your PM!

P.S. How do you embed Youtube videos?

javifast · « **Reply #158 on:** Fri, 19 March 2010, 03:44:16 »

Ohhhhhh!!!! Nooooo. Perhaps next time,

LordGurciullo · « **Reply #159 on:** Fri, 19 March 2010, 03:47:39 »

Hey. You are awesome. Seriously. Congrats to the winner and congrats to you for doing this. Albeit a bit insane

.

Gratz!

porgo · « **Reply #160 on:** Fri, 19 March 2010, 03:49:29 »

Grats poonsmjj! (Are you sure it didn't read "porgo"?)

JulienC · « **Reply #161 on:** Fri, 19 March 2010, 03:50:51 »

Congratulations poonsmjj !

That's very generous of you Ranma13. By the way, why do pick a random element from a randomly sorted list ? Picking a random element from the initial arbitrary list would be equivalently random.

Ranma13 · « **Reply #162 on:** Fri, 19 March 2010, 03:56:28 »

It never hurts to be even more random

.

I still have more keyboards, and I only need 2 myself. Who knows, maybe I'll give away some more in the future.

Better hope for more coffee spills!

trievalot · « **Reply #163 on:** Fri, 19 March 2010, 04:25:28 »

he didnt answer yet.....redraw

Rajagra · « **Reply #164 on:** Fri, 19 March 2010, 05:56:52 »

Quote from: TexasFlood;165258

Imagining geekhackers across the globe furiously editing their avatars/signatures to remove all references to topres....

I would have gotten away with it if it wasn't for you meddling kids!

ch_123 · « **Reply #165 on:** Fri, 19 March 2010, 06:08:12 »

Remember this time last year when the Realforce 87U was the happenin' keyboard to have? When everyone was importing the 55g model with Korean letters from Stlensbar for $300 + shipping from Korea? We would have had a riot here if someone offered one for free.

devilcm3 · « **Reply #166 on:** Fri, 19 March 2010, 06:20:47 »

i love it when he said pooons djedje
hhahaa

cryticfarm · « **Reply #167 on:** Fri, 19 March 2010, 07:46:34 »

I went to sleep hoping I would win for 10 minutes, then I woke up and I was disappointed D: .
Congrats to the winner though!

cryticfarm · « **Reply #168 on:** Fri, 19 March 2010, 09:15:40 »

oh god wut
does this mean we have to redraw OH NO

GenEric35 · « **Reply #169 on:** Fri, 19 March 2010, 09:19:18 »

how did you select the winner?
string.Format(CultureInfo.InvariantCulture,
"your list was called random something but the code to select randomly was at" +
"the very right far end of your line {0}", +
L2MakeSmallerLines("

"));

kishy · « **Reply #170 on:** Fri, 19 March 2010, 09:30:51 »

Quote from: Ranma13;165326

We have a winner!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58--OmKfNrg

Congratulations, poonsmjj, please check your PM!

P.S. How do you embed Youtube videos?

Congratulations indeed!

RE: YouTube:
Take the normal embed code, then put it inside of:

[youtube] [/youtube]

tags.

GenEric35 · « **Reply #171 on:** Fri, 19 March 2010, 09:35:15 »

Hitler invented code reviews?

SAL36864 · « **Reply #172 on:** Fri, 19 March 2010, 09:54:08 »

Quote from: GenEric35;165383

Hitler invented code reviews?

But at least he apologized.

Mental Hobbit · « **Reply #173 on:** Fri, 19 March 2010, 10:11:55 »

Hitler apologized?

elservo · « **Reply #174 on:** Fri, 19 March 2010, 10:21:30 »

Quote from: ripster;165373

Poons has a Realforce.

But it's white. He was worried the Black one would get all shiny. Now he'll find out.

More people voted Black in the survey BTW.

Totally knew this would happen!

LordGurciullo · « **Reply #175 on:** Fri, 19 March 2010, 11:44:55 »

He has one already? Having 2 realforces seems redundant and unnecessary

. Oh well at least he ... now has 60 million topre pushes to look forward to

.

SAL36864 · « **Reply #176 on:** Fri, 19 March 2010, 11:53:13 »

Quote from: Mental Hobbit;165389

Hitler apologized?

Quote from: ripster regarding what a bum said;165380

"SORRY - That's What Hitler Said!"

Saying sorry is apologizing, no?

elservo · « **Reply #177 on:** Fri, 19 March 2010, 13:57:07 »

I can say that I've said sorry and it was in no way a real apology.

kriminal · « **Reply #178 on:** Fri, 19 March 2010, 14:17:46 »

Quote from: kishy;164931

...which raises a concern, actually. If it ends up being passed from geekhacker to geekhacker, it'd probably be best to organize that system so that it doesn't go between continents more than necessary (eg. Canada-US-Netherlands-US-UK-Canada-Australia-US doesn't make sense). That'd get ridiculously expensive.

I wonder if Geekhack as a single entity can get commercial shipping rates?

err you forgot to put trinidad & tobago in that round up... >_> <_<

and ROTFL @ stevie wonder

Ranma13 · « **Reply #179 on:** Fri, 19 March 2010, 14:22:45 »

Quote from: GenEric35;165378

how did you select the winner?
string.Format(CultureInfo.InvariantCulture,
"your list was called random something but the code to select randomly was at" +
"the very right far end of your line {0}", +
L2MakeSmallerLines(""));

I randomized the list beforehand, so it could've been list.ElementAt(0) and it still would've been random.

Considering this was throwaway code, I didn't exactly spend a lot of time making it look all nice and pretty

.

Oh, I'll give poonsmjj until Saturday evening (3/20/10) to reply to my PM. Otherwise, at that time, I'll run the lotto again.

kriminal · « **Reply #180 on:** Fri, 19 March 2010, 14:45:29 »

poonsmjj · « **Reply #181 on:** Fri, 19 March 2010, 16:23:02 »

I replied!! Don't give it away again! Noooooooo

Quote from: ranma13;165449

i randomized the list beforehand, so it could've been list.elementat(0) and it still would've been random.

Considering this was throwaway code, i didn't exactly spend a lot of time making it look all nice and pretty .

Oh, i'll give poonsmjj until saturday evening (3/20/10) to reply to my pm. Otherwise, at that time, i'll run the lotto again.

poonsmjj · « **Reply #182 on:** Fri, 19 March 2010, 16:31:54 »

Quote from: elservo;165390

Totally knew this would happen!

I never ended up buying a realforce since I couldn't justify spending that much money on a keyboard... if I did I would have posted photos as listed at the end of that thread/in the review section.

If we need proof I suppose we could ask the guys from elitekeyboards to check if they have my name in their sales listing to prove that I don't have one.... granted I realize you could say that I purchased it from somewhere else but I really don't own this keyboard.

I'm not sure how else to prove that I don't have a realforce...

poonsmjj · « **Reply #183 on:** Fri, 19 March 2010, 17:30:12 »

Thanks for the faith ripster. I'll definitely have to post up some photos of this board (assuming Ranma13 still decides to award it to me) just out of happiness/props to one of the coolest threads on geekhack.

It'll also be interesting to compare this to my poor-man's Topre (aka the SGI Granite alps keyboard with dampeners) since I remember reading on geekhack that it was one of the closest feeling keyboards to a Topre... we shall see!

Quote from: ripster;165480

Hey, since I posted the link let me just say I do believe poonsmjj.

And if he is ever caught with two of them I'll send my buds over! But WITH a marmot.
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Congrats!

Oqsy · « **Reply #184 on:** Fri, 19 March 2010, 17:43:14 »

Ve vant de money, Lebowskee... No funny schtuff!

Ranma13 · « **Reply #185 on:** Fri, 19 March 2010, 21:51:38 »

For those of you who were hoping that poonsmjj would not respond to my PM, unfortunately he has, so the keyboard will be going to him

. Thanks for participating, and perhaps the next keyboard I accidentally spill coffee on will go to you!

Rajagra · « **Reply #186 on:** Sat, 20 March 2010, 06:09:34 »

Quote from: Oqsy;165489

Ve vant de money, Lebowskee... No funny schtuff!

He can't hear you over the sound of how happy he is.

BucklingSpring · « **Reply #187 on:** Sat, 20 March 2010, 18:57:16 »

Quote from: ripster;164344 Plus I'm American. That means I'm entitled to most of the world's assets.[/QUOTE

Love it.

Here's why I'm a better candidate.

Not only I was spanked, but I'm Canadian. That means that I'm never going to be entitled to any of the world's asset.

If you want to make a difference in the world. Send it over here.

;-)

JBert · « **Reply #188 on:** Sat, 20 March 2010, 19:01:38 »

It's gone. Let it go and return to your buckling springs. For example, I don't see a model F in your sig. :-)

ricercar · « **Reply #189 on:** Sat, 20 March 2010, 19:13:02 »

Quote from: trievalot;164726

Oh, and on another note i have a stack of 4 year old ex primary school rubber dome keyboards im sending to EACH AND EVERY ONE of you unless you can give me a good reason you deserve not to recieve it

I'll send two different stacks to you if you send one to me.

poonsmjj · « **Reply #190 on:** Fri, 02 April 2010, 21:24:31 »

Sorry for taking so long to write up a review but it's finally here ... check it out!

http://geekhack.org/showwiki.php?title=Island:9384

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Author Topic: Free Topre Realforce all 55g giveaway! (Read 27287 times)