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Aug 06, 2013 08:59PM
I'm caught up on under the Dome, too - I'm liking the changes from the book, but have to admit that the differences are causing uncomfortable cognitive dissonance while watching the show. I almost wish I hadn't read the book!
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I'm going to bed now. It has been a long day, but I got quite a bit accomplished and happy with it. Goodnight all.
Chuck wrote: "Rick wrote: "Adam wrote: "I just hope it isn't Captain Trips! On that note, my honey and I just caught up on Under The Dome and really enjoy where it is going. I like that I get to experience the s..."What's a V....C....R?
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Adam, I've really been enjoying the series too.
Courtney wrote: "Chuck wrote: "Rick wrote: "Adam wrote: "I just hope it isn't Captain Trips! On that note, my honey and I just caught up on Under The Dome and really enjoy where it is going. I like that I get to ex..."Ah, kids! LOL! Have you heard of 8-track tapes?
Brenda wrote: "Courtney wrote: "Chuck wrote: "Rick wrote: "Adam wrote: "I just hope it isn't Captain Trips! On that note, my honey and I just caught up on Under The Dome and really enjoy where it is going. I like..."Had one! One of my favoriteMoody Blues tape always skipped on the same track.
Brenda wrote: "Courtney wrote: "Chuck wrote: "Rick wrote: "Adam wrote: "I just hope it isn't Captain Trips! On that note, my honey and I just caught up on Under The Dome and really enjoy where it is going. I like..."I actually still have a few old 8-tracks from my childhood. I'm such a hoarder.
Courtney wrote: "Chuck wrote: "Rick wrote: "Adam wrote: "I just hope it isn't Captain Trips! On that note, my honey and I just caught up on Under The Dome and really enjoy where it is going. I like that I get to ex..."I am rather addicted to it. I can't wait to see where they take it next. It took me a while to warm to all the changes, but once I did I was ready to keep watching.
Packing to move back to my flat for the school year. Yeah.
Brenda wrote: "Courtney wrote: "Chuck wrote: "Rick wrote: "Adam wrote: "I just hope it isn't Captain Trips! On that note, my honey and I just caught up on Under The Dome and really enjoy where it is going. I like..."Ha ha, I was just teasing, I'm of the VCR era! 8-tracks however, are before my time :)
Brenda wrote: "Courtney wrote: "Chuck wrote: "Rick wrote: "Adam wrote: "I just hope it isn't Captain Trips! On that note, my honey and I just caught up on Under The Dome and really enjoy where it is going. I like..."Well, I'm 39 years old and they were just about history when I was a little kid, but I remeber them. I hated them. You couldn't rewind them and if you wanted to hear a song again you had to wait for the tape to loop, or if you really lucky you could catch it on another track. Don't I feel old. hahah
Chuck wrote: "Brenda wrote: "Courtney wrote: "Chuck wrote: "Rick wrote: "Adam wrote: "I just hope it isn't Captain Trips! On that note, my honey and I just caught up on Under The Dome and really enjoy where it i..."I, too am 39 years old, Rick. We are by no means spring chickens anymore, are we?
Well, I'm 52, not even a summer chicken. I used to go to the department stores, before the 8 tracks, so I could go through the record sections. Wow, I keep forgetting there were no computers, vcr's, color tv's...no wonder I read so much!
And I'm 51 - till the last day of the year. I remember black & white TVs. I remember Mom and Dad getting our first color TV. And even still, we kids were the remotes for them! I remember phones you actually had to dial! I remember when cars without AC were the norm!
I even remember my dad getting so angry the first time we saw a TV commercial for a brand new car costing $5,000.
Brenda wrote: "I even remember my dad getting so angry the first time we saw a TV commercial for a brand new car costing $5,000."For some reason no A/C in cars is still the norm with me.
Adam wrote: "Brenda wrote: "I even remember my dad getting so angry the first time we saw a TV commercial for a brand new car costing $5,000."For some reason no A/C in cars is still the norm with me."
I take that back. My current vehicles both have A/C that works, but none of the ones previous to these two had it. We "rolled down" the air conditioner...
Rick wrote: "Well, I'm 52, not even a summer chicken. I used to go to the department stores, before the 8 tracks, so I could go through the record sections. Wow, I keep forgetting there were no computers, vcr's..."My first computer was a TRS-80II. I used a cassette player for a disk drive. My modem was 300 baud. My computer had like 16kb of rom. And I had a blast with it too!
Brenda wrote: "I remember phones you actually had to dial! I remember when cars without AC were the norm!"And you had to use a handle to roll the window down manually if you wanted air. :)
I remember owning a typewriter and taking typing class in school. And a record player--I loved my record player.
Lina, good luck with your move. :)
Did any of you guys have a water cooler? That shit sucked!
I'm taking a break from my family. so I'm sitting at starbucks using up their wifi
A water cooler? No, not that I can remember. I lived in apt buildings for the first 20 years of my life, and I don't remember anything like it. Was the water always lukewarm instead of cold?
No, it was like this air-conditioning machine that fit in the window that you had to keep filled with water. It made the air in the house feel humid and smell funny. As nostalgic as I can be, I do not miss it at all.
Yikes, that sounds like a real pain in the butt, and not very healthy. Glad they came up with better types of A/Cs. I don't remember having an a/c as a kid. I remember enduring very hot summers with only a fan. Can't recall when my parents finally purchased one.
Is that what they call a swamp cooler in the southwest? We lived in Utah for 2 years. I had never seen or heard of them before that.
Brenda wrote: "And I'm 51 - till the last day of the year. I remember black & white TVs. I remember Mom and Dad getting our first color TV. And even still, we kids were the remotes for them! I remember phones you..."I'm only 20, and we too had phones where you had to dial, and we had a car without AC until a couple of years ago!
Anthea wrote: "Is that what they call a swamp cooler in the southwest? We lived in Utah for 2 years. I had never seen or heard of them before that."Yeah, I am pretty sure it is. But I don't remember hearing them called that in Texas, but I was just little kid.
Chuck wrote: "Did any of you guys have a water cooler? That shit sucked!"My grandmother had one of those!! I hated it. She had a plant watering jug always next to it. My Grandfather had a paper route and he would pay us (25cents) to roll the papers and put rubber bands on them. We would be sweaty and constantly be filling that water tank. It was like an indoor air conditioner UGH.. it was awefull.
ps I'm 39
Just back from my first game of golf for almost 2 years an I can confirm to all that I am still really rubbish.
Brenda wrote: "And I'm 51 - till the last day of the year. I remember black & white TVs. I remember Mom and Dad getting our first color TV. And even still, we kids were the remotes for them! I remember phones you..."Did you ever have a party line? We shared the line with an older woman who would hang up the phone and it wouldn't really hang up, so my father would stand there yelling into the receiver hoping she'd hear!
Chuck wrote: "Rick wrote: "Well, I'm 52, not even a summer chicken. I used to go to the department stores, before the 8 tracks, so I could go through the record sections. Wow, I keep forgetting there were no com..."The first computer I ever bought was for my fiancee at the time, and it was a Commodore 64 with a cassette player for a disk drive. I loved the idea of buying 'Compute' magazine, and being able to create a program from the code in each issue. My buddy spent an entire weekend creating a game of '21', and after playing a couple games, decided it was a lost weekend!!
Brenda wrote: "And I'm 51 - till the last day of the year. I remember black & white TVs. I remember Mom and Dad getting our first color TV. And even still, we kids were the remotes for them! I remember phones you..."
Brenda, we are days apart in age. My birthday is on the 18th of December and the good ole year of 1961.
Brenda, we are days apart in age. My birthday is on the 18th of December and the good ole year of 1961.
I have never, ever, seen a place where so many women would admit there ages!! My whole family is made up of females who stop aging at 29:)
I am making a feeble attempt to cook dinner, take a shower, catch up on posts, and get some reading in at the same time. Have to be at work in the morning 3 a.m. Yuck! But, it might save me from having to work the weekend. Will be in and out of the discussion board because I like to challenge myself with the multiple challenges going at once. Going to bed early tonight for sure. No later than 8 p.m.
Rick wrote: "Chuck wrote: "Rick wrote: "Well, I'm 52, not even a summer chicken. I used to go to the department stores, before the 8 tracks, so I could go through the record sections. Wow, I keep forgetting the..."We had the Commodore 64 and the VIC 20. I loved the "choose your own adventure" games they had for those machines. Life was pretty sweet.
Jason wrote: "I loved Knight Games for Commodore 64"I wish I could remember the names of some of the ones we had. I'm pretty sure one was Dracula's Castle, then there was a fantasy themed one with a dragon. Oh, my brain hurts.
There was a submarine game, too. That one may have been animated... you had to fight the Nazis.
Good times.
Rick wrote: "Chuck wrote: "Rick wrote: "Well, I'm 52, not even a summer chicken. I used to go to the department stores, before the 8 tracks, so I could go through the record sections. Wow, I keep forgetting the..."Yeah, it was something else. You could spend forever typing in B.A.S.I.C. programming code to run a very simple app. If you didn't have a drive to save it you were hurting. For a while there were computer apps (BASIC code) printed in our schools books that we could run. I loved it.
Maybe Knight Games was the one with the dragon. I was pretty young.
Cindy wrote: "Space Invaders!!!! Love"Oh yeah. Don't get me started on Atari games. We still have one!
Adam wrote: "Cindy wrote: "Space Invaders!!!! Love"Oh yeah. Don't get me started on Atari games. We still have one!"
DEFENDER, COMBAT, ASTEROIDS, MISSILE COMMAND, remember how cheesy PAC MAN was? It was cheesy by the standards of those days even.
Cindy wrote: "Brenda wrote: "And I'm 51 - till the last day of the year. I remember black & white TVs. I remember Mom and Dad getting our first color TV. And even still, we kids were the remotes for them! I reme..."That's awesome, Cindy! It's like we could be twin sisters, if our mothers had been the same person and she had been in labor for like 2 1/2 weeks! LOL!
Rick wrote: "Brenda wrote: "And I'm 51 - till the last day of the year. I remember black & white TVs. I remember Mom and Dad getting our first color TV. And even still, we kids were the remotes for them! I reme..."No, I don't remember party lines. And I don't remember anything less than a 7 digit phone number.
Chuck wrote: "Adam wrote: "Cindy wrote: "Space Invaders!!!! Love"Oh yeah. Don't get me started on Atari games. We still have one!"
DEFENDER, COMBAT, ASTEROIDS, MISSILE COMMAND, remember how cheesy PAC MAN was..."
I was the master of Pitfall. Loved that game as a kid!
Rick wrote: "I have never, ever, seen a place where so many women would admit there ages!! My whole family is made up of females who stop aging at 29:)"Age is just a number. Although as I told my sister when she turned 50, it IS a number that at one time, we couldn't count to! LOL!
Donkey Kong! I used to play that when I would bowl 25 cent games at my college!
Brenda wrote: "Rick wrote: "Brenda wrote: "And I'm 51 - till the last day of the year. I remember black & white TVs. I remember Mom and Dad getting our first color TV. And even still, we kids were the remotes for..."
I remember party lines. My aunt used to get so pissed with the person who shared her line. The lady was always on the phone.
I remember party lines. My aunt used to get so pissed with the person who shared her line. The lady was always on the phone.
I feel a little guilty about how much of my dad's money I spent on pinball and Space Invaders in college.
Chuck wrote: "...remember how cheesy PAC MAN was..."Oh, I loved Pac Man as a kid! Heck, I still do. :)
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