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This was the first board (and still the only one) that I joined other than family history ones. 
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peter
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Hi Timewarden67; Some simple maths tells me you and I are probably of similarish ages and came to the Chrons pretty much together in our teens [unless you are considerably older, but came to the Chrons at a later age]. If the former is the case in all likelyhood we had similar 'perspectives' on the works as they appeared. I read the first Chrons in pretty much one sitting and then hungrily snapped up the second book by book as they appeared. I remember being devastated on sitting down to read The Wounded Land at what had become of the Land in the two or so years since I had read the first Chrons.
God how I loved those books! Welcome on board
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God how I loved those books! Welcome on board
.President of Peace? You fucking idiots!
"I know what America is. America is a thing that you can move very easily. Move it in the right direction. They won't get in the way." (Benjamin Netenyahu 2001.)
....and the glory of the world becomes less than it was....
'Have we not served you well'
'Of course - you know you have.'
'Then let it end.'
We are the Bloodguard
"I know what America is. America is a thing that you can move very easily. Move it in the right direction. They won't get in the way." (Benjamin Netenyahu 2001.)
....and the glory of the world becomes less than it was....
'Have we not served you well'
'Of course - you know you have.'
'Then let it end.'
We are the Bloodguard
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ussusimiel
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Welcome to the Watch, TimeWarden67!
Don't be shy here, join in ongoing threads, resuscitate old ones, start new ones. And when you've had your fill of SRD-related material check out the other stuff we do really well here: General Sci-fi and Fantasy, writing and literature, philosophy and spirituality in The Close, politics and current affairs in the 'Tank, fun and games in Mallory's, Science and Technology in the Loresraat, as well as sports, cooking, music, role-playing, comics and so on.
This is a really great place to come and talk about SRD's work and an even better place to stay and get to know the excellent people that it has drawn together.
Be Welcome and True!
u.
Don't be shy here, join in ongoing threads, resuscitate old ones, start new ones. And when you've had your fill of SRD-related material check out the other stuff we do really well here: General Sci-fi and Fantasy, writing and literature, philosophy and spirituality in The Close, politics and current affairs in the 'Tank, fun and games in Mallory's, Science and Technology in the Loresraat, as well as sports, cooking, music, role-playing, comics and so on.
This is a really great place to come and talk about SRD's work and an even better place to stay and get to know the excellent people that it has drawn together.
Be Welcome and True!
u.
Tho' all the maps of blood and flesh
Are posted on the door,
There's no one who has told us yet
What Boogie Street is for.
Are posted on the door,
There's no one who has told us yet
What Boogie Street is for.
New guy here
Hello people of Kevin's watch. this seems like a really cool forum (the first i've joined... ever) . Looking forward to interacting with you.
I found this place through a result on a search I made on Google about an obscure topic.
I'm from Brazil, and there are not much people here to talk about science fiction and fantasy.
My avatar comes from my interest on IBM computers. I own a T60 ThinkPad laptop, which I'm modifying with parts from other ones that are more or less compatible. In the end, the computer will be anachronistic, having parts from several models. The avatar I use expresses this well: it is the old globe IBM logo discarded in 1947, colored with the colors that IBM used in their laptops that had colored, instead of monochromatic, displays.
My interest on IBM came from reading old science fiction books, and from seeing IBM computers in some local banks when I was young. Now I can afford an IBM computer, ooooh! Those who know the story of the ThinkPad line could be chucking now, but that story is compatible with my state of mind. Yes, I do know this is a Lenovo unit.
I'm from Brazil, and there are not much people here to talk about science fiction and fantasy.
My avatar comes from my interest on IBM computers. I own a T60 ThinkPad laptop, which I'm modifying with parts from other ones that are more or less compatible. In the end, the computer will be anachronistic, having parts from several models. The avatar I use expresses this well: it is the old globe IBM logo discarded in 1947, colored with the colors that IBM used in their laptops that had colored, instead of monochromatic, displays.
My interest on IBM came from reading old science fiction books, and from seeing IBM computers in some local banks when I was young. Now I can afford an IBM computer, ooooh! Those who know the story of the ThinkPad line could be chucking now, but that story is compatible with my state of mind. Yes, I do know this is a Lenovo unit.
Where should I go?
Yes, this avatar is odd, but it portrays my state of mind well.
Yes, this avatar is odd, but it portrays my state of mind well.
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Savor Dam
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Welcome to the Watch, packshaud!
For what it is worth, I am responding from a ThinkPad T430...
What obscure topic led you here? Something to do with SRD? While that is the flywheel that keeps the Watch ticking, we are about so much more than that. Look around and post where you will.
May you thrive here...and contribute.
For what it is worth, I am responding from a ThinkPad T430...
What obscure topic led you here? Something to do with SRD? While that is the flywheel that keeps the Watch ticking, we are about so much more than that. Look around and post where you will.
May you thrive here...and contribute.
Love prevails.
~ Tracie Mckinney-Hammon
Change is not a process for the impatient.
~ Barbara Reinhold
Courage!
~ Dan Rather
~ Tracie Mckinney-Hammon
Change is not a process for the impatient.
~ Barbara Reinhold
Courage!
~ Dan Rather
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wayfriend
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Welcome to the Watch, packshaud.
I worked at IBM for a few years back in the mid eighties. I remember the 4-color 3270 displays with the cast iron keyboards. I worked in Boca Raton, FL. It was an interesting place at an interesting time. They invented something in Boca that was just emerging on the market. They called it the "PC". No one respected it much. Series 1 was the hot stuff.
So, having given you my bonafides ... talk Donaldson!
I worked at IBM for a few years back in the mid eighties. I remember the 4-color 3270 displays with the cast iron keyboards. I worked in Boca Raton, FL. It was an interesting place at an interesting time. They invented something in Boca that was just emerging on the market. They called it the "PC". No one respected it much. Series 1 was the hot stuff.
So, having given you my bonafides ... talk Donaldson!
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Linna Heartbooger
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Neat - welcome, packshaud!packshaud wrote:I found this place through a result on a search I made on Google about an obscure topic.
I'm from Brazil, and there are not much people here to talk about science fiction and fantasy.
And yup, plenty of people over here who like to discuss sci fi and fantasy!
"People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.
They don't take long looks at anything, because they lack the courage.
The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience, and the novel, of course, is a way to have experience."
-Flannery O'Connor
"In spite of much that militates against quietness there are people who still read books. They are the people who keep me going."
-Elisabeth Elliot, Preface, "A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael"
They don't take long looks at anything, because they lack the courage.
The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience, and the novel, of course, is a way to have experience."
-Flannery O'Connor
"In spite of much that militates against quietness there are people who still read books. They are the people who keep me going."
-Elisabeth Elliot, Preface, "A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael"