Re: Threats -- Who is this jerk?

From: Geo Incog (incog_at_incogxyz.com)
Date: 02/11/05 

Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 09:57:49 -0700

> > > > > > Does anyone know who this jerk is who sent me threatening
emails?
> > > > > > I have forwarded his messages to the FBI.
> > > > >
> > > > > Small world. I am pretty sure I used to work with him. He is a
> nuclear
> > > > > physicist, worked on a military nuclear submarine and in power
> plants,
> > > > > went into programming, and he is a very entertaining, party animal
> and
> > > > > a likable guy. He is in his low 40's now, he has a beard, he
> developed
> > > > > severe back and shoulder pains in his mid 30's, he used to call
> > himself
> > > > > Wild E. Coyote. The newsgroups fucked him up mentally. Its two
> > > > > personalities. He is the coolest happiest smartest guy out of
> > > newsgroups,
> > > > > and in my opinion he is disturbed from the Internet, simply
because
> he
> > > > > cannot relate to this macho environment. He is normal. He is. Its
> just
> > > > > anger from his inability to express himself.
> > > >
> > > > He raises his son alone. He submitted himself to a secret online
> > character
> > > > that... went out of the ordinary. Why does the Internet create
secret
> > > > characters? I know him. He is really cool. I don't get it.
> > >
> > > This really interests me! I think this is what its all about:
> > >
> > > The internet can easily turn into a giant holodeck. The "holodeck
> > > rooms of pain". One expects it to be miraculously the holodeck of
> > > love, but instead it turns into a giant holodeck of pains and torture.
> > > And once perceived like that, then, that's the only way one continues
> > > to sees it. Unreal. Just unreal.
> >
> > And now, I make a wakeup sound with my two fingers,
> >
> > and everybody is back to normal.
>
> He was "the animal" in the Holloween Party.
> We worked for BAAN, a company in Holland.
> I loved that guy!
> We had a party room of 5 programmers, we listened to
> Dire Straights at work. We had a bald intern programmer.
>
> There is nothing wrong with him. People are people. The internet
> is not party. And it gets confusing, that's all. I've been in that
> confusion. So was my brother, and many of my friends.
>
> You cannot get in contact through the monitor, and it creates
> confusion, that's all. Some people need that personal atmosphere
> to stay sane. I am one of them.

My brother fell in love with a Russian (Georgian) girl through the
Internet, and ended up having a fight on the Internet with the entire
Georgian mafia, but that's another story. The Internet can be fun.