(Yesterday, 07:07 PM)BIAD Wrote:(04-05-2026, 08:23 PM)Ninurta Wrote: I found it odd that the Landing Area site automatically pulled an actual old photograph of me from somewhere on the internet to use as my avatar, but I changed it to something more recent....
Re that comment, I noticed in one of the posts on the archived RN website where 'The Hoax Heard 'Round
The World' story is discussed that you mentioned:
"...On page 300, there is a photo of me in my younger days, in uniform and on the job.
I included it in order to prove my authorship later, if that should ever come into question,
and I still have the original photo, complete with metadata, for comparison..."
I'm wondering if The Landing Area acquired that image from there?
I've heard it said that everything floats to the surface eventually. So take a look at this...
Profile: Dr. Judy Faltskog
No, it was a different photo. The one in the book is from 2002 I think, when I was sent out to secure an area in eastern North Carolina in the aftermath of Hurricane Isabelle. The one pulled as an avatar was from around 2010, where I was out of uniform and had longer hair and a beard.
Interesting that Judy's site is still there. That particular CV is quoted verbatim in the book, but I think it came from a site that she scrubbed during the beginnings of the hoax. Also, right now she would be about 60 years old, and the woman in that photo is not 60. So I'd guess it might be a revival of a former site she had.
I would say it's definitely "our" Judy, though - I can see Jimmy's eyes in hers, just a few years older and with more flesh put on.
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“Trouble rather the tiger in his lair than the sage among his books. For to you kingdoms and their armies are things mighty and enduring, but to him they are but toys of the moment, to be overturned with the flick of a finger.”
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake