Knights of NI (no shruberies here!)

[Ben]

Nice nomination JLV,

He reminds me a lot of Mike Dubea (spelling is probably wrong phonetically it is something like "due - by" I think.). (BTW: coming from me that is a compliment).

Ben

[tst]

Thanks for the vote of confidence, but here is my view on this. To quote Ben, the knights are "those contributors that have given us the gift of knowledge". While I will acknowledge that I do qualify for this technically (even for people in this thread), I think that something like this should be reserved for a select few, who really know how LV works and reacts from the inside. That's why all those I suggested were from NI (and this list would go on to include people like Johnner or Aaron if their contributions seemed less specific [internet and Fieldpoint, in those cases], although they should get it, don't get me wrong). For that I definitely don't qualify.
I may be a fast learner and a serious and sincere responder, but I am not an expert. There are many many things I don't know about LV, some of them very basic, just because my work with LV didn't take me there. I just like poking my nose into things and seeing "what will happen if I do this?". I also follow debates here because I learn a lot from them.
I do hope to qualify for this in the future (after overtaking Dennis?), but not yet.

[Ben]

Do not so quickly dismiss yourself!

I used to work for an ex-WO4 (WO4 = warrent officer 4, which requires an act of congress) that seldom answered questions directly but rather would ask questions who's answer was the answer to the original Q posted to him. Yes, Socratic method.

Sometimes asking the right questions can be as enlightening as giving an answer.

I second YOU tst because of your energy and your willingness to "dump your guts" and confess your limitations.

Now I have to get back to keeping JLV in line.

Benjamin Anthony Rayner Jr.

aka

Ben

[tst]

Damien Gray.
Another one of those expert NI guys.
As before, I can't think of any specific thread, but that's probably because they're all good.
BTW, am I a knight now? Who decides? Maybe I should change the name to Sir tst...

Incidentally, I was wondering - what happens if a woman becomes a knight? What would her title be? Just wondering...

Thinking about some more, I object less about being nominated. If uncle Billy and Elton John can be knights, so can I!

[Ben]

Excellent nomination!

Yes, once you are nominated you are one!

So what is the "sir" equivelent, sirette?

I have to ask my wife, she knows all that kind of stuff.

Ben

[JeanPierre]

I think it is "Lady"

[Ray.R]

What??

So what's up with the Nights thing??

I don't understand..

Why Knights? Isn't Enthusiats enough?? And NI people get paid for this, don;t they?

It's Friday, the sw doesn't work.. it's been a long week..
And I'm not allowed to be in a Forum (new rule)...

-- sigh --

JLV (aka. Sleepless Night)

😉

[Ben]

Hi JLV,

If you look down to where I started this thread, you will see that I just wanted to gather in one place our recognition of others without invoking a lot of rules.

The "Knight of NI" was suposed to be a play on the title from Monty Pythons Quest for the Holy Grail >> "Knights of NEE".

Ben

[Ray.R]

I'm slow this week..

sorry...

[Ben]

I would like to nominate Donald as the newest member of the Knights of NI.

In this thread

http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?board.id=170&message.id=119433&jump=true

he taught me that the "format into string" will return the string associated with an enum.

Thank you Donald!

Ben