I'm here for the science. I have been interested in science since I was a toddler. This is just an extension of what my life already was. Outside of here I still have a great life, and enjoy every moment of it. Part of it is that I truly enjoy the intelligent discussions with different folks regardless of their beliefs or status. Heck, I've been building powerful computers for years. I just always strived to build one to respond as fast as I can think, to what ever I tell it to do. My rig does a whole lot more than just crunch numbers. This is just me, and has no negative implications toward anyone.

Steve

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Warning, addicted to SETI crunching!
Crunching as a member of GPU Users Group.
GPUUG Website

OK, i'll explain.

I've been off work for over 2 years now. Had my knee fixed, yet it's not fixed. I sit at home all day with nothing to do. I don't have the money to keep up with the social engagements i once had.

If i was in the relationship i had, when money wasn't an issue, you'd have never heard of me.

To put it simply, if i was happy as i once was, i wouldn't need to express my loneliness here, would i? Circumstances find me here. I find myself in the same boat as Mark. We do what we can.

Evan the Confessor.

I find myself in a different situation. I have a great wife, nice house, and plenty of science books. On these forums, I found a whole nest of very intelligent people, with a huge variety of specialities. I found that being a part of this greatly enhanced what I had before. That's just me.

Steve

I agree with you Steve, nothing wrong with a hobby. I have seen people with stranger and more expensive hobbies. Some of us are real busy with life and use this as an escape.
All I can say to Fayvitt is that I hope your knee gets better and you lose a bit of the bitterness and maybe someone will love you again. I didn't walk for 2 years because of motorcycle wreck yet had a girlfriend and social life just not much money.

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Official Abuser of Boinc Buttons...
And no good credit hound!

My world would, and was, in my past Seti incarnations (1st jan 2000) be a HOBBY, not an obsession. Something that people wouldn't miss my day to day abscence, as apparently happens here.

Getting out of the house, anything but the pre-requisite of Seti@home forums, and a poor relationship, justifies the frequency here of many people.

If they had a domestic life, and/or a personal life, you wouldn't see you here.

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To put it simply Bill Walker, if i had a Mrs that loved me, i wouldn't have the time to be here.

Perhaps those you are referring to, "found a real life".

They left the lonely to their own devices.

So you post here. Too much time kill, not enough love to fill the time.

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OK, i'll explain.

I've been off work for over 2 years now. Had my knee fixed, yet it's not fixed. I sit at home all day with nothing to do. I don't have the money to keep up with the social engagements i once had.

If i was in the relationship i had, when money wasn't an issue, you'd have never heard of me.

To put it simply, if i was happy as i once was, i wouldn't need to express my loneliness here, would i? Circumstances find me here. I find myself in the same boat as Mark. We do what we can.

Evan the Confessor.

I find myself in a different situation. I have a great wife, nice house, and plenty of science books. On these forums, I found a whole nest of very intelligent people, with a huge variety of specialities. I found that being a part of this greatly enhanced what I had before. That's just me.

Steve

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Warning, addicted to SETI crunching!
Crunching as a member of GPU Users Group.
GPUUG Website

Ned replied to a PM from me and said he probably won't be back...due to simply "being tired" of the forums.

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OK, i'll explain.

I've been off work for over 2 years now. Had my knee fixed, yet it's not fixed. I sit at home all day with nothing to do. I don't have the money to keep up with the social engagements i once had.

If i was in the relationship i had, when money wasn't an issue, you'd have never heard of me.

To put it simply, if i was happy as i once was, i wouldn't need to express my loneliness here, would i? Circumstances find me here. I find myself in the same boat as Mark. We do what we can.

Evan the Confessor.

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... there's a real world beyond what's posted here.

Illogical. Does not compute. Please explain.

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Did anyone maybe think that someone got a partner, and would rather spend quality with them, and not have to explain themselves here?

Everyone has a right to privacy, there's a real world beyond what's posted here.

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Sometimes you just get fed up fighting the same old battles over and over again! Particularly if you're the sort of person who can't help responding when a pet subject is mentioned.

I miss them too. I may not always have agreed with what they said but they always made good points and backed them up which made for a good read. When they gave advice it was usually spot on and finally, it's just too bloody quiet around here without them.

Brodo

Ditto
Ned, Ozz, Astro, Mr Gray, Timelord etc come back.
We miss you all

thank you uli best wishes to all and to all please come back ... Byron

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Sometimes you just get fed up fighting the same old battles over and over again! Particularly if you're the sort of person who can't help responding when a pet subject is mentioned.

I miss them too. I may not always have agreed with what they said but they always made good points and backed them up which made for a good read. When they gave advice it was usually spot on and finally, it's just too bloody quiet around here without them.

Brodo

Ditto
Ned, Ozz, Astro, Mr Gray, Timelord etc come back.
We miss you all

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Pluto will always be a planet to me.

Seti Ambassador
Not to late to order an Anni Shirt

Sometimes you just get fed up fighting the same old battles over and over again! Particularly if you're the sort of person who can't help responding when a pet subject is mentioned.

I miss them too. I may not always have agreed with what they said but they always made good points and backed them up which made for a good read. When they gave advice it was usually spot on and finally, it's just too bloody quiet around here without them.

Brodo

Strange, why they are away?
I missed something?

I know - not all members like me, but I'm still here.. :-D

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Miss them both,

Claggy

Me too :(

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Miss them both,

Claggy

Same for $o |>0/|/3 (formerly known as OzzFan).

Gruß,
Gundolf

Seems a shame he isn't here :-(

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"none so blind as those who will not see" (John Heywood 1546)

Don't drink water, that stuff rusts pipes!


You are making Proof out of Logic, by just being dubious! {Bluestar to me)

Yeah, Ned! Get your arse back here, we miss you man.

His alter ego still posts occasionally on the BOINC mailing lists, so he's OK, and his specialist knowledge is not entirely lost to us.

He left because of some of the stupid reactions here on Seti's outages. As far as I can tell he has no intention in coming back, ever.

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