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eargang

11:58 / 16.05.06

Well, after vacination and chest x-rays, the fine mods of Barbelith have finally approved my request to join…or was that the INS?

Anyhow. Hi all. I'm a dutch expat living in Chicago, I work as a senior graphic designer/lead developer at Thirst. I've been involved with many an online community in the past (originally Swanky.org, one of the first design/writing communities) and I can safely say I've ruined them all. Er, I mean…

I've been a comic book nerd since I was 10, starting out with dutch X-men and Transformers books, upgrading to US imports at age 12, and I've had an empty wallet and a filled bookshelf ever since. I'm also a big fan of music every where I go, watch a lot of TV, love movies, and basically don't get out much.

Welcome.

Looks like they might have approved a batch of us this morning because I just got my welcome/invitation too

Rather than start a new thread, I'll just introduce myself here. I'm living in Chicago right now and I'm one of the 2 founders of skinnyCorp. Our most popular project is Threadless. I scored my first job as a web developer when I was 16 back in 1996 working for a local ISP in my hometown.

Anyway if you really want to know more about me, take a look at my site http://www.jakenickell.com

Tryphena Absent

13:20 / 16.05.06

Damn, that was fast work. Tom deserves a picnic hamper full of lush goodies.

Aertho

13:35 / 16.05.06

I plan to make a Barbedonation at the end of the month.

Welcome all Midwestern graphic designers! Please tell me if you're hiring! Before I move to Austin or Phoenix.

eargang

13:37 / 16.05.06

zero degrees of seperation: I used to do quite a lot of posting on Skinnycorp's message board 'YayHooray'. eerie.

jakenickell

13:44 / 16.05.06

ha .. yea, it takes nerves of steel to be a yh member. people can be a bit rude over there.

calavera

13:53 / 16.05.06

Hey ho, I'm a part of this mid-May batch, too.

Anyway, I am studying Journalism and Media Studies at Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic and I consider myself as a publicist (writing mostly on new media culture) for the nationwide Literary Newspaper (http://literarky.cz) and curator (especially for the czech new media festival ZOOM,
http://bzoom.org).

See my modest website at http://palofabus.net
Palo Fabuš is my meatspace name

sleazenation

14:01 / 16.05.06

Yay for Brno, by all accounts a great university sadly overlooked by most people visiting the Czech Republic...

Korso Jerusalem

14:27 / 16.05.06

Well, I seem to be part of the wave of fresh meat.

I'm from New Hampshire, which is currently flooded, and I'll be majoring in Journalism at Northern Essex (shit school, I'm transferring somewhere respectable as soon as I can) this coming September. Deep down inside, I think I really hope this career will somehow transform me into Hunter Thompson.

My blog is A Thousand Monkeys , which I share with a good friend of mine. Read it, and be blessed. I have maybe three dedicated readers these days as it is.

calavera

14:29 / 16.05.06

Well, maybe at this time. By AFAIK the Charles Univesity in Prague is becoming too rigorous to compete with MU's dynamic growth. But maybe it's just a naive appraisal of my alma mater.

Quantum

14:47 / 16.05.06

eerie Try the Temple sometime.. we'll show you eerie.

Welcome new people! Don't feel it's essential to start a new thread to introduce yourself, just pile into the threads you're interested in and we'll get to know you soon enough.

david101

15:21 / 16.05.06

Hey everyone. I too just joined today.. brilliant. Been looking for a nice board to join since Al Gore's conception of the internet.

I'm a Malaysian law student, graduated from England and am currently waiting to complete my professional exams before joining the Bar.

Nice to see ya to see ya nice.

Cat Chant

17:03 / 16.05.06

Hello! It is very nice to see you all here.

A tiny plea is to ask you to format your links in html (there's a handy link to the wiki from the 'reply' page to any thread you post on, which will tell you how to do this), to save moderators doing it for you...

This has been a welcome message from the Sekrit Mod Police.

Quisitrix

18:14 / 16.05.06

More fresh meat here.

I am a jewlelry maker and aspiring novelist. I have two small Children and I live with someone who is already a poster here. I'll leave it up to him if he wants to identify himself.

I live in Aberdeen, Scotland. And that's about all I have to say for the moment.

new to barbelith, introductions boundless. Infolung

ibis the being

20:16 / 16.05.06

Welcome, kids! We're so glad to have you. Now just remember, don't go swimming without a buddy, dinner's at eighteen hundred sharp, and the plant with the three shiny leaves is poison ivy!

doglikesparky

20:43 / 16.05.06

Welcome, kids! We're so glad to at have you. Now just remember, don't go swimming without a shiny plant, the poison ivy's sharp, and the dinner buddy with eighteen hundred leaves is three!

■

20:55 / 16.05.06

Right. Who's first?

Shrug

21:00 / 16.05.06

Should they not be lit?

■

21:05 / 16.05.06

[Tch]
All in good time. Looks as if we have one more to add to the list.

illmatic

21:06 / 16.05.06

Have people got to make that fucking appalling lame reference everytime newbies turn up?

■

21:11 / 16.05.06

Yes. It's a tradition. Or an old charter. Or something.

Dead Megatron

21:12 / 16.05.06

Deep down inside, I think I really hope this career will somehow transform me into Hunter Thompson

Hi Phallicus, nice to meet ya. I just want to say I know the feeling, but Hunter Thompsons are not made, they are born (once at each generation, like vampire-slayers). Anyways, good luck. (btw, cool blog)

and hi to everybody else I haven't meet yet

Shrug

21:15 / 16.05.06

Hey, appallingly lame references are like the glue that holds Barbelith's secret beard to its face, Illmatic.

And, I mean, the face without the beard is crying.

You want Barbelith to cry don't you?
DON'T YOU?

Red Concrete

22:24 / 16.05.06

Hey - also got in with the Tuesday morning batch... thanks Nina and Tom. I'm a geneticist working in Cardiff, Wales.

I've been lurking the web since 1993, wondering if each new message board is going to be the one. Happy to be here.. the pastel colours are very soothing.

Korso Jerusalem

22:45 / 16.05.06

Who Killed Dead Megatron:

Yes, I'm still waiting for the journalistic second coming.
Hell, I even have the Gonzo sword tattooed on my arm.

Dead Megatron

23:03 / 16.05.06

Yes, I'm still waiting for the journalistic second coming.
Hell, I even have the Gonzo sword tattooed on my arm.

Cool, I'll pay your gonzo sword, and raise a decepticon logo.

And just call me DM

lekvar

23:45 / 16.05.06

Good lord, are the candles getting bigger?

All Acting Regiment

01:12 / 17.05.06

Now what we need is a badger, maybe even a honey badger, whose commitment to sparkle motion is undoubted, and who may or may not be a pirate or ninja, who was the drummer for the band Gay Dad...

Regrettable Juvenilia

10:53 / 17.05.06

Legba, you secret ILM lurker, you.

unbecoming

12:36 / 17.05.06

Hello. that's strange, i too am a resident of Aberdeen, Scotland. another one of these yins that speaks in hushed tones of unutterable orange drinks made from iron and such delicacies as the dreaded black bun.
i'm just finishing up a degree in fine art after which i will be returning to Edinburgh; the land of my birth.
Big thanks to tom and the checkers for doing such a stirling job btw.

Bear

12:52 / 17.05.06

Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Stirling!

■

14:09 / 17.05.06

Ummm... Mornington Crescent?

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