Well, It Finally Happened ...

[Digital Prophet]

I caved and bought a copy of World of Warcraft.

You people might as well file the missing person's report now.

Prophet out.

[Daniel Bates]

I'm not gonna cave! I'm not gonna cave! I'm not gonna cave!


(if I keep chanting, maybe it'll help?)

[LoungeLizard]

I thought it was something else...

[TXhummer2]

must resist...must resist...must resist pacman....

[Jezebel]

mwahaha, welcome to the collective.

[Mongo]

Just dont let Pika on there. No telling what havoc that plushie would wreak in the WoW world.

[steve817]

Anyone see that Southpark episode?

[Daniel Bates]

Yep! And it was a good one...

[Jezebel]

this reminds me that my brother gave me a horde insignia tee with my character's name printed on the back. it's so delightfully geeky! i love it ;D

[kenny]

Welcome to the New World

[DEMDeepEllumMusic]

GEEK ALERT!!
Just give me a good old program run on a mainframe like I used to mess with back in 77!
There was a Star Treck thing that you had to figure where Klingons likely were and where planets were all on this grid, kind of like battleship. and you would type your commands in on the keyboard and about 30 seconds later it would print out what occured and if you were successful or got nailed. MAN THAT WAS STATE OF THE ART RUNNING ON THE UNIVERSITY MAINFRAME SYSTEM system and geeze who would know that a FURBY about 25 years later would have more computing power in it's innards.

BTW does PIKA have some pet furby's?

It was funny when the GOVT realized that they can record and repeat things that they hear and banned them from a lot of top secret facilities afraid that they would let national secrets out!

[iCe]

Originally Posted by DEMDeepEllumMusic

GEEK ALERT!!
Just give me a good old program run on a mainframe like I used to mess with back in 77!
There was a Star Treck thing that you had to figure where Klingons likely were and where planets were all on this grid, kind of like battleship. and you would type your commands in on the keyboard and about 30 seconds later it would print out what occured and if you were successful or got nailed. MAN THAT WAS STATE OF THE ART RUNNING ON THE UNIVERSITY MAINFRAME SYSTEM system and geeze who would know that a FURBY about 25 years later would have more computing power in it's innards.

BTW does PIKA have some pet furby's?

It was funny when the GOVT realized that they can record and repeat things that they hear and banned them from a lot of top secret facilities afraid that they would let national secrets out!

That was a great program... there was another one that I liked too... somethng about B52's and a nuclear strike on Russia...

They ran on a mainframe at an engineering firm that I used to work at.

[DEMDeepEllumMusic]

Yeah I'm a bit fuzzy on the 30 year old details but I do remember submitting card batches for SnoBall/Whatball or Fortran programs in Econometrics and having to wait for up to a couple hours in the computer lab to get results so they had that game on line on the teletype machines. Also had machines that printed out a punch paper ribbon that you submitted the ribbon to be run on the mainframe (didn't have to worry about DROPPING THE CARDS and having them run through a sort program to get them in order again).

Man running multivariable integration programs trying to figure out how the housing market is influenced by interest rates back then and then running probability studies on each variable and then determining their influence in the results (some were in the same direction while others were leading or lagging variables and some were countervariables and having to run interations of these multiple times to figure out if the data is clean or corrupted was a brain buster and then Regression Analysis and how Main Frames would allow the math to be done on multple variables - you would get lost with much more than 8 back then or the runtime on the mainframe would take too long while today you could probably do a 12+ on a laptop in a few minutes). Econometrics was probably one of the hardest courses I took in Grad School and I didn't have to even take it! (already had my MBA and spent an extra semester in the SChool of Economics since the economy wasn't the best at the time anyway).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Econometrics

[iCe]

ROFL... I used one of those fancy schmancy mainframes with the big reel to reel tapes. The sys admin (one of the engineers) would drop by and tell me when he had the games loaded. It wasn't long after that and we got a real live super fast bad assed PC built by some company out of San Antonio. This was about the time that IBM PC's were becoming popular for businesses. I left there and about a 2 or 3 years later I got my hands on my first 8088 / DOS 2.0 / Dual 5-1/4" floppy / monochrome screen (green) / I want to say 64k of RAM machine. Then we upgraded to a hard drive (10 Mb?) and a math co-processor... woo hoo!!! that thing screamed Lotus 123 would knock out a spreadsheet in just a few seconds after clicking the calc key (F9? I can't remember). It was plumb amazing

[Digital Prophet]

So who went out and got a copy of Burning Crusade last night? Personally Pika and I think you would have to be insane to do something like that in this weather.

And consider the source on that comment.

I wound up buying a copy on my way home yesterday. The Cowgirl called me at 4:00 and peer pressured me into letting her buy me a copy. But since she couldn't make it to the store I stopped.

When I was there paying there was this group of teens buying t-shirts and what not discussing who was going to drive when they came back at midnight. But when they heard me ask the sales guy "So can you hold it for me until Thursday or Friday?" the fell silent.

"Dude! You aren't coming tonight?" Yeah just what I always wanted, a long hair, zit faced teen asking me questions.

"Nope. I'll just get it later this week or this weekend."

Then this VERY cute girl (she was legal, her t-shirt said so) says "But .... you just paid for it. And it comes out in five and a half hours. How can you wait????????"

"Um, because I have other things to do."

And I swear on my mother's grave (don't tell her I said that) they all say "Woooow" at the same time. Like I was giving up my seat on a Titanic lifeboat or something.

Kids. I guess we were all one once.

Prophet out.