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All joking about the triumvirate aside, what about Sean and the CSBs? He keeps paying for them to be up - has anybody heard anything recently about his plans (or not) to move forward with merging and reactivating?

eta: I wasn't really looking for them, to clarify. I've known a long time that editec posts at US Message Board, and I gather maybe Steve does too, now - last time I visited there was back when I was unemployed in 2009. I suppose it might be interesting to visit again and see editec's take on recent politics, etc. - despite his personal animosity toward me, I actually found many of his arguments to be interesting, and I agree there is a 'MOTU' - albeit perhaps not exactly as he described.

It's very quiet here at Plan B from how it used to be, not a lot of activity - I'm quite glad the period of unrest is over and I guess it did take booting LoCa, but the discussions don't have much 'oomph' these days. Nice to see old friends, but the days of pages-long discussions seem to gone by the wayside with just a handful of folks visiting regularly.
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CSB I is back up...

Still not functioning, but back up...

Not getting the logic as to why Sean bothered to bring back a non-functioning website... :shrug
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bigskygal wrote:All joking about the triumvirate aside, what about Sean and the CSBs? He keeps paying for them to be up - has anybody heard anything recently about his plans (or not) to move forward with merging and reactivating?

eta: I wasn't really looking for them, to clarify. I've known a long time that editec posts at US Message Board, and I gather maybe Steve does too, now - last time I visited there was back when I was unemployed in 2009. I suppose it might be interesting to visit again and see editec's take on recent politics, etc. - despite his personal animosity toward me, I actually found many of his arguments to be interesting, and I agree there is a 'MOTU' - albeit perhaps not exactly as he described.
DGS and I are also at USMB. And we're not even in the top 20 weirdos there. :shock:
It's very quiet here at Plan B from how it used to be, not a lot of activity - I'm quite glad the period of unrest is over and I guess it did take booting LoCa, but the discussions don't have much 'oomph' these days. Nice to see old friends, but the days of pages-long discussions seem to gone by the wayside with just a handful of folks visiting regularly.
I'll take some blame for that. :oops:
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Jarl, I did some reading there recently - it seems very conservative. I felt like I'd be pummeled if I expressed a progressive viewpoint. Is it always like that?
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it seems very conservative. I felt like I'd be pummeled if I expressed a progressive viewpoint.

Well, editec's got over 40,000 posts there, and he ain't exactly Mr. Conservative...

But then, he's used to being pummeled... 8-)
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bigskygal wrote:Jarl, I did some reading there recently - it seems very conservative. I felt like I'd be pummeled if I expressed a progressive viewpoint. Is it always like that?
There are plenty of liberals, from the reasonable, to the polite (if kooky), to the nasty, to one who I truly believe is pure evil on the level of John Wayne Gacy or Jeffery Dahmer. Some of the conservatives are pretty out-there, a couple are absolutely batshit insane. It's a fairly well-balanced insane asylum. :)

One (irregular) poster is nuttier than Steve, DBA, Mediator, and loCA put together.
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One (irregular) poster is nuttier than Steve, DBA, Mediator, and loCA put together.
I'm having a difficult time getting my mind around that concept... :?
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He posts as "Anathema". Search USMB for posts by him and you'll see. He...honestly, he defies description, except "batshit". He's not a troll, he's dead serious--I remember him from the old Argue With Everyone forum. (IIRC, he was "Masquerade" there.)

And he lives ~35 miles from me! :o
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Well, things are batshit insane at work in my one lawyer county at present - but when my load lightens, I'll make a point to spend a little more time there.
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If someone on this board knows what the handle for our old Chester Vermont Tinfoil Hatter friend is on USMB, I'd appreciate it if they would PM it to me...

(I have no interest in harassing him; I'm just curious to see what he has to say...)
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Who?
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Steve.
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He was Sparky when he first went over there but that handle hasn't posted in a while. I have no idea if he has another one.
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Last log-on was last June for "Sparky".

(Note: I thought Steve was in upstate NY.)
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Not unless he's moved; he informed us all publicly on CSB that he lived in Chester, VT.

eta: a Google search informs me that there is a 'Sparky Electric' contractor in Chester, VT. I'm thinking that's our Chicken Steve.
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I don't think that's the right Steve.

I won't tell you the name of his business but it has to do with the type of work he does and the city, Chester, where he lives.

And he looks something like this...

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I know this because he stalked me once upon a time... :D

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His business name, address, and phone number are pretty easy to find.

(We could all start making prank phone calls!) :mrgreen:
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No no no no I didn't say that. That was my Evil Twin.
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Just to clarify, I never prank called Steve.

(I have a very strong suspicion as to which other female CSB poster might have done so, and then sat silently by while I was accused at length without stepping up to take responsibility . . . but that's water long under the bridge, as far as I'm concerned.)

I hope that folks aren't still suffering from any delusion that I committed any such act - as an attorney, I do tend to keep my behavior on the right side of the law.

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For the record, BSG, I never for a minute thought or suspected that you made that call, and I'm pretty sure almost nobody else there thought so either. (I too had/have a suspicion as to which other female CSB poster did it; it might even be the same one you suspect. But that's all way too far in the past, and way too inconsequential to worry about anymore.)

And I'm intensely sorry that I...errr, I mean my Evil Twin...brought up the subject. :oops:
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