Better memory?! Naw, I can only look up particular times like that with the help of the internet. Like, sorry, I can't possibly hold an intelligent conversation with you unless I have a browser open for me to double-check and make sure I'm not just making stuff up. ;)
Wow. I forgot about Second Life and There. Not that I ever got involved in either one of them. I think maybe Koogrr did some stuff in one of those platforms?
And, yeah, LJ goes a long way back. What I forgot is whatever journal platform I was on immediately *before* LJ. (Mostly what I remember from way back then, circa 2000 or so, is making repeated mistakes of "posting while angry" and losing friends that way.)
I'm pretty sure the 1TB thing has to be recent for flash drives. Hard drives, not quite so much. I haven't even SEEN a 1TB flash drive -- I just was talking about flash drives during a recent project, and someone had commented that they'd gotten up into that range, which took me for a loop. (Though, the cutting-edge flash drives are still a bit pricey. I'd feel nervous having something that tiny and that valuable.)
A quick online check, and we're talking somewhere in the $300-$400 range for a 1TB flash drive, whereas a 1TB external hard drive is $50. (Hmm. I'd be tempted to get one -- the hard drive, that is, not the flash drive -- but I wish I could get some assurance that it would last longer than my old Iomegas did. Expensive data-crushing bricks, they turned out to be.)
And, yeah, just to be clear, my memory is VERY hazy, and getting more so by the day, it seems. :/
What's really scary for me is that back when I was on a writing binge circa ... good grief, how long as that been now? Back when I actually wrote story segments in my "BitzBox" LJ account? Anyway, back when I tried writing stuff like "Rulesbreaker" and "Shards," I had some pretty vivid recollections of what it was like back when I was a kid. At least, I recall the abstract idea that I had such vivid recollections. It doesn't seem quite so vivid to me now. What's even more bizarre is that there are quite a few things that I "remember" that, when I check up on the chronology of things with others, it simply CANNOT BE TRUE. (Either that, or I'm right and everyone else is wrong, which feels kind of egotistical.)
It's as if, in the recollection, I made some mistakes, mashed together bits and pieces of different memories with my brain filling in a few gaps, and now the resulting mess is as solid as any presumably *genuine* recollection I have. It bad enough to just /not know/. It's more worrisome to "know" what simply isn't true. :(
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Wow. I forgot about Second Life and There. Not that I ever got involved in either one of them. I think maybe Koogrr did some stuff in one of those platforms?
And, yeah, LJ goes a long way back. What I forgot is whatever journal platform I was on immediately *before* LJ. (Mostly what I remember from way back then, circa 2000 or so, is making repeated mistakes of "posting while angry" and losing friends that way.)
I'm pretty sure the 1TB thing has to be recent for flash drives. Hard drives, not quite so much. I haven't even SEEN a 1TB flash drive -- I just was talking about flash drives during a recent project, and someone had commented that they'd gotten up into that range, which took me for a loop. (Though, the cutting-edge flash drives are still a bit pricey. I'd feel nervous having something that tiny and that valuable.)
A quick online check, and we're talking somewhere in the $300-$400 range for a 1TB flash drive, whereas a 1TB external hard drive is $50. (Hmm. I'd be tempted to get one -- the hard drive, that is, not the flash drive -- but I wish I could get some assurance that it would last longer than my old Iomegas did. Expensive data-crushing bricks, they turned out to be.)
And, yeah, just to be clear, my memory is VERY hazy, and getting more so by the day, it seems. :/
What's really scary for me is that back when I was on a writing binge circa ... good grief, how long as that been now? Back when I actually wrote story segments in my "BitzBox" LJ account? Anyway, back when I tried writing stuff like "Rulesbreaker" and "Shards," I had some pretty vivid recollections of what it was like back when I was a kid. At least, I recall the abstract idea that I had such vivid recollections. It doesn't seem quite so vivid to me now. What's even more bizarre is that there are quite a few things that I "remember" that, when I check up on the chronology of things with others, it simply CANNOT BE TRUE. (Either that, or I'm right and everyone else is wrong, which feels kind of egotistical.)
It's as if, in the recollection, I made some mistakes, mashed together bits and pieces of different memories with my brain filling in a few gaps, and now the resulting mess is as solid as any presumably *genuine* recollection I have. It bad enough to just /not know/. It's more worrisome to "know" what simply isn't true. :(