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what has changed in your life since joining macrumors?

Life changes as a result of MR:
Learned more about computers and a certain sub culture, which makes my life richer (seriously...)
Have been influenced to pour too much money into Apple products
Have a little more faith in on line communities :)
 
Since January 2005:

  • Bought 4 Macs: G4 Mac mini, PowerBook (sold), Intel Mac mini, MacBook Pro
  • Bought 3 iPods: 60 GB 4G iPod (sold), 4 GB black nano, 60 GB 5G iPod
  • Gotten a little greyer up top
  • Found out I'm gonna be an uncle again
  • Designed a few web sites
  • Bought some art
  • Spent WAY too much time here
That's about it... my life is somewhat boring. :)

Two...
 
1. Been less productive at work...god forbid anyone ever notices how many times MacRumors.com gets visited in a day
2. Bought and sold way too many Apple products
3. Bought my first home
4. Graduated with a BA in CIT
5. Got into a great relationship :)
6. Got a great job where I've been promoted twice and am now making significantly more money than I was when I started
 
clayj said:
Since January 2005:

  • Bought 4 Macs: G4 Mac mini, PowerBook (sold), Intel Mac mini, MacBook Pro
  • Bought 3 iPods: 60 GB 4G iPod (sold), 4 GB black nano, 60 GB 5G iPod
  • Gotten a little greyer up top
  • Found out I'm gonna be an uncle again
  • Designed a few web sites
  • Bought some art
  • Spent WAY too much time here
That's about it... my life is somewhat boring. :)

Two...
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Dude -- and as of right now, you're at 4999 posts! I've been on here for two years more than you and I'm not at half that..I feel like a slacker :)
 
clayj said:
Since January 2005:

  • Bought 4 Macs: G4 Mac mini, PowerBook (sold), Intel Mac mini, MacBook Pro
  • Bought 3 iPods: 60 GB 4G iPod (sold), 4 GB black nano, 60 GB 5G iPod
  • Gotten a little greyer up top
  • Found out I'm gonna be an uncle again
  • Designed a few web sites
  • Bought some art
  • Spent WAY too much time here
That's about it... my life is somewhat boring. :)

Two...
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I thought for sure there'd be something about the 'caines Stanley Cup victory in there...what w/ the dramatic 7 games series and all. :)
 
hmmm, recently I bought a Macbook ;-P

Bought a Dodge Neon
Got my own apartment which I consider officially moving out from the parents
Started single - now starting a relationship
Went to Germany
Failed Stat190
bought a unicycle
bought a Casio Keyboard (Piano keys!)
Bought an airbrush
Bought 2 fish, one died
built a drafting table with the father
father had an affair :(
I'm reducing the amount of piracy I commit
Lost my scholarship
Made tons of really close friends (strangely enough noone from the forums ;-P)
Got a J-O-B
Refined my goals in life.

Obviously not in any logical order.
 
Since before August 2004:

lurked
bought iBook and 4G iPod (LCD)
started Masters of Arts in Teaching program
wife got new job
I'm more of a house-husband (and it's fun)
bought 5G iPod Black, gave iPod to wife
gave KT some money
bought 1G Nano for daughter
bought Shuffle for son
bought Rev E 15" Powerbook used at a great price
still lurk a lot, only just over 2k posts
almost completed Masters
now I need a job :( :D

p.s. since i began reading MR I spend less time looking at RpOn
 
iGary said:
I got fatter and my productivity went down two-fold.
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Same for me. :eek:


That and I also bought several Macs (Power Mac G5, iBook G4, MacBook Pro, and a PowerBook 5300cs). Looking back, I must say I have made the correct choice. :)
 
In the last three years I have seen, which I have shared here on MR [in no particular order]:

- My advertising job with my company eliminated, not a bad thing since I was given a sales job back in the stores - which I found out I prefer

- A bout of Bell's Palsy

- Being forced to wake-up and see that my 13 year relationship was going to destroy me mentally, physically, emotionally, and financially - unless I ended it when I did

- Having to sell my TH in a market that I could not afford to re-buy in (see the above)

- Being able to look forward each new work day

- Having a space that I can decorate to my needs and tastes

- Getting my first passport

- Traveling the way I like to (cheap, clean places - spending hours chatting with locals, or hours behind my camera)

- In the past year being able to revisit SF (first visit was back in '96), seeing Chicago for the first time, doing my first overseas trip (Reykjavik and London), a week long cruise to the Western Caribbean in October with my sister. And if the travel gods are with me in July - I hope to add Toronto and Amsterdam to my passport

- Looking forward to next year, spending 2 to 4 weeks in Argentina [and other parts of South America (though that might change in order to do a week in Venice for Carnival, with added European destinations)

- Trying to spend more time on my photography

leekohler said:
I met scem0. :) Very good thing indeed.
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I will add that meeting the likes of you, PlaceOfDis, iGary, Clix Pix, and others have added to my experience.

2nyRiggz said:
Spend too much time on the computer now....need to focus man.
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I agree. MR can be addictive. So many good people here.
 
On the plus side... I moved into a nice little flat with Miss Jaffa Cake, acquired my G5 Power Mac, saw Hull City earn a second successive promotion, left the continent for the first time in my life, and a load more ace stuff that I can't recall off the top of my head.

On the downside... I developed Diabetes, turned 30 and my hair has got substantially greyer. :eek:
 
I have...
- Graduated from college and gotten through a year of law school
- Broken up with my gf of 4 years and gotten back together with her
- Had my first two after-college jobs
- Moved from PA to MA to DC
- Sold my first car
- Become a libertarian
- Seen my beloved Red Sox win the world series
- Gone from: ibook g3 900 --> powerbook g4 1.0 --> powermac G5 1.8 --> ibook g4 1.33 --> macbook 2.0 :eek:
- posted here more than 3,000 times... :eek:
 
Chip NoVaMac said:
I will add that meeting the likes of you, PlaceOfDis, iGary, Clix Pix, and others have added to my experience.




I agree. MR can be addictive. So many good people here.
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You too Chip! It was fun meeting you as well. Now if we could just get that damn PlaceofDis to leave his house again. :)
 
Became a Mac user
In becoming a Mac user, I bought my first ever computer
Bought my first digital camera (to add to my 10 or so random film cameras :eek:)
Started running, and got all fit and buff
Stopped running, and became porky
Made some great friends at college, (after a slow start on that front) who I think will be friends for a long time
Did some great collaborative projects with said friends
Sold my first Mac
Bought my second Mac
Graduated (well, I will officially in 3 weeks)
Moved to the other end of the country (well, I will have in 3 days :p)
 
Coming up on 2 years here in another month or so. Wow - time flies when you're blowing off your real job.

I've learned more about Macs, and perhaps a little more about myself. Met some new people, both online and in "real life" from the forums. Got a new iPod. Got a new MBP. Traveled to a lot of different places.

All in all, though, not a lot of significant changes. Well, aside from the fact that my wife and I are expecting our third child (the other two were pre-MR).
 
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