When I went to NWMSU in 90-94, there was a while big deal about it being the first "electronic campus" so I started out with my student email, then I had Jan-May without email at my folks house (NBD -- I used a LAND LINE (gasp) to call people on their LAND LINES when I wanted to chat, and used my dad's Earthlink if I needed to surf) and then I started grad school in 95.
Now, I can hold a note for a long time...actually I can hold a note forever. But eventually that's just noise. It's the change we're listening for. The note coming after, and the one after that. That's what makes it music.
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Strix - Sep 10, 2011 12:35:05 pm PDT #17789 of 25513
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
sumi - Sep 10, 2011 12:43:39 pm PDT #17790 of 25513
Art Crawl!!!
I have an aol name because of AIM - but that was the only part of aol I ever used. (I had my NIU email address - I've had it pretty much since grad school.)
Sophia Brooks - Sep 10, 2011 12:52:26 pm PDT #17791 of 25513
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
The Buffistas were my first internet experience. I was such a late adopter that my first home computer was a ruby imac,and I used to print off pages of buffistas at work to read at home.
§ ita § - Sep 10, 2011 1:47:11 pm PDT #17792 of 25513
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Hey, LeN, did you get that fancy stylus yet? eta: This looks interesting.
I was online first in university. I was "phoenix" there. My friend ktrigg told me to go with my name, and he's been ktrigg everywhere for twenty+ years, but if you can't be a phoenix at 18, you're not really living.
I should have been ita more places, and ita [lastname] a couple fewer. That's where most of my error (i.e. non-resume) appearances are.
-t - Sep 10, 2011 1:54:29 pm PDT #17793 of 25513
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I didn't have a choice in college, I was tskared, and I still use that some places because I can remember it and nobody else is gonna want it.
le nubian - Sep 10, 2011 2:03:22 pm PDT #17794 of 25513
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
ita,
I have used it a bit, but not enough where I can really give a review. I like it, it gives me a lot of control, but there is a faint click click as I write.
So, my quick assessment is that I like it but I wish the click wasn't there.
§ ita § - Sep 10, 2011 2:23:46 pm PDT #17795 of 25513
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Do you think it gives a better line than a traditional stylus or a weird one like in my post above? I am on a mission.
Would you draw with it? How does your handwriting look in comparison to a pen?
le nubian - Sep 10, 2011 2:55:08 pm PDT #17796 of 25513
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
hmm.
the programs I use, you can control the thickness of the line, so I would say it provides more control. easier to see around it in comparison to other styli.
NoiseDesign - Sep 10, 2011 3:18:51 pm PDT #17797 of 25513
Our wings are not tired
Paging NoiseDesign! A while back you were talking about selling off some of your old machines - do you still have any of that stuff around?
Yes, I still have some systems for sale. I haven't had a chance to do anything about selling them since I've been so buried with work.
As for online services, I think I briefly had an AOL account, but only to see what it was all about. I did BBS systems in San Diego from 1981 to 1989. When I moved up to Spokane, there was no option for a local ISP, so I had Compuserve for a while, when the user names were just strings of numbers. I then had a Delphi account so that I could get shell access to the internet. I know at one point Netcom was my primary ISP, then I had a local ISP in San Diego between undergrad and grad school, it was CTS.com, and you know it was back in the dark ages of the internet because they gave me a static IP address on a dial-up account. I kept that account long after it made sense to keep it just because of that coveted static IP.
aurelia - Sep 10, 2011 7:23:29 pm PDT #17798 of 25513
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
I still have an aol account because I can't get my mother to stop using that email address. I use that address for the retail stores that like to email every day.
Is there any reason I shouldn't get iWork instead of Office? New computer with OS upgrade means I need to upgrade Office, but I see that iWork is cheaper. I use Word and Excel, but I don't do anything complicated with them. No formulas or anything.