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Lockjaw: The
Online Revolution Continues
This is NOT a tribute to the PM's.
If you want to see that, it'll be up in June's edition of GuysGuise.
With that said, I'm going out on the
proverbial limb once again to make a bold, biased statement: If the
Beast captured the attention of thousands of online gamers, then
Lockjaw captured some of their hearts. Of course, I'm a little
bit biased, seeing as how I was so well received in this gaming community
rather than the 'lurk' status I had with my fellow Cloudmakers. What
really made this game special for me, as I've said a million times in
#jawbreakers, was the people involved. And no, I'm not talking about
Krystyn, Brooke, Bruce, Clay, Andy, or even Derek (thanks for where.gif and
all the headaches it caused OTHERS, ya jerk J
). Nope, I'm talking about the people who sat down everyday, looked at
things from the everyperson's perspective, and added their two cents when
they could. With some people, the two cents took the form of a code
breaking technique that blew everyone away and helped solve a difficult
puzzle. With others, their two cents were a funny joke or an
interesting comment about story lines. Some went the extra mile, and
some followed along, but in the end, we all end up in the same place,
looking at the same NetSight page, reading about endgame. As a man of
the people, I've taken it upon myself to create an online image of the
people who have played the game any way they could. Lurkers, solvers,
shit disturbers, unite!
If you had a chance to email my crack
security team following the hacker attack, you got an email with a page
linking you to the online version of UrbanZombie's infamous survey.
If you filled it out (after I got the bugs out), it was sent to my inbox and
was processed for this page. And here you are, in
no particular order other than alphabetical ;) ...
NOTE: if I couldn't find an actual
picture of you somewhere, I used my editorial power to full advantage and
inserted an image of the cartoon/movie character you most reminded me of through
the game.
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adoyle98
As can be seen from my CDDB entry, I
came to this game by way of Cloudmakers, where I came to know and love
i_monk, um, I mean these interactive games. (Fortunately, the worst
flame war I sparked over there got deleted before I ever saw it. But no
question i_monk made the newbies shape up right quick. Made better players
of us all. ;p) I'm a not-too-well-disguised lawyer, and too damn
serious for my own good. Living and working in the DC area (also no surprise
from my posts, although since the PMs apparently made up all their DC stuff
from afar, that's much less useful than I thought it would be). I must
say the email from Net:Sight inquiring about legal services was probably the
one thing that made me an active participant in the game, although euchre
was the thing that made this for me. Three brothers, no sisters, three
cats (a temporary surplus), nice car, good job.
Best friend in #jawbreakers: Ozy
Crush: Pierce Brosnan
Major in College: International Relations
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aveena:
Name: Aveena (no other names necessary :)
Birthday: August 25.
Crush: Jeff (Editor's Note: Inquiring minds want to know Veen...)
Make of Car: Toyota
Pets: Bella, Sam and Domino
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BBI_Scryer:
Name: Jim Gillogly.
I'm an amateur cryptanalyst, but since
I've won some prizes (including 2nd prize in Simon Singh's "The Code Book"
cipher challenge), I guess that makes me semi-pro. I specialize in classical
ciphers, up to WW2 or thereabouts, but have paid attention to recent ones
also. (Editor's note: Really? Which recent ciphers have you
used to BLOW AWAY OUR CODEBREAKING ABILITIES??? LOL) My Ph.D.
involved my chess program TECH, which won 2nd place in one of the early
world computer chess championships. I'm an ex-president of the American
Cryptgram Association. One of my favorite papers is a demonstration that the
Beale Ciphers are a hoax; another is a ciphertext-only attack on the German
WW2 Enigma cipher -- the Allies used known plaintext to break it. I did the
conversion of the original Adventure program from Fortran to C, and my
version is seen on most Unix systems. I scuba whenever I can, have sung with
my chamber music group in Carnegie Hall, and my wife and I became
grandparents just under a year ago. I'm probably most like sHErPA, but
identify most strongly with Jo Burgess.
That's way too much, I'm sure, so feel free to chop it down. -- Scryer
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celina63:
Name: Celina Myrtez Du... wait, who's
gonna be looking at this???
Best Friend: her fiancé, Chris
Crush: in her words: "Same guy... sick, huh?"
Nickname: Banshee (if you ask nicely, she'll tell you the story behind
it)
Major in College: Computer Programming
Car Name: Silver Bullet
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devjoe:
Name: Joseph DeVincentis
OK, you can say this about me: I'm a technical writer from
the Boston area, a hobby programmer, and a member of the National Puzzlers'
League.
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donkey_oatey:
Name: Nick O' Teen (Ed.: he keeps giving this to me, so I'm
going with it, and this IS the pic from his Yahoo profile, so don't yell at
me)
Crush: I think I'm falling for
Mephista (sadly, said love remains unrequited)
Catchphrase: So many to choose from: micmac? worble? unfiction? I'll
go with... (ed. the word was too long. I made the decision to
cut it. Again, no yelling please)
Best Friend: My SL-1200 MK2
Car Name: Poo
Hobbies: Consume & Manufacture Music, Read, Write, Skateboard, Wander
around New York City looking for windmills to conquer
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gupfee:
Name: Marie Lamb
Birthday: March 2
College: Boston University
Pets: Dashiki & Molly (cats)
Car Name: The Guppymobile
Hobby: Tease jamesi
Catchphrase: Update!
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ikkarus:
Name: Michael Thomas Frazer
Job: Web Development
Significant Other: The TV
Hobby: Spin around in circles until I fall down. Or just fall down.
Spinning is optional. (Ed.: This guy is the next jamesi!)
Pets: Inky, Blinky, Pinky, and Dot.
Best Friend: Some jerk in New Jersey
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katya2032:
Name: Melissa
Let's see. I live in Forney, TX (some
already know this after a discussion about the town's name). I do print
production for a small advertising firm. Um, two cats, a new house, and an
intense dislike for Yahoo! bots (they are eeeeevvvvviiiiilllll). BTW,
that Russian version of "One" was one of the most vile renditions of that
particular song I've ever heard. Thanks for sharing! :)
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kxmom11x:
Name: Sandi Smith
College major:
Advertising/marketing
Catchphrase: Iduna
Age: Old enough that you shouldn't ask
Best Friend, Significant other, and Crush: Her husband (awwwww)
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Lou:
Name: Louis Maccarone, II
Age: 23
Favorite Color: Various shades of blue.
Favorite Drink: Crown Royal and 7-Up.
Fave all-time TV shows: Cheers, Seinfeld, Dawson's Creek, Saved By The Bell
Favorite Sesame Street Character: Ernie
Car Make: 1998 VW Passat
Favorite Lockjaw moments: Reading the grrl-e-grrl.com post on CM, and
reading the Euchre chat logs on Thursday mornings.
Piercing(s): No, God gave me all the holes he intended me to have! (That can
be translated into: "I'm a big pansy and could never stand the pain.")
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Martavius:
Name: Martin Mitchell
Lives in: Brampton, Ontario
Age: 28
Job: Plastics Technician
(Ed.: Best scripts on the planet. !jademonkey, my friend. !jademonkey)
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onyxw:
Name: Matthew Tobin Woods
I had a great time with this game
playing with everyone. I didn't contribute much... translating the amino
acid codes and getting no results was my best work....pretty sad, eh?....but
I had fun time harassing CG for his relationship with Kiz and meddling with
Mart's scripts in the chatroom (sorry for getting you kicked the one time,
Mart) and I briefly held a top 15 prolific poster spot. I look forward to
more games with you all.
Pets: Max... my previous cat was
named onyx.... hence my SN
Catchphrase: moot...not because of the game's Moot...I just always
enjoyed fitting moot point into conversations.
Fave Sports Team: The Orlando Magic
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OzyMandias_y2k_in:
Name: Jeffrey Michael Napoleon Esterhzas Antidiluvian Macy
Job: Stalking supermodels
Hobby: Attorney
Nickname: Tweedy
Pets: invisibloid and NotHere (Ed.: This is one screwed up
dude!)
Eye Color: baby blue limpid pools of loooove
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Sam
Greenlaw
Similar to Scryer, but not quite at his
level in the "brilliance" category. Stopped at a Masters, did an early chess
program ("Rip-Off"), tons of FORTRAN and C, sailing instead of scuba,
grandchildren (3), and go to Carnegie Hall now and then. Big fan of Evelyn
Glennie, what the Hon Bros. did to get Cloudmakers to work, and Anne Rice.
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Phebus57:
Name: Jerry
I'm not feeling clever today, so I'd
just like to say thanx to Ozy, DO, Steve, Sagapoo, and Scryer for help and
encouragement, and to the mod's for keeping everything together. Good job
and thanx to the PM's; leave the CafePress stuff there for a while, OK? And
i_monk, how 'bout a "SWEET BABY JESUS!" for old times sake?
My name is Jerry, I own my own business in the trade show industry in
Atlanta (www.tylersdisplay.com). My significant other has been very
understanding, but I don't want to push it too much, so I'm going to try
real hard to not play anymore for a while. So there. Really. I'm serious.
How hard can it be?
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sapagoo:
Name: Kevin Sapough
Best Memories of JB: finding all
the pictures from the original pythia trail on google and spending more than
a week trying to de-vigenere that calimicus cipher.
Hobbies: reading, yard work
Job: Software Programmer
Car Name: Pudding Tame (Ed: ???)
College Major: Mathematics (with an emphasis on Marching Band)
Crush: Rose McGowan
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SpaceBass:
Name: Sean Caedmon Stacey
Significant Other: The REAL
NinjaBabe
High School Attended: Beaverton. We always creamed Ballston.
Best Friend: Cold, hard steel.
Favorite Sports Team: Moreland Methuselahs
Catchphrase: Cephalorectalentesusception.
Info: I am not a fish.
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urbanzombie: Name: Simon(e) Wright
Well, it's not like there's anything
secret about me... I'm mad dope crazy fly and I mostly solved where.gif.
Crush: Rachael Leigh Cook
Best Friend: My neighbour, Sarah. Wow, I just realized, I don't know
how to spell "neighbour".
Catchphrase: Fnord
College Major: Binge drin- aw... OK, English, for now.
Eye Color: Red, natch.
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vpisteve: Name:
Steve Peters Lives in: Las Vegas,
Nevada
(Ed.: No lies, that is ALL that Steve sent me for info.
However, from his CDDB profile, we can ascertain that he is a composer.
From the pictures, we can tell he is a handsome dude. From the
Yahoo forum and #jawbreakers, we can tell that Steve is a helluva guy
and we owe him a little extra thanks. That's why Steve gets two
pictures, while the rest of you all get one. Heh.)
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zmaiden:
Name: Megan Ashley WestCar Name:
The Wiccan Wagon
Age: 19
Eye Color: Sometimes brown, sometimes green.
Job: Read cards. (Ed.: Either a tarot fortune
teller or a professional blackjack player)
Nickname: "the Pagan" or "Bunny" depending on who you ask
Pets: Idaho and King BooBoo
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Now, this page is hardly finished.
These are only the people that have sent me their surveys or some info about
themselves. If you would like to be listed here, then just send us
some dirt at
webmaster@guysguise.com or go to our survey page.
In the meantime, I'll see a lot of you at the PM chat in, oh, 10 minutes.
Yep, that's me -- Mr. Leave-it-until-the-last-minute.
I'ts been a rocking good time, everyone.
Hope to see you often.
jonathan waite
AKA jamesi AKA James Ingrahausen AKA Dr. Comeback
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