'Appy Birthday, mate

'Twas young laruth's birthday today. She is now old enough to buy alcohol if she ever visits the States.

Of course, since it is currently 10pm in Oz, this is somewhat belated. Hope you had a good day, Ruth.

BBSes

I know I'm old, compared to the norm on LJ, but this was not always the case. When I was in High School back in SoCal, there was an online phenomenon similar to LJ called BBS forums.

We even had get-togethers, although rarely on the scale of the LA LJ Bash. At one gathering, I had printed out the collected conversational threads from the previous several months to share with the crowd as we chowed down on pizza (75% of the gatherings were at pizza places for some reason). Imagine trying to print out even a single day worth of the collected ramblings from this thing. Damn!

Bizarre Spam

Here's a keeper:

Subject: Never Buy Condoms Again

Yeah, I'm not reading that message at all, thanks. Mmm, mailorder rubbers, just what everyone needs.