To make a long story short, I won't have a computer, or internet access at home outside of my iPhone for week or so. I figured it out, and I think this will have been the first time this has happened since something like 1988Back in the days of dialing directly into BBS and paying long-distance charges for the pleasure
It was a comedy of errors - computer guy came to my house to replace the motherboard as I have in-home warranty service for a LARGE 1-piece computer, and the NEW motherboard was bad! Oh well, at least it isn't costing me any money.
What WILL I do without a computer at home for that long?
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05-05-2011, 12:50 PM #1
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05-05-2011, 01:42 PM #2
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Ha ... we just got our internet back on this afternoon, first time since Saturday. Traveling and/or too wet to ride ... I developed my thumb dexterity.
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05-05-2011, 06:49 PM #3
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Hmmm...tonight I was at a meeting and had my laptop, iPad, and iPhone....and I was using them all! I think I'm in The Matrix
If you don't grow where you're planted, you'll never BLOOM - Will Rogers
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05-05-2011, 07:17 PM #4
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Ahhhhhh... BBS.. Squawks/schreeks from a dial up modem... Dot matrix printers... 5 1/2" floppy disks... Hard drives LESS then 1GB.
What did we ever do before dsl, blazing fast computers the size of an iPhone, and WiFi?!?!Starbucks.. did someone say Starbucks?!?!
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05-05-2011, 07:34 PM #5
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Um, read a book? I'm currently reading a real, paper book. It's a wonderful invention, actually. You don't have to plug it in, and it doesn't have any nausea-inducing animations. And all the vivid and creative images are wired directly into my brain! Talk about wireless!
Pretty amazing what they can do these days.
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05-05-2011, 08:22 PM #6
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Here's an "early" book - you should enjoy this
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQHX-...eature=related
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05-06-2011, 02:49 AM #7
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I love real books.... Couldn't imagine reading off of a netbook ever, I need pages to flip. I just wrote my niece a letter yesterday too. Forget emails etc. There is nothing like a written letter. Originally Posted by tulip
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05-06-2011, 05:12 AM #8
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We sat around wondering and arguing about stuff that we forgot about before we were able to get somewhere that we could confirm it. Originally Posted by Roadtrip
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