Where did all the oldtimers go.

[Chauncey Gardiner]

Well sure, I like you. But I don't like, like you. :shakehead

~ Chance

 

[nbp]

That's OOOOOK by me! :nana:

 

[Bimmerboy]

I have my own sense of "old timer" as pertains to this place, which strangely leaves me somewhere in limbo land (or as some might say, Bimbo land ).

To me, a true CPF old timer is one who was here before the membership numbers really started to take off. I joined somewhere during what I consider to be the first half of that explosion, and am guessing my member number to be under 10,000. But, the Luxeon was already here, meaning that milestone had happened, and mods were already being made, and offered for sale. It's been a while since searching through the really old threads, but IIRC, much of the discussion before the Lux was about available incans of the day, and modding 5mm LED lights.

On the other hand, CPF was still small enough through much of '05 that I could be hip to almost everything going on, and if I missed a couple days, could catch up with a little dedicated time (though it only took a year or two at most before I couldn't). There was still a fair amount of the "small (but growing) community" feeling. Plus, I HAVE been here for 10 years as of this month. Soooo...

What am I? An early-mid timer. However blase' that title might sound on the surface, I wear it as a badge of honor as it was a very unique, exciting, transitional period for CPF, and am very glad to have been part of it.

lovecpf

 

[PhotonWrangler]

...I joined somewhere during what I consider to be the first half of that explosion...

I think that makes you a CPF Boomer, Bimmer.

 

[zespectre]

Do I qualify as an "Old Timer" here?

 

[Bimmerboy]

I think that makes you a CPF Boomer, Bimmer.

LOL!

Time to apply for Flashicare part LED.

 

[Kestrel]

[...] guessing my member number to be under 10,000. [...]

#7568, ~1/4 of mine. :wave:

 

[nbp]

Without the spammers, we'd probably all have numbers 1/4 of what they are. Haha

 

[Beamhead]

I have my own sense of "old timer" as pertains to this place, which strangely leaves me somewhere in limbo land (or as some might say, Bimbo land ).
lovecpf

LOL, Bimbo, its the spell checker that gave you that moniker.

Your post caused me to reminisce, I joined a few months before you but had lurked for at least a year before making it official. I remember the boomer days well, the Luxeon lottery, cat urine green, sudden cell death syndrome, a 100 lumen LED being unobtainium, arguing whether a WA/WO/YO/XO tint was best, the Nuwai Q3, finding out that due to the heat created the lifespan of the Lux V was lowered from 50k hours to just 500. I remember paying $95 for a Luxeon light engine only to it by running it on a 168s Li-ion cell which is now called a 17670?

I feel privileged to have witnessed the early pioneers on this board, many who are now still doing well and deservedly so, one who started the whole High CRI movement via his thoughts and experimenting and made lights out of Titanium just because, another who at least helped invent the RCR123, one who introduced the first readily available 1x AA Luxeon light, one who made lights smaller than CR123 cells and kept lists, the list goes on. I still have a working interior dome light with a Luxeon in my Expedition given to me by a Big Daddy Admin.

Am I an old timer? No, I am getting old but I am proud to be a Bimmer-Boomer and hope to continue to watch the leaps and bounds of tech affect this hobby.
I have no idea what my member# number is.........................

 

[nbp]

I have no idea what my member# number is.........................

5462

 

[slumber]

In September I'll have a Bachelors Degree in Luminescence. I'm still in awe of all you Drs.

 

[Lynx_Arc]

Do I qualify as an "Old Timer" here?

Not until your 10 year anniversary

 

[Lynx_Arc]

I have no idea what my member# number is.........................

Mine is 6327. If you go to your profile page and check the URL the number before your name at the end of it is your member number I'm guessing.

 

[nightgaunt]

*Rubs eyes* ...where am I??

Found my way back if even for a short time.

I think I win the lurker award....LOL

 

[Norm]

All you have to do see your membership number is hover your mouse over your nick on this page your number appears at the bottom left of your screen.

N0rm

 

[Barefootone]

I feel like an old timer. Been here since 2003. So much has changed in 11 years. The led's of today are like jets compared to a biplane. So much throw and power. Also the color clarity. I've loved flashlights since I was a young boy.

 

[Beamhead]

*Rubs eyes* ...where am I??

Found my way back if even for a short time.

I think I win the lurker award....LOL

:laughing::thumbsup:

 

[Greta]

Do I qualify as an old-timer around here? :thinking: .... (be VERY careful how you answer that... )


<----- Member #548

 

[RUSH FAN]

Greta-

Not to hijack this thread, but as our cpf leader I have always wondered aloud what kinds of flashlights that you carry, collect, admire, etc.

Cheers,
Rush

Do I qualify as an old-timer around here? :thinking: .... (be VERY careful how you answer that... )


<----- Member #548

 

[SilverFox]

Hello Kelly,

With that number you may be the oldest "old-timer" around. You are much "older" than I am...

What's that?

Oh Oh, someone is throwing old dead leaking Alkaline batteries at me. Time to crawl back into my hole. :devil:

Actually I object to this thread. We should be called the "most sophisticated" or something like that...

Tom