Ahhh, detective...

[bzarcher]

I'd like to start by saying I hope this amuses you as much as the idea of me writing it did, mephron. :D

Meph's a phantom, digitally wafting through things since...what, 2001? I want to say we originally started talking back and forth a bit in chaoticgoodnik's journal, and eventually friended each other to keep tabs on what the other was doing.

Someone who uniquely understands the hell of corporate tech support, he set up the techranting group for getting our frustrations out safely.

He's a very gifted writer, which tends to come out in the description and pacing of a lot of his entries, but you see it even more in his occasional forays into the spiritual and bits of Eyrie fiction here and there.

We're both fans of A Miracle of Science, and one of our occasional slips into type even lead to a couple of mentions on their front page, which was fantastic.

I've seen him be there for his friends under constant difficulty, and he has never failed to offer help when I have been down (even if I have been a dork about accepting.)

I see a lot of my own difficulties with my family in his writing, but I think he's handed it much better than I did, and certainly with much more paitence for the shit he wades through.

I envy the way you get to fly around the country to hang out with people. :D (And I'd note you still need to come here!) It's really awesome that you have set yourself up to be a jet-setter, appearing to friends and loved ones with remarkable alacrity.

I could say a lot about his all too regular struggles with the TSA and NJ/NYC ferry, and the ways he fights people being treated like cattle, but I know that his most memorable battle is one he wishes to remain quiet on, so I will simply say that he has been a very devout crusader for people having the right to be themselves.

We have a lot of the same interests, we tend to talk the same lingo, and then there's our regular teaming in City of Heroes, leading to quite a lot of madcap antics as we go through the increasingly huge content.

Really, though, I think the best way I can say how mephron is utterly awesome is to use his own words. I found this kinda scooching back through his writings over the last while, and it pretty much sums him up to the T.

I just put forth how Optimus Prime could become President of the United States, and then, when pointed out that Megatron also could run, explained how he couldn't.

For the record: there was a supreme court case back in the early 1800s where a candidate ran for President, he was from a state that had previously been a territory, and the SCOTUS decision was that if you were resident in the state when it was a territory you were considered 'natural born', which lets Prime be grandfathered in.

Megatron, conversely, worked for a middle-eastern state in an offensive manner against the US, which qualifies him to be stripped of his citizenship, and therefore cannot run.

A man, a plan, and not a canal: mephron. He's one of the better ones.