Never, ever again go three full weeks without reading the forums. No matter how painfully slow the Internet feed is at the time.

--truss,
finally caught up with everything again.

>Never, ever again go three full weeks without reading the
>forums. No matter how painfully slow the Internet feed is at the
>time.

It was painful ENOUGH when I took two days off right when Gryph sent out the "hey, we're alive" email. My condolences. :)

Ard Sumhenner
Ronin Research, Silicon Valley, CA

>Never, ever again go three full weeks without reading the
>forums. No matter how painfully slow the Internet feed is at the
>time.
>

3 weeks!? If I go 3 days it seems to build up like DMV paperwork...

-={(Astynax)}=-
"Compulsive Forum Poster"

>3 weeks!? If I go 3 days it seems to build up like DMV paperwork...

I couldn't quite bring myself to deal with the forums at 28.8... especially once I knew a backlog had already built up.

--truss.
Better now.

>>3 weeks!? If I go 3 days it seems to build up like DMV paperwork...
>
>I couldn't quite bring myself to deal with the forums at 28.8...
>especially once I knew a backlog had already built up.

...but the more you wait the worse it gets. :/

>I couldn't quite bring myself to deal with the forums at 28.8...
>especially once I knew a backlog had already built up.
>

You know, maybe it's a good thing I haven't had a taste of broadband yet... it seems to spoil the hell out of people <though these forums on an old 14.4... ::shudder::>

-={(Astynax)}=-
"Darkness beyond Twilight"

>You know, maybe it's a good thing I haven't had a taste of broadband
>yet... it seems to spoil the hell out of people <though these forums
>on an old 14.4... ::shudder::>

back then, we called it 'USENET', and we liked it!

-jer (grumpy old gweep)

--
jer@gweep.net
Ceci n'est pas une .signature

>>You know, maybe it's a good thing I haven't had a taste of broadband
>>yet... it seems to spoil the hell out of people <though these forums
>>on an old 14.4... ::shudder::>
>
>back then, we called it 'USENET', and we liked it!

<grumpy old man>
Damn kids these days with their shiny Flash players, Instant Messagers and Everquest! I want to see one of these little twits be able to configure PINE and play a decent game of NetHack!
</grumpy old man>

It could be worse, you know.

He could have had to download three weeks worth of the Fanifiction Mailing List.

Reverend Hammer
23 and already muttering "Damn kids these days" every so often...

>It could be worse, you know.
>
>He could have had to download three weeks worth of the Fanifiction
>Mailing List.

Why on Earth would he (or anyone else) do that?

--G.
-><-
Benjamin D. Hutchins, Co-Founder, Editor in Chief, Netadmin
Eyrie Productions, Unlimited http://www.eyrie-productions.com/

>>It could be worse, you know.
>>
>>He could have had to download three weeks worth of the Fanifiction
>>Mailing List.
>
>Why on Earth would he (or anyone else) do that?

For those keen on digital masochism, maybe?

Reverend Hammer
Who will probably NEVER go back on that list...

>Reverend Hammer
>23 and already muttering "Damn kids these days" every so often...

23?!

Stay the hell off my lawn.

;)

------------------------------
"You're a louse, Roger Smith."
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Chad Collier
Digital Bitch
J. Random VFX Company

>>Reverend Hammer
>>23 and already muttering "Damn kids these days" every so often...
>
>23?!

What's worse is that there's this 17 year old friend of mine who says that she hates teenagers.

>Stay the hell off my lawn.

Only if you'll get out of my driveway. :)

Reverend Hammer
Wait a minute... I don't own a driveway!

>What's worse is that there's this 17 year old friend of mine who says
>that she hates teenagers.

That's not so bad. I can remember hating most of the people my own age in high school as well. :)

>Wait a minute... I don't own a driveway!

Then we're even. I don't own a lawn.

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"You're a louse, Roger Smith."
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Chad Collier
Digital Bitch
J. Random VFX Company

>>What's worse is that there's this 17 year old friend of mine who says
>>that she hates teenagers.
>
>That's not so bad. I can remember hating most of the people my own
>age in high school as well. :)

Ditto. When I was a high school sophomore I formed the opinion that high school sophomores are the second-lowest forms of life on Earth. The only thing that saves them from being lower than planarians is that, mercifully, if you cleave a high school sophomore in half, you don't end up with two of them.

>>Wait a minute... I don't own a driveway!
>
>Then we're even. I don't own a lawn.

I rent a small lawn, but if anybody entered it, they'd probably be smacked down by Skippy the Mutant Hellbush or Our Lady the Blessed Virgin of Proper Parking Alignment.

--G.
-><-
Benjamin D. Hutchins, Co-Founder, Editor in Chief, Netadmin
Eyrie Productions, Unlimited http://www.eyrie-productions.com/

>Ditto. When I was a high school sophomore I formed the opinion that
>high school sophomores are the second-lowest forms of life on Earth.
>The only thing that saves them from being lower than planarians is
>that, mercifully, if you cleave a high school sophomore in half, you
>don't end up with two of them.
>

Was this fact discovered empirically, or merely theoretically? <gods know there were a few people back in HS I would have LOVED to cleave in two just to test the hypothesis>

>I rent a small lawn, but if anybody entered it, they'd probably be
>smacked down by Skippy the Mutant Hellbush or Our Lady the Blessed
>Virgin of Proper Parking Alignment.
>

Bwha?

-={(Astynax)}=-
"Darkness beyond Twilight"

>Was this fact discovered empirically, or merely theoretically?

A theory based on secondary evidence (like, the two kids who were, er, sectionalized by a drink-driving crash in the next town over did not emerge from the hospital as a half-dozen or so).

>>I rent a small lawn, but if anybody entered it, they'd probably be
>>smacked down by Skippy the Mutant Hellbush or Our Lady the Blessed
>>Virgin of Proper Parking Alignment.
>>
>Bwha?

Well, Skippy is fairly straightforward - it's a mutant hellbush. I don't know what kind of bush it is, but it's weird and scary-looking. Our Lady of Parking Alignment is a statue of the Virgin Mary the house's previous owners put up in the middle of the front yard. Over the years, we've learned that if you line the Blessed Virgin up in the rear corner of your front passenger window, you've parked correctly at the curb in front of the house so that there's still room behind you for someone else to fit before the next-door driveway.

--G.
-><-
Benjamin D. Hutchins, Co-Founder, Editor in Chief, Netadmin
Eyrie Productions, Unlimited http://www.eyrie-productions.com/

>back then, we called it 'USENET', and we liked it!
>

USENET... that's that place with all the canned meat product, right?

-={(Astynax)}=-
"SPAM in the place where you live..."