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Windows Phone Custom Theme Creator | Downloads | Windows Mobile - http://www.microsoft.com/windows...
Get Microsoft Silverlight
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Windows Update Not Working. - http://support.microsoft.com/kb...
Fix Windows Update error: [Error number: 0x8002802B] The website has encountered a problem and cannot display the page you are trying to view. The options provided below might help you solve the problem.
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Omegle - http://omegle.com/
Omegle is a brand-new service for meeting new friends. When you use Omegle, we pick another user at random and let you have a one-on-one chat with each other. Chats are completely anonymous, although there is nothing to stop you from revealing personal details if you would like.
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[THE] Clocks for TF3D. - xda-developers - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthr...
Transparent clocks for the touch diamond
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XDA Developers - Windows Live - http://cid-3c85687df0c32a4a.sk...
Clocks, wallpapers and splash screen tools
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AnchorFree - http://anchorfree.com/
Anonymous web surfing for sites that are U.S. only
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Cell/Smartphone related topics
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vixy.net : Online FLV Converter : Download online videos direct to PC / iPod / PSP. It's free! - http://vixy.net/
Strips video and/or audio from YouTube links
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Cell/Smartphone related topics
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Trinityhome : Blog - Latest news - http://trinityhome.org/Home...
the project Trinity Rescue Kit, a Linux bootable CD designed to recover/repair dead Windows systems
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Malwarebytes.org - http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam...
Cleaned the Vundo.bz trojan off my son's PC with this. It found stuff that AVG antivirus didn't find or couldn't fix.
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Malwarebytes.org - http://www.malwarebytes.org/
Cleaned the Vundo.bz trojan off my son's PC with this. It found stuff that AVG antivirus didn't find or couldn't fix.
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Art in the Eye of a Needle - Video - http://www.maniacworld.com/art-in-...
This man can't read or write but he can carve out the Statue of Liberty inside the eye of a needle. His sculptures are so small that he even thought he may have accidently inhaled his Alice in Wonderland piece. His life's work was sold to a collector for $20 million. Especially impressive was the Charlie Chaplin sculpture that was balanced on the tip of an eyelash.
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Brea Grant - http://breagrant.com/blog/
The "Speedster" from Heroes
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Top Secret Recipes - Wendy's Chili - http://www.topsecretrecipes.com/reciped...
I've been using this recipe for a few years -- it's awesome.
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Posterous - The place to post everything. Just email us. Dead simple blog by email. - http://posterous.com/
NO SIGNING UP NEEDED!
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The eyeballing game - http://woodgears.ca/eyeball/
Your inaccuracy by category: Parallelogram 2.0 3.2 1.0 Midpoint 1.4 0.0 0.0 Bisect angle 2.1 5.8 8.0 Triangle center 1.4 2.2 5.7 Circle center 1.4 2.2 1.4 Right angle 0.5 0.8 2.6 Convergence 1.4 2.2 1.4 Average error: 2.22 (lower is better)
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7 years ago today my boss alerted me to the horrors. We ran to the shared TV in the conference room, stunned, went home early, scared.
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7 years ago today, I was at early marching band practice. Something felt "off" the whole time. It was quieter out and I hadn't seen a plane all morning. Next class I made it to was German, where we turned on the TV in time to see replays of planes smash into buildings. Then watched them fall, live; something I'll never forget. We went through the rest of the school day quiet and scared.
- Jordan Hofker
I lived in the dorms on Lackland AFB, San Antonio TX. I was off the 10th and the 11th. We were partying on the 10th well into the next morning. When I woke up on the 11th, I turned on the TV and saw the damage to the first building. Then I saw what happened to the second building 'live'. I couldn't believe it! Moments later I was called into work to man the gate in front of the our medical facility. (Used to be Security Forces now I'm Medical Admin)...
- David Cook
My wife and I had just moved across the country and I was at my new office for only the second day. A co-worker came in and said he heard something on the radio about a plane crashing into the WTC. We put on the TV in the conference room. After the first tower fell, I went home early. I don't recall being afraid, but I was certainly very sad, as well as worried for my brother in law and his wife who live in NYC.
- Tim Chemacki
7 years ago today, I was in the U.S. Navy. My family and I were driving from Michigan back to Maryland from leave. We started out after the 2nd plane hit the WTC. The towers collapsed near Toledo and United 93 went down before Cleveland. Pulled over at a rest stop and called my unit. They said to turn around and stay put in MI until things settled down.
- Steve
When I stepped out the door that morning, I was struck how blue the sky was getting and how nice it felt outside. I decided to leave the radio off on the way in. Got to work, logged in... friend comes by and says "A plane crashed in the World Trade Center." My brain immediately conjured a small plane that some how got off course. The internets were clogged and couldn't find anything specific. We pulled the big TV out from a conference room and stood there, stunned. The sky was so blue that day.
- Yolanda
...People were pouring into the gate that were deploying to various places to assist in medical treatment. People were nervous and some were even crying. Up until that day, people coming through the gate had never thanked me for what I do. I must have gotten 100+ thank you's from people comming in. I was in full protective gear and doing 100% vehicle searches. It was intense. Then 2...
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- David Cook
I had meningitis and had a nightmare that was in vivid shades of blue of a skyscraper collapsing and people falling. One of the people were decapitated by a girder while falling and that instantly opened my eyes. A little while later my mom called to tell me that a plane had hit one of the towers and I should turn on the TV
- RAPatton
I was first horrified, shocked and then very angry that those jerks would take innocent passengers on an airplane and drive them into unsuspecting business folks hard at work. Still passionately angry over this
- Susan Beebe
I had worked the night before, and was still in bed. The phone rang, and it was my wife (then of 2 months) telling me that I needed to turn on the TV. All I remember thinking was that, from that day on, every rule that the United States had lived under was going to change.
- Bradley McSpinn
I was on my way to work in downtown Kansas City and turned on the radio. I had to pull over to the side of the road because I started crying. I was a CS Manager at Gateway then. After a few hours we started letting people go home.
- Rev. Dr. W!cKeD Rock
I was waiting for my masters polisci class to start at Emory. A fellow student ran in asking us why we werent watching tv, so we turned on the overhead in the classroom. All I could think about was the fact that my family lived there, and none of the phones could get through. The prof forced us to turn it off and held class like it was a normal day. I have zero recollection of what he said.
- Archangel ωαřмaiden
Interesting that last year I remember posting my story on Jeremiah's blog in the comments. Now the action is on FriendFeed?
- Andrew Cafourek
i found out on an Xml mail list by a guy who could see it all. Was quite surreal. Still is.
- Steven Livingstone-Pérez
from twhirl
My brother called me in panic, he thought I was in NYC since I was travelling back and forth at the time. At first, I understood it was a small commercial aircraft, like the one how hit the Empire State a few decades ago, then I tuned in to CNN... got on the phone with everybody I knew n NYC, just to check they were ok (and probably to share the panic). I really realised what was going on like a week later...
- Fabrice Epelboin
I was working for Crosswalk.com at the time. I set up my laptop in an office with a TV and began relating information to our members in chat. We also organized a prayer vigil. The information was so unreal and a lot of our members had a hard time believing what they were seeing. It was a long day, spent most of it in chat.
- Fred Alberti
Lost some good friends 7 years ago today. Here was one of the best http://gregorytsaucedo.org/
- Mark Congiusta
I was sitting waiting for my Anthropology professor to show up at Framingham State watching the news, when the first plane hit the towers. Students trickled in like zombies, their eyes never leaving the screen, not believing what they were seeing. Next thing we were all being sent home since our school was a "possible target" up on it's high hill. I couldn't get shake the shocked feeling that I'd been on Flight 93 a few months before bound for LA... Still gives me goosebumps...
- Shannon
Seven years ago today, I was in Brisbane, Australia, in my first semester of graduate studies. I heard about the crashes when getting off the train near my apartment at about 11:00 at night. I raced home and stayed up most of the night, watching in horror (including the collapse of the second tower) and making calls home to my family in the US. It took a couple of days to get through to friends in New York City, because all the lines were jammed. Like many others, I'm sure, I just felt completely helpless.
- Bryan Person
7 years ago today I was there. I came out of the subway at Vessy Street just in time to watch the 2nd plane hit, I got hit by flying debris and wound up with a shattered knee cap. For some reason the memory of that is stronger today then any other anniversary of the day. its hard to believe it was 7 years ago
- Drew Stein
7 years ago I showed up early on my NJ consulting gig. We were cut off and working and someone came in and said "What are you doing here? A plane just hit the WTC". We ran next door to find a TV, but ended up back at hotel (client shut down). My co-worker was a new yorker and I am a former New Yorker of 13 years...went to college there...and also worked at WTC for a year. At the time, I...
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- Leigh Duncan-Durst
My 8:30 Com Law class at Syracuse had just been let out. I was walking through the door and an acquaintance who was in the building grabbed my shoulders in panic and told me a plane just crashed into the WTC. The magnitude of it didn't strike me immediately; I remember just walking back home in disbelief that an accident like that could happen. As I walked in to the apt, my roommates...
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- Michaela
I live in Canada, and I was a manager in tech support. I remember one of the techs coming to my office to tell me that he had heard that a plane crashed into one of the towers. I had a small radio in my office, so I turned it on to listen. As the events progressed, our phone queues got very quiet. I don't think I've ever felt so empty.
- Scott
I was on the train home, people on the train's phones were ringing and that's how I found out what had happened, it was surreal!
- Joe Dawson
I had taken off from Washington Dulles to Raleigh, leaving 15 minutes before AA Flight 77. I was in conference in RTP going over SIP UC architecture when cubes outside the room erupted. My girlfriend had lost her parents to an airplane crash in Indonesia in 1997, and all she knew was that I was on a business trip. Phone lines were tied up until late afternoon, I could not get in touch with her until 4PM to let her know I was OK. A horrible, traumatic day for many, many people. We cried together for weeks.
- jcunwired
It was a little after 8:50 and I was walking up to my Office building at Queens College. The library building stood at the highest point of the campus; and, from its sides, one could have a clear view of the manhattan skyline. Someone walked up that I knew and told me that a plane had just crashed into the WTC. Started working and heard that another plane had crashed. The work stopped,...
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- Pratik Patel
It was a little after 8:50 and I was walking up to my Office building at Queens College. The library building stood at the highest point of the campus; and, from its sides, one could have a clear view of the manhattan skyline. Someone walked up that I knew and told me that a plane had just crashed into the WTC. Started working and heard that another plane had crashed. The work stopped,...
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- Pratik Patel
I was working at AT&T in Mesa, AZ. I went downstairs and all the tv's were showing the footage after the first plane hit. I went back upstairs and was telling people that a plane had hit the WTC and how could somebody actually drive a plane into a building that big. Then the second plane hit. That's when all work ceased in the entire building. A little later an announcement came across...
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- Jason Shultz
from twhirl
Life-changing event in small, subtle but significant ways. Example: up until 9/11/01 I used to carry my cellphone in my backpack/briefcase. Didn't have my cellphone on my person when the news of 9/11 hit. Realized how important cell phone communication is (and I also had Nextel push to talk then) but only if the device is with me. From then on, I wear a phone, always.
- Bundini
I was reading the words of the first plane crash but not comprehending the news when my sister called from Germany. She asked if I understood what was going on. Then the second plane crashed and with it a feeling of tremendous sorrow.
- Cassondra Schindler
On 9-11 I was at my fraternity watching the news, saw it on TV. Called off of work and grabbed a couple of friends and ran to the Red Cross and waited in line for 5 hours to give blood.
- Mark Chandler
In Ireland. remember it well. I heard on the radio that a plane had crashed into first TT, maybe 1pm. So I turned on Sky News. We presumed it was tragic accident... at first. I couldn't watch after the Pentagon stuff, I had to go do stuff on computer on account of my nervesm, which are bad. Then my sister shouted out that the 1st tower was falling. I had to go to work: nobody did any...
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- john conroy
My chemistry teacher heard some commotion in the hall, left, and returned and had trouble continuing lecture. Then, the intercom announced the second plane to hit the towers, class stopped and the TV turned on.
- Stolee
7 years ago, my wife and I were living in London, having moved from New York 6 months previously. I worked at home and heard about it when my wife called from her office. I turned on the BBC and saw the Towers fall. I was a consultant then, having worked in both the World Financial Center and 7 World Trade Center for years. I was worried for friends and former colleagues, as well as for...
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- Will Nourse
I had a meeting in Richmond VA and drove down there that morning leaving at 7am and because I drove listening to CDs, had no idea what was going on till I got to my meeting just before 9am. Walking into the lobby, it was one of the most surreal things to see everything happening on TV screens that people had brought out into the hallways. I was supposed to fly that day so I called everyone to say that I was OK and drove back to D.C and was sent on a detour by armed Humvees/soldiers guarding the city.
- Abbas Haider Ali
I watched it with my own eyes. I heard it with my own ears. My senses were buried in it. I left NYC for good 7 months later. It greatly changed my perspective on life and what was important. My story: http://tinyurl.com/5rcmp6
- Liz Polay-Wettengel
I rarely watch television. The morning of 911, <a href="http://www.scripting.com/davenet...">Dave Winer's blog</a> reported the attack. I can't find the original post, but I think it went "Holy shit, a plane just crashed into the World Trade Center." I cut on the TV in time to see the second plane do its damage. The image of crumbling buildings is etched into my memory.
- Jay Cross
I was supposed to be in the WTC for a meeting that morning and got lucky. Wrote this letter about it a week later: http://salimismail.com/...
- Salim Ismail
Thought I would share this too - having flown from Dulles to Raleigh, three of us in the airport rented a car to get back to the DC area. We arrived back at Dulles at about 5PM or so to pick up cars, and I was absolutely stunned at how quiet it was - no people, very few cars, too surreal.
- jcunwired
7 years ago, I was living/working in Nashville. I had a 45 min commute and was listening to the radio, so towards the end I started to hear reports of a plane hitting the WTC. By the time I got to work, I was still only getting a glimpse of the bigger picture b/c it was all still developing and we didn't have a TV at the office and I was having issues getting online. So... I headed to a press check and that's when I first saw TV reports and it became clear this was no accident. Still surreal.
- Nick Ayres
I had just started high school a few weeks before. I went to my second class of the day and almost all of my classmates were talking, but I had not yet heard, and our teacher was not willing to say what she had seen. We got about 5 minutes into class before the principal made an announcement. I had no idea of the scale until I saw the video on CNN - I figured it was another Beechcraft-gone-awry incident. The rest of the day gave a pause to appreciate everything I have, and that has carried on since.
- Kiel
My first class was weight training, where we had the TV on the whole time, but to some ridiculous music channel, not anything related to news. Right at the end of the period, the music abruptly stopped and a special news bulletin mentioned that a small plane had hit the one of the towers. It sounded like a small prop plane. By the time I hit my locker and made it into the next class, the true size and nature of the plane was being disclosed and we continued to watch as the second plane hit.
- Logan Hart
I was walking between marching band and my next class when I heard the news on the radio. I made it to the student union in time to watch the second plane hit, then skipped my next couple of classes as I watched everything unfold and talked to my wife on the phone.
- Jered Hofker
I'd desultorily turned on the local-ish news channel as background noise (I was in upstate NY) during breakfast before heading to class. I watched the first plane and, too shocked to think about changing my plans, turned it off before the second because I had to start walking to university. The things I remember most after that: (1) people texting their families to check in because the...
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- Janine Southard
@feliciaday Stay away from Dreamhost. I've been with them for 11 months and I'll be switching once my contract is over.
Don't like 'em anymore?
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I wish you could comment on bookmarks of other people in your network - http://www.i-wish-you-could-co...
Not a real bookmark... :)
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Download Autostreamer 1.0.33 - http://www.softpedia.com/get...
Creates an XP Slipstream CD - Basically, all it really needs is a source (that being an original Windows CD or a local share) and a Service Pack file - Softpedia
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100 Strangers - http://www.100strangers.com/
A pretty cool project.
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Gametrailers.com - Rock Band 2 - Exclusive E3 2008: Gameplay Reveal HD - http://www.gametrailers.com/player...
Rock Band 2 trailer. Can't wait for it to come out in Sept!
- Luc Gareau
Mmm... nice. I'm glad all the DLC (and instruments) from Rockband is supposed to work in 2. Otherwise, I doubt I'd get it.
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Describe yourself in High School, did you ever expect to be where you are today?
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I was a band geek, very creative, in Jazz, and very social. Got into trouble as a senior, broke a heart, had mine broken in return. I always though I'd be an architect, the internet was barely in the back of my mind, let alone the front.
- Jeremiah Owyang
I was a total geek in high school, and had a very very close circle of a few friends. I still have those friends, and am still pretty geeky, but have found my social side, which has helped me get to where I am.
- Michel Savoie
Quiet, not very sociable. Was never with the "in crowd". Somewhat of a geek, but more of a pre-computer era geek. Had plans to be a naval architect because my Dad was one, but that never panned out. Now I'm a Software QA Specialist for a global high-tech software corporation. Never would have predicted where I am today.
- Scott
I was a major geek. Do you remember that guy who got called to the principal's office to reset his digital watch every time DST began or ended? That was me. I could solve a Rubik's cube in just under a minute. And I played offensive guard on the football team. I always knew I'd be doing computer stuff, but I had no idea where it would take me. Didn't even hear about the internet until my first Unix class in college.
- ha3rvey (Ho)^3
I was a total band geek (trumpet) as well. Sr. year, Youth Orchestra, Symphonic Band, Concert Band, Jazz Band and music theory. My favorite part (still) is improvisation. However, tech is my other passion and that's the direction I went.
- Ben Thomas
Class clown. Wanted to be Stephen King. Turned out to be a rodent who writes.
- Sprague D
Can't describe myself in H.S. - I was too complex then. Yes, in some ways and No in others. I expected not to have to stay in the box I kept get putting in by my adolescent peers - and that came true. But the rest of my life is and has always been an unpredictable adventure.
- Lucretia Pruitt
Trumpet player and band geek champion. Artsy fartsy and theater dweeb. Always drawing on my notes and folders rather than paying attention in class. Didn't much care for the majority of my classmates but was lucky enough to be left alone by the bullies and jocks. Had no idea what I wanted to do in life but always trusted my gut and listened to my heart. Don't think I ever expected to be...
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- David Murray
Lots of trumpet players, me Trombone, low brass section leader
- Jeremiah Owyang
When I look back at high school, I can't believe how eccentric I already was. Sure, a lot of it was typical teenage posing but some of it was astonishingly strange even then. I had always expected to pretty much be where I am now although I expected it to have happened sooner. The only thing I've not yet done is to have become a published author. It's been my lifelong dream since first grade that's constantly been the victim relegated by transient hobbies and computer programming. Need to get back on track.
- Akiva Moskovitz
I was fat but somehow one of the "popular" crowd, though I never felt like I belonged there...or anywhere. I was nicknamed Encyclopedia or Britannica. I was good at making people laugh, and used that as my primary survival skill. I had a horrendous home life, and always was desperate to escape. I hoped that I'd travel and live in other worlds, maybe even expected to. I am always amazed and glad that that's exactly what I am doing. Every day, I am astonished to be where I am. Very blessed.
- Jackie Danicki
I was a computer geek then and I still am now :-)
- Jason Herald
Thanks Jackie, you're with friends now.
- Jeremiah Owyang
I was Gravy Dave, started an underground newspaper, led student strikes, smoked a lot of reefer and did lots of other drugs. Participated in student govt, ran for class president (lost), held a big rock concert, dropped out, went back, managed to get a bit of education in all that. It was a funny time, late 60s early 70s, that's actually the kind of stuff people were doing then, if you can believe it. Had my own apartment too. Got in a lot of trouble and made a bunch. I was one of the in crowd an a-lister.
- Dave Winer
In High School I was a Band nerd, Dungeons and Dragons nerd and generally shunned by nearly everyone. I was fortunate enough to have a few close friends, but high school was mostly a nightmare. I didn't really begin to become the person I am today until I decided in college that it was high time to have a girl friend and start a grown-up life. Back in high school I never would have thought I'd be a programmer today living in a nice house with a pool married to a beautiful nerdy woman.
- Chrimmus Tad
I was a total theater geek and bookish nerd ... and while career-wise the place I am now bears no resemblance to anything I'd imagined, from what I've been told by folks who've known me since I was a mere pup, I'm not all that different. Once a geeky-nerd ... always a geeky-nerd, I think ... and proud of it too!
- Cathy Brooks
I was very much a NON-techie and never imagined that I would someday "grow-up" to recruit technologists. I was pretty active in virtually every imagineable activity in school...played tennis for the school team, part of the weight-lifting team, Student Gov. VP in my Senior year. I had lots of friends and tended to mingle with a fairly eccletic crowd. I entered college, and pretty much replicated what I had accomplished in HS,...VP of SGA, Pres. of my Fraternity, etc. Life turned out good for me.
- Michael
DaveWiner I'm not surprised at all. :)
- Jeremiah Owyang
Jeremiah, the funny thing is if you had told me I'd ever do anytihng with computers I'd have laughed. I really looked down on the kids who hung out in the computer lab at the school (we actually had one, even then). Never in a million years would I have guessed I'd go down that path.
- Dave Winer
Big athlete, smart but only top 20% student in class rank (put in some effort, kid!). Voracious reader, especially SciFi and Fantasy. Thought my career would take me toward sales or banking/business, but it turned out it took me right back to public education.
- BISQ
I probably do need to add that I was the only girl in Computer Club in high school tho - back then, I was a serious anomaly.
- Lucretia Pruitt
I think I'm the same now as I was in high school. I won "best personality" which is to say - I'm nice and can be a bit of a push-over. I just want other people to be happy. I never thought of myself as technical at all. I didn't start getting into tech until I worked at Wired.com. In fact, in high school I never would have thought I'd be into journalism. I got into that at UC Berkeley while majoring in philosophy.
- David Cohn
This one time at Band Camp... Actually I wasn't in the Band, but worse the War Games club. Fortunately, though I was in the nerd section, I hung out with the Football team and got to be in the "in crowd".
- Stephen Terlizzi
@davewiner I'm not sure it has anything to do with computers, just an independent spirit we've come to enjoy from you.
- Jeremiah Owyang
. academics nerd. excelled in English, history, philosophy, was on school newspaper , nights/weekend job at dept store as sales, model & stylist, eclectic fashionista that was outside current HS style. totally not in the right spot. HS was *boring*.. I hung out with friends who were 5-10 years older. went to big univ & didn't follow my dream-- but am now.
- Stevie
In high school I was a nerd. I loved technology and I love literature so it made sense that I would be involved in the Web with my writing. I was in high school in the mid nineties but I was one of the few kids with my own site and it was a poetry/literature site to boot. I never would have guessed that I would be doing plagiarism work, I had always seen myself as a future author, but I knew my future would involve the Web and writing in some way...
- Jonathan Bailey
School always got in the way of my education. I played football and helped establish radio station WJSV-FM
- paul mooney
Kinda disappointing, I don't see any of my friends from high school anymore. I never had a lot of friends, but we kinda split up after graduation.
- ha3rvey (Ho)^3
Moderately accepted, but usually on the outside looking in. Moved around quite a bit back then, so didn't establish serious connections until late HS. Comic book geek, skinny with doofy glasses. Didn't care much for the "popular" crowd (though some were seriously cute) and eagerly awaited graduation and exodus. Did end up meeting my wife in HS and that was good! Thought of being an architect; improved upon that by becoming a Landscape Architect. :-)
- JA Castillo
wow! Jeremiah you wrote my entry too!
- Nathan Eckenrode
Complete geek, stuck the deep south. Played in a local metal band. Got out as soon as I turned 18, never looked back.
- Neal Jansons
I'm commenting since I am still in high school. I'm on our band (includes marching and concert) in addition to jazz band and performed in the pit for Beauty and the Beast last year. I'm friends with the popular and unpopular kids and my best friend is a popular kid. I can (apparently) make people laugh and listen well. To be honest, I don't know what people see in me because I think I'm pretty boring most of the time. Life's a mystery. You just have to roll with it.
- Zach Flauaus
Attended high school for smarty/arty kids (no sports) & then performing arts school for theater. Lots of good friends, parties, etc. Thought I'd be an actress/singer very involved in politics. Not surprised I wound up in film production & now multimedia, but wound up on the corporate side of it by falling ass over teacups and finding I liked where I'd landed. That the corporation has anything to do with IT continues to amuse me on a daily basis as I'm lucky to get my laptop in the 'on' position.
- dfugate
Fat, shy, too smart for my own good with an unlikely group of friends made up of gay kids, straight kids, questioning kids, black kids, white kids, asian kids (and various mixtures of the three). In ROTC, secretly really into ROTC, and a fiendish facility with foreign languages. Was in Spanish Club, Latin Club, on the yearbook and newspaper staffs. Except for the ROTC part (though I still wish I'd gone into the Marines), and the clubs, I'm still pretty much the same.
- cecily
The answers here were fun to read. Not sure about the etiquette for commenting on friendfeed. I just do it when something is interesting even if I don't know the person. So my apologies if doing so is out of line. In high school I was pretty much the same in that regard. Much better at asking forgiveness than permission. The former provides so much opportunity for practice. I fully expected that I would be dead before now, but people are so forgiving!
- Boo
Boo, you're doing it exactly right.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Harvey Simmons, if I'd known you in high school I would've had a huge crush on you. Football player and a geek? Be still my heart.
- cecily
High geek factor, although at the time (1985-1991) not because of computer skills, just the looks ;-) Nothing special during my high school years, better than average student, although I did not have much trouble getting the right grades. Spent all of my high school years playing competitive snooker, so I did not party, practiced and played tournaments each weekend. Did a lot of catching up in later years ;-)
- Marc Dierens
I was expecting to be a bit further down the line, but the path has never changed
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
interesting thread - i split my high school years between hawaii where i played football and tennis for the school and surfed ever swell & upstate new york where i played football & hockey and hung out w/ the physic geeks who were all musicians (i was not) - i had good grades, sat etc... & took classes at local college while still in hs, also hung out in their comp lab - mainframe w/ punch cards - i was an enigma, still am ;)
- mike "glemak" dunn
Hmmm.... high school... I was "different", that's for sure. I wasn't in any clicks, but I was always invertently starting new trends. I never really had any expectations as to where I would be in 20 years, but I didn't expect to have been a world traveler, nor hold down some of the jobs I've had. It's been an interesting ride!
- Dominique
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