There's something really funny about how the first CODEC conversation in Metal Gear Solid 2 has Otacon mentioning that "every state, group, and dotcom has its own version of Metal Gear" (emphasis mine).
Like let's set aside how dotcoms are being treated as being on the same level as a country, but 1. he said it's every dotcom, and 2. can you imagine. Ebay as it was envisioned during 2001 with its own knockoff version of Metal Gear REX. Amazon firing your packages directly to your house via a railgun that was originally designed for stealth-ICBMs. Pets Dot Com doing an ad with its "Because Pets Can't Drive" tagline showing a cute doggy in a mecha cockpit. A Metal Gear model called "Metal Gear DOTCOM."
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Bboyblue32: atlanta is one of my considerations for moving
POPPED4HOURS: you thinking of ditching NYC?
Bboyblue32: nyc take alot out of you
Bboyblue32: its not a friendly city
Bboyblue32: i am aware that any issues i have will go with me where ever i am but it would be nice to deal with them, in a less hostile enviorment
Bboyblue32: atlanta the people were very nice, it was refreshing
POPPED4HOURS: hummmmm. . .never thought of the south as very friendly to a young black man. .. .
Bboyblue32: well atlanta is "Chocolate City"
POPPED4HOURS: well well
Bboyblue32: its not the only city i am considering Chicago, Portland, Seattle
POPPED4HOURS: the rose plant you sent me is still alive and growing
Bboyblue32: So you would probably enjoy atlanta
POPPED4HOURS: i'm sure
Bboyblue32: thats why i like to give plants more lasting then "other things"
POPPED4HOURS: it's budding for the forth time
POPPED4HOURS: fourth
Bboyblue32: got it...
Bboyblue32: how is the city?
POPPED4HOURS: pom pom is entering adulthood
POPPED4HOURS: the city is fine
Bboyblue32: Pom Pom is was a teen ager not long ago
POPPED4HOURS: how fast they grow she is starting to calm down a bit and is starting to warm up to me once again
Bboyblue32: well she has been fixed so that should calm her down
Bboyblue32: i have not fixed Neo yet
POPPED4HOURS: how are Neo and Anastasia?
Bboyblue32: she is over due
POPPED4HOURS: very
Bboyblue32: Ana is the same as always overly affectionate etc
Bboyblue32: they were here alone for the ten days i was in atlanta they did fine
POPPED4HOURS: cats are better then men
POPPED4HOURS: how independent of them
Bboyblue32: my best friends roommate checked on them
Bboyblue32: cats are different from men
Bboyblue32: i am featuring lesbian realness myself
POPPED4HOURS: speaking of pussy, i came across you're on yahoo's interacial bareback m4m :-)
Bboyblue32: i am on everything Yahoo
Bboyblue32: i didnt know you were on yahoo
POPPED4HOURS: yes, cactitony
Bboyblue32: well I am on yahoo trying to sell ass, cause I can never give my ass away, i always get ass
POPPED4HOURS: well you come across very pig bottom
Bboyblue32: yeah, do you think i have gotten any action....NO
Bboyblue32: there is a nice guy in Ohio i have been talking to
Bboyblue32: nice distant
Bboyblue32: and safe
POPPED4HOURS: very very distant
Bboyblue32: so i can keep up my lesbian pretense
POPPED4HOURS: stopped shaving your legs?
Bboyblue32: i usually only do it once or twice during the summer
Bboyblue32: i am really not that much maintainance
POPPED4HOURS: then you are a lesbian
Bboyblue32: yes i know except i dont eat granola
Bboyblue32: and I shave my pits
POPPED4HOURS: well then, you AREN'T a lesbian
Bboyblue32: well i am a LIT
Bboyblue32: Lesbian in Training
POPPED4HOURS: got it
Bboyblue32: i just cant stand that long underarm hair its unruly
POPPED4HOURS: Soymilk?
Bboyblue32: not that my hair grows that long
Bboyblue32: well adam has been getting me into soy milk
POPPED4HOURS: i have it on my cereal every morning
POPPED4HOURS: high cholestorel
Bboyblue32: thats very healthy of you
Bboyblue32: i am trying to start goin to the gym this week
Bboyblue32: and going on a diet
Bboyblue32: i gained like 20 pounds in atlanta
POPPED4HOURS: i started smoking again this past weekend which i hate
Bboyblue32: and i was big enuff as it was
Bboyblue32: well everyone back slides
POPPED4HOURS: i'm working on it
Bboyblue32: you are probably goin thru a phase
POPPED4HOURS: i am
Bboyblue32: one day at a time sweet jesus
POPPED4HOURS: a bit of a funk
Bboyblue32: thats all i ask of you
Bboyblue32: well today was a funky day for me i was in all day cause of the weather
Bboyblue32: i was gonna go to the museum
Bboyblue32: but it was so icky out
Bboyblue32: i went to the movies yesterday, saw 4 movies
POPPED4HOURS: not that bad once i got myself going
POPPED4HOURS: oh dear, thats a lot of movies
POPPED4HOURS: i'm a DVD hag myself
Bboyblue32: well you have a job...that keeps you busy
POPPED4HOURS: that it does
Bboyblue32: i have to find other ways of keeping myself busy
Bboyblue32: i saw one of the actors from Oz on the street
Bboyblue32: i was like wow
POPPED4HOURS: jump him?
Bboyblue32: i saw, Exorcist, BRing it on(2nd time) Bait, URban Legend
Bboyblue32: no i didnt he was straight
Bboyblue32: he most live in the slope
Bboyblue32: must live in the slope
Bboyblue32: i think i will go to the museum tomorrow and see the hip hop exhibit
POPPED4HOURS: well i'm off to make myself a hearty dinner sandwich sounds like a good day out
Bboyblue32: lol
Bboyblue32: ttyl
POPPED4HOURS: ttyl
[Afterwords: You know I love this just a simple interaction talking about whats going on in our lives. The most important thing to mention about this conversation is that Tony and I who had started off as fuck-buds, then morphed into sort-of dating, were not just friends. I think we accomplished an appropriate friendly energy here. This is why I think the friendship went on to last about another twelve years or so.
From a historical standpoint its hilarious to me that we we're moving away from America Online which up until this point had been the standard for home internet access. I am not sure exactly Bluelight Internet was, its not easy to search for things from twenty years ago, but it seems like it was some free internet service. I think after AOL my next stop was DSL which I would stay on way too long as DSL and Cable battled it out for dominance.
The most brilliant thing I did at this time was leave the city two days after my lay-off. I can't applaud myself more for that. It was a difficult moment being laid off for I think the first and last time in my adult life especially since this occurred during the very notorious Dot Com era of the internet, the Internet 1.0 phase. Leaving Kirshenbaum was a huge risk, I left after my supervisor left and albeit it was good for a moment I was jobless in six months. I wasn't one of those lucky few who landed some place that then later made them internet millionaires. That has never been my lot in life, and I am okay with that, sort of.
For the record I never moved, this was one of two times in my adult life I had considered moving to the South, the second time was Tallahassee Florida, but that didn't work out because I had never focused on developing my credit and couldn't get a rental down there.
My goddess I was very generous back then, I think my giving of plants and flowers ceased after this time period with the exception of the apology flowers I sent to my sister-in-law to be after participating in a very heated argument in her home with one of my cousins. I think it was sweet I had sent Tony a rose plant, I am not sure why, maybe a birthday? I also remember during this time I think I sent Aunt Mary some flowers too or maybe a plant. But haven't done any of that in recent years.
Pussy-time, clearly Anastasia and Neo my cats were still alive as was Tony's all white fur-ball Pom Pom. I miss my cats but have decided I like nice things more than having little furry companions tearing through the house. After Neo died I decided that my next companion would be a dog when I retired, a stray or something I rescue from the pound in Belize where I want to spend my twilight years.
You know this was one of the best interactions I had with a friend regarding my hookup accounts, there wasn't any real judgement just sharing what he observed. This would play out very differently with Adam who was high up on some moral high ground which was so hypocritical when I found the very condom-free videos on his computer of him and his HIV-positive boyfriend Rafi having sexcapades in his bedroom.
I hated my body hair even with how sparse it was, I remember I think I first got rid of it during one of my many trips to Puerto Rico using the very smelly Nair. I enjoyed the feeling of smoothness so much when I got back home I got in the habit of shaving my public bush and the rest of my genitals and ass-crack, I couldn't find a polite way to say ass-crack. I am not quite sure when it changed maybe after I stopped dating in the mid-aughts but I haven't even as much as looked at a razor on my face since two-thousand twenty, and my body easily like maybe two-thousand eight or earlier.
At this time I was at the one of the heaviest moments I was in my adulthood. Albeit I was making some of the best money of my life, I wasn't happy at SF Interactive, and I ballooned. I think in the next two or three years I bought some Nike inline skates which in the early aughts I had become well-known for using to skate everywhere. My body dysmorphia would probably want me to say that I have struggled with my weight my entire adult life. But the fact is I fit into a medium sized t-shirt have since I was a teen, what is big in my head is not is really what is big to the outside world.
My next extreme weight gain as was probably most of the people in the first world countries was during the pandemic. But when we came out of that I lost eighty pounds over the course of a year. I managed to keep it off for about three years surpassing averages, then tired of the regiment and slipped up to a sort-of comfortable weight. Don't get it twisted I am not huge by any means, I am just not my college weight, and it drives me a little crazy when I can't fit into ALL OF MY CLOTHES.
The actor from Oz was Terry Kinney, I wish it had been one of the many hot men on that show, I was always lukewarm about Terry which I finally finished last year.
Soy-milk then and twenty-five years later I am now featuring oat-milk.
I am not sure if this happens to anyone else but films I have seen more than twenty year ago just once I have a tendency to forget. I am checking IMDB and there wasn't a two thousand release of The Exorcist, so I guess maybe I re-watched the original in the theatres?
Damn it, I didn't want to do a thousand words on this instant message conversation, this is my third entry in a row with over two thousand words. But I am seriously enjoying this looking back, and filling in of details of these relationships and situations from my past. I am not saying I have gotten carried away, because what else is an obituary for if not to reflect?
These songs were from around that time,
when both the internet and texting were starting to become common place but man hearing them now is just hilariously dated.
Lyrics about e-mailing, paging and Aol messaging these songs were definitely a product of it’s time and this post is just showcasing that weird trend of displaying website domains in the title of a song.
Such innocent times back when you wanted to go online.
The dot-com bubble (or dot-com boom) was a stock market bubble that ballooned during the late-1990s and peaked on Friday, March 10, 2000. This period of market growth coincided with the widespread adoption of the World Wide Web and the Internet, resulting in a dispensation of available venture capital and the rapid growth of valuations in new dot-com startups.
Between 1995 and its peak in March 2000, investments in the NASDAQ composite stock market index rose 800%, only to fall 78% from its peak by October 2002, giving up all its gains during the bubble.
During the dot-com crash, many online shopping companies, notably Pets.com, Webvan, and Boo.com, as well as several communication companies, such as Worldcom, NorthPoint Communications, and Global Crossing, failed and shut down.[1][2] Others, like Lastminute.com, MP3.com and PeopleSound remained through its sale and buyers acquisition. Larger companies like Amazon and Cisco Systems lost large portions of their market capitalization, with Cisco losing 80% of its stock value.[2][3]
