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geekhack Community => New Members => Topic started by: JohnShaft on Sun, 21 December 2014, 17:34:15

Title: Hi All! Please Treat Me Like A Friendly But Occasionally Sarcastic Five Year Old
Post by: JohnShaft on Sun, 21 December 2014, 17:34:15
Seriously, even after nearly twenty years in some sort of IT-adjacent field and a lifetime of making and DIY, a friend just now told me about this concept and this site.

I'm fascinated because I dislike the feel and config of a number of new keyboards and, despite never hacking input devices to any great degree (except fixing them to get them to work again), I'm a very DIY sort of person and always interested in learning more DIY stuff.

So I probably know nothing of the products and lingo that are second nature to many of you so, when we interact, please treat me like a friendly but occasionally sarcastic five year old. ;)

See you around the wild world web,

John Shaft (yes, I know and...ya know...I kinda am)

PS: My vision is  not all that great. Do we always have to type the stupid human test before we can submit a post or is that just in the Intro section or just until one has a certain number of posts?
Title: Re: Hi All! Please Treat Me Like A Friendly But Occasionally Sarcastic Five Year Old
Post by: HPE1000 on Sun, 21 December 2014, 17:49:04
(http://www.reactiongifs.com/r/eli5.gif)

:P

Welcome to geekhack! You only need to do the capcha for your first 10 posts, after that it goes away.  :thumb:
Title: Re: Hi All! Please Treat Me Like A Friendly But Occasionally Sarcastic Five Year Old
Post by: Blaklyte on Sun, 21 December 2014, 20:52:47
Quote from: HPE1000 on Sun, 21 December 2014, 17:49:04


Welcome to geekhack! You only need to do the capcha for your first 10 posts, after that it goes away.  :thumb:

Thanks I was wondering the same thing.
Title: Re: Hi All! Please Treat Me Like A Friendly But Occasionally Sarcastic Five Year Old
Post by: Evo_Spec on Sun, 21 December 2014, 21:54:34
Welcome to GH!

You sound like you'd be into doing some customs, which is that case you're in the right place =D
Title: Re: Hi All! Please Treat Me Like A Friendly But Occasionally Sarcastic Five Year Old
Post by: Bison on Mon, 22 December 2014, 00:52:39
Welcome!

I thought the catchpa was there just for typing more on our keyboards.  :))
Title: Re: Hi All! Please Treat Me Like A Friendly But Occasionally Sarcastic Five Year Old
Post by: dustinhxc on Mon, 22 December 2014, 00:54:01
Quote from: HPE1000 on Sun, 21 December 2014, 17:49:04
Show Image
(http://www.reactiongifs.com/r/eli5.gif)


:P

Welcome to geekhack! You only need to do the capcha for your first 10 posts, after that it goes away.  :thumb:

hahahah awesome gif..

Welcome!
Title: Re: Hi All! Please Treat Me Like A Friendly But Occasionally Sarcastic Five Year Old
Post by: Belfong on Mon, 22 December 2014, 01:44:34
Interesting. That captcha thingy must be a recent thing. I wonder if it's applicable using Tapatalk.
Title: Re: Hi All! Please Treat Me Like A Friendly But Occasionally Sarcastic Five Year Old
Post by: erroneousdetails on Mon, 22 December 2014, 15:37:05
Oh thank god, it's only the first 10? I joined this week also and was quietly muttering to myself about that. Hah!
Title: Re: Hi All! Please Treat Me Like A Friendly But Occasionally Sarcastic Five Year Old
Post by: JohnShaft on Tue, 23 December 2014, 09:28:46
Thanks for the welcome, everyone!

And I'm glad I wasn't the only one wondering about the capcha.

@Evo_Spec:

Yeah, you caught me. Before things are all said and done, I'm sure I'll have the mig welder out on one of these. ;) I also build cars and motorcycles for fun.
Title: Re: Hi All! Please Treat Me Like A Friendly But Occasionally Sarcastic Five Year Old
Post by: Evo_Spec on Tue, 23 December 2014, 19:55:38
Quote from: JohnShaft on Tue, 23 December 2014, 09:28:46
@Evo_Spec:

Yeah, you caught me. Before things are all said and done, I'm sure I'll have the mig welder out on one of these. ;) I also build cars and motorcycles for fun.

What kind of stuff have you done? Any worklogs?
Title: Re: Hi All! Please Treat Me Like A Friendly But Occasionally Sarcastic Five Year Old
Post by: rowdy on Mon, 29 December 2014, 03:48:25
Welcome to Geekhack!

A sense of humour is essential sometimes :)

From making cars to keyboard - quite a difference in scale :eek: