Name: Michael Melosh
Wife: Bria (who thinks I'm a scoundrel)
Pets: Misty & McLeod (cats)
Last Known Location: Front Range of the Rockies
Hobbies:
Read, RASSM/#rassm/@rassm, HTML, Star Wars, graphics (computer & hand
draw), write (poetry & short stories), listen to music while doing any
of the afore mentioned, hike in the Smokies or Rockies.
Pet peeves:
Pet mistreatment, poachers, the Religious Right, those who quote George
Brenard Shaw as if he were never wrong...
http://members.tripod.com/~Melosh/opinions.html
RASSM Website:
http://www.shavenwookie.com/rassm/
Personal Website:
http://members.tripod.com/~Melosh/
Inducted: 1997
Updated: 1998
Bas-Jan Walewijk, or simply 'Beej' to those on IRC, is a Dutch Guy - which pretty much says it all. He studied Law in the town of Leyden and did Business Science in the city of Rotterdam, hiding his academic mediocrity behind Big Words. He found RASSM in 1993 and lurked for close to three years before finally posting. He sorta stuck around after that, instantly becoming universally loved and praised, or at least vividly imagining the same. He fondly remembers most of the great flame wars, though he is now mainly found on the @rassm mailing list. Bas-Jan has a passion for books and movies, and he doesn't altogether hate Star Wars. Words that sum him up include 'Bas'. 'Jan' and 'Walewijk'."
Inducted: 1997
Last Updated: Early 1999
Occupation: Writer and adman
Last Known Location: Detroit
Favorite Star Wars Moment(s):
When Luke & Leia swing across the chasm. No scene better embodies the
swashbuckling fun of the SW saga. And it's accompanied by great John
Williams music -- bombastic and almost over-the-top, but perfectly
suited for the moment.
Other Pertinent Information:
Inducted: 2000
Alias(es): slw67, Son of Piett (DNA tests inconclusive;
but since he's a Star Wars character, and I'm not...well, I guess I'm not...I
think I can live with it)
Age, as of carbon freezing: 23
Last Known Location: Right here. Also known as Somerset, MA.
Favorite Star Wars Moment(s):
Alias(es): Sara Waterfall, Lull Aceliwen
Age, as of carbon freezing: 18
Occupation:Deathbitch
Sal is an excessively young looking female with red hair, making her one of the formerly most desired RASSMers. Sal does not consider this a good thing, but freely admits that everyone should worship her regardless.
Sal has sporadically been around on RASSM proper for the last four years. She rapidly learned how to keep her mouth shut (for once in her life) and tends to lurk more than she posts. However, Sal is highly active on #rassm and somewhat less so on @rassm, simply because they afford more opportunities for her to let her ADD run rampant.
On RASSM, Sal has been involved in far too many of the more bizarre aspects, such as Sith Wars I, III, IV and V. Due to an ill-advised fling with JTFC leader James Trory, she currently heads the JTFC. She also likes to consider herself as the catalyst for the dissolution of the ORCP, and since deja.com no longer has any record of that time period, she cordially invites all dissenters to bite her. She helps to maintain the RASSM FAQ, is current maintainer of the Official RASSM Flame Form, and with Phil Kallas (one of the few males she doesn't consider complete scum) she plans on running for Supreme Chancellor of RASSM in the near future.
Outside of RASSM, Sal likes to pretend she has something approaching a life by reading excessively and driving her little Car of Death all over one of the richest counties in the United States of America. She is entering her final year of school at the local "higher learning" facility. Sal also spends a massive amount of time as assistant manager of two local Blockbusters, a fact which she is not terribly proud of. After graduating, Sal hopes to go to university and learn the ways of political manipulation.
Other quirks Sal possesses are the ability to crush men's souls, warp the minds of the people around her, and to make small children cry at the drop of a hat. For this reason, her favorite bits of the Star Wars saga usually revolve around the wacky (but evil) antics of Palpatine and the Sith. What she could do with the dark side of the Force at work...
Inducted: 2000
Alias(es): Jaames C'Ewok
Pertinent Info: (supplied by Bothan spies)
Once there was a preppy frat guy named James Watson. Then he got in the way of
Sith Master James Trory and his minions and was turned into an ewok. He has great
respawning abilities, so no rassmer need fear about killing him dead as we roast
him whole over the fire for food.
Inducted: 1997
Name: Matthew Ting
Last Known Location: Malaysia
Favorite Star Wars Moment:
Finding out it was Darth Vader, not Dark Vader...as I'd thought
for oh so many years as a kid. :)
Other Pertinent Information:
Not much to it, just another Star Wars obsessed nut :) Apart
from being able to quote almost every line from the movies and
inventing funny little situations involving Kenner Stormtroopers
and lightsabers, I'm heavily into the Star Wars card game...and
I'm at college the rest of the time.
Inducted: 2000
Offline: I like to collect most things related to Star Wars, especially vintage Star Wars Kenner toys; most sports, especially bowling, football and baseball;build/work on computers; fishing; movie-going; going to historically significant landmarks or areas; antiquing; and finally, going to bw-3 on the OSU campus and having 30 medium wings and a big glass of beer/coke and playing frisbee golf on the Oval (ahhh to be in college again!)
Online: hang out in the Ohio SW collecting mailing list, rec.arts.sf.starwars.* groups, rec.music.movies, favorite web sites:
My personality is completely summed up by the following quote (Calvin being
me):
"People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realize
how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world." by Calvin and
Hobbes replies, "isn't your pants zipper supposed to be in front?" from the
Bill Watterson cartoon Calvin and Hobbes.
Inducted: 1997