Back in September [of 1995 --dpb] I asked folks to send me three of eir outside interests. I said I would compile a list of what we do besides play Nomic with or fellow Agorans. [Actually, I said we had a bunch of math dunderheads around here, and I was curious about just how many there were.]
The following is the beginning of said list. I welcome the inclusion of it into the archives. It may be that we will wish to file theses as addendums to any descriptions that are about to be given. [Oh, what I would love to do with a WWW set-up, if I had one...]
Well, I have one, and here they are. This page should work properly in any browser, although it will look much nicer in Netscape or an HTML3 browser. If you have corrections please send them my way.
| Current Players | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andre | Antimatter | Blob | Chuck | Crito | Elde | |
| elJefe | General Chaos | Harlequin | Kolja | Michael | Morendil | |
| Murphy | Ørjan | Steve | Swann | Vanyel | Zefram | |
| Watchers | ||||||
| Blue | KoJen | TAL | ||||
| Former Players | ||||||
| favor | Gecko | Ghost | Greycell | Jtael | Dave B | |
| dcuman | Doug | Coren | ChrisM | Ian | Jeffrey S. | |
| Pascal | Saltwater | Timothy | Vlad | Xanadu | ||
| RL name | Andre Engels |
| engels@win.tue.nl | |
| Snailmail |
Rimsky Korsakovlaan 87 5653 AC Eindhoven the Netherlands |
| Homepage | http://www.win.tue.nl/cs/fm/engels/index_en.html |
| Current Offices | none |
| Current Group | X |
| Status | Active |
| Last status change | 4 Aug 1997 |
| Education | High school (high grades) |
| BA & MA in mathematics | |
| BA in physics (cum laude) | |
| Title | Crystal Cup, Champion, (yes that's a title too) |
| Former Offices | Banker, Clerk of the Courts, Herald, Promotor, Liaison, Speaker-Elect |
| Other Nomics | None, but I sometimes do things in Internomic |
| Date of Birth | 11 January 1972 |
| Real-life activities | PH.D in computer science, more specificial Formal Methods. My main research subject is Message Sequence Charts. |
| Activities & Interests |
Games, mostly boardgames. Especially go, bridge and nomic, but also others. |
| I have read much about voyages of discovery. | |
| And of course mathematics, especially logic, but also other branches, interest me very much. Else I wouldn't be doing it, I guess. | |
| Personal | Single, and have always been. Hire a room in the house of an elderly woman, but am rarely there, I stay in the University until it closes at 22:30 most days. |
| Status | Active |
| Last status change | 22 Dec 1995 |
| Last Updated | 14 Dec 1995 |
| RL name | Ross Morgan-Linial |
| rmorganl@fred.fhcrc.org | |
| Homepage | http://sparky.fhcrc.org/~ross/ (there is absolutely nothing interesting there) |
| Group | The Order of the Evil Eye |
| Former Office | Mad Scientist |
| Patent Titles | Agoraphobe |
| Other Nomics | Hmmm... Ackanomic, Rishonomic, EcoNomic, NeoNomic... did I forget any? |
| Status | Active |
| Last status change | 22 Feb 1997 |
| RL Location | Seattle, WA |
| Date of Birth | 19 May 1980 |
| Education | One year from finishing high school... |
| RL activities | Real life? What's that? |
| Interestst | Computers, skiing, scuba diving, chess, math, computers... |
| Last Updated | 2 Jul 1997 |
| RL name | Malcolm Ryan |
| malcolmr@cse.unsw.edu.au | |
| Homepage | http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~malcolmr |
| Group | Threat |
| Former Offices | Herald, Notary, Banker |
| Former Group | X, Reform |
| Title | Champion |
| Maintainer of | Nomic FAQ, Net Nomic Database |
| Other Nomics | Tabula, Nomic World (both dead now) |
| Status | Active |
| Last status change | 12 Nov 1996 |
| RL Location | Sydney, NSW, Australia |
| Phone # | +61 2 9385 1447 (work) |
| Date of Birth | 8 Aug 1973 |
| Bachelor of Computer Science (UNSW) Currently pursuing PhD in Artificial Intelligence & Robotics (UNSW) |
|
| Activities | |
| Interests | |
| Last Updated | 21 Feb 1996 |
| RL name | Chuck Carroll |
| RL location | Madison, WI, USA |
| ccarroll@students.wisc.edu | |
| Home page | http://www.dfw.net/~ccarroll/ |
| Current Offices | Rulekeepor |
| Current Group | Misanthropists' |
| History | born & raised in Indianapolis, IN. Did my undergrad at the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign). Graduated summa cum laude with a B.S. Chemistry and a B.S. Biochemistry. Currently a 3rd-year graduate student in Cellular & Molecular Biology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. |
| Activities
& Interests |
alt=": ">Agora. Who has time for anything else? :) |
| Reading, when I get the time for it. | |
| Downhill skiing. | |
| Last updated | 3 Nov 1995 |
| Status | Active |
| Last status change | Tue, 15 Aug 95 00:05:43 CDT |
| RL name | David Albertz |
| dalbertz@mrb.state.ma.us or dalbertz@msn.com | |
| Offices | Herald |
| Group | Order of the Evil Eye |
| Former Offices | Assessor (*very* temporary) |
| Patent Titles | Holder of Supreme Cup |
| Other Nomics | Observing Rishonomic |
| Status | Active |
| Last status change | 19 Feb 1997 |
| Date of Birth | 6 Oct 19mumblemumble |
| RL location | Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA |
| Education | SB in Mathematics with Computer Science from MIT |
| RL activities | Computer Consultant |
| Phone # | (617) 864-5358 |
| Interests | Almost any game, esp. bridge, go |
| Personal info | No time left for anything but work, Agora, and raising two year old twin boys. 8) |
| Last Updated | 2 Jul 1997 |
| RL name | Derek Lyons |
| elde@hurricane.net | |
| Status | Active |
| Last status change | 16 Apr 1997 |
| Last Updated | 2 Jul 1997 |
| RL name | Jeff Caruso |
| jlc@triple-i.com | |
| Homepage | Not publically available |
| Current Group | Threat |
| Past Groups | Reform |
| Titles | Champion, B.N. |
| Former Offices | Assessor, Clerk of the Courts, Herald, Justiciar, Scorekeepor, Speaker |
| Agora wins | 1 |
| Activities
& Interests |
alt=": ">Computer Programming |
| Mathematics (Algebraic Topology, actually) | |
| Books | |
| Chess | |
| Status | Active |
| Last Status Change | 25 Jan 1996 |
| Last Updated | 21 Feb 1996 |
| RL name | Kelly Martin |
| Aliases | The Pink Bimbo |
| kelly@poverty.bloomington.in.us | |
| Current Offices | Ambassador, Speaker-Elect |
| Current Group | Threat |
| Status | Active |
| Last status change | 21 Feb 1997 |
| Last update | 2 Jul 1997 |
| RL name | Joshua Hall-Bachner |
| harlequin@tmbg.org | |
| Status | Active |
| Last status change | 19 Apr 1997 |
| Last Updated | 2 Jul 1997 |
| RL name | Klaus Herrmanns |
| klaush@spinup.tp3.ruhr-uni-bochum.de | |
| Status | Active |
| Last status change | Wed, 2 Jul 1997 18:41:08 +0200 |
| Last Updated | 2 Jul 1997 |
| RL name | Michael Norrish |
| RL location | Cambridge, England |
| michael.norrish@cl.cam.ac.uk | |
| Home page | http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/mn200/ |
| Current Group | X |
| Past Groups | Reform (the first one), Yellow Group, Abelian |
| Titles | Champion, First Speaker |
| Former Offices | Archivist, Speaker |
| Agora wins | 1 |
| Activities & Interests |
Computer Science (Formal methods) |
| Music | |
| Games | |
| Books | |
| Last updated | 3 Nov 1995 |
| Status | Active |
| Last status change | 941102 |
| RL name | Laurent Bossavit |
| RL location | Paris, France (home, where I write all n-b mail) |
| Alfortville, France (office, from where I keep an eye on Agora as time allows) | |
| morendil@cdrompro.fr | |
| Home page | http://www.cdrompro.com/ (company page--personal page forthcoming) |
| Title | Champion of FRC (well, perhaps) :) |
| Current Offices | Ambassador |
| Current Group | Misanthropists' |
| Activities & Interests |
Technical Director, shareholder and co-foundor of a CD-ROM publishing company, CD-ROM Productions - I used to be a developer before that. |
| Film (I try to have time for 3 movies a month) | |
| Reading (mostly SF, but I try to broaden the range) | |
| Philosophy, math, sciences, at amateur level | |
| Subscriber to the Skeptical Inquirer | |
| Used to play RPGs too but I doubt I'll ever have the time again | |
| Taking care of my cat :) | |
| Do I have to mention computers and the Net ? :) | |
| Last updated | 3 Nov 1995 |
| Status | Active |
| Last status change | Wed, 11 Oct 1995 17:55:25 +0000 |
| RL name | Ed Murphy |
| Date of Birth | 1 June 1973 |
| ford@ee.tulane.edu | |
| Snailmail | 1413 Adams New Orleans, LA 70118-4015 |
| Homepage | http://www.solace.mh.se/~starmud/ford/ |
| Education | BS in Mathematics |
| RL job | Programmer for a local business software house |
| Activities & Interests |
StarMUD, Hearts, Mao, Paranoia, various music, reading (SF mostly), puzzles, Chinese checkers |
| Last Updated | 28 Jan 1996 |
| RL name | Ørjan Johansen |
| RL location | Seattle, Washington |
| oerjan@nvg.unit.no | |
| Homepage | http://www.nvg.unit.no/~oerjan |
| Past Groups | Volkspartei, PROSIRUP |
| Titles | Champion |
| Former Offices | Assistant, Distributor, Registrar |
| Agora wins | 1 |
| Activities & Interests |
Mathematics (PhD student) |
| Reading Usenet (voraciously, as much as 50 hours a week; I have no life) | |
| Used to play Roleplaying Games and Board Games once. May do so again. | |
| Last Updated | 21 Feb 1995 |
| RL name | Steve Gardner |
| gardner@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au | |
| Current Offices | Justiciar |
| Current Group | Threat |
| Status | Active |
| Last status change | Mon, 10 Jul 1995 01:25:45 +1000 |
| RL name | Steven Andrew Swiniarski |
| RL pseudonym | S. Andrew Swann |
| RL location | Shaker Heights, OH, USA (a suburb of Cleveland) |
| Nomic-related: gb485@cleveland.freenet.edu; Personal: ap169@detroit.freenet.org | |
| Age | 29 |
| Former Offices | Herald, Notary, Tabulator, Wizard |
| Agora Wins | 2 |
| Current Group | Misanthropists' |
| Titles | Champion, Nomic Thief |
| RL job | Novelist (current is Partisan from DAW due Dec 95) |
| RL Groups/Clubs | SFWA (Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America) |
| Cajun Sushi Hampsers from Hell (Cleveland SF Writes Workshop) | |
| prior RL Jobs | Lab Assistant, Rye Bread Slicer, Concesson at the Cinema |
| Education | Undergradute Degree in Physics (don't ask me anything, I've forgotten most of it) |
| Uncompleted degree in Mechanical Engineering (My first novel sold :) | |
| Hobbies | Books, Movies, the now-Occasional RPG, (Writing unfortunatly takes up the grand perportion of my time that Agora does not. Agora, thankfuly, is my primary activity on the Internet.) |
| Status | Active |
| Last status change | Tue, 14 Nov 1995 19:29:51 -0500 |
| Last Updated | 23 Feb 1996 |
| RL name | Don Blaheta |
| RL location | Quincy, IL, USA |
| blahedo@quincy.edu | |
| Homepage | http://www.quincy.edu/~blahedo/ |
| Current Group | Threat |
| Past Groups | Reform, MAPLSIRUP, X |
| Titles | Champion, B.N. |
| Current Offices | Archivist, Notary |
| Former Offices | Ambassador Banker, Clerk of the Courts, Distributor, Promotor, Speaker |
| Agora wins | 2 |
| Activities & Interests |
Computer programming |
| Reading books (in a staple diet of 3-4 a week) | |
| Internet surfing (voraciously, as much as 50 hours a week; I have no life :) | |
| Model building | |
| Status | Active |
| Last status change | 940826 |
| Last Updated | 21 Feb 1996 |
| RL name | Andrew Main |
| zefram@dcs.warwick.ac.uk | |
| and a few years ago I used to be EXTM32@UK.AC.YORK.VAXA -- that was back when JaNet really was a separate network, hence the big-endian address, and I was using VMS, hence the uppercase. | |
| Homepage | The web is a waste of bandwidth. |
| Current Group | Clubhouse |
| Activities & Interests |
Computer programming (including designing a new programming language, and yes, of course it's better than any existing programming language [or will be when I've finished with it] (-:) |
| aikido (though I'm badly out of practice) | |
| Watching films (and I mean *films*, not videos) | |
| Reading (though I don't have much time for it these days) | |
| Status | Active |
| Last status change | Fri, 16 Jun 1995 21:29:19 +0100 (BST) |
| Last Updated | 2 Nov 1995 |
| RL name | Leigh Blue Caldwell |
| tpmsc46@imperial.ac.uk | |
| Titles | Watcher, Agoraphobe |
| Activities & Interests |
Bridge |
| Math/Physics [am I allowed this as one area? I treat them both in exactly the same way :) ] | |
| My Internet newspaper | |
| Last Updated | 25 October 1994 |
| RL name | David Cogen |
| cogen@ll.mit.edu | |
| Current Group | X |
| Status | Active |
| Last status change | Wed, 14 Jun 95 14:38:42 -0400 |
| RL name | Ronald Kunne |
| AKA | Nucleon, Troublemaker at Large, Stella? |
| kunne@cernvm.cern.ch | |
| RL location | Paris, France |
| Groups | Reform, VAVAVAVOOM! |
| Titles | Champion, Scamster |
| Former Offices | Clerk of the Courts, Scorekeepor, Speaker |
| Agora wins | 3 |
| Activities & Interests |
Work: Nuclear physics (simulation/analysis of experiments) |
| Hobbies: Chess, the stock exchange | |
| Sports: Volleyball, swimming, ski | |
| Other: relations between people (appropriate?), games in general, mathematics, science fiction. | |
| Comment | It's a lucky thing I need only 4 to 5 hours of sleep each night. |
| Last updated | 2 Nov 1995 |
| RL name | Chris Monsour |
| Snailmail | 6 Fernwood Tr. Ormond Beach, FL 32174 |
| Last updated | 23 Oct 1995 |
| RL name | Gary Heavysege |
| coren@teleport.com | |
| Groups | Reform |
| Served as | Assistant, Distributor, Promotor, Sweepstakes Officer |
| Agora wins | 0 |
| Activities & Interests |
I'm working full time on a Geology/CSci major, which at my school ends up requiring a Chem minor and a Math minor. Grad school, if it's in the cards (probably) will be in Geology. |
| Depending on what catalog I use, I could be interpreted as already having fulfilled most of a History, a Lit, a Theatre Arts, an Engineering, and a Business minor. I spent a long time where I could only take one or two classes a session, due to work, and got into the "bad" habit of taking classes because I was interested in them, rather than because I needed them for my piece of paper. I have taken close to 200 credit hours over the last twelve years, intermittantly, with a high 3.9 gpa, and am STILL two years away from completing my bachelor's program. | |
| Status | Non-player |
| Last status change | ? |
| Last Updated | 21 Feb 1996 |
| RL name | Dave Bowen |
| david.bowen@cray.com | |
| Current Group | X |
| Status | Active |
| Last status change | Tue, 10 Jan 1995 13:46:38 -0600 |
| RL name | David Chapman |
| AKA | ChapmanD |
| RL location | Mesa, Arizona |
| Job | Currently Motorola; formerly Philips in Holland, England |
| shodan@indirect.com | |
| Age | 33 |
| Married to | Cathy, Irish, B.E. in Electronic Engineering from Dublin City University |
| Activities
& Interests |
alt=": ">Computer Programming |
| Go (6kyu), online games (MUD's, PBM's etc) | |
| Other Nomics | Nomic World (briefly), AckaNomic (very briefly) |
| Status | Active |
| Last status change | 31 Jan 1996 |
| Last Updated | 13 Mar 1996 |
| RL name | Doug Chatham |
| dchatham@utk.edu | |
| Home page | http://funnelweb.utcc.utk.edu/~chatham/ |
| Status | Active |
| Last status change | 2 Feb 1996 |
| Last Updated | 21 Feb 1996 |
| RL name | David Michael Chess |
| RL location | Westchester County, NY, USA (60 km north of NYC) |
| chess@watson.ibm.com | |
| Home page | http://www.aol.com/dmchess/, or http://www.research.ibm.com/massdist/ for work |
| Education | AB in Philosophy (Phi Beta Kappa, Summa Cum Laude, etc, etc) from Princeton, 1981. |
| MS in Computer Science (etc etc) from Pace, sometime later on. | |
| Current Group | Misanthropists' |
| Title | B.N. |
| Activities & Interests |
Nomic-related: |
| Adding to the interest of the Ruleset | |
| Keeping up the pretense of being a New Player | |
| Encouraging inter-Player harmony and laughter | |
| Personal: | |
| See homepages. | |
| Wife, two kids, old house, old cat (came with the house). | |
| Reading (mostly books; remember books?). | |
| Emergent behavior in complex systems. | |
| The development of consciousness from matter. | |
| Trying not to collect collectable game cards, such as
Magic: the Gathering, Illuminati: New World Order,
and On the Edge. | |
| Former roleplayer (homebrew D&D at Princeton). | |
| Agora Nomic, and Minic (a Nomic-like game starting from
a very small Initial Set that I'm Scribe in). | |
| Status | On Hold |
| Last status change | Tue, 26 Sep 95 10:44:06 EDT |
| Last Updated | 7 Nov 1995 |
| RL name | Wes Contreras |
| gecko@magika.com | |
| Home page | http://www.teleport.com/~magika/wespage.html for personal page, or http://www.teleport.com/~magika/ for work |
| Current Offices | Promotor |
| Current Group | Threat |
| Status | Active |
| Last status change | Wed, 8 Nov 1995 15:46:15 -0800 (PST) |
| Last updated | 21 Feb 1996 |
| RL name | Lance Brown |
| labrown@dg-rtp.dg.com | |
| Past Offices | CotC |
| Status | Active |
| Last status change | 7 Feb 1996 |
| Last updated | 21 Feb 1996 |
| RL name | Dan Shannon |
| dshannon@ga.com.au | |
| Status | Active |
| Last status change | Wed, 21 Feb 1996 19:46:12 +1000 |
| Last updated | 21 Feb 1996 |
| RL name | Michael Hough |
| mhough@leland.stanford.edu | |
| Home page | http://www.stanford.edu/~mhough/ |
| Status | Active |
| Last status change | Feb 1996 |
| Last updated | 21 Feb 1996 |
| RL name | Ian Cabell |
| ian@yak.net | |
| Past Offices | Registrar, Speaker, Tabulator |
| Past Group | X |
| Last Updated | 21 Feb 1996 |
| RL name | Jeffrey S. Davidson |
| Group | Abelian |
| Former Offices | Clerk of the Courts, Herald, Speaker, Sweepstakes Officer |
| Agora wins | 1 |
| Activities & Interests |
Reading a book or two, mostly sci-fi/fantasy. |
| Working three jobs (fulltime- Purdue Engineering Library & Wal*Mart) | |
| Study of leadership | |
| Last Updated | 25 October 1995 |
| RL name | Jason Reed |
| jreed@waun.tdsnet.com | |
| Last Updated | 21 Feb 1996 |
| AKA | Sugarwater, *Water |
| RL name | Joshua Yockey |
| RL location | Seattle, WA, USA |
| gorgonne@becker.u.washington.edu | |
| Age | 19 |
| Former Groups | Clubhouse, Son of VAVAVAVOOM! |
| Current Status | Entering U. of Washington for various studies fall of '96. Baking bagels until then. |
| Hobbies | Classical Guitar |
| Rock-Climbing | |
| Skateboarding | |
| Desipising DOS | |
| Gaming (usually the role playing variety) | |
| Poetry | |
| Note | I don't actually have time for playing Nomic. Adrian Brown, otherwise known as Alpha Beta, is my natural language parser, with variable personality settings. If he does something lame, it's not my fault. Really. |
| Last Updated | 21 Feb 1996 |
| RL name | Timothy Ferguson |
| timothy.ferguson@jcu.edu.au | |
| Groups | VAVAVAVOOM! |
| Agora wins | 0 |
| Activities & Interests | Roleplaying Games. |
| Cub Scout Leading. | |
| Eating Kilograms of Chocolate. | |
| Last updated | 12 Sep 1994 |
| RL name | Scott de Brestian |
| c647100@showme.missouri.edu | |
| Status | Active |
| Last status change | Tue, 14 Nov 1995 21:23:12 -0600 |
| RL name | Donna Maron |
| Andrew Bishop | |
| A.Bishop@student.anu.edu.au | |
| Last updated | 26 Oct 1995 |