Posted on 01/29/2008 9:35:43 AM PST by TenthAmendmentChampion
I wondered how you chose your nickname, or even your tagline. I enjoy reading the wide variety of names and taglines, as well as some home pages. FReepers are very creative, and smart. I've learned a lot here!
I wonder if the animal forums attract the PETA types. They seem to come unhinged easily.
No, actually, many are anti-PETA. It’s just they’re not perfect on all subjects.
Gee. Let me think..
I have laughed at your tagline many times.
Thanks. :)
OH she is so pretty.
Great tagline!
Thanks!
My husband and I began being blessed with grandchildren in May of 1998 and by Nov of 2004 we had nine. We add one more in 06.
So many things in my life ‘happened’ to me before I knew what was happening(I was always reacting, not being proactive), that for once I wanted to decide what my grandchilden would call me. I went to the library, polled my friends, checked with my children’s inlaws to make sure of no duplicates and I finally decided on Grammy. We had to change internet providers shortly after that so I needed an email tag and my last name starts with E so I put down grame. All that research and all i had to do was sign up for an email acct. But the grandkids love it, and so do my kids. It gives the grandmas individual identities.
My company name is three words, and the first two are High Impact.
Actually, mainframes did have disks back then. The removable 1316 disk unit had 6 14” platters with 10 usable surfaces, 200 daqta tracks, a capacity of about 7.25 megabytes, and weighed several pounds.
For use, it was mounted in a 2311 disk drive unit, which in addition to the spindle had 10 heads mounted on a hydraulically driven carriage that moved radially across the surface of the disk. Because the heads were part of the drive but the disks were separate and interchangeable, alignment and positioning of the heads was a very critical process.
It was superceded by the 2316 disk, which had 11 14” platters and 20 surfaces with 200 data tracks, but double the bits per inch on each track, for a capacity of over 29 megabytes. The new drive was called the 2314 or 2319. At first it was available only in an array of 9 units, including one spare. Later versions were available in smaller quantities.
The 1316 and 2316 disk units were quite fragile, and were easily damaged by mishandling. The damage might not be apparent, and became so only when the disk was mounted and started, at which time it would destroy the carriage mounted heads on the drive. I had multiple instances of having to replace the same set of heads on all 9 drive units in a 2314. This took hours because of the critical alignment procedures, which required a stabilization (warmup) period after head replacement before even starting.
Today all disks are sealed units with dedicated internal heads and carriages that never require alignment - the tracks are located and formatted after the heads are married to the platters. And who remembers disk magabytes any more?
I got my nickname because of my great desire to always have new socks to wear.
Graduated as a meteorologist and had my first born two months later.
We used to live in a welfare town and saw generations of families on welfare. We were there long enough to watch kids grow up and end up on welfare just like their parents, and grandparents, and aunts, and uncles, and.....
No effort at all to break the cycle.
Mine is just the combined names of my two pets, a dog and a cat, both now deceased.
My tagline I read in a Prager column. This particular line seemed to sum up the point of the whole thing.
marinamuffy
He deserved to be whipped with that towel for that comment...
Take a guess?
Yup, that is where the best ones are made !!!!!
(most expensive ones too).
Former commuter on Government run railroad known as the Long Island Railroad in the People’s Democratik Republik of New York. Their motto was “Dashing Dan.” Riding their trains, I felt like a doofus; thus the ridiculous name I chose, and never bothered to change.
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