Re: Anyone still here?

On 25/10/2025 00:40, Eirik Øverby wrote:
> FP wrote:
> 
>> On  05/08/2025  05:06, IcedCoffeeVoyager wrote:
>>> Eirik Øverby <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> The terminal one wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> has everyone gone beyand the rim
>>>>
>>>> I just started reading news again after ~30 years, so what do I know..
>>>>
>>>
>>> I’m here for the first time in about  25/26 years. I feel you.
>>>
>>> I’m down to talk Babylon  5 anytime though…
>>
>> Yes, but if you're talking Babylon  5 you have to mark it as [OT] "on
>> topic" :)
>>
>> I've been looking in occasionally but I'm wondering how much longer...
>> just got an email from news.individual.net to say they are discontinuing
>> their usenet servers in  2 years time. That's only about a dozen a.b5.uk
>> posts away at this rate.
> 
> Funny. That's about the rate at which I meet people in the real world who
> have even a vague recollection of B5.. And yes, I do meet a fair number of
> people in the real world :D
> 
> Luckily I work with a few of folks that are nearly as geeky about it as I am,
> some have even read some of the books. And some of the youngsters here have
> watched the whole show - twice - in recent time, and keeps quoting from it.
> 
> Heck, even my gf has been known to quote G'Kar and Ivanova. My bonus kid
> quotes Kosh several times a year, un-prompted.
> 
> I must have done well.
> 
> --
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>   ~ love over gold ~

I started putting DVDs on a hard drive during the year. Got all 5 
seasons onto a USB stick so I could plug them into the telly. But they 
looked odd. Maybe I used too much compression.

Frank