Biographies

Over a year ago, former Player Jeffrey S. decided to assemble a few biographies of various Agorans. He got a few, and since then we have assembled a couple... here is the preface to his original post:

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.


Directory

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Current Players
Andre Blob Chuck Coren Dave B dcuman
Doug elJefe favor Gecko Ghost Greycell
Jtael Kelly KoJen Michael Morendil Murphy
Steve Swann Vanyel Zefram
Watchers
Blue Ørjan TAL
Former Players
ChrisM Ian Jeffrey S. Pascal Saltwater Timothy
Vlad Xanadu

Current Players

Andre
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RL nameAndre Engels
Emailcsg419@wing.rug.nl
Snailmail Kornoeljestraat 2e3
9741 JB Groningen
the Netherlands
Homepagehttp://huizen.dds.nl/~engels/index_en.html (or http://huizen.dds.nl/~engels/ for those who speak dutch)
Current OfficesClerk of the Courts, Herald
Current GroupX
StatusActive
Last status changeThu, 20 Jul 95 11:21:22 METDST
Education High school (high grades)
BA in mathematics
BA in physics
TitleChampion
Former OfficesBanker
Other Nomics Currently none, but I did play in Fascist game 6, 7 (short) and 8 (held the function of Minister of Trade)
Date of Birth 11 January 1972
Real-life activities Student in mathematics, now graduating on the subject of 'completeness and correctness of MLCM' (a certain kind of dynamic logic). Spend too much time doing other things, unfortunately. I hope to get a PhD-place starting in a few months, so if anyone has a PhD-place in logic, please contact me!
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 I live in a student's appartment, sharing kitchen, living room, showers and toilets with 14 other people. Most of them I see come and leave. Five of these places are for Foreign Exchange Students, so I see 5 new students from elsewhere in Europe every half year or so (and I speak much English in every day conversation as well as in Agora).
StatusActive
Last status change22 Dec 1995
Last Updated 14 Dec 1995

Blob
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RL nameMalcolm Ryan
Emailmalcolmr@cse.unsw.edu.au
StatusActive
Last status change6 Jan 1996
Last Updated21 Feb 1996

Chuck
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RL nameChuck Carroll
RL locationMadison, WI, USA
Emailccarroll@students.wisc.edu
Home pagehttp://www.dfw.net/~ccarroll/
Current OfficesRulekeepor
Current GroupMisanthropists'
Historyborn & 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
Agora. Who has time for anything else? :)
Reading, when I get the time for it.
Downhill skiing.
Last updated3 Nov 1995
StatusActive
Last status changeTue, 15 Aug 95 00:05:43 CDT

Coren
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RL nameGary Heavysege
Emailcoren@teleport.com
GroupsReform
Served asAssistant, Distributor, Promotor, Sweepstakes Officer
Agora wins0
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.
StatusActive
Last status changeJan 1996
Last Updated21 Feb 1996

Dave B
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RL nameDave Bowen
Emaildavid.bowen@cray.com
Current GroupX
StatusActive
Last status changeTue, 10 Jan 1995 13:46:38 -0600

dcuman
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RL nameDavid Chapman
AKAChapmanD
RL locationMesa, Arizona
JobCurrently Motorola; formerly Philips in Holland, England
Emailshodan@indirect.com
Age33
Married toCathy, Irish, B.E. in Electronic Engineering from Dublin City University
Activities &
Interests
Computer Programming Go (6kyu), online games (MUD's, PBM's etc)
Other NomicsNomic World (briefly), AckaNomic (very briefly)
StatusActive
Last status change31 Jan 1996
Last Updated13 Mar 1996

Doug
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RL nameDoug Chatham
Emaildchatham@utk.edu
Home pagehttp://funnelweb.utcc.utk.edu/~chatham/
StatusActive
Last status change2 Feb 1996
Last Updated21 Feb 1996

elJefe
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RL nameJeff Caruso
Emailjlc@triple-i.com
HomepageNot publically available
Current GroupThreat
Past GroupsReform
TitlesChampion, B.N.
Former OfficesAssessor, Clerk of the Courts, Herald, Justiciar, Scorekeepor, Speaker
Agora wins1
Activities &
Interests
Computer Programming
Mathematics (Algebraic Topology, actually)
Books
Chess
StatusActive
Last Status Change25 Jan 1996
Last Updated21 Feb 1996

Favor
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RL nameDavid Michael Chess
RL locationWestchester County, NY, USA (60 km north of NYC)
Emailchess@watson.ibm.com
Home pagehttp://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 GroupMisanthropists'
TitleB.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).
StatusOn Hold
Last status changeTue, 26 Sep 95 10:44:06 EDT
Last Updated7 Nov 1995

Gecko
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RL nameWes Contreras
Emailgecko@magika.com
Home pagehttp://www.teleport.com/~magika/wespage.html for personal page, or http://www.teleport.com/~magika/ for work
Current OfficesPromotor
Current GroupThreat
StatusActive
Last status changeWed, 8 Nov 1995 15:46:15 -0800 (PST)
Last updated21 Feb 1996

Ghost
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RL nameLance Brown
Emaillabrown@dg-rtp.dg.com
Past OfficesCotC
StatusActive
Last status change7 Feb 1996
Last updated21 Feb 1996

Greycell
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RL nameDan Shannon
Emaildshannon@ga.com.au
StatusActive
Last status changeWed, 21 Feb 1996 19:46:12 +1000
Last updated21 Feb 1996

Jtael
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RL nameMichael Hough
Emailmhough@leland.stanford.edu
Home pagehttp://www.stanford.edu/~mhough/
StatusActive
Last status changeFeb 1996
Last updated21 Feb 1996

Kelly
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Emailkelly@poverty.bloomington.in.us
Current OfficesAssessor
Current GroupThreat
StatusActive
Last status changeFri, 17 Nov 95 08:33:07 EST5

KoJen
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RL nameDavid Cogen
Emailcogen@ll.mit.edu
Current GroupX
StatusActive
Last status changeWed, 14 Jun 95 14:38:42 -0400

Michael
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RL nameMichael Norrish
RL locationCambridge, England
Emailmichael.norrish@cl.cam.ac.uk
Home pagehttp://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/mn200/
Current GroupX
Past GroupsReform (the first one), Yellow Group, Abelian
TitlesChampion, First Speaker
Former OfficesArchivist, Speaker
Agora wins1
Activities &
Interests
Computer Science (Formal methods)
Music
Games
Books
Last updated3 Nov 1995
StatusActive
Last status change941102

Morendil
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RL nameLaurent Bossavit
RL locationParis, France (home, where I write all n-b mail)
Alfortville, France (office, from where I keep an eye on Agora as time allows)
Emailmorendil@cdrompro.fr
Home pagehttp://www.cdrompro.com/ (company page--personal page forthcoming)
TitleChampion of FRC (well, perhaps) :)
Current OfficesAmbassador
Current GroupMisanthropists'
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 updated3 Nov 1995
StatusActive
Last status changeWed, 11 Oct 1995 17:55:25 +0000

Murphy
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RL nameEd Murphy
Date of Birth1 June 1973
Emailford@ee.tulane.edu
Snailmail1413 Adams
New Orleans, LA 70118-4015
Homepagehttp://www.solace.mh.se/~starmud/ford/
EducationBS in Mathematics
RL jobProgrammer for a local business software house
Activities &
Interests
StarMUD, Hearts, Mao, Paranoia, various music, reading (SF mostly), puzzles, Chinese checkers
Last Updated28 Jan 1996

Steve
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RL nameSteve Gardner
Emailgardner@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au
Current OfficesJusticiar
Current GroupThreat
StatusActive
Last status changeMon, 10 Jul 1995 01:25:45 +1000

Swann
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RL nameSteven Andrew Swiniarski
RL pseudonymS. Andrew Swann
RL locationShaker Heights, OH, USA (a suburb of Cleveland)
EmailNomic-related: gb485@cleveland.freenet.edu; Personal: ap169@detroit.freenet.org
Age29
Former OfficesHerald, Notary, Tabulator, Wizard
Agora Wins2
Current GroupMisanthropists'
TitlesChampion, Nomic Thief
RL jobNovelist (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 JobsLab 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.)
StatusActive
Last status changeTue, 14 Nov 1995 19:29:51 -0500
Last Updated23 Feb 1996

Vanyel
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RL nameDon Blaheta
RL locationQuincy, IL, USA
Emailblahedo@quincy.edu
Homepagehttp://www.quincy.edu/~blahedo/
Current GroupThreat
Past GroupsReform, MAPLSIRUP, X
TitlesChampion, B.N.
Current Offices Archivist, Notary
Former Offices Ambassador Banker, Clerk of the Courts, Distributor, Promotor, Speaker
Agora wins2
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
StatusActive
Last status change940826
Last Updated21 Feb 1996

Zefram
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RL nameAndrew Main
Email 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.
HomepageThe web is a waste of bandwidth.
Current GroupClubhouse
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)
StatusActive
Last status changeFri, 16 Jun 1995 21:29:19 +0100 (BST)
Last Updated2 Nov 1995

Watchers

Blue
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RL nameLeigh Blue Caldwell
Emailtpmsc46@imperial.ac.uk
TitlesWatcher, 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 Updated25 October 1994

Ørjan
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RL nameØrjan Johansen
RL locationSeattle, Washington
Emailoerjan@nvg.unit.no
Homepagehttp://www.nvg.unit.no/~oerjan
Past GroupsVolkspartei, PROSIRUP
TitlesChampion
Former OfficesAssistant, Distributor, Registrar
Agora wins1
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 Updated21 Feb 1995

TAL
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RL nameRonald Kunne
AKANucleon, Troublemaker at Large, Stella?
Emailkunne@cernvm.cern.ch
RL locationParis, France
GroupsReform, VAVAVAVOOM!
TitlesChampion, Scamster
Former OfficesClerk of the Courts, Scorekeepor, Speaker
Agora wins3
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.
CommentIt's a lucky thing I need only 4 to 5 hours of sleep each night.
Last updated2 Nov 1995

Former Players

ChrisM
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RL nameChris Monsour
Snailmail6 Fernwood Tr.
Ormond Beach, FL 32174
Last updated23 Oct 1995

Ian
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RL nameIan Cabell
Emailian@yak.net
Past OfficesRegistrar, Speaker, Tabulator
Past GroupX
Last Updated21 Feb 1996

Jeffrey S.
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RL nameJeffrey S. Davidson
GroupAbelian
Former OfficesClerk of the Courts, Herald, Speaker, Sweepstakes Officer
Agora wins1
Activities &
Interests
Reading a book or two, mostly sci-fi/fantasy.
Working three jobs (fulltime- Purdue Engineering Library & Wal*Mart)
Study of leadership
Last Updated25 October 1995

Pascal
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RL nameJason Reed
Emailjreed@waun.tdsnet.com
Last Updated21 Feb 1996

Saltwater
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AKASugarwater, *Water
RL nameJoshua Yockey
RL locationSeattle, WA, USA
Emailgorgonne@becker.u.washington.edu
Age19
Former GroupsClubhouse, Son of VAVAVAVOOM!
Current StatusEntering 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 Updated21 Feb 1996

Timothy
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RL nameTimothy Ferguson
Emailtimothy.ferguson@jcu.edu.au
GroupsVAVAVAVOOM!
Agora wins0
Activities &
Interests
Roleplaying Games.
Cub Scout Leading.
Eating Kilograms of Chocolate.
Last updated12 Sep 1994

Vlad
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RL nameScott de Brestian
Emailc647100@showme.missouri.edu
StatusActive
Last status changeTue, 14 Nov 1995 21:23:12 -0600

Xanadu
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RL nameDonna Maron
Andrew Bishop
EmailA.Bishop@student.anu.edu.au
Last updated26 Oct 1995