Be carfull what you wish for

:( here I sit it's saturday night and and the best thing i can think of to do is staring at a crt.
yes its a long and sad story, so I'll not bore you.

I had decided to become good with one of these things --pc-- So I think to myself what the he{{ why not so I tried and tried but couldnt seem to make the grade
BRAIN FART- what is it that they have that I don't the G word lifestyle, so i tell my wife I'm going to try to realy learn this stuff no prob said she. nite after nite day after day the seem to blend together cold food warm pop the ashtray full to overflow Now dev\null makes sense the heat from my server roastes my leg three other puters humming away at one problem or another( brute forcing a 98 box with netware just to see if i can)
my s\o just looks at me and wonders what happend where did she go wrong my skin is the color of the case that used to be on my Big machine(overheat) my back side is a perfect fit to the new reclining hight adjustable lumbar support office chair. romance is when you have a meaninful relationship with your isp's router.

What have I become
I'm not sure, but I'm going to google it and find out

Be Carfull what you wish for you just might get it!!!!!!

*tries to stifle her laughter* OMG HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
My friends just look at me and shake their head. They think I'm some kind of Uber Hacker because I spend so much time on a computer, messing around with programs, writing stuff, and whatnot. In fact, I spend 90% of my day on the computer. I get up occasionally to pee, eat, find something to drink, and get another pack of cigarettes.

And....since I've come here, and I've been learning more about security, I've decided to pick up some classes next semester dealing with programming. Just another excuse to sit in front of the computer.

aah, oldman, I have the term.......UBERGEEK ;) like it?

Well now as another old guy the CRT has at times more to offer then a recliner and TV. Life is what you make of it I suppose. For most days 8 hours at work 50 users and 5 servers is enough. Come home mess around out here interact with people of all ages, spend most weekends like today outside was not a liquid sun shine day. Things today so many wish to break things, few want to fix or maintain, innoviations become breaking into the next box you don't own. What is it you have old guy well a life time of living, think about it the everyday stuff all about you growing up is now taught as history. You can look at a place and recall how it was before the mall's, walk along a street hear a bird sing in the mist of urban america, and sometimes when your lucky a child comes back to you asks for your advice cause your old. Or even an unknown younger person just wants to hear the stories you can tell. Yeah wishes come true and when you get them you look about for what meaning there was really in that wish. My answer is to give back to my own family here and over seas, it is only when you hit it and are an elder that you understand that being old is no less a tough task then being young. Hang in there take a walk see how many smiles you can send out and get just cause you can.

heh my parentsd are making me sit classes next summer since i slagged me fiances teacher about his lackk of computer knowledge >_<;

v_Ln

Ahhhh, the life of the computer addicts. Isn't it grand?? I too am one that spends endless hours crt-tanning myself. I am on this site at the minimum of 8 hrs a day, 5 days a week. :-) On my days off, i still tend to spend about 8 hrs a day on the box. I am addicted, will always be addicted. May God bless the man who invented computers:-) Long live AO!!!!

I have been sneaking out lately to catch some sun by the pool...But don't tell Paqman...my Compaq.....he'll be upset if he knew that I didn't spend all of my free time with him. *psychotic smile*

omg 5 days a week , 8 hours a day., i wish , im 8hours a day 7 days a week, i have no life :( i even think ive just grown a hard drive in my head , and my eyes have turned from round to square , but you know what , I LOVE IT :D But still so much to learn.........oh well, thats life ...hehehe

i said a minimum of 8 hrs a day LOL...Im a computer support tech.. That is just working on my customer's systems. I spend the rest of my life at home on my two systems...LOL....I had 10 systems but had to get rid of most due to lack of space and too high of an electric bill :) I spend an average of approximately 14-16 hrs a day on the computer :) My computer is my life, well, i have a house and a dog if that counts LOL

Hey, if I wanted more sun, I'd buy another monitor!

People ask me why I do it...I don't say a word because they wouldn't understand...

I work from home...

I can run my entire business via VNC on my PocketPC...

I spend a MINIMUM of 16 hours a day (usually nearer 18) getting a VDU tan...

I buy my groceries online...

I have four dressing gowns...

I havn't left the house in over a month...

Do I qualify as an UeberGeek?

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May God bless the man who invented computers:-)

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I'll second that motion :thumbsup: (his name was Turing BTW)

GreekGoddess: Do you feel guilty upgrading Paqman and throwing out the old parts? I just had to ask...

I would spend most of my days infront of the workstation, but I'm a busy person. I lifeguard at the pool, so I'm getting a tan... Too bad I won't be seeing many AOers over here in Japan... After I find out how much my Internet bill is (from my ke-i-ta-i (cellphone), of course), I might consider visiting AO on the move. If it costs too much for the data, I might try my best to convince JP to make a smaller version of this site for mobile users. That would be the day. Getting an hour-long sun/LCD-tan replying to something, when I could have gotten an equivilent 30 second CRT-tan at home.

-Tim_axe

i'm not sure of the mood of this thread. somehow when i read oldguy's message i get something different that the other's interpretation or motivation for reply anyway; maybe it's just my personal experiences plaguing my memories.

oldguy, careful not to let the s/o become an i/o...and vice versa. it's not a happy ending.

droby10 you hit it on the head
my s/o has proclaimed I need a bit more sun and fun, as long as i bring her along, so yesterday we went for a putt on the scooter
It was a lot more enjoyable than trying to figure out some of the crypto puzzles posted by other anti's
what i need to do is find a balance in my new life( this all started when a surgeon told me I was lucky to be walking and it won't last) but hey at least there is someting better that staring at the walls
:-( Saint Gates and his deciples :-( have created a whole new world for people now all we need is to kick that little machiavelii off of his pedistal
Any way I'll be lurking and smirking

Ahh, I remember the old days...

Using IRC whilst connecting through DOS. Staying online for days at a time during summer break. The desk littered with mountain dew cans and sandwich crusts. Your eyes glazed over so bad your parents say they can see screen burn when they look at you. Realizing you don't need lights in your room...the CRT and modem lights provide enough light. Any more and you'll probably go blind...hell the last trip to the fridge for another sandwich actually hurt your eyes.

I know them well. Now I do it 8am-5pm during the week. After that I dont' want to even SEE PC's...

GreekGoddess> Thats when you need to get a laptop with an 802.11 network running in your house. Get a little tan, and stay online at the same time.... But I have NEVER done anything like that.... /me hides in the dark corner...

oldguy> I put 600 miles on my "scooter" since Friday, and I didn't touch a computer from Thursday night until Monday morning.... Well, except for 20 minutes on Saturday when I was helping a friend when he had a problem dl'ing some pr0n....

the old days ha
do you remember when a desktop was a time share terminal and writing your apps in basic
I still have 20#s of 5 1/4 floppys with apps i'v written and the original copy of rogue (my pops wrote it in 1977 { i think it was 77} )
my epson q16 has 4megs of ram and a 8082 chip
But sadly I missed out on the begining of the web thing, too busy trying to feed the kids and the old epson would not take a modem
Things sure have changed !!!

LOL oldguy, those days are as old as they get for me.

My first PC was a dell, so you can tell how late into the game it was before I started. Still, most of the script kiddies and other web morons didn't connect till win95, so at least I got a head start on them.


Did program basic on an old 386 on 5 1/4's in high school...that's what started me on getting a PC in the first place. Well, that and Oregon Trail on the old Apple IIe, hehehe.


Now those days are well passed, my home PC collection consists of a Dell 200mhz, Packard Hell 133, and my Toshiba 900mhz laptop with wireless NIC. Of course, it's not so I can hang out by the pool and surf...it's for those times where you really need to check your email while you're shaving. When I first moved into my house I thought it was BAD ASS that I had a phone jack in the bathroom...now that I have wireless I don't know how people lived without phone jacks every 10 feet.

I spend most of my days in front of the screen too. I'm really not sure if I should smile or frown at that notion. *sighs* I need a life...

On a brighter note, I will be running cat5 in the house this weekend lol. 2 plugs in every major room! One for data and one for phone.