A fellow programmer from North Carolina, whom I knew for a hundred years on UA and of course never spoke with, let alone met in person.
Us all being there under our real names, with real photos, no matter how small, there was a certain danger that we'd contract some quantity of trolls and other vermin, which generally wasn't happening. She was the exception, she looked really well on that tiny photograph, almost fuckappealing, and the male eye will fancy the rest from thin air. In that manner even Trish looked good when she was 40 and the photo was 96x96 pixels.
She did get her load of nutcases, so she was absent from the forum for a few months, and then reappeared, without a photo, with CD for the name, so those in the know knew. An extra measure was, guess with special permission of Alphonse, that she stated her country of residence as not USA, but the Isle of Man. Yup, that place with the silly flag with three legs in circle. Look it up, it's a must see, never saw a crazier flag.
Lots of stuff were told over the years, specially with the advent of iraqi war in 2003. She turned out to have been a soldier previously, served in some units in the Roman (aka latin) America, and that she had quite a few things to say about Abhu Ghrhaibh (remove extra haitches at will) and Guantanamo, of the type „boys, that's not the way to do it, you may get away with it but some next batch will be fucked up for this“. Who knows where she's been and what does she know.
3-V-2026 - 13-V-2026