Subject: George D. Morgan obituary 

Date: 02/06/1999 

Author: George Morgan <his son 

I am writing this because George was very active in this newsgroup and it meant a lot to him. George D. Morgan, 35, died Thursday at 12:46 p.m. of a pulmonary embolism at Welborn Baptist Hospital. He was a graduate of St. Joseph High School in South Bend, IN, a political  science graduate of the University of Southern Indiana, and an industrial technology graduate of Ivy Tech State College of Evansville, IN. He was very active in the Catholic Church and in the Knights of Columbus. We will miss him. For those who think this posting is a sick joke, please consult the Saturday, February 6 editions of the Evansville Courier and Press, and the local papers in Akron, Ohio, Lexington, Kentucky, and St. Louis, Missouri. 

George H. Morgan 

Name: The Old Monkey

Email: oldmonky@esatclear.ie 

Website: Not at present 

Locale: NYC, NY (but now resident in beautiful County Wicklow, in the Republic of
Ireland) 

Posting Since: 1999 

Profession: Homemaker, freelance caterer & food designer 

How you got involved: Wandering around the newsgroups... I like Clancy. 

Why you've stuck around:  Lower S/N ratio than many other newsgroups.  Intelligent people. 

Favorite TC Book: Executive Orders

Least Favorite TC Book: Cardinal Of The Kremlin

Favorite TC Character: Jack Ryan (as played by Alex Baldwin...)

Position on Jack Ryan: (as played by Harrison Ford): [censored] :) (Hey...it's my fourteenth wedding anniversary today...I wouldn't want my husband to feel unloved or anything...)
;) No, but seriously, folks: I like Jack. He's in a tough spot.

Position on John Clark: (great guy, good guy, bad guy) "Answer hazy, ask again later"

Position on TC Movies: Loved Red October (see response regarding Harrison Ford, above.) Very annoyed with Patriot Games (it would take too long to explain, and I probably need to see the movie again anyway...). On the whole, the jury is still out. 

Posting Philosophy: Make nice. Also, don't post during bouts of PMS.

Famous For: Chicken with two hundred cloves of garlic. Swiss recipe collection. Home baking generally (bread in particular). Pheasant pasta. Himself's mother's soda bread recipe, but with Jalapeno chilies in it. 

What Others Say: No idea.

And how about computer setup? 

Present machine: "Allegra" (the Romansch word for "Hello"), Acer Travelmate 312T (266 mHz, 3 gig HD, internet via 57K modem or plug-in to one of our GSM cellphones for no-wires connections on the road): a sweet little computer that fits into a large purse and goes everywhere with me. All other machines in the house are presently in flux. The HD of my former "big machine", "Spandrel", crashed horribly last October (the drive making a very expressive noise like someone banging a cat food can with a spoon), but gave me time to back up first. There ensued a period of parts buying which left me with a new case, a new processor (AMD K6-2/450), a new motherboard and a new 6-gig hard drive, all of which were going to become a new machine as soon as I had five minutes to rub together to build it. However, (a) the new motherboard turned out to have a fault in timer 1, and (b) yesterday my husband's HD crashed...it was old...and now my new case and Himself Upstairs's motherboard and monitor and my new HD have been incarnated as a new machine, "Frank" (after you-know-who's monster), into which Himself is now restoring his backups. (sigh) The unnamed NewMachine will now have to wait for assembly until its replacement motherboard comes back from the supplier, along with a new (bigger!!) HD, a DVD and read/write CD-ROM, a 20-inch monitor, and another copy of the case (a sensible full tower with doors on both sides). 

Ancillary to the two computers and box full of parts (sigh) mentioned above:
one Lexmark color printer, one HP inkjet printer, various stereo speakers, etc
etc. And WinAmp, of course. :)

Name: Sean Keck, AKA BlackBeard

Email: Those that need it, got it. Those that want it, can ask for it or get it.

Locale: Originally Tucson Az. USA. Now in a real desert (Mojave) China Lake Ca. USA     

Posting Since: November 88.     

Profession:    Test Technician, Weapons/Aircraft Survivability.     

How you got involved:     Loved the books, so it was the natural thing to do.     

Why you've stuck around:     The intelligent, colorful and humble residents (OK, that was stretching it  a bit)     

Favorite TC Book:    HFRO of course     

Least Favorite TC Book:    Sum of all Fears    

Favorite TC Character:     Bart Mancuso or the pre-R6 Clark. I don't want to see JC it retirement,  want more tales of his earlier career.     

Position on Jack Ryan:   He's progressing through life in a very realistic way. Unfortunately my  Grandfather had some great experiences and stories to relate, but his last  ten years left little to write about. Sadly I'm beginning to feel the  same about JR.     

Position on John Clark: Great guy. Sometimes good people have to do bad things. They sacrifice  their soul and peace so the rest of us can live in safety and ignorance of  the darker side of reality.     

Position on TC Movies:     HFRO is my favorite Submarine movie next to Das Boot. I liked the others  but had to conciously make the effort to seperate them from the books.    

Posting Philosophy:     Avoid the trolls, ignore the bait, try to be interesting.     

Famous For:   Posole' Del Mar, toasted Almond Risotto, Grilled portobello Ravioli and  my Chili Verde Carbonal.     

What Others Say:   "Blackbeard? We heard you were dead..."     

And how about computer setup?   Work, Power Computing Power Tower 200. 180MB Ram, 2gig HD, internal zip,  Jaz, CDROM and 17" panasonic monitor. T1 line.   Home, IMAC G3 with a lousey 56K modem. 

Name: David V. Loewe, Jr. (aka Lurker Below)     

Email: dloewe@inlink.com     

Website: Nope     

Locale: St. Louis, Missouri, USA     

Posting Since: 1997     

Profession:   Various     

How you got involved:   Saw TC newsgroup on list of newsgroups - am TC fan.     

Why you've stuck around:     

Favorite TC Book:   Without Remorse     

Least Favorite TC Book:   Cardinal Of The Kremlin     

Favorite TC Character:   John Kelly     

Position on Jack Ryan:   ?     

Position on John Clark: Great Guy     

Position on TC Movies:   Grrrrr...     

Posting Philosophy:   Speak your mind.     

Famous For:   LOL - you're kidding, right?     

What Others Say:   I'll let other fill in this section.     

Computer setup?   I have a Dave 1 (I built it myself and it's the first one).   It's a Celeron 300a oc'ed to 450 MHz with 128 M of RAM, 2 10 gig 7200  RPM HDs, a 20 gig 5400 RPM HD, 48x CD-ROM, 4x4x16 CD-RW, SB Live!  sound card, Canopus Spectra 2500 video card, Diamond Supra Sonic II  modem, sitting in a full tower. Altec-Lansing speakers of some stripe  and a Viewsonic PS790 19" monitor round out the setup. I have an HP  855c printer, but it doesn't work right.   Soon, I hope to replace one of the 10 gig HDs with a 40 gig 7200 RPM  HD. After that, I will be obtaining an HP 970 and a scanner. 

Name: Ogden Johnson III (OJ III)    

Email: TBD @cpcug.org [permanent]  ojohnson@starpower.net; ojiii@comcast.net  

Website: N/A     

Locale: Army/Marine brat, career Marine, then Alexandria, VA, since retirement  in '82 

Posting Since: Usenet since ~ '90, a.b.t-c ~9     

Profession:   Career Marine, now Sr Systems Analyst for a beltway bandit     

How you got involved:   Fan of TC, found group     

Why you've stuck around:   Good conversations, on- and off-topic, few trolls or idjuts

Favorite TC Book:   Canned response: toss-up between the last one I reread and the next  one I'm going to reread.   Seriously: probably a toss-up between CotK and WR     

Least Favorite TC Book:   R6, if you really had to ask     

Favorite TC Character:   Really hard, but Col Filitov by a nose.     

Position on Jack Ryan:   As *the* central character in a compressed time frame/universe he's  carrying way to big a load to have the impact of some of the other  characters circling around him or dropping in for a book.     

Position on John Clark: Great guy with [nods to loki] a 'to good to be true' saintly wife

Position on TC Movies:   HfRO - all I could ask for; PG - abridgements
reasonable, solid movie; CaPD - marginally better than Starship Troopers -
Voerhoaxer's abomination; SoaF - probably OK standing alone as a movie
without reference to the book, but too great a departure from the Ryanverse
chronology and from the plot/actions of the book for me to suspend
disbelief past that already done for the book. Neutral on young Ben; like
James Earl Jones, AFAIAC Morgan Freeman can do no wrong whatever role you
put him in; James Cromwell in yet another excellent job - he's one of those
fine journeyman character actors whose presence can lend credence to any movie.
     

Posting Philosophy:   Have fun, learn where I can, impart what I can in return     

Famous For:   'forty-mumble years ago'     

What Others Say:     You'll have to ask them, I couldn't possibly say

And how about computer setup?   P4/1.7GB w/512mb networked with PIII/733
w/384MB, 19" mon on both [60 y.o. eyes], ample bordering on luxurious HD
space, good but not game-class video/sound cards at home; mix of PIII/P4
networked machines at work sites, depending on whose desk/cubicle I use [I
now telecommute more than I go in, to either our main office or our office
embedded at a client's facility].

 Name:  DVK, a.k.a. Daniel Khaykis. Meaning of "V" can be found on deja.com ;)   

Email:  dvk_mail@yahoo.com [0]   

Website:  http://get.to/dvk/ - under relocation, reconstruction and threat of  retrement due to RL constraints.   

Locale:  NYC, New York, USA. Use whitepages.com for details.   

Posting Since:  a.b.t-c: January 1998, lurking since 1997.  

Usenet: at least '95 or '94, methinks.   

Profession:  Computer geek^H^H^H^Hprofessional.  

Current interest: Mission Critical Systems Management ;)  a.b.t-c relevance: unofficial member of SPAMSquad.   

How you got involved:  Searched NG list for Clancy.  First thing i did, got into a fight with JMA[1] ;)  Liked the atmosphere here and stayed.   

Why you've stuck around:  Interesting people (with a clue, too), lots of useful info, lots of fun.

Favorite TC Book:  Without Remorse   

Least Favorite TC Book:  Anything with the "TC's" in the name not written by him ;)  R6 if you only count TC's real work.  SoAF if you count books without game tie-ins (i.e. non-R6) ;)  

Favorite TC Character:  A tie between Jack Ryan and Clark/Kelly among major ones.  Second place - Golovko ;)   

Position on Jack Ryan:  I can see at least 2 more good books with him, if TC doesn't get tired of  doing it (a la Sir A.C.Doyle)   

Position on John Clark:  If more people were like him, the world would be a better place.  (ok, same goes for Ryan ;)   

Position on TC Movies:  HfRO was great.  CaPD was OK as a standalone movie but a terrible adaptation of TC  work. Ditto PG.   

Posting Philosophy:  Try to be helpful when I can. Be silly when i can't. Never post reports of  spam-kills ;)   

Famous For:  Suppressing anti-GFM SPAMsquad mutinies. (Hi Geof ;)  Being a KGB sleeper. <vbg  Being a resident USSR/Russia "expert"... or at least pretending to be ;)  Starting footnotes with "0" as they should be :)   

Wanted to be famous for:  Starting the (now failed) trend of ObTC usage.  Being the first person Loki kills using bad weather  Conquering the world...wait, that's my OTHER personality... never mind.   

What Others Say:  To quote Dilbert: "Watch me not care". OK, seriously, I don't know - ask  Them (or They ;)   

Bonus answers:  1) Who should play Clark:  A tie between Natalie Portman and a CGI character.  2) Favorite casting game answer (not posted by me ;) :  Harrison Ford for the role of assassinated President of Iraq.  (in "Executive Orders Film" thread)

Computer setup at home:  a) Sparc 2 on loan from work (Solaris 2.6)  b) Zenith 8088 640K memory no-hard-drive laptop that's about my age.  c) Micron Millenia P166 upgraded to death and beyond.  (K6-2-366 Kingston TurboChip processor upgrade plus  new  BIOS/memory/video/h.drives/CD-R/ATA66 card/modem/NIC/Zip)  OS's: DOS/Win3.11/2 copies of Win98/NT4/OS2/RH Linux 6.1  sitting on 18Gigs on 2 hard drives.   

Dream system planned for this year:  DDR 266Mhz memory, 7200RPM ATA66 or ATA100 interface/drives,  133Mhz FSB, any fast processor with full-speed L2 cache  (Coppermine or new Athlon), DDR GeForce Video, telepathic  input/output ... ok, just kidding on the last one. 

[0] Bring on your [soon to be dead] spammers!  

[1] Topic was history of radio, don't remember what the thread subject was. 

Name: Mike Enderby (no TLA used)    

Email: mike@ultrasnd.demon.co.uk   

Website: http://www.ultrasnd.demon.co.uk/people/mike (not that up to date)   

Locale: Reading, UK   

Posting Since: 1994   

Profession:   Software engineer but ex-physics researcher  Spent 3 years in the Royal Engineer wing of Leeds University Officer Training  Corps   How you got involved:   Saw the newsgroup and thought it may be interesting   

Why you've stuck around:   Interesting people / threads and a non-UK centric view on the world.   

Favorite TC Book:   Without Remorse / Red Storm Rising   

Least Favorite TC Book:   Rainbow Six, anything "Tom Clancy's:"   

Favorite TC Character:   Robbie Jackson   

Position on Jack Ryan:   Started well but is now way too perfect. Time to retire   

Position on John Clark: (great guy, good guy, bad guy)   Great character in most books but ruined in R6   

Position on TC Movies:   Quite like HfRO but avoid the others although I've seen the other two to  confirm how bad they are as adaptions of the books.   

Posting Philosophy:   Volume varies from frequent to infrequent depending on what I've got to say.   

Famous For:   Being one of the few real long timers left, being English, knowing  something about physics and computers plus never using footnotes   

What Others Say:   <I can't write this bit!   

And how about computer setup?   1. Dell PII 233, 128MB, 3GB HD, 17", NT4  2. DIY K5-90, 48MB, 7GB (3xHD), 17", NT4, linux, W3.1 and DOS  3. Acorn RPC 200MHz StrongARM, 32MB, 3GB, RISC OS   All networked with a Epson GT-5000 scanner, Laserjet 1100 printer and two  modems. Plus various bits and pieces hanging around. 

Name: Scott Pizio  

Email: spizioOBVIOUS@mediaone.net remove the OBVIOUS to contact me  

Website: None.  

Locale: Tiverton,RI USA, can't quite bring myself to admit I've moved to Fall  River,MA[1]

Posting Since: approx. August 1996 usenet and ABTC  

Profession: Customer Service  

How you got involved: Decided to try use net and found ABTC right away in list  of NG's  

Why you've stuck around: Best mannered, most interesting NG I've come across.  

Favorite TC Book: CaPD followed closely by RSR  

Least Favorite TC Book: If I had to pick R6, discounting the TC's. If you  include those Politika.

Favorite TC Character: Chavez possibly Mike Edwards  

Position on Jack Ryan: 1-2 books left then he becomes the senior statesman[2]  minor role  occasionally.[4]  

Position on John Clark: Old Clark, don't mess with him. New Clark, conflicted  who is unsure of his  role. Future Clark I want to see, REMF without the MF.  

Position on TC Movies: HFRO decent flick, down hill from there, don't even  mention CaPD[3]. 

Posting Philosophy: Didn't know I needed one. Try to keep things humorous  occasionally. 

Famous For: Suggestions anyone????  

What Others Say: Again...please be kind.  

And how about computer setup: AMD K6-2 350mhz, 192mb, 6gb HD, Zip100(internal),  40x CD-ROM, 3.5 HDFD(almost forgot it), dual standard 56k modem, cable modem  through ethernet card, Vodoo3-2000, SB16 compatible sound card, cheesy speakers,  17" monitor, HP Deskjet 722C, flatbed color scanner(via USB), smartmedia card  reader(via USB), Olympus D450 zoom digital camera(not strictly part of the  computer but...)    

Name: Tim Klevar

Email: tklevar@earthlink.net

Website: None at present

Locale: Minneapolis, MN (most recently)

Posting Since: 1994

Profession: IT Manager  

How you got involved:   Founded the newsgroup. See the FAQ   

Why you've stuck around:   Interesting people / threads, discussions are intellectually stimulating. Great cross-section of thoughts.

Favorite TC Book:   Red Storm Rising / Debt of Honor   

Least Favorite TC Book:   "Tom Clancy's:"   

Favorite TC Character:   John Terrance Kelly   

Position on Jack Ryan:   NOBODY is that lucky......   

Position on John Clark: (great guy, good guy, bad guy)   Love him. Getting long in the tooth.

Position on TC Movies:   Eh. It's Hollywood.   

Posting Philosophy:   Volume varies from frequent to infrequent depending on what I've got to say.   

Famous For:   Oldest poster.    

What Others Say:  Who the hell is THIS clown?   

And how about computer setup?   1. Dell PIII 600, 256MB, 60GB HD, 17", NT4  2. Toshiba P4 2.4Ghz laptop, 768MB, 60GB, XP 3. Dell PIII 400 Mhz, 256MB, 40GB,  4. IBM PL300, PIII 500 Mhz, 256MB, 30 GB.  All networked with a 100mb core router, cable modem, etc. etc.. Plus various bits and pieces hanging around. 

[1] Lizzie Borden took an axe...  

[2] Ala what Carter has been doing with his time but with a conservative bent.  IMHO for their post  presidency careers Carter has our living and recently departed former presidents  beat. 

[3] See above.  

[4] Written just after R6