Small Talk: Chili's

[Kalliste]

lol my bf will only read Harry Potter - where fiction is concerned anyway.

 

If he reads books otherwise they're non fiction and for learning purposes (learning new skills in IT basically) and I feel like that just means he misses out on the fun part of books.

 

Granted, I rarely read non fiction :P 

[MichelleAK]

I read a lot of non-fiction, but it's also for fun.  I read a lot of history and some pop science books (ones I can understand!), plus biographies/autobiographies and true crime. The book I'm reading right now is true crime, about a murder that happened in New York in 1897. It also covers the "print wars" between Hearst and Pulitzer that had recently begun.

 

I know there are people who don't read for pleasure, but it's a completely foreign concept to me. Even though I watch a lot of TV, I still prefer reading.

Edited July 15, 2015 by MichelleAK

[smrou]

Granted, I rarely read non fiction :P

Me neither, and I wish I read more because there's so much that sounds really interesting, but I just find that when I read non-fiction I often end up losing interest. Not losing interest in the subject, generally, but I guess just in the process of reading it. I end up stalling partway into a non-fiction book and then switching over and reading some fiction instead. My mom listens to a lot of non-fiction, but I've tried that and it doesn't seem to go any better. 

[LiberryLady]

Y'all complaining about no power for one day? Try two weeks here during two hurricanes.

 

Lawd, that's a long time with no internet!

 

I've never read or watched anything to do with TKAM either. Perhaps it is an American school thing?

 

Maybe I'll check it out from the library and take it on my cruise in a few weeks.  As long as it's better than Catcher in the Rye, which I read because it was an "everyone should read this!" book, and which I loathed.

 

 

I read it on my own in college, and loved it.  (And I didn't care for Catcher in the Rye, either, MichelleAK.) Kalliste, besides being widely-read in school, it's considered one of the most important American novels.  But it doesn't go down like medicine; the plot is gripping and the prose is so clean and strong.

 

And no, I won't be reading GSAW.  From everything I've read, Harper Lee didn't plan on ever releasing it.  It's got a major, major conflicting plot point from TKAM, for crying out loud! (The bit about the outcome of the trial.)  So, nope, not going to read it. 

[EllieH]

Confession: People who say they "don't like" reading make me really sad. Like, I physically feel pain for them that they don't understand how great a book can read. 

 

A friend recently told me that she has only read 2 books since college. TWO. And we've been out of college for nearly 15 years. How is that possible? I don't... it makes NO SENSE. 

 

Agreed.  Also, I've probably finished two books this month, so I'm at the other end of the spectrum!

 

For those of you who do read non-fiction, I just finished The Wright Brothers, by David McCullough, and I highly recommend it!

[King of Birds]

I turn on my tv, and I left it on NBC last night, and so America's Got Talent comes on. And there's some kid doing "flyboarding" which is "like a water jetpack attached to your feet."

 

Amateurs!

[King of Birds]

Oh sure. MY post is halfway to death-chicken-dom.

 

Any "how could they not nominate" stuff that bugs you this year? As I indulged in S1-S3 of The Americans this winter/ spring, I find it incredible that didn't get nominated. And I am still perplexed by Downton Abbey love. My Mom, who liked DA in the beginning, even says she doesn't watch it anymore.

[Kalliste]

I don't follow award shows so I don't even know who has been nominated :P

 

I haven't seen Mr Robot either, my bf said the first episode was good but was meh about a few of the others out. However he is watching it as soon as it comes out and appears to be eager to do so which suggests it is still good enough. I may start watching it when I finish up on Penny Dreadful but not sure;

 

Speaking of TV going down hill, how do you usually manage with your favourite tv shows becoming terrible? This week Community was cancelled (again) and this time it brings a sense of relief because although I was very sad when it initially happened back in season 3 now after having seen seasons 4 - 6 I wish it had been cancelled then. Now I just get disappointed about what it became.

 

I'm also feeling it with Doctor Who, the last few seasons have just been so meh. It makes me sad because the earller seasons were awesome.

[Glory]

I am conquering the death chicken with a risque topic. 

 

In the Humans thread, some twat-waffle compared masturbation to cheating. Like literally, "I consider masturbation a light form of cheating." 

 

I... can't even respond that lunacy. Do people truly think that? Do they never... "clear the air" so to speak, when the mood strikes them? I don't understand!

[smrou]

I... can't even respond that lunacy. Do people truly think that? Do they never... "clear the air" so to speak, when the mood strikes them? I don't understand!

Oh, this was discussed on a podcast I listen to not that long ago. Actually...wait, no, it might not have been whether people consider masturbating cheating but just whether they do it at all when in a committed sexual relationship and if they do whether it's a bad sign for the relationship. The hosts of the podcast were all like "I mean, duh, of course I masturbate when I'm in a relationship," but I just remember part of the conversation involved the fact that some people don't do it or consider it bad or whatever.  [ETA: I looked back and it was actually the first episode of the NYMag Sex Lives Podcast.]

 

I'm with you, though. The idea that masturbation could be considered cheating is bizarre to me. If a person is masturbating all the time and not having any sex with their partner then that's an issue, but it's a different issue from cheating. 

 

I take it this came up somehow in the context of sex with the synths?

 

BTW, I finally started watching Humans. I watched the first four episodes a couple of days ago and I totally dig it. 

Edited July 22, 2015 by smrou

[LiberryLady]

I... can't even respond that lunacy. Do people truly think that? Do they never... "clear the air" so to speak, when the mood strikes them? I don't understand!

 

What?  That is nuts! Two people in a relationship are never going to be completely in-synch, mood-wise.

 

Sex with synthetics/robots/holograms... well, that's a dicier area.  Not so sure about that.

[Glory]

I take it this came up somehow in the context of sex with the synths?

 

Yup. The husband asked his wife if they could spend the evening together Barry White style and she declined. He then had sex with the synth domestic in their home (after activating her 18+ options). 

 

Some folks are losing their shit. I admit that the moral ambiguity in regards to synths is intriguing to me, but the comment about all masturbation being akin to cheating really weirded me out. I attempted to reply to it, but then didn't feel like getting my first PTV banning and ran over here to tattle to all of you. LOL

Edited July 22, 2015 by Glory

[smrou]

Sex with synthetics/robots/holograms... well, that's a dicier area.  Not so sure about that.

Yeah, that's part of what's so interesting about the show since it deals primarily with the relationships (of various types) between synths and humans, so it's kind of all about the humanness or lack thereof of synths. So sex with a synth is a pretty ambiguous thing, which is complicated and kind of hard to wrap my head around. 

 

But it's because the synth is very human-ish that it's even an interesting moral question. If you think even masturbating is cheating that removes a significant chunk of the dilemma because it kind of doesn't matter whether the synth is an object or a living thing. From that perspective, it's cheating either way. (There's still the question of consent, if you consider the synth to be a living thing rather than an object--that's something that was prominent in another scene in the same episode--but that's a separate issue from the fidelity question.)

Edited July 22, 2015 by smrou

[King of Birds]

Sorry, just was clearing the air. Whatch'all talking about?

[possibilities]

What, you all changed the subject before I got a chance to opine about masturbation and fidelity?

[King of Birds]

What, you all changed the subject before I got a chance to opine about masturbation and fidelity?

The floor is yours; go for it!

I stumbled into here originally to say I don't care for Pam LOL

17wheatthins! Chili's is an environment of welcoming, and ... you should just get the hell out of here!

(just kidding!)

 

But- HOW DARE YOU say anything untoward about Pam!  Pama-lama-ding-dong? The sPamster? Next, you'll tell me you don't even frolf!

 

eta: but seriously. If you're good with adjusting the ole antenna, tootin your own horn, buffing the banana, debugging the hard drive, draining the main vein, caressing the crease, driving miss daisy, double clicking the mouse, fingering the culprit, going hands-solo, shooting wamp-rats in bugger's canyon, taking Jean-Luc Picard to warp speed, revving the engine, doing a load of laundry .... OR if you just like jetpacks!  Then you're quite welcome here.

Edited July 23, 2015 by King of Birds

[Kalliste]

It's ok, Chili's only sometimes has Office references :P 

 

I have no issue with masturbation while in a relationship, I know my bf does it but rarely will he choose that over doing anything else. Porn I'm sometimes still a bit iffy about mostly because a previous partner seemed to prefer to watch porn than do other things and I also wasn't interested in the porn he was watching.. granted I have never really come across porn that I am interested in watching. And to clarify I don't consider watching porn as cheating I just don't think it should be get in the way of the rest of the relationship.

 

ETA (and completely unrelated):

 

I think he's mad :P also potential spoiler alert (if you intend on watching Pixels - but does anyone watch Adam Sandler movies anymore?) and NSFW.

[smrou]

Would a synth be any different really than a flesh light for a man or a vibrator for a woman?

I think so, yes, but I'm not sure where I personally draw the dividing line. 

[sacrebleu]

 

Would a synth be any different really than a flesh light for a man or a vibrator for a woman?

I would say it is, I think it's getting into a creepy area. It's something you interact with in contexts that are non-sexual, anthropomorphisizing (sp?) it -- could probably cause a few issues. 

[Glory]

I love that 17wheatthins came out of lurkerdom and the first post of mine they liked was one about masturbation. 

 

Makes my day. 

[frenchtoast]

I don't watch Humans, so I can't discuss what happened in that episode, but...in Almost Human they had sexbots and they were more like protitutes (and I think you had to pay to use them). At any rate, I think for me there is a difference between a vibrator or sex toy because they are tools like a hammer or a wrench. The bots and synths were created in human form to be like us and so I think the relationship changes in that sense. It's more god-like creating something in our image so that we can relate to them in a human way. And with that relationship and consent issues I'd have a problem. So, if a partner knows and is ok with seeking out comfort with a prostitute, sexbot or synth, that relationship is their own and fine. The other question of sentience and moral obligations and relations with artificial life is tangly mostly because if they're created to look like us and talk like us and relate to us the line between functional tool and a person has been really fuzzified. But I am probably deeply influenced by the Star Trek TNG episode Measure of a Man. 

 

But, no, masturbation is not cheating. We were given hands for a purpose.

[smrou]

At any rate, I think for me there is a difference between a vibrator or sex toy because they are tools like a hammer or a wrench. The bots and synths were created in human form to be like us and so I think the relationship changes in that sense.

Yeah totally, but I think within that there's still fairly broad range. Like, on one end of a spectrum you've got things like RealDolls, which are designed to look and feel human-ish, but they're clearly not even remotely sentient and whatever they look like they don't act anything like a person. They're just an object (though having said that, I think I would take issue with my partner using a RealDoll for masturbation and might consider it something kinda-sorta-almost akin to cheating). At the other end you've got something like a Cylon, which may have initially have been created by man (sort of, since it evolved from something created by man) but is clearly sentient and, as far as I'm concerned anyway, entirely a person even if not human. The synths in Humans (most of them, that is--not the ones programmed to feel, which complicates issues) are somewhere in between, but I think closer to the Cylon end than the Real Doll end. 

 

 

 

The other question of sentience and moral obligations and relations with artificial life is tangly mostly because if they're created to look like us and talk like us and relate to us the line between functional tool and a person has been really fuzzified.

Yeah, exactly.

 

Incidentally, the podcast I mentioned before also did an episode when they talked about sexbots/sex dolls/etc (I think they focused on RealDolls rather than speculating about artificially intelligent sexbots). And another podcast I listen to (Huffpost Love and Sex) also had an episode in which they discussed the prospect of sex with robots.

 

 

Apparently this is a subject I have many thoughts about! 

Edited July 23, 2015 by smrou

[possibilities]

I haven't watched "Humans" so I can't opine about anything that's relevant to that show. Though now I think I should start watching it. There's so much TV these days, I can't keep up.


But I definitely don't think masturbation is cheating.


I suppose "cheating" could be defined as doing anything you agree not to do, but I don't understand why someone would want a contract that bans masturbation, or how doing that would show a greater bond with the partner.


I think if someone always wanted to masturbate instead of having sex with me (i.e. they never wanted to have sex with me), I would be concerned with finding out what I was doing wrong in the sack (or in the relationship), to make them prefer to cut me out of the experience. But I have always had enough libido for myself and a partner, so limiting it to a partner-only event just seems like a kind of forced stress on both the individuals and the relationship, not a way to make the bond more true.


I suppose some people might think that they should be enough for you, but I think there are different kinds of sex (not only different "acts" you can do, but different reasons to be there in the first place) and it's not a rejection of the partner necessarily. I always want a partner to have as good of a relationship with herself as she has with me, anyway. I don't really think partners are "halves of the same person" or "Ken/Barbie taped together" so that everything a partner does without me is necessarily a reflection on our relationship, in any case.


I may also be influenced by my upbringing, which included the suggestion that everyone should get to know their own body so as to be something other than clueless, and so that people are not expecting someone else to be their savior in the sack, moreover someone as clueless as themselves, while bringing no awareness to the situation. I realize some people think there's a sinful element to sexuality which is only mitigated by a marriage sacrament and/or a childbearing imperative, but I was raised in a feminist household and never got that message. I was also told to have sex with anyone before marrying them, to make sure we're compatible, so I know I'm way outside the community of people who are likely to have a prohibition against a whole lot of things that I don't, and am going to hell on the fast track if they turn out to be right.


I am hoping that if there is anyone here who does hold that masturbation is cheating, they will join the conversation to clarify why, because I'm trying to be fair and I don't get it. Is it that masturbation itself is considered wrong? Is it something about the nature of marriage?

[Pixel]

They're just an object (though having said that, I think I would take issue with my partner using a RealDoll for masturbation and might consider it something kinda-sorta-almost akin to cheating).

I wouldn't consider this cheating, but it would sure make me feel weird and insulted if my partner would rather bang a human shaped tire than me.

I truly think that anyone who considers masturbating cheating is either morally confused or just plain stupid.

[smrou]

I wouldn't consider this cheating, but it would sure make me feel weird and insulted if my partner would rather bang a human shaped tire than me.

Yeah, that's probably a better way of putting what I was thinking. It wouldn't be a betrayal of trust, which is what I consider the hallmark of cheating, but I still wouldn't like it. 

[Glory]

I am so glad I delurked into this forum!

We're a fun bunch. 

 

I did not mean to sound super judgemental so if there are "masturbation is cheater" people out there, definitely feel free to join the conversation. I can promise I'll try to keep an open mind...

 

So... no one quote this because I might delete it but my sister's husband has a porn obsession and it definitely takes a toll on their relationship. Especially when he feels that it's something he has to lie and hide (probably because my sister hates it). 

 

I think any sexual behavior that is creating problems in the bedroom between any couple should be talked about and discussed because a healthy sex life is super important to a good relationship. But I still think sometimes you just need to double click the mouse (to borrow a phrase from KoB.) 

Edited July 24, 2015 by Glory

[Kalliste]

While my Dad was not happy to find out I was on contraception at the age of 19 (meanwhile at the age of 19 he had a child - me!) sex was never frowned upon in our house. It was never expected that I would be a virgin until marriage.. in fact it was pretty well known that I would potentially choose to never get married. Being that I was born out of wedlock my parents couldn't really suggest I should wait til marriage before having sex :P

 

They both talked about how it's better to definitely do it before getting married and make sure to live with someone before being married too so you know you can live with and have sex with them and be happy.

 

So we were pretty open in our family and maybe that makes the difference. I'm sure there are some families where sex is barely mentioned other than to say don't have it and masturbation is not healthy etc.

 

I think that sex ed probably needs to improve in schools (it's fairly decent in australia but it's more about the facts of the body and sex rather than the emotions attached to that) so that sex and masturbation is considered ok and it's also ok in relationships as long as everyone in the relationship is happy with it.

[King of Birds]

This place has become the Kinsey Report or something. I shall invoke Woody Allen here (I don't give a shit what you think of him, he makes me laugh)  "Don't knock masturbation. It's sex with someone you love."

 

But I may have to check out this Humans show. If I get some time. You've all told me there's some tits in some show (Penny?)  and now sex with robots in another. It's like I'm not paying attention or something.

[Kalliste]

Penny Dreadful is where the sex is at :P Did I mentioned the 5 minute sex scene montage in a season 2 episode?

 

I haven't seen Humans either, it sounds like some good tv is happening right now and I'm not caught up on any of it.

 

Although! Rick and Morty starts in a few days! 

[Kalliste]

Lol, I did try to change it with the movie review but no one was having any of it :P

 

And I can't imagine living in a cabin surrounded by moose. Sounds isolated.. and I bet the internet sucks.

[MichelleAK]

So I just found out that I know someone who lives in Alaska. I thought of this forum and then had to get over a bout of the dry heaves reading through all y'alls insightful talk about masturbation before I could get to posting about it. A screwy friend  of my husband's, a past coworker, has a daughter who got married and then they searched online for jobs and moved to Alaska a couple of years ago. She said that the husband is working in a gold mine which sounds so 1800. The daughter is a social worker. They have a cabin, and moose in the yard. She is going to fly up there in December because her daughter is having her first grandchild then. I don't know what section gold mines are in so I don't know where she lives. 

 

 

There are large gold (and other metal) mines scattered throughout Alaska.  Could be anywhere from Nome (northwest), Fairbanks (north-central), or down on the panhandle (southeast).  If the daughter is currently working as a social worker, it is probably relatively near a larger community, so not so isolated they wouldn't have internet/phone service/etc. If there are moose, it is more likely to be a northern or northwest mine, rather than southeast.

 

And now for something completely different--has anyone seen the movie Mr. Holmes?  I'm planning on going to see it tomorrow. It seems to be getting pretty good reviews, and I figured it was worth a $7 matinee.

[sacrebleu]

 

She said that the husband is working in a gold mine which sounds so 1800. The daughter is a social worker. They have a cabin, and moose in the yard.

Sounds like a pretty isolated existence, how often do they masturbate?

(kidding! just kidding!)

[Kalliste]

lol, I hope the moose aren't watching.

 

Has anyone (everyone) heard of waybackmachine?

 

Tonight I went down the rabbit hole and found some websites my 18 year old self had made.. I'm sad to say that she had more skill than I do. 

 

One of the things was an mp3 list of all the music I was listening to around 2002. Apparently that is something that us cool web designing kids did back then. My night has been filled with nostalgia.

[MichelleAK]

I will find out what part of Alaska it is, since you brought up several different places. I was just amazed that there is a gold mine. I don't think it is too isolated, since she does have a job, I guess it is a government job. I found it to be romantic when she described the job, the cabin and the scenery. Isn't everything in Alaska considered a cabin? 

 

Not sure if you are kidding, but no, not at all.  Yes, there are "cabins," even inside the cities. However, these are not necessarily what people automatically think of when you say "cabin." While there are some traditional log cabins, I would guess the majority are made of planks/2x12s, just like normal wood houses, even those that are "off the grid."   The oldest existing house in Anchorage (dates from 1915), the Oscar Anderson House, is a normal wood frame house. 

[MichelleAK]

It was a serious question. I am ignorant of Alaska and just assume everything is a cabin, or rough housing. I don't picture apartments, modern homes, modern at all anything. I was crushed when I found out there were even government jobs. Haha. I have a romantic view of Alaska.

 

No worries, a lot of people do.  And there are still the "romantic" areas out there--but most people don't live in them.  They do have vacation cabins out there, though. I live in Anchorage, which is a city of around 300,000.  We have malls, Starbucks, Walmart, etc. (No Trader Joe's though, dammit.) No different from any other mid-size city (just longer and darker winters, and shorter and lighter summers).

 

If you do a Google picture search for Anchorage, Alaska, you can get an idea of what the largest city in Alaska looks like.  

[King of Birds]

Although! Rick and Morty starts in a few days! 

Huh?  (I guess I'll go google that)

 

lol, I hope the moose aren't watching.

 

One of the things was an mp3 list of all the music I was listening to around 2002.

OF COURSE the moose are watching!

 

and a big ole OMG on your list. You were listening to Barnes & Barnes Fish Heads? And a David Byrne song that even I forgot about! Alas, 85% of your post, I didn't even know the songs/ bands. Are you still an Elvis fan?

 

I know a certain infrequent poster/ Hateballer who has a myriad of websites/ blogs that lie scattered in the outback territories of the internet. (Angelfire?)  I myself started and abandoned two blogs over the 20 years of being online. (Jesus... yeah I got my first computer, the Power Computing mac clone, in 1995. Happy 20th, internet!)

 

eta:

I very sincerely hope that the TWO PEOPLE who said they wanted to see PIXELS will step forward and offer his/ her review of the movie.

 

Where would you go visit first- results

Which eternal question answered- results

Edited July 25, 2015 by King of Birds

[possibilities]

This place has become the Kinsey Report or something.

We need to develop a "Chili's Scale" so we can say things like: "King of Birds is a Chili's X" but I don't know what we'd be best suited to measure. Jetpack readiness? Level of Poll Savvy? Tendency to watch Workplace Comedies vs Family Dramas? That last one might require a multi-directional scale, to also include other genres. We could call it the Chili's Dodecahedron Of Television Orientation. But now I've talked myself into math I can't even do. So nevermind.

I got my first computer in 1994, I think. But I didn't have an internet connection til a few years later. I have never blogged, I'm not on Facebook or any other similar service. I have a twitter account but I only signed up so I could follow some other people (I tweeted twice, I think. And I never did manage to successfully "follow" anyone and get their tweets sent to my email, even though I tried. And I don't use a cell phone enough to make it sensible to get tweets that way).

But I have posted to a lot of email discussion groups and forums and I wonder often how much of it will someday come back to haunt me. Quite a bit I did under my real name, simply because I didn't really have a fear of being exposed. But now I think that was stupid. It's not that I've said anything I am particularly ashamed of, though I probably have said things I forget having said which I wouldn't say now, just because I'm hoping I've developed as a person over the course of life. It's more that in general I trust people less l than I used to, so I figure there are people who would find ways to make life difficult if given any even remote way to do so. And, too, there are some things I would rather not discuss with various people, while I'm more than happy to discuss those same things with others. I also used to publish (in print) under my own name, in various small press places. And I wish I'd used a different name for that, as well. I think I've become a privacy freak. I used to like attention more, I guess.

We have moose here, too, but unfortunately no gold.

[MichelleAK]

I got my first computer in late 1993, an Apple Performa 450, that I got at Sears (this was the equivalent of the LCIII).  It cost me $1900, plus I spent another $400 for an 8MG (yes, MG) RAM chip.  I got on AOL right away, but ditched it as soon as a local dial up was available a couple of years later.  Most of my early online activity was on Usenet, and I'm guessing some of my posts are still archived somewhere.  I never really had my own blog or website.  

 

It's interesting you had a Power Computing clone, King of Birds. I had one, too.  It replaced my Performa. I had the PowerBase 180, and kept it until I upgraded to a Mac G4 a few years later.  Man, I wish I had had the foresight to buy Apple stock back then. If I remember correctly, it was going for under $20 a share before Jobs came back.  

 

You have an interesting MP3 list, Kalliste!  I still have those Buffy tracks (*cough* bootlegs).  Never thought I'd see Gwar and Carole King on the same list!

 

I just got back from seeing Mr. Holmes, and really liked it a lot.  Ian McKellen was great, and it was a nice character study movie.  I remember seeing Gods & Monsters, by the same director (and lead actor), and this had similar quiet, excellent performances.  

[Kalliste]

Huh?  (I guess I'll go google that)

 

and a big ole OMG on your list. You were listening to Barnes & Barnes Fish Heads? And a David Byrne song that even I forgot about! Alas, 85% of your post, I didn't even know the songs/ bands. Are you still an Elvis fan?

 

I know a certain infrequent poster/ Hateballer who has a myriad of websites/ blogs that lie scattered in the outback territories of the internet. (Angelfire?)  I myself started and abandoned two blogs over the 20 years of being online. (Jesus... yeah I got my first computer, the Power Computing mac clone, in 1995. Happy 20th, internet!)

 

I'll answer this is dot points.

1. Rick and Morty is an animated tv show that is sort of a parody on Back to the Future. It's about Mad Scientist RIck and his grandson Morty and they go on time travelling adventures.. Not for kids :P

2. I actually had to look up Fish Heads on youtube because I had forgotten what it was. Yes I listened but I have no idea how I found it :P I was a decent Elvis fan at that time but don't listen to him much anymore. I was probably the only 18 year old in the early 2000s with a poster of Elvis on their wall though. He did sit among the rock and punk bands though so he stood out a bit :P And don't feel bad, about 20% of them I didn't even remember until I'd looked them up on youtube :P I used to love that David Byrne song. I remember listening to it on the way to work (Hungry Jacks - or Burger King) and it would make me feel a bit more peppy. I'd listen to this on the less peppy days though:

3. I believe all my angelfire work is gone and definitely the geocities ones.. granted maybe if I remembered the usernames I used I'd find them again.

I got my first computer in late 1993, an Apple Performa 450, that I got at Sears (this was the equivalent of the LCIII).  It cost me $1900, plus I spent another $400 for an 8MG (yes, MG) RAM chip.  I got on AOL right away, but ditched it as soon as a local dial up was available a couple of years later.  Most of my early online activity was on Usenet, and I'm guessing some of my posts are still archived somewhere.  I never really had my own blog or website.  

 

It's interesting you had a Power Computing clone, King of Birds. I had one, too.  It replaced my Performa. I had the PowerBase 180, and kept it until I upgraded to a Mac G4 a few years later.  Man, I wish I had had the foresight to buy Apple stock back then. If I remember correctly, it was going for under $20 a share before Jobs came back.  

 

You have an interesting MP3 list, Kalliste!  I still have those Buffy tracks (*cough* bootlegs).  Never thought I'd see Gwar and Carole King on the same list! 

I believe our first computer was way back in 89 or 90. I don't really remember too much other than playing Skate or Die and Alley Cats on it. I believe it was 16 colours but that's about all I can recall.

We generally always had a computer and I was the first of my friends to have the internet around 1995. Not that there was a lot to do on it but I learnt to type because of all the chat rooms I went into :P

 

I have the CD Michelle! :P For Buffy anyway.. other than MxPx it's probably the only thing on that list I paid for. The Gwar was because of Empire Records, a lot of the list is. I loved that Mark loved Gwar so I decided I'd see what Gwar was all about too :D

 

Of the list I think I liked remembering these 2 the most:

[King of Birds]

It's almost August. You know what that means!

 

I started watching OITNB s3 again (I got too busy whenever it was I started). I finished up the ep where Crazy Eyes was writing fan fiction ... or sexy-time fiction, whatever you want to call it. I had to laugh at that entire episode, just cracked me how the CRAZY one was the writer who wanted everyone to respect the process. And once again it made me wonder about all the crazies who were devotees of More Than That.

 

... Rodcocker?  LOL I had to go look that up.

[Kalliste]

I voted, I probably won't see any movie but if I were to it would probably be Hitman

[Glory]

I voted for Pixels. But the reviews are terrible and horrible so I'll wait until it's on USA or something. I do like Peter Dinklage though. And by all reports he is the best part of that movie. 

 

Note to self, talk about masturbation more.

 

I have an old livejournal somewhere. And some old geocities websites. They're probably not around anymore, though. Didn't geocities disappear along with all their sites a few years ago? 

 

I do like the Wayback Machine for visiting an old D&D forum I used to post on a lot back around the early aughts. I made a lot of friends on that forum. We've migrated to a Facebook group, but the forum was where it's at. 

[MichelleAK]

I voted for "Meryl Streep plays guitar" (Ricki and the Flash).  I won't actually see it in a theatre, but I did see the trailer before Mr. Holmes, which I'm sure basically told the whole story in three minutes. I probably will watch it when it gets to cable, since I usually love messy family drama in movies. Long Day's Journey Into Night is one of my favorite movies of all time (the version with Katharine Hepburn and Dean Stockwell).

 

I'm sooooo close to my trip now, it's going to be a pain to slog through the next week and 2 days of work. 

[Setlist]

I voted for Shaun the Sheep. No, I won't see it in theaters, but I was a big Wallace and Gromit fan back in the day, and gosh. He's just adorable. I caught an episode or two of his actual show, and it ruined my Netflix recommended page forever. Netflix thinks I'm ten. 

 

Regarding a conversation pages ago, it's also a bit annoying to post through iPhone, which is usually where I do my Previously browsing. Especially with quoting and bolding and stuff. But I'm still here!

 

I have an old livejournal somewhere. And some old geocities websites. They're probably not around anymore, though.

 

Ahh! Glory, you should try to find the LJ and see!  I was on Diaryland when I was 16, and it's... still up. I've read it back, and man. 16-year-old me was so clueless. It's weird, though -- a few of the other Diarylands I've read back then result in error pages now, so I don't know why mine is still available. (I don't think the other pages were user-deleted, but it's possible.)

[Pixel]

I started posting years ago in a now defunct site called Mr. Cranky's. It was run by a movie critic who would write hilarious movie reviews that had forums attached. He wrote legit reviews for a Colorado newspaper. We never ever talked on topic in the forums. It was always the craziest shit, and flame wars were common and often hilarious. I miss that old gang. A few are my FB friends today.

Back then I was actually more republican and I'm super embarrassed about that. I was a repub until Bush's second term, when they really started to go off the rails. But, since I have no plans to become famous I'm not too worried about my past ramblings.

Edited July 28, 2015 by Pixel

[Kalliste]

 

Ahh! Glory, you should try to find the LJ and see!  I was on Diaryland when I was 16, and it's... still up. I've read it back, and man. 16-year-old me was so clueless. It's weird, though -- a few of the other Diarylands I've read back then result in error pages now, so I don't know why mine is still available. (I don't think the other pages were user-deleted, but it's possible.)

 

Ohh, Diaryland. I forgot of it's existence. I think I used that before LJ, I think there was also a scribble.nu but that doesn't appear to exist anymore.

[sacrebleu]

What is the point of Hitman without Timothy Olyphant? It was based on a video game (I think) so I guess there is an audience based on that-- but the only reason I agreed to see it was for Olyphant.

 

Hey! I'm an aunt-- for the seventh time. My younger sister had a baby boy yesterday. It's been a crazy week. She actually started having contractions on Sunday (but was not technically in labor until yesterday). Meanwhile, our dad took a fall last week and is in a different hospital. So I feel very much like I've been OD'ing on hand sanitizer. 

[Kalliste]

What is the point of Hitman without Timothy Olyphant? It was based on a video game (I think) so I guess there is an audience based on that-- but the only reason I agreed to see it was for Olyphant.

 

Agreed. 

 

And yes based on a video game, I liked the Olyphant version because it was like playing a game without the rage quits.

 

And speaking of him. In my opinion, no on can pull off a moustache quite like he can *sawooon*. 

Obviously not from Hitman.. I loved his "what the fuck?" expressions in Deadwood.

[possibilities]

Mazel tov on the baby, best wishes for a speedy recovery for your dad, sacrebleu.

 

 

I have been sucked into the Steven Universe cartoon. I usually can't get myself to watch cartoons, even if I can tell they're well done and intelligent. But I just love Steven Universe.

 

 

I wonder what else I've been missing out on, that's been around a while and I just didn't know.

[smrou]

I have been sucked into the Steven Universe cartoon. I usually can't get myself to watch cartoons, even if I can tell they're well done and intelligent. But I just love Steven Universe.

Steven Universe stuff is constantly all over my dash on Tumblr. It definitely makes me interested in checking it out, but historically I have basically no attention span for animated shows. Maybe I actually will watch.