This has gone far enough.

Yak · Post by **Yak** » Sat Jan 31, 2004 2:53 am 0

_case wrote: for the longest time i was lonely, no one special to share my life with, i had my job, i had my code and on the surface was content but still there was an...emptyness, a sadness, a loneliness...you learn to shut it out and carry on...

Yes, that is exactly it... the work sustained me but there was always something missing inside...

_case wrote: but then something wonderful, unexpected happened, i met someone and right from the start we both shared a...bond...we both knew that after being alone for so long, we found each other, it was and still is the happiest moment of my life.

Yes! Yes, that is exactly it... almost unbelieving, the realisation that one is not alone any more

.. and totally unexpected... in fact the last thing I was looking for, I had stopped looking and decided to focus only on the code...

Thank Goat for the tech that facilitates this and for the circumstances that allowed it to happen, is all. I am such a happier Yakkie

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(:-) - Yak
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Jmar · Post by **Jmar** » Sat Jan 31, 2004 3:38 am 0

I'm veeryy happy for u and giles

Please pleaaase don't leave ever!!
I thinkk u know how much people love u..
you are a genuine nice bloke and you should look at the love people give (which is loads) and ignore the fuckwits

lookin forward to meeting u again properly..

xxxxxx

punkrulesok · Post by **punkrulesok** » Sat Jan 31, 2004 3:47 am 0

Yak wrote:Yes! Yes, that is exactly it... almost unbelieving, the realisation that one is not alone any more .. and totally unexpected... in fact the last thing I was looking for, I had stopped looking and decided to focus only on the code...

In my experience, i have only found somone right, when i have least expected it

Looking back on things, when i *have* been looking, i have never found

Such an amazing feeling though.
Although, you dont know straight away, when you meet that special person, you can tell there is a build-up of *somthing*, but you cant quite place your hoof on it, but after a certain period of time getting to know that person, and it hits you. WOW

You cant quite believe it, but you know it *is* right......ahhh, bliss.

I wish you and Giles all the best in the world

May you be :stinkybeasts: forever, together

jambo · Post by **jambo** » Sat Jan 31, 2004 5:57 am 0

I empathise with you guys so much... it is absolutely shocking when, quite out of the blue, you meet that person who you relate to so joyously deeply and soulfully.

Like the best slap your face you ever got!

You never expect the goodness. But then - hey! - there it is.

Be excellent to each other!

Michael_ · Post by **Michael_** » Sat Jan 31, 2004 8:46 am 0

Snakey wrote: Please say you still have the source for this stuff somewhere. Would love to play around with it under emulation

IÂ´ll second that. Looks amazing. Emulator standing by

--Michael

Jac · Post by **Jac** » Sat Jan 31, 2004 12:33 pm 0

Yak wrote: Yes! Yes, that is exactly it... almost unbelieving, the realisation that one is not alone any more .. and totally unexpected... in fact the last thing I was looking for, I had stopped looking and decided to focus only on the code...

Pretty much imc's story too, if you substitute academic research for coding. If I hadn't come along and taken charge of his life he'd still be on his own (but richer

), muddling along between work and church and sleep, and wearing the same clothes he wore in 1989...

I love it when nice people who deserve happiness get it, there are too many people who don't deserve partners and families who have them anyway and don't appreciate them that it's good when the balance gets redressed a little.

Fuseball · Post by **Fuseball** » Sat Jan 31, 2004 1:35 pm 0

Yak wrote:Thank Goat for the tech that facilitates this and for the circumstances that allowed it to happen, is all. I am such a happier Yakkie ....

I think that the only true measure of the value of tech is how it improves beyond measure our real lives. That can be the joy of gaming, the spread of knowledge or the wonderful friendships that can forged down these wires and through these circuits.

None of our lives would be the same, or as colourful, without it. *Hugs* to all the great people we've come to know via this interweb thingy.

gilesgoat · Post by **gilesgoat** » Sat Jan 31, 2004 1:53 pm 0

Fuseball wrote:
Yak wrote:Thank Goat for the tech that facilitates this and for the circumstances that allowed it to happen, is all. I am such a happier Yakkie ....
I think that the only true measure of the value of tech is how it improves beyond measure our real lives. That can be the joy of gaming, the spread of knowledge or the wonderful friendships that can forged down these wires and through these circuits.

None of our lives would be the same, or as colourful, without it. *Hugs* to all the great people we've come to know via this interweb thingy.

What you say is right but I wish to "add" "when tech is used the right way"

Sometime tech is NOT used the right way and becomes an "escape" from
what real life is, we must be aware of it.

Tech can help us in many many ways, but it's people and
real life we have to deal with, with its goods and bads.

But .. I am so glad this tech exists

With no internet, no websites, no
real time communications, no forums and such life would be much
harder now.

Anyway I don't want to be a "tech slave" .. but .. in a way I am how could
I live without anything to code on

??

Andy Pandy · Post by **Andy Pandy** » Sat Jan 31, 2004 1:58 pm 0

I'm really glad you found someone to love; to share the closeness of another person, to put someone above yourself... who cares what the bigots think, just get on with been with the person you love and care for - that's what matters.

For year's I shut people out of my life, just pretending to be with them... then something happened last year - I fell in love, truely fell in love with a wonderful woman. For me things did not work out and we split up; but the best thing is I learnt to love with my whole heart... and I know one thing I'm never going back to been that lonely person again.

The strange thing is on boxing day I met someone, a time when I was angry and confused about the breakup with Ann, and I'm starting to love again... I think I've let my heart open more to people; and the weird thing is it took me up to the age of 35 to do this (now I'm 36)...

There's only so much that work can do to take the lonley part of life away. From now on having work and love is good in my life right now.

Good luck Jeff and Giles, and have a happy life together...

teamonkey · Post by **teamonkey** » Sat Jan 31, 2004 2:11 pm 0

Congratulations! What wonderful news!

DeanoC · Post by **DeanoC** » Sat Jan 31, 2004 3:17 pm 0

Congrats.

bloid · Post by **bloid** » Mon Feb 02, 2004 10:06 am 0

Yak wrote:And at this point I would like to add that I have been really enjoying having a shit recently and reading the 68030 ref book as my enthroned reading.

I know it's sad. But it's lovely .

Hee hee, I was reading "Inside the Dragon" on the bog over the weekend

Ahhhh the M6809

Hee hee

gilesgoat · Post by **gilesgoat** » Mon Feb 02, 2004 10:18 am 0

bloid wrote:
Yak wrote:And at this point I would like to add that I have been really enjoying having a shit recently and reading the 68030 ref book as my enthroned reading.

I know it's sad. But it's lovely .
Hee hee, I was reading "Inside the Dragon" on the bog over the weekend

Ahhhh the M6809

Hee hee

I have that book and I have a Dragon 32 too

And in my bog it's stuck in it "The complete Spectrum ROM Disassembly"

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Feb 02, 2004 10:30 am 0

bloid wrote:
Yak wrote:And at this point I would like to add that I have been really enjoying having a shit recently and reading the 68030 ref book as my enthroned reading.

I know it's sad. But it's lovely .
Hee hee, I was reading "Inside the Dragon" on the bog over the weekend

Ahhhh the M6809

Aargh.
That brings back memories. The 6809 was what we were supposed to learn assembly coding on at uni. We used these weird single board machines with only a monitor in ROM, no storage device of any kind, except for connecting a serial printer to get a listing.
I still use 6809-like assembler today, for a microcontroller called the 68HC11. Unless I've confused it with something else.

I quickly forgot anything about coding for the C64

bloid · Post by **bloid** » Mon Feb 02, 2004 10:37 am 0

Yay! Everyone loves the M6809

My parents decided home computing was the way forward when I was a kid (my Dad had seen computers take off in the design office where he worked), so they went to buy me and my sister one.

They had a choice of the Dragon 32, the Vic 20, or the Oric.

The forgot about the oric straight away (as it had tiny keys, and my Dad wanted one with proper keys, so my typing would improve too)

And the thing that swung it for the Dragon was that you didn't need to type club, heart, or diamond chars for anything

hehehehe

There was then the rule that I could buy a game if I wrote a game...so I started writing rubbish adventures

My god, my game parser sucked, but I was quite pleased with my line drawings of rooms you were in

Assembly took me much longer to apprciate....infact, I now look at that book with affection, whereas at the time, it generally lived under a pile of dot matrix printer paper

Ahhh...memories

Sorry for kidnapping this thread again btw

must....stay....on....topic