C3PX said:Sounds like an epidemic! Yeah, it is very easy to find obscure stuff. All these things I dreamed about owning or watching again since I was a kid, and suddenly there they are. Wholes in my comic collection and issues I had never had a chance to read, there they are, nice small compact files, read beautifully on the PC screen (not that I even have time to read comics anymore), many of them impossible to find in the real world unless you dedicate your life to searching for them, and now instead of filling up boxes and boxes, they only feel up a few discs.
err..speaking of obscure stuff... i found the 'beyond westworld' series that we mentioned
in the michael crichton thread, pm me...
I started down that dark path myself, infected by my college friend no doubt. One evening my wife and I were suppose to go out somewhere, and I had just discovered a motherload of somethings I absolutely could not live without. After a period of "Yes dear, I am almost ready, just one more second, I have something I need to take care of", "Hang on, I'm almost finished" "Just give me a few more seconds", "be there in a minute", "hold on, almost there", etc. She finally stopped nagging me, after getting a few more things started I got up and in two seconds I was ready to go out the door. I shouted down the hall way that I was ready to go, but go no response. Finally I went to the bedroom to find her in her pajamas watching TV. Needless to say, we didn't go out that night, and I felt like a total jerk. I thought of my college friend's wife, and how much she complains about how he is always in front of the computer, and decided I didn't want that to become me. The next day (after the things I couldn't live without finished downloading of course ;) I uninstalled my newgroup reader and my torrent program and never looked back... I've been dry for going on 16 months now (okay, not really, I still "sneak a drink" from time to time, but I broke the habbit of DLing just because I could.
ok,
i've stopped downloading the INTERNET now... it's on hold for now, ran out of blank discs.
but my resolution is TO SORT THIS STUFF out before getting more and more.
- now , i only get
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recent show/games/movies... and not just entire series for the sake of getting them...
i hope it will last!
but sometimes i feel like i'm 'wasting' my high-speed connection if i'm not doing something
with it..
i think i'm going to cut back from the super high speed access - to the low one, but the
price difference might not be that much...............hmmmmmmmmmmm...
later
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