All you Zombies..
Nov. 2nd, 2003 05:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gridloreOr whatever y'all are. I have 100 people on my "Friend of" list, and to be honest, I don't recognize many of the names! So I'm curious..
1. Who are you? You don't have to give full names, but if I know you in passing in real life, please remind me.
2. How did you find my journal? Did I give you a card? Saw the link in a post I made somewhere? Did I scrawl it on your back at a convention?
3. If necessary, what's our connection? Do we both play Traveller? Listen to metal?
If you know for a fact that I know you by both names (like, say I've been married to you for twelve and a half years..) That list is fairly small, so if in doubt, go ahead and make and entry.
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1. Who are you? You don't have to give full names, but if I know you in passing in real life, please remind me.
2. How did you find my journal? Did I give you a card? Saw the link in a post I made somewhere? Did I scrawl it on your back at a convention?
3. If necessary, what's our connection? Do we both play Traveller? Listen to metal?
If you know for a fact that I know you by both names (like, say I've been married to you for twelve and a half years..) That list is fairly small, so if in doubt, go ahead and make and entry.
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Date: 2 Nov 2003 17:37 (UTC)2. You referenced it on rec.arts.sf.fandom.
3. You were one of the people I found consistantly interesting on rasff. I can no longer keep up with that group, but I can keep up with some folks here.
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Date: 2 Nov 2003 17:57 (UTC)2. I'm a TML regular.
3. See above.
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Date: 2 Nov 2003 18:06 (UTC)2) Probably off of your wife's LJ.
3) See #1. Add conventions. Stir.
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Date: 2 Nov 2003 18:25 (UTC)2. Hmmm, I don't recall when I decided to add you to my list, it was before the first time I met y'all, prolly 'cause of random friending, but this was way back in July or August of 2002.
3. Well, asides from the aforementioned Callahans connection, I also have a book of yours that I need to get back to you somehow... (and we're both Giants fans, too.)
-kat
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Date: 2 Nov 2003 18:30 (UTC)2. Through K'shandra's journal, almost certainly.
3. Callahans.
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Date: 3 Nov 2003 03:27 (UTC)ROFL!!!!
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Date: 3 Nov 2003 04:04 (UTC)1. Complete absence of anything resembling creativity, hence my username being the same as my legal name.
2. Complete absence of anything resembing abstract philosophical thought, hence my LJ being filled entirely with quiz results and self-indulgent whining.
3. Complete absence anything resembling concrete logical thought, hence my inability to solve Sailor Jim's recent math post.
4. And so on.
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Date: 2 Nov 2003 18:48 (UTC)2. I'm a Callahanian.
3. No other connection I can recall.
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Date: 2 Nov 2003 18:57 (UTC)2. the aforementioned Duchovniks list
3. see above.
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Date: 2 Nov 2003 19:09 (UTC)2. Saw it on the TML, on which I'm a longtime lurker and very infrequent poster.
3. See above. Plus I use Linux a lot, so I've got to appreciate penguins.
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Date: 2 Nov 2003 19:12 (UTC)2) Your Journal was posted in the dyuchovnik's by you... Being our resident in the tower and all...
3) No marriage for 12 years... But we shook hands (firmly) a few times...
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Date: 2 Nov 2003 19:13 (UTC)2 You know, I dont recall how I got your LJ, I may have learned it at a con.
3 I ask you space sci-fi questions, I used to play traveller, and you knew one of my ex's fairly well.
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Date: 2 Nov 2003 19:22 (UTC)2) Don't recall exactly, but most likely the result of a friend-of-a-friend-of-a... The other possibility is following a link posted to one of the RPG Usenet groups. Have you ever put your LJ URL out there that way?
Either way, it's pretty much random surfing. After all, half the fun of the 'web is trying to figure out how the hell you got to whatever page you ended up reaching.
3) I've been playing RPGs for an entirely too long time. Recognized your name from a variety of Traveller sources - I've played both Classic and GURPS Trav. I have a lot of respect for your work there, and found your postings to various usenet RPG groups well-written (and often enlightening).
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Date: 3 Nov 2003 07:09 (UTC)Yes, until the spam attack from hell forced me to changed my email. I'm waiting to get my personal and Traveller pages re-done before I put the URLs in my sigs.
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Date: 2 Nov 2003 19:30 (UTC)2. I believe I got the link from the TML-- I lurk there.
3. I 'play Traveller' for values of making ships, deckplans and toying with scenarios. Mainly I'm the 'tech editor' for the TaiPan project and Traveller is grist for the mill
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Date: 2 Nov 2003 19:45 (UTC)no subject
Date: 2 Nov 2003 20:09 (UTC)2. Met you and Kooshie back in 2000 at Cymru's and Alaric's.
3. Used to be Jakestone/Mazel Tov's S.O.
4. Thinks you're nifty! :)
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Date: 2 Nov 2003 20:27 (UTC)2. From #callahans.
3. From #callahans.
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Date: 2 Nov 2003 20:42 (UTC)2. Through your web page.
3. I'm just a fanboy who used to play Traveller 2300 and bumped into one of your posts one day on the net.
Probably not necessary but what the hey...
Date: 2 Nov 2003 21:07 (UTC)2. Could be from Kshandra or other person we know in common. We I made the account I scanned for people I knew. You are still on my list because I often find your posts interesting. I read everything on my friends list so if I start skimming or passing over, it is time to remove people. And I like penguins.
3. At least from BayCon. Probably one or more of the old chat boards but that has been a long time and possibly even RHPS which has been even longer.
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Date: 2 Nov 2003 21:14 (UTC)2. I don't recall. I think I became aware of you via alt.poly, directly or by others' reference.
3. See 1 and 2.
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Date: 2 Nov 2003 21:31 (UTC)2. Through a comment on someone else's journal.
3. Fandom. Grand Central Starport. Filking. Having the same birthday.
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Date: 2 Nov 2003 22:22 (UTC)2. I think you told me. Otherwise, through your wife.
3. I forgot the third question. Oh, Callahan's.
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Date: 2 Nov 2003 22:26 (UTC)Again?
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Date: 3 Nov 2003 00:33 (UTC)2. I think you mentioned the LJ on rasseff, although I'm fairly sure I recognise you from other newsgroups back when I used to read Too Many of them (I've not read/posted to alt.callahans/alt.polyamory/alt.pagan in maybe years, frex).
3. Not played Trav in far too long - like while it was still the little A5-sized booklets that would all fit into the box. Music I came to late and have been trying to catch up on. I must be doing something right, 'cos my son's lent the Grateful Dead and Led Zeppelin CDs to his mates, which on previous form means they'll need replacing when I'm working again.
Lessee now: also a fan, but burned out on the active stuff, bar the odd post to rasseff; also a wearer of the black for similar reasons; know remarkably little about sport (been stewarding the odd football match recently, and I'm stil managing to watch the crowd, not the game: I'm told this'll change); seem to be reading a lot more history/historical fiction/alternate history these days.
Politically: probably further to the left than most folk I've come across from across the Atlantic, and further down the State Control/Individual Freedom axis than many of the people I know on this side (that'll be about -7,-7 on http://www.politicalcompass.org)
Hmm. That seems to be more about me than I've ever stuck up on LJ. Must remedy that.
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Date: 3 Nov 2003 03:49 (UTC)Weredonut - from alt.callahans
2. How did you find my journal? Did I give you a card? Saw the link in a post I made somewhere? Did I scrawl it on your back at a convention?
Think I got here through K'Shandra's journal.
3. If necessary, what's our connection? Do we both play Traveller? Listen to metal?
a.c
Who am I?
Date: 3 Nov 2003 04:44 (UTC)2. I probably stumbled upon your journal through John's.
3. I know you through an online list.
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Date: 3 Nov 2003 05:22 (UTC)2) I found your journal via the journals of other Callahanians.
3) Our connection is courtesy of Spider Robinson, and his merry acolytes.
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Date: 3 Nov 2003 06:58 (UTC)1. I am SFC John Groth, Interrogator at Large and Hero to Minions.
2. I found your LJ via a .sig file link in your TML posts.
3. We know each other from the TML, and we've met once in meatspace (at Baycon 2000).
...hide your faces
Date: 3 Nov 2003 10:29 (UTC)Mike/Michael/Miguel/You Bastard! (the last, usually by my players)
2. How did you find my journal? Did I give you a card? Saw the link in a post I made somewhere? Did I scrawl it on your back at a convention?
I followed
3. If necessary, what's our connection? Do we both play Traveller? Listen to metal? You write CiaB's for Pyramid, to which I subscribed since Issue #1. You write Interesting Stuff that I gleefully steal and use to mess with my players heads, such as the aforementioned
Re: ...hide your faces
Date: 3 Nov 2003 11:23 (UTC)Actually, that's Chad (
Re: ...hide your faces
Date: 4 Nov 2003 07:59 (UTC)The story ends with "I know who I am, but who are all you zombies?"
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Date: 4 Nov 2003 13:55 (UTC)"Yes, I scored poorly on the '80's Lyrics Quiz (http://www.yetanotherdot.com/asp/80s.html). Why do you ask?" ;-)
Who's Zyx W. Vut?
Date: 3 Nov 2003 15:20 (UTC)met IRL, mostly at Cons, but sometimes at private houses (including
your old place on 19th Ave).
also an armchair Callihanian.
Z
P.S.: Do you keep track of who's who in the people who are
your "Friends"?
Re: Who's Zyx W. Vut?
Date: 3 Nov 2003 15:58 (UTC)no subject
Date: 4 Nov 2003 02:43 (UTC)2. Picked it up after ConJose.
3. 3rd shift newsletter editor @ ConJose & sundry other common interests.
-M
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Date: 4 Nov 2003 12:55 (UTC)2. i found your journal through your wife's. i went to high school with her.
3. i remember waiting in line outside the theatre in Palo Alto where they showed the Rocky Horror Picture Show, listening to you tell stories about your Ranger days... i wasn't at your wedding because i ran away to join the canival. my ex, mark, dated your ex, heather, before i met him. he said that you were the most evil person on the face of the planet, but that's just because she cheated on him with you. :P
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Date: 4 Nov 2003 15:54 (UTC)I like that! Must get it on business cards!
How do we know each other?
Date: 7 Nov 2003 12:07 (UTC)2. Know who you are from the TML.
3. I don't have many LJ friends, so you are it.
4. 35 year old teacher from Houston area.
How much more do you need
Re: How do we know each other?
Date: 7 Nov 2003 13:19 (UTC)Yup. $20. Email me for the adress. penguin_boy(at)mindspring.com