What Would You Do Without A Computer?

I searched the forums for this question, and did not find anything regarding it. Anyway, I thought this would be an interesting poll to ask you guys because I was asking the same question myself when my wife told me, "I wish my face was made of plastic and glass, and maybe you will pay attention to me more, it seems that box is your best friend..." it made me feel really bad, but she was right.

What would I do if I did not have the computer anymore? No net, games, IRC, Linux, mp3's, GIMP,Paint Shop Pro, KyLiX, Dreamweaver, KDevelop, forums, and things I like to do all the time that encompass hobby as well as production. Man, I do not know what I would do... read a book, fly a kite, get the eaves painted on the house...

... or simply go mad because I do not have AntiOnline IRC or talk about keeping up with the lastest thread about XML parsing. There I will sit... shaking, shivering, drooling, and having constant obsessive thoughts on how I will get my next computer fix.

I hate to admit it. I am addicted to my computer and I would simply cry if it were gone.

What would you do without one? I posted a poll :cool:

I would go fishing in the atlantic. Bag my self another marlin or sailfish. Its been a while. heh

There's no way I could live without mine (although my wife would have me think otherwise). I'm too much of a gamer to give it up. Some people have cars, I have my computer. Sure, I'd find other things to do, but would they be as satisfying (well, almost all of them?)?

Sometimes I just need to hear a system beep just to get through the day. ;-)

NO AO, no games, no all the nice things that make puters addictive!!!!!
Iwill lose it totaly;)
regards
Mike

I think I will be walking, just walking and walking back. Just as long till I've a new computer...

you guys still have your wife besides your pc, and i don't even have a wife, i think i will drop dead at once without my pc.

oh that's an easy one.

i would need to be fitted for one of those ever so lovely, close fitting white jackets. you know...the one's that come with their own padded room. LOL

no AO, news, games, there wouldn't be much left.......

I would do exactly as I do now. Most of my work is what is now called word processing, and most of that is done on my old 1940 Royal typewriter. The computer is here solely because some places demand floppy discs rather than paper. The computer is a necessary evil that, most days, is never turned on.

I would loose my little bit of sanity that is hidden in a floppy mann...

I went to arizona not to long ago and I took a laptop but the modem wasnt working.. i went TWO days without the internet or any decent programs...

I thought I was going to go ape sh1t.

i cannot live without a computer and internet access.. or i would more than likely go completely insane.

Honestly, I would be quite upset because I do most of my research online, even just to find physical books or periodicals which I need as sources. I'd also be somewhat sad considering I'd also lose a lot of friends (which I could live with considering I have a lot of "real" friends as well, but it'd be more difficult to get a hold of them as well). Finally, I just think I'd go crazy because what else is going to provide me with this sort of unending intellectual stimulation?!?!

AJ

/me shivers at the thought of having to use library computers with deep freeze

I have had mine taken away before...but if the government made it illegal to have one and i had to give it up.. i would just ride bmx and probably be like 100% better because i would ride like 14 hours a day...

If something happened to my computer I think I'd be in real danger of getting a life ;).

If i didnt have my Computer......I'd be in the Sanatarium.....Or Dead.....1 of the 2

i've went w/o a computer or internet for about 3 or 4 days because of power problems in my house. By the time that third day rolled around I was feeling really stressed, jumpy, and edgy. Its a bit easier to go w/o the internet, as I can always work on my lan or use World Craft to make some new HL levels. I'm pretty sure I'm addicted to computers, esp since im taking my laptop with to me Las Vegas for vacation. 4 days w/o out it, not if I can help it!

Where would I be without my computer? The Betty Ford Center....I just hope they have a program for ecrack, 'cause that's what my computer is to me.

Oh ! it will be a cruel world, if I am with no computer. Am so much addicted to Age of empires.. and what about my friends..

Huh! Without a computer? Can't live without them.

I´d be climbing the walls and then go out and gett piss drunk and probably break in somewhere for a new puter.. I hope my two never dies at the same time. Jail sucks

I'm going to move to osbornes :)))

I just had to go 21 days without High Speed Internet service, and barely made it. Life without my PC's? No way.

Say, does the Betty Ford clinic treat Internet addiction???????

Hehe, these replies are really interesting. PapaGrande, I do not know if the Betty Ford Clinic has a treatment center for Internet Addiction, but even if they did, we would wind up with what Greek Goddess wanted in the first place: an AntiOnline get together :)

BBQ, Beer and LAN party at Betty Ford. Anybody second that motion?

No computer? Probably have to look for another job. Maybe have to learn to hand write notes, letters, numbers, etc. Learn how to calculate again. Learn how to draw by hand again.
Go to libraries, read, maybe even talk to people instead of my monitor. But just think what would happen if we didn't have TV - we may even have to learn to think for ourselves.

Chuck56 said it; for anything i had to write it'd be on my *O-L-D* Royal Portable with it's hardcase and hard keys (Go ahead, just try to buy one of those!) (wanna revelation? put your keyboard-friendly fingers on a typewriter and see how many words are readable and how many mistakes you make! :D) Other than that, play go shopping and traveling with my wife more, i'd work in my workshop, make new things for the yard, build a nice fence i always wanted but didn't have the time for, go fishing at least once a week, work with my telescope and cameras (not the digital one, it needs a 'puter to download the pics :D) and in general save about ten hours a day that could be used for more productive projects. Couldn't manage my domains or server, 'cause there would be no 'puters. Guess i'd just have to "get a life" again :D

I'd say after a week of trying to install linux on my ti-83, I'd start to socialize with human civilization again.

No girlfriend, too young to go out anywhere. What the hell would i do without it!!!

I visited my parents for a week and there was no computer and no internet.
And I must say that it was really relaxing.

If there were no computers around I just would go fishing or have a barbecue with some friends.

At the moment, if there were no computers, I would go to bed :D

Good night.

I think that I would probably work myself to death. We were without power for a couple days this past winter and they nearly had to strap me to a chair to keep me from overworking myself because I was bored. When the power came back on, I didn't run and cook something (our stoves and heaters are electric and we had been without a solid meal for a few days) oh no... I ran turned my computer on and played a couple games of quake with some of the guys on my floor.