How about an "ice breaker" thread?
7Let’s try this out as a topic where people can jump in and introduce themselves, say how they got here, share anything fun or interesting about themselves, or even just say hi?
Whether you’re new, back after a long while, or long-time lurkers deciding to speak up, it can be hard to find a way in to a community full of regulars, so consider this an easy place to chime in.
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@dave
if you start this kind of thread, you gotta go first
so no one post until @dave does
Ha, sounds good, but according to the rules (I just made up), all I have to do to qualify is say hi.
Hi!
Answering how I got here is kind of a weird existential question, I guess, since ‘here’ didn’t exist until I helped make it.
I guess I’ll go…
Hi! I’m @earlyre!
Long time lurker, occasional poster, habitual over sharer, and on some other forums, thread killer( they seem to stop after i post. hopefully not here)
My brother, who at the time worked IT at UT Southwestern, introduced me to WOOT! back around Christmas of '05.
was a daily woot visitor, and occasional poster there through the acquisition, and Exodus of most of the OG staffers.
been visiting Mercatalyst properties since the posting on the deals.woot forums about the launch of Mediocre Labs, and project…umm… the one where you gave us like $20 amazon gift cards, to buy y’all stuff to decorate the new offices…I sent 2 Red Swingline Staplers…
then got the Kickstarter notification for Meh.
i also backed the kickstarter for casemates, IIRC…
VMP from day zero, and plan on staying one, until you can pry that status from my cold dead fingers.
Let’s keep it going. I’m @Vectors. I don’t remember how I heard about Meh except it was sometime after I started medical school in 2014. The deals furnished my med student apartment and were a welcome distraction from the grind of medical education. I joined VMP for a while and remember getting a fukubukoro or 2, but eventually cancelled when I decided I had too much crap (big mistake, because I joined again as a lowly meh-mber). Nowadays I mostly just lurk and post in the IRK threads when I get one.
@Vectors nice, what type of medicine do you practice at
@Cerridwyn I am a radiologist at a community hospital in a mid size city in the northeast
@Cerridwyn is an RN (now stands for retired nurse), I live in So Cal so I can make lots of digs n threads about snow. I worked most of my career in home health, the last significant chunk for a faith based social safety net health care system that the home health department which always skated on a thin edge fell over it during COVID (I hate to… bites fingers, according to @thunderchick I can’t say that here)
I’m an omnivorous bisexual (Thank you for that term, I love it meh) pagan who many of my friends claim should have been hippy but was born a little too late.
Bright blesssings to you all
Well, ok.
/showme an ice breaker thread
/showme a thread breaking ice
I still have my Sansa (currently running Rockbox) from the old woot! days… And I remember many conversations about Leak Frogs. Anyone else remember deals on moofi … ?
I believe it was DealNews that tipped me off to purchase the daily deal of Free VMP as my first purchase over here…Dec 25, 2014. Eventually I did let it lapse, but have kept it since the warning surfaced in 2017 about it being phased out.
Occasionally I still pull out my Mediocre socks from Feb 2015.
I’m barnabee. I guess you could call me one of the OG Meh forum members. I used to hang out at Deals Woot until that closed up. I heard about this new place opening called Meh, so I came over to see what was going on. I really liked it, but not so much now. So I’m not around here much anymore.
Some of you may know me by “I love purple” Barney. I still love purple, just not Meh so much anymore.
Things happen, people change…