June 15
 

Welcome to our long-awaited fifth anniversary, which will be celebrated with an event we call....


(long pause)


Feel that suspense, eh?


(further pause)


....Cliffhanger Week. This will be a week (or more!) of cliffhangers. Drama! Suspense! Shock! It begins as follows....
<ul>[*]First we have a DS9 fiver -- and we shall have at least one DS9 fiver every day till this is over, because that series had so freakin' many multiparters and cliffhangers. To start us off, it's the first part of the Season 2 three-parter, "The Homecoming" by Marc.[*]Also in the "first part of a three-parter" category is a new OC fiver from me: "The Showdown," this season's third-last episode.[*]How 'bout a two-parter? Here's the prolific and unpronounceable Kristina Runyeon-Odeberg with "Birthright I."[*]Finally, what 5MV event would be complete without a panel discussion? Here's Cliffhangers, Part 1, by me.[/list]

However, the most important part of today's update is a big honkin' article: FiveMinute.net. Read it -- it explains a lot of changes.


Enjoy, and be back tomorrow!


(P.S.: Please do not inform me of any errors of any kind. You could probably fill several threads with them, and I'm aware of them all. As the article explains, this is a work in progress.)

And how did he dig the hole with his eyelids? :D

Off to a booming start. Good fivers, all, the Panel Discussion was hilarious and spiffy new look to the front page! (Let me digest that V4.0 update, Z., and I'll see if I can come up with anything -- sounds as if you've got it pretty thoroughly worked out already, though.)

Great look, great fivers, and great panel. And yes, I think the eyelid thing will what leaves the most lasting and lingering perplexity of the whole anniversary...

:D
hee hee hee
*whiplash-inducing wince*
Textual slapstick is the best kind! :)
Zoinks?

All very good, but Zeke, was it your plan to put 3 parts of cliffhangers up? Or was it meant to be a cliffhanger?

:shock: No more 5MV?

*clings to desk at the thought of change*

5M...5M...

I can...do...this...

*takes deep breaths*

It's gorgeous! 8) Wow, I love it. Excellent and sensible reorganization. Way pretty graphics. (I confess I'll miss all the little pictures, but this does look cleaner.)

And now for the ridiculous exclamation of the moment:

Jinkies!

Just like a politician.

Great fiver, Marc. I probably told you that before, but it's from time out of mind now.

The programming conventions in Java dictate that if you are fetching a boolean value, the method should be named isOn(), so it would be it.isOn() returns true. Of course that assumes you were talking about Java.

Nice use of programming humor though. :)

Yep, Smallville is like that too. Rather implausibly like that actually.

Groan. That's really really aw(ful/esome).

And great new look, Zeke, but the banners all seem like their from Babylon 5 now.

5M - it's just like 3M, only less well known.

Also, wasn't I supposed to be writing something for this? I forget. Curse my hidious slowness!

(Although I did manage to complete a fiver today that was previously only a quarter done - I musta been on some kind of roll there.)

I like the new layout, Zeke. And of course it goes without saying that today's update has been terribly amusing too. :D

Jinkies - I didn't even notice! It's Wizard!
On a different note- the name. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
5M does not roll off the tongue! It needs another letter! Just one! Three is the magic number! THE END IS NIGH!

5M.net?

"5M.net" could perhaps be abbreviated to "5MN", which fills the requirement for three characters.

How about 5MX? As in "Five-Minute x".

Of course, for fivers featuring Phlox in some form that could be amended to 5MXXX.

Or, if you are really attached to the 5MV abbreviation, maybe "Five Minute Versions?"

This is a comment about "Cliffhangers, Part 1"

Marc: (calling after Zeke) Say hi to Cassini-Huygens for me!

Actually, I think it can only be called "Cassini" right now since the Huygens probe landed on Saturn's moon Titan back in the middle of January. Unless I consider the fact that Zeke got so scared he flew past both of the spacecraft at the same time on his way out to Sirius.

Just my small little astronomical observation for you all to ponder briefly.
8) :lol:

Perhaps 5M* would work.

I like the new layout, Zeke. Looks good.

So beautiful...no words to describe...should have sent poet...

It looks great :) Wonderful work! :D

*claps hands*

Yay! :D Great new site design!


Must ... resist ... urge ... to ... point ... out ... mistakes! ... Gah!


Ahem. That's already taken on my site! It will be here ... soon! ;) :D

Hmm, I like it. I can't stand the thought of only having a two character acronym. *shudder*

Well, I'm calling it 5M. I did think about 5MN, but that's just not "right" the way 5M is -- mathematicians and programmers will understand what I mean. (5M* makes sense that way too, but it's harder to say.) If 5MN really catches on with you guys, however, I'll think about adopting it.

Scooter: Yeah, that was a substitute front page I put there to keep you guys from finding the new OC fivers. I have two Five-Minute OC audiences elsewhere (at TWoP and LJ), and I've written a number of fivers that those guys got to see first because they were being saved for Cliffhanger Week.

Hotaru: That was an accident. Several parts of Cliffhangers have been written since last year (which is also the reason for the Cassini-Huygens glitch Mat pointed out), and Kira processed them long ago. I've removed the later parts now.

evay: I should emphasize again that the current graphics situation is temporary. There will be images for the subsites by the time we're done; our main banner and the category banners will be different too.

Derek: They do? Do you mean the category banners on the front page? Yeah, they do look sort of B5ish... but again, those are temporary ones I whipped together. Note that they're .bmps, for example. My crappy image program won't save .pngs properly.

cmdrxizor: Welcome to the forums! We did consider "Versions" (or "Voyages" or another V-word), but decided this was just simpler all round.

PHJ: What's a 3M?

Yeah, the category banners are what I meant. But if they're temporary, never mind. And besides, I have no problem with them as they currently are, they just reminded me of B5.

*pokes layout*

It is futury. Me likes.

5M...It's catchy. Like 'NG'.

...and what is with 7:57?

I'm not liking the 5M yet but I agree with Z that nothing else would work. If were not using 5MV then I don't see that anything else would make sense. 5MN also isn't right. Where is the "."? Fiveminute.net is five minute dot net. I would make that 5MDN...but that's probably just me :wink: And 5M*? How would you even say that? Five minute asterix? :wink:

And the other parts of Cliffhangers weren't meant to be up? xD Good job I read up to part 7 yesterday then :wink: Alhough 4 was missing, but I kinda figured that was meant to be a cliffhanger or something :roll: :wink:

3M

They make sticky tape (and some other stuff too, probably).

How about Five-Minute Star? That sounds kinda scifi-y.

>> They make sticky tape (and some other stuff too, probably). <<

3M invented the Post-it Note, which has become so useful that, without it, modern civilization would collapse.

I can never seem to find a sticky note when I need one! Why, 3M, why?

I agree that 5M looks weird as an acronym, although we'd probably get used to it over time.

But 5MN works for me. It can either stand for fiveminute.net, or the Five Minute Network. Which is pretty much what it is - a network of five minute series.

I believe you'll find that I do actually mention that, as you'll see below:

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:P

I like that formulation. It seems to have worked well enough for CNN.

Provided we don't get the endless waffling, that'll be good, don't you think? I do, but I would like to ask you now for your opinion......
:P

Oooh! Can we get James Earl Jones to do a voice bug for us which plays every time you load the front page?

"THIS...is 5MN."

Oh, that 3M.

Or at least fall off the wall.

I dunno. I have to wonder whether someone who saw it and knew that the construction here is always "5M (something)," and the 5MV was really 5 Minute [Star Trek:] Voyager in addition to [Zeke's] 5 Minute Voyager, might wonder what parody target the N stood for. 5 Minute ... Nutmeg? Nightwing? Numenor? Neelix?

First off, the new design looks quite spiffy. I was wondering how you were going to cram two new subsites onto that front page.

Five Minute Sa'ar. All Sa'ar, all the time.

What?


This explains much. That punchline at the end of Duet had me baffled until I read...well, actually it had me baffled until Marc explained it personally. Then I got back to a computer and actually read it.

I don't know why people keep hiring guards from the shallow end of the gene pool...although some of them seem to have limited precognitive powers.

Somehow I managed to completely miss this scene during the first read-through. In my defense, it was 1AM at the time (not 7:57).

I'm constantly amazed at the mileage you people get out of one joke.

*wince* That was low.

*bites tongue*

*distant clang*
Marc: NASA's not gonna like that.

You could do it about jail-related episodes and make it a penal discussion.

...I think I need to go five something while I'm in the right frame of mind.

This amuses me greatly.

But I thought he was fully fun...never mind. My brain just rebelled.

Next! More! I demand more!

Heeheehee :D


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:lol:

:mrgreen:


Heheh.

Good stuff! :)


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