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?
Resistance was futile.
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MarleysGh0st
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Resistance was futile.
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?
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?
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themanintheseersuckersuit
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Re: Resistance was futile.
Suitguy is not bitter.
feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive
The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.
feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive
The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.
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MarleysGh0st
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Re: Resistance was futile.
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.
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.
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christie1111
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silverscreenselect
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Re: Resistance was futile.
Marley's been replaced by a Facebook-pod Marley. There's only a few of us real people left.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?
Check out our website: http://www.silverscreenvideos.com
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Bob78164
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Re: Resistance was futile.
I got the e-mail with that news. I will confess to some surprise. --Bob
"Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear." Thomas Jefferson
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littlebeast13
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Re: Resistance was futile.
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
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christie1111
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Re: Resistance was futile.
He wanted to see more pictures of my quilts.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
"A bed without a quilt is like the sky without stars"
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plasticene
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Re: Resistance was futile.
You don't have to do anything. The collective will seek you out and assimilate you now that you've joined us. 
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tlynn78
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Re: Resistance was futile.
<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...
I was assimilated into Facebook some time ago, but am still holding the line at a smartphone...
When reality requires approval, control replaces truth.
To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead. -Thomas Paine
You can ignore reality, but you can't ignore the consequences of ignoring reality. -Ayn Rand
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities. -Voltaire
To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead. -Thomas Paine
You can ignore reality, but you can't ignore the consequences of ignoring reality. -Ayn Rand
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities. -Voltaire
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Bob Juch
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Re: Resistance was futile.
He'll be okay as long as he doesn't buy an evil iPhone.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
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
Si fractum non sit, noli id reficere.
Teach a child to be polite and courteous in the home and, when he grows up, he'll never be able to drive in New Jersey.
- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
Si fractum non sit, noli id reficere.
Teach a child to be polite and courteous in the home and, when he grows up, he'll never be able to drive in New Jersey.
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Bob78164
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Re: Resistance was futile.
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. --BobBob Juch wrote:He'll be okay as long as he doesn't buy an evil iPhone.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
"Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear." Thomas Jefferson
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christie1111
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Re: Resistance was futile.
Bob78164 wrote: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. --BobBob Juch wrote:He'll be okay as long as he doesn't buy an evil iPhone.littlebeast13 wrote:
Oh Marley..... how could you succumb to the dark side.....?
lb13
Well, a free iPhone doesn't count, right?
"A bed without a quilt is like the sky without stars"
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earendel
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Re: Resistance was futile.
No email received.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?
"Elen sila lumenn omentielvo...A star shines on the hour of our meeting."
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christie1111
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Re: Resistance was futile.
I didn't get an email either but I don't have my EFB acct set up that way.earendel wrote:No email received.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?
"A bed without a quilt is like the sky without stars"
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MarleysGh0st
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Re: Resistance was futile.
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.littlebeast13 wrote:Oh Marley..... how could you succumb to the dark side.....?
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MarleysGh0st
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Re: Resistance was futile.
Oh, no, I'm an old PC man, so I'm not ready to take a bite of the apple!Bob Juch wrote:He'll be okay as long as he doesn't buy an evil iPhone.
I'm leaning towards an Android model.
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MarleysGh0st
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Re: Resistance was futile.
No offense intended.earendel wrote:No email received.
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.
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Bob Juch
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Re: Resistance was futile.
I love my Windows 8 phone from Nokia. It syncs with my PC.MarleysGh0st wrote:Oh, no, I'm an old PC man, so I'm not ready to take a bite of the apple!Bob Juch wrote:He'll be okay as long as he doesn't buy an evil iPhone.
I'm leaning towards an Android model.
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
Si fractum non sit, noli id reficere.
Teach a child to be polite and courteous in the home and, when he grows up, he'll never be able to drive in New Jersey.
- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
Si fractum non sit, noli id reficere.
Teach a child to be polite and courteous in the home and, when he grows up, he'll never be able to drive in New Jersey.
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ten96lt
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Re: Resistance was futile.
Woah woah woah, Facebook?!?! Smartphones?!? Let me sit down a second! 
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MarleysGh0st
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Re: Resistance was futile.
And it's not like I'm a Luddite; I'm a computer nerd!ten96lt wrote:Woah woah woah, Facebook?!?! Smartphones?!? Let me sit down a second!
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...
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Bob Juch
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Re: Resistance was futile.
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.MarleysGh0st wrote:And it's not like I'm a Luddite; I'm a computer nerd!ten96lt wrote:Woah woah woah, Facebook?!?! Smartphones?!? Let me sit down a second!
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 may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
Si fractum non sit, noli id reficere.
Teach a child to be polite and courteous in the home and, when he grows up, he'll never be able to drive in New Jersey.
- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
Si fractum non sit, noli id reficere.
Teach a child to be polite and courteous in the home and, when he grows up, he'll never be able to drive in New Jersey.
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ghostjmf
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Re: Resistance was futile.
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.
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.
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MarleysGh0st
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Re: Resistance was futile.
Are you sure? I sent one to you at 5:30.ghostjmf wrote:I haven't gotten that friend request either. Sigh.
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ulysses5019
- Purveyor of Avatars
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Re: Resistance was futile.
MarleysGh0st wrote: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.littlebeast13 wrote:Oh Marley..... how could you succumb to the dark side.....?
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...
I believe in the usefulness of useless information.