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El Blasto from the Past! See wvjohn and FP when they were young!

Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2018 4:19 pm
by wvjohn
way back in 2009!

https://imgur.com/a/CldPl8o

Re: El Blasto from the Past! See wvjohn and FP when they were young!

Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2018 5:12 pm
by FlyingPenguin
I still have more hair than you :P

Re: El Blasto from the Past! See wvjohn and FP when they were young!

Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2018 6:03 pm
by Executioner
Here is me back in 1976 @22 yrs:
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Here is me now - fatter, older, and losing my hair:
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Re: El Blasto from the Past! See wvjohn and FP when they were young!

Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2018 10:03 pm
by Pugsley
The only thing that matters is do you still kart?

Re: El Blasto from the Past! See wvjohn and FP when they were young!

Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2018 10:55 pm
by Executioner
Pugsley wrote:The only thing that matters is do you still kart?
No. I have a blood disorder called Protein C Deficiency. I had a blood clot back in 1997 in my leg. I'm on COUMADIN which is a prescription medicine used to treat blood clots and to lower the chance of blood clots forming in your body. Blood clots can cause a stroke, heart attack, or other serious conditions if they form in the legs or lungs. After an analysis of my blood, they determined it was Protein C Deficiency. I've also been permanently excused from jury duty. I have to limit my travel to ~1 hour on a plane etc. Sucks. No more motorcycles, skiing, racing, etc.

The docs told me that I can't do anything that will risk an injury as I may bleed to death. In my 20's, I never even knew I had this issue.

Re: El Blasto from the Past! See wvjohn and FP when they were young!

Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2018 3:46 am
by reno
its kind of scary in a way how long most of us have been members on the forum. going back to the days when it was AGN for some I know.

Re: El Blasto from the Past! See wvjohn and FP when they were young!

Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2018 5:50 pm
by Executioner
Yep - I remember AGN. One of my first forums that I registered along with Anand when he was only 14 and testing hardware.

Re: El Blasto from the Past! See wvjohn and FP when they were young!

Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2018 9:21 pm
by FlyingPenguin
Well let's hijack this thread and turn it into the "WTF did I look like in my 20s?" thread.

Young Penguin... and yeah, I still have the beer. :)

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Re: El Blasto from the Past! See wvjohn and FP when they were young!

Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2018 9:29 pm
by Executioner
It's amazing how people physically change over time. Just like me, looks like you put on a few pounds LOL. In that pic of me with the kart, my weight was only 190 lbs. Now I weigh 275 lbs. I'm 6'1" tall.

Re: El Blasto from the Past! See wvjohn and FP when they were young!

Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2018 8:18 am
by wvjohn
I will add some pics of me later. I am at my dad's place in delaware opening up his house. his el cheapo verizon dsl is running at 2.3/1,5 - I can barely hit the net at all, most stuff just times out.

Re: El Blasto from the Past! See wvjohn and FP when they were young!

Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2018 4:28 pm
by reno
it's funny at one time i had so many members phone no. (going back to the days when are leader was mike -Blade) {sure miss him still} if memory service right 90 % of those were home no. if i were to find that list im guessing 95 % or more would be disconnected if i was to try calling them.

Re: El Blasto from the Past! See wvjohn and FP when they were young!

Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2018 7:05 pm
by Nuby1Canuby
FlyingPenguin wrote:I still have more hair than you :P
Looks like you've got more hair then me too.
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Re: El Blasto from the Past! See wvjohn and FP when they were young!

Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2018 7:07 pm
by Nuby1Canuby
Here's a pic of me in 1981 on my honeymoon:
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Re: El Blasto from the Past! See wvjohn and FP when they were young!

Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2018 8:53 am
by FlyingPenguin
Fixed your links. Had to drop the HTTPS.

Funny, you SOUND like your younger photo on Teamspeak.

Re: El Blasto from the Past! See wvjohn and FP when they were young!

Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2018 8:31 pm
by Nuby1Canuby
FlyingPenguin wrote:Fixed your links. Had to drop the HTTPS.

Funny, you SOUND like your younger photo on Teamspeak.
Thanks. It's bizarre that it works fine for me in Firefox and Edge with the HTTPS, but not with Chrome and Internet Explorer 11.