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Where were you when The Great Forum Outage of 2017 happened?

Started by MNHighwayMan, June 09, 2017, 02:36:41 AM

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jwolfer

I updated status on facebook more than usual... Looked at more porn LOL... I was jonesin' for discussions of SPUI and DDIs

Ooh baby thats an awfully nice CD with a parclo!

Seriously i was hoping it wasnt gone forever

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Checked a couple times a day to see if it was back up & running.  When that didn't happen, got bored as hell.  Have 2 laptops side-by-side; one is more or less dedicated to all things audio-electronic, including PCB design.  So while bored I pretty much edited and, where necessary, modified pretty much every board design that was still connected to an active project; all while surfing the other unit.  Doing boards while bored should be called boardumb (or is that boredumb?).  Never can tell.

Anyway, thank the internet lords for Pornhub, Ebay, U.S. Audio Mart, Google Earth, IMDB, Mi6, and other freebie sites to whittle away the time! 

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jakeroot

Quote from: index on June 11, 2017, 06:24:10 PM
Not going outside and eating a lot of food. Going on other websites. I haven't ever got anything to do.

Summer break, eh? I remember my summers being full of video games, and that was basically it. I can't imagine how horrible my summer would have been if one of the consoles broke.

MNHighwayMan

Quote from: jakeroot on June 11, 2017, 06:59:46 PM
Quote from: index on June 11, 2017, 06:24:10 PM
Not going outside and eating a lot of food. Going on other websites. I haven't ever got anything to do.

Summer break, eh? I remember my summers being full of video games, and that was basically it. I can't imagine how horrible my summer would have been if one of the consoles broke.

Because we all know that prolonged exposure to the outdoors is bad for our health. :colorful:

jakeroot

Quote from: MNHighwayMan on June 11, 2017, 07:19:24 PM
Quote from: jakeroot on June 11, 2017, 06:59:46 PM
Quote from: index on June 11, 2017, 06:24:10 PM
Not going outside and eating a lot of food. Going on other websites. I haven't ever got anything to do.

Summer break, eh? I remember my summers being full of video games, and that was basically it. I can't imagine how horrible my summer would have been if one of the consoles broke.

Because we all know that prolonged exposure to the outdoors is bad for our health. :colorful:

Fuck the sun.

Max Rockatansky

Quote from: jakeroot on June 11, 2017, 07:48:56 PM
Quote from: MNHighwayMan on June 11, 2017, 07:19:24 PM
Quote from: jakeroot on June 11, 2017, 06:59:46 PM
Quote from: index on June 11, 2017, 06:24:10 PM
Not going outside and eating a lot of food. Going on other websites. I haven't ever got anything to do.

Summer break, eh? I remember my summers being full of video games, and that was basically it. I can't imagine how horrible my summer would have been if one of the consoles broke.

Because we all know that prolonged exposure to the outdoors is bad for our health. :colorful:

Fuck the sun.

I find it kind of odd how many of you are all into roads and transportation but never really want to spend a ton of time outside.  No saying that anything is wrong with that, to each their own but I would have assumed otherwise before being on this forum.  Granted I know that this could be a northern climate thing given that Washington and Minnesota are represented here. 

Come to think of it the entire time the forum was down I actually didn't go anywhere or do anything....that's an oddity for me.   I actually went to the Pfeiffer Canyon Bridge closure on CA 1 the morning the forum came back. 

jakeroot

Quote from: Max Rockatansky on June 11, 2017, 07:52:32 PM
Quote from: jakeroot on June 11, 2017, 07:48:56 PM
Quote from: MNHighwayMan on June 11, 2017, 07:19:24 PM
Quote from: jakeroot on June 11, 2017, 06:59:46 PM
Quote from: index on June 11, 2017, 06:24:10 PM
Not going outside and eating a lot of food. Going on other websites. I haven't ever got anything to do.

Summer break, eh? I remember my summers being full of video games, and that was basically it. I can't imagine how horrible my summer would have been if one of the consoles broke.

Because we all know that prolonged exposure to the outdoors is bad for our health. :colorful:

Fuck the sun.

I find it kind of odd how many of you are all into roads and transportation but never really want to spend a ton of time outside.  No saying that anything is wrong with that, to each their own but I would have assumed otherwise before being on this forum.  Granted I know that this could be a northern climate thing given that Washington and Minnesota are represented here. 

Come to think of it the entire time the forum was down I actually didn't go anywhere or do anything....that's an oddity for me.   I actually went to the Pfeiffer Canyon Bridge closure on CA 1 the morning the forum came back.

Well, I was being facetious with that last comment. But Seattle is not know for its outdoor-friendly climate. It rains 8 months of the year, and the other four months, my bike tires were flat, my friends were at summer camp, I was on a vacation, or something else. I also grew up in the internet-age ... I don't need to be with my friends to communicate/hang with them. My best summer memories, honestly, were taking my laptop to my friends house for a "LAN party" (though it was via wifi). Video games were my way of socialising.

Now that I live on my own, and I can drive, I get out constantly. I'm still inside a lot (the climate hasn't improved, though by most measures, the rain is what makes this area great), but I get out more than I used to. Especially to see road-related things. I didn't really get into roads majorly until I was in grade 9 or 10.

Max Rockatansky

Quote from: jakeroot on June 11, 2017, 07:59:03 PM
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on June 11, 2017, 07:52:32 PM
Quote from: jakeroot on June 11, 2017, 07:48:56 PM
Quote from: MNHighwayMan on June 11, 2017, 07:19:24 PM
Quote from: jakeroot on June 11, 2017, 06:59:46 PM
Quote from: index on June 11, 2017, 06:24:10 PM
Not going outside and eating a lot of food. Going on other websites. I haven't ever got anything to do.

Summer break, eh? I remember my summers being full of video games, and that was basically it. I can't imagine how horrible my summer would have been if one of the consoles broke.

Because we all know that prolonged exposure to the outdoors is bad for our health. :colorful:

Fuck the sun.

I find it kind of odd how many of you are all into roads and transportation but never really want to spend a ton of time outside.  No saying that anything is wrong with that, to each their own but I would have assumed otherwise before being on this forum.  Granted I know that this could be a northern climate thing given that Washington and Minnesota are represented here. 

Come to think of it the entire time the forum was down I actually didn't go anywhere or do anything....that's an oddity for me.   I actually went to the Pfeiffer Canyon Bridge closure on CA 1 the morning the forum came back.

Well, I was being facetious with that last comment. But Seattle is not know for its outdoor-friendly climate. It rains 8 months of the year, and the other four months, my bike tires were flat, my friends were at summer camp, I was on a vacation, or something else. I also grew up in the internet-age ... I don't need to be with my friends to communicate/hang with them. My best summer memories, honestly, were taking my laptop to my friends house for a "LAN party" (though it was via wifi). Video games were my way of socialising.

Now that I live on my own, and I can drive, I get out constantly. I'm still inside a lot (the climate hasn't improved, though by most measures, the rain is what makes this area great), but I get out more than I used to. Especially to see road-related things. I didn't really get into roads majorly until I was in grade 9 or 10.

What?...  It seems like everyone I've ever met from Washington was a huge outdoors person.   It seemed to as though there was always a ton of people who hiked and did distance biking especially.  It always seemed like more of a constant drizzle with the rain as opposed to the torrential downpours that I used to get in Florida.  I guess that I'm just surprised to hear that perspective from someone who is a local, I assumed something totally different.  But then again I'm usually the guy who stands out like a sore thumb in Washington with jeans,  a tee shirt, no jacket, and a baseball hat.  I can't get into the hoodie, beanie, and fleece look which seems to the local trend.

For the record when I was growing up in Michigan the weather sucked for over half the year.  Winter was usually spent polluting your lungs and liver at the same time starting/ending your day in the dark. 

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slorydn1

Video games came late in my single digit years but I was still required to leave my house and go to the arcade to play them. Home consoles got to be big about the time I was 12-13 and yes, I spent my share of time playing games. But it was still so ingrained in me to go outside and ride bikes, play sports (etc) that even in Chicagoland I spent most of my summer vacay outside. Video games consumed that time that I was supposed to be doing important things like homework during the school year, lol.

The Internet didn't really become a big deal until I was in my mid 20's and I'm kind of glad. I fear that I would have spent my entire life indoors and missed, well, everything.
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Quote from: jakeroot on June 11, 2017, 06:59:46 PM
Quote from: index on June 11, 2017, 06:24:10 PM
Not going outside and eating a lot of food. Going on other websites. I haven't ever got anything to do.

Summer break, eh? I remember my summers being full of video games, and that was basically it. I can't imagine how horrible my summer would have been if one of the consoles broke.

My Xbox 360 got the red-ring of-death two or three times, but the worst was when it happened during summer vacation. It took six weeks for Microsoft to fix it and return it to us. I ended up reading all 7 Harry Potter books to kill the time (I already read them before, but they're so good!) :-D

Max Rockatansky

Quote from: slorydn1 on June 11, 2017, 08:24:27 PM
Video games came late in my single digit years but I was still required to leave my house and go to the arcade to play them. Home consoles got to be big about the time I was 12-13 and yes, I spent my share of time playing games. But it was still so ingrained in me to go outside and ride bikes, play sports (etc) that even in Chicagoland I spent most of my summer vacay outside. Video games consumed that time that I was supposed to be doing important things like homework during the school year, lol.

The Internet didn't really become a big deal until I was in my mid 20's and I'm kind of glad. I fear that I would have spent my entire life indoors and missed, well, everything.

Kind of the same thing for me given the era was similar to yours when I was growing up.   Summer was fine in Michigan, especially compared to winter.  My parents used to tell me and my sister that we were going outside and not to come back until it was "dark" which can be pretty damn late in the summer.  Usually the only slack we got from staying inside was during the winter which was obviously from the snow on top of general lack of things to do outside.  I did play a lot of hockey and basketball outside during high school though. 

Funny thing though, we did have services like AOL and even Prodigy Online in the early 1990s.  We had all the good game systems of the era, in fact I have most on my TV mantle at home because nobody ever wanted to buy them until recently.   I more or less kind of grew up thinking the net was the domain for kids and really fell off the face of the earth with the tech stuff in the 2000s.  I remember when my job actually MADE me get a cell phone....man that was a weird day.  I couldn't get my mind around why a voice message wasn't sufficient. 

I guess that for me it was pretty much a certainty that I wasn't going to stay in a place that I didn't really like.  I remember taking a trip to California and Arizona back in 1993.  We did things like San Francisco, Big Sur, and the Grand Canyon.  That was really influential just knowing that there was so much fantastic stuff on the other side of the country, it really seemed so alien. 

Jim

Wow, I know it's been a few decades and times have changed, but my summer vacation days were normally spent by leaving the house after breakfast, playing with neighborhood friends, home for lunch, then back outside until dinner time, then out again especially early summer when it stays light late.  I'm sure we took some breaks from outside for some afternoon cartoons or board games or something, but I really did spend hours on end playing outside for most of the summer.  I'm sure we got bored sometimes, but I feel like we always had things to do.  I guess I was lucky to grow up in a neighborhood with a good number of kids close enough to my age to have common interests, and with enough neighborhood parents and grandparents around that we could come and go at each others' houses and all the adults knew that they could trust the others with their kids.
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Quote from: Jim on June 11, 2017, 08:48:18 PM
Wow, I know it's been a few decades and times have changed, but my summer vacation days were normally spent by leaving the house after breakfast, playing with neighborhood friends, home for lunch, then back outside until dinner time, then out again especially early summer when it stays light late.  I'm sure we took some breaks from outside for some afternoon cartoons or board games or something, but I really did spend hours on end playing outside for most of the summer.  I'm sure we got bored sometimes, but I feel like we always had things to do.  I guess I was lucky to grow up in a neighborhood with a good number of kids close enough to my age to have common interests, and with enough neighborhood parents and grandparents around that we could come and go at each others' houses and all the adults knew that they could trust the others with their kids.

You are describing a much simpler time. That rarely happens anymore. Today, everyone needs their electronics and "personal space".

Max Rockatansky

Quote from: Jim on June 11, 2017, 08:48:18 PM
Wow, I know it's been a few decades and times have changed, but my summer vacation days were normally spent by leaving the house after breakfast, playing with neighborhood friends, home for lunch, then back outside until dinner time, then out again especially early summer when it stays light late.  I'm sure we took some breaks from outside for some afternoon cartoons or board games or something, but I really did spend hours on end playing outside for most of the summer.  I'm sure we got bored sometimes, but I feel like we always had things to do.  I guess I was lucky to grow up in a neighborhood with a good number of kids close enough to my age to have common interests, and with enough neighborhood parents and grandparents around that we could come and go at each others' houses and all the adults knew that they could trust the others with their kids.

See, I don't know if it's all a tech thing like people believe.  Back in the 1970s/1980s was when people just started to talk about things like crime & safety.  The story I just described with me was from Detroit.  There was no way that Detroit was a safer place in the era I grew up in compared to how bad it is even now.  It was like everyone was oblivious something bad could happen to their kids or for that matter themselves.  I kind of point the shift in society to the era of mass media where people started to become more aware of some of the really bad things out there.   The oddity is that crime levels today are much lower but people feel less safe, so by consequence they seem to do less stuff...especially when it comes to kids outside.  So really it comes down to would you prefer growing up thinking everything around you was and really not be?   Or would you prefer to stay inside and afraid even though you might be statistically pretty safe.  I'd say that shift in mentality is the real root why kids stay inside more these days then really any technological influence. 

MNHighwayMan

Quote from: Max Rockatansky on June 11, 2017, 07:52:32 PM
I find it kind of odd how many of you are all into roads and transportation but never really want to spend a ton of time outside.  No saying that anything is wrong with that, to each their own but I would have assumed otherwise before being on this forum.  Granted I know that this could be a northern climate thing given that Washington and Minnesota are represented here. 

Come to think of it the entire time the forum was down I actually didn't go anywhere or do anything....that's an oddity for me.   I actually went to the Pfeiffer Canyon Bridge closure on CA 1 the morning the forum came back.

I was, as jakeroot was, being facetious. I love the outdoors but I don't really have time to just go out for a walk or go on outdoor-focused vacations much. Hell, on my last road trip, about a month ago, I spent so much time outside I got pretty bad sunburn on my face and arms. Didn't occur to me that, even in early May, sunscreen might not be a bad idea. :pan:

Max Rockatansky

Quote from: MNHighwayMan on June 11, 2017, 08:59:49 PM
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on June 11, 2017, 07:52:32 PM
I find it kind of odd how many of you are all into roads and transportation but never really want to spend a ton of time outside.  No saying that anything is wrong with that, to each their own but I would have assumed otherwise before being on this forum.  Granted I know that this could be a northern climate thing given that Washington and Minnesota are represented here. 

Come to think of it the entire time the forum was down I actually didn't go anywhere or do anything....that's an oddity for me.   I actually went to the Pfeiffer Canyon Bridge closure on CA 1 the morning the forum came back.

I was, as jakeroot was, being facetious. I love the outdoors but I don't really have time to just go out for a walk or go on outdoor-focused vacations much. Hell, on my last road trip, about a month ago, I spent so much time outside I got pretty bad sunburn on my face and arms. Didn't occur to me that, even in early May, sunscreen might not be a bad idea. :pan:

Yeah I was little surprised to see the both of you saying things like that.  :-D  Either way it seems to be making for an interesting side conversation though.

Speaking of road pictures and the window being open, I always carry a bottle of SPF 30 for my right arm.  I got burned crazy bad in Florida when I forget to get a fresh bottle after leaving the airport. 

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Quote from: Jim on June 11, 2017, 08:48:18 PM
Wow, I know it's been a few decades and times have changed, but my summer vacation days were normally spent by leaving the house after breakfast, playing with neighborhood friends, home for lunch, then back outside until dinner time, then out again especially early summer when it stays light late.  I'm sure we took some breaks from outside for some afternoon cartoons or board games or something, but I really did spend hours on end playing outside for most of the summer.  I'm sure we got bored sometimes, but I feel like we always had things to do.  I guess I was lucky to grow up in a neighborhood with a good number of kids close enough to my age to have common interests, and with enough neighborhood parents and grandparents around that we could come and go at each others' houses and all the adults knew that they could trust the others with their kids.
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slorydn1

Quote from: Max Rockatansky on June 11, 2017, 08:54:41 PM
Quote from: Jim on June 11, 2017, 08:48:18 PM
Wow, I know it's been a few decades and times have changed, but my summer vacation days were normally spent by leaving the house after breakfast, playing with neighborhood friends, home for lunch, then back outside until dinner time, then out again especially early summer when it stays light late.  I'm sure we took some breaks from outside for some afternoon cartoons or board games or something, but I really did spend hours on end playing outside for most of the summer.  I'm sure we got bored sometimes, but I feel like we always had things to do.  I guess I was lucky to grow up in a neighborhood with a good number of kids close enough to my age to have common interests, and with enough neighborhood parents and grandparents around that we could come and go at each others' houses and all the adults knew that they could trust the others with their kids.

See, I don't know if it's all a tech thing like people believe.  Back in the 1970s/1980s was when people just started to talk about things like crime & safety.  The story I just described with me was from Detroit.  There was no way that Detroit was a safer place in the era I grew up in compared to how bad it is even now.  It was like everyone was oblivious something bad could happen to their kids or for that matter themselves.  I kind of point the shift in society to the era of mass media where people started to become more aware of some of the really bad things out there.   The oddity is that crime levels today are much lower but people feel less safe, so by consequence they seem to do less stuff...especially when it comes to kids outside.  So really it comes down to would you prefer growing up thinking everything around you was and really not be?   Or would you prefer to stay inside and afraid even though you might be statistically pretty safe.  I'd say that shift in mentality is the real root why kids stay inside more these days then really any technological influence. 

I'll buy that. My brother and I were allowed to roam pretty freely the only proviso was that we had to be close enough to the house after 5pm to be able to hear our dad whistle for us to come home. The rest of the day I could have ridden to Mexico and back as long as I had a vehicle fast enough to get me close enough to the house to hear my dad on time.

Our biggest "fear" back then was of the wierdo that might show up and offer us candy to go off with them. We were told in school these kind of things may happen, I never encountered them though.

My wife and I gave our kids the freedom to do the things that we got to do, but they never really took us up on it-because they didn't have friends that could/would do the same things. The internet and games became the be all and end all to them.

Man I think of todays kids, some even in high school, getting dropped off at school by their parents. I commuted 2.5 hrs each way to high school on various busses and trains, I was mixed in with the adults who were going to work. Most of today's parents would have a stroke just thinking about letting their kids do that today.
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Quote from: jakeroot on June 11, 2017, 07:48:56 PM
Quote from: MNHighwayMan on June 11, 2017, 07:19:24 PM
Quote from: jakeroot on June 11, 2017, 06:59:46 PM
Quote from: index on June 11, 2017, 06:24:10 PM
Not going outside and eating a lot of food. Going on other websites. I haven't ever got anything to do.

Summer break, eh? I remember my summers being full of video games, and that was basically it. I can't imagine how horrible my summer would have been if one of the consoles broke.

Because we all know that prolonged exposure to the outdoors is bad for our health. :colorful:

Fuck the sun.

I can agree with this. Fuck the sun. I'm actually a really big fan of dim, dreary, overcast days, maybe with a slight breeze, lots of fog, cool temps, and a drizzle. Too bad we don't get that in NC a whole lot.
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