Hi everyone, I'm lame

[AJ]

Hey whats up guys.

<troy mclure>
Some of you may remember me from websites such as this one.
</troy mclure>

That was college when i had wayyyy to much time on my hands. I was the post leader, me and hapoo hit 1500, wow! That was when a 40GB Hard drive, a leather chair, a laptop bag + a box of paper clips combined to be $25.56 shipped after 3 stacked coupons.

You know what else was cool? Echo! I think it was called. Those stupid little programs that gave you amazon GC's for listening to their dumb radio stations and rating songs. And alladvantage! $200 a month for their ugly toolbar. Anyway thats it for the nostalgia.

The reason for my post is 'cuz I just read an article on gmail, that the market is being flooded with invites so people can't even sell em on ebay. Which made me wonder: I'm relatively so well connected! I'm a huge freaking geek, i'm a J2EE programmer!! Why the hell don't I have Gmail?? I have orkut? I thought orkut was cool, but apparently that doesn't certify me as cool

So i'm here to hope that one of my old friends can hook me up with an invite because no one of my real life friends is cool enough to have gmail

I'm basically begging so I hope this isnt spam.

To avoid making this real spam, feel free to make the subject of this:
-how the heck are ya AJ?
-lets make an orkut gotApex community so everyone can see how ugly everyone else is!
-gmail is/isnt sweet!
-AllAdvantage/Staples coupons were frickin awesome (good ol days)
-Who is a good sleeper in fantasy baseball?? I vote for Joel Pineiro P SEA.
-does anyone here even HAVE gmail? Does it invade your privacy? I do over email so I don't want the government reading!

Thanks and please remember your ol buddy AJ next time you gmail users get an invite. I love you all. Especially Jenny coleslaw and crew. I love them more.

Edit PS: email is XXX AT terpalum.umd.edu
feel free to send gmail invites OR hatemail! I would enjoy either!
i saw that AT sytyle instead of @ on slashdot. maybe that gets around web spiders to put me on mailing lists.

since i got a gmail I can take down the real email addy!

[poiselle]

Hey, somebody from College Park. Nice to see a local. Sadly I don't have orkut or gmail. I am also leaving CP on Saturday forever, so I guess you won't be local for long. You at UMCP?

[Cubsfan]

Hey, I want gmail too!

[mcs328]

Hooray for another UMCP alumni. I'm c/o of 99. Where you moving to poiselle?

[cheapie]

pm shawnlee105 for an orkut invite

http://www.gotapex.com/forums/member.php?u=886

[cheapie]

will you be able to view your gmail w/outlook express. prolly an incredibly dumb question for you guys but i'm in marketing, not something that actually requires you to know stuff.

[AJ]

Hey, somebody from College Park. Nice to see a local. Sadly I don't have orkut or gmail. I am also leaving CP on Saturday forever, so I guess you won't be local for long. You at UMCP?

I updated my profile in the time you posted! I was UMCP. graduated last may and moved onto a boring existance programming, drinking, computing and sleeping in nearby, semi-affluent bethesda. I have a special place in my heart for the lovely town (read: intersection and adjacent campus area) of CP and its neighbor hyattsville. Went to the courthouse a few times!


Congrats on /if graduating!!!!!


cheapie, thanks for the heads up. I PMmed him and I now have my fingers crossed.

[nickel]

so why are you lame again?

[AJ]

so why are you lame again?

Because I would stoop to getting on my knees in a place I abandoned for 2 years except to post when convenient to me! (Tech trouble, etc) I am a bad person.

cheapie, about gmail in outlook, I'm almost positive they force you to use the web interface so they can subject you to their targeted ads.

[DankNstickY]

i have gmail. but no invites yet. i know theres at least 1 person on here with some invites around. i'll let them present themselves if they like. heh.

and cheapie... no you can't use gmail through another email client yet. supposedly it will be available in the future.

that is all. i have gmail.

</bragging>

[ray]

I can invite people to Orkut. I have gmail (as of yesterday), but can't invite people yet...

[poiselle]

Hooray for another UMCP alumni. I'm c/o of 99. Where you moving to poiselle?

I am defending Friday at 3:00 and moving to Bedminster, NJ bright and early Saturday morning.

[blueindian]

wow, i can't believe that folks were paying money just for a dayum account. f that.

heh..my email has 10gig of storage online and i can store as much as i want on my pc.

and no ads.

i guess what i'm saying is...what's the big deal?

[AJ]

i guess what i'm saying is...what's the big deal?

Its like the South Park where Cartman buys his own amusement park, no one wanted to go to it, it was struggling. He wants it to himself because his pet peeve in life is lines. He puts out ads on TV that scream "This is my park, and you cant come!!" Of course this makes everyone want to go to Cartmanland.

Basically I feel left out. I want to see what the fuss is about.

Also I currently use hotmail, which sucks huge amounts of fill in the blank


Edit: based on what DankNstickY said I probably would have been best served to put "gmail" in the title to get that guy out of the woodwork. Instead I decided to insult myself, sweet.

[cheapie]

i just got an account. i'll invite you if i can aj

i'm such a sucker. what service do you have bi?

[redcolours]

man, this IS nostalgia, AJ. nice to see you again, if only briefly.
dont know of any gmail invites, but ill sure to keep you in mind for it.

alladvantage...he he..remember the trembler?

[cheapie]

YES!!!!!! i got an account. and my last name is available. all by itself. no slashes, underscores, etc. woohoo!

ok. now how do i invite folks?

[AJ]

man, this IS nostalgia, AJ. nice to see you again, if only briefly.
dont know of any gmail invites, but ill sure to keep you in mind for it.

alladvantage...he he..remember the trembler?

The trembler!!!!!!!! HAHAHAHHAHA

that was so awesome.

[blueindian]

what service do you have bi?

i have my own domains hosted and can use neomail,horde,or squirlle mail on the web or outlook at home.

[ray]

YES!!!!!! i got an account. and my last name is available. all by itself. no slashes, underscores, etc. woohoo!

ok. now how do i invite folks?

Google will occasinally send invites to random beta users...the beta users can then invite people...

It's a waiting game cheapie

[cheapie]

How do I invite others to join Gmail?

Answer return to Help Center



Because we're currently only offering Gmail as part of a preview release and limited test, we don't have details on when Gmail will be made more widely available.
As we make way for more accounts, we may periodically allow you to invite others to join Gmail. When we do so, you will see an invitation link in your inbox.

If you do not see the invitation link, that means that we are unable to provide you with additional invitations at this time.

To invite someone, click on the 'Invite a friend to join Gmail!' link in your inbox. You will then be asked to provide an email address and a personalized message to your invitee.

The person you invite will be sent a message that includes a link to join Gmail. That registration link will be valid for three weeks and can be used to create only one account.

Should your invitee have problems creating a Gmail account, please let us know by clicking on the 'contact us' link in the grey box below.

Please note that the link may not always be available. When you are allowed to invite others to join Gmail, the number of invitations that you can send will be indicated at the top of the page after you click on the link. Once you have used all of those invitations, we will not be able to immediately issue more invitations.

[Cubsfan]

Google will occasinally send invites to random beta users...the beta users can then invite people...

It's a waiting game cheapie

Keep me in mind!

[ray]

I'll sell them too! bwahahaha. just kidding. i'll hook people up if and when i get invites.

[AJ]

so i got a gmail account. from bugging some people in my office and promising my first invite to the guy who gave his up so I could use it. youd think I could come up with a better name than 'ajrowe'.

As soon as i get some invites I will share the weath here. I still love all of you!!

[cheapie]

wow. the email sorting function is great.

[DarkFury]

I may have to get into this as well...

Large attachments are the bane of my current "hotmail" setup.

[Jenny]

roflmao

AJ I should SOOOO move this to the SPAM forum. hahaha

How ya doin? Where ya been?? hehe

[AJ]

I may have to get into this as well...

Large attachments are the bane of my current "hotmail" setup.

Someone sent me (unknowing that I use 2MB hotmail) a 1.25 MB photo. Since of course I stlil had about ~1MB worth of mail, which is absolutely nothing, of course my account is frozen. damn hotmail. That is just unnacceptable. I must say although not quite visually pleasing, gmail looks very promising!

DarkFury, lets hurry up and get you one while Dark.Fury@gmail is still available...We wouldnt want you to have to get Dark.Fury.12729813298329@gmail!!!

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PS In classic AJ tradition, 90% of my posts are edited. I didn't see Jenny's post initially...

Jenny, i've been great, just alot less time to spend hunting deals online. I have been lurking and keeping up with you guys. I watched the car wreck that was the AIComputers thread/deal-- wow, that was natural human drama right there, I couldn't stop reading it, I even posted!

So although you didnt hear from me I was hovering overhead like an angel in heaven watching over you. Except I share more qualities with a hovering cicada than a hovering angel.

And yes being in DC I am weathering The Perfect Cicada Storm. Its so overrated, they are horribly obnoxious.

[DarkFury]

DarkFury, lets hurry up and get you one while Dark.Fury@gmail is still available...We wouldnt want you to have to get Dark.Fury.12729813298329@gmail!!!

So what does it take just to sign up? I see that some folks already have, yet they just can't invite. Did someone invite them first?

[AJ]

So what does it take just to sign up? I see that some folks already have, yet they just can't invite. Did someone invite them first?

Basically, Google "credits" current Gmail users intermittantly with an "INVITE", and with no particular rhyme reason or formula. They can then use that invite on whoever they choose. Those of us joining google need to wait for google to bless us with an invite credit.

See the link in my first post and check this auction:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...ayphotohosting
to get a better idea. The first article cites reports of 6 invites in a couple days for some users, but before recently it would be weeks in between invites for most users.