-=> Quoting Damon A. Getsman to Nancy Backus on 16-Mar-2015 21:37 <=-   
     Was: Re: Some good things going on in the land of poverty and confusion   
      
    NB>> I was wondering where other tidbits of info might have been being   
    NB>> strewed...  :)  I wasn't positive it was you in Survnet, as you were   
    NB>> using an alias, but I thought I recognized your style, and your origin   
    NB>> line...  ;)   
      
    DAG> Yeah I used to bother to try to keep the alias and the real name   
    DAG> separate, but that little security thing that had me concerned...    
    DAG> Well I learned as a result of that that bothering to try to keep   
    DAG> those profiles separated was pretty much doomed to failure, so why   
    DAG> bother.  I've learned to not quite be so loose with my flapping   
    DAG> gums now, though. I've been accused of distinctive style before.  ;)   
      
   I've never really seen the point of using the alias... unless one was   
   thinking it would shield some bogus persona...  But then I've almost   
   always been posting in echos where one's real name was important, like   
   genealogy, where the whole point was to connect with real people who   
   might be your distant cousins, working on the same ancestral lines as   
   you are...  ;)   And it's better to say only things you don't mind being   
   remembered, whether in face-to-face or in some electronic media... or   
   even old fashioned snail mail..  :)   Of course, since I'm in an   
   environment where sometimes people are indeed using aliases (some areas   
   more than others), I've also honed some skills in figuring out who was   
   who anyway...  :)   
       
    NB>> If you are interested in cooking or food in general, there's   
    NB>> COOKING and HOME_COOKING... good folks there, with overlap between   
    NB>> the two echos.. There's also MEMORIES, where the chat tends to be   
    NB>> more general, but supposed to be at least generally tilted towards   
    NB>> reminiscing... again, good folks there... and new blood always   
    NB>> welcome...  :)   
      
    DAG> I will actually have to add those *scrawls in the to-do notebook as   
    DAG> the RAM on the computer is swapping badly already*.  I need to find   
    DAG> some recipies that incorporate more veggies that my son will eat   
    DAG> sometime soon here before his growth gets stunted from munching on   
    DAG> nothing but carbs when I'm not looking. The diabeetus could be strong   
    DAG> in this one!  Gotta try to steer him away from that.    
      
   If you do check out the cooking echos (both Fidonet), be sure to stick   
   around for a while to get answers for your questions... I've seen too   
   many dip a toe in and not stay long enough to see that people have   
   answered them... it might take a few days, like other Fido echos... ;)   
   But you can ask for specific types of recipes... and expect that you may   
   well be inundated, so be prepared to capture them for use later... :)   
      
    DAG> A little bit of reminiscing might not be the worst idea, so long as   
    DAG> I stay on the beaten path, too.  *grin*    
      
   The subjects there are quite diverse... from Old Time Radio (OTR) to   
   trains (model and actual), to what things were like when we were growing   
   up, to ham radio, to weather, and back and forth and all around again...   
   some health issues, some small talk... It's like sitting around the old   
   pot-bellied stove on our cracker barrels... ;)  And cooking is like   
   pulling up a chair to the kitchen table to talk about food and cooking   
   and all...  ;)   
      
    NB>> There's also WX_TALK, for talking about all sorts of weather...   
    NB>> tends to be quiet, kinda like here... ;)   
      
    DAG> Oh I'm active there every now and then.  At least I think I am.  If   
    DAG> nothing else I read.  I post bits about solar activity being tied to   
    DAG> weather in one of the echoes, can't remember for sure if it's that   
    DAG> one or not.    
      
   I don't remember seeing you there (certainly not recently)... maybe it   
   was a weather echo for one of the other nets...?  I was only mentioning   
   Fidonet echos... since those are the ones I know the best.  Dovenet I   
   lurked in from time to time in the past, but haven't even done that   
   recently at all... One of the bbses I use regularly happens to have a   
   few nets available, and I've been lurking in the general chat echoes for   
   those, just to get an idea of what they are like, but haven't seen any   
   reason to join in...   
      
   I moved the rest of the message to a new one, as this was getting pretty   
   large...  ;)   
      
   ttyl      neb