The LOST Powderboard Classics

[Innominatus]

(I would post this over at PM, but most of those who give a flyin' fuck about this stuff are over here.)


First, the Postamble:


I don't post much anymore. But an hour ago, I logged onto the Powder board for the first time in ages, only to see (gladly) a bunch of presumed-dead threads bobbing about in the throes of what appears to be some random bump fest.

It's amusing how the mad bumping of classic threads is frequently the work of several people at once. Almost like it occurs to one person that it might be a cool way to blow the afternoon by dredging up old Powder board classics at the exact same moment it occurs to somebody else, five states away but connected by fiber optics to the same bit of time, that maybe it might be cool way to blow the afternoon by going and digging up old Powder board classics.

Uncanny. Almost like there's some kind of emergent pattern at work.

Which is an even funnier coincidence, because...


Preamble:


It just so happens the past few days I've been reading this pretty cool book on emergence theory. It describes to laypeople (i.e., beetlebrowed chumps like myself who grew up beneath power lines) the basics of emergence theory -- how collections of otherwise seemingly random bits take on patterns over time and demonstrate startling self-organization. The case studies range from strange to decidedly literal; from slime molds and ant farms to computer networks and the Internet.

As it happens, one of the case studies involves a guy named Brewster Kahle, who, a decade or so ago, decided that the transient nature of the Internet's content needed shoring up. So he built this giant-ass server farm in an underground bunker in the Presidio, fired it up, and began crawling around the Internet taking snapshots of all those flitting, fleeting bytes.


And one of the sites that got snapshots taken of it was... the old Powder board, ca. 2001 or so.


Heh. Now you see where I'm going with this, eh? Right? Right. So I figured it might be a cool way to blow the afternoon by doing a little digging around for lost Powder threads. So, I had to go see what Brewster Kahle had in his archive.


That was an hour ago. And look what emerged...




Lost Classics



How do YOU define "gaper?" (p. 1 only):
http://web.archive.org/web/200211081...ML/002777.html

Tales from Da 'Hood:
http://web.archive.org/web/200210200...ML/004321.html

The Really Bad Roommate Story Thread:
http://web.archive.org/web/200211041...ML/007032.html

Spicoli gets into the peyote again:
http://web.archive.org/web/200106181...ML/002400.html

Name that Ski Design/Topsheet (pages 6, 10, and 12 no worky but everything else is there):
http://web.archive.org/web/200210220...ML/007292.html

They said it couldn’t be done. Or shouldn’t be done (page 2 a bust):
http://web.archive.org/web/200211041...ML/010477.html

First Annual Maggot Summit Awards (p. 1 only):
http://web.archive.org/web/200211041...ML/006158.html

Vintage Gear You Wish You Hadn’t Tossed:
http://web.archive.org/web/200109221...ML/002644.html

Falling Down a Big Mountain:
http://web.archive.org/web/200212160...ML/002450.html

Where Are The Worst Skiers/Boarders? (some lurrvvely trash talkin'!):
http://web.archive.org/web/200109200...ML/001757.html

Summit Cougar Hunting: Get your game on!:
http://web.archive.org/web/200211042...ML/005481.html

Who Are the Rock Strars (sic)?:
http://web.archive.org/web/200112280...ML/004378.html


Gimme some pranks:
http://web.archive.org/web/200212010...ML/013027.html

Canada = 51st State (p.2 no worky):
http://web.archive.org/web/200210240...ML/000672.html

Maggot Stickers:
http://web.archive.org/web/200112280...ML/004395.html

huckasoreass and caaaaaaaaaaaatinthehaaaaaaaaaaaat face off over whether Lake Tahoe is surfable:
http://web.archive.org/web/200211051...ML/001163.html

Chips Ahoy vs. Oreos:
http://web.archive.org/web/200210172...ML/011230.html

Schoolbus antics:
http://web.archive.org/web/200202271...ML/001321.html



That's all I found in 1 hour. Off to go climbing now, but might do some looking later. Looks like maybe a third of those old Board threads are backed-up in a server farm in the Presidio...

[Schmear]

It's the old posts, and even the old board! http://tetongravity.com/ubb/icons/icon14.gif

[Snow Dog]

The Internet is a wonderous thing.

Maybe somebody will write a book -- "The Best of the Powder Maggots."

[13]

http://www.tetongravity.com/ubb/icons/icon14.gif

[Foggy_Goggles]

This rools - I can kill hours on the oldies

[stompinlines]

Holy crap, this is more fantastic than finding a twenty in the laundry. Good work gumshoe.

[Benny Profane]

Well, so much for staring at the wall tonight waiting for the phone to ring. very cool!

[iceman]

This...is...GENIUS!!!

I only looked at the Chips Ahoy vs. Oreos so far, but man, that is cool. "Today's degraded snackscape" HA!

[Blurred Elevens]

Inno-you rock!!! Really good shit there. Should be posted to the inevitable future welcome wagon thread.

Reading some of that makes me wonder....What the fuck happened to Focus?? Did he simply change names to something else here?

For all you n00bs, Focus and I went at it in the maggots biggest flame war ever.

It makes my little skirmish with TJ look like a cupcake eating contest.

[Honc]

Sticky?

[Foggy_Goggles]

"Alright, I'll play...
Me and my little brother are out as usual all day Sunday getting tanked at the Rat, The Honey, probably laughing at the JAPs in Division Sixteen. We're at the end of Newbury St at Mass ave on our way back to Kenmore and the whole block is under construction and the sidewalk is covered with that scaffolding. My bro jumps up and grabs a bar and hauls hisself up there, so I do it too. We climbed the scaffolding all the F'ng way to the top like 8-10 stories and go into the building. We are in there checking stuff out and generally f'ng around and I see a big hammer lying there, so I stick it in my coat. (very drunk) We get lost in the building and wind up breaking through a plywood wall onto the focking MASS PIKE! Yow!

We eventually got back onto Mass ave and there's a shitty little bar on the corner of Mass Ave and Commonwealth (it mighta been Hereford) and me and the bro head in for a warmer-upper. Now we don't hardly ever go into this place because despite it's location,, It is full of the thickest, Southie Jamokes all the time. I think they asked us to leave and we are on the corner outside and this car pulls up and one of the guys makes some comment about drunk scumbag punkers or someting and my brother spits on the windscreen. So now, like four huge fockin' micks unfold outta this little sedan like the goddamn circus and come at us. (Hope it wasn't iceman)

The first guy swings at my brother and I'm thinking we are f'ng dead! I start to turn from the guy coming at me and remember I have a focking framing hammer in my coat! So I make like I am cringeing away from the guy and grab the hammer. He comes at me and I swing the thing from about knee level at his head, but I freak out on maybe killing him at the last split second and turn the hammer sideways so I hit him with the flat part. He is reeling and I hear a metallic clanging noise. I look down at the splintered handle of the hammer remaining in my hand and lookup at the bastard a few feet away as he shakes off the blow and his eyes focus on me. Now, I had drunk a lot that day, but something about a very serious ass-kicking coming your way will sober you up a bit. He laid into me and got about 3-4 good shots in. He had me up against a parked car. I was not going to stay conscious for another shot or two when my Brother tackled the guy into the street. Now, this is a pretty busy intersection and although this happened fast there are a ton of people around yelling shit. My bro gets up and grabs me and we hoofed it outta there. We ran into that little park where Charlesgate ramps up onto the mass Pike and climbed a tree we knew that you can jump onto the freeway ramp. From there we could see them cruising around looking for us, but they didn't try to get on the pike. There were a few black and whites there noe too. We were able to sneak back to Kenmore through the public alleys and get some drinks at The Rat.

I got two broken ribs, a broken nose and a sympathy beer from the bartender. Never hit a guy with the flat side of a hammer! Always use the front or the claw end. "

[FreakofSnow]

Originally posted by Innominatus
[B](I would post this over at PM, but most of those who give a flyin' fuck about this stuff are over here.)


First, the Postamble:


I don't post much anymore. But an hour ago, I logged onto the Powder board for the first time in ages, only to see (gladly) a bunch of presumed-dead threads bobbing about in the throes of what appears to be some random bump fest.

It's amusing how the mad bumping of classic threads is frequently the work of several people at once. Almost like it occurs to one person that it might be a cool way to blow the afternoon by dredging up old Powder board classics at the exact same moment it occurs to somebody else, five states away but connected by fiber optics to the same bit of time, that maybe it might be cool way to blow the afternoon by going and digging up old Powder board classics.

Uncanny. Almost like there's some kind of emergent pattern at work.

Which is an even funnier coincidence, because...

yes, yes I will take credit for that. the other night i was poking around over there, I was board as hell and went to the last page, something like #130 and saw a few really great one. So I randomly poked through the pages, looking for the veteran names and high #'s of posts........then I proceeded to BUMP THE SHIT OUT OF THEM . Along came Ogre, using more blunt force, then Mountainman and I began to tag team.

glad you all enjoyed

[Schmear]

I just found some lost pages from a content site I edited waaaaaaaaaaayy back in '96, when MSN first launched. Thanks Innominatus, you opened more than one door here!

[AntiSoCalSkier]

ARRRRGGGHGHHG!!!!!

This sucks!

For some reason, my firewall blocks EVERYTHING that comes out of archive.org. I guess they're afraid I might want to look at porn from the 90's or something.

[joshbu]

God please let someone find the "flaming match into the random guys ear in the airport" thread. Amen.

[FreakofSnow]

Originally posted by joshbu
God please let someone find the "flaming match into the random guys ear in the airport" thread. Amen.

you're not so quick are ya ?

[joshbu]

Originally posted by FreakofSnow
you're not so quick are ya ?

Let's say no. Let's pretend that I'm having a really shitty day and the flaming match in the ear story would help lots, but that I don't have the time to hunt and peck for it. Could ya help a slow brother out?

[TJ.Brk]

snif snif, sob sob. I'm so happy they've been found. Bump^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

[Snow Dog]

Originally posted by joshbu
Let's say no. Let's pretend that I'm having a really shitty day and the flaming match in the ear story would help lots, but that I don't have the time to hunt and peck for it. Could ya help a slow brother out?

It's still at Powder right here. Great thread so read the whole thing.

[AK G-Dog]

Originally posted by Blurred Elevens
Reading some of that makes me wonder....What the fuck happened to Focus?? Did he simply change names to something else here?

For all you n00bs, Focus and I went at it in the maggots biggest flame war ever.

It makes my little skirmish with TJ look like a cupcake eating contest.

Yeah, what did happen to that guy? I take a couple months off, new board, he is gone and phUnk is employed.

werd

[Dexter Rutecki]

Originally posted by Foggy_Goggles
"Alright, I'll play...
Me and my little brother are out as usual all day Sunday getting tanked at the Rat, The Honey, probably laughing at the JAPs in Division Sixteen. We're at the end of Newbury St at Mass ave on our way back to Kenmore and the whole block is under construction and the sidewalk is covered with that scaffolding. My bro jumps up and grabs a bar and hauls hisself up there, so I do it too. We climbed the scaffolding all the F'ng way to the top like 8-10 stories and go into the building. We are in there checking stuff out and generally f'ng around and I see a big hammer lying there, so I stick it in my coat. (very drunk) We get lost in the building and wind up breaking through a plywood wall onto the focking MASS PIKE! Yow!

ACE's classic--I'll never forget this one.

[joshbu]

Originally posted by iceman on powdermag
This doesn't have much (okay, nothing) to do with this topic, but:
A long time ago, when you could still smoke in Airports, I got off a plane and was waiting for my luggage by the carousel thing. I pull out a smoke and some matches. Strike the match, and the flaming head flies off - RIGHT INTO THE EAR of the guy standing next to me. I mean, right inside.

I go, "Ummm..."
The guy goes "AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH" and starts smacking himself in the head, trying to put the fire out. He ran away, still screaming and smacking himself in the head.

Never saw him again.

True story.

Aaaaahhhhhh. Much better...

[rip]

[i]
Where Are The Worst Skiers/Boarders? (some lurrvvely trash talkin'!):
http://web.archive.org/web/200109200...ML/001757.html

hahaha holy crap, I have to own up to this, "pow-man" was my first handle on the board back when I was just a wee little JONG, actually I dont think jong had even been coined yet. As I was reading that post it all came back to me, I remember I was looking for information because I was buying my first pair of skis that I funded completely so I was spamming a shit ton of boards about info, and for some reason I kept coming back to the powder board, reading posts, and posting every once in a while. After that year I totally forgot about the board and rediscovered it about a year later and made up a new name.

Oh and Blurred, focus is still around, I bumped into him at ripley the other day, I think the focus handle is gone though, he has a new one now.

[Schmear]

Yeah, not that long ago he was posting over there as [focus] because his name was nuked on D (Daniel)-Day.

[iskibc]

Nice find Inno! Some good stuff in there.