the internet RULES

[gkhouston]

I lost touch with an old friend a while back... his wife got a job on the East Coast, so they re-located, and by the time I got around to sending him an email, the old email address was dead and I had put their new address in a "safe place"... probably the same "safe place" where I'd put their old California address, and I couldn't even remember the name of which city in New Jersey they'd actually moved to. (This was at a time when migraines had pretty much reduced my life to rubble.) So I was thinking just this this morning, not for the first time, that I really miss this guy and should try again to find him, and lo and behold!
He's in Wikipedia. :rofl:

[SharonRB]

1. Now that IS funny!

What made you even look there? And what does he do that he got into Wikipedia?

[gkhouston]

2. I *didn't* look there; the Wikipedia entry came up

in the first page of Google results. It's just a tiny entry. Tim wrote reviews of Star Trek episodes, starting back when he was a teenager at Cornell and his "audience" consisted of about 75 people on a BITNET mailing list. That's where I met him, back in the spring of 1988. At the time, he and his roommate tossed off "reviews" as something of a lark. As time went on, Tim's reviews became more methodical and substantive and ended up on Usenet as well as BITNET. He developed a following, for a variety of reasons:

1) he could write in clear, complete sentences
2) he reviewed every single episode
3) he was good about explaining why he did or didn't like something, which is helpful to a reader trying to determine what he/she would think of an episode.

He's reviewed a lot of the series, the movies, the novels, etc. There for a while, he was writing reviews for some British sci-fi mag but the pay wasn't that good and it was something of a hassle so I don't know if he does that any more or not.

on edit: think I should tell Wikipedia they've got his birthdate wrong? :7

[SharonRB]

3. In regards to #1 --

maybe he should run for president in '08.

:rofl:

[gkhouston]

4. I was going to say he isn't old enough

but by then, he will be. Um, his wife's nickname is "Lizard" and his father used to be married to his wife's mother... do you think the Republicans would try to smear him? :evilgrin:

[SharonRB]

5. Oooh, I'm sure they'd make them out to be sister and brother

Very, very scary. Must make for some interesting family get-togethers.

[Berry Cool]

6. This is a cool story!

What luck! Sounds like an interesting guy, too.