cyclopeaneye

This may be, but to be fair, last year there were a number of periods of "scheduled maintenance" during which they DID NOT send out announcements as well. However, last year we never had as much assurance as we have this year that awards will be announced some time this week, so its hard to make any real estimations. I'm just saying, it is not a sure thing that awards will be announced tonight.

If anyone knew where to get a copy of that PDF, I'd like to see it!

Last year, the NSF folks sent out their decisions late at night on Friday April 9th - the email I got was sent at about 1:30am. The date doesn't mean anything, but perhaps the time of the email does. Those who have been paying attention may have noticed that the NSF site tends to go down for 15-20 minutes every night at around 1 or 2am. My guess is that they load up all the responses throughout the day, and then the announcements are all sent out at the same time when the server resets in the middle of the night. That is to say, you can sit there and keep refreshing your inbox all you like, but if last year is any indication I'm guessing that we will all receive our notifications from the NSF the first thing in the morning sometime this week.

Hurray! I was just having some fun. I do appreciate the informative updates for other folks. Personally, I'm just here to leech up info and make smartass comments.

Protip: The "smarmy self-entitled prick" thing is a reference to an absurd exchange that occurred on this thread a couple days ago. Nobody thinks you are a self-entitled prick. You might be smarmy, but thats only becuase I'm not entirely clear on what that word means.

Wow, I can't believe that you don't have perfect recall of this entire 1300+ post thread. You remember things like a smarmy, self-entitled prick.

Wow, I can't believe you would criticize someone's phone ettiqutte like that. You type like a smarmy, self-entitled prick.

Seriously, guys. I know that sarcasm doesn't always come through in text so well, but its the 90's man! You gotta start looking out for this stuff! It goes down every night at around 4am (somebody had a Python script monitoring the page for changes who verified this). It also went down Sunday for scheduled maintenence which wound up doing nothing for us. If you read the posts over the past few days, there are LOADS of time people have posted "ZOMG! Fastlane is down! Results are going up?!" Forgive my dickly response, but its all getting a bit old.

There it is! Definitive Proof of the intended time of announcement! We all know that Fastlane has not gone down ONCE in the past few weeks, so obviously this downtime must mean they are posting results. Whew! It feels good to know that.

Conveying information gleaned from potentially reputable sources with adequate disclaimers as to its unreliability?! You Bastard!

Angry Mob Time! Get 'im! That'll learn him to share potentially useful information! :evil: edit: feel free to swap pronouns as necessary. This is an equal opportunity scape goating

Seems that window has passed... Perhaps, based on nothing at all, results will be posted within the next hour? Sure, why not?

You and I may be working for different causes.... :wink:

Waiting is for chumps! Bum Rush on the Call Center! Call and Coerce! Use your sexuality! Seduce as necessary!