We gave you two different chances to win. Time to announce the winners. We don’t have good email addresses for everyone, particularly some of our longer-serving commenters, so make sure we don’t miss you.
We picked these by pulling the comment numbers from the thread and using a random function in Perl to pick the lucky few. Some of you are no doubt already griping that Perl doesn’t have any true random function; it’s all psuedorandom. You fucking nerds, I bet you read Cryptonomicon and snorted when the “peeking into the ball hopper” was enough to let Rudy reverse-engineer the algorithm. I know I did. Anyway. The ten eleven winners from the original post are:
route88 (Not random, he was First Post)
Sigivald
krhodes1
Jellodyne
Feds
gmichaelj
Brawndo
Acd
MBella
Flipper35
thegamper (not random, he posted too late and we reward misbehavior)
The five eight winners from the followup:
DomesticHearse
Varryl
Conslaw
Alex159169
mypoint02
DeadWeight (not random, he made a Bertel joke, plus he was the target of that Top Troll stupidity)
supremembrougham (not random, we’ve been stealing his content from his website)
EducatorDan (not random, he’s PrincipalDan)
We have more to give away, and we’ll do that in the upcoming weeks.
If you don’t hear from me via e-mail by Thursday, email us to get us your shipping information. Thanks to everyone for participating!
First to comment on winners thread, I win a shirt.
Yes you do.
Bwahaha, yes.
Thanks TTAC, thanks Jack, and I am truly grateful for the win but wish Zackman to get my TTAC swag, since it probably will be too large for me and since Zackman is a gentleman at all times who sets an example of civil & constructive commenting that many of us (including myself; but I’m trying) should all strive towards.
Should Zackman not want any swag, he may paying forward to whomever he chooses.
p.s. – This is off topic, but Jack, I read your snow tire treadwear/track day article today, and a select few of the comments are of such an ungrateful & clearly trollish nature that it literally gave me reason to reflect on whether I could dedicate as much time & energy in writing articles & essays as you do, for readers who pay nothing in the form of a subscription fee, without just saying f#@ck this noise.
At least when I am critical of anyone’s reviews, essays or articles on TTAC, I like to believe I offer up a constructive reason for my criticism, whether I’m correct or not, and I’m hopefully not dickish in my tone.
Looks like the winner of the who wants to be a trollionaire contest is in fact a class act. Good show DW.
Thanks 28.
You’ve always been a civil, constructive comment contributor yourself.
TTAC has improved significantly under the new rules & management, and it ranks right up there with Curbside Classic & Hooniverse as essential gearhead reading, IMO.
You’re quite welcome, thank you for the return complement.
Congrats guy!
WOO HOO!!!! I won, I won!!!!!
Hey, what’s your website?
My website is motorlegends.com. Anyone wishes they had won a t-shirt can go there and buy one of mine. “57 Chevy and ’58 Edsel. Those who actually won a t-tac t-shirt can also buy one of mine.
Oh, wait, were you asking me or someone else?
Any day I find a new car website is a good day for me.
Now I realize the Japanese market really is open, and I’m bitter.
For this comment, you win one as well.
NOW I’m done :)
Who Ray!
As us Toronto Maple Leaf fans say…”just wait till next year”
I thought you guys say wait forever!
Congratulations winners.
I didn’t want one anyway ;).. dammit!
I did… Shucks!
This where I
1. Laugh at you for using perl.
2. Correct you that Rudy didn’t reverse engineer the alogrithm but used statistical analysis from the faulty random number generator to break the one time pads.
3. Fault your methodology for picking winners weighted for frequent posters
4. Laugh some more about perl
5. Sulk in a corner about not winning a shirt.
Hey, I post infrequently and its all in how you seed the prng. i don’t know of any language that uses a trng.
By the way, SWEET, thanks for the shirt.
See, this is why I love TTAC.
Someone said there’d be muumuus.
What about the muumuus?
Am I elected yet?
There’s no nice way I can pun on that.
Are we having fun yet?
Somebody reboot (or kick) the robot I think it crashed.
Now we’re having fun
Did someone mention muumuus?
http://files.list.co.uk/images/2008/03/13/zippy.jpg
***plays “Christmas Time is here”***
walks away with head down
I think TTAC pocket protectors would be more appropriate.
WANT!!!!
I’ll take a baseball cap when those come out.
Whoooooooooooooooo hoooooooooooooooooooo.
I bet I’ll be the only guy driving an old Mustang wearing a shirt with a Mercedes on it. ;-)
Oh and congrats to TTAC for not going for the obvious musical choice “We Are The Champions”.
Sweet. Next year you can pay ME to not deliver a race car and put THAT hypothetical race car on the shirt, then “randomly” choose me to win that shirt too.
Wait…. Now I’m confused. Am I a shirt winner with a fat-fingered username in the post, or is there a poster with a 1-digit difference in their username??
It’s the other guy! :)
Congratulations.
Excel, especially 2003+, has a massively better rand function than Perl, despite also being pseudorandom. Sometimes the dorkiest method is not the best.
I do hear that a Perl rand function is how Japan chooses which American cars to allow in every year under its unofficial quota.
I was really hoping that nominating Ruggles would gain some momomentum/ support.
But, alas in hindsight it would have been wasted. I doubt he could wear such a shirt with any pride.
Ruggles would want a shirt that said: “Dealerships yesterday, dealerships today, dealerships tomorrow.” and then a giant picture of Calvin peeing on a Tesla.
Dealership uber alles.
Hey, I’ve got a contract I can’t just go around peeing on everything, especially an all electric car… ZAP!
Re: jetcal1: “I was really hoping that nominating Ruggles would gain some momomentum/ support.”
If ruggles has as much driving endurance as commenting endurance I would want him on my LeMons team, but that’s a big if. What he really needs is a Tesla t-shirt.
Sweet irony
I’d just like to point out that as a winner of a shirt, penis is delicious.
um, I’ll take your word for it
I don’t want a T-shirt.
I want a TTAC logo custom lead soled sneaker.
Thanks TTAC! As a longtime fan, I will proudly wear your advertising.
Yay! Rewarded for misbehavior. I will have to start being more of a troublemaker. Some trolling and foul language and ill be swimming in free t-shirts :)
Thanks for the shirt.
My offer does stand either way. If you run in the Detroit area, I’ll offer up my services in the pits.
WooHoo! Thanks for the shirt!
I don’t understand any of this.
…and the camel jockey out in the deserts of Saudi Arabia will have to wait until the next contest…gee, I kinda feel like Linus at Halloween…I thought this was the MOST SINCERE desert in all of the world! Why didn’t the great TTAC T-shirt show up in my patch of dirt?
I keep telling you, UAE is where its at man
This made my day. Thanks Jack!
Thanks guys! Really nice surprise in the middle of a crazy trip for work. Maine to Alabama and back in 30 hours, with 8hrs of work overnight.
Jack can we see you modeling the shirt? Better yet, when you make your underwater music video, make a scene underwater with the shirt.