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[Neeka] Collectively we are an embedded system in the network, the new land or We couldn...

Neeka — 12/18/2019 12:51:00 AM

Collectively we are an embedded system in the network, the new land
or
We couldn't have known we were prototypes for a new social order

SI took over my entire life for many years.
At some level it is still deeply embedded in who I am.
I still feel the need to be the character that I am, not sure why.
My digital character was developed many years before SI and the Internet.
I used to play ANSI games on BBS systems in the early days.
I would play every local copy I could find of certain BBS games like Tradewars.
I would play these BBS games and create the same trading posts and the same planets in the same grid locations in every copy. Some other local players actually thought these planets and trading posts were part of the background code of the game because Graystone's Garden Planet was always in the same place in every copy I could find and play.
I came to SI through finance.
I did freelance IT work (PC support) for finance firms and knew brokers who were involved with Bre-X.
Many of us remember mikesloan and the role that the Internet and especially SI played in that story.
SI was just the best site for information on gold stocks.
As a well developed digital persona already I was surprised to find kindred digital souls here.
Fully developed and hardened characters.
There were just some incredibly gifted and smart people living the digital life here.

Today I only visit SI occasionally as life leaves little time for anything else.
Perhaps some version of the future has me being able to stop working but I doubt it.
I still love this place and the people here still impress, even those who have opinions that differ from mine.
That we have different opinions only matters if we are here to share that difference.
I know that every last person on SI that disagrees with me (or agrees me with for that matter) has more in common with me than 99.999...% of the planet.

So if I love your stuff, or even if I hate your stuff, it only matters to you or I because we are both still here on SI.

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[Neeka] Gosh just noticed there hasn't been a post here since '14. Si changes over the y...

Neeka — 1/2/2019 6:57:48 PM

Gosh just noticed there hasn't been a post here since '14. Si changes over the yrs with some new people coming on board and some old timers leaving never to be heard from again. Priorities change too, and I actually forgot all about this thread. What some people think are the best of posts others disagree, so I think that might have a lot to do with how quiet it's been around here.

Either that or they're all great, and it's nigh on impossible to pick one out.

I hope you have been well and that life is treating you good.

;)

[Fizz] I have been away for a while. How is the site these days? Anything I should know...

Fizz — 1/2/2019 1:28:12 PM

I have been away for a while. How is the site these days? Anything I should know. :)

[Neeka] This thread as been dead for a long time. And BTW............I just moved it fro...

Neeka — 10/30/2014 10:18:56 PM

This thread as been dead for a long time. And BTW............I just moved it from another thread and can't take credit for the original post.

Sweet pic.....sweet story!

[Fizz] Great story. Thanks. I almost fell out of my chair when I logged in and saw 6 po...

Fizz — 10/30/2014 8:08:05 PM

Great story. Thanks. I almost fell out of my chair when I logged in and saw 6 post to this thread in one day.

[Carolyn] That's for muscles!

Carolyn — 10/29/2014 10:32:31 PM

[Neeka] duh.........of course. (that CoQ 10 I've been taking lately hasn't kicked in. gg...

Neeka — 10/29/2014 9:04:39 PM

duh.........of course. (that CoQ 10 I've been taking lately hasn't kicked in. gg)

[Carolyn] Your link on BuSab to arno's post.

Carolyn — 10/29/2014 6:40:07 PM

[Neeka] How did you find it?

Neeka — 10/29/2014 5:35:53 PM

[Carolyn] I had no idea this thread was here. Thank you!

Carolyn — 10/29/2014 2:27:02 PM

[Neeka] I just had to put this here: Message 29779800

Neeka — 10/29/2014 1:55:50 PM

[Neeka] I had friends years ago who were a couple in their late 60s-70s. Is it possible ...

Neeka — 10/14/2012 12:44:39 AM

I had friends years ago who were a couple in their late 60s-70s. Is it possible that what Dr Wahl found could have helped them? Perhaps, but no one will ever know. Both have been dead since the early 90s. The wife spent her last 15 years going slowly from a robust, active woman who had most of her chores done by 7 a.m. to an immobile victim of MS. She was her husband's at-home patient till the end. One of the habits they had acquired in their marriage was reading to each other. The husband made good money as a summer resort business owner for 5 months of the year. They spent the rest of the year camping from Maine to Florida as the weather suited them. Instead of TV or movies, reading to each other was their main entertainment. In her last years, he did all the reading.

When she died she was unable to move voluntarily or speak an understandable word. Besides seeing what that poor woman went through as she deteriorated and her sorrow at being a burden to her husband, my big takeaway was total admiration for his unflinching devotion to his bride. As it says in 1 Corinthians 13, "Love bears all things." The husband died in '94, within a year after his wife.

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[Neeka] "I'd like to wish a happy birthday to my Marine Dad who turns 97 today. On this ...

Neeka — 8/7/2012 12:35:43 AM

"I'd like to wish a happy birthday to my Marine Dad who turns 97 today. On this day in 1942 he landed on Guadalcanal. Always been the strong, quiet provider for his family during the depression, to his great grand children today. I love you Dad."

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