# Who's missing that you really want to see on the Board? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 2, 2020, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-missing-that-you-really-want-to-see-on-the-board/914010 "2020-07-02T01:49:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 53
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2024, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-missing-that-you-really-want-to-see-on-the-board/914010/1042 "2024-12-21T23:42:58Z")
> [@TroutMan](#): > > Where you at, @iiandyiiii? > > He hasn’t posted since November 5, although apparently he’s been on the site recently. I hope this is a brief hiatus after the election and not a complete withdrawal. We miss you! Posted two days ago: > [@Bo Burnham: Inside - you should watch it(Netflix)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bo-burnham-inside-you-should-watch-it-netflix/943378/27): > > I had to take a break from social media, including the Dope, after the election. For my own mental health. I didn’t know about the existence of this comedy special until a few days ago, and even though it was obviously driven by the pandemic, it just incredibly, almost magically, connected with how I’ve been feeling lately, at least when I haven’t been able to distract myself with parenting, work, video games, etc. Just an amazing piece of performance art, and comedy, IMO. I can’t recommend it … ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2024, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-missing-that-you-really-want-to-see-on-the-board/914010/1044 "2024-12-22T00:06:33Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > Posted two days ago The preview box ends with “I can’t recommend it” so I had to click the link to find out whether what he really wrote was “I can’t recommend it enough.” (It was. Is this an example of Discourse itself breaking the Board rule against misleading quoting?) ---
**Author:** ![Lancia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lancia/32/17174_2.png) [@Lancia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lancia)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2025, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-missing-that-you-really-want-to-see-on-the-board/914010/1045 "2025-01-02T23:27:52Z")
I just realized that @Sunny_Daze hasn’t posted in almost 9 months. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2025, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-missing-that-you-really-want-to-see-on-the-board/914010/1046 "2025-01-03T00:57:47Z")
It’s been a long time since we’ve seen @Grits_and_Hard_Toast . I recall all the “Name my new racehorse” threads that were fun. ---
**Author:** ![Al128](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/al128/32/16541_2.png) [@Al128](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Al128)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2025, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-missing-that-you-really-want-to-see-on-the-board/914010/1047 "2025-01-07T01:36:05Z")
i am as stupid as they come to with poster names,and but i miss the lady who worked at a NGO (grant work and iirc) and had an autistic child about 3 or 4 y.o. Wish I could remember the name… ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2025, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-missing-that-you-really-want-to-see-on-the-board/914010/1048 "2025-01-07T01:36:59Z")
Spice Weasel? ---
**Author:** ![Al128](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/al128/32/16541_2.png) [@Al128](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Al128)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2025, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-missing-that-you-really-want-to-see-on-the-board/914010/1049 "2025-01-07T01:47:00Z")
yes @Spice_Weasel !!! Hoping she is ok and just taking time out ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2025, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-missing-that-you-really-want-to-see-on-the-board/914010/1050 "2025-01-07T01:48:12Z")
> [@Al128](#): > > Hoping she is ok and just taking time out IIRC, she’s had several extended absences from the board, due to real life. (I had not realized, until looking just now, that she has not been here since early July.) ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2025, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-missing-that-you-really-want-to-see-on-the-board/914010/1051 "2025-01-07T04:46:47Z")
@DrFidelius posted a year ago that he’d had spinal surgery and was in recovery. Haven’t seen him since. Hope he’s okay. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2025, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-missing-that-you-really-want-to-see-on-the-board/914010/1052 "2025-01-07T15:16:42Z")
But he is rather active on facebook. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2025, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-missing-that-you-really-want-to-see-on-the-board/914010/1053 "2025-01-07T15:59:59Z")
Any word from GusNSpot? I remember him from early on because I misread his username as ‘GunsNPot’. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2025, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-missing-that-you-really-want-to-see-on-the-board/914010/1054 "2025-01-07T19:50:17Z")
> [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](#): > > But he is rather active on facebook. Really good to hear that. If you’re chatting with him, please say « Hi » for me. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2025, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-missing-that-you-really-want-to-see-on-the-board/914010/1055 "2025-01-07T21:01:09Z")
Would not surprise me if he’s no longer with us. As I recall, when he was posting, he was close to 80 and rather heavy. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2025, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-missing-that-you-really-want-to-see-on-the-board/914010/1056 "2025-01-08T00:53:42Z")
I have a book of instructions on what is to be done with my estate when I die. Among the instructions are the directions on how to notify the SDMB, and the Giraffe. And I have two names, one from each board, of folks to use snail mail to if somehow doing the notice online here doesn’t work. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2025, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-missing-that-you-really-want-to-see-on-the-board/914010/1057 "2025-01-08T01:13:58Z")
> [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](#): > > Would not surprise me if he’s no longer with us. As I recall, when he was posting, he was close to 80 and rather heavy. @LSLGuy posted over the longest tenure thread a suggestion that he was gone. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2025, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-missing-that-you-really-want-to-see-on-the-board/914010/1058 "2025-01-08T01:44:09Z")
That was surmise on my part based on what I knew of his age, his last posting date, and his health at that time. Which was 4-1/2 years ago and well after the Discourse transition. Even if his posting was not abruptly ended by his death then, the duration since then and no return strongly suggests he has died by now. I actually thought about adding more disclaimer to that post of mine. In hindsight I should have. I’m sorry if anyone was misled. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2025, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-missing-that-you-really-want-to-see-on-the-board/914010/1059 "2025-01-08T01:51:22Z")
I’m now reviewing the last couple months of this thread. Which I had not been following for some reason. I am surprised I had not noticed @Riemann’s silence. But darn it’s obvious once you point it out. We lost a hefty chunk of good posters with the Discourse transition. Which was IMO short-sighted on their part, but our loss was real. I suspect that the election of trump will cost a bunch of folks more than we’ve noticed so far. Many have left with more to follow. Higher personal stress, dissatisfaction at the way the world seems to be headed, perhaps fear of persecution in a true American dystopia, etc. Lotta reasons to withdraw from the online world even if you’re still fully alive and breathing. Plus all of us are getting older every day, and most of us are getting just plain old. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2025, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-missing-that-you-really-want-to-see-on-the-board/914010/1060 "2025-01-30T00:08:50Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > IIRC, she’s had several extended absences from the board, due to real life. (I had not realized, until looking just now, that she has not been here since early July.) I’m alive, and have been lurking the last couple days because I have had a firehose of rage to spew somewhere regarding the suspension of federal funding and the dystopian nightmare that working in the nonprofit industry is about to become. It’s been a week. But time with my family and a regular meditation habit are keeping me reasonably grounded even in the middle of all this shit. Since I’m updating, **Wee Weasel** is almost five, and yesterday the BCBA told us he’s “a stone’s throw away” from typical childhood development - minus social skills, but hey, everybody’s got something they struggle with. He is somehow both the smartest and sweetest child on the planet. ABA terminates in July and then he will be going to (mainstream) kindergarten in the Fall, continuing with OT, speech, feeding and a social skills group at his ABA place. Nobody is really sure how mainstreaming him is going to play out, but we are all choosing to be optimistic, and man, his capacity to express himself and his independent behaviors have grown so much in the past year, I think it’s some earned optimism. Adorable anecdote #1: He recently informed me that I would have to start eating more fruits and vegetables so that I could join him for the country’s tri-centennial. I admire his optimism for our country’s future (and mine!) Adorable anecdote #2: We were reading the old tearjerking classic “I Love You Forever” and he asked me to hold him and rock him back and forth like the Mama in the story. Adorable anecdote #3: He’s very interested in old people, death, and dying. I showed him a picture of Jimmy Carter when he turned 100, and he was SO excited, that several days later, he blurted, “Will Jimmy Carter play with me?” I think he thinks that I knew Jimmy Carter personally. And after he died, he has since taken special interest in Jimmy Carter’s living relatives. General bragging: I taught him the binary sequence. I showed him how to get the first three numbers and he got up to #36 before he needed help. This took all of 30 minutes. We’ve been playing Universe Sandbox together, a “physics-based space simulator,” which is frickin’ awesome. Go look it up, I bet most Dopers will love it. I know I’m obsessed with my kid. I know. But if you only _knew._ Beyond the flaming wreckage of my former passion for my career, I have no complaints. I even terminated therapy in October, because apparently I have nothing clinical to treat. Things are pretty good, and I hope everyone is good. I think of you often. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2025, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-missing-that-you-really-want-to-see-on-the-board/914010/1061 "2025-01-30T00:14:19Z")
> [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > Adorable anecdote #1: > Adorable anecdote #2: > Adorable anecdote #3: Yep, he’s adorable all right! ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2025, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-missing-that-you-really-want-to-see-on-the-board/914010/1062 "2025-01-30T00:15:13Z")
It’s wonderful to hear from you Spicy, and your kid _does_ sound adorable. Hang in there on the funding front; you aren’t alone with your rage. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-missing-that-you-really-want-to-see-on-the-board/914010.md?page=52) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-missing-that-you-really-want-to-see-on-the-board/914010.md?page=54)