Spindizzy Muck Guild

Don't miss the start of SpinDizzy's World Fair '13: Fifteen Years of Progress! The official opening is Saturday night, 8 pm Pacific Time, but the very first event is at 7 pm tonight.

It's time for a fresh idle purge on SpinDizzy, I'm afraid. The folks listed below, and their belongings, will be wiped clean off the muck if they don't connect or indicate a desire to connect by Saturday, August 17. If you know any of them, please tell them of the idle-purge. Also, if you know of any who are not able to make it onto the muck for some reason, please contact me with news of this.

If you do spot any of these folks connecting, please let them know we'd like to have them back on the muck, and help them to feel part of the community again. Thank you.

Abel	Aisha	Amber	Axel	Bluebell	Blueberry	Caroline	Catprog
Chile	Cobalt	Commwolf	Daean	Darla	Darwin	Dipstick	Eli
Emerald	Ezekiel	Flossi	Geo	George61	Gina_Doberman	Goddess_Violet	Ifyara
Indy	Istanbul	Jayce	Jessica	Jiffy	Jing	Karial	Lady_Gwendolyn
Leaps	Lillith	MsDee	Noctaina	Numunuu	Nyquil	One	Orolin
Paprika	Patricia	Pooka	Rheah	Rin	Riptide	Rowan	Ryu
Sapora	Shadecerule	Shizuka	Skolf	Solin	Strawberries	StunkyGirlSnivy	Tait
Than	Timesheart	Verrant	Wish_Bear	Xilats-Dert	ZwarteVacht

Alas, it's time to clean up the database, and our name space, some, by removing characters who've been gone for more than a year. If you know any of the people on this list, please contact them and let them know to connect here by the 19th of February or they face the purging of their possessions and the toading of their characters.

Anyone who does connect, or who sends word to us that there's hope they'll resume connecting after whatever problems are keeping them away, we're happy to spare. If you do see any of the idle-threatened, please invite them back into society; it's not like we don't want any more to do with them, after all.

I confess I don't expect that ToadNRecPlease will be coming back.

Austin Dern
Managing Editor

Akeakami	Aleister	Asherak	B.J.	Chu	Cindy	Clarisa	Crash
DavDragon	Dewi		Ecnart	Envi	Flux	Galanodel	Ginger
Gunnlod	Jackrabbit	Kaya	Koroshi	Mei	Michelle	Mischoe	Morgan
Mugen		Nestor	NeverNever	Nigel	Noctaina	Nyquil	Oliver
Pathfinder	Peppermint	Portia	Sasha	Slate	Snowfoot	Spots	ToadNRecPlease
Tristan	Weishaupt	Zeta

The SpinDizzy News is proud to present a special election issue. The polls for mayoral election 2013 will open tonight at midnight and run through the end of the day Wednesday, January 23.

Polls to Open at Midnight; Vote Will Be by Instant Runoff (by BunnyHugger)
http://www.spindizzy.org/nwp/polls-to-open-at-midnight-vote-will-be-by-instant-runoff/

Transcript of Tuesday's Debate (by Featherwing)
http://www.spindizzy.org/nwp/transcript-of-tuesdays-debate/

Meet the Candidates (by BunnyHugger)
http://www.spindizzy.org/nwp/meet-the-candidates/

Elections 4 is on. We'll be choosing a Mayor in the coming month. According to a bulletiin board post by Beltrami --- and echoed on the official newspaper --- is as follows:

January 7	Official Calling of election. Nominations will be accepted only from the 7th to the 11th.
January 11	Nominations Day. Start of campaigns. No electioneering prior to the publication of the official Candidate List.
January 20	Start of Voting. End of electioneering.
January 23	Close of Voting. Winner announced after the close.
January 26	Inauguration of new Mayor.

Last night, I had a dream that the MUCK moved to the scrum model. Every day before we could start interacting we had to have a real-life daily standup for 15 minutes in front of a whiteboard, to discuss what we did yesterday and what we were going to do today.

Nothing got done.

I'll be at Rainfurrest this weekend. In an effort not to be completely lonely during the con, I'm hoping to get a meetup set up before the con. So, does anyone want to get dinner at some point during the con, or at least meet up?
Also, if you see me, make sure I know your name on here, and please don't be offended if I don't recognize you by sight.
Please send me a pagemail, or text me at 801-999-TAIL.

Let me make a different proposal, then. Why not put a "Go to Original Website" button on the front page of the site, and run the original design in parallel with the old one? That way everyone can have what they want.

Now that Enkeli is gone, I wonder if we might consider reverting to the old spindizzy.org web page? The new one is undoubtedly well-written, and surely employs the most modern techniques, but it is frankly sterile. It looks like something an unsentimental, tightly-run small business with an eye on the bottom line would deploy. Spindizzy is none of these. The old website, for all its quirks and oddities, had character. It belonged to Spindizzy. It *felt* like Spindizzy.

There's so much that's missing from the new one too - the Who's Who pages, the 'What Makes Spindizzy Special' essay, and even the FAQ files are gone. There is surely some way that the improvements in coding, etc, can be kept, and used within the old site's layouts and graphics.

It's an unhappy but necessary duty. The people on this list have been away from SpinDizzy for more than a year, so we're sending out the summons to please either come back to us --- and I hope everyone who's on SpinDizzy will watch for these folks, either in popping up here or through other mucks, Twitter, Livejournal, or whatever methods they may have to reach them --- so we can get them back. My ideal is to someday have an idle purge where nobody gets removed, but it'll take the community making everyone feel the people here are and should be part of it in order to reach that ideal.

Please let the folks know that sometime after Tuesday, the 21st of August, we'll be removing their characters and creations.

If you're not on SpinDizzy, give us a try. We're open all seasons, and are coming to the final days of our Olympic Games soon. The muck's newspaper is at http://www.spindizzy.org/nwp/newspaper/ and it maintains the @SpinDizzy_Muck Twitter feed, as well as the Livejournal community http://spindizzy-muck.livejournal.com/ and of course you can reach it at muck.spindizzy.org port 7072 (or 7073 for SSL).

Austin Dern

Managing Editor

Abbie	Adara	Adasyd	Aina	Airyuu	Alex	Alicia	Alyah
Alynna	Antimatter	Arc	Arcanis	Archon	Arne	Arrekusu	Arryan
Ban	Becky	BillyBob	BirthdayBear	Blaze	Brenda	Breya	Bri
Cali	Cassy	Cello	Chamas	Chaos	CheerBear	Coldfyre	Concerto
Cortello	Cubbi	D`saynin	Daemon	Dandy	Darden	Darkness	Daystar
Denise	Derk	Devi	Dingorrison	Drake	Drift	DTF	Elarukhenaz
Elizabeth	Escher	Feldspar	Felina	Fifi	Firewind	FoxPaws	Fu
Funrir_Woulfe	Gavin	George	Gorkon	Hazel	Heather	Hell	Hoshi
Hucky	Ikuri	Ires	IronHoof	Istanbul	Itana	J'ee	Jacchus
Jedd	Jhen	Jintrop	Joe	Johann	JonnyAMax	Kalak	KandiPanda
Karesko	Kargrash	Katrus	KevMan	Kine	Kip	Krysta	Leamas
Leowulf	Librum	Lightnin'	Lillian	LittleBear	Luca	Lupinetiger	Lyka
Malcom	Marissa	Mattaui	Melanos	Melody_Adriae	Minx	Miri	Moramar
Murasaki	Narrator	Natalya	Neler	NightStar	Porc	Pterasaur	R'sheena
Rama	Ray	Rikkai	Riley	Rogar	Romero	Rona	Rowan
Rupert	Rysko	Saint	Sairys	Sariah	Seaweed	Selethrial	Serrith
Seth	Shiro	Silvyr	Skolf	Snout	SoftClaws	Sonya	Spikey
Squizzle	Stan	Star-Sight	Steve	Strawberries	Tanooki	Tanuki	Taura
Tavai	Temba	Tenderheart	Thapuppy	Thumper	Tiffa	Tilton	Tokei
Torano	Twitchers	Tyger	Umber	Vanilla	Vierno	Vin	Violet
Warden	Wesley	Whiskey	Wilhelm	Willysilver	Wolverine	Wurragurr	Xiu
Yellow3	Zeffy	Zero	Zuko