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Douglas Berry ([personal profile] gridlore) wrote2003-11-02 05:34 pm

All you Zombies..

Or 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.

This post brought to you by the President's Council on Laughing at Doug's Brain

[identity profile] autographedcat.livejournal.com 2003-11-02 05:37 pm (UTC)(link)
1. Rob Wynne. I don't believe we've ever actually met.

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.

[identity profile] cmdr-zoom.livejournal.com 2003-11-02 05:57 pm (UTC)(link)
1. Kelly St.Clair. We've never met. I'm a guy.

2. I'm a TML regular.

3. See above.

[identity profile] lysana.livejournal.com 2003-11-02 06:06 pm (UTC)(link)
1) One of your wife's exes.

2) Probably off of your wife's LJ.

3) See #1. Add conventions. Stir.

[identity profile] katster.livejournal.com 2003-11-02 06:25 pm (UTC)(link)
1. I go by Kat in real life. I'm a Callahanian, and I've been over to your place twice when you lived in SF, both times to help [livejournal.com profile] rosefox move boxes. :) I was the one that lives in a Cal hat.

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

[identity profile] janetmiles.livejournal.com 2003-11-02 06:30 pm (UTC)(link)
1. Janet Miles, just like my username. I'm boring.

2. Through K'shandra's journal, almost certainly.

3. Callahans.

[identity profile] rickvs.livejournal.com 2003-11-02 06:48 pm (UTC)(link)
1. Erick "Rick" Vermillion-Salsbury-- once known as Cali4nia on #callahans, but I don't recall you from there and it's been too many years. ("I am Elmer Fudd, millionayuh. I own a mansion und a yacht".)

2. I'm a Callahanian.

3. No other connection I can recall.

[identity profile] karmabreeze.livejournal.com 2003-11-02 06:57 pm (UTC)(link)
1. Becky from the old Duchovniks list

2. the aforementioned Duchovniks list

3. see above.

[identity profile] jovianconsensus.livejournal.com 2003-11-02 07:09 pm (UTC)(link)
1. Greg Kettler. We've never met.
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.

[identity profile] jarlsberg71.livejournal.com 2003-11-02 07:12 pm (UTC)(link)
1) I'm John. don't ask how I got the name Jarlsberg, it's not even entertaining.

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...

[identity profile] johnathan.livejournal.com 2003-11-02 07:13 pm (UTC)(link)
1 Phil is the name, and we have met many times. Your house and baycon for the most part.
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.

[identity profile] tzimiel.livejournal.com 2003-11-02 07:22 pm (UTC)(link)
1) JustAnother Random LJ'er, I fear.

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).

[identity profile] jeffreycornish.livejournal.com 2003-11-02 07:30 pm (UTC)(link)
1. Jeffrey is the name, if my LJ handle wasn't too much of a clue. you don't know me.

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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[personal profile] kitsap_charles 2003-11-02 07:45 pm (UTC)(link)
  1. Charles Stanley. I used to be married to [livejournal.com profile] angilong, who used to be enamored of [livejournal.com profile] rosefox. We've also met at OryCon.
  2. Via the aforementioned LJ-ers.
  3. We're gamers, and we know some of the same people.

[identity profile] anandav.livejournal.com 2003-11-02 08:09 pm (UTC)(link)
1. Callahanian lass. :)

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! :)

[identity profile] tsjafo.livejournal.com 2003-11-02 08:27 pm (UTC)(link)
1. Robert E. Lee. I don't think we've meet in real life.

2. From #callahans.

3. From #callahans.

[identity profile] futility.livejournal.com 2003-11-02 08:42 pm (UTC)(link)
1. I'm just a net.fan - I've admired both your sense of humour on the Traveller mailing list, and your k00k-crushing abilities on alt.conspiracy. I've also been impressed by your astonishing ability to remain cheerful in the face of dire illness. Good luck, Doug!

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...

[identity profile] ciarhwyfar.livejournal.com 2003-11-02 09:07 pm (UTC)(link)
1. Kierin. We met when I still used my old name but I'm not posting it here.

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.

[identity profile] nolly.livejournal.com 2003-11-02 09:14 pm (UTC)(link)
1. You know me as Nolly or Menolly; we've met at Baycon. (and maybe Loscon? The hotels run together, I fear.) Also Aahz's LDR.

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.

[identity profile] figmo.livejournal.com 2003-11-02 09:31 pm (UTC)(link)
1. Lynn Gold. We've known each other for years to the point where I can't even remember how we met. "FIGMO" is the handle I've been using on The Net since 1980.

2. Through a comment on someone else's journal.

3. Fandom. Grand Central Starport. Filking. Having the same birthday.

[identity profile] femakita.livejournal.com 2003-11-02 10:22 pm (UTC)(link)
1. Heather. We met in Portland. I offered to "show you my etchings" (even though I don't really have any).

2. I think you told me. Otherwise, through your wife.

3. I forgot the third question. Oh, Callahan's.

[identity profile] eleri.livejournal.com 2003-11-02 10:26 pm (UTC)(link)
I plead the 5th.
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[identity profile] akicif.livejournal.com 2003-11-03 12:33 am (UTC)(link)
1. Steve Glover - we've never met in RL that I know of.

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.

[identity profile] claire.livejournal.com 2003-11-03 03:49 am (UTC)(link)
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.

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?

[identity profile] benkenobigal.livejournal.com 2003-11-03 04:44 am (UTC)(link)
1. Steff, also known as Scooby. You know me from the Duchovniks.

2. I probably stumbled upon your journal through John's.

3. I know you through an online list.

[identity profile] nsingman.livejournal.com 2003-11-03 05:22 am (UTC)(link)
1) Noah Steven Singman is my full name, and I don't believe that we've ever met in real life.

2) I found your journal via the journals of other Callahanians.

3) Our connection is courtesy of Spider Robinson, and his merry acolytes.

[identity profile] aurictech.livejournal.com 2003-11-03 06:58 am (UTC)(link)
I'm pretty sure that you know me by name ;-), but for those just tuning in:

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

[identity profile] biomekanic.livejournal.com 2003-11-03 10:29 am (UTC)(link)
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.
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 [livejournal.com profile] cmdr_zoom here from his friends list.

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 [livejournal.com profile] cmdr_zoom, [livejournal.com profile] pjack, [livejournal.com profile] naudiz, and [livejournal.com profile] sbloss (my better half). I used to play Traveller, and maybe will again someday, in the meantime, I just add the GURPS Traveller books to my Wall O' GURPS and snip and snag pieces for the games I do run. I don't listen to much metal anymore, but would heartily recommend you give Course of Empire a try, they rock.

Who's Zyx W. Vut?

[identity profile] zyxwvut.livejournal.com 2003-11-03 03:20 pm (UTC)(link)

  1. EricZ. I know your wife better than you, but we've definitely
    met IRL, mostly at Cons, but sometimes at private houses (including
    your old place on 19th Ave).
  2. Found you via [livejournal.com profile] rosefox and/or [livejournal.com profile] kshandra.
  3. We both (to varying degrees) move within fannish circles. And I'm
    also an armchair Callihanian.


Z

P.S.: Do you keep track of who's who in the people who are
your "Friends"?

[identity profile] firestrike.livejournal.com 2003-11-04 02:43 am (UTC)(link)
1. Matt
2. Picked it up after ConJose.
3. 3rd shift newsletter editor @ ConJose & sundry other common interests.

-M

[identity profile] sossity.livejournal.com 2003-11-04 12:55 pm (UTC)(link)
1. i am ann, formerly warchild.

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

How do we know each other?

[identity profile] redroach.livejournal.com 2003-11-07 12:07 pm (UTC)(link)
1. Thomas Vickers (I think I owe money on the baseball bet)
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