Re: I miss Gerry Quinn

Spalls Hurgenson  <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:

But I was dredging through my Usenet archives the other day, and it
was a delight to see a bunch of names I hadn't thought of in _years_;
people like Schrodinger, riku, Werner Spahl, Trimble, Mr Rob *, TimO,
Shawk, Nostromo and more who used to be regulars but over the years
drifted away, replaced by new faces. You can't help but wonder, "What
happened to them?" They all added to the interesting melange that is
Usenet.

Oh, oh, I have a theory about the last one, Nostromo.  Here's a classic
from the Usenet archives, dated August 11th, 2011:

I always imagined he lost his job after getting caught downloading porn
at work, and soon after his wife kicked him out of the house after doing
nothing but play Tomb Raider (with nude patch) for a week straight.
He then spent several years wandering the Outback, constantly on the
run from an imaginary pink kangaroo named "Jonah Falcon", all the while
muttering about how Fallout 3 was an obmination.
 
They say on clear night standing atop Ayers Rock you can hear his voice
crying "I don't have to have played it to know it sucks!".

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