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I'm back! Miss me?
Back home from the (grand)parental visit, where I ended up staying in a hotel for three nights. As soon as I reached Mom's house on Friday, Mom came out of the house and told me not to even bother with unloading the car, as the septic tank had finally backed up so we were going to a hotel that night. We did so, then Saturday drove down to Victoria for a visit with the grandparents, then back to Mom's place on Sunday and another night in a local hotel, then I drove back up to Fort Worth today as the septic-tank guy came out to dig up Mom's yard and find the thing. (He'd found it as I left.)
That's a hell of a lot of driving - 3.5 hours Friday and Monday, 3 hour each Saturday and Sunday. I just want to NOT MOVE for a while.
Will eventually catch up on LJ. Eventually.
Totally accurate about the kickin' it old school on Usenet thing, though! XD
That's a hell of a lot of driving - 3.5 hours Friday and Monday, 3 hour each Saturday and Sunday. I just want to NOT MOVE for a while.
Will eventually catch up on LJ. Eventually.
Totally accurate about the kickin' it old school on Usenet thing, though! XD
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Why yes, I did miss you, sentimental critter that I am.
The first couple of times I tried that meme, radiofreebanri did me in. But I doubt it cares enough ... !
Uh-huh!
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Are those Prince of Tennis ships? Sad thing is, I know nothing about PoT. Oh, what a sad fate for the poor refugees!
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YAH WANK :P
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Hey, that's my current reality!
So, are you really on USENET?
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I'm not reading it as much as I used to - I used to do a lot of reading and posting from 1994 up through about 5-6 years ago, and just pop in to a couple of newsgroups a couple of times a week now. And no, I'm not telling anyone what names I was using way back when or what groups I was posting in because I got pretty damn wanky at times. XD
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Here are two suggestions:
Google Groups
http://groups.google.com/
If you want a simple and easy to use pure web interface and don't mind 1) limited crossposting (crossposting is a wonderful tool if you're a USENET troll like I am but I don't think that would be an issue for you), 2) no binary groups (of course, Bit Torrent makes that less of a problem), and 3) exposing your IP address to the world (proxies will hide this, but people will still see that you're posting from a proxy), then this is the one for you. I used to post through Google using my hotmail, yahoo, and netscape addresses (gmail will work even better), but numbers 1 and especially 3 made me give it up. One nasty kook used the IP address to track me down to my old home address and phone number, then used that info to locate two of my work locations. *shudder*
Motzarella
http://news.motzarella.org/
This is a real news service provider, and it's free. You will need a real newsreading program. If you already have Outlook or Outlook Express, you can connect to Motzarella. If you want a program with a little more flexibility, download XNews or Microplanet Gravity. XNews in particular lets you change identities and email addresses easily. Also, it hides your home IP address--all anyone will see with be that of Motzarella, which is in Germany.
In both cases, register using your email address, then reply to the confirmation email.
Hope that helps!
Plus, if I start posting I'll never get any work done. XD
No kidding!
I'm not reading it as much as I used to - I used to do a lot of reading and posting from 1994 up through about 5-6 years ago, and just pop in to a couple of newsgroups a couple of times a week now. And no, I'm not telling anyone what names I was using way back when or what groups I was posting in because I got pretty damn wanky at times. XD
Darn. I could use the entertainment.
What groups are you reading these days?
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I'm lurking in alt.sysadmin.recovery (I'd never actually post there, but it's funny as hell) and rec.arts.sf.composition now.
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FWIW, I drove three and a half hours every Monday and Wednesday for an entire year and taught three classes at three different colleges in between drives. I'm glad those days are over!
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ugh. -_-; i would so not be able to do that.