Donation campaign for Gandalf to fund a new server

[Ballbarian]

Thanks for setting this up lch.

Don't feel bad Agrajag. For the past year plus, I thought his name was ich (sounds like "ICK"). I always thought it was pretty creative that he had a grumpy, three eyed, squishy, purple monster for his avatar to go with a handle like "ICH".

(LCH, you will always be ICH to me as well. )

[JimMorrison]

Ballbarian said:
Thanks for setting this up lch.

Don't feel bad Agrajag. For the past year plus, I thought his name was ich (sounds like "ICK"). I always thought it was pretty creative that he had a grumpy, three eyed, squishy, purple monster for his avatar to go with a handle like "ICH".

(LCH, you will always be ICH to me as well. )

I feel violated.

[MaxWilson]

Huh? Ich is LCH? I always just thought you were German, lch.

-Max

[cupido2]

LCH... JimMorrison said it...

Do I HAVE to have a paypal account for donation? (I don't trust that modern fancy stuff.) Or is there another way to make a donation?

[Endoperez]

I always thought lch was lch, like in lich. You just drop a letter.

Also, what cupido said. I'm wary of this modern fancy stuff.

[Ballbarian]

I am not a fan of PayPal either, but I did set up an account for this. I will likely close it once the transaction is complete, or at least remove the card from my account.

[lch]

Well, you'll need to use some kind of payment processing system, after all. PayPal is the de-facto standard for payment on eBay, especially when it comes to international payments for overseas auctions. That was even the case before eBay bought them some years ago (and the reason they did it). PayPal offers a multitude of possibilities to charge for payments, may it be credit card, wire transfer or other debit transfer system. So in case you do have money somewhere, PayPal enables you to spend it relatively easy. Including protection against fraud and insurance on payments for eBay.

My nick is indeed spelled L-C-H for those who use a sans-serif font and haven't noted. Some german guy on another board I frequented years ago even made an elk sig graphic for me because he thought that it's derived from the german "Elch". Neither of those is the case, though.

Also, my avatar is from this short film: http://youtube.com/watch?v=PYw8fXiWNDk which was later redone with a different voice, by Terry Farrel, for Six. Which sucked. Then they made a TV series out of it some years later which sucked, and a movie which sucked, too. But I like that short film. I had the avatar in greater resolution before but I lost the picture, the original vanished in the depths of the internet, and I extracted the avatar image that I use now from my Windows XP logon screen.

[Agrajag]

Ballbarian said:
(sounds like "ICK")

It's worse for me, since I read it with a chet, which turns it into the Hebrew equivalent of "yuck!"

[lch]

Agrajag said:

It's worse for me, since I read it with a chet, which turns it into the Hebrew equivalent of "yuck!"

I like that interpretation.

Edratman, Gandalf has posted his address above. But I'm really perplexed and baffled that US americans would rather trust the postal service with a check than use convenient wire transfer.

[Gandalf Parker]

AS A NETCOP:
I should mention that PayPal has a great record (so far, knock on virtual wood)

However I often recommend that people who are nervous of the internet get an "internet credit card".
A) with a limited amount. I went with $200
B) NOT with your usual bank
C) NOT tied into your "real" moneys for things like overdraft protection
D) mark it for net use only to make it easier to track the usage

Then I tend to mention that most fraud involving credit cards tends to come from non-internet use. Most often from carbon copies which come from spending it on gas or restaurants. So the same suggestion applies. People should get a low-cap credit card from a different bank for day to day use and not carry the big cards unless you are specifically going out to make a purchase with it.