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Exactly. We've got quite a few from overseas and there was no way I was going to make it where they couldn't come here. That was never even an option
I only agree with some of the Verge article. The key to a good password is that it is easy to remember but difficult to guess. So, we prefer passphrases to strings of characters. For instance, start with a phrase -- TomBradyThrowsLikeAGirl. This is something people would not guess anyone would say, so, unless it's in your sig, it's a good start. It's long and has uppercase and lowercase letters. Replace the 'o' and 'a' in TomBrady with zero and '@'. Even harder to guess but no more difficult to remember plus you have numbers and symbols. That is a pretty good password. End it in a string of characters which remind you of the account it is used with -- cc1 for your favorite credit card, cc2 for another one. gm1 or your gmail account. If they make you change your password, simply add another suffix -- yymm or yyqq depending on how often you have to change.
I hope you're able to make a decent enough second income to make this worth it. I am quite confident that we don't have to call you Ian Zuckerberg just yet, however.No - life was definitely much simpler back then LOL. Never imagined a lot of the stuff going on these days and God only knows what else we'll be dealing with in another 20-years.
I hope you're able to make a decent enough second income to make this worth it. I am quite confident that we don't have to call you Ian Zuckerberg just yet, however.
LOL, you would be correct. This place is just a nice escape where I get to blog a bit, chat with great folks like yourself, and it helps take my mind off the daily grind. But honestly, I'm in my 40s with a relatively decent job, my kids and wife are happy (one just graduated college with another up next) and aside from the number of hours I work, life could always be worseI am quite confident that we don't have to call you Ian Zuckerberg just yet, however.
LOL, you would be correct. This place is just a nice escape where I get to blog a bit, chat with great folks like yourself, and it helps take my mind off the daily grind. But honestly, I'm in my 40s with a relatively decent job, my kids and wife are happy (one just graduated college with another up next) and aside from the number of hours I work, life could always be worse
Not going to lie - when I was in my 20s I had big aspirations for this someday being something bigger, but there have always been obstacles technology-wise and in other areas that kept that from ever really happening and it never reached a point to become a second income or anything close to that, but it's at least managed to remain self-sustaining. Now that I'm older, the perspective of the whole experience makes me look at it all differently and it's almost like I've come full circle from where things started and we're back to it being just a great place with some terrific people, so I'm good with it.
It's funny, my goal when I put the site together coming out of Rivals.com shutting down out of nowhere (which was where this community started) was to build something great that we could be proud of and I was pretty fired up. I wanted to make sure I'd have a place to keep everyone together and keep it going, along with having it as something that was our own corner of the internet that no one could touch. I was pretty frustrated after all the time invested, and I had to build it all from scratch but I was excited about how it turned out and feel pretty fortunate to be able to have done it for as long as we have, and there were challenges (and still are at times) in being able to do it. But I'm definitely grateful that we're still here all these years later.Well I'm glad you're not rich. Money changes people. They starting wearing Uggs, eating weird food and eventually start slacking off. Next thing you know there'd be an Ian Mega thread.
It's funny, my goal when I put the site together coming out of Rivals.com shutting down out of nowhere (which was where this community started) was to build something great that we could be proud of and I was pretty fired up. I wanted to make sure I'd have a place to keep everyone together and keep it going, along with having it as something that was our own corner of the internet that no one could touch. I was pretty frustrated after all the time invested, and I had to build it all from scratch but I was excited about how it turned out and feel pretty fortunate to be able to have done it for as long as we have, and there were challenges (and still are at times) in being able to do it. But I'm definitely grateful that we're still here all these years later.
Here's a look at a screenshot that I grabbed from the archive heading into the postseason in January 2002...definitely pretty crazy
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Knowing what quite a few people here have gone through over the years and the outpouring amount of support that there has been each time, you're right, that really was eye-opening and just absolutely incredible. I always felt like we had a pretty special thing here and those moments, as well as ones before that where everyone rallied around other people who have endured tragedies, just really drove home the fact that I can't say enough how amazing everyone here really is. Like everyone else, I'm just lucky to be a part of it.
