Each year I pick someone to reward for their contributions to The Club throughout that year.
At the start of 2020, when I awarded @conrad.braam the ninja for the month of January, he said
It was easy because I just set a goal of logging in 3 times a week. To try support others with hopefully helpful answers, and to get inspired really, by the questions on domain topics I never get to see in my own day-to-day.
When Conrad was once again awarded the ninja of the month title in August, it was clear he was smashing the goal he’d set himself and doing an excellent job of contributing on The Club and helping others in the community
Yes I did set myself a goal, this was mainly because in real life I’m a really grumpy old git, and I wanted to have more purpose each day. Then with the pandemic giving me half an hour commuter time back each morning, I realized I could research StackOverflow Selenium related threads and log into MOT to get myself in the mood for each day. I’m now torn between binge-watching Scandanavian crime drama on iPlayer https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000nwrb (UK residents only sadly) and cramming as many 99 second talks into a weeknight as possible!
~bruce . Have always loved crime drama. I don’t have Netflix or anything fancy, but have watched all the old seasons of N.C.I.S. and of C.S.I. Have managed to find people giving away box sets. The thin blue line, and many others, our favourites are Luther (ldris Alba) , Bosch (Titus Welliver) if you have prime - but when we ran out of stuff I found the iplayer (available to UK residents only) has a lot of Scandinavian countries crime drama, “The bridge” is 3 seasons about an highly Autistic cop. A lot of the scandi-crime (it is almost a genre of its own) is subtitles only, but although the acting if often middling, the story, characters and of course the scenery is gorgeous. Try this one to start you off https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/m000h3cm/twin . We are currently watching “Cardinal”, it’s set in Canada. Most of the scandi-crime stuff does include strong language and nudity.
If you like your crime funny, there is of course “Johnathan Creek”, another funny one is “Castle”.
It’s also quite common thread for these Nordic/Scandanavian crime series to kill off their main actors, we kept expecting “Saga Noren, County Malmo CIS” to come to a sticky end in The Bridge. Will have to find that 4th season now.
I’m trying to vote for as many people as possible. I had hoped to get to Brighton in March, then that shifted to Manchester. And then I missed the “Home” bash due to poor work commitment management on my part, always too busy. So I hope that a lot of us are more keen as ever to get to a live bash again, holding thumbs for 2022. I also hear there is a “hangout” on Friday afternoons, I’m planning to drop in this week.
He had some stiff competition with @christovskia, @undevelopedbruce, @brian_seg & @melissafisher though 
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I had hoped to get to Brighton in March, then that shifted to Manchester. And then I missed the “Home” bash due to poor work commitment management on my part, always too busy. So I hope that a lot of us are more keen as ever to get to a live bash again, holding thumbs for 2022. I also hear there is a “hangout” on Friday afternoons, I’m planning to drop in this week.