buddhu

Post by **Dale** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 1:43 pm

buddhu was a regular poster here until November 2005, at which time he abruptly stopped posting. I'd like to try to reach him to check on him. The email address I had is no longer working. I'm hoping someone had some kind of contact with him and still has contact info. If so, please do let me know by email or PM.

Thanks.

Dale

Jack · Post by **Jack** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 1:44 pm

Oh no. I do hope he is doing ok.

Post by **Dale** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 1:50 pm

I did locate another email address on him. Maybe that will work.

emmline · Post by **emmline** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 2:25 pm

That's (one of) the weird thing(s) about online life.
I think that if I fell into a fiery fissure in the earth, it would occur to one of my children to go onto my C&F login and let people know, but yes...
people can just disappear.

Cynth · Post by **Cynth** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 2:32 pm

I just realized the other day, I think I saw a picture of the person he used as his avatar for quite a while, that I had not seen him for a long time. I too hope that all is well.

dubhlinn · Post by **dubhlinn** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 7:18 pm

emmline wrote:That's (one of) the weird thing(s) about online life.
I think that if I fell into a fiery fissure in the earth, it would occur to one of my children to go onto my C&F login and let people know, but yes...
people can just disappear.

Yes..well said.

Buddhu just kinda vanished.....gone.

I admired the guy and had a bit of off board crack with him, both of us being huge fans of the Dubliners. It scares me sometimes when I think of the reasons why a regular poster vanishes. I try to look on the positive side of things but find it hard not to think about the darker side.

I like to think that in the event of my being incapacitated in a serious way, I could get my son to log in on my behalf and tell everybody that I was down but not out.

Funny how people bond and get close to each other in this day and age.

I just hope that Buds absence is down to technical reasons..

Slan,
D.

missy · Post by **missy** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 7:27 pm

I thought we had decided that Buddha and Joseph were the same person because of their similar avatars........

I do hope nothing is wrong.

OK - NO ONE is allowed to go ANYWHERE without telling the rest of us about it so we all don't sit here and worry!!!!!!!

jsluder · Post by **jsluder** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 7:52 pm

missy wrote:OK - NO ONE is allowed to go ANYWHERE without telling the rest of us about it so we all don't sit here and worry!!!!!!!

Not even the loo?

Tyler · Post by **Tyler** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 7:58 pm

jsluder wrote:
missy wrote:OK - NO ONE is allowed to go ANYWHERE without telling the rest of us about it so we all don't sit here and worry!!!!!!!
Not even the loo?

But I gotta goooo!!!!!

AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!

chas · Post by **chas** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 8:12 pm

emmline wrote:That's (one of) the weird thing(s) about online life.
I think that if I fell into a fiery fissure in the earth, it would occur to one of my children to go onto my C&F login and let people know, but yes...
people can just disappear.

It was like that long before the net crept into existence. I knew a guy who lived most of the time in a dorm at a national lab. I asked him about the transience of his friends. He said, "People come, people go. You don't have to like it, but you do have to accept it." I grew up a little bit when he told me that; I think I was 20 when he said that to me. Now I'm the old guy, and a lot of my friends are temporary. When you find someone you click with and he's gone in a couple of years, it really does suck, although there's nothing you can do about it.

dubhlinn · Post by **dubhlinn** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 8:20 pm

chas wrote: It was like that long before the net crept into existence. I knew a guy who lived most of the time in a dorm at a national lab. I asked him about the transience of his friends. He said, "People come, people go. You don't have to like it, but you do have to accept it." I grew up a little bit when he told me that; I think I was 20 when he said that to me. Now I'm the old guy, and a lot of my friends are temporary. When you find someone you click with and he's gone in a couple of years, it really does suck, although there's nothing you can do about it.

Well said,
In the physical world though, somebody usually knows somebody who knows somebody who knows the person in question and sooner or later you get to hear what happened to them or where they went.

Cyber world is a different crack..

Slan,
D.

Post by **Nanohedron** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 8:20 pm

Okay, this is a bit weird: I just went back to access one of his earlier posts, and his avatar's gone.

Buddhu, if you're reading this, yer creepin' me out, man!

Lorenzo · Post by **Lorenzo** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 9:04 pm

I wouldn't worry about him. I always thought he was more mature than most of us (

sorry). He disappeared once before for a while and I remember it being because some people on this board were being a little juevenile, but then he came back. I always admired his posts.

djm · Post by **djm** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 9:05 pm

Wasn't his avatar the one with the rather ... er ... distracting ... um ... gait?

djm

Congratulations · Post by **Congratulations** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 9:17 pm

djm wrote:Wasn't his avatar the one with the rather ... er ... distracting ... um ... gait?

I believe you're thinking of StewySmoot.