Comments on: The prescience of KevinSkomsvold

The prescience of KevinSkomsvold

machaus — Thu, 09 May 2002 06:29:53 -0800

By: iconomy

iconomy — Thu, 09 May 2002 06:48:05 -0800

*pats Kevin on the back* An extra helping of men's pocky and some blue soda for Kevin ;)

By the way, what's your take on crop circles?

By: yhbc

yhbc — Thu, 09 May 2002 07:04:02 -0800

And so the day has come that truth is stranger than MetaFilter.

Do I get any props for being the first one to take the idea seriously?

By: bittennails

bittennails — Thu, 09 May 2002 07:04:13 -0800

Very good eye, Kevin, do you have any background in a visual field? I did not get that at all from that graphic.

By: jonmc

jonmc — Thu, 09 May 2002 07:04:39 -0800

Kev, there's this smoking man at the door who wants to talk to you. Says he's with the government. Are you in?

By: adampsyche

adampsyche — Thu, 09 May 2002 07:19:07 -0800

I am amazed. Good call. Them silly art students...funny, I just married one last year.

By: KevinSkomsvold

KevinSkomsvold — Thu, 09 May 2002 07:21:05 -0800

I just wanna thank my laywer, my agent, my parents *sob*.... I hope I've opened some doors for other MeFi'ers *sob some more* ..

Hold on. The mailman is here....

By: KevinSkomsvold

KevinSkomsvold — Thu, 09 May 2002 07:23:49 -0800

OBTW. Good thing Luke wasn't a pointilist.

By: clavdivs

clavdivs — Thu, 09 May 2002 07:53:45 -0800

kevinSkomsvold called it- qounsar rang in with a gif yes? I was going to give him (luke) 'happy face bomber'.

'pointilist.' thats good.
goodwork.

By: Voyageman

Voyageman — Thu, 09 May 2002 08:00:07 -0800

Hey Kevin, some of these?

By: Shadowkeeper

Shadowkeeper — Thu, 09 May 2002 08:07:41 -0800

Now the smiley emoticon can pull double duty, meaning either "Just kidding!" or "You make me want to go on a weekend-long cross-country bombing spree."

> I need that report by tomorrow.

Sure boss, it'll be done in a jiffy! :)

By: crunchburger

crunchburger — Thu, 09 May 2002 08:17:16 -0800

Runner-up to sonofsamiam for making the Fight Club connection first!

By: Sinner

Sinner — Thu, 09 May 2002 08:39:40 -0800

For those who, like me, wanted to see the pattern, and use a moldy old showbiz phrase "heeeeere's Quonsar."

By: iceberg273

iceberg273 — Thu, 09 May 2002 08:53:39 -0800

So what do we call this guy?

Smile-a-bomber?

By: mecran01

mecran01 — Thu, 09 May 2002 09:15:12 -0800

The CNN confirmation: http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/05/09/mailbox.pipebombs/index.html

By: KevinSkomsvold

KevinSkomsvold — Thu, 09 May 2002 10:26:15 -0800

Ya know Voyageman; my head exploded after trying the the first two. Just chalk my observation up to dumb luck :)

Props to quonsar & yhbc.

By: vacapinta

vacapinta — Thu, 09 May 2002 11:52:28 -0800

Perhaps he's a Martian.

By: Shadowkeeper

Shadowkeeper — Thu, 09 May 2002 12:47:42 -0800

... or a fan of The Watchmen ...

By: ed

ed — Thu, 09 May 2002 12:50:41 -0800

Well, this did after all come from the same group of participants that solved the Kaycee-Nicole mystery. Methinks Scotland Yard and the Mystery Machine would do well to consult the MeFi denizens.

By: skallas

skallas — Thu, 09 May 2002 12:58:48 -0800

Well, this did after all come from the same group of participants that solved the Kaycee-Nicole mystery.

To be fair its also the site that promoted i.e. fell for, the Kaycee story. I don't even think the person who figured it out was a member here either.

By: KevinSkomsvold

KevinSkomsvold — Thu, 09 May 2002 13:39:41 -0800

Update:

I just got interviewed by the Omaha World Herald re: my comments on MetaFilter. This is getting weirder by the minute.

By: ODiV

ODiV — Thu, 09 May 2002 13:46:33 -0800

skallas: "shhhh." You're ruining the moment.

By: yhbc

yhbc — Thu, 09 May 2002 14:05:18 -0800

Kevin: I know the gang over at Fark were making the observation, too - but do you know if yours was first? Did you get any idea from the reporter?

By: KevinSkomsvold

KevinSkomsvold — Thu, 09 May 2002 14:24:43 -0800

Hmm. Not sure. I'm sure other people besides me made the observation but frankly I was a little rattled when he called. Didn't think to ask.

By: bittennails

bittennails — Thu, 09 May 2002 16:43:07 -0800

Excellent, good on you, Kevin. As we would say back home, eeeenjoooy, yaar.

By: Neale

Neale — Thu, 09 May 2002 16:46:53 -0800

Sooooo.... where's Osama? Anybody?

By: clavdivs

clavdivs — Thu, 09 May 2002 17:09:45 -0800

baghdad or pushing daisies

By: KevinSkomsvold

KevinSkomsvold — Thu, 09 May 2002 17:16:33 -0800

Upon further review..... I scooped Fark (FWIW).
*places six-shooter back in holster*

By: BlueTrain

BlueTrain — Thu, 09 May 2002 17:20:57 -0800

Upon further review..... I scooped Fark (FWIW).
*places six-shooter back in holster*

Well, FWIW, I still give you the boobie prize.

I'm sorry, I couldn't resist

By: KevinSkomsvold

KevinSkomsvold — Thu, 09 May 2002 19:45:35 -0800

Here's the story as it appears in the Omaha World Herald. I'm sort of pissed they didn't mention MeFi because I name dropped like an out-of-work screen writer. Oh well.

I now declare my 15 minutes officially up. Thanks for obliging my ego.

By: yhbc

yhbc — Thu, 09 May 2002 19:50:03 -0800

A "chat room"?

A *#!##*@!&%! "CHAT ROOM" !!!!!?????

By: yhbc

yhbc — Thu, 09 May 2002 19:59:37 -0800

Oh, okay - sorry. It's just that my wife is always asking me "are you on your little chat room again?" and I have to bite my tongue with her - but a newspaper ... aaah.

Kudos again, Kevin; at least they spelled your name right!

By: jonmc

jonmc — Thu, 09 May 2002 20:50:22 -0800

yhbc- my better half knows enough to refer to MeFi as a weblog, although It was interesting listening to her try to explain what that is exactly, to her 84-year-old mother tonight. She even knows a few of you by name. So technically I suppose dong_resin, eyeballkid, iconomy and unclefes are houshold names now. Yay!!

and Kevin, now that you're famous, don't make us limbo under the velvet rope to meet you, OK.

By: Neale

Neale — Thu, 09 May 2002 22:00:48 -0800

Noting a lack of mathematical prowess, Skomsvold said they will remain unsolved.

You rock. Free Kevin!

By: skallas

skallas — Thu, 09 May 2002 22:35:56 -0800

Great, now Helder is gonna start mailing you letters about "our shared psychic connection."

By: DBAPaul

DBAPaul — Fri, 10 May 2002 05:02:16 -0800

perhaps Luke read the thread in MeFi and thought it was a better responce than "I like things that go boom!"

By: dong_resin

dong_resin — Fri, 10 May 2002 05:59:30 -0800

I suppose dong_resin, eyeballkid, iconomy and unclefes are household names now....

I don't wanna be a household name!
I need my fuckn' street cred, man!

I didn't name myself after smegma to play to grannies in the fly-over states, damnit!

By: Zora Neale Hurston

Zora Neale Hurston — Sat, 11 May 2002 17:22:50 -0800

Don't worry, it's not like "dong_resin" rolls off the tongue.

By: dong_resin

dong_resin — Sat, 11 May 2002 22:31:48 -0800

Well, no. Not since Clinton left office.