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fenchurchTen things that I have done that people on my friendslist may not have done (gakked from nearly everyone).
Off the top of my head, because I'm not really in the mood to think about this deeply:
1. Seen the movie "Star Wars" 142 times in the theater.
2. Ran the largest academic symposium on Science Fiction and Fantasy in the world (or at least it was at the time, not sure about now).
3. Flew in a small plane over the Twelve Apostles in Australia (I'm assuming I can still count it if![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
rackham has done it too, otherwise this list could be considerably shorter).
4. Hiked to Delicate Arch in Arches National Park, Utah while barefoot.
5. Took a vacation on the island of Saipan (I was thinking of just naming something specific I did there, when it occurred to me most people would likely never have been). For that matter, I've visited the island of Tinian.
6. Been in a blizzard, a tornado, a typhoon, an earthquake, a flood, and fallout from a volcanic eruption -- all by the age of ten (some of them, multiple times).
7. Been on a road trip all the way around the island of Guam (which usually took around two and a half hours, with lots of stops)
8. I got the Babelfish, though I didn't get the t-shirt. (Taking a bit of a chance on this one, I think it's possible someone other thanrackham may have done this, too -- although he actually got the t-shirt.)
9. Ridden on a Giant Tortoise (when I was four years old).
10. Ran a BBS for six years. I actually have the name of my old BBS registered as a domain (randomlunacy.com) and I've got the old login screen up there now. One of these days, I'm thinking of pulling the BBS out of the archive and jury-rigging it to work on the internet. That is, assuming I can remember my password.
Off the top of my head, because I'm not really in the mood to think about this deeply:
1. Seen the movie "Star Wars" 142 times in the theater.
2. Ran the largest academic symposium on Science Fiction and Fantasy in the world (or at least it was at the time, not sure about now).
3. Flew in a small plane over the Twelve Apostles in Australia (I'm assuming I can still count it if
rackham has done it too, otherwise this list could be considerably shorter).4. Hiked to Delicate Arch in Arches National Park, Utah while barefoot.
5. Took a vacation on the island of Saipan (I was thinking of just naming something specific I did there, when it occurred to me most people would likely never have been). For that matter, I've visited the island of Tinian.
6. Been in a blizzard, a tornado, a typhoon, an earthquake, a flood, and fallout from a volcanic eruption -- all by the age of ten (some of them, multiple times).
7. Been on a road trip all the way around the island of Guam (which usually took around two and a half hours, with lots of stops)
8. I got the Babelfish, though I didn't get the t-shirt. (Taking a bit of a chance on this one, I think it's possible someone other than
rackham may have done this, too -- although he actually got the t-shirt.)9. Ridden on a Giant Tortoise (when I was four years old).
10. Ran a BBS for six years. I actually have the name of my old BBS registered as a domain (randomlunacy.com) and I've got the old login screen up there now. One of these days, I'm thinking of pulling the BBS out of the archive and jury-rigging it to work on the internet. That is, assuming I can remember my password.
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Date: 2005-02-24 04:58 pm (UTC)In the last few years, after usage had already begun to decline, I was able to get a permanent dial-up internet connection and network the system. You could telnet in and have a session just like over a modem. There was also a simple web interface for viewing/downloading files and an ftp server.
Maximus was tremendously configurable and I pushed it fairly hard. I didn't have a lot of game-oriented doors, but with so many remote users I had some very sophisticated tools for working with off-line readers of various flavors. Regulars could even schedule the bundling of their message pickups for when they were off-line, so they could just hit the system and immediately begin downloading the package. I also wrote a dozen or so extension utilities for Maximus and made them available as freeware along with the source code.
I sometimes miss the old Red October, but mailing lists and web-based forums had rendered it obsolete by the time I finally took it down.