davv | Do we have variety? Nope! (Reply)

Alright, here's a thing not to do. Type "reboot" while in on a Unix terminal... then a second later discover that oops, you were actually logged into another computer.

(Perception fumble.)

A slightly worse thing to do is to type the above when you've been intending to send someone an IM because it was an unfamiliar nick and you wondered who he was, but the chat client didn't log the initial conversation that happened while you were away, so you don't have any records of his SN to type when your computer comes back up.

So, yeah... someone meeped at me in the middle of the night here. I wasn't around, so he went offline again. I wondered who he was, and I was intending to write a reply the day after, but then my fumble happened.

If any of you know someone who has an AIM SN that contains the letter 'o' as well as the number 39, let me know. That's about all I can remember. I also think he had "border letters", kind of like "xx whatever xx" (just not xx), but I'm not sure.

If you are that someone, definitely let me know.

I'm curious.

EDIT: Through a little cleverness, basically searching the disk for something I remembered he'd said, I found a fragment of swap memory (or something, not going to complain! ) containing that line with his SN and all. I've added him; now I just have to wait for him to go online so I can talk to him :)

EDIT II: He never showed up again, and I suspect he's a bot. Recently, I've been getting more random messages and IM spam, all from people who leave a single message and disappear... so I'm thinking he was the first. He could, of course, simply be invisible.