Are we missing somebody?

[OrdinaryGuy]

http://publications.mediapost.com/in...&art_aid=29415

A WEST NYACK, N.Y. MAN was found dead at his computer apparently the victim of trying to keep up with too many professional forums. Childress H. Wanamaker, 54, an account executive at a New York-based new media company, died of starvation according to the West Nyack coroner's office. Wanamaker's emaciated body was found by Loraine, his wife of 26 years, who told MediaPost she had been bringing her husband meals on plastic trays for weeks, but that he never took the time to eat them.
"He was glued to his computer 24/7," she said tearfully. "He was so afraid he was going to miss an opportunity to contribute a comment or start a discussion, that he just stopped eating." She added that Wanamaker's last words were "OK Picard, stick that in your pipe and smoke it..."

Computer forensic specialists from SUNY at Cortland discovered that Wanamaker was subscribed to 48 different forums and networking communities including one apparently having to do with the elderly called "oldtimers" and another apparently limited to just 100 people. They also found that he posted a comment into one forum or another on an average of two per minute every hour of the day for the past seven weeks.

"He felt under terrible pressure to be part of the online community," said his son, Lucian, who says he tried several times to get his father's attention and lure him away from the computer. "The only time he even looked up was when I told him I had seen Dane Madsen trying to steal his car out of the driveway."

Police found what appeared to be an ....

lol

[kfcSmitty]

yeah, I saw that a while ago...Kind of sad...

[MartinLiss]

Hmm... maybe his son misunderstood.

"Once, I thought I had him," said Lucian Wanamaker, "when I said that mom had made cookies, but half out of his chair, he just sat back down mumbling something about two Roman gods; I believe it was Jupiter and Atlas having some sort of titanic battle. 'Let them eat PIE,' he bellowed banging on his keyboard."

[Dillinger4]

Good one marty

[oceanebelle]

Is that real?!!!

gud thing I'm only "subscribed" to one community..cc...

[NoteMe]

I feel it can happen to me any time now.....And actualy I have been missing someone lately. Not from the US though. But Kedaman. He hasn't been around for a few weeks now, and he hasn't logged on to MSN either. And not on any other forums I know he goes to either. And I have PMed him. Hope he is on a LOOOONG vecation.



Actualy, on an other forum I used to go to, we agreed to always tell if we where going away for a few days, or say goodby if we left the forum, so we would know if something happend...

[BodwadUK]

Its false

[wossname]

I died of starvation once, it was ok but a bit boring. That was shortly before the great Lego wars of 2004.

[BodwadUK]

I loved my pirate ship until some idiot in a lego space ship sank it

War is not the way

[Juan Carlos Rey]

...Childress H. Wanamaker, 54... (....) ...his wife of 26 years...

If I was 54 and my wife 26, I would spend less time on line and more time on ... er... off line!

[kfcSmitty]

If I was 54 and my wife 26, I would spend less time on line and more time on ... er... off line!

lol...although if that wasnt sarcasm..then it means they were married for 26 yrs

[demotivater]

LOL, that's funny stuff.

[mendhak]

I miss Nightwalker.

[BodwadUK]

I wonder where he went

[oceanebelle]

I miss Nightwalker.

I only know one Nightwalker ... the one in Princess Mononoke

[Dillinger4]

Posted by NoteMe

And actualy I have been missing someone lately. Not from the US though. But Kedaman. He hasn't been around for a few weeks now, and he hasn't logged on to MSN either. And not on any other forums I know he goes to either. And I have PMed him. Hope he is on a LOOOONG vecation.

I noticed for a long time now that he disappears frequently for long peroids. Perhaps hes mulling over some abstract concept or probing beings from another planet to try and gain insight on whether quantum mechanics and the theory of relativity can coexist or maybe hes just eating ice cream.

[NoteMe]

I noticed for a long time now that he disappears frequently for long peroids. Perhaps hes mulling over some abstract concept or probing beings from another planet to try and gain insight on whether quantum mechanics and the theory of relativity can coexist or maybe hes just eating ice cream.

Yeah, he hasn't been around much on VBF the last year or so, but he has ALWAYS been looged on with two accounts on MSN. But I havn't seen him in a few weeks on MSN. Actualy I can't remember last time I saw him on MSN at all. Must be ages ago....



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[Dillinger4]

Probably just busy. I know i left a couple of times for five or six months.

[NoteMe]

I hope so. I have never seen him offline before. And I can't find one trace of him on the internet in June at all. That is 29 days without internet for that guy. And he usualy spend 30hours a day on the net. Weird. He even had a birthday the other day.

I think it is weird. Last summer he was at his parents house. And they have dial up. So he only spends a few hours online every day. But He came online every day. I don't like this..

[Dillinger4]

I cant see him being on line all the time especially since he is into mathematics. He must use pencil and paper sometimes.

[NoteMe]

Do you have him on MSN too?


Well I have now searched 15 of the forums he is using, and he hasn't been at any of them in June either....

[Dillinger4]

I looked up his last post date on here like a month ago cause i noticed the same thing. It was current as far as i remember.

[NoteMe]

Yeah, laste trace is 30. May on the internet. Well lets wait a couple of more weeks. I have no idea what his last whole name is...so it isn't easy to find out much more anyway...

[BodwadUK]

His last post was 21st this month I beleive so relax Note

His birthday is in November anyway so what are you on about. Maybe we have our users mixed up

[dglienna]

I just read a thread that he made the other day. I thought about this thread at the time. I think it was in the 'Net forum.

[NoteMe]

I found Keda...he is allive..



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[mendhak]

Any news of NightWalker?

[Pc_Madness]

I haven't seen him in along time.