Ultimate moments--the feeling when you are in the middle of something great and extraordinary

[Tommy_Carcetti]

That you are smack dab in the middle of something which you know is the ultimate, that you can't get any better than it?

It could be a once in a lifetime event, or it could be something that you can repeat but you never get tired of because you know it can't be topped. Either way, you know it when you feel it.

It could be something as simple as eating a favorite food or listening to a favorite song, or it could be a life changing event.

It is a euphoric type of feeling. You get to live in the moment. It's not a wish, hope or dream of something you want to happen. Nor is it a memory of something that has already happened and you are trying to relive but only in your head. You are actually there in the here and now, and all you need to do is sit back and let the moment envelop you.

So what are your "ultimate moments"?

Here are some of mine:

1. Swimming in Ichetucknee Springs, knowing that I got to enjoy this place of extraordinary natural beauty on a very personal basis.

2. Listening to the Smashing Pumpkin's "Starla" and knowing it is the greatest, most kick-ass rock song I've ever heard in my life.

3. Walking down the ramps at Dolphin Stadium after watching the Florida Marlins win on a walk-off single by Pudge Rodriguez in Game 3 of the 2003 NLDS, and seeing thousands of fans screaming at the top of their lungs in victory and waving towels.

4. Tasting the baby-back ribs I cooked from scratch, and knowing it was the best ribs that I had ever tasted, and that I (who am hardly a cook) made them myself.

Pretty simple moments, nothing too earth shattering, but I just got that feeling where I got to enjoy living in the moment. Some of them I can repeat, others I can't, but they were all terrific.

[Chan790]

1. I can't answer because we'll get locked.

Let's just say I'm a very lustful person.

Because I think people are going to go overboard...IBTL.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

2. Yeah, I was thinking of things other than the prurient...

Although that is an obvious answer.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

3. Bump n/t

[hunter]

4. BSD. That's the spark that lit off the internet.

It was magic. I've kept some of the manuals I printed when it was a newborn.

A VAX computer was installed at Berkeley in 1978, but the port of Unix to the VAX architecture, UNIX/32V, did not take advantage of the VAX's virtual memory capabilities. The kernel of 32V was largely rewritten by Berkeley students to include a virtual memory implementation, and a complete operating system including the new kernel, ports of the 2BSD utilities to the VAX, and the utilities from 32V was released as 3BSD at the end of 1979. 3BSD was also alternatively called Virtual VAX/UNIX or VMUNIX (for Virtual Memory Unix), and BSD kernel images were normally called /vmunix until 4.4BSD.

The success of 3BSD was a major factor in the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA) decision to fund Berkeley's Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG), which would develop a standard Unix platform for future DARPA research in the VLSI Project. CSRG released 4BSD, containing numerous improvements to the 3BSD system, in October 1980.

4BSD (November 1980) offered a number of enhancements over 3BSD, notably job control in the previously-released csh, delivermail (the antecedent of sendmail), "reliable" signals, and the Curses programming library.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Software_Distribution

I practically lived in the computer labs.