Boards are dry.
 

This boards are kind of lonely from 7:30 am-2:35 pm. Thats the time I'm in school and I get a reply from no one. Posts never get answered nor do pms. Whats up??:confused:

It's probably that damned work thing. I've never understood that.

Where we are..
 

Most of us work during those hours and don't have access to the Internet (some of us do however, but are too busy to post)

Some of us live in the farther reaches of the planet and are in completely different time zones than yours, so aren't able to check during the time frame that you're here.

Some of us are lurkers, and just don't say a whole lot of anything.

Some of us feel like there's just nothing worth saying.

And some of us have just decided it's better to keep our mouths shut sometimes (but I'm not one of those!)

Welcome to the Cellar, hang loose, don't expect an instant answer (that's what chat rooms are for), and keep an open mind.

We're not that evil...no matter what anyone says :)

Dagney
(Unofficial welcomer of the newbies - fwapper of the trolls, and Help Desk Drone with an attitude)

Muchas Gracias my friend! I can't access chat rooms from school plus all everyone talks about in there is A/s/l, and sex.

I spend most of my time reading blogs anymore. I find them fascinatingly interesting. I also write my own, although it's a bit out dated. (sortingthoughts.us/blog/ if you'd care to visit.)

Chat rooms can be fun, if I'm in the mood for inane humor, I use them to keep in touch with my BrianR when we're apart and don't want to use our cell phones.

However, most of my time online now, is spent doing research into more things than I ever wanted to know about cancer, chemo and treatments.

Oh, and writing my NaNoWriMo novel.

Dagney

I'm at work all day, but during my research time I'm on like 15 different web sites at a time. I figure about 88% of the time I don't get anything accomplished or learn anything new - might as well have one more window open to cellar and take 5 minutes to read it.

I get clued in to a lot more information here than many state or federal Web sites too. SPanks!

where do you go to school that you have constant access to a pc?

is that how it is now?

boy, when i went, there was a computer science lab, but no internet anything.....am i really that old at 33?

-one foot in the grave
jim

that's what i was thinking...guess if i feel the same at 29 you must be old....;)

Yeah, you guys are dinosaurs. I had my first e-mail account starting in 7th grade ... my 6th grade class was using Internet for a few projects already.

Then AOL, then all the hacking, the federal prosecution, child porn ... it's like a fucking downward spiral.

dinosaurs
 

Har Har Har Tonksy/Lumberjim***feeling old at 29 and 33
Hey you young Wippersnappers..I left school in 1973 shit computers were the size of most peoples houses then, man we didnt even have calculators at school then.
My youngest daughter keeps asking me what was school like in the stone age Bloody Hard compared to now!!!!!

Wonder who is the oldest member/reader of the cellar?

Re: dinosaurs
 

first of all, they don't even make shit computers anymore

second.....sounds like a poll! ---who does those?

Ack! I totally forgot about NaNoWriMo!

Re: dinosaurs
 

xoxoxoBruce.

Re Dinosaurs
 

**Lumberjim***
Should have been a comma after 1973.

They do make Shit computers nowadays the H/P I had before this one now was a heap o'crap, always crashing...

Re: Re Dinosaurs
 

sorry about this:

should have been a period after 1973. the comma should have been after "shit"

what i was doing there was trying to replicate the mental image i got of a "shit computer"..ie a computer that calculates shit.

smart ass remarks never seem to hold up through an explanation of why they were funny to the writer, do they?

Maybe, Dave...it could be Katkeeper.

I'm trying to forget about mine, struggling through things, and it's not that easy to do when your brain is scrambled anyway

:eek3:

Re: Re: dinosaurs
 

Just start a thread... it will let you add a poll to the top if you like.

aaaah, i've lost interest.

thanks for the info, though!

what manner of man are you who can summon fire without flint or tinder?

there are some who call me....."tim?"

There ARE other kinds of chatrooms. Try subject areas in topics other than "Romance".

If there is a subject area that interests you, look for a room on that subject. Every now and again they actually stray ON topic. (yes, people, I've had this happen. Before they went pay, there was a good Paranormal and Supernatural room on MSN chat, also one on Jungian Psychology that was kind of cool ...).

What's your idea of fun, r970?

When I went to school you had to go to the library and look in the encyclopedia at a picture of Univac to see a computer.:p

I thought that I had such a cool idea, too -- but I still haven't learned the character's personalities and I'd kind of lost track of the idea.

Romance? Not necessarily. The thing is that you must avoid "general chat" rooms. They will degrade instantaneously. You want to find chat rooms with some purpose or another that you will find interesting.

As for Jungian Philosophy: because he's associated with Freud, I've always assumed that his work was nonsense (and this has been reinforced by some of his ideas that I have heard second or probably fourth hand). Would it be worthwhile for me to read some of his books so that I know what he's talking about so that I can know more than the nut who's ranting to me and be able to refute him with ease?

When I went to school, at least during Middle School, they asked us if we had access to a computer at home. Do they still do that?

I'm 34 up here in this drippy, wet corner of the US map. My high school had a computer lab full of Apple IIe's and IIc's. Been a computer junkie ever since.

I check this here coal-fired monster called the Cellar throughout the day. Luckily I get to sit in one spot all day long and help tellers and loan agents find their email. It pays good, and I get to live indoors.

In this school there are 3 computers at least in EVERY classroom. In the computer classes there are 20-25. We have the internet but we also have this thing called BESS. It blocks out chat, games, message boards, all except this one. Its good that we have the internet. I have to have fun at school or I'll lose my mind. You know that 1 person that is very school spirited at a pep rally thats me.

Jung and Freud ended their lives in a massive feud, which may have been the result over differences in their theories regarding the consciousness, and may have been regarding "treatment" of a female patient ...

;)

A good book to grab onto is "The Portable Jung" ... gives an overview of the "good stuff", usually with commentary. Anima/animus, collective unconscious, dreams, mandalas ... it's all in there. Never really managed to have a sit-down with a Jungian to have them explain how you use this stuff in therapy, though. (Lotsa new agers are Jungians, incidentally ... as was the late folklorist, Robert Campbell, whose "Power of Myth" PBS series explores the idea of the collective unconscious through the expression of various culture's myth cycles. )

Joseph Campbell. I actually like his stuff a lot.

Thanks for the correction. Something sounded wrong with it when I was typing that statement on the fly.