What part of Phoenix, forkndave? I'm in Northwest Glendale to be exact _X_X_X_X_X_[small] JMLS-166S/Plextor PX-708A/Plextor Premium[/small]
None from Texas? ...well I guess I'll be the first, I live in Round Rock, a moderately sized town just outside of Austin, conspicuously located in the most conservative county in Texas where all the cops are nice (If you're over 30...)
Born in Africa, raised in Flanders, living in North Carolina, moving to South Carolina tomorrow. Will be off-line for a few days.
Albuquerque, New Mexico (still in the USA). It's that place where Bug's Bunny always makes his wrong turn. Hey, Hogan....don' those Vidalia sweet onions originate from there? tc
Ancourage, is a great town. I visit there about, oh my god that was 10 years ago. I am geting old. The mosiquies are almost the same size as in Winnepeg, but not quick. YOu need to work on that.
I mostly live at home, except when my wife tells me not to. Actually I'm in Des Moines, Iowa in the US and I can't wait until my oldest daughter (who lives with my ex) is old enough that I can go somewhere else.
Sweeeeeet Finally the possibility of talking to people about computers in real life. All my friends give me a blank stare if I get too technical when I start rattling on about computers - I'm the only computer geek out of the lot of us.
Boy that sounds familar, I am not only techy geek in my crowd but also the only science guy. So I rarely rattle off work or fun computer stuff to them. But now that my one friend group has turned into online gammers, they are souping up and overclocking to get the online edge.
to which game or all in-general for cutting online gaming. I'm also the one man computer talker of my group,They look at me like I'm dumb for knowing somthing.
What started it was Warcraft 3, but now I am not too sure what they are playing. I wouldn`t be too surprised if there were alot of us here that are the only computer people in our crowds.
In my case most of my friends are also geeks. That's pretty common here in Des Moines, since despite being in the middle of nowhere, we're the second biggest insurance city in the US and even had a huge number of unemployed IT workers during the tech boom of the late 90's. That was after many companies moved operations in because it's cheaper to run an IT operation here. Needless to say it's a city with a lot of geeks.
at least you guys have got people to talk to at work, where i work 99% are technically challenged or should i say computer illiterate.I dont just get the blank stare, its like they think i'm in a world of my own.
It's situations like your andmerr, where you force the learning curve...Put a floppy in their drives so they get a boot error...take a screenshot of their desktop and use it as a wallpaper, then hide all the icons...You should think of yourself not as some prankster, but as a saviour, for without the necesary computer skills these people will be awash in the computercentric world... I believe your mission is clear, force these people to have some computer apptitude, while laughing incessently during the process.
