I had very basic email in Prague, but had to go to a computer center housed in trailers in the courtyard at the FFUK, stand in line for a vax terminal, sometimes outside in the snow and keyboard was czech which lead to some weirdness. Applied for internships that way. But home still seemed much more remote than now when I travel. I mean, I sent email from Bhutan!
Mal: Yeah, well, just be careful. We cheated Badger out of good money to buy that frippery, and you're supposed to make me look respectable. Kaylee: Yes, sir, Captain Tightpants.
'Shindig'
Natter 73: Chuck Norris only wishes he could Natter
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
sarameg - Aug 05, 2014 3:06:11 am PDT #3477 of 30000
flea - Aug 05, 2014 3:14:41 am PDT #3478 of 30000
information libertarian
Study abroad is totally different now. I stunned the students I was teaching a couple of weeks ago with my tales of post restante, traveller's checks, and once-a-week-four-minute-pay-phone-calls-that-cost-$20 from 1992-93. They have ubiquitous internet, credit cards and atms, and unlimited-access cell phones. They text their parents from Rome like they're on campus.
Kat - Aug 05, 2014 4:07:25 am PDT #3479 of 30000
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
flea, I guess I also wonder if all of that access changes their experience. I'd assume so. But I'd love to see how. And there would be no good way to do a study of that.
Kat - Aug 05, 2014 4:07:27 am PDT #3480 of 30000
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Not important enough to say twice.
hippocampus - Aug 05, 2014 4:27:39 am PDT #3481 of 30000
not your mom's socks.
But I'd love to see how.
DH and I would never have had much of the adventure we had when we met if there'd been cellphones and maps. Getting lost, being out of touch, very much disappearing art forms.
Strix - Aug 05, 2014 5:06:49 am PDT #3482 of 30000
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
traveller's checks, and once-a-week-four-minute-pay-phone-calls-that-cost-$20 from 1992-93.
THIS! I was in London the spring of 93, and my mom saved all the letters and postcards I sent them. I called my folks like, 3 times in 5 months, and when I got my tax return and needed the money desperately, they had to send it Western Union, or some such.
I wrote all my papers for classes, including a 12 page research paper, longhand, because no one had access to computers in my program. ONE person in our program of 40 people had a laptop, and it was purely for WP.
Jesse - Aug 05, 2014 6:02:26 am PDT #3483 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
You guys, I want to eat the same thing for lunch every day. Is that OK?
Sophia Brooks - Aug 05, 2014 6:16:40 am PDT #3484 of 30000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I think that is OK. I eat the same thing most weeks, because I bring in cold cuts and make sandwichs.
I am SUPER BORED. I really should work. I have reached the end of the internet. I am mildly agitated because people on the bus were yelling and it aggravated me. (the bus driver and a wheelchair patron got into a fight because he didn't buckle her in).
Zenkitty - Aug 05, 2014 6:17:07 am PDT #3485 of 30000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
I eat the same things for meals almost every day, when I'm home. After a while, I get bored and switch to something else. I have not died of malnutrition yet.
Connie Neil - Aug 05, 2014 6:17:20 am PDT #3486 of 30000
brillig
I eat the same thing for lunch, it's cheap and reassuring.
edit: What Zen said. I change when I'm bored. I don't like experimenting with food.