Hey, how many people got tha green checkie? My fingers are all over and I am still counting.

http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?joel.3.288571.8

I bet you can't actually list more than ten people with a green checkie? Go ahead, try it. I'll eat my words if you prove me wrong.

1. John Topely
2. muppet (had once)
3. Mark TAW
4. Dennis (had once)
5. Philo (he's had it, too)
6. Joel
7. Michael Pryor
8. Eric Sink
9. Simon Lucy
10. Bob Walsh

heheheh what do I get?

i win i win

that too on company time i win

you've still got three to go ...

> more than ten people with a green

Notice the "more" and "with" words.

that's not fair

I did say more than ten (fingers all over and still counting?). And had once doesn't count, since had once doesn't equate to has now. So far you have:

1. John Topely
2. MarkTAW
3. Joel Spolsky
4. Michael Prior
5. Eric Sink
6. Simon Lucy
7. Bob Walsh

Keep counting...

if I keep counting them, like you insist, they count to 14 and then 21 and then that way...that's wayyyy more than 10.

bugger, am I not?

but I dig the pattern. like, only noble laureates will get checkies. dix like me: no. no checkie for dix.

Don't forget the interns.

Sath,

What's the obsession with Green Checkie? It's not really a million dollar nobel prize, so why bother?

* its free
* its negotiable
* i can boast about it
* it ain't cost me no dime
* i will exchange it for favors like sex with girls I like and a job at MS

Funny, I wasn't aware that a green checky was 'negotiable'. I think you're dreaming again, Sathy.

yes, it is highly negotiable - by endorsement - and you can use it and still have it with you.

I believe all the FogCreek employees have one too....someone i'd never seen post but identified himself as a fogcreek employee posted in BoS a month or two ago and had one...some long south asian sounding name I think. That said i'm not sure why anyone would want one, it seems more like a job of tedium then glory. It would be neat if Joel offered a blue or red check or something for people that are regulars so they can be "fogcreek certified" or whatever to really be Phil or Mark Warner or whatever, get a login etc....

I am just being a brat. I don't really need one.

Geeks. He claimed he could "...exchange it for favors like sex with girls I like and a job at MS" and you carp on another, lesser claim, that checkies are 'negotiable'.
Wherein you totally missed a chance to get a dig in, like: "Whoa! If *you* can exchange it for favors like sex with girls, it must be worth a *fortune*!" That sort of thing. But no, you go and take him all serious and shit.
Geeks...

> exchange it for favors like sex with girls I like and a job at MS

Not worth it. I'd trade my green checkie for, say $10k, though.

>Not worth it. I'd trade my green checkie for, say $10k, though.

Isn't it all the same? - the three options?

[g, d, r]

Nah, the going rate for sex is much closer to $200.

Not when you qualify it "with girls I like".

Girls you already know and like, or just generally having your pick at the whore house?

Could be either. If the former, the price could be much greater than $200. Fuck, it could be MARRIAGE, which no man should pay.

It could also be $0.

On the other hand, it could be the hell that Mat Hall is going through.

sharkfish is gonna *love* this thread.

It's never ZERO. It's at least dinner and generally the best you can get away with is a week of phone calls and a guilt trip.

No dinner. The phone calls... maybe, maybe not. The guilt is generally your hangups, not hers.

Shhh Mark quit spoiling it.

Sathy - there's a guy named Baba or something that has a green checky also. And you forgot about Tyler Griffin Hicks-Wright.

Babak. His name is Babak.

http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?joel.3.263475.4

Ah thats the guy with the long name I was thinking of

I've a good mind to use my amazing green checkie powers to delete this thread as my name was spelt wrong!

If we deleted for name mispsellings, I'd have to delete every thread that mentioned me. And I'm using the abbreviated version already!

Good point Mak.

I wanted to point out that. I made a typo but Ian was a copy cat. He copied and pasted my stuff and then said I was wrong. :-)

News about Mat Hall? What's he going through?

I copied the misspelling intact in order to be true to the original. Though to be fair to John Topley I should have appended a [sic] after his name to make it clear that I saw the error but let it stand. My apologies to John.

It's not negotiable. They can only be issued by the Bank of Joel. Any attempt to transfer one will result in revocation of all rights and privileges.