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(Scott Adams)
...no,...not "that" Scott Adams !!
About Me.....
My name is Scott Adams, I live in the St Louis
area,where I was born,and grew up. I'm not the Scott Adams who draws Dilbert
in the funnypapers,sorry to say! I'm single,and have a cat,but that's as
close as it gets! I'm a remodeling contractor by trade.
Hobbies and Interests
My interests are many and varied. They include;
Computers(duh!), Internet (duh! again!), I raced motorcycles offroad for
many years,but got too old to keep up with the kids who race now!! I'm
an advanced woodworker (Norm Abrahms Wannabe!) I build furniture and custom
cabinets mostly.
Purpose of This Page?
To have fun with My computer,and to somehow try
and justify all the disposable income I have pissed away on this latest
of My expensive hobbies! Also,to be a source for other websurfers to find
Internet software that will make life on the Net a little easier,and more
fun. You may e-mail Me for help if You can't find exactly what You need
at the sites below,.....or just to say "Hello"!
These are a few of My Sources
Top Ten Reasons to turn Your computer OFF!
Do you need to get a life? Find out:
Top ten signs you should spend time away from
computers:
10. Your blood pressure is 640 over 480.
9. You can replace a motherboard and hard drive
in 18 minutes,but it takes you 3 hours to change a flat tire.
8. You can't remember the last time you went
out with your buddies and got seriously defragged.
7. You turn down dates because you have to clean
your Windows directory tonight.
6. As your significant other is walking out on
you, you plead "Can't we just do a clean boot?"
5. You spend more time searching for,and downloading
new software than you do using what you already have!
4. Your life has lost its meaning since Intel
and Microsoft announced Plug and Play.
3. 900 numbers? Never touch 'em. But you've racked
up $2,500 in IRC Chat connect-time bills this year.
2. The Microsoft Natural Keyboard seems like
a pretty neat idea.
1. You got more than half the jokes in this list.
Comments about this list (and suggestions for
future lists) to:
mattl@cnet.com
"He" made me do it!!!
Top 10 signs you may be addicted
to IRC.
10. Your service provider calls *you* for tech
support.
9. Someone at work tells you a joke, and you
say "LOL!"
8. You visably drool when you hear someone mention
"cable modems"....!
7. You plan to install a 2.1 gigabyte Hard Drive...so
you don't have to delete channel logs so often !!
6. You watch T.V. with closed captioning turned
on.
5. Your friend Tom tells you something sad on
the phone and you say "Awwww, me hugs Tom."
4. You've called out someone else's nick while
making love to your husband.
3. You keep begging your friends to get an internet
account so "we can hang out."
2. Three words: carpal tunnel syndrome.
1. You laughed at this list.
You might be addicted to irc if....
...you want to meet a girl and your first impulse
is to turn on your computer.
...you once devoted a weekend to "working
on your popups."
...when you join #callahans everyone types "Norm!"(for
Norm Taylor.....a shameless Mac user..!!)
...you're a heterosexual male, but one time you
used a feminine nick "just to mess with the horny net geeks."
...the words "takeover," "nick
collide," and "flood" make your heart beat faster and your
hands a little shakey.
...you make it a point to change your ping reply
and quit message daily.
...you have over 20 megs of .wav files in your
Mirc directory.
...you have to get a second phone line just so
you can call Domino's.
...your child ignores your request and you wonder
if she is lagged.
...you have ever wondered if there is a #irc-anon.
...you have an irc web page.
...you've ever logged on to dalnet.
...when someone on the channel asks if anyone
knows some good servers, everyone else types your nick.
...you spend countless hours trying to choose
Mirc or Pirch as your default IRC Client.....until the next upgrade...and
then you have to choose again...!!!
...you've ever typed "drinking on irc is
better than drinking alone."
...you have a vanity car tag with your nick on
it.
...you've been lagged so bad that you've switched
servers so much you can see you nick on the channel list 3 times.
...you no longer type with proper punctuation,
capitalization, or complete sentences..and You have begun to think to yourself
in IRC shorthand as well.....!!
...you dont know your boyfriend/girlfriend's
first name
...your boyfriend/girlfriend in RL gets on IRC
coz its the only way to reach you
...you find yourself wishing that that bitch
on your block were on irc so you could flood her
...you feel a need to talk in all caps to certain
people in RL
...the JehovA's Witnesses knock on the door,
and all you can think of doing is flood them with PINGs.
...You call up your friend Nick, and /invite
$nick to #watch_TV
...You offer the babysitter OPS when you go out
for the night
...You refer to rush hour traffic as LAGGED...
or to avoid traffic, you tell your passenger you need to quit for a second
to switch servers
...The word I is now replaced in your vocabulary
with /me.
...You raise your hand in class, and say "BRB"
...You have more than 3 private MSG windows going
simultaneously
...You won't subscribe to a certain internet
provider because they don't offer unlimited time per month
...Instead of taking a disk home from work, you
set up your BOT to serve it to you later that night
...You no longer have to stop and explain to
your friends what "RE ALL" means
...You begin to say hehehehehehehehe instead
of laughing
..You don't sleep at night because you stay up
late thinking of a new NICK
If YOU answer yes to more than, say, four or
five of those things , you should think about going to The World Headquarters
of Netaholic Annonymous. They understand, and they care. Help is out there.
YOU CAN STILL HAVE A LIFE!!!
If you answered no to everything, then perhaps
you should look into some irc related links, so that you too can lose whatever
resemblance of a real life you may have left.