8 years 12 days ago

I don't know why, James, but I thought you always had that avatar.


Edited by darkshade - February 16 2012 at 09:39

Slartibartfast wrote: Utmost respect for those who pick an avatar and stick with it.  I'm not sure if I'm going to stick with the current one or return to my recurring customized cartoon avatar.  I find the avatar combined with the cat pic in the sig is pretty cool and it's art you won't encounter anywhere else.

I mostly stick with my avatar because people threaten violence if I were to do otherwise.

Matt's avatar has always confused me.  I've never understood how a cat could be A Person.  Or is it A Person could be a cat?

rushfan4 wrote: Matt's avatar has always confused me.  I've never understood how a cat could be A Person.  Or is it A Person could be a cat?

Edited by Slartibartfast - February 16 2012 at 11:02

Jim Garten wrote: I searched the phrase 'progressive rock', found & joined this site. At the time, I think there were about 20 members all in all & since then, rising in the ranks through newbie, groupie, senior member, collaborator & for the last several years as a member of the Admin Team, I've seen this site develop from a fairly primitive website dedicated to the music I love to the huge concern it is today with over 38,000 members & containing exhaustive detail of nearly 7,000 bands. I've seen members come & go, I've seen names change, alliegances change, I've seen friends won & lost, I've made some extremely good friends, I believe in suggesting Opeth in the very early days, I'm probably responsible for many prog vs prog-metal etc arguments (), I remember the Shred in its very first incarnation as a bit of whimsy called the Maria Carey Thread... and yes, I remember Velvetclown... I've survived the Queen wars, the great Radiohead revolution & seen ELP's stock go up, be brought down as the most reviled act on the site, to back up again; I've also seen approximately 20,000 threads dedicated to Dream Theater . +++sigh+++ I've seen some changes...

Edited by Sean Trane - February 17 2012 at 04:12

ExittheLemming wrote: A Guide to the Normal Career Path on PA:   1 - Flagrant Troll 2 - Subtle Troll 3 - Reformed Troll 4 - Collab 5 - Admin 6 - Normal Person (I've seen pictures yes, but anyone know one?)

sleeper wrote: I think I remember the sun, not sure. I remember you used to have a Gecko for your avy James, went with your origional screen name, until some one else started using it.

James was gecko? I hated that guy! Oh..wait....yep. That makes so much sense to me now.

rushfan4 wrote: TheGazzardian wrote: rushfan4 wrote: I'm a relative n00b compared to most of the posters in this thread.    I was cataloging my CD collection by adding the albums that I own into an Access database including the track listings and their times.  I found myself googling/searching albums on-line in order to look up track lengths for CDs that didn't have them readily available on the CD or CD booklet, and found myself directed to PA multiple times with these searches.  I eventually moved in, and here I remain, despite a few half-hearted efforts to leave.  iTunes or Windows Media player didn't do a good enough job for you? Short answer: No.   Long answer:  I'm an accountant and therefore anal about keeping records.  One of the motivations behind it was to learn how to use Access, since I was only mildly familiar with it at the time that I started the project.

Oh good grief - I was using Access to catalogue my CD collection long before iTunes was created and long before Media player had a "music library" to do that for you. In those days even ripping a CD to PC was a task that took several hours and some external hardware, and Gracenote (CDDB as was) was still a little used toy in the GNU library.