StarDestroyer.Net will turn 10 years old on July 2, 2012
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Re: StarDestroyer.Net will turn 10 years old on July 2, 2012
When the board started up, I was 22 and making my way through my final year as a Computer Engineering student. I lived with my parents (it saved money,) I drove an '85 station wagon (it was a high school graduation gift,) and I taught introductory C++ to make money. I'd been a small part of "the scene," having joined ASVS a couple years before, but in my aversion to being first to finish anything (a habit picked up from taking college quizzes, where being finished first either meant someone really got the material, or was just about guaranteed to fail the quiz utterly and completely. I fell into the latter camp far more often than the I did the former,) meant that I wouldn't actually join the board for another twenty-seven days after its creation.
Ten years later . . . I'm 32. I've graduated college (in December of 2002,) gotten cashiered from three jobs (the C++ TA thing ended with graduation. My first post-college job was as a consultant to a medical devices firm. The contract lasted seven months. The company is no longer even around. My second job was as an engineer for a well-known American defense contractor, which ended with me being 'downsized.' I got better . . . at another well-known American defense contractor.) I've moved twice (out of my parents' to a place in the big city, and then to a different state entirely.) I drove my first car into the ground and traded it in for a 2004 station wagon (I like station wagons.) I've picked up hobbies, and learned that hobbies are kinda expensive. I've stood on both coasts of the United States. I've been domesticated by cats. I've tried my hand at backyard poultry farming (eighteen months from ducklings to . . . is there any fucking animal around here that doesn't enjoy the tender flesh of ducks?) I'm heavier and grayer and I've got less hair than I did ten years ago. I'm less of an idiot now than I was ten years ago (seriously, I looked through the first ten pages of my posting history as research for my reply to this thread. I made more than a few posts that I, now, feel to be quite cringe-worthy. Then again, I also make 1/20th the number of posts per unit of time that I did ten years ago ... though I'm not saying that's why my signal-to-noise ratio has increased with time.)
And I'm not going to even guess where I might be ten years hence.
Ten years later . . . I'm 32. I've graduated college (in December of 2002,) gotten cashiered from three jobs (the C++ TA thing ended with graduation. My first post-college job was as a consultant to a medical devices firm. The contract lasted seven months. The company is no longer even around. My second job was as an engineer for a well-known American defense contractor, which ended with me being 'downsized.' I got better . . . at another well-known American defense contractor.) I've moved twice (out of my parents' to a place in the big city, and then to a different state entirely.) I drove my first car into the ground and traded it in for a 2004 station wagon (I like station wagons.) I've picked up hobbies, and learned that hobbies are kinda expensive. I've stood on both coasts of the United States. I've been domesticated by cats. I've tried my hand at backyard poultry farming (eighteen months from ducklings to . . . is there any fucking animal around here that doesn't enjoy the tender flesh of ducks?) I'm heavier and grayer and I've got less hair than I did ten years ago. I'm less of an idiot now than I was ten years ago (seriously, I looked through the first ten pages of my posting history as research for my reply to this thread. I made more than a few posts that I, now, feel to be quite cringe-worthy. Then again, I also make 1/20th the number of posts per unit of time that I did ten years ago ... though I'm not saying that's why my signal-to-noise ratio has increased with time.)
And I'm not going to even guess where I might be ten years hence.
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Re: StarDestroyer.Net will turn 10 years old on July 2, 2012
Ten years ago, I was 12, I found this website shortly before AOTC and forgot all about it.
A few days after that, I signed up once I discovered a shiny link saying "forums".
From there, heck, it's been one crazy pace.
[*]Met some seriously awesome people.
[*]Some of whom ended up as my roommates.
[*]Others I visited all over the world, including the U.S, Finland, Switzerland.
[*]Learned far too much about computers, giving me my current job.
[*]Read far too much philosophy from this place.
The last 3 years have been spent mostly lurking, but maybe that will change as my life slows down from it's current crazy pace.
A few days after that, I signed up once I discovered a shiny link saying "forums".
From there, heck, it's been one crazy pace.
[*]Met some seriously awesome people.
[*]Some of whom ended up as my roommates.
[*]Others I visited all over the world, including the U.S, Finland, Switzerland.
[*]Learned far too much about computers, giving me my current job.
[*]Read far too much philosophy from this place.
The last 3 years have been spent mostly lurking, but maybe that will change as my life slows down from it's current crazy pace.
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Re: StarDestroyer.Net will turn 10 years old on July 2, 2012
Yikes, 10 years! I waited a couple of weeks to join the board because I wasn't convinced people would migrate over from ASVS. In July of 2002, I was about to turn 20, my parents had just split up, I had clinical depression (not because of that, although I'm sure it didn't help), an undiagnosed gluten intolerance that caused the depression and prevented me from exercising due to muscle inflammation, I was a virgin with absolutely no clue how to pick up on even the most blaring signals from women, and I was about to start a semester where I would drop all of my classes and seriously consider dropping out of college.
In the time since, I graduated college, got fired from a menial job on the first day, worked for a year as a substitute teacher, lived unemployed on two separate stints with my mom and stepdad (raging alcoholic and secret smoker who didn't appreciate having a witness home all day), moved to San Francisco, bought a condo, got my stockbroker's license, and met my ex-girlfriend. I fell madly, deeply, head-over-heels in love, and she said she wanted to get married and have my babies and then 10 months later abruptly lost all interest but still insisted we keep in touch and dragged me along for two and a half more miserable years of hoping she would reconsider while she fucked half of Marin County (although to be fair, I wasn't exactly celibate). With my sense of self-worth, esteem, confidence, and ability to trust completely shattered, I came within a hair's breadth of becoming a full-blown alcoholic and getting fired. As if that wasn't enough, the social circle of close friends that I had relied on for support fractured due to a bad breakup.
Now I am about to turn 30 next month, and am about 6 months into the process of repairing my standing (and pay) in the office, and planning the next moves on how to finally live up to my potential by making a move toward an intellectually-fulfilling career, getting into athletic shape through bicycle track racing and / or boxing, and finishing at least one of the many creative projects I've planned or started to have something concrete to show people. Things may be difficult right now, but I'm back on an upward trajectory, and doing worlds better than 10 years ago. When I think back to that utterly dysfunctional person that I was and how far I've come, it makes me realize that things aren't as bad as I thought and gives me more hope for the future.
Thanks for prompting a trip down memory lane, Mike.
In the time since, I graduated college, got fired from a menial job on the first day, worked for a year as a substitute teacher, lived unemployed on two separate stints with my mom and stepdad (raging alcoholic and secret smoker who didn't appreciate having a witness home all day), moved to San Francisco, bought a condo, got my stockbroker's license, and met my ex-girlfriend. I fell madly, deeply, head-over-heels in love, and she said she wanted to get married and have my babies and then 10 months later abruptly lost all interest but still insisted we keep in touch and dragged me along for two and a half more miserable years of hoping she would reconsider while she fucked half of Marin County (although to be fair, I wasn't exactly celibate). With my sense of self-worth, esteem, confidence, and ability to trust completely shattered, I came within a hair's breadth of becoming a full-blown alcoholic and getting fired. As if that wasn't enough, the social circle of close friends that I had relied on for support fractured due to a bad breakup.
Now I am about to turn 30 next month, and am about 6 months into the process of repairing my standing (and pay) in the office, and planning the next moves on how to finally live up to my potential by making a move toward an intellectually-fulfilling career, getting into athletic shape through bicycle track racing and / or boxing, and finishing at least one of the many creative projects I've planned or started to have something concrete to show people. Things may be difficult right now, but I'm back on an upward trajectory, and doing worlds better than 10 years ago. When I think back to that utterly dysfunctional person that I was and how far I've come, it makes me realize that things aren't as bad as I thought and gives me more hope for the future.
Thanks for prompting a trip down memory lane, Mike.
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Re: StarDestroyer.Net will turn 10 years old on July 2, 2012
10 years ago.
I was living in Brooklyn still when I first joined this website and was in high school.
Since then I've:
Moved to Jersey
Got a Drivers License
Graduated High School
Had my First Kiss
Lost my Virginity
Graduated from University
Bought a Car
Learned how to effectively hook up with girls from clubs.
Got started on my career
Started attending Grad school part time
Been a wild ride.
As for how the world changed, not too much. 2002 was already after the events of 9/11 2001 and the dot com bubble bursting so we were already well on our downward spiral economically and politically. I did notice that this board was more politically conservative back then even with liberal members (but the democrats were more politically conservative with the vast majority supporting the invasion of Iraq and such back then).
Socio-technological media-wise (I just made that term up), I saw the rise of:
AIM (America Online Instant Messenger)
Which was replaced with
Myspace
Which was replaced with
Facebook
Other soci-technological media stuff:
I saw Google saving free e-mail service towards the end of highschool by offering 1 gigabyte e-mail space which was unheard of at the time and the market actually seemed to be trending away from by offering less and less space on free email service.
Another thing was picture hosting became a lot easier through various websites and then myspace and facebook. This was followed by video hosting becoming easier with the coming of youtube. Before youtube getting videos on the internet for everyone to see was pretty hard unless you had your own web space. Even picture hosting was pretty hard.
Technological developments that impacted my life:
Biggest technological impact has been the widespread of cell phones beginning in my early high school years which was then compounded by smart phones gaining traction and momentum in my late college years with the release of the Iphone.
Internet was already widespread by 2002 but it further consolidated and continued shifting away from being just a think that geeks and nerds used for porn.
Flat screen monitors and TVs became more common place in my early college years but I don't feel that was really impactful.
Effects this website had one me:
Turned me from a agnostic to a full blown atheist
Helped develop my critical thinking skills
Turned me into a meaner person on the internet (It used to be I would try to be as nice as possible even when my opponents were cursing up a storm)
I was living in Brooklyn still when I first joined this website and was in high school.
Since then I've:
Moved to Jersey
Got a Drivers License
Graduated High School
Had my First Kiss
Lost my Virginity
Graduated from University
Bought a Car
Learned how to effectively hook up with girls from clubs.
Got started on my career
Started attending Grad school part time
Been a wild ride.
As for how the world changed, not too much. 2002 was already after the events of 9/11 2001 and the dot com bubble bursting so we were already well on our downward spiral economically and politically. I did notice that this board was more politically conservative back then even with liberal members (but the democrats were more politically conservative with the vast majority supporting the invasion of Iraq and such back then).
Socio-technological media-wise (I just made that term up), I saw the rise of:
AIM (America Online Instant Messenger)
Which was replaced with
Myspace
Which was replaced with
Other soci-technological media stuff:
I saw Google saving free e-mail service towards the end of highschool by offering 1 gigabyte e-mail space which was unheard of at the time and the market actually seemed to be trending away from by offering less and less space on free email service.
Another thing was picture hosting became a lot easier through various websites and then myspace and facebook. This was followed by video hosting becoming easier with the coming of youtube. Before youtube getting videos on the internet for everyone to see was pretty hard unless you had your own web space. Even picture hosting was pretty hard.
Technological developments that impacted my life:
Biggest technological impact has been the widespread of cell phones beginning in my early high school years which was then compounded by smart phones gaining traction and momentum in my late college years with the release of the Iphone.
Internet was already widespread by 2002 but it further consolidated and continued shifting away from being just a think that geeks and nerds used for porn.
Flat screen monitors and TVs became more common place in my early college years but I don't feel that was really impactful.
Effects this website had one me:
Turned me from a agnostic to a full blown atheist
Helped develop my critical thinking skills
Turned me into a meaner person on the internet (It used to be I would try to be as nice as possible even when my opponents were cursing up a storm)
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Re: StarDestroyer.Net will turn 10 years old on July 2, 2012
Hmm, ten years is a fairly long time. I'd followed the main site for a couple of years before the board and I registered a week after it had come online.
Ten years ago I was 26 and was in the process of falling behind on my engineering studies, though it took longer before I finally had to quit those. Worked a few temporary jobs, got a vocational degree, worked some more temporary jobs before finding the one I've had ever since (though the exact job description has changed a lot and I do more specialist work now than standard helpdesk).
I've learned a couple of new languages (or the rudiments at least), got a third cat, lost my last grandparent, but other than that, life is more or less rather ordinary. This is not to say that this place hasn't had an impact on me, quite the contrary. I would not be quite the same person had I never found this place, but I was already an adult when I found it so it did not shape me quite the same way it would have had I been in my early teens at the time.
Ten years ago I was 26 and was in the process of falling behind on my engineering studies, though it took longer before I finally had to quit those. Worked a few temporary jobs, got a vocational degree, worked some more temporary jobs before finding the one I've had ever since (though the exact job description has changed a lot and I do more specialist work now than standard helpdesk).
I've learned a couple of new languages (or the rudiments at least), got a third cat, lost my last grandparent, but other than that, life is more or less rather ordinary. This is not to say that this place hasn't had an impact on me, quite the contrary. I would not be quite the same person had I never found this place, but I was already an adult when I found it so it did not shape me quite the same way it would have had I been in my early teens at the time.
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Re: StarDestroyer.Net will turn 10 years old on July 2, 2012
10 years ago, several of our board members were still alive...
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Re: StarDestroyer.Net will turn 10 years old on July 2, 2012
On a more positive note, i am looking forward to the day where we can say "when this board went online, several of our board members weren't yet BORN." - that should be quite possible in another 10 years!
As for myself:
10 years ago i was 15. My mother was still alive and my family not broken (though already fundamentally flawed, in retrospect). I only had one real friend - many people to hang out with, but only one "i'll stick with you trough anything" kind of person. Oh, and i still told myself that i was male and was in deep denial.
Now i am in the process of mentally divorcing myself from my father (because he is doing more harm than good). Instead i have a lot of really good friends, which is definitely a good trade. The most obvious change is that i have now pretty much completed my transition, which is the best thing ever in my life.
As for myself:
10 years ago i was 15. My mother was still alive and my family not broken (though already fundamentally flawed, in retrospect). I only had one real friend - many people to hang out with, but only one "i'll stick with you trough anything" kind of person. Oh, and i still told myself that i was male and was in deep denial.
Now i am in the process of mentally divorcing myself from my father (because he is doing more harm than good). Instead i have a lot of really good friends, which is definitely a good trade. The most obvious change is that i have now pretty much completed my transition, which is the best thing ever in my life.
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Re: StarDestroyer.Net will turn 10 years old on July 2, 2012
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Re: StarDestroyer.Net will turn 10 years old on July 2, 2012
Hmm...ten years ago I was only 8, with the worry-free life one would expect of that. Oh, and my town hadn't been through the worst American tornado in 60 years yet...so thats something!
Now, I'm 18 (nearly 19) and going to college in a couple months. I also know far more than is healthy about SW, Stargate, and ST...though most of that isn't from SDN. I only joined here last year after all...sure feels longer though.
Now, I'm 18 (nearly 19) and going to college in a couple months. I also know far more than is healthy about SW, Stargate, and ST...though most of that isn't from SDN. I only joined here last year after all...sure feels longer though.
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Re: StarDestroyer.Net will turn 10 years old on July 2, 2012
It's not the years, it's the milage.
Re: StarDestroyer.Net will turn 10 years old on July 2, 2012
I was fourteen, getting ready for my sophomore year of high school. Now I'm twenty-four, have a wife and two kids, and I'm getting ready for the third year of my PhD. Wow.
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Re: StarDestroyer.Net will turn 10 years old on July 2, 2012
10 years ago I was 34, had just quit drinking, and was living with my brother outside of Phoenix AZ.
My parents were still alive, and we unknowingly had some of the happiest times together ahead of us.
10 years down the road I find myself indulging in booze maybe once a month, my parents and surviving grandmother are dead, I've lost 5 friends, my brothers and I speak every once in a while, I've seen truly elemental ugliness in human behavior, but the one constant through this decade has been Freckles the Wonderpuppy...she's getting old, but still kicking.
I've never had an especially upbeat way of looking at the world; 10 years has only reinforced that. After Iraq, Abu Graib, Katrina, the recession, and Obama's (only slightly surprising) continuation of Bush's more despicable policies, I'm even more pessimistic.
Some days this past ten years seems like it's gone by in the blink of an eye, and others it seems like a lifetime ago.
Got to say I've aged quite well through it all, and I guess that's something.
My parents were still alive, and we unknowingly had some of the happiest times together ahead of us.
10 years down the road I find myself indulging in booze maybe once a month, my parents and surviving grandmother are dead, I've lost 5 friends, my brothers and I speak every once in a while, I've seen truly elemental ugliness in human behavior, but the one constant through this decade has been Freckles the Wonderpuppy...she's getting old, but still kicking.
I've never had an especially upbeat way of looking at the world; 10 years has only reinforced that. After Iraq, Abu Graib, Katrina, the recession, and Obama's (only slightly surprising) continuation of Bush's more despicable policies, I'm even more pessimistic.
Some days this past ten years seems like it's gone by in the blink of an eye, and others it seems like a lifetime ago.
Got to say I've aged quite well through it all, and I guess that's something.
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Re: StarDestroyer.Net will turn 10 years old on July 2, 2012
Yowza, yowza, yowza. I was.... 16 in 2002 (well, 15 for most of it). By 2002 had gained and lost my first GF, and was living out a bubble-boy existence of blowing off studies, reading the Internet and being a shut-in. I found this forum through a link to the main pages on Gamefaqs. Not much to tell, because I wasn't doing much.
Since then, I've managed to actually become a part of the world, meet people and gain actual perspective on things besides sitting in my room.
I've dealt with the reality of death, first with distant family in 2004, then right up to my father's death last year, which also left me with a nice little possible shadow over my middle-age years. Have I mentioned cancer SUCKS?
My beliefs have gone from "fuck religion because praying feels pointless" to reasoned atheism.
I've learned how fragile the world I live in is and how unguaranteed. The specific instance was Peak Oil, but the idea is far more general. For a sheltered kid who lived in a bubble, that was big.
I started to learn what romantic love was halfway into those 10 years. Still learning with the same girl.
I went through 5 years of military service - enough to bring out my non-conforming side through sheer contrariness. Probably the biggest shaper of my cynical viewpoint.
I've learned that I actually do have ability if I don't fuck off. Shame I'm still used to squandering it. This is like, a two-decade habit.
These ten years have been the start of me actually engaging in the world. Decent start so far.
Since then, I've managed to actually become a part of the world, meet people and gain actual perspective on things besides sitting in my room.
I've dealt with the reality of death, first with distant family in 2004, then right up to my father's death last year, which also left me with a nice little possible shadow over my middle-age years. Have I mentioned cancer SUCKS?
My beliefs have gone from "fuck religion because praying feels pointless" to reasoned atheism.
I've learned how fragile the world I live in is and how unguaranteed. The specific instance was Peak Oil, but the idea is far more general. For a sheltered kid who lived in a bubble, that was big.
I started to learn what romantic love was halfway into those 10 years. Still learning with the same girl.
I went through 5 years of military service - enough to bring out my non-conforming side through sheer contrariness. Probably the biggest shaper of my cynical viewpoint.
I've learned that I actually do have ability if I don't fuck off. Shame I'm still used to squandering it. This is like, a two-decade habit.
These ten years have been the start of me actually engaging in the world. Decent start so far.
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Re: StarDestroyer.Net will turn 10 years old on July 2, 2012
Ten years ago I was 24, and had been driving a taxi for about a month. 7/2/2002 itself was two days before I saw my first major collision encountered by a colleague, when a Yellow Cab t-boned a cop car. Had some crazy adventures, then let the girl I thought I was going to marry talk me into an office job. Got promoted to lower management in short order and made enough money to pay off my student loans, but the culture drove me to drink so I bagged it after a while and went back to driving a taxi (Material Girl left me over it, shocker, but that inspired me to lose 50# and get better at choosing partners so it was a net positive), which is what I'm still doing now.
I wouldn't say that SDN has changed me much, as I am still crap at debate, but it did help me to stop viewing atheism as a necessarily-confrontational position (before which I was telling people I was agnostic), and I enjoy reading it. Thanks, Mike!
I wouldn't say that SDN has changed me much, as I am still crap at debate, but it did help me to stop viewing atheism as a necessarily-confrontational position (before which I was telling people I was agnostic), and I enjoy reading it. Thanks, Mike!
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Re: StarDestroyer.Net will turn 10 years old on July 2, 2012
Wow. Let's see, I was 16, a sophomore in high school. I lurked ASVS just like I lurk here. I remember seeing the beta version of the board, and thinking no one was going to switch over. Then I went away to boy scout camp for a month, and when I come back the real board was up, and 300 people had joined!
Since then I've graduated from high school and university, got (and lost) my first girlfriend (and several since then), moved out on my own, changed careers (about to change a 2nd time), and made friends I'll have for the rest of my life. Reading this board has influenced all that in ways I simply don't have the space here to explain.
EDIT: I'm just gonna leave this here...
Since then I've graduated from high school and university, got (and lost) my first girlfriend (and several since then), moved out on my own, changed careers (about to change a 2nd time), and made friends I'll have for the rest of my life. Reading this board has influenced all that in ways I simply don't have the space here to explain.
EDIT: I'm just gonna leave this here...
ASVS wrote:Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xi...
From: "His Divine Shadow" <dennis.a...@pp.inet.fi>
Newsgroups: alt.startrek.vs.starwars
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Subject: Re: [SD.NET] Serious competition for ASVS
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Date: Wed, 03 Jul 2002 21:00:34 GMT
Organization: Sonera corp Internet services
> Darth Wong is testing his own fully functional web board at
> http://www.stardestroyer.net/phpBB2/ , it does include a startrek vs
> starwars section, and its most likely going to work like ASVS, where
> logic rules above everything, it'll probably have it's trolls and
> uneducated people to tend to, so how many do you think would end up
> leaving ASVS for good?
None
And it was me, me me me who got him to try it out
Yay for me!!!!!
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108th post on Wed Jun 28, 2006 A Whoop!
200th post on Fri Feb 3, 2012 Six months shy of a decade!
108th post on Wed Jun 28, 2006 A Whoop!
200th post on Fri Feb 3, 2012 Six months shy of a decade!
Re: StarDestroyer.Net will turn 10 years old on July 2, 2012
10 years ago.
I was 15 and a sophomore in high school. I was hard core Christian, very Republican and conservative, and looking forward to a career in politics.
- I deconverted from Christianity to something more...agnostic, ironically while attending the Baptist Howard Payne University.
- I completed a Bachelor of Science in Political Science in 3 1/2 years, only to find that the field had no real openings and that I had lost my interest in it.
- I moved to South Korea and taught ESL there for 2 years to satisfy the need to live abroad and do something more than auto maintenance at Jiffy Lube.
- I tried being gay, and that didn't turn out well.
- I moved back to the states after a depressingly lonely time in Korea, but with determination and a plan for success (get a second degree and experience in the technology field).
- I bought a car and own the title.
- I now live in Austin, TX, work for HostGator.com, and I'm working on that second degree in Computer Science.
Not gay, not entirely straight, no real happy relational experiences and no solid prospects, but happier than I've ever been because of how well I've done for myself and how clear the path forward is, and the wonderful friends I've earned and kept.
I was 15 and a sophomore in high school. I was hard core Christian, very Republican and conservative, and looking forward to a career in politics.
- I deconverted from Christianity to something more...agnostic, ironically while attending the Baptist Howard Payne University.
- I completed a Bachelor of Science in Political Science in 3 1/2 years, only to find that the field had no real openings and that I had lost my interest in it.
- I moved to South Korea and taught ESL there for 2 years to satisfy the need to live abroad and do something more than auto maintenance at Jiffy Lube.
- I tried being gay, and that didn't turn out well.
- I moved back to the states after a depressingly lonely time in Korea, but with determination and a plan for success (get a second degree and experience in the technology field).
- I bought a car and own the title.
- I now live in Austin, TX, work for HostGator.com, and I'm working on that second degree in Computer Science.
Not gay, not entirely straight, no real happy relational experiences and no solid prospects, but happier than I've ever been because of how well I've done for myself and how clear the path forward is, and the wonderful friends I've earned and kept.
Re: StarDestroyer.Net will turn 10 years old on July 2, 2012
July 2, 2002, I was 26, a little over a month away from turning 27.
I've been lurking and posting at ASVS since 1997 and I was resistant at first to join, thinking that SDN would never be like ASVS. Oh how wrong I was. It was ASVS 2.0, yet a whole lot more. At least on SDN, the trolls get banned.
I did sign up not long after the board went up but I do not know if my account was ever activated as back then AFAIK, the mods would have to activate each sign up request. I don't remember if I got an email stating my account was activated and pretty much forgot about it until late April of '03 when I realized that ASVS was in its death throes so I signed up again but under a different name (which Dalton graciously changed it to my current username).
2002, I was a sub-contracted delivery driver (I used my 1992 Pontiac Grand Am) for about 7 months with a crappy company. By January of '03 I switched to another delivery company, hoping to make more money but ended up making less. Switched back by March and stuck around until I tried a medical courier company on Oct '04. Despite having an ass for a dispatcher, I enjoyed working there where I made roughly $600 weekly. Had to quit from there on Jan of '08 due to my diminished hearing (I was having really bad time hearing the dispatcher) and a couple of days later worked at yet another courier company but these guys communicated strictly through a text based program. They were good even though the pay was slightly less.
Around Dec of '08 I finally asked out the woman that I had a crush on for about three years (I believe I mentioned something about it in A.R.S.E.) and got turned down. What a depressing day that was. It was made worse when my best friend was there for the rejection (I took a round-about way of asking her out that my best friend thought I was done asking her out and walked over to see the land mine blow...). You can only imagine the look on his face when that happened. It was the worst I've ever felt in a long time. It was like I was drained and left empty. I didn't act out or be emotional or anything like that. I felt lost. Completely and utterly lost. (I've always had a phobia of failure and rejection.) Fortunately, a few days later I received an ICQ message of someone asking to be friends. I added her to my contact list and she is now my wife.
I've also gone through several vehicles (mainly because of the hazards of being a delivery driver), was able to be fairly well paid as a delivery driver and if I wasn't married (or if my wife decided to move to Ottawa instead of me moving to Ohio) I would have been an OC Transpo bus driver and get very well paid with ludicrously padded benefits. Now I work at a plastic molding injection factory as a lowly worker making min wage while waiting for the BVR to get off their asses and do something other than pass my case through three different case workers. My hearing is just about shot so my job prospects are quite limited. My wife and I live with her parents and it truly sucks. The car that I drive now is a piece of crap. Plus I do fear that my health is slowly declining if my mind doesn't go first. Ah, c'est la vie.
I've enjoyed SDN for the past 9 years and while I cannot say it made me a better person, but it helped me be a better debater and writer.
I've been lurking and posting at ASVS since 1997 and I was resistant at first to join, thinking that SDN would never be like ASVS. Oh how wrong I was. It was ASVS 2.0, yet a whole lot more. At least on SDN, the trolls get banned.
I did sign up not long after the board went up but I do not know if my account was ever activated as back then AFAIK, the mods would have to activate each sign up request. I don't remember if I got an email stating my account was activated and pretty much forgot about it until late April of '03 when I realized that ASVS was in its death throes so I signed up again but under a different name (which Dalton graciously changed it to my current username).
2002, I was a sub-contracted delivery driver (I used my 1992 Pontiac Grand Am) for about 7 months with a crappy company. By January of '03 I switched to another delivery company, hoping to make more money but ended up making less. Switched back by March and stuck around until I tried a medical courier company on Oct '04. Despite having an ass for a dispatcher, I enjoyed working there where I made roughly $600 weekly. Had to quit from there on Jan of '08 due to my diminished hearing (I was having really bad time hearing the dispatcher) and a couple of days later worked at yet another courier company but these guys communicated strictly through a text based program. They were good even though the pay was slightly less.
Around Dec of '08 I finally asked out the woman that I had a crush on for about three years (I believe I mentioned something about it in A.R.S.E.) and got turned down. What a depressing day that was. It was made worse when my best friend was there for the rejection (I took a round-about way of asking her out that my best friend thought I was done asking her out and walked over to see the land mine blow...). You can only imagine the look on his face when that happened. It was the worst I've ever felt in a long time. It was like I was drained and left empty. I didn't act out or be emotional or anything like that. I felt lost. Completely and utterly lost. (I've always had a phobia of failure and rejection.) Fortunately, a few days later I received an ICQ message of someone asking to be friends. I added her to my contact list and she is now my wife.
I've also gone through several vehicles (mainly because of the hazards of being a delivery driver), was able to be fairly well paid as a delivery driver and if I wasn't married (or if my wife decided to move to Ottawa instead of me moving to Ohio) I would have been an OC Transpo bus driver and get very well paid with ludicrously padded benefits. Now I work at a plastic molding injection factory as a lowly worker making min wage while waiting for the BVR to get off their asses and do something other than pass my case through three different case workers. My hearing is just about shot so my job prospects are quite limited. My wife and I live with her parents and it truly sucks. The car that I drive now is a piece of crap. Plus I do fear that my health is slowly declining if my mind doesn't go first. Ah, c'est la vie.
I've enjoyed SDN for the past 9 years and while I cannot say it made me a better person, but it helped me be a better debater and writer.
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Re: StarDestroyer.Net will turn 10 years old on July 2, 2012
Well, it happened: the board turns ten years old today. And unlike most of you, I get to stay home because today is a holiday in Canada. HA!
Anyway, I thought it would be neat to show a pictorial view of how much has changed over the last ten years:
The first picture was taken in 2003. Not quite ten years ago, but close. The second picture was taken a few weeks ago. My wife and I are older, and our boys have grown like weeds.
Anyway, I thought it would be neat to show a pictorial view of how much has changed over the last ten years:
The first picture was taken in 2003. Not quite ten years ago, but close. The second picture was taken a few weeks ago. My wife and I are older, and our boys have grown like weeds.
"It's not evil for God to do it. Or for someone to do it at God's command."- Jonathan Boyd on baby-killing
"you guys are fascinated with the use of those "rules of logic" to the extent that you don't really want to discussus anything."- GC
"I do not believe Russian Roulette is a stupid act" - Embracer of Darkness
"Viagra commercials appear to save lives" - tharkûn on US health care.
http://www.stardestroyer.net/Mike/RantMode/Blurbs.html
"you guys are fascinated with the use of those "rules of logic" to the extent that you don't really want to discussus anything."- GC
"I do not believe Russian Roulette is a stupid act" - Embracer of Darkness
"Viagra commercials appear to save lives" - tharkûn on US health care.
http://www.stardestroyer.net/Mike/RantMode/Blurbs.html
Re: StarDestroyer.Net will turn 10 years old on July 2, 2012
Man, you got one of those tethers for your eyeglasses.
That's why you look older
...or maybe it's just the kids. The one on the right is going to be a heartbreaker...
That's why you look older
...or maybe it's just the kids. The one on the right is going to be a heartbreaker...
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It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.
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MILDLY DERANGED PHYSICIST does not mind BREAKING the SOUND BARRIER, because it is INSURED. - Simon_Jester considering the problems of hypersonic flight for Team L.A.M.E.
It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.
- NEIL ARMSTRONG, MISSION COMMANDER, APOLLO 11
Signature dedicated to the greatest achievement of mankind.
MILDLY DERANGED PHYSICIST does not mind BREAKING the SOUND BARRIER, because it is INSURED. - Simon_Jester considering the problems of hypersonic flight for Team L.A.M.E.
Re: StarDestroyer.Net will turn 10 years old on July 2, 2012
i'm so tempted to do an infograph of relative wong heights, and relative wong hair heights...
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Re: StarDestroyer.Net will turn 10 years old on July 2, 2012
Happy Birthday Star Destroyer, Happy Birthday Canada!
(I get to stay home, too - because Monday is one of my usual days off)
(I get to stay home, too - because Monday is one of my usual days off)
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Re: StarDestroyer.Net will turn 10 years old on July 2, 2012
Awesome tie, man
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Re: StarDestroyer.Net will turn 10 years old on July 2, 2012
You guys are pretty :>
Re: StarDestroyer.Net will turn 10 years old on July 2, 2012
See I look at those pictures and 2003 Wong just looks like 2012's brother not an older version.
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Re: StarDestroyer.Net will turn 10 years old on July 2, 2012
Great shot of you, Rebecca and the boys, Mike
I'm also off today, because 70% of the state is without power and State Workers were asked to stay home.
I'm also off today, because 70% of the state is without power and State Workers were asked to stay home.
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Me: Nope, that's why I have you around to tell me.
Nitram: You -are- beautiful. Anyone tries to tell you otherwise kill them.
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