#skate: Where Are They Now?

March 14th, 2008 by huphtur under #skate, irc, nerds

Almost half my life has been wasted on this thing called IRC. For you n00bz out there, IRC is the oldest and most chaotic chat network ever. It’s like walking into a super loud and packed bar. I mostly hang out in #skate (on efnet) and have seen a ton of nerd come and go. I even met some amazing #skate people in real life.

A few months ago some oldskooler joined the channel and asked where everyone was. That got me thinking, so I decided to do some research.

I started at the IRC sexchart which has a little #skate section:

               .----- liquidnun     capital7
               |           |           |
nicki -- herculez -- pinar | vlinder --|-- miesj -- katskate -- earwax
         |               | |  |        |                   |
       lisi  superzan -- huphtur -- tigerkat -- kindje     |
        |                               |                  |
      maui                punkgirl -- yakuza -- maryjane   |
        |     cchicken ---------------'|   |               |
     moldie                ftzdomino --|-- caroline -- rhy |
                                       | .-----------------'
          no_fievel -- nobaboon -- conchita -- superfly
                                     |
                         angee -- mrjoost -- makita

And with the help of some other #skate regulars I came up with a list. For privacy reasons I left out any real names and links to blogs. If you are on the list and wish to reveal more information about yourself, or know the whereabouts of some of the missing names and details, leave a comment or gmail me and I will update the list. Better yet… /join #skate

  • achenar: lives in SD, wears lots of osirus shoes and races rice rockets.
  • alleycat:
  • alleyoop: keepin’ it really real in Pasadena with a dog and a bf.
  • anarchy: working for some game company in SF.
  • angee: owns a bunch of properties in Hawaii and a husband or two.
  • atmclick:
  • bakunin: baller working downtown Chicago doing lunix admin.
  • bengus: works for nofievels mom and is in love with BJ Penn.
  • blair: doctor/shrink/flikker in NY.
  • capital7: has become the ultimate Hollywood hipster.
  • caroline: being a heroin in Seattle.
  • cchicken: loves mules.
  • conchita: works at fine arts theater in SF.
  • devildog:
  • earwax: married the world’s nastiest pr0n chick.
  • evilive:
  • ftzdomino: works for nobaboon at NNI.
  • g0dboy:
  • gitdown: solving math in SF.
  • gsus:
  • hardkore:
  • henk:
  • herculez: works with mrjoost on dot.tk
  • huphtur: I’m still Dutch.
  • jrockone:
  • jsoy: skating/skimming/writing in Vancouver.
  • k8: in Chicago somewhere.
  • katskate: alive and living in So-Cal
  • kaytee:
  • kindje: BMX nerd in HB, art nerd for Vans.
  • knots: runs Rodolfo’s skate shop in Amsterdam.
  • korngirl:
  • liar:
  • liquidnun:
  • lisi: working and living in London.
  • logan: lives in Austin TX with a wife and a two year old named Aiden
  • makita: married, living in Tokyo.
  • maryjane:
  • maui: works with mrjoost on dot.tk
  • miesj: retired, sold his skate empire in Holland.
  • milo: hunting for wild bears in Minneapolis.
  • minerva:
  • mnctech: still watches 20 Shot Sequence every day.
  • mntgirl:
  • moldie:
  • morbideza: married with tons of kids, webnerd for Xavier University in Ohio.
  • mrjoost: bought an island and their tld: dot.tk.
  • nicki:
  • nobaboon: runs NNI in Chicago.
  • nofievel: married to some rockstar, livin in LA.
  • nollie:
  • omae: hangs out with 17 year old skate 18 year old party girls in Thailand.
  • p4nacea: hard working art nerd living in the triangle of awesome in Chicago.
  • pants:
  • pinar:
  • pipsqueeks: designs coolguy shoes at Vans.
  • punkgirl: last seen drunk in the gutter.
  • rhy: fistpumper in New Jersey.
  • rique: attending journalism school in Kentucky.
  • scoville:
  • skategurl:
  • skatty: running the scene in New Zealand.
  • snowgrl:
  • spike: married a Dutch guy, trying to find a way to put people on dry ice.
  • superfly: loves wearing ties. Bigtime baller at some online borkerage company.
  • superzan: married and lovin’ live in the NYC.
  • tabacman:
  • tigerkat:
  • togusa: strolling the streets of LA.
  • vlinder:
  • xgirla: also married a Dutch guy!
  • xtermz:
  • yakuza: techmology consultant in AZ.
  • zevsk8r:
  • zok:
  • zorlac:

23 Responses to “#skate: Where Are They Now?”

  1. maui Says:

    impressive.. reconfigured my irssi.. im back! hehe

  2. Torqued Says:

    i sux

  3. omae Says:

    change that to “18 year old party girls” and everything will be alright.

    yeah. right.

  4. yakuza Says:

    very entertaining… funny what one little comment turns into isn’t it? :)

  5. pipsqueeks Says:

    word is your moving back?

  6. rique Says:

    does kaytee = katskate? She’s walking like an Egyptian, somewhere around South Sinai.

  7. togusa Says:

    Well. That was weird.

  8. Katskate Says:

    so i am sitting at work and smiling at my computer reading about everybody.

    i am alive, living in socal…and i vote for a reunion!!!!

  9. jsoy Says:

    yeah..but not in person…we should just set a time and nerd the fuck out….

  10. spike Says:

    it’s liquid nitrogen, not dry ice…but thanks, it’s the thought that counts!

  11. logan Says:

    hookers. i live in austin texas now, wife, 2 yearold named aiden.

  12. mnc_tech Says:

    Yeah–#skate ‘reunion.’ Let’s do it.

  13. zevsk8r Says:

    i sensed a disturbance in the force… like a thousand voices calling out.. it’s the only way it’s possible i found this blog. i live in minneapolis again – west bank of the university of minnesota campus in fact – where all the irc “magic” for me began. go figure. work for implex.net in downtown minneapolis as some kind of bigtime, snooty marketing director. just started. good times. let me know when the reunion is on #skate. who still has their #skate deck that huphtur had made?? the “motherboard”?? woot! ~pax

  14. Achenar Says:

    lol, I have never worn a pair of Osirus kicks in my life.

    So by ‘reunion’ … you mean we should like … all meet up on IRC?

    http://www.veoh.com/videos/v825871Txr5Wkab

  15. punkgrl Says:

    Crappleman, oh crappleman! This list is hysterical. Drunk in the gutter?! Hardly. Drunk maybe, but not in the gutter. ;)

    I live and work in Chi, like several other geeks here. I work in the legal department for a large internet company.

    I molest ftz in my spare time. And his cute girlfriend.

    Xenocide isn’t on that list, but he should be. He also lives in Chi. Sometimes, I molest him, too.

    You are also forgetting Cat_Head. I have no idea where that dude is, but he was really fucking cool, and he used to hang in #skate, too.

  16. superfly Says:

    Man. I returned to #skate for a month or so, but then irc went kaputz from my crystal palace of greed. I’ll be back. I can’t stay away. It’s like crack, but better than crack. It’s like bacon.

  17. zevsk8r Says:

    Where’s Milo (aka Ryan!)! Huph where are you? At least us three have to hang out soon! I’m all for picking a place.. San Diego? Ha!
    ~Zev

    zevjansson@yahoo.com
    612.770.2872

  18. duh Says:

    Shit i don’t even remember my #skate nickname…

  19. Amber Says:

    I’m Amber, and like Jan(duh) I forget my #skate name too…I am sure it had girl in it somewhere…Perhaps huphter remembers it as he and Jan(duh) are the only ones I ever met from #skate.

  20. TigerKat Says:

    Hah, it’s nice to read about all the folks here ;) I am married and in Houston. Still being a nerd and making video games, occasionally battling hurricanes.

  21. poolguy Says:

    Yeah .. it has been quite some time. I am still surprised as many people are still in #skate 15 years + later. Well.. I moved from Canuck land to Valencia, California and working IT for Princess Cruises. I be building networks for our ships. i’ve been away from irc for quite some time but come back from time to time to say hello.. go under the nick ha1o since uhm.. i dunno.. a while. anyway .. hello all.

  22. devildog Says:

    Dizamn! This shiite is crazy. I stalked down morbi, out of the blue, on FB and she sent me over here. Anyway, I’m rockin’ it in the dirty dirty ATL. I’m a nerd for the big pink T and traded my skate in for some dance shoes.

  23. rique Says:

    why did i install mirc on my work comp? jesus.

    i’m now in cambodia, again.

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