10-14-2008, 03:03 PM | #1 |
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Greetings from the land of fire
CCLady here. The CC stands for Culver City, part of Los Angeles. I just bought myself a Kindle as an early birthday present, and I already love it. I'm looking forward to interesting discussions and recommendations for reading on my new toy!
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10-14-2008, 03:04 PM | #2 |
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Welcome, from an ex-San Bernardino-ite. I'm sure you'll just grow to love your Kindle more each day.....
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10-14-2008, 03:34 PM | #3 |
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Hi CCLady and welcome to the Forum. Be sure and check out all the free books available here on MobileRead and the new Book of the Month club here https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=30382
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10-14-2008, 04:40 PM | #4 | |
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Welcome to the forum, and please do try to stay unburnt. |
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10-14-2008, 04:49 PM | #5 |
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Yes, we prefer our new members UN-burnt. Just like our breakfast toast. Which we munch while reading our Kindles! You'll LOVE it!
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10-14-2008, 05:11 PM | #6 |
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Welcome, and I look forward to hearing about your experience with Kindle.
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10-14-2008, 05:15 PM | #7 |
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10-14-2008, 06:30 PM | #8 | |
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I know it's changed a TON!! I go back every few years to visit old friends from my days at the UCLA Medical Center. |
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10-15-2008, 10:14 AM | #9 | |
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Have you seen the Med Center lately? Since the "grand opening" with the new name, etc.? |
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10-15-2008, 12:14 PM | #10 | |
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Ah ... Reiber!! You'll appreciate this then. I was walking up dormie hill one night during what was a really rare thunder and lightning storm. Just classic ... really dramatic. Suddenly, someone in Hedrick starts playing the theme from 2001 (the "Also Sprach Zarathustra"), and then comes a voice over that announced quite loudly ... REIBER!! THIS IS GOD SPEAKING!! I was laughing so hard, I don't even remember what the rest of the divine announcement was. Of course, I don't know if Hedrick was even built when you were there, but in my day the two dorms had a great rivalry. I don't know why, I just know they did. Maybe something about sharing cafeteria space on the weekends. Did you know they are now packing kids into those dorm rooms THREE at a time?? There was barely room for two, and now those rooms routinely hold three. |
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10-15-2008, 05:15 PM | #11 |
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I remember when Hedrick was built - one of my dorm pals was the grandson of the guy it's named for - and I also remember climbing dormie hill before there were steps - solid (or not so solid) mud. . .
3 in one of those rooms? Geeze, they must be much better friends than my roommate and I ever were. . . |
10-15-2008, 08:11 PM | #12 |
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No kidding those dorm rooms were (are) TINY!!! My first year I didn't have a roommate, which was rather nice. The second year I had a great roomie for the first quarter, and a heavy smoker the second quarter. She was a nice person, but I'm a severe asthmatic, so it wasn't the best match-up.
My sister went to UCLA for a while as well. She was in Dykstra Hall her freshman year (that would have been 1966), but she was a theater arts major, and I guess the competition in that program was just too much for her, so she transferred to Long Beach State. I still remember her introducing me to Lew Alcindor when I went to visit her ... I must have been about 14 then. I pretty much lived over at the Bomb Shelter .... was that built when you were there?? It was in the Life Sciences quad, and I was a Chemistry major, so I was mostly either there or in the stacks of the Bio Med Library. OK .... now I'm stuck in deep past mode. |
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