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[notgordian]

Characters: The Sentry Outpost Crew

[konamouse]

[Phaedra]

Ask and ye shall receive.

[jjason]

I've been looking around but haven't had any luck so far finding these people anywhere else on the net. None of them have a flickr account, at least not under the same username - I was checking flickr because of the 2600 article about flickr hacking.

Oh, also: Do you think we should tell the SOers about their Craigslist postings? I told HPhack about his, but should we tell the rest of them? Ms. Feline did tell us to "the tell the others."

[konamouse]

Craigslist are public postings. I don't see that it would be wrong to point them out - link or even post & link to the Craigslist.

[drizjr]

Very odd... maybe a PM error (Gasp)..maybe something else.
We learned of Y2Kveteran's name, Arthur Lyndon, via this edit to the SO wiki. (The comments left between GetMEout and Y2kveteran show a strained relationship.)
Yet, Y2Kveteran has this as a signature:
________________
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Art Lydney
Security Consultant
""The price of freedom is eternal vigilance."
-- Thomas Jefferson

Hmm, is it Lyndon or Lydney? Or I'm I misunderstanding?

[carmenmiranda]

Many thanks to the people organising this and updating the wiki! Two things:

1. They've clearly done some character development, so we have a set of the "usual suspects" found on a forum. (eg we have the "I'm grumpy and going to argue with everyone" guy) Would it be all right to include this in the character info?

2. If you're interested in what Themagician's sig file is, it's a UNIX joke. Here's a list: http://pintopc.home.cern.ch/pintopc/www/cois&lois/Unix_err.htm

[jjason]

It looks like Y2Kveteran is implying that GetMEout is behind the whole thing. Which makes sense given GetMEout's comments in the Pandora's Thumbdrive thread

On the otherhand, Y2Kvetern could just be being mean.

[mapmaker]

[Phaedra]

[jjason]

[octopiii]

I thought out would flesh some of the character's not so obvious signature quotes a bit more:

HpHack's sig line is a quote from the dali lama:

"I call the light and high aspects of my being spirit and the dark and heavy aspects soul.

Soul is at home in the deep, shaded valleys.
Heavy torpid flowers saturated with black grow there.
The rivers flow like warm syrup. They empty into huge oceans of soul.

Spirit is a land of high white peaks and glittering jewel-like lakes and flowers.
Life is sparse and sounds travel great distances.

There is soul music, soul food, and soul love...

People need to climb the mountain not simple because it is there
But because the soulful divinity needs to be mated with the spirit."
-Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dali Lama

Mkaos' quote is from the grateful dead song Saint Stephen:

"Did he doubt or did he try?
Answers a-plenty in the by and by
Talk about your plenty, talk about your ills
One man gathers what another man spills "

Econjen's quote is from emily dickinson's poem# 670:

"One need not be a Chamber — to be Haunted –
One need not be a House –
The Brain has Corridors — surpassing
Material Place"

GetMEout's quote is from marshall mcluhan:

"The artist is a person who is expert in the training of perception."

Themagician's occupation listing from her profile 'BOFH':

is listed in wikipedia as a character from an online fiction: the Bastard Operator From Hell: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BOFH

[tieum]

Anyone tried to contact Y2Kveteran through AIM?

http://www.sentryoutpost.com/forums/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=25
--> aim:goim?screenname=y2kveteran&message=Hello+Are+you+there?

[Phaedra]

If you look at the userlist, you'll the the Sentry Outpost Crew as listed, but the first name listed after theirs is "sentry," also a site admin, with no posts.

Anyone else curious?

[notgordian]

VERY curious about sentry and makim (the one after sentry)--I find it odd that the two lurkers are also the last two to rejoin.