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Topics => The Departed => Topic started by: IronDioPriest on April 25, 2012, 08:42:25 PM

Title: Nano?
Post by: IronDioPriest on April 25, 2012, 08:42:25 PM: Quick refresher for those who've joined us over the past 2 years... Many of us who began blogging together on the forum at Powerline years ago migrated to "Conservative Talk" after Powerline closed their forum. The proprietor at CT was a fellow called "Nano". He and a small cadre were the genteel Republicans to our blunt politically incorrect conservatives, so when I believed that the conflicting viewpoints became intolerable for all involved, I set up a new forum.

Nano went into some strange state of mind at the time, and told everyone that he was on his imminent deathbed, and the only thing saving him from pain-induced insanity was copious amounts of Southern Comfort. Shortly after that in one fell swoop, Nano banned everybody who joined me at the new forum. I've honestly long since gotten over any negative feelings about the whole situation. It was a strange and stressful set of circumstances, but obviously for the best in the long run. Anyhoo...

Even though I am banned at Nano's, I can still see it with my dumbphone. I went there today after many months of not bothering, and there were only three users in the past day - all of them lamenting that Nano has disappeared and has not been heard from since mid-March.

If he really did die this time or is having genuine health issues, I want to say publicly that I carry no animosity. I wish him only the best of health, for all the good it will do me or him. I doubt we'll ever know, unless he shows up there again.
Title: Re: Nano?
Post by: Libertas on April 25, 2012, 08:50:26 PM: Yeah, too bad all that stuff we went through, but if someone holds a grudge or elevates some over others, well...his site his choice...that's life. I hold no ill will, he gave us a short-term hangout after PL pulled the plug, and we all found a way to stay together, so good on us and thanks for the memories.

As to Nano's possible status, who knows. But, Gods will be done. Like all of us, we can only pray he is on good terms with his maker before exiting this life.
Title: Re: Nano?
Post by: charlesoakwood on April 25, 2012, 09:09:35 PM: All well said and another piece of good will from Nano was refuge to
Gulf Coast Pundits, rescued 'em and put 'em up till they collected and
found a new home.

RIP Nano
Title: Re: Nano?
Post by: Pandora on April 25, 2012, 09:16:14 PM: Nothing on it at Grouchy's. ::whatgives::
Title: Re: Nano?
Post by: Alphabet Soup on April 25, 2012, 09:46:46 PM: Quote
Nano banned everybody who joined me at the new forum.

Not me, but then I registered at IAF under a different nick. And I never knew for sure if it was him doing the banning (since he seemed so preoccupied with something else) or if it was the Tone Police.

An impromptu ode to The Tone Police

The Tone Police, we live inside of their heads
The Tone Police, they never sleep in a bed
The Tone Police, they're coming to arrest me, oh, no

::evil::

I hope you're OK Nanosecondinvestments
Title: Re: Nano?
Post by: trapeze on April 25, 2012, 10:20:38 PM: I am ambivalent in my feelings toward him.

He was, by his own account, some kind of a super duper wealthy guy who somehow made zillions of dollars all the time while simultaneously spending every waking moment running his forum. He supposedly had houses all over the world and yet ran his forum on a "free" forum site. He posted a "goodbye cruel world" message that hinted about his imminent demise and then stuck around for weeks, months and even years.

The thing that really irritated me about him was that he turned his forum over to the very worst sort of people (way, way before he vanished) who then terrorized anyone who dared speak bluntly about darn near anything. I got tired of that nonsense pretty quick and I will be forever grateful that IDP acted to create "itsaboutfreedom" at the same site, "proboards." As some of you know, those very same people continued to harass us at our new site. (Now, to be fair, we did perform some mischief of our own...more about that below.) They helped to create a situation that could get us thrown off of the proboards site and then reported it to the proboards staff. There is a line between mischief and viciousness and they crossed that line. Meanwhile, the allegedly dying nano stood by and watched all that happen...he allowed us to be relentlessly tormented on his site to the point where we walked out. He allowed shameless bullies like "FloridaITGuy" and "ChicagoGabriel" to defacto run the place and stomp on our expression.

So...I was not and am not enamored of "nano." I thought that he was full of sh*t with his undocumented (and over-the-top ridiculous) claims of wealth and fortune that bordered on delusions of grandeur. The thread about his soon to be dead condition was annoying to say the least and may have been a type of Munchausen syndrome...who really knows?

I wish him no ill but I have no respect for him either. He did not run his forum well...hence, our exit.

Now, about our mischief on his site: I would have to consult with BigAlSouth to help collect the memories on what exactly we did. I know that BAS and I conspired (via PMs) to poke the "conservative talk" forum in the eye a bit after we left to join IAF. I do know that I did not directly do anything there (and that was because when I left CT I immediately deleted my account...I burned my ships when I came to the new world) but I did conspire with BAS and others. I know that one of the things we did was to tease those who stayed behind about nano's imminent death...sort of a "General Francisco Franco Is Still Dead" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalissimo_Francisco_Franco_is_still_dead) kind of a thing (long after it was obvious that he wasn't going to die anytime soon)...asking if he was dead yet and if he was still drinking a gallon of Southern Comfort a day...sarcastic and satirical but not out and out vicious. Nothing that would cause actual damage to the CT site. They could have just banned everyone. And they did. But then they got our IAF site wiped out and that was just plain nasty.

That's the way I remember it going down, anyway. BAS may want to edit my memory with his own. If IAF was still around I could consult my PM archive but, alas, due to CT's attack, IAF is forever down the toilet and all the threads, posts and PMs are lost forever.

ChicagoGabriel is currently hanging out with Raptavio at a very liberal forum called America's Debate. He is as condescending and obnoxious as ever. I have no idea where FloridaITGuy is...he may be one of the three left at CT but I wouldn't know since I have not been there in years.

nano killed his forum by acting (eventually) like an ass to his members. When IDP set up this place we decided to not let that happen here and I believe that we (mainly IDP...it is his site, after all) have done a good job of allowing it to be what it wants and needs to be.

Speaking for myself, I am proud of our members, the content that they provide and their dedication to hanging out here when there are so many other places that they could go.

I will give credit to nano for having CT as a bridge from PLF to where we are now. But that's as far as it goes.
Title: Re: Nano?
Post by: trapeze on April 25, 2012, 10:39:17 PM: Okay, so morbid curiosity got the better of me and I went to CT just now to look around.

Crap, what a dead site. Only four members there in the last 24 hours (Mike C., the execrable Evon, akaCG and KoreaVet). Why do they bother?

nano last posted on March 17th so that's a little over a month ago. So who knows? He could be dead or just lost interest in hanging out a forum that is, for all intents and purposes, dead itself. I scanned his last one hundred posts (goes back to late February) and he is doing about the same thing that he has alway done...cut and paste posts with links where he offers zero commentary. He apparently believed that his reposting of articles was the big draw for site members and visitors. My personal opinion is that you can read that stuff anywhere...people come to your site for the discussion and that includes yours. He almost never offered any of his own thoughts which is one of the reasons why I say he neglected his forum.

So...even if nano isn't dead his forum is. RIP, Conservative Talk.
Title: Re: Nano?
Post by: trapeze on April 25, 2012, 10:44:10 PM: There is actual discussion there about this very topic. Here is the link. (http://nanosecondinv.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=20336) And...it's the only thread at the entire forum with more than 3 or 4 replies...sheesh, that place is dead.

Knowing how much he likes this kind of attention I would not be at all surprised if he pops back up in a few more days or weeks. If he waits too long, though, his last few hangers on might pack it in and abandon ship.

I suppose that moron evon will continue to post there as long as it's open...she has been posting political cartoons on the "science and tech" thread every day for who knows how long. She is the only one who posts on it and probably the only one who reads it. It's almost worth it to create an account and log in to torment her one last time. Almost.

CT is now officially in Twilight Zone territory.
Title: Re: Nano?
Post by: LadyVirginia on April 25, 2012, 10:56:36 PM: Thanks for the tale. I hadn't spent much time at any conservative forum until I discovered IAL while reading comments at one of Breitbart's sites one day and someone had linked to this site. Not sure why I choose to follow the link that day I often don't go to sites because my expectations aren't high for anything worthwhile. But I've said it before--I do enjoy coming 'round here. Most days we all seem to be using the same oar up stream in these frightening times and then there are days when I wonder what the hell are those guys paddling with? But nonetheless, it's never mean or nasty. It's refreshing to be able to debate and no one is worse for wear. AND it's refreshing to be able to laugh and not debate too.
Title: Re: Nano?
Post by: Pandora on April 25, 2012, 11:00:50 PM: CT/Nano = Meh.
Title: Re: Nano?
Post by: Pandora on April 25, 2012, 11:03:53 PM: Quote from: LadyVirginia on April 25, 2012, 10:56:36 PM
Thanks for the tale. I hadn't spent much time at any conservative forum until I discovered IAL while reading comments at one of Breitbart's sites one day and someone had linked to this site. Not sure why I choose to follow the link that day I often don't go to sites because my expectations aren't high for anything worthwhile. But I've said it before--I do enjoy coming 'round here. Most days we all seem to be using the same oar up stream in these frightening times and then there are days when I wonder what the hell are those guys paddling with? But nonetheless, it's never mean or nasty. It's refreshing to be able to debate and no one is worse for wear. AND it's refreshing to be able to laugh and not debate too.

Oh boy, and you dove right in, too. You spent days reading everything 'round here.

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... then there are days when I wonder what the hell are those guys paddling with?

Some of us'n's of "those guys" you mean? Hell, LV; different strokes, right? But, we'll be pulling in the same direction come a crunch, I figger. Savvy?
Title: Re: Nano?
Post by: charlesoakwood on April 25, 2012, 11:03:58 PM: Is this a wake?

Korea Vet, never thought he would stay with CT, that was a surprise.

And PL, those sorry hack lawyers had no aesthetics what so ever. So
many people, subjects, topics, sections, and it ran almost 24/7.
It was not unlike one of those grand old hotel movies with ballrooms,
bars, lounges, and suites with associated clientele. and all the hub bub.

It was vlad and dwipe that consorted to set up SkipSailing as I remember.
And that Mormon fellow who tried so hard and finally gave up. ...and Rose.
Title: Re: Nano?
Post by: Pandora on April 25, 2012, 11:09:41 PM: Still wonder what became of SkipSailing. I liked him. Rose was funny. I remember Curtiss fondly, too. Oscar88 signed up at IAF (I think) but didn't stick. I wish he had; he was in the medical field and it would have served us to have his thoughts.

April -- I hope she emigrated to Cuba; that's where she belongs.

wDight chimes in at PJ Media's Belmont Club -- Richard Fernandez, author. He's still the same "educrat" dumbazz he ever was and right-minded folks there have his number. Some days, I'd like to sign up, log-in and give him a friggin heart-attack at the sight of "Pandora"'s presence.
Title: Re: Nano?
Post by: LadyVirginia on April 25, 2012, 11:13:01 PM: Quote from: Pandora on April 25, 2012, 11:03:53 PM

Oh boy, and you dove right in, too. You spent days reading everything 'round here.
That I did. Hooked from the start.

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... then there are days when I wonder what the hell are those guys paddling with?

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Some of us'n's of "those guys" you mean? Hell, LV; different strokes, right? But, we'll be pulling in the same direction come a crunch, I figger. Savvy?

Absolutely. I can appreciate those different strokes because I know we will be pulling in the same direction. :)
Title: Re: Nano?
Post by: charlesoakwood on April 25, 2012, 11:23:09 PM: Yeah Curtis, heard that he took a hard left turn along the way.
And Del Dolmonte him also, an angry left too. Guess being reasonable
got to him and he wigged out.
Title: Re: Nano?
Post by: Alphabet Soup on April 25, 2012, 11:27:54 PM: Quote from: Charles Oakwood on April 25, 2012, 11:23:09 PM

Yeah Curtis, heard that he took a hard left turn along the way.
And Del Dolmonte him also, an angry left too. Guess being reasonable
got to him and he wigged out.

Wow - how unfortunate.
Title: Re: Nano?
Post by: trapeze on April 25, 2012, 11:38:28 PM: I see Del posting at HotAir all the time and he doesn't seem to have gone to the Dark Side. I will have to look more closely.

I have thought about lurking there to try and catch him commenting (he doesn't have a link on his name) so that I could invite him here but I just haven't worked up the motivation to do it yet.

I really liked skipsailing and I looked long and hard for any mention of him via search engines. Haven't looked in a couple of years...maybe I should go looking one more time. I have had quite a bit of success finding people online...it's a bit like looking for the proverbial needle in a haystack...frustrating but occasionally rewarding.

I have only attempted to discover two persons' real identities and have succeeded on both accounts. Both of them were PLF members and you can probably guess one of them. The other one was a PLF kook whose online name I can't even remember now but he was, in fact, a total kook in real life when I located him somewhere in Arizona. It's amazing what you can find when you look...in both cases it took me only two to three hours of detective work using nothing more than clues left online and deduction.

Let that be a warning to some of you to not leave too many breadcrumbs leading back to the real world.
Title: Re: Nano?
Post by: Pandora on April 25, 2012, 11:40:29 PM: Quote from: Alphabet Soup on April 25, 2012, 11:27:54 PM
Quote from: Charles Oakwood on April 25, 2012, 11:23:09 PM

Yeah Curtis, heard that he took a hard left turn along the way.
And Del Dolmonte him also, an angry left too. Guess being reasonable
got to him and he wigged out.

Wow - how unfortunate.

Indeed, if so!
Title: Re: Nano?
Post by: LadyVirginia on April 25, 2012, 11:53:38 PM: Quote from: trapeze on April 25, 2012, 11:38:28 PM
It's amazing what you can find when you look...in both cases it took me only two to three hours of detective work using nothing more than clues left online and deduction.

Let that be a warning to some of you to not leave too many breadcrumbs leading back to the real world.

There's nothing like a little cyber stalking to engage the brain cells.

I've never tried to find someone behind their user name. I do look up people I knew in college when their name shows up in the alumni news. One woman took me a few hours to figure out. But I discovered she went from being a strict Catholic with a husband and two kids to married three times and Jewish.
Title: Re: Nano?
Post by: trapeze on April 25, 2012, 11:58:33 PM: Quote from: LadyVirginia on April 25, 2012, 11:53:38 PM
Quote from: trapeze on April 25, 2012, 11:38:28 PM
It's amazing what you can find when you look...in both cases it took me only two to three hours of detective work using nothing more than clues left online and deduction.

Let that be a warning to some of you to not leave too many breadcrumbs leading back to the real world.

There's nothing like a little cyber stalking to engage the brain cells.

I've never tried to find someone behind their user name. I do look up people I knew in college when their name shows up in the alumni news. One woman took me a few hours to figure out. But I discovered she went from being a strict Catholic with a husband and two kids to married three times and Jewish.

Oh, I've looked up people that I knew in the real world, too. Have had mostly success. I don't care to actually contact them...never had that particular nostalgic streak which has kept me away from high school reunions and stuff. But I have found old girlfriends on Facebook and discovered several who have died. Some of the discoveries were extremely interesting like the high school moron who inexplicably ended up a cardiac surgeon with his own practice...that was bizarre. Ah, the wonders of the internet and Facebook...be your own private investigator in your spare time.
Title: Re: Nano?
Post by: trapeze on April 26, 2012, 12:04:12 AM: Quote from: trapeze on April 25, 2012, 11:38:28 PM
The other one was a PLF kook whose online name I can't even remember now...

Just remembered it. Does anyone remember the PLF member with the online name of "orions?"

He had some goofy tag line (anyone remember it?) that he liked to quote all the time like it was cosmically profound or something...can't remember what it was...so I looked for that phrase plus his online name plus his philosopher hero, Manly P. Hall...took about an hour or two to find him. He had left clues all over the place at kook conspiracy sites and I eventually tracked him down to his place of business in Arizona...surprised it wasn't outside of Area 51. He's an artist...big surprise, right?

Anyway, as I said, I've only bothered to look for two people from a forum. It has to be someone who is truly irritating and who also makes me wonder just who they really are for me to take the time to look them up. I am still amazed at how some people don't cover their tracks online.

Now that I think about it, I might have tried to track down nano himself. Not surprisingly, I couldn't find him...he probably invented that screen name for that one unique site.
Title: Re: Nano?
Post by: Libertas on April 26, 2012, 07:35:17 AM: It's been a while, but I remember Orions by name, if not attitude. The names we've already mentioned (and some better left unmentioned!) I've had my share of run in's with also. Then there were the specialists who only chimed in on certain topics, I remember Old Jim (I called him Old Jaundice)...bitter old bastard, always thought waterboarding was on par with tossing people into ovens, Geneva Convention this & that...ugh! You knew the topics and who would say what and the flaming was on. The psuedo-intellectual jackasses like wDight & he-who-shall-go-unmentioned being the most insufferable. April was a grade-A dingbat. I could see her chaining herself to a redwood or something and being sawed in half. I also see Del posting at HotAir, not sure about the turn to the dark side, but I cannot say I was overly impressed by anything he posted that I read. I might have to pay closer attention to that. It's kind of hard commenting in their format, and posts can go ignored or just passed by in the side-chatter.
Title: Re: Nano?
Post by: Alphabet Soup on April 26, 2012, 08:47:22 AM: vladimir estragon

Now there was one repugnant little troll. I gave him kudos for his staunch partisanship but, like everything else leftists do, he always took it too far. I remember that he fancied himself a wordsmith and a pretense towards a grand education (ivy league?) but showed by the ramshackle construction of his arguments that he was every bit as self-taught as I am.

In one particularly repellent exchange he ran out of ideas but not venom and started accusing me of being a pedophile. He had a way of casting aspersions that was like the guy who cuts a silent fart as he's exiting an elevator, leaving the stench for those who remain.

I no longer even recall the name of the moderator (Jim something?) who banned him.

There's one that I would have loved to meet up with in the "real world".
Title: Re: Nano?
Post by: Libertas on April 26, 2012, 08:59:11 AM: I always read that as "vladimir estrogen"! ::hysterical::

Yeah, he was another one who was a legend in his own mind. I remember he used to extole the virtues of the homosexual lifestyle, although he was not a practicing one himself, merely an apologist for their deviant lifestyle.

Funny him accusing you of deviancy. But that's a typical leftard for ya! Accusing others of what they themselves do or condone!
Title: Re: Nano?
Post by: trapeze on April 26, 2012, 09:23:04 AM: Does anyone remember the lady who was always championing the virtues of comprehensive immigration reform? She once slipped up and said that if illegals got thrown out she would have to cut her own grass because she couldn't afford to hire actual citizens to do it. She never lived that one down.

I think she went by the name "jen the neocon." I made up a little graphic (with actual forum quote) to piss her off:

(http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/7616/jentheneoconhm3.jpg)

And then there was my other favorite nut of the female persuasion, april. Remember sweet little april? I had a nice graphic for her, too:

(http://img293.imageshack.us/img293/8038/april2copyrm7.jpg)
Title: Re: Nano?
Post by: IronDioPriest on April 26, 2012, 10:00:36 AM: Quote from: Alphabet Soup on April 26, 2012, 08:47:22 AM
...I no longer even recall the name of the moderator (Jim something?) who banned him....

That would be Jim Hoft, of gatewaypundit. The powerline boys had little interest in moderating their forum, and for a while before closing up shop, they ceded the responsibility to Jim Hoft.

When you look at forums that are out there, and think about what they had there, they were utter fools from the very beginning. From what I saw, they had the top forum on the Internet, and certainly far and away the best conservative forum. They regularly had posts that would top 20-30K responses within a few days. You could make a post and in 30 minutes, it would be 5-10 pages long, with people chiming in in real time, having actual ongoing conversations.

A forum like that needed minimum of one moderator for each of the highly trafficked categories, 24/7/365. Which probably meant about a dozen or more mods, making sure that a few were available during the overnight hours.

It also needed some presence by the site proprietors. People came there in the first place because of the fame garnered by their involvement in the "RatherGate" scandal. Hinderaker popped his head in every so often, but they basically created the forum and turned it over to the wolves.

With the traffic they had, they could've turned that into a mega-conservative forum that today, does not even exist, and it could've been extremely profitable. Their lives, their finances, and conservatism on the Internet could all be enhanced today if they had taken responsibility for stewardship over the great gift that fell into their laps. Instead, they neglected it.

On a side note... anyone remember my thread there, "A Prayer for April"? I was a new Christian at the time, zealous to demonstrate my faith, and expressed it in a genuinely-worded prayer for the dumbest box o' rox on the forum. I was just f***ing blasted from all sides as people argued whether I was being genuine or passive-aggressive, and the thread went on to become one of the longest ever on the site.

This was MY "April" Trap...

(http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p98/IronDioPriest/fatsuit1.jpg)

Then there was "Seaberry"...

(http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p98/IronDioPriest/Seaberry.jpg)

And I can't remember who this was...

(http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p98/IronDioPriest/super_retard.jpg)
Title: Re: Nano?
Post by: trapeze on April 26, 2012, 10:15:31 AM: It was my memory that the moderator was Joe Malchow and he was mostly absent...perhaps looking in once or twice a day to see if things where beginning to spiral out of control. The place pretty much was unguided until the very end when there were some ban hammers dropped and then they just pulled the plug.

But yeah, they pretty much had the biggest forum for conservatives and just didn't see the value in it. If we had a tenth of that kind of traffic I don't know what we'd do.
Title: Re: Nano?
Post by: IronDioPriest on April 26, 2012, 10:22:02 AM: Quote from: trapeze on April 26, 2012, 10:15:31 AM
It was my memory that the moderator was Joe Malchow and he was mostly absent...perhaps looking in once or twice a day to see if things where beginning to spiral out of control. The place pretty much was unguided until the very end when there were some ban hammers dropped and then they just pulled the plug.

But yeah, they pretty much had the biggest forum for conservatives and just didn't see the value in it. If we had a tenth of that kind of traffic I don't know what we'd do.
That's right, I forgot about him. I think he was there from the start, helping them get it up and going, and Hoft came on board when Malchow left. Joel, wasn't it? For sure I remember a couple email conversations with Hoft at the time, so I know I'm not imagining his involvement, I'm just unsure of the timeline I guess.
Title: Re: Nano?
Post by: trapeze on April 26, 2012, 11:05:08 AM: Quote from: IronDioPriest on April 26, 2012, 10:22:02 AM
Quote from: trapeze on April 26, 2012, 10:15:31 AM
It was my memory that the moderator was Joe Malchow and he was mostly absent...perhaps looking in once or twice a day to see if things where beginning to spiral out of control. The place pretty much was unguided until the very end when there were some ban hammers dropped and then they just pulled the plug.

But yeah, they pretty much had the biggest forum for conservatives and just didn't see the value in it. If we had a tenth of that kind of traffic I don't know what we'd do.
That's right, I forgot about him. I think he was there from the start, helping them get it up and going, and Hoft came on board when Malchow left. Joel, wasn't it? For sure I remember a couple email conversations with Hoft at the time, so I know I'm not imagining his involvement, I'm just unsure of the timeline I guess.

I thought it was Joel, too, but he is on the masthead at PL now as Joe.
Title: Re: Nano?
Post by: trapeze on April 26, 2012, 11:15:36 AM: Here's a blast from the past. (http://nanosecondinv.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=pastgeneral&action=display&thread=15840&page=1) A quote from nano on his board from February 19, 2010:

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As to my health if I make it till the morning I will be surprised.

I can't even cut and paste articles I see that normally I would post here.

I just had a phone call with my sister and said basically my last goodbye to her and she was here only yesterday to visit.

Yep, over two years ago. What a drama queen...

And then there were the pathetic suck ups. From the execrable "evon" dated same time:

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Seeing a group of posters, who used the hospitality of your forum to make over 20,000 posts among them, leave in a manner designed to hurt you, then act as though they were victims, was the saddest thing I've seen on the Internet.

And from the prophetic and gullible CG:

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I did not know of your health problems .... as of now you are in my prayers ...
The board will recover and prosper ... a few people leaving will not kill it.

And he may have been "dying" and unable to "cut and paste" but nano was still able to brag in his usual delusional way...

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Not to give it away but my companies built 3/4 of the backbone that is the internet today.

It is still out there and still working and helping us all.

Yeah, nano and algore: father and mother of the internet. Sure.

More nostalgia from drama central:

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I just woke up after what goes for me as a long sleep by my standards of late. Still hurting and in deep pain.

I haven't been a drama queen on this but had a sincere belief I would be leaving.

Thank all of you for your most kind words.

It took 20 minutes and 18 edits to type this so it looked a bit presentable.

And then this:

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Part of that is the alcohol I am consuming to kill the pain. Normally I drink only a few beers but yesterday I went through 2 1/2 fifths of Southern Comfort out of need to kill pain off.

Kitty just woke me up with her desire for food. She is a beautiful thing.

Co-inventor of the internet, world mover and shaker, posting on a "free" forum site, alone with his cat. And claiming to drink enough SC to kill a moose. Give me a break.

He would check in every few days to keep the sympathy posts coming...

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For those who would like to think I am recovering you are I am sorry to say wrong.

I am suffering from oxygen slow starvation and getting worse.

Soon I may lose my sight or my sanity and the rest will be an auto pilot end trip.

Remember...this was all written two years ago.

This went on for weeks until people started to wise up and just left the forum altogether. They blame us leaving for their problems but seriously, it was nano and his never-ending "goodbye cruel world..." posts that drove many away.

Good times, good times...
Title: Re: Nano?
Post by: Libertas on April 26, 2012, 11:21:51 AM: As Charlie Brown would say..."good grief"! ::)
Title: Re: Nano?
Post by: IronDioPriest on April 26, 2012, 11:25:14 AM: Well, in spite of his bizzarro web persona, it just may be that he's passed on for real now, since he is AWOL for several weeks.
Title: Re: Nano?
Post by: trapeze on April 26, 2012, 11:32:30 AM: Yeah, could be.

Don't know.

I wouldn't put anything past him at this point. So if he's room temperature, may he rest in peace. I thank him for what he actually did for us but have no illusions about his "legend."
Title: Re: Nano?
Post by: IronDioPriest on April 26, 2012, 11:33:46 AM: Hey, dig the new avatar BTW Trap. What prompted the change?
Title: Re: Nano?
Post by: trapeze on April 26, 2012, 12:22:34 PM: Quote from: IronDioPriest on April 26, 2012, 11:33:46 AM
Hey, dig the new avatar BTW Trap. What prompted the change?

Got curious about what was available for the "Uncle Duke" image...looked around and there was really only this one image in addition to the one I already had. I may have to dig through my book collection for an old copy of "Doonsebury's Greatest Hits" and see if I can scan another one up of my own. Maybe one where he is on acid...those were always kind of funny. I liked some (but certainly not all) of Hunter Thompson's writings plus there was the obvious Colorado connection. Gary Trudeau is a serious liberal turd and he created Duke to mock conservative "extremism" and "hypocrisy" so screw him...I'll use the character anyway.
Title: Re: Nano?
Post by: Pandora on April 26, 2012, 01:17:05 PM: "micadelic" volunteered several times to get a handle on the slow-loading problems, and to help moderate, to no avail.

"Miss Orange" (?) used to call it "the whirling circle of death" or somesuch.

I imagine the PL boys realized they had a tiger by the tail and it must have been daunting at the time. And it just kept getting bigger and more unmanageable. I'll never understand them just killing it instead of being willing to hand it off to those more willing and able to deal with it.

I, too, remember Jim Hoft moderating; swapped a couple of emails with him myself.

I used to have a broken merry-go-round gif for "Vladimir Estragon" (I've since dumped it) who was a liar of the first order; "I have a son in the military" -- NO HE DIDN'T -- and claimed to regularly BBQ lamb with his "muslim neighbors" -- SURE YA DO.

I also remember introducting to wDight the historical correction as regards FDR not only not "saving" the country during the Great Depression, but being instrumental in its length and depth. Talk about apoplectic denial.
Title: Re: Nano?
Post by: Sectionhand on April 29, 2012, 05:08:37 AM: Quote from: trapeze on April 25, 2012, 10:39:17 PM
Okay, so morbid curiosity got the better of me and I went to CT just now to look around.

Crap, what a dead site. Only four members there in the last 24 hours .... the execrable Evon...

Whenever Evon didn't like a post she'd act like a frustrated old maid who'd just been felt up for the first time . Maybe it's because she's a frustrated old maid who's been felt up for the first time . I wonder if she's finally gotten used to being felt up ?
Title: Re: Nano?
Post by: Sectionhand on April 29, 2012, 05:27:30 AM: Quote from: Libertas on April 26, 2012, 07:35:17 AM
It's been a while, but I remember Orions by name, if not attitude. The names we've already mentioned (and some better left unmentioned!) I've had my share of run in's with also. Then there were the specialists who only chimed in on certain topics, I remember Old Jim (I called him Old Jaundice)...bitter old bastard, always thought waterboarding was on par with tossing people into ovens, Geneva Convention this & that...ugh! You knew the topics and who would say what and the flaming was on. The psuedo-intellectual jackasses like wDight & he-who-shall-go-unmentioned being the most insufferable. April was a grade-A dingbat. I could see her chaining herself to a redwood or something and being sawed in half. I also see Del posting at HotAir, not sure about the turn to the dark side, but I cannot say I was overly impressed by anything he posted that I read. I might have to pay closer attention to that. It's kind of hard commenting in their format, and posts can go ignored or just passed by in the side-chatter.

It was funny when Nano and Dwipe would get into the most violent arguements and threaten each other with physical harm when in actuality if they ever came face to face they'd both run like hell in opposite directions . Those two were butt cheeks of the same rear end !
Title: Re: Nano?
Post by: Libertas on April 29, 2012, 04:40:46 PM: Heh! I love it when SH brings his "A" game, rarely does the master disappoint!

::hysterical::

::clapping::

::hat-tip::
Title: Re: Nano?
Post by: Sectionhand on April 30, 2012, 04:03:29 AM: Quote from: Libertas on April 29, 2012, 04:40:46 PM
Heh! I love it when SH brings his "A" game, rarely does the master disappoint!

::hysterical::

::clapping::

::hat-tip::

I thank you ... ::falldownshocked::
Title: Re: Nano?
Post by: Predator Don on April 30, 2012, 07:54:38 AM: Nice to read some of the history. My curiosity got the better of me and I had to take a peek......What mobile phone brand used to advertise " the dead zone"? I think I found it.
Title: Re: Nano?
Post by: Libertas on April 30, 2012, 08:00:01 AM: Verizon?

Nobody likes a dead zone!

(http://img.ehowcdn.com/article-new/ds-photo/getty/article/110/194/80609815.jpg)

But I suppose some zones a deader than others...like all dead.
Title: Re: Nano?
Post by: charlesoakwood on April 30, 2012, 02:13:35 PM: ::laughonfloor::

I bought a Wilson (antenna) signal booster
now, wherever I go I'm connected.
Unless I turn it off.
;D