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| Bugspray |
 Feb 14 2007, 04:00 PM
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 Your Friendly Neighborhood Capitalist  Group: Members Posts: 1,034 Joined: 14-March 04 From: Somewhere in the neutral zone formally known as the US southern border Member No.: 116 Major/s: Doesn't matter, its one of those unemployable degrees. Alumni  |
So, I come back and find an empty online city. Am I to speculate that Bughouse is now dead?
-------------------- "Man never understands that the cities he has built are not an integral part of Nature. If he wants to defend his culture from wolves and snowstorms, if he wants to save it from being strangled by weeds, he must keep his broom, spade, and rifle always at hand. If he goes to sleep, if he thinks about something else for a year or two, then everything's lost. The wolves come out of the forest, the thistles spread and everything is buried under dust and snow."
Vasily Grossman, Russian writer - "Life and Fate" |
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| OldMan |
Feb 15 2007, 01:39 PM
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 Queen Bee Group: Members Posts: 404 Joined: 3-May 04 From: sometimes here, sometimes there Member No.: 148 Major/s: I'm actually gonna graduate!? Student |
They were wondering the same about you!
 -------------------- "I have served my country; I have done my duty. I have tasted fear and confronted death; I have fought with honor and survived with dignity, and now take my liberty." - Joe Hertel
"To go to school for four years, or six, is no proof of excellence; any more than to fail in an examination is proof of incompetence. The giving of degrees and diplomas to people who have done no useful things is puerile and absurd, since degrees so secured are no proof of competence, and tend to inflate the holder with the idea that he is some great one when, probably, he isn't. All degrees should be honorary, and be given for meritorious service to society-that is, for doing something useful for somebody." -Elbert Hubbard "I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen it's brutality, it's futility, it's stupidity." - Dwight D. Eisenhower Read poetry and see art related to my Viet Nam expericence by clicking on this link. Saigon Joe's Bunker Visit my blog: Old Man on Bughouse |
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| Bugspray |
Feb 15 2007, 04:38 PM
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Your Friendly Neighborhood Capitalist Group: Members Posts: 1,034 Joined: 14-March 04 From: Somewhere in the neutral zone formally known as the US southern border Member No.: 116 Major/s: Doesn't matter, its one of those unemployable degrees. Alumni |
QUOTE(OldMan @ Feb 15 2007, 01:39 PM)  They were wondering the same about you! hahahahahahaha...sometimes I think that too. -------------------- "Man never understands that the cities he has built are not an integral part of Nature. If he wants to defend his culture from wolves and snowstorms, if he wants to save it from being strangled by weeds, he must keep his broom, spade, and rifle always at hand. If he goes to sleep, if he thinks about something else for a year or two, then everything's lost. The wolves come out of the forest, the thistles spread and everything is buried under dust and snow."
Vasily Grossman, Russian writer - "Life and Fate" |
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| Gilgamesh |
Feb 15 2007, 09:07 PM
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 Worker  Group: Mod Team Posts: 109 Joined: 18-November 04 From: chicago Member No.: 254 Student |
i'm here to support it, but very little discussion is going on. i'm still doing my job as mod though.
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| jbhalper |
Feb 25 2007, 02:30 PM
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 Total Dude Group: Members Posts: 923 Joined: 12-January 04 From: Illinois Member No.: 23 Major/s: English and Anthropology (double major) |
QUOTE(Gilgamesh @ Feb 15 2007, 09:07 PM) i'm here to support it, but very little discussion is going on. i'm still doing my job as mod though. Cool beenz. -------------------- |
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| BrianBlaz |
Feb 26 2007, 03:23 AM
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I'm not at NEIU anymore, so I try to keep away.
Mostly because I have like 30 message boards where I'm keeping the liberal faith and trying to get promoted at my job. And I like bars. A lot. But beyond that, I'm checking this shit out every other day or so. Someone keep posting, I'll post my ignorant, rampantly liberal and drunken opinions. -------------------- www.livejournal.com/users/brianblaz
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| OldMan |
Feb 26 2007, 10:15 AM
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Queen Bee Group: Members Posts: 404 Joined: 3-May 04 From: sometimes here, sometimes there Member No.: 148 Major/s: I'm actually gonna graduate!? Student |
At least I find a few people are still reading my blog even though my postings are gettng further apart. I guess the glory days have faded.
-------------------- "I have served my country; I have done my duty. I have tasted fear and confronted death; I have fought with honor and survived with dignity, and now take my liberty." - Joe Hertel
"To go to school for four years, or six, is no proof of excellence; any more than to fail in an examination is proof of incompetence. The giving of degrees and diplomas to people who have done no useful things is puerile and absurd, since degrees so secured are no proof of competence, and tend to inflate the holder with the idea that he is some great one when, probably, he isn't. All degrees should be honorary, and be given for meritorious service to society-that is, for doing something useful for somebody." -Elbert Hubbard "I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen it's brutality, it's futility, it's stupidity." - Dwight D. Eisenhower Read poetry and see art related to my Viet Nam expericence by clicking on this link. Saigon Joe's Bunker Visit my blog: Old Man on Bughouse |
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| kastigar |
Aug 12 2007, 09:16 AM
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 Sweet Old Bob Group: Members Posts: 1,057 Joined: 24-October 03 From: North Park, Chicago Member No.: 8 Major/s: Intro To Student |
QUOTE(OldMan @ Feb 26 2007, 10:15 AM) At least I find a few people are still reading my blog even though my postings are gettng further apart. I guess the glory days have faded. Who's Glory Days? Yours, or Bughouse's? There are too many distractions today - too many outlets, too many activities. I still click on Bughouse about once a week or so, see what's new, but infrequently log in. This may be one of the few times I'm writing! We need a little controversy here. Maybe a seed, not a troll. Yes, we do need a few more participants - not just members. Too much is invested in Bughouse to give it up easily. |
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| baggenemup |
Jan 5 2008, 01:15 AM
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Egg Group: Members Posts: 1 Joined: 9-September 04 From: Chicago, Lakeview Member No.: 169 Major/s: Human Resource Development (HRD) Alumni |
QUOTE(Bugspray @ Feb 14 2007, 04:00 PM) So, I come back and find an empty online city. Am I to speculate that Bughouse is now dead? Who said it was ever alive? |
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| kastigar |
Jan 5 2008, 06:59 AM
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Sweet Old Bob Group: Members Posts: 1,057 Joined: 24-October 03 From: North Park, Chicago Member No.: 8 Major/s: Intro To Student |
QUOTE(baggenemup @ Jan 5 2008, 02:15 AM) Who said it was ever alive? It was very much alive - but that's several years ago. I'm not sure what happened, but I am sorry to see the lack of participation by the NEIU community. And I'm even more unsure about what to do about it. I don't think the answer is in technology. There's a link to Bughouse from the NEIUPort page, so I don't think you can blame a opposition from the administration. Maybe we need an old-fashioned face-to-face meeting, a brainstorming session to some up with way to solicit participation. Or maybe there's just to much competition today from other internet outlets. That's to bad - the commercialization of the internet. At one time colleges and universities were at the forefront of internet access. |
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