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28634. arkymalarky - 6/11/2015 11:55:12 PM how are things with your parents? 28635. wabbit - 6/12/2015 10:15:15 PM Mom is holding her own, we've had a few hospital stays (I stay with her when she goes in), but the last one scared her into paying attention to taking her meds. Dad is ok also, not much company for her, all he wants to do is be waited on while he does crossword puzzles and listens to big band music way too loud. Alas.
Worst is that the siblings have yet to remove the two adult grandchildren. My 25 year old niece and 32 year old nephew are still living off their grandparents, doing nothing to help out around the house and paying none of the bills. Neither they nor their parents seem to care that the grandparents have a limited income. I'm done trying to fix things, the two precious ones (my siblings) have gotten away with this kind of thing all their lives and nothing will change unless my parents say something to them (instead of to me). In fairness, the niece does buy groceries every two weeks or so, and cooks a meal about as often. The nephew is a complete waste of oxygen. I'd like to bitch-slap the lot of them.
However, I remind myself that I am the selfish asshole of the family and get back into my place, from where I serve and bite my tongue. 28636. wabbit - 6/12/2015 10:23:40 PM < /whine >
In other news, the Hokusai exhibit at the MFA is worth seeing. I ran into town today to see the DaVinci drawings before they go away, a very nice little exhibit, and whipped through Hokusai as well. I'll see it again, it is a larger show, theme being "The Great Wave" (of course). The entire "Thirty-six Views of Mt. Fuji" series is up, good to see it all at one time. I believe the MFA was the first museum outside of Japan to hold a solo exhibit of his work and has quite an extensive collection of Japanese artwork, particularly woodcuts. 28637. judithathome - 6/14/2015 6:03:55 AM Hokusai...so envious of you seeing this exhibit! I wonder if it's travelling to Fort Worth...we get some really good ones here.
Did you ever see the DaVinci machine exhibit? Small replicas were made of the machines he drew and exhibited along with the drawings...a few of them were actual size, too, and some were interactive.
This was about 5 years ago... 28638. wabbit - 6/14/2015 4:44:05 PM JaH, I don't think Hokusai is travelling.
I haven't seen the DaVinci Machines exhibit, keep hoping it will get a bit closer to me. I think it was in Baltimore or DC a few years ago and in Rochester NY just a few months ago. It seems to be a "Body Worlds" type exhibit, one that can be exhibited in a few places at the same time, so perhaps I'll see it someday. 28639. judithathome - 6/14/2015 5:46:39 PM You'll LOVE it, I promise!! 28640. wabbit - 6/21/2015 2:05:46 PM Happy Father's Day, Mote dads!
CBS Sunday Morning is on and in the preview of their Father's Day segment, there is a new dad saying, about a new baby, something like you "get to know who they are, and *more importantly* they get to know who I am." LOL! 28641. wabbit - 6/21/2015 2:10:28 PM Enjoy the long day today! 28642. arkymalarky - 6/21/2015 4:00:56 PM Happy Fathers Day!
m.youtube.com/watch?v=ChdyOU4lQjY 28643. judithathome - 6/21/2015 5:55:05 PM That phrase "more importantly" has contributed greatly to my ulcer...every time I hear that, my blood boils and my ulcer just gnaws at my insides! 28644. judithathome - 6/21/2015 5:58:19 PM Where are my manners! Happy Fathers Day to all the Motie dads!
AND the summer solstice! We got a beautiful picture in the mail taken by our glass artist friend of the natural prairie near his house with the sun rising... 28645. bhelpuri - 6/24/2015 7:10:30 AM Nice to see PD show up here after many years, who was an integral part of attracting me to the old Fray. Hope all well, old friend.
I had a very peaceful Father's Day in the onslaught of the Arabian Sea monsoons - we stayed indoors (as per usual at this time of year) and watched two Hayao Miyazaki movies. Best wishes to all Motards. 28646. bhelpuri - 6/24/2015 7:13:56 AM If not exactly the anniversary, I do believe this (2015) is a full 20 years since many of us started interacting obsessively via Yahoo chatrooms (oh the humanity!) and more extensively on The Fray. 28647. arkymalarky - 6/24/2015 1:25:50 PM Hey Bhel!
The Fray was my first foray into online communication and the only one I really enjoyed. We had our 15th gathering this year and I got the idea from lemwalker, but I can't call up any timeline in my mind. The internet was new to my job and nonexistent at home, and if I recall we were one of the early schools to get internet. I ended up getting dial up at home just because of the Fray. That was back before any real graphics of any sort, much less my beloved flash room escape games. I also had the most laid back schedule I think I've ever had in my career. Lots of time to play on the Fray. Dad of course had internet, living in town, and he's the one who suggested I should check out the Fray. It never did really float his boat, but he thought I would like it. I need to look at archives. I know Mose was like 12 or 13 and we had just built our house. She's 30 now. 28648. arkymalarky - 6/24/2015 1:29:12 PM Speaking of, the most beautiful flash escape game ever:
neutralxe.net/esc/elements_play.html
28649. vonKreedon - 6/24/2015 7:09:04 PM The Fray was also my first online discussion experience and is also, along with the founding and first year or so of the Mote, my best such experiences by far.
28650. judithathome - 6/24/2015 8:27:58 PM I agree w/VK; the best of times!
...now I have a forum wherein a lunatic has attacked my privacy in a very disturbing way.
I long for the days when the worst that happened was an insult from CalGal. ;-) 28651. bhelpuri - 6/25/2015 6:01:45 AM Yes, there was a certain liberating, high-minded but anonymous convivality at the Fray (and early Mote) which we can now recognize as the first and perhaps best flush of the Internet's networking possibilities. In retrospect it can also be seen that the energetic naivete we all exhibited was inevitably doomed, that monetization would become the prevailing characteristic of web endeavours, and creepy surveillance sytems would soom pervade. It was a hell of a thrill while that pre-Google dawn lasted, however. I do not find it surprising that many individual posters familiar from that time have become notorious via the web, while others have chosen to disengage entirely. 28652. PsychProf - 6/25/2015 3:22:47 PM The Fray and Random International made my life more interesting. Only the Fray gave me joy. 28653. arkymalarky - 6/25/2015 4:25:16 PM Cal was Rizzo. The disturbed trolls out there are a true concern.
I have great memories and has made some of my best lifelong friends here, even ones I don't see anymore.
A lot of people are in other areas, and the internet has not done much for many people to gain them fame or success through forums. It's just too pervasive now, and far more specified. A general online community by nature becomes more insular, so it is hard to maintain a breadth and depth over time. But it's done a lot to help most of us in many other areas. It has been indispensable in helping me organize on the state and local level for rural education and gave me a lot of perspective that I didn't have before that helped me communicate more effectively in organizing. IOW the impact has been significant, but not direct point A to point B.
The most pleasant group and the most diverse that I know of now is on escape games 24. Some smart, mature, mostly self-moderating people and the focus is totally different, but working together from all over the world to find out where the screwdriver or key is is a pretty cool thing. A lot of the discussion forums out there are just so much more specified now. But they can be pretty fun. I've gotten a lot out of the ones on tech that I need, particularly with regard to android.
And there's so much brilliant shit:
vihart.com
And when I feel like pulling out my weedwhacker I check out what pe's doing.
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