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I joined somewhere in mid 2010, which means I've been coming to this forum on an almost daily basis for 25% of my lifetime.

I'm about two months away from eight years of continuous activity on Tolkien forums, though not all on the same ones. Next year will see the seventh anniversary of my joining the Old Forum, though I didn't become consistently active until about five months later (still in '09).

halfwise wrote:You came over from Bree at least 5 years ago, though that doesn't seem right by my chronology.

Lessee, I joined the old forum 8 years ago, then I was out for nearly a year and found this one ... wait, only a bit less than 5 years ago?  Was I on the old one two years or did I join it a year later than I thought?

You joined in 2010. It's kind of weird to think back on it, but the old forum only lasted about two years, two months and got to ~17,500 posts before DPD. Here's what the first page of the old memberlist looked like; you'll probably have to open the image in a new tab to the see the whole thing, though (join dates are on the far right).

damn five years ago... i was a totally different person back then.

Zackira is that Amarië?

{{Well going on that I'll have been annoying you all with my crabbit for 7 years come January! 7 years! I'm 7 years older!!!! Bollocks this keeps happening! Its so unfair- I'm Scottish at this rate my times almost up!! }}}

Norc wrote:Zackira is that Amarië?

Nah, I've been Amarië since I joined.

..unless I discover how to travel in time, then perhaps it is me.

Zackira rarely posted after 2009 but she was AFAIK our first Norwegian, edging out Ringdrotten for that title. She never made it to the new forum though ... same as all the other mods from the old forum except for GB, actually. Only a handful of people from the original forum generation stuck around through the slow days before the explosion of activity brought by Odo and myself becoming active. Beren (no relation to Queen Tin) had briefly come back not too long before DPD though, and Durin (or "Deputy Durin" as he was known; GB being the Chief of course) was still sporadically active, so I was disappointed that we never found them again.

https://www.facebook.com/iinature/videos/747766332027864/

{{ I didn't want to start a birthday thread and make a hulabaloo but nor did I want this particular birthday to pass unmarked here- so Happy Birthday Ally- still miss you about the forum! }}}

I was thinking about Ally recently when Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize .
{{Come to think of it we haven't heard much from him either. }}

Well, lets hope life is being kind to her, wherever she is

Ive been reading about the men who formed the SAS, really interesting !

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Stirling

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paddy_Mayne

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-reg-seekings-1091190.html

http://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/enemy-lines/story-14006412-detail/story.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jock_Lewes

https://www.facebook.com/famcitytv/videos/1382828321745295/

http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/the-loch-ness-monsters-cousin-might-have-been-behind-this-wrecked-ww1-u-boat/ar-AAj84PA?li=AAdeCd7&ocid=spartandhp#image=1

This woman is amazing !

https://www.facebook.com/854040654680709/videos/1123750967709675/

They say these things can be done, but, with all the will power in the world I don't think I can aspire to this ! My hat goes off to her

What is it with these "Bendy Wendy's" ?

https://www.facebook.com/WOD.DanceFanPage/videos/972085762845519/

Switched to an iphone a couple months ago. No problems so far, and I'm liking it about equal to or more than android.

Its limitations will annoy you at times: like the lack of a true file system. But it's designed to be a phone, not a computer. I haven't used Android yet, but sometimes you want to poke around like on a computer desktop, and iOS won't give you that. If you have a Mac the connectivity outweighs the drawbacks: I like being able to text message from a real keyboard.

Well, I'm so dumb when it comes to computer stuff that I hadn't even noticed that yet. I was able to successfully load some custom ringtones, which felt like a minor victory. I never felt comfortable trying that with an android because loading files from my MBP was always a real pain in the ass.

I haven't used Siri at all, and I never really used the android equivalent, so I can't comment on that. I'm just not that into voice commands. It always feels awkward talking to phone with no one on the other end. Even when no one is around, it just feels weird.

Some specific things that I have liked so far: Podcasts seem to be a lot easier to manage than on android. The HD voice when talking to other iphone users is eerily clear. My MBP is miraculously limping along, so it's nice that I can sync with itunes wirelessly.

Forumshire has scheduled maintenance while I have an interesting 3.8 earthquake.

Am i the only one that doesn,t own a phone ?

Mrs Figg wrote:Forumshire has scheduled maintenance while I have an interesting 3.8 earthquake.

Did the earth move for you.

I resisted cell phones for years, mainly because at the time they came out I was subjected to undergraduates having constant conversations along the lines of "yeah, um...I'm walking to class now. What are you doing? yeah, me neither."

Once I finally got one, there was no going back.

I find it hard to believe I'm been posting here for more than three years now (for reference I joined TORn around November 2011, and my post count there is barely a third of mine here)...

i feel old.