i have had aops on two occasions,
been offered sops, and have been akicked at least twice. i was akicked
that summer for pissing off then-popular regular Devashan. but that only
lasted about a week i think. i first got aops in august of '97 after 5
months of faithful devotion ;). i retained them for about 9 months until
i pissed someone off, probably ziNe. it was around then that era of some
lamer named "hope" began. this idiot got sops because he was an old "chum"
of the founder. not even considering who else it would akick, he put a
domain akick on all of erols to keep
out irc pest and classmate of mine nathaniel "nate" tipton. for those of
you unfamiliar with erols, it is the east coast's leading isp with well
over a million customers. anyway, this fool hope got me akicked from the
only channel i really enjoyed coming to. in some ways, i never felt connected
to that channel again. after hope lost his sops, he moved to another channel
called silverthorn and with him came a bunch of other loser ops (well some
were ok like elana and liza, but most were just a bunch of pussies). after
about 2 months of protesting hope by not coming to the channel, i returned
but it wasn't the same. after a while i got my aops back again and had
them for a year (we'll get to that later) but it didn't matter. after hope
there came a long string of purely idiotic and pointless new ops and that
really hasn't stopped yet. i guess ziNe is still looking for someone to
fill the shoes that hope and former close "friend" reznof once filled.
by the way, if you don't believe me that i was offered sops, for your enjoyment
i provide you the log:
Session Start: Mon Aug 10 23:57:15 1998
<Zine> would you want to be an sop?
<HowIsYa> nah
<HowIsYa> not now at least
<Zine> ok thats cool
<HowIsYa> do you need an sop currently?
<Zine> nah i dont any actually hehe, i was gonna make liza one,
but everyone would just be like 'laura replacement
<Zine> dont need any that is
etc. etc. ...
anyway, i still enjoy going to nin.
but it's just a totally different channel now. this spring something bad
happened to my modem and i couldn't log onto irc for almost 2 months. well
in that time my nickname expired. ziNe was nice enough to take it for me
(so that someone else wouldn't maliciously steal it) but in contrast to
that, after i failed to show up he also dropped my aops. when i returned
in may they were gone and without an explanation. it's not that i really
care, i just find that kind of lame. i think an opportunity was seized
to take my aops in a quiet fashion without having to explain it. i won't
say any names, but before i left i treated one of the channel ops really
poorly, and i'm sure ziNe didn't take well to that. anyway, it's no big
deal and in many ways i am happy without them. this way i don't have to
represent a channel that is just sometimes not any fun anymore. it gets
really dull in there. and with all the new ops it does kind of suck. but
it's also cool at the same time. meeting new people is fun, and if there
is one thing the channel has now.. it's new people. i think the attraction
stems from the new niN music that has been released this summer and that
will be released this fall. by the way, if i haven't mentioned it already,
i love nine inch nails. they are definitely my favorite group, so you can
understand why i found and stayed with this channel. other favorite performers
are radiohead, moby, bjork, live, orbital and others which you can see
on my "me" page.
speaking of radiohead, i have aops in the dalnet channel radiohead which
is very pleasant but much more quiet than channel nin. nin is a wild channel.
everyone gets in an argument around midnight every night. often times i
am part of that. other times i just watch. after i was gone for 2 months,
a whole lot of people i don't know came in and became regulars. also, a
lot of the regulars almost forgot who i was. it's ok it's just kind of
weird and even disappointing. here are some of the regulars/ops in the
channel that i can think of offhand:
founder: ZiNE. you know, sometimes this
guy can be a total asshole, but deep down i know he's really a nice guy.
the thing about mike is, if he sees someone who is acting like a fool/idiot
in the channel (which i have been guilty of but not as much now as i have
when i was 14 and just joining the channel). if someone pisses him off,
they get kicked. so anyway i've done my share of pissing mike off, including
sometimes just for fun. but i also like the guy even if he does treat me
like dirt sometimes. zine has been the owner of #nin since the summer of
1996, when the former owner simply stopped coming to the channel. one of
the many zine stories i remember is that he made a special point to come
in as soon as the channel expired so he can grab it. but regardless of
his plan, he came a little later (4 hours i think) and no one had taken
it yet. go figure. anyway, zine likes a lot of the same music i do, and
he was lucky enough to see Live on their very first tour.
"do you believe in miracles?" "not
really."
sops (past and present): Holly. holly is
the current sop, maybe even the only one (i wouldn't know). she joined
the channel a year and a half ago, a little after that idiot Hope^ left.
holly is a big nin fan and she lives not too far away from trent's house
and studios. holly can be seen stalking these aforementioned places. she's
a nice woman but i don't really talk to her much. admittedly it took me
a while to get used to her, because like idiot Hope^, she got her sops
within a couple weeks i think. i didn't like that cos it took me months
to get even aops. but holly has proven to me she is her own person and
i respect/like her. so yay for holly! update:
i just realized she is a replacement for rivethead. a woman who is on most
of the day to op and is older than most of the kids who come there.
Hope^. this guy sucks. as i said, he got me akicked
without even thinking about it. i barely talked to the guy and he, likewise,
barely knew me. since zine had freshly taken my aops, he didn't notice
that i shared the same isp as nate (who by the way came to the channel
after me). by akicking *!*@*.erols.com he had me, nate, and wilson kicked
out. that sucked cos it was only "troublesome" nate (who loves to bother
aops like devashan and poisonlily) who was supposed to be akicked. regardless,
certain ops said "yay, we kill three birds with one stone." fuck those
people =)
liesje/^jezebel^. rhonda has been coming to #nin
for about 4 months longer than i have. she was an sop for a very long time
but lost them a few months ago for supposedly "not coming in enough." she
has aops now and comes in nightly. i've talked to her on many occasions
(just not on regular occasions) and she is a very nice even sweet girl.
i almost met her once a couple years ago but there was some problems with
a meeting place (did you know that metro stations have two exits? i found
this out on that day). i was also meeting elana and matt that day but they
were on that other end of the metro. i ended up meeting those two a couple
months later but rhonda i never met since she lives in north carolina (i
think).
JadeFalcon. i don't know much about jade. i think
he's from england. he's been in the channel far longer than i have and
he's a really nice guy. always has interesting things to say. like rhonda,
he lost his sops for not coming in enough. this time that was actually
true, sometimes i can go weeks or months without even seeing him stop in.
jade and the founder go way back and are united, i believe, by their fondness
for amiga computers. rad!
reznof/lauraa. laura has been in this channel
for a very long time. when i first joined she was one of the people who
came into the channel the most. she thought i was a little twerp for a
long time and i wouldn't be surprised if she still thinks so. anyway, laura
was an sop for a long time but she lost them for an undisclosed reason.
soon after she stopped coming to the channel. once in a while she'll stay,
but usually she comes in just to see who's on, then leaves. often her join
and part messages are side by side. kind of funny. thanks for stopping
in laura! anyway, i like laura but i don't really know much about her.
she's very quiet in the channel. when she does speak though it's intelligently.
this wise old woman of #nin was and kind of is a real-life close friend
of rhonda. they used to live in the same area but then laura moved to texas.
that's about all i know about her.
SheepDogg. i don't really talk to colin much,
but he knows a lot about computers and he lives in maryland. he and matt
(elana's friend) have "met" in person. i have nothing really against colin
but sometimes he's a jerk. like, we were both listening to the same radio
station (whfs) when korn was playing
pre-recorded live at woodstock. i commented that the station, which was
censoring really badly, just let the word "fuck" slip and colin was adamant
that it didn't. then he said "oh yeah i guess we're listening to different
stations then huh?" and just being kind of lame about it. i understand
if he didn't hear it but he didn't have to take an attitude. i then jokingly
said "yea i am listening to 99.2" (the station is 99.1) and he got all
on my case about how radio call signs are only on odd numbers. DUH. anyway,
that's colin.
"i'm all alone in this fucking
world you must despise."
aops: BillyCorgan.
alan is a great guy. some have criticized him for being immature or too
sensitive but i disagree. alan is definitely the nicest guy in the channel.
he comes here for fun and to talk to the laydees (and the men!). yea, he's
sensitive, but so what? us guys should respect our feelings! the truth
is, sometimes he does get really pissed off and he leaves the channel.
when he does that because of something i say i feel bad because he's my
friend and i apologize. alan and i talk regularly, and he is one of the
few people i really like to chat with. alan is definitely an "asset" to
#nin. he is a really crazy guy in a good way. always has interesting and
funny stuff to say but he can also get serious. definitely a diverse and
cool fellow, and i advise everyone to get to know him a little better.
bondagebtch. miki lives
in montana and is also a member of the art group phux
which i started. besides making amusing art she is also fun to gossip with.
just recently she sent me five cents in the mail, so that makes her a great
person in my book. she's one of the few aops who have come into this channel
as long as i have, and in fact even longer.
Bud Ice Penguin. jayme (BiP!)
is a long time pal o' mine. it's nice to see him still have aops!
_burn_. sometimes i think
i could..............burn. i know nothing about him but he's an aop and
probably a nice guy.
darker. an old time channel
regular, but i think he came a couple months after me. the notorious cradle
robber is back in #nin for his third or fourth session as an aop. i like
kris, he is funny, has a good taste in music and has interesting stories.
Demon^Fairy. another new
aop, not to be confused with demon-surge. i am slowly getting to know this
guy. he's cool.
karla 666. i don't really
know anything about her even though she's been coming here for half a year.
i don't think she really talks. i do know that her name is carla, not karla,
and that she is from canada. i think she likes nirvana.
Kiveat/MorningSad. hey don't
call him a psychopath. he's a sociopath. actually, for all the bad comments
people make about wilson, i think he's a good guy. sure he's weird but
that's the variety of life, you know? i've even met this guy in person.
nice guy. but when i left, i couldn't help but think "shit... i'm just
glad i got my shit together." well not really, but i always wanted to say
that. it was on some indie documentary that i saw on pbs one time and i've
always remembered it.
PoisonLily. liza is a person
i talk to a lot and she, like alan, is one of the few people i really enjoy
talking to. most info about liza can be found at her web site here.
uh, she's nice.
ReNeE-. a friend of holly's
who doesn't even come in the channel very much. but i guess if you're a
friend of a friend of zine then you're entitled to some aops. renee used
to come into #nin somewhat regularly as "too drunk to fuck" (a dead kennedys
song). i don't know much about her, but she is pretty.
rEvErEnd_7. i don't really
know much about rev. he is one of the newer aops i spoke of. i can say
that he seems pretty interesting and that he is a big-time fan of nine
inch nails, unlike the previous aops who couldn't stand nin. i am on his
op list so that's kinda cool.
ScreamingSlave. i knew jeff
from #tool, which i go to occasionally. in 1997 and part of '98 i used
to go there much more. jeff's a cool guy, very nice. i wouldn't have suspected
he'd be an aop in #nin but he is. alright!
SocialSlave. another slave.
this one's name is becca and she is a friend of thrillkill. she seems pretty
nice. like renee, another "hook up" aop.
thirty-three. zach, like
miki, is a member of phux, and quite the prolific one, might i add. he
is a fan of nin and the pumpkins. he is often in the channel but he idles
a lot. a nice guy who i have had some pleasant conversations with.
ThrillKill. sarah is someone
who has just recently got on my bad side. i thought we had a silent agreement
to be nice to each other and just generally not converse, but for whatever
reason she took it upon herself to denounce my online and supposed offline
personas in the open channel. why she did it i have no clue. so screw you
sarah. it's not that i really care what she thinks about me, i just thought
it was a really stupid thing for her to do. not the only stupid thing she's
said either. she's made fun of alan for no reason. she's said that "sensitive
people always fuck up a (romantic) relationship." huh?
Violen. bryant and i don't
always think on the same terms but this guy is cool. he is into the goth
subculture or whatever. anyway, i like him, and he's not a newbie either
unlike most of the aops. by the way if you couldn't tell, i left a LOT
of aops out of this list simply because i don't have one word to say about
them. [19 total aops according to a bootleg copy of the list which i attained.]
"we're in this together."
regulars/visitors: AcidBlue.
he
used to have ops but he stopped coming for awhile. i don't really remember
much about him. he still comes in a few times a week.
aegis. another long-time
visitor, gabe is a kind and generous person who knows a lot about these
damned machines. a webmastah and an ircop. i think he lives in arkansas.
burning-soul. another matt,
this one also goes by "martha hitler" and so i greeteed him with "heil
martha" for a year. and yes for a while i thought he was a girl.
demon-surge. the canadian
matt is back from a stint of having nothin'. though we fought off and on
for a year, we made our differences and he's a really cool guy. for a while
he was one of the few i had respect for. i hope he sticks around the channel
now.
flawed_genius. a newer regular.
i think he's pretty young. a cool guy, but not very open-minded when it
comes to others' opinions.
HeyNineteen. real life friend
and former classmate christian mueller. also a member of phux. this guy
is really funny. check out his art in the phux page, his stuff is marked
with mc2-.
Hooded1. an oldskool #nin
regular who has never really been given his due props. brian is a great
guy. does some neat stuff in his offline time, and has become a pimp over
the last year or so. it's cool to still have him in th channel.
pleather. best friend of
brian's is cory, aka pleather or phux member "corewolf." i think he's a
good match for brian. both are "ca-razy guys".
precious_evil. vivien is
a really nice girl. she lives in cali and likes tool and pink floyd.
[Princess]. this
is "princess" christina, but not the same one as princess-christina.
weird, huh? this princess likes offspring a lot.
Skankorama. nathaniel from
my school. a notorious member of #nin. what more can i say?
VaGinAL_VaMPiRe. aka bob
the two headed oyster, this guy is totally obnoxious but not in a mean
way.
[virii]. he runs a great
nin page with fan remixes (mp3) right here: nin99.
Zycho. probably the only
guy who's been in #nin longer than its founder, zycho is a funny but incredibly
perverted person.
what do you think of dalnet #nin? your thoughts
can be put onto a new page devoted to other peoples impressions on this
popular internet channel. email your comments to me at howisya@hotmail.com.
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