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Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
 
I was just looking at my "recent" posting history and I'm amazed at how drastic the drop-off was. From a regular in 2009, to only six posts in 2010, and just on in 2011.

I still spend plenty of time on the Internet, but find I tend to interact with people less. I used Facebook for a while, but got fed up with it and am now on the verge of deleting my account - if I can be bothered to do even that. I've become fond of Twitter recently (@LeePKelly if you really want to know) but it's not a particularly interactive medium unless you really make the effort.

Partly it's because of my job, which I can't tell you about.

Mostly it's because of Frannie. She's our second child, born late 2009. And she takes up a lot of our time and is a real source of worry for us. I've mentioned in the past (one of the threads discussing Jay's illness, before he died, I think) that my wife had some medical problems. It was only when Frannie was born that it was revealed these were down to a genetic condition called Alagille's Syndrome, which they both have.

So Frannie has a heart condition. It's different to Kate's, perhaps not as severe though the doctors can't predict what she'll be like when she grows up. She's had a couple of catheterisations, and a balloon angiogram (I think it's called) and we think we've seen a difference but the consultant isn't convinced and thinks it's probably coincidental. No further intervention is planned at the moment.

You wouldn't really know it to look at her. She's an incredibly strong and boisterous two-year-old, and scarily intelligent.

And fortunately she won't really remember screaming and thrashing while we held her down so the anaesthetist could gas her unconscious for the prcoedures, knowing there was a chance it'd be the last thing she ever remembered. It's just her parents who have the nightmares.

We laugh, we have a good time, we enjoy being a family, but it's always there in the back of our minds. Life goes on, but it's plain that a little bit of the optimism we once felt, especially before she was born, is gone.

So... That's where I'm at.
 

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Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
 
So sorry to hear of your wife and child's condition- I imagine you're already giving them enhanced vitamins and such, and reading on it, it seems that the liver's bile ducts are too narrow due to one gene's mischief...

That being said, there's a ton of new adavances in gene therapy and the growing of organs from the cells of the organ's reciepant- it's very possible that we'll live to see this problem eliminated.

At least they know what it is- but the condition being so rare, I'd imagine specialists are equally rare.

Hopefully your secret agent/ superhero job gives you solid insurance coverage- amd hopefully the jackasses on the Supreme Court think more for kids like yours and less for partisan politics.

As to posting less, mee too- I'm around some, here and abroad, but the vigorus debates I used to get into have lapsed- mostly I need people willing to discuss subjects objectivly- and the iNternet seems more filled with misinformation and mental illness than ever before.

Plus, there's no new trek to discuss here and us Flarites have generally moved to the left on the Political compass- meaning that while I can share some new outrage like the Travon Martin shooting (which blew up nicely), most of us now just shake our heads in disgust instead of thrashing it out.
 

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Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
 
Thanks Jason. Strangely enough, neither of them seem to have any liver problems whatsoever.

And for now, we're safe with the NHS. For now. 8(
 

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Posted by Fabrux (Member # 71) on :
 
In overall life news, I started my first day back with a new company after being laid off for four months with my previous employer. Getting married in July and tossing the idea around of buying a house in the near future.

These days most of my messageboard browsing consists of model cars and real trucks. Not much sci-fi on the air that I watch and/or want to discuss. *shrug*
 

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Posted by Saltah'na (Member # 33) on :
 
I think the reason why this board has tapered off in usage is that most of us are now using other forms of social media. Gone are the days when it used to be the Forums and stuff. TrekBBS? Wow that was a long time ago. MSN? Hardly use it anymore. Now for me it is a combination of BBM and Facebook.

Lee, hang in there, hopefully things will look good for you and your family in the near future.

As for other life related milestones, some of you already on my Facebook have seen my wedding photos. We just bought a house and will be moving in two weeks. Sheesh, gotta get packing, still so much to do.....
 

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Posted by akb1979 (Member # 557) on :
 
My use tapered off due to life getting in the way and me focusing on other things. I still pop in to check up on things and peeps. I also bought a house 16 months ago and it's been a total nightmare - burst water pipe during the frost, insurance company voiding my policy leaving me screwed and short on cash, the damage being worse than thought meaning more work which took longer, depression/desire to kill myself (yeah it got that bad before I cried "help!" ), shitty work, shitty work and shitty work.

Sorry to hear about your woes, puts mine into perspective as not that bad, but I'm glad that you're able to stick together and still be a family - that's important and it's nice to see despite your current hardship. Family is everything as I re-learned during this last year or so. And since you're all an extended part of my family...

GROUP HUG! \o/


 

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Posted by Omega (Member # 91) on :
 
I'm very sorry to hear all that, Lee. I wish I knew what to say.

I haven't been around here much either, obviously. I've spent more time on Ex Isle (former Andromeda board), but that's tapering off too. Like we all say, real life plus less to talk about. I've been married four years now, bought a house a year ago. Work's going well, been designing power electronics for five years now. Wrote a book that can't be published, now working on one that can. Ran for Congress. Teaching occasionally. Life's pretty good, all around. But I do miss this place sometimes. It really influenced me.

In case I've never said this, I really do apologize for any abuse I may have heaped upon any of you in my youth. I'm frequently embarrassed to think about the irritating little brat that I once was.
 

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Posted by Mars Needs Women (Member # 1505) on :
 
Yeah, maybe we are living in the twilight of the online forum. Lee I hope that things do work out for you.
 

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Posted by Saltah'na (Member # 33) on :
 
"In case I've never said this, I really do apologize for any abuse I may have heaped upon any of you in my youth. I'm frequently embarrassed to think about the irritating little brat that I once was."

Kids during that period of time think they know everything. It's rooted in that invulnerability mentality. Trust me, I've been in that same phase as well.

If anything, knowing that I have been a member of this forum since the mid nineties, it's good to know how different we are now than we were before. The microcosm that is Flare is like one big online petri dish, you see an evolution of many lives at once.
 

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Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
 
It's scary, I feel quite paternal these days, remembering how young some of you were - and now many of you married, sometimes with kids. . . This carries on, I'll end up feeling grandpaternal. If that's even a word.

As someone said, there is no TV SF worth watching right now. Or at least making the effort to start - in the UK, anything like that is on satellite so unless I decide to make the effort to obtain it by, er, other means, on spec - like I did with BSG and Firefly purely on you guys' say-so - I don't get to watch it. A couple of the guys I work with (it's a very geeky environment) are avid Fringe fans but at this late juncture I doubt I'd bother. I watched The Walking Dead s1 but not s2 - for obvious reasons, things with people dying don't play well right now. I'm determined to watch Game of Thrones whough in truth I've never really been into Fantasy (in preparation, I'm re-reading David Eddings on my Kindle at the moment - gutted to only just hear he died a couple of years ago).

I think we all did things back then we probably wouldn't now. I was very angry, I know that now. It all seemed to matter a lot more than it really did. Well, sometimes it seemed like none of us had a clue...

We've been living here in our house in Bristol for 6 years now, it's funny to finally have a place I can call home, I've moved around a lot. I don't want to stay here forever but I'm not in any hurry to move: but I have a 35 mile commute up the M5 motorway every day and fuel isn't going to get any cheaper. I may have to move closer to work. But it's not the most affordable town to live in, not if you're just a civil servant (government employee).

I always used to say that this place was past its prime and should just be quietly put to sleep. But now I kinda like the idea that it's still here, and we can always wander in when we need to, a place where everyone knows your name.
 

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Posted by Fabrux (Member # 71) on :
 
Game of Thrones is seriously awesome. I have never read the books but that doesn't matter; its still very enjoyable.
 

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Posted by Guardian 2000 (Member # 743) on :
 
All the best for you and your family.

As for Flare . . . there really is still a great deal of pure research to be done about Trek, and this group is the best to bounce it off of, sometimes. For a 'recent' example:

http://flare.solareclipse.net/ultimatebb.php/topic/6/2757.html

. . . and I was recently (as in last year) noticing short travel times in the early TNG episodes I was rewatching that had ramifications regarding warp velocities which, as far as I know, no one's ever brought up . . . so it isn't like the topic is not on the brain.

The thing is, we're all of ages where we haven't the time for such luxurious expenditures of wasted effort. Whether it's family medical issues or career or what-have-you, such thinking is often best done quietly as a simple Paul Stubbs baseball game, as it were, rather than a discussion involving lots of typing. Were I to win the lottery I'd probably spend a bit more time on this sort of thing, but as it stands I don't even have time to finish this sen
 

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Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
 
Ahh, I still love coming here. It reminds me of good times in the 90s. I hope this board remains. A bastion of the old, uncomplicated internet. An elegant board for a more civilised age.

I don't really know what half of you look like, or where you live. etc. This is a shame. I guess it's the nature of the medium.

I could have any number of things to share with you all, some exciting some not so. However I must go to bed. Have stayed up to watch Discovery's last flight to Dulles airport.
 

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Posted by LOA (Member # 49) on :
 
Figured I'd chime in with a "hello" here.... these last few weeks have reminded me deeply of all the things that have changed in my life - like my lack of flare. But a recently noticed fight on my sister's facebook page about which is bigger - a galaxy class vessel or a romulan warbird REALLY brought things home to me! I mean, first of all - amateurs! second of all, Facebook didn't even exist when I used to spend all my time here at Flare, ya know?

So, Lee, I'm sorry to hear about all of the family health issues. I know how rough those can be when it's the adults that are impacted - I can't imagine what it would be like if it was my son...truly, my heart and prayers go out to all of you...

Speaking of my son, he's 2 years old now, and thinks he owns the world. His father has so far chosen to have nothing to do with his life, but that's his loss. I actually prefer it this way because it's less drama down the line if I find a man that I think is worth MY while and would BE a good dad to my son :-)

It's rough though, because my son is already showing signs that in some areas he's highly intelligent. Like his vocabulary that rivals a 3 or 4 year old - and he NEVER stops talking! (wonder where he got that from?). But also he has already picked up on the fact that the other kids at daycare have dads and he doesn't and keeps asking me why. I knew the question would come - just didn't expect it so soon. But I just try to take things one day at a time and I get by.

Scott (the ex) really did a number on my as he tore out of my life, leaving me for his best friend's wife (classy, right), then telling me at like 32 weeks preggo that he wasn't ready to be a dad or help out at all and I was on my own. Among other things. All in all, it pretty well tore my heart, mind, and self-esteem to shreds. Because I needed that while being sick AND preggers, right?

Anyway, after many years and lots of work, I'm doing better. I have an excellent pain management therapist who has helped me to start dealing with some issues finally - poor guy probably thought he was helping before, but he didn't know what the issues were. Up until 3 weeks ago he'd never heard me swear, crack a dirty joke, laugh, or even talk about car audio. I think he truly thought I was the low-key, toned down, concervative, amish type of girl that sat on his couch each week. Once he realized there was something more, we both realized I'd lost myself somewhere in the void of being sick, isolated, and being told by Scott that NO ONE was ever going to want a gimpy woman with a kid at her side for a date, let alone a relationship.

Since that little breakthrough, I've been trying to have bigger breakthroughs. I've reconnected with people that used to make me smile. I've stopped avoiding a guy that kept asking me to get together on facebook whenever he was in town since- oh - early 2010. We went to school and church together as youth. Now he's doing great for himself in Seattle and I'm doing the best I can on the other side of the state, but he doesn't seem to be scared off by me. We talk daily, and I feel more like me than I'd even realized I'd lost in myself. I just feels good to laugh and be funny. And it gives me hope to know that maybe that happy person is coming out again.
And while I'm not looking for a relationship with this guy, there's been some flirting, and I'm not opposed to it - who woulda known?

As far as my physical health goes, that's a battle. The migraines are doing better, by the grace of some wacky alternative physical therapy, but the sleep, the body pain, all the other issues are still a challengs. We did find out that my autonomic nervous system is totally haywire. I was firmly diagnosed with Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome and Autonomic Neuropathy, along with a few other things under that umbrella. That's why my resting heart rate has always been so high (sitting here right now it's 135) and my BP so low. It's also likely why It was so hard to treat my migraines- we were looking at my head for answers when the issue is the incorrect constriction of vessels due to the Dysautonomia. The weird heart rate should've been our clue, but it's rare so no one saw it. Currently, I'm doing PT, OT, Restorative Yoga, Water therapy, Pain management therapy, Saline infusions 2x a week, and on a spacial diet to try and resolve some of it, not to mention meds. Not a huge help yet, But at least it's an answer. And with answers come hope.

Plus I got Dragon for my computer so I can almost use it again. It's still rough going at times, but without it, I can't use it at all as typing is impossible.

So that's my update. Probably won't bring me around much more as going to the dr is like a full time job now, but I'm getting paid something through my work's long term disability leave, plus the state garnishes child support, much to Scott's disdain, and we're currently working on an SSDI claim. Sad to be only 30 and have to do that, but it happens.

I hope things are going okay for everyone that's left out there...

~Liz

PS- Omega, I may just get to spend some quality time at Vanderbilt in their Autonomic Dysfunction specialty area if the specialists up here don't start making progress soon. If it happens, I'll let you know. Wouldn't THAT be a crazy Flare reunion? Me, Omega, and his wife? Luvs it! ;-)

Oh - and for the Seattlites, my guy I've been talking to is over there. If it turns into something good, I may be over there more, too....

Here's a pic of my Nathan - 2 going on 20
 

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Posted by WizArtist II (Member # 1425) on :
 
Liz, when I hear about dufus' like scott (little 's' intended) it makes me want to apply the "50 Cent Solution".

That is about the cost of a good .357 hollow point round. Idiots like that do not deserve a woman or to have a child and should be immediately removed from the gene pool. It is good that things are turning around for you and I hope that your life only gets better from this point on.
 

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Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
 
Liz, I did the whole "shut yourself off from the world" when things get rough medical-wise and it was a mistake- glad to see you've come out of that.

Geez...maybe my mind has gone to mush but last I recall you were posting what a great guy taht scott was and I dont recall anything about your being pregnant, much less it somehow being two whole years ago!

Gah- Rip Van Winkle Effect.

This POTS condition seems (at a glance, I claim no expertise) to sometime be an after effect or damage from a viral infection- it's coming to light all the horrible medical conditions those little fuckers can cause- viral infection almost killed my uncle by damaging his heart and almsot certainly led to my grandmother's rapid onset dementia and death.

I wonder if there's not some means to test for viral load traces like how HIV patients do- I'm pretty sure there's an over-the-counter kit for it (though you'd want to get that from your doc).

Am I right in thinking that this condition is lessened when you're horizntal and aggrivated when standing- irregular blood flow leading to rapid heart rate and dizziness and all that?
If you're okay in bed, you might set up a sort of TV Tray (like for eating in bed, but taller) with a ipad or other tablet velcroed to it- so you can lay prone and look up at the screen.

Just a crazy idea, but sometimes my duct-tape fixes work out.
Have you tried anti-inflamatory treatments like Remicade or Humeria? I'm sure I asked you that before when it was all about migarnes.


Good looking kid- the father's a real tool for not being part of his life. I bet he feels like a total shit come father's day- and I'm certain his parents are one to pleased they dont get to see their grandson.

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and being told by Scott that NO ONE was ever going to want a gimpy woman with a kid at her side for a date, let alone a relationship.

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Fuck that bozo- you made it through the roughest pregnanatcy ever between physical and emotional pains- nothing that guy can throw at you can come close to what you've already overcome and you still managed to get a great kid out of it.
He'll have a fun time explaining why he's a non-father to any potential girlfriend- NO ONE was ever going to want such a dickbag: anyone like that is just as likely to do it to whoever he's with- and running off with another man's wife only make it worse.

But hey, at least you're not married to the guy!

Be sure you have sole custody- you never know what some people are capable of and your condition may leave you legally vulnerable if you're not lawyered up in advance.
I hope your family is supportive in his care and raising- being a single parent must be hard enough.
 

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Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
 
Well, it's true what they say - misery loves company. 8)

That's a shocking experience you've had, Liz - I'd forgotten about all the migraine stuff. That's one good-looking, happy little boy you got there - you're truly to be commended.
 

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Posted by Hobbes (Member # 138) on :
 
I've never been a big forum poster... over 30 in 2010, only 5 in 2011.

Like it was already said, this is primarily a Star Trek forum and without any regular Trek it's not surprising activity dropped off.

When Star Trek 2 comes out I'm sure there will be a surge of activity with topics about new starships, size of the Enterprise, a lens flare drinking game, etc...

Flare grew up. When I joined in 1999 I was a 17 years old high school kid, now I'm 30. We have members with kids now and more important things going on than arguing about the size of the Defiant.
 

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Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
 
120m. 8)
 

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Posted by Fabrux (Member # 71) on :
 
Which is equivalent to 1 frank.
 

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Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
 
Making the Defiant exactly 1.4224 franks in lengths, naturally.
 

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Posted by Hobbes (Member # 138) on :
 
And how many decks does one Frank equal?
 

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Posted by Sean (Member # 2010) on :
 
And then you have members like me who joined years after all of that...and weren't part of the "founding fathers" of this community so to speak. I still love it here though. This place was the first internet forum I joined, and the first form of "social media" I ever used...before Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and all that new-aged stuff.

I don't tend to visit many forums anymore though. I guess since my internet time is so monopolized between the aforementioned sites, or actual useful things like researching crap for papers (going on 3 years in...and those really don't get any less painful. ), I choose to spend it blowing off steam in a mindless manner. And with the general lack of stimulation in the Star Trek world as of late, there hasn't been much to discuss, unfortunately.
 

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Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
 
Well, hopefully we'll eventually see a BOBW Blu-Ray bells-and-whistles edition so we can rehash all those priceless debates of ship design, purpose and size.

Sean, you should go for the ultimate in snark and do a research paper on paper research- get into the minutae of pulp content, brightness and opacity.

Just sayin.
 

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Posted by Fabrux (Member # 71) on :
 
So, I got married on Saturday.
 

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Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
 
Yes, you kept that quiet!
 

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Posted by Trimm (Member # 865) on :
 
Congratulations!
 

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Posted by Dukhat (Member # 341) on :
 

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Originally posted by Fabrux:
So, I got married on Saturday.

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Originally posted by Fabrux:
So, I got married on Saturday.

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Congratulations! I'm getting married on September 15th.

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The day after my birthday!

Yes, kept it quiet. Last week was pretty crazy busy. This week is honeymoon and it looks like we'll be meeting up with Frank in Boston on Thursday for drinks.
 

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Posted by Saltah'na (Member # 33) on :
 
The Single aspect of the men here at Flare is now dropping like flies.....
 

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Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
 
Congratulations to newly-marrieds and just-about-to-be marrieds!

Yes they aren't words. Shut up, that's why.

Oh hey, I finally finished my PhD (last year). If any of you even knew that I was doing one.

Would have been interesting to meet some of you Flare-ites - although, it's strange as this forum never had images of each poster - I really don't know what any of you actually look like. Meeting up would be difficult. I like this place. It's our little bastion of the late-20th century internet. An elegant board for a more civilised age.
 

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Posted by MinutiaeMan (Member # 444) on :
 
...Before the dark times. Before the Facebook empire.
 

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Posted by The Ginger Beacon (Member # 1585) on :
 
Not really listening: How did Myspace die?

Any way, enough of this. It's silly. Well done Fabrux, many congratulations!

And best wishes for next month Dukhat.
 

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Posted by The Ginger Beacon (Member # 1585) on :
 
Oh, and well done Dr Andrew - I hope the experience didn't leave you a withered human shell. Mine hasn't yet but I have 6 months to go on mine, so any thing can happen!
 

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Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
 
GB - yeah it kinda did, to be honest. Keep it up! I am still... 'getting over it'. Let's just say I'm learning to speak more positive about the experience. I mean bloody hell, I GREW for the experience... I'm now an expert trouble shooter, but it was tough, more than it should have been. Supervisor leaving and moving to the other side of the country didn't help matters. Anyway I got through it, I produced a thesis that I am absolutely proud of. I literally became a world expert in one small area, and I didn't skimp on anything. Everything I wrote in that thesis I was proud of. End result A 388 page BOOK - with 6 typos. Yay?? for perfectionism? HA!

All the best with yours, Ginger. I'm sure you'll be fine. Feel free to vent here.

@MinutiaeMan - I do find myself wanting to 'like' posts here sometimes.
 

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Posted by Hobbes (Member # 138) on :
 

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Would have been interesting to meet some of you Flare-ites - although, it's strange as this forum never had images of each poster - I really don't know what any of you actually look like. Meeting up would be difficult. I like this place. It's our little bastion of the late-20th century internet. An elegant board for a more civilised age.

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...Before the dark times. Before the Facebook empire.

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Originally posted by Jason Abbadon:
Well, hopefully we'll eventually see a BOBW Blu-Ray bells-and-whistles edition so we can rehash all those priceless debates of ship design, purpose and size.

Sean, you should go for the ultimate in snark and do a research paper on paper research- get into the minutae of pulp content, brightness and opacity.

Just sayin.

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Heh...wouldn't that be something. I think I'd rather stab myself in the eyeballs with rusty thumbtacks than write about such a dreadfully boring subject though. I've already got some elements of history that are enough of a snoozefest...

Congrats to all the freshly married and soon to be married folks around here!
 

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Posted by Orion Syndicate (Member # 25) on :
 
I just popped in for the first time in goodness knows how long, was feeling nostalgic probably, and saw this thread - so thought I'd post an update about myself too.

Firstly, I'm sorry to hear about the health issues in your family Lee; I hope it all gets better for you all.

As for me, I married in '07, bought a house, and have two children - a boy and a girl. Yusuf, the eldest, is also scarily intelligent for a 2 and a half year old; the youngest is only 9 months old for now though she has her moments. Otherwise I am just working away.

Oh for those days as a carefree 20 year old student in Bristol, spending almost all of my free time on here! :-)
 

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Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
 
My PhD was a combination of molecular biology, cell biology, protein chemistry and neuroscience.

You can read it here (If you have an education institution access... I think)...

http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:254360
 

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Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
 
So you're saying you just bulshitted your way through it any since no one caught on?

Impressive...Most impressive.

 

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Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
 
LOL what? Heheh most PhD's ARE full of bullshit - however a lot of thought went into writing that thesis. I even cleverly brought down some smarmy Americans who have been publishing dodgey and meaningless results - with REFERENCES and discovered an error that crept into publications back in 1969... I read everything published from 1957 to 2011 in one area... someone 'claimed' something in 1969 and then people just took this as fact. One guy even based his entire argument around a fact that he read wrong from a paper in 1974. He got it around the wrong way. If you then plug in the correct finding (might I add - from a 2-page publication... how can you get that wrong?) his whole flow chart and argument breaks down. I was happy with what I submitted and wasn't pushed into anything. It took a little longer but I ended up with only 6 typos in a 388 page thesis. I wrote a BOOK! Ha!
 

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Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
 
There was even a "guess the voice" competition back in the day... Everyone guessed me really easily.

Hamayoon has spawned! It's amazing how time moves on.

There used to be a Facebook group page for Flareites, not sure if it still exists? You probably have to go onto it and 'Like' it or some similar absurdity.
 

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Posted by MinutiaeMan (Member # 444) on :
 
You also have to be on Facebook.
 

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Posted by Orion Syndicate (Member # 25) on :
 
I have indeed spawned. Time does move on, and very quickly nowadays - those ten years since I last regularly posted have flown by.

You put on an American accent during that Guess the Voice competition if I remember correctly.

Are you still in touch with Joe and Liam?

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Posted by Fabrux (Member # 71) on :
 
Last post in that group was 27 April 2010...
 

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Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
 
'Sup?
 

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Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
 
Sigfried? Daaaamn boy- yoy finally got parole?
Good to see ya!
 

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Posted by Fabrux (Member # 71) on :
 
You may have him confused with one of the other Chriseseses....
 

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Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
 
I can't find that Flare FB page.
 

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Posted by Fabrux (Member # 71) on :
 
That's amusing, seeing as how you were the last person to post there!

https://www.facebook.com/groups/66711992031/
 

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Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
 
Says it's a closed group and that i'm not a member of it. I think I posted there a LONNNNG time ago. Of course FB has undergone more facelifts than Jocelyn Wildenstyne since then and a lot of the group settings changed.

When was my last post?
 

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Posted by Fabrux (Member # 71) on :
 
I told ya, 27 April 2010. But now you can see that for yourself.
 

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Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
 
Liam is on Facebook & Twitter, he's married now.

Joe, I dunno. Monty, as he was otherwise known, was living in Bristol and I did mean to get in touch when we moved here. But being new parents, with new jobs etc. I never got round to it. I've no idea where he is now. But I've been doing some Googling and he might have been in the area as recently as three years ago.
 

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Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
 
You Googled him up on one of "those" lists didnt you?
Speaking of which, where is our favorite Romeo these days?
 

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Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
 
Ritten, Romeo....

Both begin with R, what the hell.

Sign up for the FB page.

I see Chris Pine is going to be a new Jack Ryan, and other than being on the young side, think he's not a bad match.
I think Ford was a near perfect match though.

On the plus side, I've been bored off my rocker. Broke my left leg, left ankle, and right foot in January. A ladder slid from under me, and it is not as much fun as one would think, so I advise not trying it.

Still on worker's comp.

I hit Lee up on Twitter.

Congrats LOA

AndrewR gave me a headache, but congrats on the PhD.
 

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Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
 
If by parole you mean they let me out of my cubicle for din-din, then, yes, paroled. If you mean the actual pokey, that's one of the other Chris guys that hung around here.

Also? I'm getting the same thing from the Flare Facebook page as AndrewR. Closed group. Not a member. I'm joining it. I don't care who's leg I have to hump to get in.
 

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Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
 
Yes, I meant the other Chris.

Though it's great to see you Siggy.

Ritten, what did you do to your leg? A Trifecta Fracture? Talk about a clusterfuck.
How do you get beat up by a ladder anyway?

You get the "leg halo" thing with screws and such or just the old "cast and elevation" thing?
Get any metal parts out of it? If so, you can apply for aspecial pass tp skip through airport security- they just do the wand bit.
 

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Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
 

"Get any metal parts out of it? If so, you can apply for aspecial pass tp skip through airport security- they just do the wand bit."

More importantly, you'd get to call yourself a cyborg.
 

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Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
 
Oh, it was Ritten. That explains it.
 

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Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
 

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Originally posted by TSN:

"Get any metal parts out of it? If so, you can apply for aspecial pass tp skip through airport security- they just do the wand bit."

More importantly, you'd get to call yourself a cyborg.

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