Shan Revan

Haha no, I'm not terribly looking forward to summer, although on the plus side, El Nino actually has a somewhat limited effect on the area I live in, at least compared to other, more populous parts of the nation. Also ocean currents along the East coast have been staying a lot warmer than normal (I wonder why!!!!), which has the potential to mitigate a lot of the effect along the coast. Going to really suck to be in the south and inland though.

That just makes them better to have with a nice tea or cappuccino. Also Hi Betsy, I am well enough, et toi?

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I have generally preferred a good biscuit over cookies.

I come before you with sad news My friend, and fellow former IRON Councillor, Mia tragically passed away, 3rd of August 2023, aged 31. I was fortunate enough to encounter Mia in my role in foreign affairs as a counterpart in the alliance TOOL, who were our friends and allies before eventually merging into IRON. While she was always fun to work with, it wasn't until Mia was an amazing young woman. She was warm and caring, fun and had a wicked sense of humour. Mia brought life to every community she partook in and brightened the lives of those who knew her as friends. Sadly, she struggled with chronic health issues her entire life, but the strength of her determination and ambitions saw her to many impressive successes in spite of the challenges. It comes as no surprise that when combined with her cunning political acumen she was responsible for many of IRON's greatest diplomatic achievements and is well known, and now mourned, across the cyberverse. Ultimately Mia was my friend for the last 15 years and will be dearly missed.

This made me curious, and to the extent we have records, the longest-lived spider made it to 28 years old. It was apparently a tarantula from Mexico. That record, and longevity records for other animals (dogs, rabbits, goldfish, etc.) from here: http://webecoist.momtastic.com/2010/07/13/grand-paws-10-of-the-worlds-longest-lived-animals/ (The most interesting one on their list was a koi that made it to 226 years old!) Last year they found an abnormally large sydney funnel webspider with a 2m wide nest that they believe to be between 25 to 30 years old. Not much of a pet to keep unless you're a venomologist.

I win? On second thoughts, lets not win this thread, t'is a silly thread.

It happens. edit: also banned for something

Banned to fill in time. Not as satisfying as real banning nor as rage mail inducing as deleting nations was but it'll have to suffice.

No, sometime in uhhh late 07 or so the cybernations moved to the forums I linked after a big attack on their website.

This inspired me to go through some of my announcements, I think this is my favourite DoW I posted for IRON http://forums.cybernations.net/index.php?/topic/21080-iron-declaration-of-war/

Ah yeah. now it works and I remember how much of a pain that was to make with everyone, and that's only 4 years of history. It needs a whole 6 years of updates! I don't envy anyone who ever decides to do that job.

Nor I

There is this, which is essentially an edited version of a history I wrote, it only really covers the first couple of years though. http://cybernations.wikia.com/wiki/History_of_the_Independent_Republic_of_Orange_Nations I think there was a semi-updated version that went up to about 2010 or so buried somewhere on these forums, but someone else will have to do the digging

Good God this thing is still going on. XV