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The Traitor
Member since Feb-24-09
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Jun-04-11, 07:12 AM (EDT) |
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1. "RE: “Where were you when the Symphony started?”"
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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 |
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CGWolfgang
Member since Jun-11-09
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Jun-04-11, 06:08 PM (EDT) |
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4. "RE: “Where were you when the Symphony started?”"
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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/ |
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trigger
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Jun-04-11, 06:21 PM (EDT) |
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5. "RE: “Where were you when the Symphony started?”"
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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 |
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cyberpagan
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Jun-05-11, 10:34 AM (EDT) |
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7. "RE: “Where were you when the Symphony started?”"
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> 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 |
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Sofaspud
Member since Apr-7-06
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Jun-09-11, 02:50 PM (EDT) |
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10. "RE: “Where were you when the Symphony started?”"
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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 -- |
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Mephron
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Jun-10-11, 09:53 PM (EDT) |
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16. "RE: “Where were you when the Symphony started?”"
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>>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!!" |
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Gryphon
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Jun-10-11, 09:54 PM (EDT) |
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17. "RE: “Where were you when the Symphony started?”"
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>>>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. |
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JeanneHedge
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Jun-10-11, 08:02 AM (EDT) |
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14. "RE: “Where were you when the Symphony started?”"
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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
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Offsides
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Jun-16-11, 02:18 PM (EDT) |
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19. "RE: “Where were you when the Symphony started?”"
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>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 :PSOS 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> |
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A Vile Gangster
Member since Feb-15-10
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Aug-02-11, 09:16 PM (EDT) |
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20. "RE: “Where were you when the Symphony started?”"
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...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 > |
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