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geekhack Community => Off Topic => Topic started by: hoggy on Sat, 01 January 2011, 01:35:37

Title: Happy New Year!
Post by: hoggy on Sat, 01 January 2011, 01:35:37

Happy New Year, Geekhack.

Title: Happy New Year!
Post by: msiegel on Sat, 01 January 2011, 01:40:13

Happy New Year! from here in the Pacific time zone :D

Title: Happy New Year!
Post by: bladamson on Sat, 01 January 2011, 01:41:35

Happy belated New Year from the Hollers of Appalachia.

Title: Happy New Year!
Post by: WhiteRice on Sat, 01 January 2011, 11:24:35

Some guys tired to crash my party and I had to throw down in fisticuffs!

Happy New Year!

Title: Happy New Year!
Post by: microsoft windows on Sat, 01 January 2011, 11:26:15

Quote from: ripster;271499

Is it the 21st Century yet in Appalachia?  20th Century?

It's not the 21st century where I live.

Title: Happy New Year!
Post by: ManjyomeThunder on Sat, 01 January 2011, 11:31:34

(http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lebvsaPzTG1qcsejjo1_500.jpg)

Title: Happy New Year!
Post by: microsoft windows on Sat, 01 January 2011, 12:26:31

Is that red "A" key for an IBM keyboard?

Title: Happy New Year!
Post by: microsoft windows on Sat, 01 January 2011, 12:38:56

I have to reset it every year because it's not Y2K-compatible.

Title: Happy New Year!
Post by: bladamson on Sat, 01 January 2011, 16:40:37

Quote from: ripster;271499

Is it the 21st Century yet in Appalachia?  20th Century?

Depends on where you are.  Like here, there's no cell service here, but people buy decent computers since there's DSL in the "towns" (aka anywhere with more than 150 people in a 2 mile radius).  Of the people outside DSL service range, I'd guess that 50% have HugesNet.

I guess it's still the 20th century for me.  I don't really like the way computer stuff has gone in the last 10 years or so, so I spend my free time playing with old obsolete stuff or modern-but-baroque stuff (Unix/Linux). :3

Down in the southern part of the state, in strip-mining country, now they definitely have a different culture down there.  I'm right on the edge rather than down in deep.  In this area (butted up on SW Virginia), it's a 50/50 cross between appalachian culture and southern culture.  Up here, we say "y'all" instead of "youn's" and "sahl" instead of "sorrel" (aka soil), although the intrusive hard Rs remain (ie warsh == wash).  A good bit of the scotch-irish lingo sticks around too (albeit with a more southern drawl).  (Eg: poke == grocery bag, clever == kind, crick == river)

Dialect is fascinating, innit? :P

Title: Happy New Year!
Post by: keyboardlover on Sat, 01 January 2011, 18:39:20

A happy new year to all of GeekHack! May cash fly from your wallets like never before ;)

Title: Happy New Year!
Post by: microsoft windows on Sat, 01 January 2011, 18:43:18

Cash won't be flying from my wallet (at least when it comes to computer-related goods) any time soon.