Author Topic: It's come to Jesus time kids! I'm breaking out the offering collection plate. (Read 26391 times)

zeDoktor · « **Reply #50 on:** Thu, 26 April 2012, 23:43:41 »

Donated

Hope everything goes smoothly with the upgrade.

dotancohen · « **Reply #51 on:** Sun, 29 April 2012, 03:56:23 »

I donated, but really not much. Though if half the active members donate what I did then a new hard drive won't out of reach!

Witling · « **Reply #52 on:** Sun, 29 April 2012, 15:03:55 »

I just donated. This board is a lot like toilet paper. I don't use it a lot, but nothing else quite does the job as well when I need it.

J-P · « **Reply #53 on:** Mon, 30 April 2012, 14:11:06 »

donediddly... wish I could donate more!

wasdkeyboards · « **Reply #54 on:** Mon, 30 April 2012, 14:54:55 »

I've donated as well. GH has been a huge supporter for us and we support GH 100%.

jellowiggler · « **Reply #55 on:** Mon, 30 April 2012, 15:34:17 »

I threw some money in the iMav hat.

Keep the Hack strong!

therecorder · « **Reply #56 on:** Wed, 02 May 2012, 13:17:53 »

It's come to Jesus time kids! I'm breaking out the offering collection plate.

Well, I'm from Israel, and don't know much about "coming to Jesus" or "collection plates", but I do know about helping out when help is needed. My first month here, and you guys helped me out a boat load. Hope my little load helps you back.

dotancohen · « **Reply #57 on:** Wed, 02 May 2012, 13:26:02 »

Hey, another Israeli! Where do you get mechanical keyboards from locally? I had to order mine from Asia and pay ridiculous tax on the thing.

I was also wondering about the "come to Jesus" line. Is that an Americanism? I am fairly well trained in English, but I don't watch American television so all the little pop phrases elude me.

alaricljs · « **Reply #58 on:** Wed, 02 May 2012, 13:41:56 »

Sort of a southern baptist thing I think... and as such probably more of a joke line than anything.

therecorder · « **Reply #59 on:** Wed, 02 May 2012, 13:43:22 »

Quote from: dotancohen;588269

Hey, another Israeli! Where do you get mechanical keyboards from locally? I had to order mine from Asia and pay ridiculous tax on the thing.

I was also wondering about the "come to Jesus" line. Is that an Americanism? I am fairly well trained in English, but I don't watch American television so all the little pop phrases elude me.

I'm an American Israeli, living in Be'er Sheva, and have gotten a Tt eSports Meka G-1, and a Razer BlackWidow and BlackWidow Ultimate from K. S. P.. But I also have had to shop outside the country to get Filco and Ducky boards. Yes, the shipping charges are horrific, and the Customs/VAT/Handling charges (through EMS) are likewise. Guess that's the price you have to pay for living the good life.

I guess the "come to Jesus" expression is sort of universally Christian. It has to do with the belief that faith in Jesus will save you. (People, correct me if I am wrong.)

Your English is super. If you're a sabra, then your parents can't be.:usa2:

Djuzuh · « **Reply #60 on:** Wed, 02 May 2012, 13:46:57 »

During the church ceremony, an offering collection plate is going threw the ranks to pay for the infrastructure and the pastor. The « It's come to jesus time » is more of an introduction to this donation ritual more than anything else I think.

therecorder · « **Reply #61 on:** Wed, 02 May 2012, 14:00:08 »

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/come_to_Jesus

jdcarpe · « **Reply #62 on:** Wed, 02 May 2012, 14:04:57 »

An expression widely used in the American South. I think Urban Dictionary explains it best:

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=come%20to%20jesus

1. come to jesus
Getting called on the carpet, dressed down, or otherwise chewed out in a severe manner. Usually used in conjunction with "meetin'" (meeting)
He was late one too many times, so the old man dragged him in the office for a "come to jesus meetin'".

harrison · « **Reply #63 on:** Wed, 02 May 2012, 15:41:22 »

Quote from: alaricljs;588277

Sort of a southern baptist thing I think... and as such probably more of a joke line than anything.

yes. as an aside, i was raised baptist, which is why i'm familiar with (and use) the term, but the wiki link above summarizes it well:

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/come_to_Jesus
(idiomatic, US) To become committed or display commitment to a cause.

DesktopJinx · « **Reply #64 on:** Thu, 03 May 2012, 13:01:39 »

Donated.

OrangeJewce · « **Reply #65 on:** Tue, 15 May 2012, 09:31:25 »

Quote from: therecorder;588279

I'm an American Israeli, living in Be'er Sheva, and have gotten a Tt eSports Meka G-1, and a Razer BlackWidow and BlackWidow Ultimate from K. S. P.. But I also have had to shop outside the country to get Filco and Ducky boards. Yes, the shipping charges are horrific, and the Customs/VAT/Handling charges (through EMS) are likewise. Guess that's the price you have to pay for living the good life.

I guess the "come to Jesus" expression is sort of universally Christian. It has to do with the belief that faith in Jesus will save you. (People, correct me if I am wrong.)

Your English is super. If you're a sabra, then your parents can't be.:usa2:

My sister lives in Be'er Sheva? You wouldn't happen to be in University would you? (BGU)

Cheers,

CeeSA · « **Reply #66 on:** Wed, 16 May 2012, 16:42:08 »

Donated.
the topic is a bit weird for me to.

normally i would never look into a thread with 'jesus' in the topic

MMB · « **Reply #67 on:** Wed, 16 May 2012, 22:27:17 »

Donated. Thanks for giving me a place to dump all of my money

eyesnine · « **Reply #68 on:** Sat, 26 May 2012, 18:30:07 »

Thanks for all the keyboard info!

Lin TaobaoAgent · « **Reply #69 on:** Wed, 30 May 2012, 10:32:08 »

:plane: Dropped some coins

qtan5370 · « **Reply #70 on:** Mon, 04 June 2012, 15:20:53 »

Donated wish it help and thanks for geekhack.

theOwlol · « **Reply #71 on:** Mon, 04 June 2012, 15:26:57 »

Donated, it's not that much, but better then nothing.

mule · « **Reply #72 on:** Wed, 06 June 2012, 08:35:09 »

Just donated a small “Thank You”.

suprsmo · « **Reply #73 on:** Fri, 15 June 2012, 22:22:08 »

Hadn't paid this thread much mind.. as someone said earlier, the jesus line was a bit out there.. someone should probably change that.. might get a few more donations.

Just donated a bit. Server seems to be running like silk.

Cheers iMav *tips hat*

harrison · « **Reply #74 on:** Fri, 15 June 2012, 22:41:49 »

Quote from: suprsmo;614498

Hadn't paid this thread much mind.. as someone said earlier, the jesus line was a bit out there.. someone should probably change that.. might get a few more donations.

Just donated a bit. Server seems to be running like silk.

Cheers iMav *tips hat*

it was meant to catch attention...

it worked.

Supergleep · « **Reply #75 on:** Sun, 17 June 2012, 22:38:12 »

Been away from GH for awhile, but saw this tonight and sent some funds to iMav. Thanks for keeping GH running

aarobc · « **Reply #76 on:** Fri, 20 July 2012, 19:36:23 »

Donating as a plead to get rid of the annoying captcha.

mkawa · « **Reply #77 on:** Fri, 20 July 2012, 20:51:31 »

and like magic, it's gone!

anyway, bumping this again because as i said on desko, we do really need money right now. here's what's going on hardware-wise:

1) two drives have gone bad on us in the last 6 days. we have had to replace these drives out of pocket to get the server up.

2) we've been donated a high-performance highly-redundant storage array, but we have had to pay for shipping and some additional hardware to get it up and running. once we get this up, we will be able to significantly increase our transaction rates, storage capacity, and our backup and restore capabilities. we're really excited about this, but so far we have been paying for this all out of pocket.

3) imav has sacrificed both a significant amount of travel time, fuel, and weekends he could have spent with his family to stage and prime the hardware changes we needed to bring the site back up securely and performantly.

i've been working with members of the community to come up with some targeted fundraiser drives (rootworm doubleshot keycap anyone?

that will help make up for these efforts, but we can always use more.

thanks for hearing me out folks, and happy geekhacking!

dirge · « **Reply #78 on:** Sat, 21 July 2012, 05:23:48 »

Shame you're in the states, have loads of HP gear 580's 380's 360's eva3000/6000 that's just going to cost us to get rid of...

fartq · « **Reply #79 on:** Sun, 22 July 2012, 01:52:23 »

no worries; i don't think we could do much with gear that old anyway.

dirge · « **Reply #80 on:** Sun, 22 July 2012, 05:23:38 »

what spec box does geekhack need!? Surely 2 xeon multicores and 15k sas raid 10 would cope?

I'm using 380's as esxi hosts and getting plenty guests on there with decent performance.

doc_robert · « **Reply #81 on:** Mon, 23 July 2012, 01:01:36 »

awesome!

kriminal · « **Reply #82 on:** Thu, 09 August 2012, 21:48:38 »

donated

mkawa · « **Reply #83 on:** Sat, 18 August 2012, 11:56:06 »

the donation campaign has moved to donation links elsewhere and the charity auctions. i'm going to let this thread sink, but please remember that we still need those donations

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Author Topic: It's come to Jesus time kids! I'm breaking out the offering collection plate. (Read 26391 times)

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