> > > So I signed up and posted for the first time a couple of days ago, and with no introduction. Feel free to skip -- I'm not much of a fan of bios, myself, but some people like them, so here you go:
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> > I thought about making one of these posts as well, but decided I was too lazy. I've been reading Rinkworks since I was in Jr high...
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> Welcome to you both. It's great to hear from you, and I would encourage you both to put in an appearance in RinkChat sometime. Unlike most Internet chat rooms, this one contains correctly spelled words and, on occasion, faint glimmers of intelligence. Evenings are usually when it is most active.
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> It's funny to hear you say you've been around for "at least ten years." It's funny because it's NOT funny. RinkWorks is, indeed, ten years old, eleven next month. (Pea Soup is only eight years old, but never mind.) But one time I got a very memorable email from someone who said, "I found your site YEARS, and I mean it must have been 10 years ago." At the time I received that email, RinkWorks was only three.
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> So now I see almost the same words, and they're not funny anymore. But it doesn't feel to me like RinkWorks is very much older. My memories of its earliest days still seem much too fresh.

RinkChat for me will be difficult. When I'm at home on my computer in the evenings, I actually need to be more productive than I am at my "real job". When I'm here, I have a bit of time now and then to respond to email, check BBC news or you know, eat with both hands. At home, every second I spend on the computer has to be productive, because I've simply got too many irons in the fire. Well, if irons are websites and the fire is GoLive, and you add in some very impatient clients. I'd very gladly get out of web design completely if I could. Although the idea of an internet chat room containing proper grammar and spelling is a novel concept I shall have to explore sometime...

I quite distinctly remember telling certain friends of mine about this site in my 9th grade shop class (we got in trouble for sneaking over to the computer to read it when we were supposed to be staining our clocks), which I took the second half of the school year. I don't remember how long I'd been reading before that, but I guess it can't have been long, since there was a fair amount of content here when I started. I guess if pea soup is only 8 years old, I must have been carrying that around in high school. Over the years, I've pointed many a geeky friend this way, quoted many different parts of the site (my favorite is "silly Dennis Quaid, it's only mildly absolute zero out") and voted in many polls. I used to listen to the all movie talk podcasts while I was at work late Thursday nights laying out newspapers, though I still haven't finished the last few.

-relish"I've rambled on enough for today"gargler