Nosferatu

Joined

• started 598 topics
• posted 6,825 times   see topics posted on
• send a message

Posts by Nosferatu

• 
  15

  Michael Jackson--Any More New Music?

  by WTWizard in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  got to be there.. ben.. off the wall.. thriller.. bad.. dangerous.. history (including new music).. invincible.. these are the michael jackson albums that contain new music.

  it does not include greatest hits or remix compilations or boxed sets.

  notably, these albums come out about once every 3-6 years.. between off the wall and thriller, it was about 3 years.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  Nosferatu

  I thought I heard something about him working on a new album. But that might have been the re-mix (or whatever he was doing) of the Thriller album.
  
  IMO, MJ doesn't have the knack for writing good songs anymore. The last album I enjoyed was Dangerous. Everything since then hasn't had much quality in it. It was probably the accusations and legal problems that wrecked his streak of good music.
• 
  29

  Not Born-in, Not converted as adult. The In-Betweens

  by Lady Lee in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i think some of us get lost somewhere in the middle.. my kids knew nothing else but the jw lifestyle.

  they could only guess what holidays were like.. my jw husband converted when he was 20 an adult...a young adult but still an adult.

  he wasn't influenced by his parents.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  Nosferatu

  I'm just barely an "in-between". My mother converted when I was five years old. I remember a couple of Xmasses and birthdays. My mother used the Xmas the year before as a good reason why we were giving it up. Here's what happened.
  
  My father got drunk. His sister came over and I was too 'shy' to say hello to her. My dad threatened me by saying "If you don't say hi, Santa will come and take all the presents away. I went off to my room crying, and my drunken dad took all the presents from under the tree and threw them into his bedroom. Then he came and got me to see that all the presents were gone from under the tree.
  
  That didn't stop me from wanting to celebrate Christmas. For the next three years or so on Christmas morning, I would look around the house hoping that Santa had hidden a present for me. Of course, there was nothing.
  
  When I was around 8 years old, I waited up to see Santa passing over my house. Again, nothing. And that's when I stopped believing.
  
  The worst was having my entire library of childrens books replaced by one book - My Book of Bible Studies. This happened at the point where I would enjoy bedtime stories. A few times I had asked for a different book like The Berenstein Bears, only to have it trumped by the hardcover yellow book. I got really tired of that damned book and thus got tired of bedtime stories.
  
  It wasn't horribly bad in school. I remember making a father's day present in Nursury School. The year after, I was forced to become friends with a JW kid named 'David'. I never really got along that well with him (I liked the girls more :) ) but I befriended him just to make my mother happy. I enjoyed staying home from school for Rememberance Day services and Xmas school plays and such. That was the part of "standing up for Jehovah" that was easy.
  
  It was all the doom and gloom of dying at armageddon and being scared of displeasing Jehovah that helped push me further into the org. The only thing I hated was the meetings. They were extremely boring and I tried to get out of them whenever possible. Before my dad started studying, it was pretty easy. I pissed off my mother many weekends by begging my dad to let me stay home. That all ended when he started studying when I was 12 years old.
  
  Present Day sucked. It was nowhere near as fun as Christmas was. The gifts I got were usually shitty, and they only came from my parents. Everyone else in the world gives gifts on Christmas and that included my extended family. They weren't going to go out of their way to celebrate "present day" in the middle of summer.
• 
  59

  Canada: who's from there?

  by RAYZORBLADE in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  well, since the info by our photos/usernames is not available yet (profile info), i figured, why not give it another go.

  the aussies had a go of it, time for the canucks to toss some maple syrup into the forum.

  who on this forum is from canada?

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  Nosferatu

  Wow, this is an old thread!
  
  I had to double-check. I was thinking "Lee moved back to Winnipeg and didn't tell me?"
• 
  13

  do you care what keyboard you type on?

  by littlerockguy in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  yesterday i took all my keys off my ibm model m keyboard and cleaned them and vacuumed the surface to get some dust out of the inside and now it looks like new.

  i need to do the same to the one i use at work.

  i got another model m keyboard off ebay yesterday.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  Nosferatu

  You know, I saw another IBM keyboard yesterday at the thrift store. It also has the manual clicky keys, but it wasn't a model M. I think I may go back today and pick it up (if it's still there). I want to replace that crappy keyboard that came with my Acer, which I currently use for testing PCs.
• 
  13

  do you care what keyboard you type on?

  by littlerockguy in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  yesterday i took all my keys off my ibm model m keyboard and cleaned them and vacuumed the surface to get some dust out of the inside and now it looks like new.

  i need to do the same to the one i use at work.

  i got another model m keyboard off ebay yesterday.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  Nosferatu

  You can connect a nice keyboard to that laptop! How about a nice Das Keyboard? You'll never have to worry about the letters wearing off:
  
  http://www.daskeyboard.com/
• 
  13

  do you care what keyboard you type on?

  by littlerockguy in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  yesterday i took all my keys off my ibm model m keyboard and cleaned them and vacuumed the surface to get some dust out of the inside and now it looks like new.

  i need to do the same to the one i use at work.

  i got another model m keyboard off ebay yesterday.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  Nosferatu

  Hey, another fan of the Model M! I got mine at a thrift store a couple months back for $3.
  
  I've got a friend who's also a fan. She says "It's not a real keyboard unless you can kill someone with it." For those of you who don't know, the Model M weighs a good 5 lbs.
• 
  4

  Post-Rapture E-mail Service

  by Justitia Themis in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/06/service-lets-yo.html.

  website lets you send a post-rapture e-mail to friends 'left behind'by kevin poulsenjune 03, 2008 | 3:42:43 pm if millions of christians suddenly disappear from the face of the earth as the opening act for armageddon, threat level thinks most nonbelievers will be too busy freaking the hell out to check their e-mail.

  but if they do log in, now they can be treated to some post-rapture needling from their missing friends and loved ones, courtesy of web startup youvebeenleftbehind.com.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  Nosferatu

  That's a pretty good scam. Wish I would've thought of that.
• 
  87

  Sitting her forgetting it all.

  by Sparkplug in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  trying to remember what it is i have been supposed to be doing since monday.

  don't have a clue.. my daughter ran away and all her stupid ass friends are not giving her up.

  the police are looking and nothing.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  Nosferatu

  Glad to hear she's back. She probably won't say it, but I'll bet she's glad to be back too.
  
  Don't try to make things too awkward for her with her return. Maybe let things go back into their routine schedule and then bring it up (perhaps a week later). It'll give the both of you some time for your thoughts and emotions to settle down a bit.
• 
  20

  anyone ever have knee surgery?

  by chrisjoel in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  all i did was step up my workout from an hour walk to running....i woke up i couldnt stand on my left knee/leg.

  i postponed goin to have it checked out hoping it would go away.....started hopping around on one leg and finally got it checked out.

  (canadian hospitals ..omg....unbelievalbe...checked in at 2300hrs, doctor looked at me at 10am.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  Nosferatu

  I WANT surgery on mine.
  
  I went to the doc and they sent me to Physiotherapy. What a crock of shit that stuff is. I should become a Physiotherapist making big bucks on quack medicine. I was lifting 5 lb weights on my leg like a little girl.
  
  Doc: How do you feel after your workout?
  Me: The same as BEFORE my workout.
  Doc: Okay, we'll get you to do it some more!
  
  Eventually, I figured "screw this" and just started to deal with the pain. I tolerate it and bike to work. I REALLY don't think my muscles are the problem.
• 
  8

  Convention Badge 2008

  by IMHO in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  could someone scan the lapel badge for this years convention and put it up for download?

  many thanks

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  Nosferatu

  I dare someone to replace their badge with one of these:
  
  http://www.ironicsans.com/images/jacobtag.gif