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server: Can I get your name for the order?
me: Eh . eh.. .. eh. ..... Eh.... .... Evan
server: Took you a minute there, did you forget your name?
me: *
on the inside, while
on the outside* Nawh, I stutter - and my own name is one of the words I consistently trip up on.
me: Eh . eh.. .. eh. ..... Eh.... .... Evan
server: Took you a minute there, did you forget your name?
me: *
on the inside, while on the outside* Nawh, I stutter - and my own name is one of the words I consistently trip up on.
Sometimes I'll respond: "It's Evan" instead of "Evan".
Blending the "s" sound into the starting sound of my name helps avoid getting stuck on the "Eh" sound in my nae.
This did lead to a period of time of people referring to me as "It's Evan" in high school.
Blending the "s" sound into the starting sound of my name helps avoid getting stuck on the "Eh" sound in my nae.
This did lead to a period of time of people referring to me as "It's Evan" in high school.
I avoided watching The Kings Speech for a few years, when I did get around to watching it - I could feel the anxiety he was having so much.
Glad I watched it, and think they did a good job with it - but a few things was like ugh, I could feel the tesnion in my chest building.
Glad I watched it, and think they did a good job with it - but a few things was like ugh, I could feel the tesnion in my chest building.
I've also had a few phone calls / video calls where people have asked
* "are you still there?"
* "I think the connection is bad"
* "you cut out there for a second"
.... and it's just me stuttering.
* "are you still there?"
* "I think the connection is bad"
* "you cut out there for a second"
.... and it's just me stuttering.
I've also had people tell me that the slight pause I have before responding to things, have made me appear that I am being "wise and thoughtful"
.... but also, often me stuttering and getting stuck on a word. Sooo, yeah ;)
.... but also, often me stuttering and getting stuck on a word. Sooo, yeah ;)
Thankfully I did have access to good speech therapy in school.
After I had a teacher try and put me into special ed because I couldn't read outloud, I could read - just not outloud.
Did quite a bit in grade school, and a little bit in high school.
After I had a teacher try and put me into special ed because I couldn't read outloud, I could read - just not outloud.
Did quite a bit in grade school, and a little bit in high school.
One of the ways it's impacted me in a positive way i think - is when I discovered online communities like BBS's, news groups, forums, etc.
Being able to express myself by writing and not worry about getting teased over getting stuck on a word, or how I spoke.
Being able to express myself by writing and not worry about getting teased over getting stuck on a word, or how I spoke.
I wasn't the awkward kid who could barely say his own name, I was some kid behind a h4ndl3 on a forum being helpful and chatty and a wealth of information.
Going online, it's like I turned into the more helpful, friendly version of myself that I wish I could be in person.
Going online, it's like I turned into the more helpful, friendly version of myself that I wish I could be in person.
Getting involved with my local BBS scene when I was in grade school was like opening up a whole new world for me.
I eventually opened up my own BBS. The last version of it was called "ep0ch" - in the 705 area code, until I moved cities - then was in the 905 area code.
I eventually opened up my own BBS. The last version of it was called "ep0ch" - in the 705 area code, until I moved cities - then was in the 905 area code.
Initially - I had all of the common BBS games - L.O.R.D, Usurper, BBS Hacker, etc that almost every other BBS in the area had.
Eventually I decided I wanted to run a different kind of BBS than the others, and removed all of the game.
Eventually I decided I wanted to run a different kind of BBS than the others, and removed all of the game.
Shifted the focus to the forums, and the file area - but instead of being a 'warez board' - I had just started to get access to the internet, and I'd go through new groups, gopher, collect 'hacker zines' like 2600, phreak, etc
Figured killing the games would reduce the number of people using my BBS - but I was ok with that, was wanting to build a different kind of community - and there were a dozen other BBSs's that people could log into and play games on.
I had then heard about FidoNet - and figured out how to set that up and get connected to that network - finding the "nodes" that were the furthest away from me, but still a local phone call so I could connect to them and exchange messages with the network.
for text files I hosted on my BBS - I'd have a general rule of thumb of:
"I needed to read them first, and understand them well enough to write my own summary for them of what it was about"
"I needed to read them first, and understand them well enough to write my own summary for them of what it was about"
I got tired of typing in the summary of all of these files when I uploaded them to my BBS (especially since I would tend to try out different software and reset somewhat often).
I knew that zip files had a file_id.diz in them - that could be used to extract the summary of what was in a zip file to auto-populate it in the forums.
I thought it was silly to zip up a text file to add file_id.diz though
I thought it was silly to zip up a text file to add file_id.diz though
I was learning how to program at the time, and thought:
What if I could put the summary in the text file, and just read it from that?
So I wrote a little program that would extract text between two strings at the top of a file
-file_id.diz-
summary
-file_id.diz-
What if I could put the summary in the text file, and just read it from that?
So I wrote a little program that would extract text between two strings at the top of a file
-file_id.diz-
summary
-file_id.diz-
pretty much an opening tag and closing tag, I was in like grade 7 or something at the time.
In retrospect - the program is super simple, but at the time - I didn't even know how to open a file to read the contents of it.
In retrospect - the program is super simple, but at the time - I didn't even know how to open a file to read the contents of it.
I just had some example source code, and some code/examples from the SWAG archive that I dug through to try and figure things out.
It ended up working, and doing the job I needed it to do
It ended up working, and doing the job I needed it to do
and that was the first "useful" program that I wrote - I had written stuff before that, but this was the first one that did something for me, to make my life easier - and I was damn proud of it.
so uhh, this thread took a turn of "how and why I got into tech/programming"
