Some of my friend's friends got my AIM screen name and now they have warned my name out of use for quite some while. They warned me to 98% for no reason! I got a new one (that they won't hear), but I am still SO MAD! Grrrrr.....

i have no idea what the hell you're talking about.

swine and i used to have warning contests. those were the days.

I'm perplexed. Is anyone else perplexed, or should I just go hide now?

I believe AIM is Aol Instant Messenger, but warnings? Not sure about that.

I don't understand.But am now worried that perhaps I've been "warned",and am to naive to realize it.Poor Crawford was "warned" at a pretty high percent,98,so that only leaves you 2,what happens if you use up your last 2?

Certain death, I would imagine...

Would someone please explain what the hell a "warning" is, in context to AOL IM? ( one of my pet peeves is when an acronym is made using another acroynm.) I just deleted that program from my home computer, my dad put it on and I never used it. I really don't want to spend time in that way.

you can send warnings to somene when they offend you, and when you reach 100%, your aim id gets dissabled.

thats why AOL is obnoxious.....bunch of fucking crybabies

AOL is for people who do not know their keyboard from their ass, in my opinion.

AOL is for people who do not know their keyboard from their ass, in my opinion.

Trace, quick question: how come you've got the exact same post twice, but 7 minutes apart? I'd understand a minute, but 7? Was it on purpose for emphasis? Or net congestion?

NO, actually, I actually was not paying attention to what the hell i was doing

NO, actually, I actually was not paying attention to what the hell i was doing

Just funnin' with ya Trace.

i know...

I used a linux AOL IM clone for a while. It referred showed your warning percent as percent evil. The highest I got was 65% evil, I think.

Damn that's funny. I really ought to convert one of these days...soon.

I used AIM to talk to girls. Not stereotyping or nothing, I know there are lots of female techies, this is just my experience. semi's post reminds me of a dilbert cartoon (not verbatim as the original is lost somewhere): Wally: Hey Dilbert, want to join the TTP project? Dilbert: Maybe, what's it stand for? Wally: It stands for "The TTP Project"

What do you mean you use AIM to talk to girls? I don't get it...can't you talk to girls normally?

oh no, I just meant that that was what the girls I used to know ran, as opposed to ICQ. I also talk to girls normally.

Oh I use ICQ...I must have a gender test done. I don't use AOL cause I hated the way it took over my puter...even my browser...sheeesh.

for some reason, I turn icq on whenever I sign onto the net, but I never use it. I peek at who's there and then decide I don't want to talk to any of them.

I DON'T ICQ. THEY SEEK ME! 'CAUSE THEY WANT TO SUCK!

Wow. Thats quite a statement there little man.

AIM is just fine. I hate icq. No real reason. I just dislike it thoroughly. And Yahoo im crashes waaaay too much. and thus, aim is the most viable option left over. I was warned to i think 90% once. I warned myself to 85 once. couldn't get on for like 2 days.

That's so fascist. There has to be a better way. AOL seems too cookie-cutter, whitebread, NORMAL for me. It scares the bejeezus out of me, if you want to know.

*mutters* facist.

i like icq. I tried Aim but it just didnt do it for me. heh

my goddam left thumb hurts like a piece of shit. i bought a bunch of schubert books today because he didn't write much for the left hand, but chopin and rachmaninoff and ustvolskaya and liszt and barber and ives and pretty much everyone else wrote for 2 hands. i can't even do a 2-1 finger trill in mm. 20, 72, 279, and 305 of the chopin 5th polonaise for more than 1 second before it FUCKING HURTS. it doesn't hurt as bad as it did 2 months ago. time for a goddamn x-ray.

*comf*

I'm practicing Tchaikovsky's "Old French Song" from "Album for the Young" and I can't play mm 17-21 without fucking it up! Does that make you feel any better? :-)

I haven't played piano for years. Ours broke a while ago. And the electric keyboard that I tried to use before to practice for my piano lessons before we got a real piano is too ucky. I think I've actually forgotten how to play with even a semblance of skill, if that makes you feel any better, Mark. And I still can't play violin for shit.

I wish I could play piano. I saw a naked piano player last night. It was a very surreal experience.

I can play jingle bells on the piano. I can also play the first little bit of the Inspector Gadget theme song.

i took about five years of piano lessons. which ended almost exactly five years ago. :sigh: i've been playing flute for eight, but haven't in a month. :sigh again: i wonder if i can still play saxophone. but i still have part of the theme from grieg's piano concerto memorized. and i can play the clarinet, but only by ear.

Pez, go practice flute.

i will, after i get off. thank you for reminding me.