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PEOPLE THAT ALSO WORK
Ah, grasping at straws i nan attempt to justify this document being in the "work" directory. Actually, these people most likely have jobs, it's just that most of them don't work anywhere near me. I'm trying to make this a more complete directory of the people I know.

Hawaii

Most of the folks in Hawaii I met in school or through shcool friends. Otherwise I met them through the local computer scene, BBSes (Saimin, Interact, YoRaps, Black Hole, Whatever.) and work (Hawaii Online).

Ian
My little brother. He plays the tuba, cooks, and is 4 years younger than me. He still lives with Mom. Ha ha! Ha ha ha! Huh. Well anyway, he's into things like Anime and subspace and cutesy japanese marshmallows, and also video game music, so be sure to send him some if you know him. (I am not responsible for this) (I also have nothing to do with his habit of wearing nothing but black clothes.)

Beanie
My oldest sister, her real name is Jill, but only the government calls her that. Beanie was the most athletic of my family, running around tracks, putting shots, rowing canoes, and hurling the discus directly at the terrified judges. She's also the only one of us kids that got a degree, a Bachelors in English. She is currently working as a Bartender and being disillusioned about the value of education.

Caroline
My older sister, the second child in the family. Caroline was a premature birth, and hasn't been quite right ever since. 6 years older than me, she lived at home until 1999, now she has her own house cleaning business. Caroline has an unusual way of eating everything. Muffins: Eat the entire outer surface first, then pick the bread into bits and eat it as slowly as possible. Hamburgers: Eat the top bun as muffin, then work your way down through the strata, only eating one ingredient at a time. Ice Cream (yes, she found a weird way to eat ice cream.): Eat straight out of canister, making sure the top is PERFECTLY LEVEL as much as possible. We know caroline's been in the ice cream because the surface is ruler-straight.

Le'a
Le'a is a good friend and helped support and hold the band together. She actually is in college in California now and I hear from her once every three months or so. I miss her. Also, she asked me to change this page to not have pictures of 12 yr old her on it. Hahahahaha. Sorry, dude. The latest I could find is 1996.

Laura
A friend of Lea's and mine, I guess. Kind of a dark doomie doom doom person, I haven't spoken to her in months. 4 years younger than me? Something like that.

Nelson     "Ugh. I'm wet."
This is one of the coolest guys I know, in Hawaii or otherwise. He builds Harleys now. He got Kris (and me) into all that 4ad kooky weird music. This guy is fuckin hilarious.

Olana
When we were in high school, Olana was real mean to me. Now she regrets this, but I keep bringing it up to torture her.

Sam
Sam was a very smart, interesting person, and someone I always had fun around. She studied photography and had a show of her work once at UH. Sam passed away right before Christmas 1999. It still upsets me to talk about it.

Portland

The people I know in Portland, I know through work. More specifically, through GST Internet/HOL (Hawaii Online). I don't see or talk to these people much anymore, which is a shame, they're interesting folks.

Derek
When I left, Derek was in Internal Support. He was a blazingly fast learner, going from sidewalk wanderer to technician in just a few short weeks. He bakes! He also has a hilarious deadpan sense of humor.

Kevine
Kevine was one of the first employees at HOL, and one of the last of those to leave GST, getting de-hired just days before this writing (3.12.2000). He's a big burly Norwegian guy, though not always as serious as he might seem. I actually knew him from an old C-net bulletin board in Hawaii.

Nate
Nate was the last original HOL guy doing tech support. He had a big white guy afro and lots of little magic charms on strings around his neck. Last I heard, he had left IT completely to go be a caveman or something like that. He was quite the stoner when I knew him, taking time out during a busy work day to smoke in the bathroom. Once he put up a web page about the evil Chupa Chup god.

Taj
Taj was one of the "new guys" in tech support, but unlike many of the new folks, I thought he really knew what he was doing well. Before I left portland, I hung out with him at his house once or twice, and at the time it was the ONLY social thing I ever did. Period. So in addition to being smart and not freaking out under the pressure of tech support, he turned out to be a pretty nice guy, and his girlfriend/fiancee thingie was funny, too.

California

Ahh, big ol' California. Ya know, I lived in California for a year. That's not how I met these folks, though. These are people I knew at work at various times who moved to California to get expensive consultant jobs and then turned into employees of other places. So what I'm trying to say, I guess, is that these folks are a bunch of big important sellouts, woohoo!

Chad
Chad I met in tech support HOL, where he quickly became a sysadmin lackey and then ditched the company. While we worked together he pasted bits of plastic soldiers to the work machines and helped me not go nuts answering phones all day. Now he lives in the valley with his kid and woman, and some sorta political thing occurred between him and the other folks from hawaii, but I'm so far from giving a shit that I'm possibly incapable of understanding the problem. Anyway, he's a nice guy. Has hosted my big bloated website for years, for nothing!

Dave
In HOL tech support, Dave was the calming force, the grounded, rock-like bastion of...uh... well, he did a lot of work and didn't complain about it when other people were slacking. Anyway, one day he was suddenly promoted from "Tech Support" to "Head Sysadmin" in a big emergency. Then he left because they were still paying him "shit". Now he lives in the valley, where he wears his shorts around the house and seldom goes out.

Ed
I've known Ed since we were little tykes in Kaneohe, and he was my roommate when I first moved away from home. We were in tech support together, and in those heady days of self discovery, he drew the now famous Evil Pengy. He's now a brilliant and highly paid Network Engineer at Exodus as of this writing (3.12.2000), driving his new Mercedes SLK around the Valley desperately trying to find something to do and filming the hapless natives. He's still one of my best friends, and though I rarely see him, we keep in fairly close contact.

Eric
Eric was one of the first among us to move to Palo Alto area. He's the owner/operator of Satanic.org as well as other things I don't wanna get into. So, yeah, he's a big important sellout like everyone else and is just now buying a house and getting married. Who knew that evil would be so profitable?

Jason
Jason was a Sysadmin at HOL when I started, and a sysadmin somewhere else when I left. In all that time, he's pretty much been drinking beer and playing netgames non stop when time allows. Pretty laid back, pretty hairy. Taught me stuff about systems when I was young and annoying to work with!

Justin
Justin was Tech Support Manager when I started at HOL. He was an avid Duke Nukem player. I had just heard of this new "Quake" thing, and so he downloaded it to try it out. He beat the hell out of all of us in TS, and I thought it was because my screen was too dark to see anything (bad gamma). These days he's some kind of world-class Quake badass, placing in the top 20 at that world thingie where Thresh won (I think). He's "haze", but so are lots of people. I guess he works in the valley now, I see him on irc sometimes. Justin

Steve
Steve evaded me at HOL for months. Finally I caught up to him in portland. He was a beardstachioed, lanky, taskman, good-naturedly doing his best even under stress. He has a tendency to assume other people in the field know more than he does, even though he's got an impressive array of knowledge to draw upon. Well, I guess that's only true if you have his respect. I think he's in the valley now. He used to be involved with Meri, but that came to a messy end, as relationship are wont to do.

Hankins
Hankins' name is actually "David Hankins", but I never heard anyone call him "David" or even the jaunty "Dave". Always "Hankins". When I was at HOL, I thought all WAN Engineers were like him, quiet, iconoclastic, unpredictable, and inscrutable. Nope! Just him! The more I know about network engineers, the weirder Hankins gets. Recently he got a GIANT MILITARY LASER, but fortunately it takes some kind of weird three phase power. If you could just plug it into the wall, the moon would probably say "HA" at least, by now.

Meri
Meri was some kind of webmaster thingie when I joined HOL. I wasn't really sure what she did. She never spoke to me and was often locked in the NOC for days. Once I was leaving work at 1 am and she poked her head out of the noc, wearing a nightgown, then slammed the door. One day she suddenly started talking to me! Then she left for virginia! Where she still is! Opinions of Meri vary, depending on one's personal history with Meri. My guess is that she made some mistakes which affected an uncommon number of people. Yeah.

Ethan
Ethan's another tech support guy from HOL. He wore black a lot and would kick my chair when my computer was making noises that were annoying to him (which was often, given my penchant for SIDs and samples.) He moved to..uh... somewhere, and probably still works for pilot. He had a container which I labeled "FLARP". And when he got a new one I labeled it "FLARP II". (When I say "labeled", I mean I literally got a labeler and made an appropriate label.)

Yevgene
Yevgene (or Eugene) is many things to many people. To me, he's the guy at HOL with the frizzy hair who punched a hole in the wall when we were having a problem suppressing spam (or hackers or something, I was just in tech support, guys.). Now he works for Segasoft cursing at Chu Chu Rocket players. It sounds kinda fun. I think he's getting into it, as he gleefully told me of the problems that the Playstation 2 is having (overheating, skipping, bad RAM expansion..)

Seattle

Seattle is where I live, so the people I actually interact on a weekly basis live here. Some of them I brought with me from Hawaii!

Brandon     "Eat till it hurts!"
Brandon I met in Intermediate school through Brian. He really enjoyed drawing and sketching, as has a talent for it. He's also a good lyricist and vocalist, so he's in Mr. Yuck. (We also make him draw all the flyers.) He stays in the house a lot, in his free time and drinks. He just switched jobs (for the first time in 3 years) and as a result, he stopped smoking. I think he was born in the Philippines.
"Flip lip manong bong! I'm a fuckin' filipino! --Brandon

Brett     "Cheese DIPPERS!"
I met Brett at my first job in Seattle, he was writing Video Capture software for windows. When I finished my first project, I went to tell him and he said, "Good. Don't tell anyone else." Anyway, one day he saw Jerkcity on my screen, and found that he couldn't stop saying dumb jerk things. So, his sense of humor matched mine, and he wound up being my roommate after Ed left. He's a great programmer, and probably the only other graphics programmer I know personally. He now works at Real.com (formerly progressive networks) and lives in a basement somewhere else (stupid!!!). Still, he's totally funny.

Brian     "Azzamagunsluk!"
I first met Brian in 4th or 5th grade AYSO (youth soccer) (forced upon us by moms), where we commisserated in the lowly position of fullback for most of the season. At that time, he was an avid player of the game "paperboy". I met him again in intermediate school. There were some rough spots between us, but we somehow still hung out through all those years. I think one reason for the friction between us is that Brian believes that his primary feature is the ability to be insincere. He wants to have some sort of useful talent, but spends a lot of time worrying about his natural aptitude and the depression that follows him around saps his energy such that he winds up losing concentration. He currently plays keyboards for Mr. Yuck, as well as tertiary vocals and is starting to do sequence programming.

Julie
Julie is one of the few people in Seattle I actually became friends with AFTER moving here. She used to be Kris' boss, and I jokingly said that it was a good thing he was so cute, otherwise he woulda been fired. Okay, so maybe that was a little too close to the mark to be funny. Anyway, she moved to Portland, but comes back to visit every once in a while. Julie supported the band immensely after we arrived in Seattle, driving us all over the ding dang place. Julie is originally from Alaska.

Kris    "I keep on farting. God, I can't stop!"
This dude has been by best friend since early childhood. We started the name-calling in Kindergarten and it's been pretty much that way ever since. Kris has been compared to a certain suicided Seattle grunge musician so many times that he actually bleached his hair white (which just made it more noticable), then dyed it black for years and years to avoid comparisons. He's quite a cutey, but somehow has no girlfriend. Could be because of something like this: In Hawaii, at the Punahou carnival, this thin redhead walked up to us (Me, Kris, Doug) and asked Kris if she could have his phone number. "Uh...I don't have a phone," said Kris. "Well.. can I have your address?" the girl persisted. "I don't have a house," Kris snickered. Hoo boy. That guy. Anyway, he started this Band with me; he plays Bass, sings backup vocals, and programs drums for Mr. Yuck.