so, i thought Mark hit the self-destruct button. finally. upon reading his message on the front page, and not finding a link to the boards. but maybe...he's up to something. so I sent a small humble good bye to those whose email i have. obviously, the bar is still standing. whats up with that? did anyone but me read that and think as I did? my bookmark has always been the front page like that, so you know.....i was thoroughly caught.

me too. I was frantic for a moment. then Kazu told me to type in "/strangle" and there it was. If he wants to hand off the whole deal, I wouldn't blame him, and hopefully one of the webheads here would be able to keep it going somehow.

My bookmark is the "new messages" page...the only weirdness I've seen is the dysfunctional search page.

spider could you email me?

if i had the money for the hosting, I would help keep it up

hey spidey would you email me too? your aol addy didnt work for me today.

moreover, whats mark really saying? and what will become?

Why am I so popular today? Nate, done. Patrick, done. (My AOL account died a few months ago.)

I just ordered a dedicated server yesterday for some other sites I'm working on. So I've got a place to host things if need be.

i'm freaking out.

silly rabbits, all you have to to is go to google and type Sorabji and then anyones name, or topic, or strangle, anything.

the boards can't go away They changed my life. I mean REALLY changed my life. If I hadn't seen this thread (among others), I can only imagine all the ways I would have otherwise screwed up.

Hmmmm.

i'm glad i didn't have to kick your ass Miss E. :)

though i wouldn't even think of destroying the boards, and even though mark has this habit of every once in a while becoming overly melodramatic with regard to this website, i do think i understand where mark's coming from. i gave up my website for similar reasons. to me the web is all work now, except for these here boards. i rarely surf the web, i'm rarely enchanted by anything web technology-related, i rarely send or receive any personal email of any length or importance. the magic of cyberspace is gone. it's just a function now, an errand, part of every day life. it's useful. i need it. but the fascination and exploration is gone.

i miss your website, sarah i understand, too. i could never have done it in the first place, though occasionally tempted.

When it comes to web stuff, and net stuff in general, it's definitely becoming less about the net for its own sake and more about being a means to do other things... Which means simplicity rules. I think that's part of what makes this place so nice. There's no logins, no profiles, no threaded views or themes or even any graphics at all on the boards.

did you guys read the new story he posted, about the dead guy?

yeah. that was weird. I've never seen a dead body outside of a funeral home. unless you count the pieces of bones I picked up during that one cemetary survey, but they weren't articulated or anything...

Anyone talked with Mark? Is he OK?

well, he was just fine on the 20th... just taking a break he said. but i haven't heard anything since.

i'm glad you didn't have to kick my ass either. could someone please tell me why my computer speakers (not on this, my laptop, but on my desktop on the other side of the room) keep scaring the shit out of me by suddenly making VERY LOUD static sounds. I'm not talking about the low buzz of whatever kind of frequency(???) they pick up. I'm talkin loud static sounds that just start up out of no where. WOOSHWOOSHHSHSHHHWOOOOOSHHHWOOOOOOSHH the aliens are coming WOOSHWOOSHHSHSHHHWOOOOOSHHHWOOOOOOSHH help WOOSHWOOSHHSHSHHHWOOOOOSHHHWOOOOOOSHH it's the end of the world WOOSHWOO SHHSHSHHHWOOOOOSHHHWOOOOOOSHH

bad contacts or rfi. prolly rfi. my stereo used to do that sometimes. you know, when you don't have a cd playing but it's on anyway. suddenly, at ear bleeding decibels, i'd be forced to eavesdrop on someone's cb conversation. yours is probably someone's car motor isn't properly shielded and it just happens to be emitting a frequency that resonates with the length of your speaker cables or some other component of the sound system. or it could be your imagination.

or it's the langoliers coming to getcha!!!

or, you're in the process of self destructing.

Maybe. Is anyone else having problems accessing Yahoo! mail today?

nein

thats German for "no" in case i tripped you up.

Last night I saw a program on PBS about a German U-Boat found off the New Jersey coast. It was so cool. There were no official records accounting for any U-Boat sunk in that area, but the divers who found it spent over 6 years (and three lives -- the wreck is 230 ft. below, which is 100 ft. deeper than is safe to dive) in their quest to identify it. The program interviewed a few old German men who had served on U-Boats, including one who was supposed to have been on that particular U-Boat when it left Norway but had been sick. It was very moving to hear these men talk about how their actions during the war still haunt them. Really neat. Yeah. Or ja.

Here's an interview with the man who survived.

i've seen that story before. speaking of odd Naval occurances off the coast of the US, have you ever heard of the Philadelphia Experiment of 1943. Like the Manhatten Project it was a super secret project that supposedly similarly used Einstein's reaserch as well as Tesla's in which the Navy attempted to make a ship invisible and even transport in time and space by using heat and magentic fields. Supposedly the ship the USS Eldridge disappeared from Norfolk hardor under a green haze to reappear in Philadelphia harbor in a span of 15 minutes according to witnesses in both locations. many crew members were reportedly sick, some were literally wedged into the hull of the ship, some never reappeaared. http://www.abovetopsecret.com/pages/philadelphia.html

woa, dude. that's a total fucking coincidence, because there's a movie called the philadelphia experiment where that very thing happens.

that was one of my favorite movies when I was a kid. USS Eldrige's Website