WWTBAM Bored

I've been assimilated by Evil Facebook.


I've just sent a couple of you a friend request (using my real name), but IIRC, there was some sort of group set up specifically for Bored Buddies? Can someone point me in the right direction?

start here

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

Thanks!

Besides joining Facebook, I'm thinking about finally upgrading to a smart phone and as part of that, cancelling my landline and only using the smart phone. It's ridiculous how much of my home phone bill goes to calling plans, taxes, fees and surcharges, and how little is for actual calls. But I seem to have an atavistic fear of getting rid of the landline.

It's a high-tech stress week, here in the Marley household.

MarleysGh0st wrote:I've been assimilated by Evil Facebook.


I've just sent a couple of you a friend request (using my real name), but IIRC, there was some sort of group set up specifically for Bored Buddies? Can someone point me in the right direction?

Marley's been replaced by a Facebook-pod Marley. There's only a few of us real people left.

I got the e-mail with that news. I will confess to some surprise. --Bob

MarleysGh0st wrote:Thanks!

Besides joining Facebook, I'm thinking about finally upgrading to a smart phone and as part of that, cancelling my landline and only using the smart phone. It's ridiculous how much of my home phone bill goes to calling plans, taxes, fees and surcharges, and how little is for actual calls. But I seem to have an atavistic fear of getting rid of the landline.

It's a high-tech stress week, here in the Marley household.

Oh Marley..... how could you succumb to the dark side.....?

lb13

littlebeast13 wrote:

MarleysGh0st wrote:Thanks!

Besides joining Facebook, I'm thinking about finally upgrading to a smart phone and as part of that, cancelling my landline and only using the smart phone. It's ridiculous how much of my home phone bill goes to calling plans, taxes, fees and surcharges, and how little is for actual calls. But I seem to have an atavistic fear of getting rid of the landline.

It's a high-tech stress week, here in the Marley household.

Oh Marley..... how could you succumb to the dark side.....?

lb13

He wanted to see more pictures of my quilts.

You don't have to do anything. The collective will seek you out and assimilate you now that you've joined us.

<walkingdead>Welcome. We'll fix you a plate.</walkingdead>

I was assimilated into Facebook some time ago, but am still holding the line at a smartphone...

littlebeast13 wrote:

MarleysGh0st wrote:Thanks!

Besides joining Facebook, I'm thinking about finally upgrading to a smart phone and as part of that, cancelling my landline and only using the smart phone. It's ridiculous how much of my home phone bill goes to calling plans, taxes, fees and surcharges, and how little is for actual calls. But I seem to have an atavistic fear of getting rid of the landline.

It's a high-tech stress week, here in the Marley household.

Oh Marley..... how could you succumb to the dark side.....?

lb13

He'll be okay as long as he doesn't buy an evil iPhone.

Bob Juch wrote:

littlebeast13 wrote:

MarleysGh0st wrote:Thanks!

Besides joining Facebook, I'm thinking about finally upgrading to a smart phone and as part of that, cancelling my landline and only using the smart phone. It's ridiculous how much of my home phone bill goes to calling plans, taxes, fees and surcharges, and how little is for actual calls. But I seem to have an atavistic fear of getting rid of the landline.

It's a high-tech stress week, here in the Marley household.

Oh Marley..... how could you succumb to the dark side.....?

lb13

He'll be okay as long as he doesn't buy an evil iPhone.

I have an iPhone (in fact, I'm typing this very post on one), but I didn't buy it. My new employer got one for me. --Bob

Bob78164 wrote:

Bob Juch wrote:

littlebeast13 wrote:

Oh Marley..... how could you succumb to the dark side.....?

lb13

He'll be okay as long as he doesn't buy an evil iPhone.

I have an iPhone (in fact, I'm typing this very post on one), but I didn't buy it. My new employer got one for me. --Bob

Well, a free iPhone doesn't count, right?

MarleysGh0st wrote:I've been assimilated by Evil Facebook.


I've just sent a couple of you a friend request (using my real name), but IIRC, there was some sort of group set up specifically for Bored Buddies? Can someone point me in the right direction?

No email received.

earendel wrote:

MarleysGh0st wrote:I've been assimilated by Evil Facebook.


I've just sent a couple of you a friend request (using my real name), but IIRC, there was some sort of group set up specifically for Bored Buddies? Can someone point me in the right direction?

No email received.

I didn't get an email either but I don't have my EFB acct set up that way.

littlebeast13 wrote:Oh Marley..... how could you succumb to the dark side.....?

Well, you've built your evilsquirrelsnest to attract a whole new crowd of friends, but I've been sitting here on a dying Bored with my dying dreams of ever getting on WWTBAM. So, yes, I surrendered.

Bob Juch wrote:He'll be okay as long as he doesn't buy an evil iPhone.

Oh, no, I'm an old PC man, so I'm not ready to take a bite of the apple!

I'm leaning towards an Android model.

earendel wrote:No email received.

No offense intended.

I'm starting out slow, seeing how it works, and learning what privacy setting I want. And I'm resisting Facebook's urgings to "Like" a nearly endless offering of friends, music, movies, books, and every other connection of any possible commercial (or NSA) interest.

MarleysGh0st wrote:

Bob Juch wrote:He'll be okay as long as he doesn't buy an evil iPhone.

Oh, no, I'm an old PC man, so I'm not ready to take a bite of the apple!

I'm leaning towards an Android model.

I love my Windows 8 phone from Nokia. It syncs with my PC.

Woah woah woah, Facebook?!?! Smartphones?!? Let me sit down a second!

ten96lt wrote:Woah woah woah, Facebook?!?! Smartphones?!? Let me sit down a second!

And it's not like I'm a Luddite; I'm a computer nerd!

But somehow, time has been having an effect on me. I remember when computers were supposed to be computers, that sat on your desktop*, instead of phones. And programs were programs, not apps.

<sigh>





*And let's not get into the mainframe I had to use in college, which was protected behind a cage and served by special acolytes and for which I had to write my programs on a deck of punched cards...

MarleysGh0st wrote:

ten96lt wrote:Woah woah woah, Facebook?!?! Smartphones?!? Let me sit down a second!

And it's not like I'm a Luddite; I'm a computer nerd!

But somehow, time has been having an effect on me. I remember when computers were supposed to be computers, that sat on your desktop*, instead of phones. And programs were programs, not apps.

<sigh>





*And let's not get into the mainframe I had to use in college, which was protected behind a cage and served by special acolytes and for which I had to write my programs on a deck of punched cards...

I had computers that sat on my desk but to save your program you had to punch out a paper tape. You loaded the compiler/editor from paper tape too.

I haven't gotten that friend request either. Sigh.

One of the 1st jobs I tried out for as a teen was punching punch cards to be fed into some kind of calculating system. We will not actually demean the term "computer" by calling it that, but I didn't get the job because my 1st stack of punched cards wasn't perfect, i.e. all the little holes on one of them didn't line up.



At one job long ago, I was the person in charge of a computer system, a real computer by then, that had a memory that disappeared if the machine was unplugged. Everybody had their resume on this machine, as the company was going out of business. (This was in line with the future of computers as we now know them; not to actually compute anything, but to store text.) Part of my job was guarding the plug from mishaps.


At another long-term job, the 1st computer system we used, software & hardware was by Digital.


And I am a C programmer. Anybody want a C programmer?


Do I not qualify as a nerd?


Facebook is not only evil but extremely poorly organized, & as you know their privacy settings (a) don't work & (b) mean nothing. I am on it though, for various reasons I shouldn't go into here.

ghostjmf wrote:I haven't gotten that friend request either. Sigh.

Are you sure? I sent one to you at 5:30.

MarleysGh0st wrote:

littlebeast13 wrote:Oh Marley..... how could you succumb to the dark side.....?

Well, you've built your evilsquirrelsnest to attract a whole new crowd of friends, but I've been sitting here on a dying Bored with my dying dreams of ever getting on WWTBAM. So, yes, I surrendered.

Since you're one of the few who has an interest in appearing on the show I do have a tidbit of unusual information... a friend here in LA was called in last week by a contestant coordinator working for WWTBAM to go in and do a run-through for the show. It was held at the ABC studios. They were paid to play the game (not a whole lot) and were given bonus money if they advanced during gameplay. And due to non-disclosure forms that were signed, I have no idea if it was for tweaking the game or interviewing possible new hosts. Let the speculations begin...