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Michael Vincent Retires from ticalc.org
Posted by Michael on 29 July 2009, 21:01 GMT
For several weeks I have been waiting for an appropriate moment in calculator news to announce my retirement as ticalc.org news editor. Now that such news has arrived, I shall retire as news editor effective at noon tomorrow. During my six years as a ticalc.org staff member, I always felt privileged to be a participant in this wonderful community. I have now owned graphing calculators and visited ticalc.org for more than half of my life, a time which I shall always cherish for its friendships, intellectual challenges, and limitless learning. There have been too many calculator-related memories to count, from late-night IRC chats in #tcpa to being featured on Slashdot (twice!), founding the Graphing Calculator Club in my high school, and of course writing news articles about the best of our community. I hope that you have enjoyed reading my articles (even if the Voyage 400 is not real) and perhaps downloaded a few of my programs. Most importantly, I thank all of the programmers and users, past and present, without whom there would be no news or even ticalc.org.
I no longer have the free time necessary to be an effective news editor, and I must honestly confess that my enthusiasm for the daily news search has waned over the past several months. It is therefore in the best interest of the community as well as myself that I move on to other things. While I will no longer be releasing new programs or news articles, I intend to at least lurk in the community and perhaps work on miscellaneous tasks for ticalc.org as I am able. Thank you for all of your support through the years.
Update (October 29): It seems I'm unable to completely retire, as I've made some news posts since this announcement and worked on some programming projects. I suppose I'm only semi-retired. Calculators forever!
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Joey Gannon 
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Michael, it has been an absolute pleasure getting to work with you over the years. Your contributions to the community are immeasurable, and I wish you the best of luck as you move on.
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29 July 2009, 21:05 GMT
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Kevin Ouellet
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Sorry to see you go. You put a lot of work as Ticalc staff. Are you the news editor who spent the longest amount of time on this staff position on ticalc too? On top of that you did other stuff such as file archiving and comments board moderating (around 2002, I remember boards were spammish then when you got hired, no more spam in the first few years)
Anyway you contributed a lot to the community. Good luck in your future projects.
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29 July 2009, 21:55 GMT
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graphmastur
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That is sad. But how many news articles is this? I am sure you have done quite a bit.
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29 July 2009, 22:15 GMT
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Ben Nagy
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Thank you so much for all you've done for the community! You'll be missed, and we all look forward to seeing what else you do. Thank you for the 6 years!
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29 July 2009, 23:02 GMT
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Timmc
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I was just thinking about ticalc.org and a familiar face posting news. I haven't taken the time to visit in months. I thought it was a fake news article at first...
Thanks for your time over the years Michael. It's been an interesting read. :-)
Tim.
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29 July 2009, 23:25 GMT
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TheStorm
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Thanks for all the great years of news. Any word yet on who your replacement will be?
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30 July 2009, 00:45 GMT
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KermMartian
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I can't say I've always agreed with your choice of news and not-news, but over the years you've certainly put in effort and enthusiasm, and brought a lot of positive momentum to the community. Kudos.
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30 July 2009, 00:48 GMT
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Lewk
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Good-night, sweet prince. ;)
Anyways, thank you so much for the time you deticated to this site!
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30 July 2009, 01:41 GMT
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Patrick Prendergast
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Thankyou for the fantastic contribution to the community you provided with your time at ticalc.org. You are one of the greats Michael, dare i say ticalc will not be the same without you.
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30 July 2009, 07:12 GMT
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Brandon Wilson
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It's hard to know what to say. You've been a part of this community for almost as long as I can remember, and I'm sure it won't be the same without you.
It might not have been said enough, but you've provided a lot to this community and we're all very grateful for it, at least I am. You and others made it fun, and I'll never forget it.
Keep in touch, and don't forget us.
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30 July 2009, 19:58 GMT
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Re: Michael Vincent Retires from ticalc.org
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Michael Vincent
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I have thrown together a little package of some source code, unfinished projects, unreleased documentation, etc. which I would like to release. Much of it is useless but some of it is useful.
It can be downloaded for the next few weeks from the URL of this post.
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31 July 2009, 03:30 GMT
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