Greetings, fellow Dopers! I have endured my personal purgatory of starting a new job, sitting for another Bar exam, and moving everything I own 600 miles. I guess I’m bloody but unbowed, though the exam in particular is kind of like paying to get kicked in the head. Repeatedly.
*:: Sitting down with a cup of coffee for a chat :: *
So, I hear we were hacked but Jerry saved the day. (Thanks, Jerry!) Any interesting newbies? Anybody gotten banned? Any dirt to dish? Threads worth pointing me to? How’s everybody been? How’s every little thing here at the asylum?
The most controversial banning was Silo. Some speculated that he was the hacker. But nah, wasn’t him. Also, FarmerOak was banned, but you didn’t know him.
Say! Welcome back, old Jode! Putcher feet up. Set a spell.
As for the latest news…ummm…
Lessee. I got a new book (The Control of Nature, by John McPhee). And a new CD (American Guitar, by Pat Donohue). And Mrs. Pluto and I are going on a trip right after Labor Day to Yellowstone Park and Lewis and Clark Caverns.
Oh. You meant about the board. I dunno. Nobody tells me anything. Same old same old I guess.
Jodi! I’ve been wondering where you went off to. There have been like a billion and three legal threads since your disappearance and I kept holding out hope that you’d touch down in one of them and sort the whole mess out.
But instead of helping out perfectly random strangers, you felt it more important to actually study for an insanely impossible exam and further your career? Fine. Whatever.
As you’ve heard, we got hacked last Friday. About a week before that Jerry tuned up the board - it had slowed to the point that many of us couldn’t access it during the day.
Bar exam? Did you move to a new state?
Regards,
beatle
Oh yeah - if you haven’t already, change your password.
There was this one day where someone got an email saying that if he forwarded it to 17 of his friends, Bill Gates would give them all a million dollars. So, everyone who was on the SDMB that day forwarded it around, and we all got a million dollars each. That was a great day. Other than that, not much else has been happening.
No, not that I know of. Just posting my own conclusion about who wasn’t involved. I probably shouldn’t have mentioned it, given the can of worms that can be opened up.
Yea, pretty much same-oh, same-oh, missed ya in a GD 7 page thread and other than the intense sexual experiences we all shared that night, nothing of note
We missed you! And minty green is out of town, so you have to do double-duty on the legal threads for a little while, or at least help Sua pick up the slack.
Well, I did a search on the whole Silo banning thing; can’t say I was sorry to miss that one.
Strainger, I’m going to see if I can’t swing a trip to LA for the DopeFest – I’d love to go. Pluto I love John McPhee – if you get a minute e me with whether or not you think the book’s worth buying. I never took you for the Chandra Levy type, Maeglin – I see you as more of a petite blonde, partial to sling-back Manolos. I’m in Seattle now, Beatle, misusing the resources of a private sector employer to cruise the Board. I think I’m really going to like it here, once I have a chance to catch my breath and look around.
I swear I’m addicted to this place. Going without for eight weeks was suprisingly tough; I keep wondering how everyone was doing and what everyone was talking about. I’m so happy to be back I’d cyber-hug you all, but I’m not that far gone. I mean, we’re not pickin’ out curtains.
Ha. Petite I am indeed, but not blonde. Nor female, alas.
But if I were, I would certainly be a raven-haired amazon.
And I had to look up sling-back Manolos. Good God are those things expensive. I am flattered that you think I am sufficiently classy to wear them without embarrassment.
and other than the intense sexual experiences we all shared that night, nothing of note 
Pluto I love John McPhee – if you get a minute e me with whether or not you think the book’s worth buying. I never took you for the Chandra Levy type, Maeglin – I see you as more of a petite blonde, partial to sling-back Manolos.