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Posted on 06/26/2004 8:07:15 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
Here, too! The first programming I ever did was a database for my comics that I wrote in BASIC on my little Sinclair ZX-81 loooong ago...
have accidentally bought a few doubles that way
Heh, at one point I was buying so many comics each month that I would forget which ones I had bought the month before... even though I had read them.
"Here, too! The first programming I ever did was a database for my comics that I wrote in BASIC on my little Sinclair ZX-81 loooong ago..."
LOL! The first time I ever tried to learn to use BASIC for anything was to inventory my comics on my Dad's Commodore PET :) Took forever, too--sure would've been nice to have Excel back then!
"Heh, at one point I was buying so many comics each month that I would forget which ones I had bought the month before... even though I had read them."
I never bought quite that many :) The closest I came to that was after I discovered I could buy for a discount rate through the mail from Westfield, and for a few months I tried collecting every Marvel, plus "New Teen Titans". They raised the prices about then, though, so I cut back again to just mostly Spider-Man and X-Men titles.
Backing away... slowly... I thought I was a geek, but this is just too much...
Looks great! These new customs slips are a bit different, aren't they? Gave me a bit of anxiety at first till I realized I don't have to really add any new info...just more blanks I "don't" have to fill out!
"Backing away... slowly... I thought I was a geek, but this is just too much..."
Hey, I may be a bigger comic-book geek, but as far as SF/fantasy geekiness goes you've got me beat :)
"At one point in the mid-90s, Rose and I were buying 10-15 comics a week (Marvel, DC, indies...) and yes, we kept them all. I'm not sure how many we have (hers, mine, and ours together) but the total must be in the several thousands."
A *week*?!!! Wow. I never got past like 30 a month, and that was only for a few months! Cool--I'm jealous :)
Talking about this is making me feel a need to go to a comic-con. . .You know, in high school I used to be the comic-book "supplier" for the guys in my home ec and math classes. I always had my homework done even before class started, so I'd sneak in comic books (and D&D and LotR) in order to have something to do during class. The teacher either didn't notice or didn't care because I was getting straight A's; but the other guys noticed, and the guy sitting in front of me started borrowing my Conans after he got his homework done. After a while he started saying he needed a daily "Conan fix", LOL! :)
But for me, SF/fantasy is normal. Comic books aren't, so they're weird.
We're all weird. Let's just face it. ;-)
"But for me, SF/fantasy is normal."
Which is perfectly normal, right? :) Seriously, comic books are just illustrated SF/fantasy, IMO.
"Comic books aren't, so they're weird."
Isn't manga weird, then? :)
"We're all weird. Let's just face it. ;-)"
Cartman:
I am not weird! I'm normality-challenged. . .
Talking about this is making me feel a need to go to a comic-con
Boy, haven't been to a comics-related con since we went to the Chicago Comic-Con back in 95 or so... Have been to some SF cons since then, here in Austin and in San Antonio (went to the '97 WorldCon in S.A., that was cool!) but none that were really comics oriented.
Hi all...whats going on?
I'm still waiting to hear from her...I doubt she will follow through on helping me....
Same ole same old! Nothing, and everything happening!
argh!
daughter spending week with grandparents...SHOULD be using time to write...but nooooooooo
how are our favorite newlyweds??? :D
:-)
No kitty, that's ~my~ comic book!
Good afternoon to you, Alkhin!
*sigh*
So...the latest is that after spending the night, Ann said the medicine she had wasn't enough to deal with the cat allergy.
So...she's gonna stay out at the house from now on.
And I KNOW my house is messy and that's probably part of it, and I shoulda allotted more time to cleaning and not just ASSUMED I would be able to do the last bit yesterday evening.
So...at this point her first impression of me is probably that crazy cat woman with the appallingly filthy house.
I just wanna die of embarassment. *pulling hair out*
But I'm gonna go out to the house for dinner anyway. Wish I didn't feel so depressed.
"Heh, we were DINKs (dual-income, no kids) back then, could afford spending money like that. Not now, unfortunately!"
Yeah, when I was collecting that heavy I was still in high school, the money was coming from my paper route, I didn't have any other expenses, and comics were *much* cheaper--60 cents at that time. What are they now?--it's ridiculous!
"Boy, haven't been to a comics-related con since we went to the Chicago Comic-Con back in 95 or so..."
I went to a few of the Chicago Creation cons. Great prices! Plus I went with a friend who was good at haggling, so he'd get the prices down even lower. He'd stop by early in the day and ask a dealer how much he wanted for something. When he heard the price, he'd look disinterested and walk away. He'd come back to the same dealer a few hours later and ask again, at which point the dealer would offer a lower price, and my friend would again walk away. Then finally he'd come back one last time at the end of the day. By this time the dealer had usually dropped the price 50% or more :)
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