[19:22:08] <sgardner>	 hey -- question for fundraising campaign people, or campaign-knowledgeable people:
[19:22:44] <sgardner>	 Someone told me yesterday that we make 80K/minute during the campaign. Can anyone confirm that's a reasonably accurate statement?
[19:22:52] * Ironholds  pokes jvandavier, points at ED

[19:23:17] <sgardner>	 (I don't know what the assumptions were, and don't care much. Not planning to use it with the media or in any official way: I'm just curious. If it's true I would say it to people at, like, parties.)
[19:23:48] <Ironholds>	 alternately, sgardner, Katie is in the staff channel :)
[19:25:53] <jvandavier>	 sgardner, Ironholds: Katie is checking those facts :)
[19:27:18] <Ironholds>	 neat
[19:28:17] <sgardner>	 jvandavier, Ironholds: thank you :-)
[19:29:38] <K4-713>	 sgardner: Were you looking for numbers?
[19:30:19] <mindspillage>	 ooh, that is a good number to share at parties, if it's an accurate one. (I go to some really boring parties.)
[19:30:36] * K4-713  is totally late to the party

[19:30:50] <sgardner>	 K4-713 -- I am mostly just curious. Erik told me yesterday that we make 80K/minute; I am just verifying :-)
[19:30:57] <Ironholds>	 nobody ever invites me to these parties
[19:31:08] <sgardner>	 (It's no big deal though, not worth any real time. I am just curious :-)
[19:31:10] <Ironholds>	 I mean, if they're so dull fundraising statistics are an improvement, even my presence can't do too much harm.
[19:31:37] <sgardner>	 mindspillage, LOL that you're here. I am verifying so I can say it to you in an e-mail, in which I make gentle fun of Jimmy for the Vodafone 50K :-)
[19:31:48] <sgardner>	 (going into a meeting now, back afterwards)
[19:32:04] <mindspillage>	 hah!
[19:32:11] <K4-713>	 sgardner: Ha, actually I think it should be nearly 80k per hour.
[19:32:36] <K4-713>	 It's hovering around $22/second this year.
[19:32:44] <Ironholds>	 wow
[19:33:10] <K4-713>	 Yeah. No pressure. :p
[19:33:21] <Ironholds>	 K4-713: thank you for making me feel terrible at my job ;p
[19:33:51] <K4-713>	 ...it does that when I'm sleeping.
[19:33:57] <Ironholds>	 "well, I just paid your salary for two hours in the time it took me to finish this sentence. What've you done?" "uh. I made a picture. it has arrows."
[19:34:16] <Ironholds>	 "and colour coding. They are pretty colours."
[19:34:27] <K4-713>	 Hey: Anybody in fr-tech will tell you we have a tremendous shortage of pictures with arrows.
[19:34:30] <Ironholds>	 "I've written 'By Oliver, Aged 22 And A Half' in the corner, see?"
[19:34:35] <K4-713>	 Could save years of my life, actually...
[19:34:41] <K4-713>	 haha
[19:35:00] <Ironholds>	 (okay, so what I actually made was a workflow diagram. But still.)
[19:35:26] <mindspillage>	 As long as it still has "By Oliver, Aged 22 And A Half" in the corner....
[19:35:35] <Ironholds>	 it doesn't, but I am very tempted to add it
[19:35:37] <Ironholds>	 in Comic Sans.
[19:36:35] <K4-713>	 And then, there's this: http://ganglia.wikimedia.org/latest/graph.php?r=day&z=xlarge&c=Fundraising+pmtpa&h=erzurumi.pmtpa.wmnet&v=0&m=ActiveMQ+QueueSize+donations&jr=&js=&vl=Messages
[19:37:04] <K4-713>	 That's the graph of the size of the donations queue.
[19:37:07] <Ironholds>	 my graphs are prettier *sulks*
[19:38:00] <K4-713>	 This reminds me from a scene from "The Day After Tomorrow".
[19:38:05] <K4-713>	 *of
[19:38:29] <Ironholds>	 ...you killed the queen? monster.
[19:39:13] <K4-713>	 I had to.
[19:39:15] <K4-713>	 ...sorry.
[19:39:53] <Ironholds>	 you better be.
[19:47:28] <K4-713>	 Just for the sake of... argument? Since we turned this thing on yesterday, we're making $22.323 USD per second.
[20:17:33] <Ironholds>	 nice!
[20:17:46] <Ironholds>	 with that and another 100 dollars you can get yourself a coffee in the FiDi