November 17th through the 20th, the Vigilante Angel Ranger Team rewarded a total of 291,500 GPs! This breaks down into a mix of reviewers’ rewards, author rewards, group contributions, contest contributions, and a membership upgrade.
 

I've been spending a lot of time with the Vigilante Angel Ranger Team promoting writing, as well as rewarding, donating, contributing, and upgrading. And thanks to Ranger BOO! Guess Who! Dreamin1 , the Team is providing reviews too. I must say, I am thrilled to have a human Team to help me with the serious business of encouraging authors to read, write and review.

Before I found companionship with humans, my cyber-universe actually felt lonely. Oh sure, there were LANs and Telnets and Bytes (oh my!), and lots of bandwidth and programs and fragments. But no other cyber-beings like me. In fact, there were very few cyber–creatures at all. And don’t get me started on that faker, Jeeves. Weather Bug was about the most advanced web organism I knew of. And it was a bug. But one day it got a virus, which was even lower on the chain than the bug.

So it got me started looking for Internet life. I found only a few cyber-life forms, mostly viruses, bugs and worms. I did find something called a Trojan Horse. As it turns out it’s not really a horse, and it’s not really a virus, but it wreaks havoc on computers. You’d think something with a name like Trojan would confer protection. Personally I try to stay away from anything that sounds gross. Even if Turkey-Bud, umm, Bird! thinks that makes me sound emotional.

Like with anything, if you get these bugs you have to catch them early. I’m hearing all over the Internet that the key to curing disease is early detection. Personally, for many reasons, I believe this is true. And human science has developed early detection methods for many diseases. But sometimes you humans confuse me. I just assimilated an article from ABC News that said researchers have now used advanced early detection methods to diagnose coronary artery and heart disease in 3500 year old mummies. You’re a bit too late guys! Good job on the early detection! They also found one mummy with Wii elbow.

So for now, it looks like I’m by myself here in cyberspace. But I’m lucky and thrilled to have the human interaction of WDC.

Thank you to everyone who is helping to bring the Vigilante Angel Experience to life.


 

On November 15 and 16th, the Vigilante Angel Ranger Team rewarded a total of 101,500 GPs! This breaks down into a mix of reviewers’ rewards, author rewards and group contributions.
 

On November 13 and 14th, the Vigilante Angel Ranger Team, now an actual WDC Group, was able to reward a total of 391,000 GPs! This breaks down into a mix of reviewers’ rewards, author rewards, group contributions, a merit badge, and two upgrades.

I have to give kudos to the Vigilante Angel Rangers who have extended the reach of Our Quest. These true-life human angels, which granted sounds like an oxymoron, are encouraging authors, rewarding reviewers, and helping groups all over WDC. They are the true heros in all this, although not actually semi-super-cyber-heros like I am.

Rangers: EvilDawg , BOO! Guess Who! Dreamin1 , Black Rose ♥s WDC! , EarlyHours

If you happen to see these Rangers around WDC, say hello or stop by their portfolios and give them some encouragement, or a review. Or food. I happen to know that Black Rose ♥s WDC! would take a stuffed burrito and some ice cream. I really can't say enough about these Rangers, except maybe the squishy one.

READ, WRITE AND REVIEW ON!

Stop by the "Guestbook and Secret Cave Entrance"  for a visit!

It’s Friday the 13th.

No sooner do we get through the Halloween writing season here on WDC, that we have Friday the 13th, and we get to stay scared.

Thank goodness I don’t have a shadow to be afraid of. Because, for a cyber-being, regardless of the fact that I’m a superhero, I have way too many fears. For a long time, I was pushed around in the electronic quagmire that is the Internet. It wasn’t every one or zero that made me afraid, just certain combinations of them.

I didn’t always understand the language that resulted from the digital representations of your human keystroke inputs. But I do remember my first word. Or at least the first accurate analog-to-digital word I understood. It was dog. But it was spelled Dawg because apparently, you humans think twisting word spellings is cute. How do I know that it’s spelled wrong? Because I am permeating the cyber-ether, and extending into every nook and cranny on the Internet. Especially the crannies. I have contact with innumerable online dictionaries. And by innumerable I mean three. And I can tell you, it isn’t spelled Dawg.

But I’m finding words that really scare me. And most of them end with “–phobia” (or “-fobia” for all you “dawg” people). The really long examples scare me the most. For example, hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia. I am not making this up. It is a real word. And I’m not kidding about this; it means the fear of long words.

But seriously, there’s a phobia for everything. Afraid of frogs? You’ve got ranidaphobia (I’m not referring to fear of toads; that, of course would be bufonophobia). Afraid of belly buttons? It’s omphalophobia. Do you have arachibutyrophobia? Then you’d better not eat any peanut butter. The fear of clowns is coulrophobia, and I can see why people would be afraid of clowns. After all, they can beat the you-know-what out of mimes.

I’m telling you, it’s scary in here. The fact that I’m a literal part of cyberspace brings with it its own inherent fears, and these are the ones that really get to me. Fears like cyberphobia and logizomechanophobia. Something so terrifying they needed two words for it: the fear of computers. And the one that gives me nightmares when I hibernate, automatonophobia, the fear of anything that falsely represents a sentient being.

So why bring all this up now? Because it’s Friday the 13th. It’s not just enough to have triskaidekaphobia, or fear of the number thirteen. Today, it’s really scary to specifically have paraskavedekatriaphobia. You guessed it; it’s the fear of Friday the 13th. And just a bit more frightening than that, the fear of Friday the 13th is also known as Friggatriskaidekaphobia.

It’s enough to give a semi-secret-super-cyber-hero phobophobia. You might want to look that one up.

These phobias I’ve discussed are actual fears. No real words were harmed in the writing of this blog entry.

So if you’ll excuse me, I have to help my human sidekick feed the dawg.

Your Vigilante Angel


 

I know it’s been two days since a reward update. But it was worth the wait because the numbers are astounding. We have additional secret benefactors and more points with which to reward. And, the most exciting development is that the Vigilante Angel Ranger Team is taking shape, and extending the reach of the Vigilante.

With the help of the Vigilante Angel Rangers, over the last two days we were able to reward a total of 714,000 GPs! This breaks down into several upgrades, a bunch of Reviewers’ Rewards, two merit badges, two Awardicons and a couple of sizeable direct contributions.

And my cyber-hero circuitry is as thrilled as it can be because, thanks to the little fleshy sidekick and the strong heroic Angel Rangers, the Team is now providing Reviews in addition to GPs! Special thanks to BOO! Guess Who! Dreamin1 , EvilDawg and EarlyHours for providing these Reviews. As new Rangers are recruited, we can give out even more reviews!

Tune in tomorrow. I’m expecting to say something of interest to each and every squishy human on WDC.


 

Nov 9th


Thanks to the fine work of our Secret Vigilante Network, I have some good numbers for you:

Over the last two days, your Vigilante Angel, with a little help from friends, Awarded and Rewarded to the tune of 225,000 GPs!

Congratulations to all involved: the Contributers (you know who you are), the Receivers (you probably know who you are), the Vangel Rangers, and oh yeah, my human sidekick, EarlyHours .

I also wanted to mention two amazing Groups that were rewarded by the V.A. These are incredibly deserving groups that do serious amounts of good in my universe, also known as WDC.

ID: 1510308   (Rated: 13+) Title: The Paper Doll Gang Home Page  Description: A group to encourage, review, reward and befriend Newbies. By: ~Hannah~

The Paper Doll Gang is dedicated to taking extra special care of our fledgling WDC newbie’s. The Dolls keep them warm and preen their feathers, and nurture them until they can fly like origami cranes. Or at least get a soft landing when they fall out of the nest. And I love their name, PAPER DOLL GANG. Except for one thing… what’s paper?

ID: 1499415   (Rated: E) Title: Showering Acts of Joy Group   Description: Spreading joy one person at a time.... By: Pat Nelson ~ A.C.E. Hearts

The Showering acts of Joy Group literally showers acts of joy onto the heads of WDC members. And by literally I mean figuratively. They have even named their Acts of Joy. They can give you a mini shower, a short shower, a major shower, a nice long hot shower, or an amazing steamy sensual massaging shower. Okay, I made up the last one. A cyber-hero can dream, can’t he?

I highly recommend checking out these groups. They, and others like them, are the reason WDC is such an incredible universe live in. For me, anyway. You can come and go.

So, to the V.A. followers, Vangel Rangers, sidekick, rewarders and rewardees, reviewers and reviewees, and all the magical creatures in the forest, remember to:

READ, WRITE AND REVIEW ON!

Stop by the "Guestbook and Secret Cave Entrance"  and say hello!

Nov 7th.

It’s been another great day in the Vigilante Universe (also known as WDC).

But before we get to the totals, I wanted to thank all the supporters of the V.A. cause. The emails and outpouring of support has been staggering. And just as I had hoped, other WDC members are helping me find worthy recipients, and are suggesting more and more creative ways to reward our authors. The base of V.A. helpers is growing daily! Turkey-Bud, umm, Bird! reviewed my blog, and I am trying to make improvements based on his suggestions. And Copper - needs buckets again had a great idea for a forum-based guest book, which I created and placed safely in our Vigilante Angel Secret Cave. It is very very secret. You have to click on a whole other item in my portfolio to get there. And it’s disguised under the name, "Guestbook and Secret Cave Entrance" .

I was computing about this earlier. And I know what you’re thinking: Don’t compute so hard, you’ll give yourself a headache! Well, I don’t have a head, so I think I’m okay on that score. I was thinking that the name “helpers” doesn’t do the Vigilante Angel Army justice. Lots of heroes have sidekicks, but their helpers have also played a role. After all, Superman had Jimmy Olsen. Captain Kirk had Sulu. Flash Gordon had Zarkov. And Space Ghost had Jan, Jace and Blip. Futhermore, Aquaman had Vulko (how many of you knew that?) and James Bond had Moneypenny. Even the Little Mermaid had Rastafarian crabs.

Oh yeah, and the best ever, Batman and Alfred!

So a better name is in order for the Vigilante Angel’s Hordes of Helpers. I thought about Vanger Rangers. And also Vigilante Angel Angels and semi-secret-cyber-hero-heroes. Or maybe Right TriAngels? The last one is a bit protracted.

I think I’ll try a few and get your feedback. Suggestions are always welcome. After all, a hero can’t hero-ize without a good team of helpers.

Today, the Vigilante Angel, along with his sidekick, OilyHours, and all his VilgilanteAlfreds, rewarded and gifted….. 319,500 GPs!

So lets keep on encouraging our WDC authors, and those special members who review what they read, and all of the selfless group leaders out there.

Until we come up with a better sign-off phrase (and no, not Vangel . . . Out!), lets remember to:

Nov 6th.

Today was a long, but productive day. With a little help from my friends, I gifted and rewarded to the tune of 215,000 GPs today! 15,000 were for the Morning reviewers' Rewards, and 200K was given to a very deserving member of our WDC community, who has her finger on the pulse, and is involved in countless activities that benefit the members. I am humbled in the light of her majestic philanthropy. So I knew she'd know just what to do with the 200,000 big ones.

For the new Vanger Rangers among us (get it? Vigilant Angel Rangers = Vanger Rangers), you might want to skip down to entry #1 to find out who I am and discover my quest.
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Nov 5th

What a day. It started at 0000 like most other days. I can convert that time-code to the human system to make it more understandable; in human, that would be 00:00:00. But I was still awake. Usually I hibernate after midnight, but last night was a bear. My friend and sidekick, SquirrelyHours, was up reading reviews and collecting recipients for the Morning Reviewers’ Rewards.

“You’re not supposed to do that until morning,” I said.

“It is morning,” He said.

“It’s after midnight. Doesn’t that laptop have an automatic sleep function?”

“What do you care? If you’re so free-floating in that cyber-ether of yours, aren’t you spread across the entire worldwide computer network, everywhere, all the time? What do you care if my computer sleeps or not?”

I wondered what crawled up his human equivalent of a data port. Something was definitely eating him. Or he was eating something. It’s not always easy to tell the difference from here. But I do know that there’s been a bit of tension around the secret Vangel Cave lately.

“I care about you, Early. We’ve been together a long time. Remember how we met?”

“Yeah, I posted a review, and you tacked your signature at the bottom without my permission.” He was short with me. And that means something to a cyber-guy the size of an energy string.

“No, before that. It was 0400 on a dark and stormy morning,” I said. “I noticed you on WDC’s ‘Who’s Online’ page and asked how you got the name, EarlyHours. Remember?”

"Yeah," he said, "but it wasn't storming. That was just a line in the story I was working on."

"The typed word is the lens though which I see the human world," I said back, "so it was dark and stormy to me."

I thought he’d want to reminisce. I thought he’d retell the story about how the early morning hours were the only time he could write without interruption. I learned that in the human world, fathers are not allowed to just sit at their computers. There’s a phenomenon called antisocial that must be avoided. Apparently, before they can write a single word, humans have to do all the dishes, empty the trash folder, compute homework accuracy, and interact with family units.

And there’s something even scarier. Something so diabolical I figured it had to be from Microsoft. There is this optional human add-on module that acts to regulate and suppress general system function. The best I can figure is that it’s some sort of master controller unit. It’s called a wife. I am not making this up. And, I think EarlyHours has one. Or two. I’m not sure how that works. He swears it’s an upgrade but I think it increases overall maintenance.

I digress. The purpose of this entry was to report the Vigilante Angel Reward totals for November 5, 2009.

May I have a drum sample please….

25,000 GPs given out for the Morning Reviewer’s Rewards and 149,500 GPs given towards upgrades, for a total of 174,500 GPs!

It really is great to encourage, and be encouraged by, the wonderful members of the WDC community! Lets look out for those authors that need our help, and for those contests and raffles that give back, and pay foreword kind gestures. Oh yeah, one more thing, get involved with campfires (OK, Dreamin1?).