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Re: The 56 Geeks
« Reply #30 on: January 13, 2008, 06:01:35 pm »
Quote from: Golfhaus on January 13, 2008, 04:24:12 pm
2340573, muthafuckas!


But that's 7 digits...
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Re: The 56 Geeks
« Reply #31 on: January 13, 2008, 06:02:36 pm »
Quote from: Golfhaus on January 13, 2008, 04:24:12 pm
2340573, muthafuckas!

But yeah, I haven't installed ICQ on the last three computers I've owned. After a while, the only people who ever messaged me were people from Ghana and the Phillipines. Either men asking for money or women wanting to get married so they could come to America.

I also have a seven-digit ICQ number, 6736790. At least I got a really rad one, though. But I don't use it anymore either.
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Re: The 56 Geeks
« Reply #32 on: January 13, 2008, 10:04:10 pm »
Quote from: AugustWest on January 13, 2008, 06:01:35 pm
But that's 7 digits...

Shit... it was the 7-digit ones that were cool-but-still-common. The 6-digit ones were the ones that at one point were going for $200 on eBay. Fuck that noise.
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Re: The 56 Geeks
« Reply #33 on: January 13, 2008, 10:36:17 pm »
Yeah, well, Pedro and I met in 1994, so if he had his Geek Tectonics theory before he met me (which I'm pretty sure he did), I was still right. 

Also, I had a 7-digit ICQ number, but haven't used it in so long I don't even know how I'd find it again. 

Now the thing seems to be having your real.name@gmail.com. 
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Re: The 56 Geeks
« Reply #34 on: January 13, 2008, 10:40:16 pm »
yeah, what the heck. mine is daniel.(my middle initial fuck you spambots).(my last name fuck you stalkers)@gmail.com, and basically everyone I know has that email formula.
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Re: The 56 Geeks
« Reply #35 on: January 14, 2008, 12:31:40 am »
People still use ICQ?

Good God, I think I stopped using that in exchange for IM in, like, my sophomore year of college.

I just assumed. I guess I do that a lot.
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Re: The 56 Geeks
« Reply #36 on: January 14, 2008, 01:37:26 am »
I still log onto ICQ every day. The only person on my list who is ever online is my housemate.
At least having trillian makes my list look less bare due to msn, but even that's decreasing nowadays.
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Re: The 56 Geeks
« Reply #37 on: January 14, 2008, 03:07:52 am »
Quote from: jldunston on January 13, 2008, 10:36:17 pm
Now the thing seems to be having your real.name@gmail.com. 

I have one of those, almost - but it has no period in it. Is that tacky? Yeah, it must be. It would be just like me to have just managed to screw up getting with the fashion.

That's ones only for work, though. All my others are still more imaginative. So I guess I'm still mainly living in the past.
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Re: The 56 Geeks
« Reply #38 on: January 14, 2008, 03:49:11 am »
Quote from: wombat on January 14, 2008, 03:07:52 am
I have one of those, almost - but it has no period in it. Is that tacky? Yeah, it must be. It would be just like me to have just managed to screw up getting with the fashion.

That's ones only for work, though. All my others are still more imaginative. So I guess I'm still mainly living in the past.

I have one.  It's my main address, but no period.
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Re: The 56 Geeks
« Reply #39 on: January 14, 2008, 04:24:47 am »
I've done all I can to avoid having firstname.lastname
I've settled for surnameinitials because it was a login for work and I got used to it.
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Re: The 56 Geeks
« Reply #40 on: January 14, 2008, 04:27:13 am »
I have jldunston. 

What else would I have? 

My yahoo account is firstname_lastname, as was the style at the time.  I don't know when the period became more stylish than the underscore, but I prefer the underscore because it's easier to see when you write it down for someone. 
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Re: The 56 Geeks
« Reply #41 on: January 14, 2008, 04:44:19 am »
so. I need to decide whether to immediately drop "Linguistic Legacy of the African Slave Trade." On the one hand, it's taught by a guy who is supposed to be pretty great. On the other hand... our textbooks are 3 books that he wrote. This, to me, indicates that he is probably ridiculous. Although, maybe there aren't that many good books on the topic? My good friend is also enrolled, and has already said he's going to drop it. If I drop it, I can either have a really reasonable schedule which won't overwhelm me, or else add a really cool class about African music and its influence. Which a girl I like is in, not that that is a real factor in making educational choices. I am probably going to go to the first class on tuesday and scope it out regardless, but I'm already skeptical due to the whole textbook issue.

I am pretty sure gmail doesn't allow you to have underscores.
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Re: The 56 Geeks
« Reply #42 on: January 14, 2008, 04:44:46 am »
I have a first.Last@gmail.com that is only used for business and super-personal issues and a nickname@gmail.com address that is used for everything else. I originally did gmail because I heard it was good for spam protection, then I learned that google, the company, tracks keywords in your email to tailor ads. As a libertarian this bothers me, but as a realist, I dont think google, the company, is really interested in what I email to people.
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Re: The 56 Geeks
« Reply #43 on: January 14, 2008, 04:59:28 am »
Quote from: theinevitable on January 14, 2008, 04:44:19 am
If I drop it, I can either have a really reasonable schedule which won't overwhelm me, or else add a really cool class about African music and its influence.

Dude, door number one.  Seriously. 

It's college.  Relax. 
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Re: The 56 Geeks
« Reply #44 on: January 14, 2008, 05:25:46 am »
see, but... a really cool class about african music, with a girl I have consistently had a crush on since I met her the first day of school, is like my dream of what college is. Also, you know, it is basically what I like to do in my free time. at the same time, I'm not fooling myself, it could still potentially be a hard class. and I need to drop one class regardless, taking 6 classes is not a good choice.

oh, um, this was supposed to be in Today I'm Gonna.
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