Cathy
Pearl
(Ford Prefect) |
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After Cathy's plans to become a paleontologist
in South
Dakota fell through, she decided to go to UCSD instead, where she
learned
about a crazy little thing called Cognitive Science. Then she
worked
for a wireless communications company on a device with wires.
Then
she went to Indiana University for two years where she learned about an
even crazier thing called Human Computer Interaction. Then she
got
out of the midwest, hopefully for good. She was working at NASA
Ames
in Mountain View until recently, when they found out she was trying to
sneak aboard the next Mars mission. Now she works for Nuance,
a speech recognition company whose software is coming soon to a
location
near you.
She has 236,602 minutes on POPnet.
Email: cpearl@acm.org
Home Page:
http://www.mcquaker.org/
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Andy
Lloyd
(Baron Harkonnen,
Bevatron Repairman) |
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Apparently, the only person on-line who doubted Mr. Lloyd
would become
a lawyer was Mr. Lloyd. They were, of course, right. After
an academic gravity assist, UCR-Clark-Berkeley, and a brief stint in
the
political arena, Mr. Lloyd graduated from the University of
Chicago
Law School, clerked for a federal judge in Little Rock, Arkansas, and
is
now a corporate attorney with Thelen Reid and Priest, LLP, in San
Francisco.
He likes to believe his life is a lot different these days. He
is,
however, living in Lafayette, and dating a POPnetter.
He writes science fiction shorts, and is currently not working
on his
novel, Launch Window.
Mr. Lloyd has 178,043 minutes on line.
Email : gnaak@yahoo.com
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Clete
Spehr
(Brainwasher) |
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After graduating from De La Salle HS in 1989, Clete's plans to be a
professional rock guitarist fell through when he encountered reality.
Moved to
Texas with his father in '93. After basically screwing around for
several
years, Clete re-entered the educational system as a Computer Science
major.
Clete went through several years of community college, restoring his
academic
standing (probation from DVC!) enough to finally be admitted to The
University
of North Texas. Clete owns a home in Denton, TX, and is a computer
systems
manager for the College of Arts & Sciences General Access Computer
Labs within
UNT. Clete's steady girlfriend, Mary, works downstairs from him and
Jazzersizes
every day.
I don't know how many minutes I had on POPnet. I was, however,
lifeline.
Home page: http://www.cas.unt.edu/~spehr
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Matt
Gomes
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Matt graduated from Santa Clara University with a degree in
Computer
Engineering. Two years later he received his master's degree at
San
Jose State in Instructional Technology (Education). He is
currently
working at Knowledge Universe as a Test Development Manager. He
was
married in 1994, and, on April 7, 1999, Clare and Matt had their first
child - Conor Makai. They currently live in Pleasanton, CA.
Yes...
Matt still performs magic...Poof*
Email: magic1@jps.net
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Kenrick
Mock
(Mach Three) |
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After graduating from Northgate High School in 1986, Kenrick
gave up his
Lifeline access and was rarely seen on POPnet again. From there he was
destined to spend the next ten years of his life amongst the cows at UC
Davis. As a result of playing too many Infocom games, he was eventually
sucked into natural language processing and artificial intelligence and
received a Ph.D. in computer science in 1996. Nowadays he is a
professor at
the University of Alaska Anchorage teaching computer science. To this
day,
the cruel POPnet influence still remains; Kenrick can typically be
found on
IRC using the nickname "Mach" and likes to write multi-player chat
games.
He aspires to one day grow a Fu-Manchu mustache or at least a grizzly
alaskan prospector's beard.
Email: kenrick@acm.org
Web: http://www.math.uaa.alaska.edu/~afkjm/homepage.html
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Ted
Fristrom
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Age: 28. Sex: M. Hobbies:
writing, cooking,
growing herbs, and re-writing Dilbert for people who work in English
departments.
I don't know which is more embarrassing, the fact that my primary
handle
never had an official pronunciation or that I remember at least five
other
ones. Fortunately, I chose a single personality somewhere in the
1990s, and have stuck with it ever since. I finished up the usual
hyphenated college education which leaves me currently enrolled in the
graduate student reserves in New York (SUNY Albany). I'm only
required
to put in a few weeks of face time during the year, however. The
rest, I spend in the suburbs of Philadelphia. I live with my
girlfriend,
a full boku teacher cum laude at St. Joseph's University. She of
course, brings home most of the bacon. I hang out, wasting the state's
money doing what I would be doing anyway: (see hobbies).
Wisdom:
If it can't be said in fewer then forty-eight characters, it isn't
worth
quoting.
Email: ef9450@cnsvax.albany.edu
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C.
Ivan Cooper
(Stingray) |
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After getting a B.A. (it's an art) in computer programming
from UC
Berkeley, Ivan ran a small business computer consulting company for a
while.
He eventually decided that business management is for suits, and now
works
as a software engineer in Concord, CA for Secure Computing Corporation,
who he likes because they don't make him use Windows, they buy him lots
of really fast computers with large monitors, and then they pay him to
use them. Dang! Ivan's currently working on restoring his black '74
Super
Beetle. He enjoys cycling, hiking, building computers, and foozball,
and
no, he hasn't gotten any better at volleyball. Ivan invites you to
contact
him.
Email: stingray@2xtreme.net
ICQ: 5469214
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Kristin
Nelson
(Skikitt) |
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Kristin Nelson, that wacky kooky tall girl, graduated from
UCDavis
in International Relations and Spanish. She managed a student painting
business in Walnut Creek for a year then became an Account Manager
(sales)
for AirTouch Paging. Two years ago, she participated in a Rotary
business
exchange program which led her on a tour of Denmark. Kristin met her
current
boyfriend in the Hard Rock Cafe in Copenhagen, and being the
adventurous
type, transferred her job with AirTouch to Boca Raton, Florida, where
she
and Chris (The Boyfriend) live. She is now a Major Account Exec with
AirTouch
and plans to marry her hunka-hunka-burning love. Also, she is VERY
happy
because her fabulous brother, MARK NELSON (whom you may remember as
"Skicat"),
just got married to a cool chick in March.
I sure as HELL don't remember how many minutes I had, either,
but I
was lifeline as well. :)
Email: Skikitt@aol.com
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Jamie
Fristrom
(Beauregard) |
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I'm kicking it on the eleventh floor of an office
building in
LA with an ocean view and a view of the airport and a view of some
industrial
wasteland. I'm still a wannabe writer, and either I'm pretty good or
people
like to butter me up, so go to my web-site and read everything that I
rated
7 or higher. Then join my mailing list and tell your friends about me.
I have a plant that's lived over two years.
Email: jfristrom@iname.com
Home page: http://jfristrom.home.mindspring.com
ICQ: 5668395
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Brian
Augustine
(Dargoth) |
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I have just recently moved back to the Bay Area,
after doing
a 2 year tour in Houston where I worked internal technical support for
Compaq. I am now doing consulting work as an NT Sysadmin. I can also be
reached on the MUD that I run, which you can reach by telneting to
necromium.com
4000, or you can view its web site at http://www.necromium.com
Email: baugust1@value.net
Home page:http://dargoth.idexisp.com/
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Keith
Rosicker
(Kiko) |
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After partying and BSing my way through business
school, I ended
up as an Accountant for a healthcare management company in San Ramon
called
PriMed. I've been there nearly 2 years, and they are now moving me to
the
Revenue department to become a Revenue Analyst. Recent travels have
taken
me as far away as India where I saw a friend's wedding in Bombay and
the
Taj Mahal in Agra. And what's a message from me without a little SOCCER
content??? Well, on my way to India, I stopped in England to see
Liverpool
thrash Southampton 7-1 and Colchester lose to Wrexham 3-1. What else?
Umm,
I almost proposed to a girl back in '96, but she dumped me before I
could
get the words out. I am once again living with my parents, but I almost
have enough to put a down payment on a condo or something like that.
Uh...that's
it, I guess. You can check out my personal web page at http://members.aol.com/krosicker
Email: keithfr@ix.netcom.com
Home page:http://members.aol.com/krosicker
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Kurt
Schultz
(Thipdar) |
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(AKA: Thipdar, Khirad Shah, Helvius Pertinax,
Bandwidth Sculptor,
STGM, and probably others as well)
Lately, I've been playing a lot of Hover, Minesweeper
and Freecell.
Dunno if I've gone over 1Megaminutes of online time yet,
but it's
possible.
Email: thipdar@thipdar.com
Home page:http://www.thipdar.com
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Cory
Nott
(Mithrandir) |
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I'm now living and working in Lafayette as a
software engineer
and am still addicted to online gaming.
Email: cory.nott@nott-ltd.com
Home page:http://www.nott-ltd.com
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Frank
and Judy Orem
(Da Cheef and Her Maj) |
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We now live in Lake Oswego, OR at the river's edge
not the lake.
We enjoy seeing what you have done so far with your lives. This all
brings
back great memories. If we can find where we packed our POPnet stuff
we'll
send it along.
We have a lot of minutes of log on time. Can't count that
high! but
then you have heard how it is as one gets to that forgetful stage. Of
course
we haven't gotten to it yet but can forget anyway.
We've been doing some traveling including going with Rob
and Little
Mouse to New Zealand last Nov/Dec. A must see place!
Email: jorem@flash.net
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Jason
Schultz
(Copycat)
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After graduating high school, I left my beloved
California for
Duke University in the muggy Southeastern state of North Carolina.
There,
among other things, I majored in public policy and women's studies.
Yes,
that's right, women's studies. And no, it didn't get me any dates.
After
graduating from Duke, I stayed in the South, working for the University
in the student affairs dept. and freelancing for various magazines.
Soon
after, however, I returned home to SF and took employment as a
management
consultant on corporate diversity issues. After playing around with
that
for a bit, I decided to return to my geek roots and entered law school
at Berkeley, specializing in intellectual property and technology law.
I'm currently in my 3rd year. This past summer I worked at the law firm
of Fish & Richardson (www.fr.com) on intellectual property
litigation
cases (patent, copyright, trademark). After graduation, I'll be
clerking
for a federal district court judge in Oakland for a year and then
returning
to Fish as an associate.
On a more personal note, I'm still quite a smart ass (which
works
to your advantage in law school) and to almost no one's surprise, still
single.
Minutes logged: 202,129.
Email: jschultz@alumni.duke.edu
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Ray
Coffey
(Cosmic Jester) |
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Former Sysop of POPnet San Ramon (ran it for Mr.
Dewdrop). Currently
I am in Biloxi, Mississippi working as a Casino Surveillance
Supervisor.
I ran for the US House of Reps in 1998 for the Mississippi 5th
Congressional
Seat as a Libertarian and came in Third Place out of 5. I think the
Reunion
should be Christmas week. I will be in the SF Bay Area then.
Email: keltic@bellsouth.net
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Vanessa (Benford) Bisogni
(Griffin) |
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After leaving Lafayette, I went to university at UC
Santa Barbara
(yes, it IS a party school) and got a degree in economics. After that,
I moved to Hermosa Beach (Los Angeles) and started working for Arthur
Andersen,
a public accounting firm. After three crazy years in LA (and equally as
crazy people!), I transferred to our London office for one year.
Coincidentally,
a guy from our Melbourne, Australia office also transferred to London
at
the same time. We met, fell in love, and the rest is history. After my
year in London I then transferred to Melbourne (for obvious reasons),
where
I presently live. I still work at the same company as a financial
consultant
and I work on special projects (ie - IPO's, acquisitions and take
overs).
If anyone is coming to Australia, give me a ring!
Email:
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Tim
Tait
(Raistlin) |
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After graduating from Northgate (and POPnet) I went
on to get
a B.S. in Physics at UCSD, where I learned to like the sun and the
Ocean.
Being a glutton for punishment, I went on to graduate school at
Michigan
State University / Argonne National Lab and finished a PhD in
theoretical
particle physics in May of 1999. I now work as a post-doc at Argonne,
in
Chicago, though thanks to the academic world's equivalent of "migrant
worker
status", I will have to look for something else after about three years
or so. What do I do? Well, technically I solve the mysteries of the
universe,
which seems to involve a lot of writing down things on the blackboard
(or
on paper, unused napkins at restaurants, whatever is handy...) and
sitting
in front of a computer screen.
I got married in July of 1999 on the island of Sardegna
(Sardinia
in English) and I was over-whelmed by the POPnet presence, which really
proved once and for all that some friends you NEVER lose. My wife is a
beautiful Italian woman, who is also a physicist, so be afraid, be very
afraid. Our hobbies include going to the movies and wishing we could
return
to either of the two warmer climates we grew up in.
Email: tait@gate.hep.anl.gov
Home page:http://www.pa.msu.edu/people/tait/
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Don
Moretz
(Don Quixote) |
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After failing miserably at becoming a rock star, he
did a stint
in DVC, got bored of that and started working, well really it was to
pay
the bills while his fiancee, Rachel, finished her BA at UCSC, so he's
been
travelling around the country installing WAN/LAN kinda stuff, and
showing
idiots how to try and use it. Now he will be looking for a nice Net
Admin
job, oooo, that would be the life.....
Living in roughly the same area, sometimes, when he's
home.
After working for a bit, Don intends to finish his AA
and pursue
a BA in Music Composition at UCSC.
I had a little over 100k minutes.
Email: stitch@millenicom.com
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Mark
Nelson
(Skicat) |
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After graduating from CSUS back in the bleak recession days
of '92,
I decided to pack up shop and move to San Diego. I figured that
if
I was to be poor, I might as well be poor in a temperate climate.
I took up surfing, got all earthy-crunchy and zenned out, and stayed
surprisingly
alabaster white during my time there. Hopping around from job to
job with the frequency of a cheap HAM radio (Thanks Dan) , I finally
landed
a job in sales with a legal service bureau....shortly afterwords I met
the woman of my dreams, moved back to Sacramento, got married, bought a
house, and started my own document management consulting
business.
I never thought I would own a weed wacker, leaf blower, or major
appliances.....I
guess this is the American Dream :) I'm thinking about getting
back
into the stand-up comedy realm soon (Amateur nights) and possibly open
mike nights for music.
I don't know how many minutes I ever had....all I remember is
stuffing
five bucks in an envelope each month and slipping it under the door in
a Corporate Plaza Complex off of Oak Grove Rd. I'm known as
"Skicruiser" on Microsoft Zone and Yahoo...I play on-line games from
time
to time. I'm VERY happy because my fabulous sister, KRISTIN NELSON
(whom
you may remember as "Skikitt"), just got married to a cool dude in
June.
:) Be good humans, and take care of yourselves.
E-Mail: mwnelson@jps.net
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Jon Wagner
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Back in the mid/late 80's to perhaps 1991 or so, I was a regular on the
Gaithersburg, Maryland version of Popnet and also made many appearances
on the Walnut Creek Popnet (I remember the phone bill!). Robby (Peter)
and I traded lots of mail, and I'm fairly sure I remember chatting with
Skikitt and others during the latter part of that period. I also played
a lot of the online games. I'm fairly certain I used the alias Subway
Vigilante on the Walnut Creek site (I'm sure I used it on the Maryland
site). I finally met some of the people when I went on a business trip
to Oakland in 1991. In fact, I stayed at Frank and Judy's house for a
night during that trip, and Robby and some others (??? I'm not really
sure of the aliases...Robby would know) drove into SF for dinner one
night.
I moved from the Maryland/DC area to Southern California 3
years ago and I'm married now. We just bought a house in Irvine, and
I'm employed at a software company in Lake Forest -- Wonderware --
where I manage a group that looks after software tools, networks, PC's,
etc. I get up to the bay area every few months, so I could potentially
drop in on another reunion if one gets organized.
Email:
Jon.Wagner@wonderware.com
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Michael Bland
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(Added 12/10/02) After graduating Northgate in 1991 and a
brief stint at DVC while still in
the POPnet community, Michael moved on to UC Berkeley where he
graudated
Valedictorian in the East Asian Languages Department. He then moved to
Japan
and has lived there since (about 6.5 years now). He has worked as an
English
Teacher, a Software Engineer, and now is the Representative Director
(President) of the Tokyo Branch of a Silicon Valley hardware company.
Michael was recently married to a lovely Japanese woman named Chihiro
in
October 2002, and they hope one day soon to return to the Bay Area.
Email: blandmc@hotmail.com
Webpage: http://www.geocities.com/blandlij/
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Jeremy Huie
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(Added 5/19/03)
Jeremy has never lived in a city that wasn't served by BART. After
Acalanes, he went to Cal and tried a few majors, dropping them whenever
an assignment was first due. Eventually, he settled on poli sci,
geography, and mass communications, the combination of which might lead
to creative employment, but instead inevitably meant law school. Jeremy
got his J.D. at Hastings in San Francisco, where he teaches Legal
Writing
& Research. He also has a private practice as a Professional Truth
Teller. Jeremy lives in Lafayette with his wife Stacey and daughters
Madeleine and Miriya. When babysitters are available, Jeremy and Stacey
play a wide variety of games, including competitive bridge.
Email: remmailrem@yahoo.com
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Janel (Adair) Tenery
(Dark Angel) |
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Joined POPnet San Ramon around 1989. Was known as Kicker1
for quite a while, and then Dark Angel. I believe I was on until it
closed. I consistently did the weekly pizza parties at Mountain Mikes.
Moved to Atlanta, Georgia in about 1992 and joined the Time Warp BBS
there for a while, where I was known as Janel Adair, Watersprite, or
Raindance, until it also closed. Having been habituated towards online
communities that don't suck I have once again found an online community
at www.kingdomofloathing.com
where I am known as Polly Chrome, and am an active member. Also an
active member of livejournal, where I can be found as polychromatic22,
even though most of my journal is under lock, despite being boring.
I did pull more than one 24 hour active period on POPnet. Go me?
I have been married for 9 years to a guy I met off Time Warp and work
at my local Borders bookstore happily playing amongst the books, music,
movies and coffee. My life is officially weird by many standards. I
live in a communal house with 3 adults who are not my husband (and that
I am not romantically involved with, just to quell those rumors). My
husband lives here, too, to also quell those rumors. I paint, love my
friends, and am just generally one of those pathetic human beings that
is happy with the idea of never growing up. I am generally way more
laid back then I was once. Just saying. Much love to all my old POPnet buddies.
I still talk too much, and most of what I say could have been said with
much fewer words. Though I did kick that bad poetry habit quite a few
years ago. Mostly.
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Chris Jones
(Davros) |
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POPnet was great fun in my
teenage days, and some of you might remember that Frank Orem (Da Chief)
let me loose in coding new features for the POPnet
server. That really never amounted to much, and he eventually
"let me
go". But I learned a lot in the process and went on to get my
B.S. and
then Masters in Computer Science at UCSB (who wouldn't want to
spend 6
years on the beach!).
I'm now a software designer at Hewlett
Packard, working on kernel-level operating system code. Frank
would
probably never believe it.
I'm married now to a wonderful lady named Marija, and we have an
(almost) 2 year old cute little boy named Luka.
Email: chris@rassalon.org
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