I came to really, really hate that little discord/piano sound the computer makes when the “504 lost connection to server” message comes up.
I haven’t posted in a few weeks and I didn’t even know it was down.
Surfed through Fathom and my other “faves.” Also -
went shopping, cooked a steak, fed the bird, read, watched Letterman, slept, made coffee, listened to talk radio, did the laundry, cooked chili, fed the bird, cleaned the bathroom, went to the store, read, watched Letterman, slept, made coffee, listened to talk radio, played a video game, fed the bird, had hot dogs (and leftover chili) …
and I actually do have a a bird.
Curled up in a ball in the corner and rocked back and forth, holding my head and muttering… “So… lonely… whimper”
Actually, went on as normal, only spending much less time on the computer and more time reading cheesy romance novels.
I started yelling CITE? CITE?, and Would someone think of the children at my computer everytime I got the “error 401…” message. Then I checked the Unaboard and learnt about the complete shutdown, read the newspaper, saw some videos and read (almost) the entire archives of the Brunching Shuttlecocks page, (which I had done before).
Downloaded an ebook for an old palm pilot someone gave me. Then I downloaded something call CSpotRun and voila - I have a book on the palm that automatically scrolls nicely down the screen and I can read it, hands free! I am sure I am the last person to discover this technology, but I think it is cool. I might actually go out and buy a better palm-type handheld with better screen and download some better books.
Re: SDMB shutdown.
I would log into SDMB a couple times a day…I just thought it was that virus thingie that was slowing things down…
I did research for a project on Russian history between 1850 and 1900. And finished filling out financial aid forms.
I was a bit worried, while working on that project in the school library, that the filters had finally caught the boards after nearly two years of my reading them whilst working on projects, but it was not so. I can continue to read all of the stuff in the Pit even while I can’t load sites about Shakespeare’s Henry V because they’re hosted on college servers. Ah, logic…
In an interesting bit of synchronicity, the water pipes in the State Office building in Cleveland also burst, causing the computers at the Ohio Lottery where I work to be shut down. (OK, it wasn’t synchronicity, the whole Midwest is just frickin’ cold.)
Of course, since the show must go on, I was just forced to use the backup computers in our remote location.
And for some reason, the office Internet filters think the SDMB is a “chatroom” and won’t let me on. (I can get to the Straight Dope front page and articles, but not the SDMB.) So when I got home, and fired up the computer, dagnabbit! No SDMB there either. Bummer.
[joni mitchell]Don’t it always seem to go, you don’t know what you’ve got 'til it’s gone?[/joni mitchell}
I changed all the sounds on my computer. When that error page comes up, my computer says, “YES! YES! OH YES!, etc…” from When Harry Met Sally.
Gets my attention, let me tell ya
I only have about 2 event sounds set on my computer. Critical stop and the error one. Everything else is turned off.
I sat in the corner of my room, didn’t change for a week and cried quietly to myself. I’m alright now, but I think I’m developing a case of scurvy from eating nothing but Tostitos for a week.
I missed it as well. I was off work Tuesday and Wednesday, so I spent the time researching Web hosting sites. Then I ordered one up (100MB space, yay me!), and spent the rest of the time putting up the site and tying the hamsters to their wheels so the thing would run.
pesch
(who still has to go back and edit the MySQL database so my blog archives would kick in)
Well, you just send that mail when it works for you again. 
Una
I’m with you, Squibe. I compulsively checked to see if they were back up several times an hour. I made it back about 15 min. after they came back. Thank God… Now I can go back to my more normal “not showering because I’m spending too much time on the boards” rather than my “not showering because there is little point to life without the SDMB.”
J/k, of course.
Yipper, it’s addictive. Why do think they call it The Dope?
I went to Disneyworld. With the kids. During the cold snap. It was wonderful, absolutely no lines anywhere. Superbowl Sunday was the best of the best of the best.
I wept.
Well, I usually check the SDMB twice a day - once on campus and once when I get home in the evening. I sent all those e-mails I’ve been meaning to send since Christmas at school, and at home it didn’t really matter much (blashpemy!) since I was knee-deep, nay, shoulder-deep in a presentation I was preparing for this morning.