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Should I be seeking therapy?

pacmanpacman Posts: 327
edited 2009-11-03 21:06 in Propeller 1
I'm concerned (I think).

I've gone and made this forum my home page in my browser.. got to get my fix..

(I sniff about in some of the others {Sandbox,Sensors,Completed projects}, but this was/is always the first page I go to when I'm on-line)

Perhaps I should have made "IHaveAnAddicition.com" my home page instead?..


Please tell me I'm not the only sad one here....

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  • BradCBradC Posts: 2,601
    edited 2009-10-31 09:29
    pacman said...

    Please tell me I'm not the only sad one here....

    Nah, you're not the only one.

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  • Clock LoopClock Loop Posts: 2,069
    edited 2009-10-31 10:21
    along with other sites, like digg.com, tomshardware.com, etc...
    I have parallax forums as one of the websites that I have as a home page.

    No, its perfectly normal to be enthusiastic about electronics.
  • MagIO2MagIO2 Posts: 2,243
    edited 2009-10-31 12:34
    You must be mixing something up ... the propeller IS the therapy.

    How else would you survive the dayly madness of life? Children watching TV the whole day doing nothing creative need therapy.
  • FearTurtlesFearTurtles Posts: 89
    edited 2009-10-31 13:00
    I don't have the forum set as my homepage but I do have Parallax.com set as my home page. This helps to insure that I check out the deal of the day ever day. 8-p Then from there I click on the forum link to get to here.
  • Toby SeckshundToby Seckshund Posts: 2,027
    edited 2009-10-31 15:20
    "No, its perfectly normal to be enthusiastic about electronics." I have never met a woman that would say that.

    It is the therapy that I really on. Without it I, and the two bunnies, would loose our tentative grip on reality in this house.

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  • mctriviamctrivia Posts: 3,772
    edited 2009-10-31 15:29
    I got worse. This is my black berry home page

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  • Oldbitcollector (Jeff)Oldbitcollector (Jeff) Posts: 8,091
    edited 2009-10-31 15:44
    You're asking the addicts... [noparse]:)[/noparse] Yup.. It's on my Bookmark bar.. Clicked on a very regular basis.. [noparse]:)[/noparse]

    OBC

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  • KyeKye Posts: 2,200
    edited 2009-10-31 15:46
    Yeah I come here way to much. Since I like electronics alot and this is what I do its much more fun to talk about propeller stuff than about random things on facebook.

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  • ElectricAyeElectricAye Posts: 4,561
    edited 2009-10-31 16:01
    Your addiction is dangerously out of control.
    As your therapist, I highly recommend that you break this cycle of self-destruction immediately and go "cold turkey".
    You must isolate yourself from the Propeller as soon as possible.
    Do not delay.
    Pack up all of your Propeller chips at once and send them to me for safe keeping.

    Trust me. I know what I'm doing here.

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  • HollyMinkowskiHollyMinkowski Posts: 1,398
    edited 2009-10-31 20:55
    Toby said...
    "No, its perfectly normal to be enthusiastic about electronics." I have never met a woman that would say that.

    Now you have smile.gif

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  • simonlsimonl Posts: 866
    edited 2009-10-31 22:47
    Errm; yeah - My name's Simon and I have PFA (Propeller Forum Addiction). I have it on my quick launch bar, and I spend waaaay too much time using it - in fact I have PFA so bad I rarely get to actually code for my Propeller! I kid you not :-(

    Now - I'm off to read "What if I _need_ an interrupt?" LOL

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  • Cluso99Cluso99 Posts: 18,069
    edited 2009-11-01 06:37
    I need regular therapy too LOL

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  • Toby SeckshundToby Seckshund Posts: 2,027
    edited 2009-11-01 10:43
    Holly, we have so much in common.

    I too, am 104lbs of trouble (the other 104lbs is just seething resentment )

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  • MicrocontrolledMicrocontrolled Posts: 2,461
    edited 2009-11-01 11:46
    Well, I need it to!! Sometimes I'll spend more time on the forum then I do actully coding!! (Exept when I have a project going) I have this as my Palm homepage and my browser automaticly opens it in a second tab!! I even got a portable fold up keyboard for my Palm so I can type on the forum anytime, I'm laying on my bed right now typing!!

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  • Toby SeckshundToby Seckshund Posts: 2,027
    edited 2009-11-01 16:27
    microcontrolled

    Getting close to a bit too much detail there. Theres no need to increase the need for therapy.

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  • Oldbitcollector (Jeff)Oldbitcollector (Jeff) Posts: 8,091
    edited 2009-11-01 16:48
    So far I've found a few ways to handle this addiction here...

    Having a Propeller in my laptop bag with a USB video capture cable.
    (Having the forums open, propeller powered up, and Spin editor minimized reduces the DT's)

    Formation of the "Unofficial Propeller Expo"
    (Attending a Propeller expo is serious "junkie fix")

    Boxes from Parallax
    (New toys which can attach to the Propeller also help.)

    OBC

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  • Bill HenningBill Henning Posts: 6,445
    edited 2009-11-01 17:06
    Help me, I am having UPEW withdrawal symptoms!
    Oldbitcollector said...
    So far I've found a few ways to handle this addiction here...

    Having a Propeller in my laptop bag with a USB video capture cable.
    (Having the forums open, propeller powered up, and Spin editor minimized reduces the DT's)

    Formation of the "Unofficial Propeller Expo"
    (Attending a Propeller expo is serious "junkie fix")

    Boxes from Parallax
    (New toys which can attach to the Propeller also help.)

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  • jazzedjazzed Posts: 11,803
    edited 2009-11-01 17:06
    As my number of posts approached 2048 (a nice power of 2), I considered going cold turkey. No luck [noparse]:)[/noparse]
    Jan 7. 2000 I finally quit smoking after 10 years of thinking about it; having a good reason was the cure.
    I haven't found a good enough reason to willingly, permanently quit visiting this forum. Still, there is hope.
  • AleAle Posts: 2,363
    edited 2009-11-01 17:10
    I never furn off my home PC, just goes to sleep from time to time means that the browser is running all the time. Let's see: Google mail, Facebook, This forums, Altera's web site, Micron's, Xilinx', Digikey, eevblog and OpenCores... I don't see a pattern here, do you ? smile.gif. Tomorrow I'll add GirlGenius, Badische Zeitung, and who knows what else.
    If I'm at the uni, I always have this forums open. And I also spend more time than coding :-(,

    Holly: we need more women like you.

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  • MicrocontrolledMicrocontrolled Posts: 2,461
    edited 2009-11-01 17:36
    I don't view the forums as an addition, but my parents do. smile.gifsmile.gif

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  • mctriviamctrivia Posts: 3,772
    edited 2009-11-01 18:59
    My wife seems to think it is a bad addiction.

    Best thing I found was to have parallax email my blackberry and subscribe to interesting threads. That way I only check when someone responds.

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  • Roger LeeRoger Lee Posts: 339
    edited 2009-11-01 21:25
    This topic is making me very uncomfortable.
  • MicrocontrolledMicrocontrolled Posts: 2,461
    edited 2009-11-01 21:26
    Just watch it get to 2 pages!! LOL

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  • W9GFOW9GFO Posts: 4,010
    edited 2009-11-01 22:43
    I'm just a recreational user. I can stop whenever I want.

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  • James LongJames Long Posts: 1,181
    edited 2009-11-01 22:57
    Ha.......

    I've gone further than most. I got so deep, I spent $70,000.00 to build electronics. Now that is an addiction.

    The only problem...now that I'm building them, I have no time to play with them.

    James L

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  • potatoheadpotatohead Posts: 10,261
    edited 2009-11-02 05:23
    LOL!!

    IMHO, there are worse things in this world than some minor --even major league addiction to micro-electronics, and the community surrounding them here.

    Personally, I consider it an absolutely wonderful problem to have.

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  • James LongJames Long Posts: 1,181
    edited 2009-11-02 05:30
    Yea....but the company and I would love to make it to a UPEN or UPEW to give some free lectures on surface mount or information for assembly preparation.

    Plus...it would be fun to get with the Prop heads for some ideas and fun.

    Can't seem to swing it yet......maybe one day.

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  • BigFootBigFoot Posts: 259
    edited 2009-11-02 19:41
    I think it is all Chips fault,

    If he hadn't conceived such an incredible processor that can used in so many different fields for so many different applications
    we wouldn't all have these problem's.

    Wait till the Propeller II hits the market.

    Russ [noparse]:)[/noparse]...
  • Toby SeckshundToby Seckshund Posts: 2,027
    edited 2009-11-02 19:48
    At work we have been sent a flip top 3" "Panic Button". It's just a small micro with a EEPROM set up to go to the company, that sent it, website. I was going to reprogram it to go somewhere rude, and leave it lying around. Now I suppose that it could be set to this forum.

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  • MicrocontrolledMicrocontrolled Posts: 2,461
    edited 2009-11-02 21:57
    Well, for a while you will be seeing me around here more then ever. My computer crashed and I have lost a lot of work. I will get someone to revive it if I can but in the meantime what else will I do? Post here of course!!

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    Robots are microcontrolled.
    I am microcontrolled.

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    SX Spinning light display·
    Want cheap wholesale electronic parts?
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