The Stijn thread has been active now for 10 years. I doubt a day has gone by that someone does not post in it, and I am a regular and very rarely go a day without a post or two or maybe 15 in there. From that thread I got to know Pete and my wife and I enjoyed going to his beautiful house in Vermont. Same thing with Paul, AKA Seahawk and his great farm in MD. I got to meet Max out in Monterey, CA. I love to meet up with other Pelicans in "real life" and chat.
The Stijn thread is a Seinfeld like tread. Every topic has been discussed, and there is no more OT thread than that one.
I have been into photography since I turned 15, (
only a few years ago now) and I like random pictures. I usually post 5 or 6 photos in each post. If I were a real post ho, I would do one picture per post.
I have always loved jokes and I know a million of them. The only time I ever had a room mate, he was a great joke teller as well. We stayed up late at night for weeks telling jokes, and it got to the point of being like the old joke about the prison.
A comedian goes to a prison for a life sentence. His first evening he hears a prisoner yell out a number like 52!, and the other prisoners laugh. then he hear 44, and everyone laughs, and that goes on, 122 and everyone laughs. He is really confused. As a professional comedian for years, how is just a number funny? After a while he yells out 60!, and no one laughs, and one of the big guys, says "hey that's not funny, I am gonna kick yer ass".
One of the old timers pulls him aside and explains. To pass time they all told jokes to each other. After several years, and no new prisoners coming in, they had told all the jokes a 100 times. It was just got easier to yell out the number of the jokes and and everyone knew the punchline. Joke number 60 is about the big guy's wife and now he is pissed off at you.
I own my own company, so no boss to look over my shoulder. I have three computers here in my home office. I can get one running on processing an aerial photo project, they other doing the books in QuickBooks, and the other is open to Pelican. When there is no accounting to do, the current project is processing, I can surf the internet. I usually end up here.
I still post and read a lot in the Technical forum. And the paycheck from Pelican is a nice bonus!
