Is this an addiction?
Can't stop
Thursday, July 21, 2005 by Chasbo | Discussion: OS Customization
I can't stop going to Wincustomize. I change my desktops almost everyday. I am constantly experimenting with skins old and new. What gives? Is this an addiction? My wife says it's legal crack! 
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starkers
Reply #24 Tuesday, July 26, 2005 10:06 PM
Reply #24 Tuesday, July 26, 2005 10:06 PM
I have come to the conclusion that it's not an addiction, nor an obsession....nor a sickness for which one should be treated.
NO, it's a way of life: the air we breath; the dreams we dream; everything we do.
Last night I dreamt skins, skins, skins. I can almost taste the next great skin to be posted
As for the other woman... well I'm in even more trouble...I'm now sleeping with her as well...if and when I ever get to bed.
The Brad Wardell rehab clinic? Seems to me that such a place would only exist for those who don't skin
NO, it's a way of life: the air we breath; the dreams we dream; everything we do.
Last night I dreamt skins, skins, skins. I can almost taste the next great skin to be posted
As for the other woman... well I'm in even more trouble...I'm now sleeping with her as well...if and when I ever get to bed.
The Brad Wardell rehab clinic? Seems to me that such a place would only exist for those who don't skin
Shotgun989
Reply #25 Tuesday, August 2, 2005 11:14 PM
Reply #25 Tuesday, August 2, 2005 11:14 PM
Chasbo:"My name is Chasbo and I'm a customization addict."
Group:"Hi Chasbo."
Group:"Hi Chasbo."
pryncssdeb
Reply #26 Thursday, August 4, 2005 12:22 AM
Reply #26 Thursday, August 4, 2005 12:22 AM
Hi, my name is deb, and I too have another man. He sits at the foot of my bed every night, begging me to awaken and turn him on, only to open up firefox and get another skin/theme fix. Although he's getting old, he's still going strong, and nothing in sight to make me think he may need to be retired. Just a few joints replaced(memory), maybe a new hip(harddrive), and some bandaides on his digits (I love you key #6!!!), and in a few weeks he'll be fine. Sure, he gets new clothes (skins) every day, but there is only so much love a woman can put into her man. 
deb
deb
Chasbo
Reply #27 Thursday, August 4, 2005 10:57 AM
Reply #27 Thursday, August 4, 2005 10:57 AM
Is this an intervention? Please I'm jonesin'!!!!!
starkers
Reply #28 Thursday, August 4, 2005 12:35 PM
Reply #28 Thursday, August 4, 2005 12:35 PM
Ok Deb....so you dress and undress your other man, you've obviously invited him into your bedroom and provided some first aid, but you've made no mention of the other-other man's take on all this.
Have you been given dirty looks and the silent treatment over this love affair? Have you ever had your password changed secretively....candles lit so you think the power's off? If not, your addiction is only in its early stages and there's still hope.... The fact that you even have to turn him on says alot. Addiction = shouldn't even be off in the first place.
Yesterday the front door was locked behind me when asked to check the mail....the measures my other half will go to
Have you been given dirty looks and the silent treatment over this love affair? Have you ever had your password changed secretively....candles lit so you think the power's off? If not, your addiction is only in its early stages and there's still hope....
The fact that you even have to turn him on says alot. Addiction = shouldn't even be off in the first place.Yesterday the front door was locked behind me when asked to check the mail....the measures my other half will go to
BoXXi
Reply #29 Thursday, August 4, 2005 8:55 PM
Reply #29 Thursday, August 4, 2005 8:55 PM
| 3 hours later I finally crawled into bed |
Remember, the computer is a time machine.......... If you want to move forward in time 3 hours, sit at the computer for 5 minutes......
starkers
Reply #30 Thursday, August 4, 2005 9:12 PM
Reply #30 Thursday, August 4, 2005 9:12 PM
Right on, BoXXi....but I've time-shifted considerably more than 3 hours. I'm reminded of the "Time Machine" with Rod Taylor, with the sunrise and sunset scenes rapidly passing....mine don't change so quickly, but when dusk and dawn seem only moments apart for days on end....well... time travel seems less of a sci-fi fantasy
artweasloh
Reply #31 Thursday, August 4, 2005 10:53 PM
Reply #31 Thursday, August 4, 2005 10:53 PM
yeah! WC is as you put it, an "ADDICTION". i have from it and never would i let it out of my system! whohohoho!!! Go Wincustomize!!! 
Bones2112
Reply #33 Friday, August 5, 2005 4:42 AM
My wife named my computer Samantha, go figure. Only time she gets any rest is a quick reboot. Plus Sam is high maintenance, always demanding a new wardrobe, upgrades, new software, the list goes on. You all are right, maybe Brad should put a psychiatrist on staff, help us with some the pains of addiction.
Reply #33 Friday, August 5, 2005 4:42 AM
| My wife calls my computer my 'girlfriend' |
My wife named my computer Samantha, go figure. Only time she gets any rest is a quick reboot. Plus Sam is high maintenance, always demanding a new wardrobe, upgrades, new software, the list goes on. You all are right, maybe Brad should put a psychiatrist on staff, help us with some the pains of addiction.
starkers
Reply #34 Friday, August 5, 2005 11:35 AM
The pains of addiction.....only come with: getting booted/ISP down; power failures; puter downtimes/in the repair shop, and recently for me, when the power cord is sabotaged by wifey....luckily I had a spare. If Brad puts a shrink on staff, I sure hope the doc is also available by phone.....
I'm getting real worried now...wifey just came home with some new gas lamps and is talking about converting to gas hot water and cooking....guess the power bill ain't gettin' paid....given the candle deception failed miserably when, in desperation, I fired up my 'other woman' in the semi-darkness and began to undress her in preparation for a new suit
Reply #34 Friday, August 5, 2005 11:35 AM
| maybe Brad should put a psychiatrist on staff, help us with some the pains of addiction. |
The pains of addiction.....only come with: getting booted/ISP down; power failures; puter downtimes/in the repair shop, and recently for me, when the power cord is sabotaged by wifey....luckily I had a spare. If Brad puts a shrink on staff, I sure hope the doc is also available by phone.....
I'm getting real worried now...wifey just came home with some new gas lamps and is talking about converting to gas hot water and cooking....guess the power bill ain't gettin' paid....given the candle deception failed miserably when, in desperation, I fired up my 'other woman' in the semi-darkness and began to undress her in preparation for a new suit
artweasloh
Reply #35 Sunday, August 7, 2005 8:26 PM
Reply #35 Sunday, August 7, 2005 8:26 PM
i changed my opinion. this is not an addiction. i call it: PASSION! addiction seems a little harsh for a word. so i say WC is a passion for those who love "dressing" their PC's to suit thier own taste. Repeat after me: PASSION!
47songs
Reply #36 Sunday, August 7, 2005 8:50 PM
Reply #36 Sunday, August 7, 2005 8:50 PM
Passion is if you take your laptop to bed. And I do! You know, some people light up a cig after sex? I turn on my computer!
Sleeping Dragon
Reply #37 Sunday, August 7, 2005 9:14 PM
Not during, though, right?
Reply #37 Sunday, August 7, 2005 9:14 PM
| You know, some people light up a cig after sex? I turn on my computer |
Not during, though, right?
Jafo
Reply #38 Sunday, August 7, 2005 9:18 PM
Reply #38 Sunday, August 7, 2005 9:18 PM
| Not during, though, right? |
During, he just THINKS about turning on the computer....
boopish
Reply #39 Sunday, August 7, 2005 9:23 PM
Reply #39 Sunday, August 7, 2005 9:23 PM
Yes, I'm obcessed! I have zillions of ideas for skins spinning around in my head...and sit endless hours in front of my little friend, trying to coax Photoshop to do what I want it to do!
I pore over the Tutorials at Skinartistry...practicing and practicing a new skill in PS just to get that skin to look like I imagined it to be!!!
I see a wallpaper at DA and just have to make a skin to compliment it!!! I see others making Rainies and just have to figure out how to do it myself!
My shoe cupboard is gathering dust as I have switched addictions....I'm old...who needs more than 4 hours of sleep anyways!!
Luckily, I am no longer in the working for a living years... so how else am I supposed to fill my days? Soaps suck, can't loft a golf ball to save my life, the arthritis has severley hampered my painting.... can't knit and would rather eat bugs than get back to the gym! hubby, on the other hand, is a triathelete - when he's not out in the shop making some wonderful piece of funiture or another, he's running, biking or swimming endless laps.
But neither of us is addicted. Hell no, this is a life style!
I can quit anytime I want....yeah...I could just ...well maybe after I get this one skin just right, this start panel needs a little something......and I wonder how these colors would look together....
I pore over the Tutorials at Skinartistry...practicing and practicing a new skill in PS just to get that skin to look like I imagined it to be!!!
I see a wallpaper at DA and just have to make a skin to compliment it!!! I see others making Rainies and just have to figure out how to do it myself!
My shoe cupboard is gathering dust as I have switched addictions....I'm old...who needs more than 4 hours of sleep anyways!!
Luckily, I am no longer in the working for a living years... so how else am I supposed to fill my days? Soaps suck, can't loft a golf ball to save my life, the arthritis has severley hampered my painting.... can't knit and would rather eat bugs than get back to the gym! hubby, on the other hand, is a triathelete - when he's not out in the shop making some wonderful piece of funiture or another, he's running, biking or swimming endless laps.
But neither of us is addicted. Hell no, this is a life style!
I can quit anytime I want....yeah...I could just ...well maybe after I get this one skin just right, this start panel needs a little something......and I wonder how these colors would look together....
47songs
Reply #40 Sunday, August 7, 2005 9:49 PM
I'm a little embarrassed to admit it, Bill, Jafo, but I have on occation thought of someone I forgot to email that day, "during!"
Betty, breath in through the nose, out through the mouth. Hyperventilating is not allowed at Wincustomize! And um...bring him indoors!!
Reply #40 Sunday, August 7, 2005 9:49 PM
| Not during, though, right? |
I'm a little embarrassed to admit it, Bill, Jafo, but I have on occation thought of someone I forgot to email that day, "during!"
Betty, breath in through the nose, out through the mouth. Hyperventilating is not allowed at Wincustomize! And um...bring him indoors!!
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Reply #21 Tuesday, July 26, 2005 2:54 PM
Veery interesting. My wife calls my computer my 'girlfriend' or "the other woman". I also have two friends whose wives say the same thing about their computers. O.K., so are there any ladies out there who have this other man problem?