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Campfire fun Jason F. Mar 11

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Jamis loves digging through numbers and stats and generating interesting reports. One of the most fun is when he writes a script to summarize the Campfire activity in our main “All Talk” room.

Here’s a summary of stuff people have said and done in the room over the past 30 days:

away (said "bb15" or "bbl" or "brb")
   Ryan Singer               ::    32
   Jamis Buck                ::    26
   Mark Imbriaco             ::    23
   Jason Fried               ::    20
   Sam Stephenson            ::    16
   Jeff Hardy                ::    16
   David Heinemeier Hansson  ::    13
   Jeremy Kemper             ::    13
   Sarah Hatter              ::     3
   Josh Peek                 ::     2
   Matt Linderman            ::     1

back (started a message with "back")
   Jason Fried               ::    36
   Mark Imbriaco             ::     9
   Jamis Buck                ::     8
   Sarah Hatter              ::     5
   Jeff Hardy                ::     4
   Jeremy Kemper             ::     3
   Ryan Singer               ::     3
   David Heinemeier Hansson  ::     2
   Josh Peek                 ::     2
   Sam Stephenson            ::     2

backpack (mentioned "backpack" or "BP")
   Jason Fried               ::   284
   Sarah Hatter              ::   144
   Jamis Buck                ::   126
   Mark Imbriaco             ::   101
   Ryan Singer               ::    89
   Jeremy Kemper             ::    87
   Sam Stephenson            ::    62
   David Heinemeier Hansson  ::    60
   Matt Linderman            ::    40
   Jeff Hardy                ::    35
   Josh Peek                 ::     3

basecamp (mentioned "basecamp" or "BC")
   Jason Fried               ::   108
   Jamis Buck                ::    95
   Sarah Hatter              ::    78
   Ryan Singer               ::    54
   Mark Imbriaco             ::    53
   David Heinemeier Hansson  ::    42
   Jeremy Kemper             ::    21
   Sam Stephenson            ::    18
   Matt Linderman            ::     8
   Jeff Hardy                ::     3
   Twitter                   ::     1
   Josh Peek                 ::     1
bytes (# of bytes sent via textual messages)
   Jason Fried               :: 256829
   Ryan Singer               :: 163959
   Jamis Buck                :: 155861
   Sarah Hatter              :: 115837
   Mark Imbriaco             :: 115049
   Jeremy Kemper             :: 107844
   David Heinemeier Hansson  :: 107656
   Sam Stephenson            :: 65543
   Jeff Hardy                :: 39912
   Matt Linderman            :: 27447
   Josh Peek                 :: 17438
   Twitter                   ::   355
   The Earth                 ::    54

campfire (mentioned "campfire" or "CF")
   Jason Fried               ::    22
   Sarah Hatter              ::    16
   Sam Stephenson            ::    13
   Jamis Buck                ::    12
   Mark Imbriaco             ::    10
   Ryan Singer               ::     9
   Jeremy Kemper             ::     7
   David Heinemeier Hansson  ::     5
   Matt Linderman            ::     3
   Josh Peek                 ::     1
   Jeff Hardy                ::     1

commit (a change to an application was committed)
   Jeremy                    ::   205
   Jamis                     ::   160
   Jeff                      ::   154
   Ryan                      ::   147
   Sam                       ::   116
   Josh                      ::    82
   Mark                      ::    69
   David                     ::    23
   Jason                     ::    19

deploy (a change to an application was deployed)
   Jamis@pemba               ::    22
   Jeremy@geech              ::    14
   Mark@strongbad            ::     6
   David@envy8               ::     5
   Sam@mutton                ::     2
   Packagethief@julian       ::     1
   Sam@kid                   ::     1
   David@Envy-Air            ::     1

emote (surrounded a message in asterisks *like this*)
   Ryan Singer               ::    31
   Jamis Buck                ::    24
   Jason Fried               ::    15
   Jeff Hardy                ::     8
   Sam Stephenson            ::     7
   Sarah Hatter              ::     4
   Mark Imbriaco             ::     4
   Jeremy Kemper             ::     4

exclaim (an exclamation was made)
   Sarah Hatter              ::   136
   Jason Fried               ::   130
   Jamis Buck                ::    97
   David Heinemeier Hansson  ::    53
   Jeremy Kemper             ::    44
   Jeff Hardy                ::    30
   Sam Stephenson            ::    26
   Mark Imbriaco             ::    26
   Ryan Singer               ::    23
   Josh Peek                 ::     8
   Matt Linderman            ::     5
   Twitter                   ::     1

frown (icons, like :()
   Jamis Buck                ::   104
   Jeremy Kemper             ::     8
   Ryan Singer               ::     8
   Mark Imbriaco             ::     8
   Sarah Hatter              ::     8
   David Heinemeier Hansson  ::     5
   Jeff Hardy                ::     5
   Sam Stephenson            ::     4

gasp (gah! ack! ugh!)
   Sarah Hatter              ::    28
   Jamis Buck                ::    28
   Jeff Hardy                ::    10
   Mark Imbriaco             ::     7
   Jason Fried               ::     7
   Sam Stephenson            ::     6
   David Heinemeier Hansson  ::     4
   Ryan Singer               ::     3
   Jeremy Kemper             ::     3

get_real ("get real" or "getting real" was mentioned)
   Jamis Buck                ::     2
   Jason Fried               ::     2
   Ryan Singer               ::     1
   Sarah Hatter              ::     1
   Jeff Hardy                ::     1
   David Heinemeier Hansson  ::     1
   Matt Linderman            ::     1
   Jeremy Kemper             ::     1

highrise (mentioned "highrise" or "HR")
   Sarah Hatter              ::    66
   Jason Fried               ::    65
   David Heinemeier Hansson  ::    43
   Ryan Singer               ::    38
   Jamis Buck                ::    28
   Mark Imbriaco             ::    23
   Jeremy Kemper             ::    20
   Sam Stephenson            ::    17
   Jeff Hardy                ::    11
   Josh Peek                 ::     5
   Matt Linderman            ::     4
   Twitter                   ::     1

image (an image was linked to)
   Jason Fried               ::    51
   Ryan Singer               ::    19
   Sam Stephenson            ::    18
   Jeremy Kemper             ::    10
   Mark Imbriaco             ::     8
   David Heinemeier Hansson  ::     7
   Jamis Buck                ::     4
   Sarah Hatter              ::     2
   Matt Linderman            ::     2
   Jeff Hardy                ::     1

judo (the word "judo")
   Jamis Buck                ::     7
   Ryan Singer               ::     7
   Jeremy Kemper             ::     3
   Sam Stephenson            ::     2
   Jason Fried               ::     2
   Mark Imbriaco             ::     2
   Josh Peek                 ::     1
   Matt Linderman            ::     1
   David Heinemeier Hansson  ::     1

just (the word "just")
   Jason Fried               ::   310
   David Heinemeier Hansson  ::   175
   Jamis Buck                ::   170
   Mark Imbriaco             ::   166
   Sarah Hatter              ::   158
   Jeremy Kemper             ::   145
   Ryan Singer               ::   137
   Jeff Hardy                ::    57
   Sam Stephenson            ::    48
   Matt Linderman            ::    40
   Josh Peek                 ::    26

laugh (the user laughed (lol, haha, heh, etc.))
   Jason Fried               ::   617
   Ryan Singer               ::   515
   Jamis Buck                ::   445
   Mark Imbriaco             ::   395
   David Heinemeier Hansson  ::   359
   Sarah Hatter              ::   352
   Jeremy Kemper             ::   288
   Sam Stephenson            ::   195
   Jeff Hardy                ::   109
   Matt Linderman            ::    51
   Josh Peek                 ::    42

link (an external site was linked to)
   Jason Fried               ::   225
   Sarah Hatter              ::    77
   Jeremy Kemper             ::    68
   Sam Stephenson            ::    56
   Jamis Buck                ::    45
   Ryan Singer               ::    35
   David Heinemeier Hansson  ::    35
   Matt Linderman            ::    28
   Mark Imbriaco             ::    27
   Jeff Hardy                ::    20
   Josh Peek                 ::    11

need (the word "need")
   Jamis Buck                ::   105
   Jason Fried               ::    96
   Sarah Hatter              ::    66
   Mark Imbriaco             ::    64
   Jeremy Kemper             ::    59
   David Heinemeier Hansson  ::    56
   Ryan Singer               ::    50
   Sam Stephenson            ::    34
   Jeff Hardy                ::    23
   Josh Peek                 ::    18
   Matt Linderman            ::    15

negative ((bad|hate|awful|terrible|sad|suck|no))
   Jason Fried               ::   192
   Sarah Hatter              ::   102
   Ryan Singer               ::   100
   Jamis Buck                ::    96
   David Heinemeier Hansson  ::    81
   Mark Imbriaco             ::    70
   Jeremy Kemper             ::    63
   Sam Stephenson            ::    47
   Matt Linderman            ::    22
   Josh Peek                 ::    19
   Jeff Hardy                ::    17

online (total time spent in the room)
   Jamis Buck                :: 438h 36m 22s
   Jason Fried               :: 421h 46m 39s
   Jeremy Kemper             :: 349h  6m 58s
   Jeff Hardy                :: 343h 13m 36s
   David Heinemeier Hansson  :: 318h 12m 20s
   Sarah Hatter              :: 317h 36m 46s
   Ryan Singer               :: 297h 13m 48s
   Sam Stephenson            :: 245h 31m 42s
   Mark Imbriaco             :: 212h 10m 26s
   Matt Linderman            :: 143h 25m 39s
   Josh Peek                 ::  58h 31m 51s
   The Earth                 ::   0h  0m 22s

only (he word "only")
   Jason Fried               ::    71
   Jamis Buck                ::    65
   Ryan Singer               ::    63
   Sarah Hatter              ::    51
   Jeremy Kemper             ::    40
   David Heinemeier Hansson  ::    38
   Mark Imbriaco             ::    30
   Jeff Hardy                ::    19
   Sam Stephenson            ::    19
   Josh Peek                 ::    10
   Matt Linderman            ::     6

paste (# of code pastes)
   Sarah Hatter              ::   239
   Jason Fried               ::   160
   Jamis Buck                ::   108
   Mark Imbriaco             ::    95
   Jeremy Kemper             ::    75
   Ryan Singer               ::    56
   Sam Stephenson            ::    54
   David Heinemeier Hansson  ::    38
   Matt Linderman            ::    26
   Jeff Hardy                ::    16
   Josh Peek                 ::     4

paste_bytes (# of bytes sent via code paste)
   Mark Imbriaco             :: 97587
   Jason Fried               :: 96497
   Jamis Buck                :: 91502
   Sarah Hatter              :: 54554
   Ryan Singer               :: 41529
   Sam Stephenson            :: 23008
   Jeremy Kemper             :: 17157
   Matt Linderman            :: 12869
   Josh Peek                 :: 10484
   David Heinemeier Hansson  ::  6635
   Jeff Hardy                ::  3708

positive ((good|nice|awesome|like|love|best|neat|rock|yes))
   Jason Fried               ::   608
   Ryan Singer               ::   456
   Jamis Buck                ::   269
   David Heinemeier Hansson  ::   261
   Sarah Hatter              ::   222
   Jeremy Kemper             ::   215
   Mark Imbriaco             ::   165
   Sam Stephenson            ::   147
   Jeff Hardy                ::    82
   Matt Linderman            ::    67
   Josh Peek                 ::    47

question (a question was asked)
   Jason Fried               ::   568
   Sarah Hatter              ::   391
   Jamis Buck                ::   372
   David Heinemeier Hansson  ::   364
   Ryan Singer               ::   301
   Jeremy Kemper             ::   265
   Sam Stephenson            ::   185
   Mark Imbriaco             ::   133
   Jeff Hardy                ::   101
   Matt Linderman            ::    75
   Josh Peek                 ::    37

topic (the room topic was changed)
   Jason Fried               ::     3
   Sarah Hatter              ::     1
   Mark Imbriaco             ::     1

total (total messages sent, of any kind)
   Jason Fried               ::  6274
   Ryan Singer               ::  3902
   Jamis Buck                ::  3548
   Sarah Hatter              ::  3181
   David Heinemeier Hansson  ::  3040
   Jeremy Kemper             ::  2933
   Mark Imbriaco             ::  2493
   Sam Stephenson            ::  1922
   Jeff Hardy                ::  1035
   Matt Linderman            ::   563
   Josh Peek                 ::   397
   Twitter                   ::     5
   The Earth                 ::     3

upload (# of file uploads)
   Ryan Singer               ::   146
   Jason Fried               ::    79
   Sam Stephenson            ::    70
   Sarah Hatter              ::    66
   Matt Linderman            ::    35
   Jeremy Kemper             ::    23
   David Heinemeier Hansson  ::    22
   Mark Imbriaco             ::    20
   Jeff Hardy                ::    19
   Jamis Buck                ::    14
   Josh Peek                 ::     8

wink (icons, like ;))
   David Heinemeier Hansson  ::    89
   Jeremy Kemper             ::    83
   Jason Fried               ::    36
   Jeff Hardy                ::    12
   Sam Stephenson            ::    10
   Sarah Hatter              ::     7
   Josh Peek                 ::     7
   Jamis Buck                ::     5

words per message
   Twitter                   ::    14.2
   Matt Linderman            ::     9.8
   Mark Imbriaco             ::     9.2
   Jamis Buck                ::     8.8
   Josh Peek                 ::     8.8
   Ryan Singer               ::     8.4
   Jason Fried               ::     8.2
   Jeff Hardy                ::     7.7
   Jeremy Kemper             ::     7.4
   Sarah Hatter              ::     7.3
   David Heinemeier Hansson  ::     7.1
   Sam Stephenson            ::     6.8
   The Earth                 ::     3.6
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32 comments so far

Nathan 11 Mar 08

What does “The Earth” refer to?

JF 11 Mar 08

Nathan, that was a little inside joke with Sam.

Sam uses his bike for transportation. We spotted Bikes on Stuff White People Like.

In the article it says:

And of course, it goes without saying that white people who ride bikes like to talk about how they are saving the earth. If you know a person who rides to work, you should take them aside and say “Hey, thanks. Sincerely, The Earth.” Then give a thumbs up. That white person will ride home on a cloud.

So we logged into CF as “The Earth” and said “Sam: Hey, thanks.”

Mike Rundle 11 Mar 08

So basically Jason spends his days away from the computer, and when he gets back, he posts URLs to sites he likes and images. Yup, I believe it!

Brandon 11 Mar 08

My, isn’t Jason a chatty kathy. :)

Seban 11 Mar 08

Jamis must be bored sometimes when he produces this stats.

Jamis 11 Mar 08

@Seban, on the contrary, this is merely evidence of Rails making me 10x as productive!

Darius K. 11 Mar 08

It would be nice to see those stats as a percentage of total words uttered in chat. It’s one thing if Jason says “brb” 36 times and he’s only said 100 words. It’s another if he’s just by far the most talkative member and just ends up saying “brb” more often because of that.

brad 11 Mar 08

I had one client who used to praise me by writing “you’re the best!” in her emails. After a few years, I did a Google Desktop search for the phrase “you’re the best” and came up with 431 entries, most of them from her but a few dozen from other clients and colleagues as well. Kind of funny, and a good thing to do when you’re having a hard week and need a little ego-boost. Although when someone says something like that so habitually, it loses its meaning.

Sam 11 Mar 08

Who the hell is “Sarah Hatter”?

Carlos 11 Mar 08

Interesting to see that the ones that blog the most are the ones that commit the less…

Jess 11 Mar 08

Agree with Darius K. It would be interesting to see who is “most positive” and “most negative” by seeing the percentage of positive words uttered using #positive/total. I bet something like this would be interesting for twitter as well… lots of public text data out there on twitter to analyze! And think, you could assign arbitrary adjectives (positive, vulgar, condescending, angry, happy) to each public account on twitter. Fun times.

SH 11 Mar 08

@Sam: I am. I’ve done customer support for 37s for a year now.

leppaZ 11 Mar 08

uhm,

this post seems like a set of slides of an university class showing the PI up to the million decimal digit :-)

Tom 11 Mar 08

Wow guys, thanks for all the effort you put into visualizing this data for us. What a gripping, unending column of preformatted numbers that was. Signal vs. Noise indeed.

justin 11 Mar 08

Haha @ the emo Jamis. That is an impressive frowny-face margin.

Ryan Christensen 12 Mar 08

I’m sort of curious about what The Earth had to say in it’s 3 messages over the span of 22 total seconds in the room….

Jamis 12 Mar 08

@Ryan, see Jason’s comment, above

Tim 12 Mar 08

Looks like DHH is near the bottom of the list on nearly every stat, including code check-ins.

What does he do all day?

condor 12 Mar 08

This is great, I found myself laughing at some of these stats.

Can’t believe no ones mentioned all the four letter words Jason’s been spouting off :)

carlivar 12 Mar 08

This makes me wonder again why DHH always insists on his full middle name being shown. Or is it one of those dual last name things? It messes up the column width!

Tim 12 Mar 08

“This makes me wonder again why DHH always insists on his full middle name being shown. Or is it one of those dual last name things?”

I think Hansson is DHH maiden name. Rumor has it, DHH is some how related to the Hanson Brothers

Matt Lee 12 Mar 08

Who is Josh Peek? And how come Sarah isn’t listed in that box up there — —-^ that says who y’all are?

JF 12 Mar 08

Matt: Sarah will be added to the sidebar shortly. Josh is helping us with some coding part time.

Greg 12 Mar 08

“Josh is helping us with some coding part time.”

Isn’t Josh only 19 years old.

Seems odd to me that a company would but that must trust in someone so inexperienced.

George 12 Mar 08

Ryan doesn’t wink… or blink… something he learned as an apprentice of Chuck Norris.

Rob Cameron 12 Mar 08

Yeah, DHH only has like 20 commits to the codebase! He’s probably jet setting around the globe…being the worlds hottest hacker is a tough job, you know.

Don Schenck 12 Mar 08

Quick:

Jason … “Just” !! Wha the

“You’re the best!” OMG I say that ALL the time (hear it a lot, too … but that’s for another forum .wink.)

“Who Is Sarah Hatter?” ... hmmmm … great t-shirt.

“Paging Jim Coudal…”

D 12 Mar 08

Greg: re: Josh – Since when does age equate to or connote ability?

DHH 12 Mar 08

Rob, it’s actually all that time I have to spend keeping my swirl in order that’s stealing away from programming. I am cursed with that beautiful european hair!

JF 12 Mar 08

Isn’t Josh only 19 years old. Seems odd to me that a company would but that must trust in someone so inexperienced.

We trust people to drive at 16. We trust people to vote at 18. I think we can trust them to code at 19. 17, no fucking way, but 19, sure.

SH 12 Mar 08

For the record, Sarah Hatter is not 19 years old. (sigh)

Client9 13 Mar 08

^^That wouldn’t be a mad Hatter, would it?

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