Rob, developer of againstme.net

oxygensmith wrote:

impact wrote:

ohh, i think the site you were talking about was the transition between the old site and the new site.
stevo is a friend of the bands, and runs 1234GO records as well. he helped start the first official site, and it had lots of stuff: media,discography,shows,bio,news,message board(RIP).

the old messageboard went through 2 different changes..
the second change had a new layout and everything..
after AM! signed to fat, it slowly grew with people joining just to bash them. Tom didnt like it, and had it just down.. a few months later, PIX took over the AM! board, and the same thing happended w/ the bashing and it too was shut down on the PIX site.

Ah, OK. Thanks for filling me in on the history. Yeah, I definitely got the feel that something like that had happened.

It must have been tough being a band member and a forum moderator, listening to people talk B.S. about your motives while you're patiently moderating their discussion... Way better to have fan forum moderators do that.

agreed...welcome

oxygensmith wrote:

impact wrote:

ohh, i think the site you were talking about was the transition between the old site and the new site.
stevo is a friend of the bands, and runs 1234GO records as well. he helped start the first official site, and it had lots of stuff: media,discography,shows,bio,news,message board(RIP).

the old messageboard went through 2 different changes..
the second change had a new layout and everything..
after AM! signed to fat, it slowly grew with people joining just to bash them. Tom didnt like it, and had it just down.. a few months later, PIX took over the AM! board, and the same thing happended w/ the bashing and it too was shut down on the PIX site.

Ah, OK. Thanks for filling me in on the history. Yeah, I definitely got the feel that something like that had happened.

It must have been tough being a band member and a forum moderator, listening to people talk B.S. about your motives while you're patiently moderating their discussion... Way better to have fan forum moderators do that.

actually on the old am boards, it was moderators werent the band members..

arollo wrote:

Welcome. I live in Edmonton also. What brought you out to the wild west? Accident, or birth?

Hey Arollo. Ha ha, birth and accidents are not always so mutually exclusive...

My then-girlfriend was going to library school out at the U of A and I wanted a break from Kelowna BC, where we were living. We broke up but I kept the city.

Awesome that you're from Edmonton. I work out of Café Dabar pretty frequently, it's on Whyte Ave.

How did you get out here?

oxygensmith wrote:

Hey Arollo. Ha ha, birth and accidents are not always so mutually exclusive...

Haha, nice.

rob, get my last PM ?

impact wrote:

rob, get my last PM ?

Yeah. Are you okay with waiting till July on that project? I'm ramping up to my finals in school right now. But I'm sure the band (and everyone here) would love it.

R o B

oxygensmith wrote:

How did you get out here?

Cherchez la femme.

I met and married a girl from Edmonton, and we ended up here while she finished her degree up at the U of A.

We hate it here. We're getting out as soon as we can (3 months, give or take). Sadly, we're moving down to Calgary. But at least in Calgary there are a lot fewer roughnecks just in from Fort Mac making it impossible to go out in the evening and not be threatened or harassed. So that's one positive.

I spend 90% of my time down in the river valley. I know of Cafe Dabar, but have never been in there.

oxygensmith wrote:

impact wrote:

rob, get my last PM ?

Yeah. Are you okay with waiting till July on that project? I'm ramping up to my finals in school right now. But I'm sure the band (and everyone here) would love it.

R o B

yeah for sure..

i just finished finals, and am taking summer school right now so its all good.

arollo wrote:

oxygensmith wrote:

How did you get out here?

Cherchez la femme.

I met and married a girl from Edmonton, and we ended up here while she finished her degree up at the U of A.

We hate it here. We're getting out as soon as we can (3 months, give or take). Sadly, we're moving down to Calgary. But at least in Calgary there are a lot fewer roughnecks just in from Fort Mac making it impossible to go out in the evening and not be threatened or harassed. So that's one positive.

I spend 90% of my time down in the river valley. I know of Cafe Dabar, but have never been in there.

Drop by some time! Maybe after they get done tearing up Whyte Avenue (where Dabar is)... The 50 year old water main burst when I was working there in winter and it's been getting repaired for a month. It is ironically like being in Fort Mac, construction workers and dump trucks and barricades are everywhere on Whyte Ave / 109 Street.

I just spent eight days in Fort Mac (trying to making life difficult in their fair city... more details later). It's actually part of my school requirement to go. It's crazy, like a cross between Blade Runner and The Beverly Hillbillies. But, they have the same stuff in Fort Saskatchewan ("upgrader alley") now, just 30 kilometers from here.

Such funny connections... I found out about this forum when I was up in Fort Mac because Tom emailed me and asked me to change the menu so we could add a link to this forum and his new blog... (One thing the band can't change by themselves is the menu, so I get requests from various folks to change it up from time to time.)

I was wondering what happened down on Whyte, last time I was there it looked like they were putting in a moat around that block.

I live on Jasper, so it's construction 24/7 for no specific purpose, as far as I can tell. There is one large building that a crew is apparently working to make haunted. It's frightening. I am beginning to think that Mandel doesn't actually have a long term plan for this city.....