[ EPU Foyer ] [ Lab and Grill ] [ Bonus Theater!! ] [ Rhetorical Questions ] [ CSRANTronix ] [ GNDN ] [ Subterranean Vault ] [ Discussion Forum ] [ Gun of the Week ]

Eyrie Productions, Unlimited

Subject: "“Where were you when the Symphony started?”" Archived thread - Read only
 
  Previous Topic | Next Topic
Printer-friendly copy    
Conferences Symphony of the Sword/The Order of the Rose Topic #295
Reading Topic #295, reply 18
SpottedKitty
Member since Jun-15-04
605 posts
Jun-11-11, 12:44 PM (EDT)
Click to EMail SpottedKitty Click to send private message to SpottedKitty Click to view user profileClick to add this user to your buddy list  
18. "RE: “Where were you when the Symphony started?”"
In response to message #15
 
   >"Is it safe?"

I remember saying this the one time (so far) I've had a dental X-ray. The dentist, of course, was at the other end of the room standing behind a shielding panel...

--
Unable to save the day: File is read-only.


  Printer-friendly page | Top

  Subject     Author     Message Date     ID  
 “Where were you when the Symphony started?” [View All] pjmoyermoderator Jun-03-11 TOP
   RE: “Where were you when the Symphony started?” The Traitor Jun-04-11 1
   RE: “Where were you when the Symphony started?” Star Ranger4 Jun-04-11 2
   RE: “Where were you when the Symphony started?” BobSchroeck Jun-04-11 3
   RE: “Where were you when the Symphony started?” CGWolfgang Jun-04-11 4
   RE: “Where were you when the Symphony started?” trigger Jun-04-11 5
      RE: “Where were you when the Symphony started?” cyberpagan Jun-05-11 7
   RE: “Where were you when the Symphony started?” drakensis Jun-05-11 6
   RE: “Where were you when the Symphony started?” Bushido Jun-05-11 8
      RE: “Where were you when the Symphony started?” CdrMike Jun-05-11 9
      RE: �Where were you when the Symphony started?� Droken Jun-09-11 12
   RE: “Where were you when the Symphony started?” Sofaspud Jun-09-11 10
      RE: “Where were you when the Symphony started?” Gryphonadmin Jun-09-11 11
          RE: “Where were you when the Symphony started?” The Traitor Jun-10-11 13
              RE: “Where were you when the Symphony started?” StClair Jun-10-11 15
                 RE: “Where were you when the Symphony started?” SpottedKitty Jun-11-11 18
              RE: “Where were you when the Symphony started?” Mephronmoderator Jun-10-11 16
                  RE: “Where were you when the Symphony started?” Gryphonadmin Jun-10-11 17
   RE: “Where were you when the Symphony started?” JeanneHedge Jun-10-11 14
      RE: “Where were you when the Symphony started?” Offsides Jun-16-11 19
   RE: “Where were you when the Symphony started?” A Vile Gangster Aug-02-11 20
   RE: “Where were you when the Symphony started?” Prince Charon Aug-04-11 21

The Traitor
Member since Feb-24-09
1197 posts
Jun-04-11, 07:12 AM (EDT)
Click to EMail The%20Traitor Click to send private message to The%20Traitor Click to view user profileClick to add this user to your buddy list  
1. "RE: “Where were you when the Symphony started?”"
In response to message #0
 
   In 2001, I was in space having a conversation with an evil, mental computer system and occasionally looking at big black slabs of rock.

/obviousjoke

I now have an image of us all being at the birthday party of a tiny ten-year-old Kaitlyn, possibly with her sat in front of an enormous tiger-striped cake. And this is adorable, and I would draw it were I actually able to draw. But I'm not.

---
"Yeah, I'm definitely going to hell/But I'll have all the best stories to tell" -- Frank Turner, The Ballad of Me and My Friends


  Printer-friendly page | Top
Star Ranger4
Charter Member
2483 posts
Jun-04-11, 12:54 PM (EDT)
Click to EMail Star%20Ranger4 Click to send private message to Star%20Ranger4 Click to view user profileClick to add this user to your buddy list Click to send message via AOL IM  
2. "RE: “Where were you when the Symphony started?”"
In response to message #0
 
   You know, I dont recall... but I'm willing to bet that it was up in N. California, where I spent the last 10-12 years or so. if not, then was in final preps for the move up there.

Since then while the location might have changed (once, about a year ago now) most of the rest hasnt except for what my major time waster during the day is... all of which involve computers, usually games of one type or another. just which game and what type of game has changed.

Of COURSE you wernt
expecting it!
No One expects the
FANNISH INQUISITION!

RCW# 86


  Printer-friendly page | Top
BobSchroeck
Charter Member
2258 posts
Jun-04-11, 04:41 PM (EDT)
Click to EMail BobSchroeck Click to send private message to BobSchroeck Click to view user profileClick to add this user to your buddy list  
3. "RE: “Where were you when the Symphony started?”"
In response to message #0
 
   Mm. I remember opening up the first Symphony installment, but... I can't remember any context. All I can say is that my wife and I had been living in our own house for almost exactly a year at that point -- and little else comes to mind, dammit.

-- Bob
-------------------
My race is pacifist and does not believe in war. We kill only out of personal spite.


  Printer-friendly page | Top
CGWolfgang
Member since Jun-11-09
135 posts
Jun-04-11, 06:08 PM (EDT)
Click to EMail CGWolfgang Click to send private message to CGWolfgang Click to view user profileClick to add this user to your buddy list  
4. "RE: “Where were you when the Symphony started?”"
In response to message #0
 
   I was in college at a friends house getting ready for a shadowrun game. We had to threaten one of the guys with bodily harm if he didn't get off his computer because he was reading something. I bet everyone can guess what that was :).

I can remember it so well because it was my introduction to UF.

------------
~If you want my input the red explosions are really pretty and if you did enough you might live for a few more excrutiating seconds

My not so humble contribution to cyberspace

http://cgwolfgang.deviantart.com/


  Printer-friendly page | Top
trigger
Charter Member
1500 posts
Jun-04-11, 06:21 PM (EDT)
Click to EMail trigger Click to send private message to trigger Click to view user profileClick to add this user to your buddy list  
5. "RE: “Where were you when the Symphony started?”"
In response to message #0
 
   LAST EDITED ON Jun-05-11 AT 12:21 PM (EDT)
 
(edit: because I don't have the ability to time travel...yet! Thanks CP!)

Probably planning my wedding. It was my last summer in Chicago and I was living with the grandmother and trying to convince the boss to let telecomute (the first of my telecomuting gigs, actually). I know I was on the Forum (or at least stalking around) since I found a post from 6/13/01. But at the time I had no idea that a decade long obsession had just been launched...

t.
can't believe how time has flown.

Trigger Argee
trigger_argee@hotmail.com
Manon, Maccadon, Orado, etc.
Denton, never leave home without it.

"I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me." - HST


  Printer-friendly page | Top
cyberpagan
Charter Member
188 posts
Jun-05-11, 10:34 AM (EDT)
Click to EMail cyberpagan Click to send private message to cyberpagan Click to view user profileClick to add this user to your buddy list  
7. "RE: “Where were you when the Symphony started?”"
In response to message #5
 
   > I know I was
>on the Forum (or at least stalking around) since I found a post from
>6/13/11.


I will assume you meant 6/13/01, since 6/13/11 is in the future. Of course, you could know the Doctor.....

******************************
Remember, two wrongs do not make a right, but three lefts do.

I'm really here, but I'm not here, really.
******************************
RCW#665 the other neighbor of the beast


  Printer-friendly page | Top
drakensis
Member since Dec-20-06
415 posts
Jun-05-11, 06:36 AM (EDT)
Click to EMail drakensis Click to send private message to drakensis Click to view user profileClick to add this user to your buddy list Click to send message via AOL IM  
6. "RE: “Where were you when the Symphony started?”"
In response to message #0
 
   I'd finished university, gone through two jobs in a year and then started with my current employer. I'd only been following Undocumented Features and it was very good news to discover that the pace of writing had hit a very fast pace.

D.


  Printer-friendly page | Top
Bushido
Member since Apr-8-10
376 posts
Jun-05-11, 12:46 PM (EDT)
Click to EMail Bushido Click to send private message to Bushido Click to view user profileClick to add this user to your buddy list  
8. "RE: “Where were you when the Symphony started?”"
In response to message #0
 
   I wasn't around for the start of the Symphony. I was introduced to fanfiction in the fall of 2001, my sophomore year of high school. I think it was a year or two after that when the same friend who got me hooked on fanfics told me about UF. I remember loading the stories with a 56K modem and saving them to the hard drive, then disconnecting so I wouldn't tie up the phone line.

--------
Wedge Defense Force General
Order 12: "Try to avoid
freaking the mundanes."


  Printer-friendly page | Top
CdrMike
Member since Feb-20-05
889 posts
Jun-05-11, 03:41 PM (EDT)
Click to EMail CdrMike Click to send private message to CdrMike Click to view user profileClick to add this user to your buddy list  
9. "RE: “Where were you when the Symphony started?”"
In response to message #8
 
   >I wasn't around for the start of the Symphony. I was introduced to
>fanfiction in the fall of 2001, my sophomore year of high school. I
>think it was a year or two after that when the same friend who got me
>hooked on fanfics told me about UF. I remember loading the stories
>with a 56K modem and saving them to the hard drive, then disconnecting
>so I wouldn't tie up the phone line.

That was me during summer vacation of '02. Had gone to my grandmother's apartment, in the internet boonies, with a laptop and AOL account in hand. Spent the summer chewing through the entirety of UF, from beginning to what was then the end.

--------------------------
CdrMike, Overwatch Reject

"You know, the world could always use more heroes." - Tracer, Overwatch


  Printer-friendly page | Top
Droken
Member since May-6-08
417 posts
Jun-09-11, 05:02 PM (EDT)
Click to EMail Droken Click to send private message to Droken Click to view user profileClick to add this user to your buddy list  
12. "RE: �Where were you when the Symphony started?�"
In response to message #8
 
   My start took a bit longer: Fall of '03 as a Junior in HS. A good friend of mine was laughing about something while looking at his TI-92 graphing calculator. I asked him what was so funny, and he handed me the UF core and symphony 1.

-Droken

"If at first you don't succeed, bull-
riding is not for you."


  Printer-friendly page | Top
Sofaspud
Member since Apr-7-06
428 posts
Jun-09-11, 02:50 PM (EDT)
Click to EMail Sofaspud Click to send private message to Sofaspud Click to view user profileClick to add this user to your buddy list  
10. "RE: “Where were you when the Symphony started?”"
In response to message #0
 
   I was working a mind-numbing, soul-crushing consulting gig (to clarify: I was the consultant being hired out to various companies by my overseers) and during the off-peak times turned to the internet for amusement.

June 2001 was a pretty boring month as far as work went. My old calendar file from back then is mostly booked with "P.D. time" which was our code for "hanging around the office waiting for the sales guys to drum up more business". There's a couple other entries with project codes, the only one I recognize offhand is the dentist who liked living on the bleeding edge and was one of the few fun customers we had. (Seriously, he had the niftiest tech, and would drop insane cash on the newest shiny every chance he got.)

Also: holy crap, why do I even *have* old calendar files from back then cluttering up my HD? I'm such a packrat.

--sofaspud
--


  Printer-friendly page | Top
Gryphonadmin
Charter Member
22374 posts
Jun-09-11, 03:02 PM (EDT)
Click to EMail Gryphon Click to send private message to Gryphon Click to view user profileClick to add this user to your buddy list  
11. "RE: “Where were you when the Symphony started?”"
In response to message #10
 
   >the only one I recognize offhand is the dentist who
>liked living on the bleeding edge and was one of the few fun customers
>we had. (Seriously, he had the niftiest tech, and would drop insane
>cash on the newest shiny every chance he got.)

Ooh, I bet he was one of those dentists who have a laser. I've been wanting to try one of those.

--G.
-><-
Benjamin D. Hutchins, Co-Founder, Editor-in-Chief, & Forum Admin
Eyrie Productions, Unlimited http://www.eyrie-productions.com/
Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam.


  Printer-friendly page | Top
The Traitor
Member since Feb-24-09
1197 posts
Jun-10-11, 05:41 AM (EDT)
Click to EMail The%20Traitor Click to send private message to The%20Traitor Click to view user profileClick to add this user to your buddy list  
13. "RE: “Where were you when the Symphony started?”"
In response to message #11
 
   >Ooh, I bet he was one of those dentists who have a laser. I've
>been wanting to try one of those.

Yeah, um, forgive me for saying this, but the only adequate response to seeing a dentist with a laser is AAAAAARGH!

---
"Yeah, I'm definitely going to hell/But I'll have all the best stories to tell" -- Frank Turner, The Ballad of Me and My Friends


  Printer-friendly page | Top
StClair
Charter Member
831 posts
Jun-10-11, 08:49 PM (EDT)
Click to EMail StClair Click to send private message to StClair Click to view user profileClick to add this user to your buddy list  
15. "RE: “Where were you when the Symphony started?”"
In response to message #13
 
   "Is it safe?"


  Printer-friendly page | Top
SpottedKitty
Member since Jun-15-04
605 posts
Jun-11-11, 12:44 PM (EDT)
Click to EMail SpottedKitty Click to send private message to SpottedKitty Click to view user profileClick to add this user to your buddy list  
18. "RE: “Where were you when the Symphony started?”"
In response to message #15
 
   >"Is it safe?"

I remember saying this the one time (so far) I've had a dental X-ray. The dentist, of course, was at the other end of the room standing behind a shielding panel...

--
Unable to save the day: File is read-only.


  Printer-friendly page | Top
Mephronmoderator
Charter Member
1895 posts
Jun-10-11, 09:53 PM (EDT)
Click to EMail Mephron Click to send private message to Mephron Click to view user profileClick to add this user to your buddy list  
16. "RE: “Where were you when the Symphony started?”"
In response to message #13
 
   >>Ooh, I bet he was one of those dentists who have a laser. I've
>>been wanting to try one of those.
>
>Yeah, um, forgive me for saying this, but the only adequate response
>to seeing a dentist with a laser is AAAAAARGH!

A dentist I saw had one for her older patients who still had their own teeth and whose gums weren't up to the scraper on it, and said it worked rather well and no one complained except to say it made their mouth a little warm.

My response was, predicably, "Wrrrrgl."

(...I didn't get the laser.)

--
Geoff Depew - Darth Mephron
Haberdasher to Androids, Dark Lord of Sith Tech Support.
"And Remember! Google is your Friend!!"


  Printer-friendly page | Top
Gryphonadmin
Charter Member
22374 posts
Jun-10-11, 09:54 PM (EDT)
Click to EMail Gryphon Click to send private message to Gryphon Click to view user profileClick to add this user to your buddy list  
17. "RE: “Where were you when the Symphony started?”"
In response to message #16
 
   >>>Ooh, I bet he was one of those dentists who have a laser. I've
>>>been wanting to try one of those.
>>
>>Yeah, um, forgive me for saying this, but the only adequate response
>>to seeing a dentist with a laser is AAAAAARGH!
>
>A dentist I saw had one for her older patients who still had their own
>teeth and whose gums weren't up to the scraper on it, and said it
>worked rather well and no one complained except to say it made their
>mouth a little warm.
>
>My response was, predicably, "Wrrrrgl."
>
>(...I didn't get the laser.)

"This next test involves deadly lasers, and how dental patients react to being locked in a room with deadly lasers."

--G.
-><-
Benjamin D. Hutchins, Co-Founder, Editor-in-Chief, & Forum Admin
Eyrie Productions, Unlimited http://www.eyrie-productions.com/
Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam.


  Printer-friendly page | Top
JeanneHedge
Charter Member
933 posts
Jun-10-11, 08:02 AM (EDT)
Click to EMail JeanneHedge Click to send private message to JeanneHedge Click to view user profileClick to add this user to your buddy list  
14. "RE: “Where were you when the Symphony started?”"
In response to message #0
 
   Geez, that was 10 years, 3 jobs, 2 moves, and a multi-year term of unemployment ago. I don't think my brain can remember that far back...

I do remember where I first came across EPU stories though - the Core (and a few other EPU stories) were on the compilation CD set for the old Venice FTP site.


Jeanne


Jeanne Hedge
http://www.jhedge.com
"Believe me, if I have to go the rest of my life without companionship, knowing myself won't be a problem."
-- Gabrielle of Potadeia



  Printer-friendly page | Top
Offsides
Charter Member
1264 posts
Jun-16-11, 02:18 PM (EDT)
Click to EMail Offsides Click to send private message to Offsides Click to view user profileClick to add this user to your buddy list  
19. "RE: “Where were you when the Symphony started?”"
In response to message #14
 
   >Geez, that was 10 years, 3 jobs, 2 moves, and a multi-year term of
>unemployment ago. I don't think my brain can remember that far back...
>
Only two moves in ten years? Bah! I moved 5 times in 4 years during that span, went from a full-time job to unemployed to self-employed and back to a full time job, got married, bought a house and had a kid. If I can remember it, you can too :P

SOS 1 came out just before I quit my job from a combination of burn-out and management suffering from rectal-cranial inversion (I later found out the boss had surgery to remove a brain tumor, and he's feeling much better now...), and the quasi-steady stream of new Symphony pieces kept me sane while I looked for a job, found one, had it vaporize and then spend 2 years commuting between Philadelphia and Boston(!) before something saner materialized. The fact that it took the writing quality of UF to a whole new level didn't hurt one bit either...

Offsides

P.S. The next time I move it's gonna be in a box. Not my stuff, me.

[...] in order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.
-- David Ben Gurion
EPU RCW #π
#include <stdsig.h>


  Printer-friendly page | Top
A Vile Gangster
Member since Feb-15-10
342 posts
Aug-02-11, 09:16 PM (EDT)
Click to EMail A%20Vile%20Gangster Click to send private message to A%20Vile%20Gangster Click to view user profileClick to add this user to your buddy list Click to send message via AOL IM  
20. "RE: “Where were you when the Symphony started?”"
In response to message #0
 
   ...I was back in the deep south after my first(of very many) unsuccessful escape attempts. Eyrie wasn't new to me; I'd been current on the material since '97(or was it '98?). It was an awesome killer-of-time once it started and it introduced some of my favorite characters and settings in the UF continuum(I'm lookin' at you *ctrl+v* T'skaia Vorokoshiga'ar Ixtixtaaqitl't'chl'Vraihelt Ishkarat.)

I won't say it was the worst place I've been in in my life, but-Chief? I don't know if I've thanked you recently for doing what you do. Your little pocket universes often have had a coherency the one I'm living in has not. So, thanks.

----
Now Playing:
Switchblade Symphony -- Bad Trash (Serpentine Gallery, 1995)

...

< THIS SPACE FOR RENT >


  Printer-friendly page | Top
Prince Charon
Member since Jan-11-09
309 posts
Aug-04-11, 10:33 PM (EDT)
Click to EMail Prince%20Charon Click to send private message to Prince%20Charon Click to view user profileClick to add this user to your buddy list  
21. "RE: “Where were you when the Symphony started?”"
In response to message #0
 
   I was where I am, in the same room of the same house, at the same desk by the same window (ghods that's depressing). I'm very sure that the computer has been changed several times, though, and the phone, and probably the chair, as well (though not nearly as often as the computer).

“They planned their campaigns just as you might make a splendid piece of harness. It looks very well; and answers very well; until it gets broken; and then you are done for. Now I made my campaigns of ropes. If anything went wrong, I tied a knot; and went on.”
-- Arthur Wellesley, First Duke of Wellington


  Printer-friendly page | Top

Conferences | Topics | Previous Topic | Next Topic

[ YUM ] [ BIG ] [ ??!? ] [ RANT ] [ GNDN ] [ STORE ] [ FORUM ] GOTW ] [ VAULT ]

version 3.3 © 2001
Eyrie Productions, Unlimited
Benjamin D. Hutchins
E P U (Colour)