Who are Car Nack and Looking Forward?

[JABot67]

Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery

Here's a link to the original thread. Quite a few good jokes in that one, and a blast from the past. A lot of people in that thread (including some of the speculated identities) that aren't active on CD anymore.
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=65705

I remember reading this thread, but see this:

Originally Posted by Looking Forward

Many alternatives and methods were investigated to reduce the workload involved in Looking Forward. Unfortunately, the time investment needed was still too dramatic and some of the resources and connections used to create the predictions had eroded or disappeared entirely. The plan is still for Championship predictions to occur.

If another group of motivated people is interested, the possibility to "pass the torch" (so to speak) could be arranged, but it wouldn't be as simple as the first person who volunteered. I simply wouldn't feel comfortable with someone else taking over if I do not feel they can maintain the same standard of quality.

So I think that the old Looking Forward (be it a person or group of people) has indeed passed the torch to a new person or group. The writing style of the new LF is a whole lot different from the old Looking Forward posts. Back in 2008, LF even did a "Look Back" every week, which was really cool.

Someone posts in the chat for Mike and Justin's FRCTop25 webshow as "Looking Forward", which I think is kind of strange. I am convinced he is the real Looking Forward and not an impostor because he announces when the LF predictions have been posted and asked the mods to change the title of one of his threads. Unlike all the Karthik impersonators that show up, he is never kicked out of the chat. What I think is strange is why this person decides to chat as "Looking Forward" instead of a person from a team.

And it looks like a lot of people around here know who LF is, and are not telling!

Edit. After a little searching I know who Car Nack is and have a pretty good idea about who Looking Forward was in 2008.

[IKE]

John Galt

[Chris is me]

There is one instance on CD where, in a regular thread, a post was deleted by Looking Forward and then followed by a regular user. The regular user was probably logged into the wrong account at the time.

You can't find this thread using the Search function, as you can't search for threads with posts deleted by users... so good luck finding it.

(I have no idea why I remember useless crap like this...)

[Siri]

Originally Posted by Chris is me

There is one instance on CD where, in a regular thread, a post was deleted by Looking Forward and then followed by a regular user. The regular user was probably logged into the wrong account at the time.

You can't find this thread using the Search function, as you can't search for threads with posts deleted by users... so good luck finding it.

(I have no idea why I remember useless crap like this...)

Hah! I knew it.

[Taylor]

Originally Posted by IKE

John Galt

Who?

[Jaxom]

Originally Posted by Taylor

Who?

Coincidentally, my wife & I watched the movie last night. Check out "Atlas Shrugged", either the book or the movie. The former is over 1K pages; the latter takes less time.

Edit: Taylor was asking about John Gault

[IKE]

Originally Posted by Taylor

Who is John Galt?

There, fixed it for you.

[Pi Fighter]

Originally Posted by IKE

John Galt

Interesting. The book makes no mention to Galt's Gulch having internet access. This means he's in New York. Let's organize a search.

[IKE]

Originally Posted by Pi Fighter

Interesting. The book makes no mention to Galt's Gulch having internet access. This means he's in New York. Let's organize a search.

If you can make a wireless motor, connecting to the internet wirelessly is a piece of cake. I can do that with my phone..