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blondgecko wrote: Geez, man - couldn't you have picked another thread to get caught out in? I liked this one!
Yeah, but think of the irony (again). It bumped the snot out of this thread which had, at most, passing interest to the rest of the science geeks here and now it will probably go on for at least another day or so.
And....
It is your thread, of all of the people who could be the OP. (Yeah, I know statistically it isn't that big. Still...)
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rockreaver
Aug 12, 2009, 2:19 AM
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Everyone knew that. :shrug:
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rockreaver
Aug 12, 2009, 2:37 AM
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Go read the thread. He said it himself. It was actually hilarious and I got the impression that most people were cracking up.
You know I'm trying to do the right thing here. I'm not trying to throw blame around. I'm not trying to be "poor me". I'm not in any way trying to dodge.
So if this is just going to be more of this then I'll come back to my same question. What exactly do you want? What will be strong? I kind of think I'm doing the right things. The strong things.
1. Find the people you offended.
2. Acknowledge the offense.
3. Apologize.
4. Make it right.
I've done 1 - 3 but 4 is getting pretty fuzzy. What is it you want. You asked me about Wayfarer and I told you exactly. Had you read the thread you'd have seen where Dingus outed himself.
Again. What do you want?
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wjca
Aug 12, 2009, 2:49 AM
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rockreaver wrote: Again. What do you want?
More pictures of naked tits. They don't have to belong to Lucy Lu, but of similar caliber. Thanks a ton.
DMT
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rockreaver
Aug 12, 2009, 3:04 AM
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macherry wrote: rockreaver wrote: Again. What do you want? i always wanted a pony
Done! PM me your shipping address and it'll arrive next week. I keep my word too. You'll have a pony.
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rockreaver
Aug 12, 2009, 3:14 AM
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wjca wrote: rockreaver wrote: Again. What do you want? More pictures of naked tits. They don't have to belong to Lucy Lu, but of similar caliber. Thanks a ton. DMT
Okay here's the deal. I've got tons of them. Literally millions and millions. But they all are of Polynesian dwarf goat farmers. There's a size limit of 1 meg on photos and we are talking like terabytes. Oh and they are all on floppy's (cheap website all the porn was subscription based on floppy). So I'll keep them here. Someday I'm gong to travel to your end of the country and I'll bring them with me...
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macherry
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rockreaver wrote: macherry wrote: rockreaver wrote: Again. What do you want? i always wanted a pony Done! PM me your shipping address and it'll arrive next week. I keep my word too. You'll have a pony.
it has to be a white one with a black patch on it's back and over it's right eye. i'll call him patches.
oh and a GOOD bottle of scotch
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Toast_in_the_Machine
Aug 12, 2009, 4:06 AM
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rockreaver wrote: wjca wrote: rockreaver wrote: Again. What do you want? More pictures of naked tits. They don't have to belong to Lucy Lu, but of similar caliber. Thanks a ton. DMT Okay here's the deal. I've got tons of them. Literally millions and millions. But they all are of Polynesian dwarf goat farmers. There's a size limit of 1 meg on photos and we are talking like terabytes. Oh and they are all on floppy's (cheap website all the porn was subscription based on floppy). So I'll keep them here. Someday I'm gong to travel to your end of the country and I'll bring them with me...
Quit bitchen' about the assignement and get on it man.
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rrrADAM
Aug 12, 2009, 12:28 PM
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rock... You seem to be a little zealous, in more areas than just appologizing.
You seem to be pretty zealous about being anti-violent, to the point of "hating the UFC":
http://www.rockclimbing.com/...post=2187808#2187808
Are you consumed by your thoughts and emotions?
Do they drive you to compulsion and being reactionary?
I ask, because in the linked post, you appear to have edietd out a bunch of over the top reactionary abusive language... At least that's what I gathered from what you wrote.
What's up with that bro?
I'm starting to lean towards this is just another troll, and you are only trying a different lure.
Why? Because as wayfarer, you wrote:In reply to: My ability with computers is startling. I've been doing covert government work for a very long time, primarily in cyberspace. . . . I didn't spend years getting shot at in the world so some of you could continue to take potshots at me here. . . . I am completely ready for the mob-war death squads so bring it on. You all remind me of the Republican Guard.
Now, as rock, not too far from the above tone, and even down to thinking of yourself as a coding ledgend. So, the lure isn't all that different.
Thing is, you aren't even consistant, as compare your GI Joe chest beating with your anti-violonce whining in the linked thread.
Either that, or there is truth to the cliche that techies that only sit behind a terminal, isolated from face to face interactions with people, are socially retarded.
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bill413
Aug 12, 2009, 12:49 PM
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rockreaver wrote: No it was meant to be a "go have fun" type of thing. These are 4 guys I know as well as I know anyone. I'm self-employed and I know my stuff way well. I was a senior engineer for Micron Technology and wrote their backlog management system for memory modules and wafers. I wrote the Wildlife Management System for Idaho Fish & Game. I wrote the archived license lookup system for Idaho Fish & Game. When it comes to source code I'm really good. I just got annoyed and on an impulse gave the account away. Then it got worse and worse. I followed it for a bit and then just kind of got really ashamed. So I tried to come back as wayfarer but somebody spotted that in no time flat and I was on the defensive so I gave up. I registered rockreaver but I didn't post for a very long time (or I think that's right... that was the plan). Then I just tried to be very vanilla. I had real questions I wanted help with and I knew there were good people here. Some of them whom I won't mention have been cool since day one and each time I morphed I told them that I was agent X or Y or Z and they were like "okay". I have been paid very well to catch hackers. I've programmed CISCO IOS for firewalls. I've done it all and I'm pretty good. I'm pretty burned out on life though keeping a kid alive and the debt has me really fried. All I want to do is climb. That means I hang out here and I read, and read and read and read and read. Then I add a picture and my whole world goes right to hell. Oh well. You get what you earn and I earned what I'm getting.
Just to harp on this point a bit more (man, I hope I don't derail the promised goat-tit pictures), which was it? 4 guys you know really well, and a "go have fun;" or an "I got annoyed & gave it away?"
Anyway, are the g-t's of similar quality to Lucy's?
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Gmburns2000
Aug 12, 2009, 2:22 PM
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rrrADAM wrote: I'm starting to lean towards this is just another troll.
fixed.
But you have to admit, it's a damn fun one. I mean, what other kind of troll lives right on the edge of admitting it and still has some people fixated on the possibility that it might not be?
Seriously, look at the evidence: how else would a newbie know to allow four people to use his account, or how else would a newbie know to say that even if it wasn't true? And then how else would a newbie know to give Dingus his log in information? (or, again, even know the say that even if it wasn't true?)
No newbie would know to do that, particularly after all the bashing that has ensued, after all the hurt feelings that were communicated. No newbie would have the presence of mind to take all of those "hurt feelings" and still have fun with folks, particularly woth someone such as Dingus who is more than capable of calling him out.
No, it has to be a troll because the person behind all of this needs to have the presence of mind to actually do all of that from the beginning.
In any case - RR: I don't care. Whoever you are, I've had a lot of fun and I'm glad you're back. 
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rrrADAM
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Nah... I think he's a skilled internet geek, that lacks interpersonal skills, but knows how to live vicariously through created personas like D&D Characters and Trolls - To be an Internet Superhero.
It's the person he wishes he were, but in reality, he's most like the guy who runs the comic book store on The Simpsons:
He probably really does hate violence, since he was punked and bullied as a kid... Hence the GI Joe fantasy.
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rockreaver
Aug 12, 2009, 2:40 PM
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bill413 wrote: Just to harp on this point a bit more (man, I hope I don't derail the promised goat-tit pictures), which was it? 4 guys you know really well, and a "go have fun;" or an "I got annoyed & gave it away?" Anyway, are the g-t's of similar quality to Lucy's?
It was 4 guys that I know well that are laughing their asses off right now. Here's how the conversation went. I screw around with people a lot. So things like, "Guys here's a login to this web account. Go have fun. Come pretty naturally for me. Plus the 4 guys I've known since college take fun pretty seriously.
I'm not lying when I say this. We once carried a cement parking spot thingie up 4 flights of stairs and propped it on someone's door. Dumbest thing we ever did. Nobody got hurt but splitting $1000 5 ways in college to repair the apartment is a bit hard.
We drove a golf cart off an embankment and flipped it (totally on accident and I had nothing to do with it but I was there). We filled up all the holes on the course with sand. These guys would carry empty beer bottles around with them so they could swap them for fulls at bars when people weren't looking. Then all night long they'd swap the empty. Look! Free beer.
The list of exploits goes from there So this came pretty naturally. All of these guys are American too but they hail from their homeland. There should be a french guy in their too from an exchange program but he was on vacation (he's always on vacation).
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rockreaver
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Gmburns2000 wrote: No, it has to be a troll because the person behind all of this needs to have the presence of mind to actually do all of that from the beginning.
What on earth did you guys learn in college? I mean I'm in zero position to judge here but I got a masters in jacking people around. The list of exploits would make a great book. So wanking people on a message board is about as easy as it gets. These are 4 guys I've gotten my degree in CS with. 4 guys I've played golf with. 4 guys that were there when my kids were born. They live too far away to climb now but they make for good road trips. One of them is in the peace corps.
Anyway, if you think it took a mental disorder to plan this stuff then you were not paying attention in college but I'll back off on that.
I can type out a pretty good list of exploits that we did that might convince you what we are capable of. This thing here at this site was a backwoods hack compared to some of the stuff.
We took a supercomputer at a university and got it to fold for a cure for cancer. To my knowledge it's still doing it and we set that up years ago. http://folding.stanford.edu/ That was something we all feel pretty good about.
Maybe I'm the only one that really mastered pranking I don't know.
As far as a troll? Codefrog = troll. Wayfarer = dumb. Rockreaver has been nothing but sincere. I don't think a troll would spend months and 150+ posts to turn back into a little green dude that pisses people off for fun.
Anyway, it's pretty much out of the bag now. I cannot convince anyone of anything. My phone number is all over the web get it and call me and you'll find out I'm not anything more than a 35 year old smart ass that enjoys life a lot and made a mistake here but aside from that has a pretty decent track record with humanity.
Pranks! I swear that was 101 in college but maybe it's just me. The guys I ran with had a ton of fun. The police knew us all by name and even liked us. We never did *real* crime but we kept them on the beat. We've actually bought police dinner and let them quiz us about our exploits and they laughed harder than we did. One of them gave us his glock which we promptly took all his bullets out of until he paid for dinner. Stuff like that was a normal thing. I was a bike mechanic for about 6 police officers and I'm pretty sure they enjoyed the hell out of us.
But in terms of "thinking this up" that was cake. That came pretty naturally.
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rockreaver
Aug 12, 2009, 3:13 PM
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rrrADAM wrote: Nah... I think he's a skilled internet geek, that lacks interpersonal skills, but knows how to live vicariously through created personas like D&D Characters and Trolls - To be an Internet Superhero. It's the person he wishes he were, but in reality, he's most like the guy who runs the comic book store on The Simpsons: [image]http://progets.com/simpsons/pics/The%20comic%20book%20guy%20with%20his%20laptop.gif[/image] He probably really does hate violence, since he was punked and bullied as a kid... Hence the GI Joe fantasy.
Living vicariously through what? You have to think about this. What vicarious personality am I living right now? If I am it's pretty dull. Wouldn't I have picked something more interesting? I mean I've been asking about trad harnesses, soft shells and slings. That's not much of a vicarious life. Not really at all.
In real life I'm self-employed and I do very well. I know most of the major businessman in this town as well as the CEO of the largest memory maker in America. Just saw him in McCall a few weeks ago and we both talked for about 30 minutes while hanging out on a dock at the waterfront of a lake.
If I'm living vicariously I'm not doing a very good job at all. As far as hating violence mmm not so much. It has it's place and I'll leave it at that. I have good friends in Afghanistan and Iraq as well as other places in the world. Good people and they are... very violent if the situation mandates it. But they are officially "peace keepers" and they like that too. They want to come home to their wives and kids too.
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and you're still doing assinine pranks pranks as an adult professional.
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Okay. I'm not really going back into that explanation. No I'm not still doing. It was a mistake and one I won't make again but I think I've said enough on that. It'd be pretty hard to explain this to my kids and the fact that I'd have a hard time explaining it means it was a bad idea. A really bad idea.
But if you look at the events I wasn't really wanting this to happen.
Things were going just fine as rockreaver. I wasn't trolling. I wasn't yanking/wanking. I was just hanging out and getting my feet down. I added a profile picture and Burns was on it. I knew that it was going to collapse from there and it has.
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rockreaver wrote: Anyway, if you think it took a mental disorder to plan this stuff then you were not paying attention in college but I'll back off on that.
Oh no, I don't think it took a disorder at all. I think it was well done, in fact.
In reply to: I don't think a troll would spend months and 150+ posts to turn back into a little green dude that pisses people off for fun.
heh. Um, that's exactly what I'd think a good troll would do. I think the photo was either a good ploy to regenerate the conversation or the troller got sick of no one figuring it out. One photo for just a few minutes and that's all it took. I'm betting the troller knew exactly what was going on.
But like I said, it was / is fun to watch.
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rockreaver
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So we are rehashing things that have been hashed once already.
I can restate the whole story for clarity or not. I'm out. I ruined the thread on accident. Well I just changed my profile pic and the thread collapsed after that.
- I explained the situation.
- I admitted it was a mistake.
- I apologized.
- I'm trying to make it right.
Can we wrap this up? I don't know what you guys are really after now. If you don't like me then ignore my posts. But this is now getting iterative. We are going back to places we've been and in going there it's not really doing much. Have the mods ban me. Wait you are a mod.
* If you think that anything rockreaver has ever done deserves banning then do it.
* If you think that rockreaver is still pulling pranks then ban him.
* If you think rockreaver is intentionally doing things to interrupt the purpose and intent of this site then ban him.
* If you cannot let someone have a 2nd chance then ban me.
I guess I want to say this. Judge me by my actions as rockreaver both now and moving forward. Can we let the rest of this fall away? I just want to be a climber that is learning the sport. I'm also getting into snow shoes and winter camping. I want my son to have confidence and a good work ethic in life.
None of this would even be happening if we were face to face. You'd have either punched me and walked away. You'd have said, "It's fine dude. Just don't do it again. Buy my lunch, belay me on anything I say and we'll forget this happened." or you'd have laughed it off.
This is dragging out because it's the web. Drive over and punch me. Make me be your sherpa or forget about it. I've done everything I can do. Short of sending you all a some of Dingus's porn there's not much left to do.
I'm not going to make this a whole lot of fun. There's information I need here. There are relationships I have here. There are things I need to learn here. So either ban me or let it go.
I'm outta here though. I just picked up a Cloudveil Rayzar for $227 at Sierra Trading Post and an Icebreaker 260. Sierra Trading Post did something really cool. They honored a 20% off coupon that I just got on the jacket that I bought 5 days prior but they further applied it to the Icebreaker so the Icebreaker costs me $6. Now I need to figure out what outer parka would be a good match for that and then I'll be outfitted for winter climbing and snowshoe trekking.
I have to move on. This is never at all what I intended and sometimes you do things you regret. All of us do. You just want to start over and leave it behind.
Codefrog is dead. Wayfarer is dead. Rockreaver is humbly working his way into a long life of climbing and outdoor activity and if the few of you here are okay with that I'll be moving on.
I promised my son a climbing tour when he graduates from high school that will finish at Yosemite and hit other places like Squamish and possibly the Tanks. We'll have fun.
Someday I'll tell him this story when he's old enough to understand it and he'll probably look at me and say, "Dad that was a dumbass thing to do." and we'll agree and keep driving.
I'm off guys. Lock the thread, give it back to BlondGecko or something. I've got a normal life to live not a past to be mired in.
{EDIT}The reason I changed my profile pic is that yesterday marks the day I got a membership at the YMCA. I weighed 270 pounds. I'm now 170 pounds and to celebrate that I took a photo and am using that photo on all my profiles. You can see the past here: http://www.code-frog.com/milestone.htm I got the membership in 2005 so over 4 years I've lost 100 pounds and learned a lot along the way. That's why I changed profile pics.{/EDIT}
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rockreaver wrote: Can we wrap this up? I don't know what you guys are really after now. If you don't like me then ignore my posts. But this is now getting iterative. We are going back to places we've been and in going there it's not really doing much. Have the mods ban me. Wait you are a mod.
dude, just like with codefrog, there is a very simple way for YOU to "wrap this up." It involves shutting up, ignoring insults, and refraining from posting those ranting-drama-queen-livejournalesque-walls-of-words that you call "posts."
Somehow, I doubt you have it in you to do this, though.
Oh, and one other question. Are you Mormon?
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I'm not mormon. Not at all. No. Nope. Never. Or JW or Catholic or Hindu, Muslim, Buddhist, Baptist, *ist.
camhead wrote: ...ranting-drama-queen-livejournalesque-walls-of-words that you call "posts." Somehow, I doubt you have it in you to do this, though.
Funny because that's what I'm doing. Had you not asked the mormon thing I'd not have been back but I'm not mormon at all. Proud member of the 1991 NoMo Society founded, established and still growing at Centennial High School.
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