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GH85Carrera 05-03-2012 09:33 AM

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Originally Posted by Flieger (Post 6727003)
The funny thing is that I hate looking down to read. It hurts my neck. I prefer reading with my laptop up on my desk. My desk is kind of high, though. So I am only looking down at a slight angle. Enough that I can keep my head facing basically forward and just look down slightly with my eyes.

Well we all know you are different! ;)

You don't know a world without computers, cell phones & the internet. In high school they still insisted on teaching about punch cards because that new fangled recording tape might not work out. As a kid I got a reel to reel tape recorder that was a lot of fun until you dropped a reel and watched it unwind the magnetic tape as it rolled across the floor. There was no cassette tape. A CD or DVD would have been pure magic.

My dad was deployed to S. Korea back then. The only way we could communicate with him was a letter or by mailing a tape back and forth. It took a couple of weeks to get an answer to a question. A long distance call on the WATTS line would cost hundreds of dollars. I did not hear my dad's voice for over a year.

svandamme 05-03-2012 09:35 AM

Blue Oyster bar was in the Police Academy series, more then once.

Flieger 05-03-2012 09:42 AM

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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera (Post 6727031)
Well we all know you are different! ;)

You don't know a world without computers, cell phones & the internet. In high school they still insisted on teaching about punch cards because that new fangled recording tape might not work out. As a kid I got a reel to reel tape recorder that was a lot of fun until you dropped a reel and watched it unwind the magnetic tape as it rolled across the floor. There was no cassette tape. A CD or DVD would have been pure magic.

My dad was deployed to S. Korea back then. The only way we could communicate with him was a letter or by mailing a tape back and forth. It took a couple of weeks to get an answer to a question. A long distance call on the WATTS line would cost hundreds of dollars. I did not hear my dad's voice for over a year.

OK, Moses. I suppose you want me to get off your lawn too? :)

GH85Carrera 05-03-2012 10:04 AM

It is just amazing the technology that has developed since the 60s when I was a kid and the music you love was written. My favorite author is Isaac Asimov. He wrote a story about the far future and one plot point was that everyone had a personal computer that they carried around with them everywhere. It was connected to the central computer so any question could be answered in seconds. It had the personal information of the owner and a list of contats. This personal computer dreamed up buy a top science fiction writer only had red text display, like the first LEDs. To have the power of a iPhone or any smart phone that plays a movie or has thousands of hours of music, lets me call anyone from almost anywhere was way beyond his wildest imagination. He was paid a lot for his wild imagination.

porsche4life 05-03-2012 02:19 PM

What the hell is going on with Pelican? Being redirected to a Wiki?

Flieger 05-03-2012 02:31 PM

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Originally Posted by porsche4life (Post 6727155)
What the hell is going on with Pelican? Being redirected to a Wiki?

Message says we are under attack. I guess Wayne moved the forums to protect it from the hackers.

GH85Carrera 05-03-2012 04:12 PM

It may be difficult to survive without my Pelican fix. I will try to be tough.

Good Luck Wayne!

Noah930 05-03-2012 05:21 PM

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Originally Posted by tweezers74 (Post 6726907)
I am thinking I could have been a trauma nurse. You see some interesting stuff here... And you can be a bad a$$.

But then again, you see the epitome of stupidity here too.

Trauma patients are either very stupid, very drunk, or very unlucky.

Outback Porsche 05-03-2012 05:39 PM

Ahhh, coffee and Tim Tams.....bliss


Evening Y'all

Outback Porsche 05-03-2012 05:41 PM

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Originally Posted by tweezers74 (Post 6725953)
Mmmmm...meat like substances.

That got a giggle from the missus ;)

tweezers74 05-03-2012 05:55 PM

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<div style="font-style:italic">I am thinking I could have been a trauma nurse. You see some interesting stuff here... And you can be a bad a$$. <br>
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But then again, you see the epitome of stupidity here too.</div>
</div>Trauma patients are either very stupid, very drunk, or very unlucky.
After getting a drunk who survived a crash without a single laceration, the trauma doc said," God protects the drunks, the fools, and the kids. *One out of three is not so bad?"

tweezers74 05-03-2012 05:55 PM

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<div style="font-style:italic">Mmmmm...meat like substances.</div>
</div>That got a giggle from the missus <img src="ultimate/wink.gif" border="0" alt="" title="Wink" class="inlineimg">
Glad I can make somebody giggle. ;)

Porsche-poor 05-03-2012 06:29 PM

yikes to forever to get on here. Stupid people haccking away at our fun.

porsche4life 05-03-2012 06:34 PM

Good thing Stijn thread wasn't lost in the mess!

Porsche-poor 05-03-2012 06:39 PM

shhh don't jinx it.

slodave 05-03-2012 06:44 PM

Why would it have been? A DDoS won't cause loss. It just brings a web server to its knees. Basically the same thing as rush hour traffic.

Flieger 05-03-2012 06:54 PM

I'm back from the farmers market. Picked up some nice heads of butter lettuce. Missed out on the chance to win free tickets to the SLO Blues baseball game. I spun the wheel but lost. :(

Porsche-poor 05-03-2012 06:57 PM

why do they continue to let these types of people live? I say find a wall.....

Porsche-poor 05-03-2012 07:00 PM

that was "not" directed at you Max. Just the spammers

Flieger 05-03-2012 07:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Porsche-poor (Post 6727430)
that was directed at you Max. Just the spammers

Uh, I think you left out a "not" in there. ;)


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