Holy shit look who it is! How the hell are you?

If you want, I will see if I can change your old account password and PM you the new password and then merge the two accounts.

I'm the Support Manager for a growing Managed Services company.  We have 50 offices in 9 states now, and we're in the process of going nationwide.  So it's going well.  Still living in MN, where the company HQ is.  I travel a little bit, mostly to deal with situations that come up from when we acquire other companies.

I haven't heard from Revka for quite a while -- he moved to North Carolina years ago.  He's on Facebook (though I'm not anymore).

Wow, getting 501(c)(3) status is a big deal!  Congratulations!  Good cause, too!

What kind of company are you and the wife running?

Managed services is where it's at nowadays. I remember back in the early 2000s there was a big push towards thin computing and then it suddenly died off once the whole netbook craze hit, followed soon after by the iPhone explosion in which Apple cleverly got people into liking what they had previously shunned away from: cloud computing. Funny how we've come full circle in about 1.5 decades.

I hear you on Facebook... I still have an account and will check up on it, but more so to see what's going on with my friends rather than to proclaim to the world that I've taken another perfect selfie.

My money is on Clinton. She has the electoral map sewn up unless Trump flips some traditional blue states (and that's not out of the question).
Either way, I hope we're both wrong.

thunder3davis 2016. I'm writing him in. Problem solved.

Does anyone have the shitty webcam pictures of him posing with his (fake) Ak-47 lying around? That would really make my day...

Holy shit, it's Rico!

Holy shit, it's Chris!

HOLY SHIT THE GEEKERY!

OMFGLOL!!1

Demo! What's going on?

You ever hear from Revka these days?

...annnnd go!

 

We got about 4 days left to go. I got my money on Trump winning. Are either a good choice? No. Are either one of them going to do the country any good? No.

No matter the outcome of next Tuesday. it's going to be a very. very sad day for us Americans. For those of you geeks reading this from other countries... I apologize ahead of time.

So this has been a long time coming, and the day is here. The walls are finally patched, new grass has been planted and flowers are blooming.

No, not really. Shit broke with the server/forum. We're now on a new server (Read: Group of servers, technically) with the latest version of SMF. I'm going to try to keep the add ons to the bare minimal since they tend to break things, anyway.

I landed a new work at home job back in June and have finally gotten back on my feet from getting acclimated to a new work environment. Though I won't name names, I am glad to be working for the best tech company. (No seriously... Forbes ranked them #1) The benefits and perks it has afforded me are amazing.

Bringing the forums back to life (Again - once before in 2014 then shit hit the fan) made me think about the times in the early 2000s when all of us migrated here from HN. It was a much more simple time. Hell, we even got to mock thunder3davis. - This post by Demo really gives a good recount. Then social media hit and it seemed like the place died off and everyone went their separate ways. Now here we are in 2016 and everyone seems to be fed up with social media. Every other post is about politics, a viral video that you saw 10 days ago because you frequent Reddit, someone posing in the mirror for a selfie for the second time today, or maybe it's just another ad they're trying to cram down your throat... you know... based on your recent search history.

I've done some stupid stuff before in the past on here... Like run ads to try to make a few extra dollars. Now I'm a lot wiser and I  realize that there's something to be said about a place like this. No ads, no bots posting junk, no biased reviews of some weird shampoo shit, just a bunch of geeks checking in throughout the day while at work bickering with each other.

So I'm going to keep it that way. No ads, no BS. 

Hmm.... I seem to have fallen behind on my tech these days when compared to the rest of you.

I have a Motorola Droid 4 with a slide out QWERTY keyboard. Sadly, I think this is the last slide out keyboard I will be able to find because most manufacturers no longer want to produce them because the masses want a touch keyboard. Though, I had a touch keyboard with my old Droid Incredible and it wasn't all that bad after a few days of getting used to it. 

My primary computer is still my desktop computer running Windows 7. I put this build together about three years and it's still going strong. 6-core AMD Phenom II with 4 gigs of RAM. It's plenty for what I do on a day-to-day basis.

I have an Asus Transformer tablet that I use a couple of times a month. I'll admit, I thought when I bought it I was going to get more use out of it than I am currently, but I've since realized that they are more for consuming information that editing information on the web. I'll still use the Kindle app on it to read whenever I get the chance.

A lot of my time as of late has been involved in tinkering with automotive stuff. I've accumulated quite the collection or cars: A BMW M6, an Audi A6, and a Land Rover. I've come to be pretty familiar with all three makes, and I have pretty much any tool you would need to work on any of those cars. I've also had exposure to other makes and models from friends and family members wanting me to help them / do work on their cars.

Dr. House, is that you?

I wonder if CG has dropped his asking price of hackernetwork.com from $5000 like he was asking for several years ago when I checked with him...

$5000! 

I finally remembered one dream:

The earth was being invaded by aliens. They were flying around on motorcycle-like craft and were looking for any humans to kill.

Then I woke up. Seemed like forever though.

Speaking of, I JUST SENT YOU LIKE NINE EMAILS CHRIS WHY HAVEN'T YOU RESPONDED TO ALL OF THEM I SENT THEM 4 MINUTES AGO ALREADY!!!!!!!!1111

Usually I'll get an email, and then if I don't answer it within 2 minutes I will get a call to my desk. Then if I don't answer that, a call to my cell. And the cycle continues until I answer. Unreal.

I need to remind myself to take this quiz when I get home.

Obviously I'm going to get Nebuchadnezzar. Duh.