Re: [s-d] Casual Query

[Daniel Lepage <dplepage@xxxxxxxxx>]

I'm a first year grad student at the University of Virginia, aiming at  
a PhD in Computer Science specializing in Graphics. My current  
research is in remote rendering.

I got started on Nomic in high school when a friend of mine learned  
about it at some camp or other. Anyway, we were already big on Mao,  
and we were used to learning large rulesets from playing MtG, so we  
started up a face to face nomic club at our high school. A little  
while later I discovered that people play nomic online, and I joined B  
Nomic on Nday 7 of Nweek 2 (December 20th, 2001).

Incidentally, we argued about permissibility of the unprohibited then,  
too.

http://lists.ellipsis.cx/archives/spoon-business/spoon-business-200112/msg00038.html

It's funny the way these things seem to go in cycles.

The friend who introduced to Nomic, by the way, used to play B Nomic  
under the name The Voice, but since he quit something like four years  
ago I don't think anyone but Antonio would remember him.

Two more fun facts that people may not be aware of: The Dave used to  
be the Administrator of B Nomic, back in the Old Days, and as such has  
been involved in the game longer than any other living human (since  
the game started precisely when he announced that he did). Antonio  
comes in second, having become the First Player of B Nomic a little  
under 2 hours in.

-- 
Wonko

On Nov 26, 2007, at 10:23 PM, Mike McGann wrote:

> I'm not sure how old I am, but I was born in 1975. I currently work at
> the University of Maryland as a Faculty Research Assistant. Currently
> funded by the National Archives and Records Administration to research
> things related to digital preservation. I mostly write code in Java
> these days but miss hacking around in Perl. I also like to go
> geocaching and play weekly on a trivia team even though I don't know
> anything about trivia. I'm also a Philly fan and love those
> cheesesteaks. My favorite words are "tomfoolery" and "jonx". I love
> backgammon, bridge, hearts, canasta, and Mao. Used to play a lot of
> poker, but not much these days. Was a kick-ass Priest in WoW until I
> thought the end-game was silly. I previously used the name of
> "Hosehead" until the touch screen games at the bars disallowed that in
> the high scores because it was a "dirty word".
>
> - Hose
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