I AM emotionally vested in that.
This is much how I feel. And now I'm feeling badly for advising someone yesterday to keep his/her concerns to his/herself.
Poor Buffy. Your life resists all things average.
Willow ,'First Date'
Bureaucracy 3: Oh, so now you want to be part of the SOLUTION?
A thread to discuss naming threads, board policy, new thread suggestions, and anything else that has to do with board administration and maintenance. Guaranteed to include lively debate and polls. Natter discouraged, but not deleted.
Current Stompy Feet: ita, Jon B, DXMachina, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych
vw bug - Jan 02, 2007 1:12:43 am PST #7557 of 10001
Mostly lurking...
flea - Jan 02, 2007 1:34:27 am PST #7558 of 10001
information libertarian
No Guy Straley, or any Straley in chemical engineering, in Dissertation Abstracts, or Web of Science. And I had checked before seeing this conversation. I was interested in his research. Yes, buffistas are that kind of dorks.
I don't mind if Gus was a pseud; factual elements, which were always fantastic, aside, he was a unified voice, and never asked for anything from us but our time. I just hope nobody is laughing, because that would bother me.
Jon B. - Jan 02, 2007 2:05:33 am PST #7559 of 10001
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Where did Mieskie/Anathema/Schmoker live?
I don't know. John H. tracked him down. I don't remember the details.
John H. tracked down a photo online which was the same photo he had sent me for the Buffista photo board. As far as I know, he never found any track-downable personal info.
Jon B. - Jan 02, 2007 2:13:15 am PST #7560 of 10001
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Oh, and for what it's worth, the email address Kimi provided when she registered as a Buffista the other day was "gus@..." That seemed odd to me at the time, but sorry if that info comes across as a pile-on.
Stephanie - Jan 02, 2007 2:23:41 am PST #7561 of 10001
Trust my rage
I just want to say that I'm grateful for this conversation. I enjoyed the person I knew as Gus, but I was surprised yesterday when I found no mention of him on the Google.
Also, gus sent me a picture of himself once, bu it was tiny and hard to make out. He didn't look 70, however. (Although he could have been - it was a tiny picture.)
Tom Scola - Jan 02, 2007 2:40:23 am PST #7562 of 10001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
At one point when Gus was online, I mentioned that tvtropes was down, and he came back and said that he rebooted the server, which he said was connected via a DSL line to his home.
The IP address of www.tvtropes.org is 69.4.98.212. The reverse of that is dal-broadband-static-gstraley.dsl.airstreamcomm.net, which indicates that it's a DSL connection going to someone named "gstraley" for an ISP in Wisconsin.
Based on that and the whois information, I would say it's very likely that there is/was someone named "G. Straley" in Cameron Wisconsin.
Based on this information (last edited in March, 2006), kimi would be Gus' live-in Korean girlfriend (who he has mentioned here before), which would also explain how she would have access to his Wiki and email accounts.
Jesse - Jan 02, 2007 3:17:30 am PST #7563 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I don't mind if Gus was a pseud; factual elements, which were always fantastic, aside, he was a unified voice, and never asked for anything from us but our time. I just hope nobody is laughing, because that would bother me.
Totally this.
I've gotten emails from Gus from a gmail account and a gstraley one.
On a different topic, when I was looking to see if I ever got the check that Gus emailed me about sending in 2004, I noticed a paypal donation from Schmoker with a woman's name, which I thought was curious.
Kat - Jan 02, 2007 3:23:41 am PST #7564 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Not necessarily curious, Jesse. Well, I guess, curious for me insofar as I assumed that Schmoker was a man. Not sure why I did, but I clearly did.
Topic!Cindy - Jan 02, 2007 3:25:19 am PST #7565 of 10001
What is even happening?
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Steph L. - Jan 02, 2007 4:24:40 am PST #7566 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
I don't mind if Gus was a pseud; factual elements, which were always fantastic, aside, he was a unified voice, and never asked for anything from us but our time. I just hope nobody is laughing, because that would bother me.
Given that the poster we knew as Gus seems to have not been truthful about aspects of his life, it follows logically -- for me -- that maybe the report of his death might not have been truthful, either. And I'd just like to know for sure, one way or the other.