June 15

[Zeke]

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....

[*]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.)

[mudshark]

And how did he dig the hole with his eyelids?

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.)

[Scooter]

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...

Sandy: That was odd. I wonder if there's alcohol in this drink of hers. Give it a sniff for me, Seth.
Seth: Why can't you do it?
Sandy: I'm part of the legal system. We're no good at judging O.J.

Shrek: Worf, son of Mogh? I'm Shrek.
Worf: Where's the donkey? And should you not be green?
Shrek: Not that Shrek. My name is Shrek, too.
Worf: Ah, the sequel. Then where is Puss in Boots?
Shrek: Are you a Klingon or a Pakled?

hee hee hee

La Forge: What is it with the father fetish of this episode?
Bashir: We go father than no one has gone before....

*whiplash-inducing wince*

Guard: Wow...what a knock-out!
(WHACK!)

Textual slapstick is the best kind!

Go away!
You're not supposed to be here yet.
If you tell anyone you were here, I EAT YOU.
Go!

Zoinks?

[Hotaru]

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

[Alexia]

:shock: No more 5MV?

*clings to desk at the thought of change*

5M...5M...

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

*takes deep breaths*

[evay]

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.)

[Chancellor Valium]

And now for the ridiculous exclamation of the moment:

Jinkies!

[Derek]

Jaro: (applauding) Brilliant! Thank you! Now before beginning my own speech, I'd like to make a few opening remarks....

Just like a politician.

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

Seth: I'd help, but I have to commit myself to the war effort. It's ON, you see. The onness of it has been maximized. it.getOn() returns true. By the way, have you got any nylons?

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. :)

Marissa: Experience. There hasn't been an unobserved conversation in this town for two years.

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

Bashir: We go father than no one has gone before....

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

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

[PointyHairedJedi]

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.

[Chancellor Valium]

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!

[evay]

Originally Posted by Chancellor Valium

5M does not roll off the tongue! It needs another letter! Just one! Three is the magic number! THE END IS NIGH!

5M.net?

[Marc]

Three is the magic number!

5M.net?

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

[PointyHairedJedi]

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

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

[Anonymous]

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

[FatMatDuhRat]

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:

[MmeBlueberry]

Perhaps 5M* would work.

I like the new layout, Zeke. Looks good.

[Opium]

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

It looks great Wonderful work!

*claps hands*

[Xeroc]

Yay! Great new site design!


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

Originally Posted by PointyHairedJedi

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

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

[Asky]

Originally Posted by Marc

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

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

[Zeke]

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?