2019.03.14 07:00 - Modem Memories

    The Guardian for this meeting was Adams Rubble. The comments are by Adams Rubble.

     

    Adams Rubble: Good morning Riddle :)
    Riddle Sideways: yes, thar be Morning on da horizon
    Adams Rubble: :)
    Riddle Sideways: nice outfit
    Riddle Sideways: Again
    Riddle Sideways: how do you do that
    Adams Rubble: The sun is shining broghtly here
    Adams Rubble: brightly
    Riddle Sideways: pick another nice outfit everyday
    Adams Rubble speaks softly and carries a big inventory
    Riddle Sideways: giggles
    Riddle Sideways: and it is completely organized
    Adams Rubble: well not completely
    --BELL--
    Adams Rubble: tomorrow is the Ides of March
    Adams Rubble: for all the Brutus fans out there
    Riddle Sideways: right! that was goig to say
    Riddle Sideways: Hail, Erav Ides
    Riddle Sideways: remember looking it up last year to see if all months have an Ides
    Riddle Sideways: they don't really, but forget the reasons
    Riddle Sideways: refuse to look it up again
    Adams Rubble reminds everyone to stay out of the forum tomorrow
    Riddle Sideways: Funny thing happened on the way to the forum
    Riddle Sideways: there is a new ice rink in town
    Riddle Sideways: what do you think?
    Adams Rubble: it is very big
    Riddle Sideways: seemed not so big when inside
    Riddle Sideways: the outside is
    Riddle Sideways: lots of standing room not on the ice
    Adams Rubble: :)
    Riddle Sideways: kind of a reverse Dr. Who Tartus(sp?) effect
    Riddle Sideways: never watched any Dr. Who
    Riddle Sideways: but, belong to a SL group that is crazy over it
    Adams Rubble: I only watched a part of an episode or two
    Adams Rubble: but remember the phone booth
    Riddle Sideways: well, yes saw part of an episode too and ran screaming away
    Adams Rubble: hehe
    Riddle Sideways: looked so adictive
    Adams Rubble: you needed a remote
    Riddle Sideways: that might have been before remotes
    Adams Rubble: hmmm
    Riddle Sideways: oh those first remotes
    Riddle Sideways: huge things
    Adams Rubble: hard to remember what we did not have
    Riddle Sideways: first TV with a remote and consciously hid it elsewhere
    Riddle Sideways: last night, dinner with old friends, got talking all this old time stuff
    Adams Rubble: all one needed was a couch, a big bag of cheese doodles and a remote
    Riddle Sideways: was 30 years ago WWW started
    Adams Rubble: wow
    Adams Rubble: it was about 36 years ago that I began working on a computer
    Adams Rubble: writing programs to write my name
    Riddle Sideways: 3 or 4 people at the table simultaneously started making the dial-up modem sounds
    Riddle Sideways: about the same time period, math is hard this morning
    Riddle Sideways: got the first programing job
    Riddle Sideways: was both hardware and software before that
    --BELL--
    Riddle Sideways: there was a program in a magazine that would plot world population vs food vs water and show extinction
    Adams Rubble: receiver in the cradle fast asleep
    Riddle Sideways: yes
    Adams Rubble: ohhhh
    Adams Rubble: one of the crime bosses was made extinct last night in Staten Island
    Riddle Sideways: oh
    Adams Rubble: shot six times in front of his home and then run over by a truck
    Riddle Sideways: that stuff still goes on?
    Riddle Sideways: just like the movies
    Adams Rubble: first time in 34 years that a boss was rubbed out
    Riddle Sideways: huh, Life emulating the movies
    Adams Rubble: movies couldn;t imagine what is going on at the white house
    Adams Rubble: sorry to throw that in
    Adams Rubble: broke up all the early computer stuff
    Adams Rubble: so glad they got rid of the dreen screens
    Adams Rubble: green
    Riddle Sideways: thanks
    Adams Rubble: everything used to be pink when looked back at the world
    Riddle Sideways: rose colored glasses
    Riddle Sideways: so many olde stories
    Riddle Sideways: flat screens have made so much desk space
    Adams Rubble: you betcha
    Riddle Sideways: however, cat use to love sleeping on a warm CRT
    Adams Rubble: :)
    Adams Rubble: let them east cake
    Adams Rubble: eat
    Riddle Sideways: also talked of watching the young try to dial a rotatry phone
    Adams Rubble: you might say that does not make an sense
    Riddle Sideways: or tell time on an analog clock
    Adams Rubble: back in my day we could didal a rotary phone with just one finger
    Riddle Sideways: well, when whatshername said it, it did not make sense either
    Adams Rubble: Marie Antoinette
    Adams Rubble: everyone knew her as nancy
    Riddle Sideways: laughs at both refs
    Riddle Sideways: at those people's house and pointed at a book sheif of LPs
    Riddle Sideways: and they said when we moved here had to cut back to only the best ones
    --BELL--
    Adams Rubble: yeah and no lobger play the best ones
    Riddle Sideways: don't want to wear out the Grooves
    Adams Rubble: or open the record player :)
    Riddle Sideways: in dayz of olde they did the same things. Only it was harder
    Adams Rubble: yes
    Riddle Sideways: ha, like those first 9-sec exercises
    Adams Rubble: :)))
    Riddle Sideways: how long is 9 seconds?
    Riddle Sideways: is looking at a Sweep Second hand ok?
    Riddle Sideways: what clock in the house has a Sweep Second hand?
    Riddle Sideways: Beginner's mind
    Adams Rubble: my watch :)
    Riddle Sideways: wall clock here
    Adams Rubble looks. Yes, wall clock here too
    Adams Rubble: :)
    Riddle Sideways: In A beginning. there were very different beginner thoughts each 15 minutes
    Riddle Sideways: Is and then Was
    Riddle Sideways: that right?
    Riddle Sideways: what is Right?
    Adams Rubble: not sure
    Adams Rubble remebers some fool blogging like crazy
    Riddle Sideways: with an entire alphabet of shorthand
    Riddle Sideways: tried to copy, learn, use that alphabet also
    Riddle Sideways: would scribble 1 word on the nearest scrap of paper
    Riddle Sideways: piles of napkins, scraps, corners, etc.
    Riddle Sideways: never to be gotten into 'soft copy'
    Riddle Sideways: funny, once a boss walked in to check how project was going
    Riddle Sideways: saw scrap of paper on top with "At Peace"
    Adams Rubble: :)
    Riddle Sideways: think that is how so many scraps piled up.
    Riddle Sideways: the top one would get a word or phrase then put on the bottom of pile
    Riddle Sideways: 15 minutes later, repeat
    Adams Rubble: :)
    Riddle Sideways: it sure was grounding tho
    Adams Rubble: a good start for us
    --BELL--
    Riddle Sideways: 90 seconds is a long time
    Riddle Sideways: can't recall when the 90-sec pause started
    Adams Rubble: somebody suggested it and then I think left PaB :)
    Adams Rubble: I betcha it is noted in teh Chronicles
    Riddle Sideways: those Chronicles sure cover everything
    Riddle Sideways: thank you for those
    Adams Rubble: thank you for thanking
    Adams Rubble: someday someone will be wondering who the heck that Adams Rubble was
    Adams Rubble: the Currier Bell of paB
    Riddle Sideways: hmmmm
    Adams Rubble: (Currier bell was the pen name for one of the Brontes)
    Riddle Sideways: oh
    Riddle Sideways: there are those that try so hard to get to know the author instead of the writtings
    Adams Rubble: people love a mystery
    Riddle Sideways: summarizing, analyzing, knowing what Adams meant
    Riddle Sideways: as if Adams was the same person every time the pen was picked up
    Adams Rubble: picking through the inventory, looking for clues
    Adams Rubble: ahhh, yes, you hit it
    Riddle Sideways: 6 red dresses, hmmmm, that means ...
    Adams Rubble: 6?????
    Riddle Sideways: very interesting, only 1 orange one
    Riddle Sideways: Class, we can assume that the author Adams was ...
    Riddle Sideways: when it was written ...
    Riddle Sideways: ergo therefore, With the lead pipe the Devil with the Blue dress, Blue dress, Blue dress on
    Adams Rubble did a count
    Adams Rubble: 31
    Riddle Sideways: ha
    Riddle Sideways: oh WOOOOOWWWWW
    Adams Rubble: red
    Adams Rubble: not so many orange
    Riddle Sideways: were it not for Halloween
    --BELL--
    Riddle Sideways: there might be none
    Riddle Sideways: Now they know how many red dresses it takes to fill Albert's Hall
    Adams Rubble: 31 Adams Ribbles?
    Adams Rubble: Rubbles
    Adams Rubble: Googles sends me Google alerts about somebody named SAdams who has knocked down some buiding and only Rubble remains
    Adams Rubble: they think that is funny
    Riddle Sideways: Adam's Rubble is NOT funny
    Adams Rubble: :)
    Adams Rubble: no sireeee
    Riddle Sideways: The most organized, has no Rubble
    Riddle Sideways: ya know, some times Google should just be corrected
    Riddle Sideways: like Wikipedia, Perr reviewed
    Riddle Sideways: *Peer
    Adams Rubble: Google all powerful
    Riddle Sideways: gets out the rotary dial phone to re-spelt the Google entries
    Riddle Sideways: Random Revelation: Too many people have littered memory lane
    Adams Rubble: :)
    Adams Rubble: I need to go and transact some business in RL. There has been a schedule change that is going to need lots of emails
    Riddle Sideways: good luck with that
    Adams Rubble: It is funny that whenever i stand I am facing away from you
    Riddle Sideways: thanks for the memory lane walk today
    Adams Rubble: you too. I'll have to remember to post :)
    Riddle Sideways: oh yes, that
    Adams Rubble: take good care and have a nice weekend
    Riddle Sideways: hope you one also
    Adams Rubble: bye for now
    Riddle Sideways: too

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