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Amiga computer related discussion => General chat about Amiga topics => Topic started by: AmigaHeretic on July 19, 2010, 06:00:08 AM
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Didn't know he was missing?
Someone at Amigaworld.net posted a link to a folder full of Merlancia related stuff. Much of it rather new. Here's the folder:
http://www.designbyxs.com/printdesign.php
I was looking at some of the pictures and it looked like a photo with different Amiga logos I uploaded to amigaworld in 2006 had been ripped off!!! Here you can the image I uploaded :
http://amigaworld.net/modules/myalbum/photo.php?lid=436&full=1
If you view the full size version of that picture I made in 2006 with the ones on the server that were modified in 2007. The images are the exact same size. Looks like they just used the shape and re-photoshopped them.
http://www.designbyxs.com/printdesign/AMI%20LOGO%20500%20pix%20enhanced.jpg
http://www.designbyxs.com/printdesign/amiga%20logo%20enhanced%204.jpg
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I also found a business card relating to, AmigaUSA.com :_)
http://www.designbyxs.com/printdesign/amigacorp%20card.%20r2.jpg
So I did a google search on the name http://www.designbyxs.com where the images came from and guess what I found?
http://www.myspace.com/designbyxs
Male from Pheonix, AZ and he lists Commodore Amiga among his interests.
(http://c1.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/94/l_be89993061976e233db05f86382caa10.jpg)
I also found this:
http://starpas.cc.state.az.us/scripts/cgiip.exe/WService=wsbroker1/names-detail.p?name-id=%2011679553&type=CORPORATION
Shows that the corporation
DESIGN BY XS, INC. is owned by
RYAN CZERWINSH ( slight name change? :roflmao: )
in Phoenix Arizona.
Of course is shows
File Number: -1167955-3 AD-DISSOLVED NON-PAYMENT 10/22/2008
I guess he no longer owns it.
Just thought it was interesting. Especially since it looks like my images were ripped off by this guy.
:laughing:
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I was betting he was in jail by now. Well, he still might be. :)
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From one bullshit profession to another eh?
I guess computers sales and poker does have something in common...
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Someone invite him here, if he is so hardcore Amiga fanatic he must have an account here to talk about Amiga? :)
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... The images are the exact same size. Looks like they just used the shape and re-photoshopped them.
Um, I believe that would be "re-imagefxed them", thank you.
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Did a little research. It looks like he still hangs out in the amiga community somewhat.
http://eab.abime.net/member.php?u=8104
Xious
Joined November 15, 2006
has made 0 posts
***recent login July 15, 2010***
And he has these names registered.
http://www.amigacorporation.com
http://www.amigausa.com
http://www.amigausa.info
Looks like he goes by the nick "Xious Sonenberg" now.
On dating sites he uses "LordXious"
Be careful on Google if you search this as it is his adult nick and there is some mens urinal talk.
He started his own personals site for dating,
http://artpersonals.com/
Selling retro electronics,
http://www.flashbackelectronics.com/
I noticed AmigaZone says Please contact "Flashback Electronics" any time if you have any questions..
He started his own role playing game,
http://www.zoriarpg.com/
He likes to smoke. He started a smoking club and is selling tobacco, most likely illegally.
http://azcigarclub.info/contact_form.html
http://doctorxious.com/ - selling tobacco blends
http://doctorxiousblends.com/
Another hangout,
http://www.magesguild.org/
This shows his poker stats. It looks like he has never won.
http://www.pokerprolabs.com/DoctorXious/pokerstars.aspx
Here is a list of the websites he has registered. He never uses real information so I guess someone could go through and file a complaint on each one about fake whois information. A lot of the whois he uses is kind of funny at least.
http://www.grimoiremagazine.com
http://www.harvlaser.com
http://www.harvlaser.info
http://www.marinasalvador.com
http://www.questionmark.org
http://www.rups.net
http://www.treohaven.com
http://www.treozone.info
http://www.treozone.net
http://www.treozone.us
http://www.alisonheadley.com
http://www.amazingmanuals.com
http://www.amigacorporation.com
http://www.amigausa.com
http://www.amigausa.info
http://www.amistrasza.com
http://www.artpersonals.com
http://www.asymptotical.net
http://www.atariusa.com
http://www.atariusa.info
http://www.azcigarclub.info
http://www.azpipeclub.com
http://www.azpipeclub.org
http://www.capsule2.net
http://www.classicsgeek.com
http://www.designbyxs.com
http://www.designbyxs.us
http://www.divisioncap.net
http://www.docpatient.net
http://www.doctorxious.com
http://www.doctorxiousblends.com
http://www.drkurup.com
http://www.elflaser.com
http://www.elvenetching.com
http://www.feanorian.com
http://www.flashbackclassics.us
http://www.flashbackelectronics.com
http://www.fmyjob.net
http://www.gcgweb.com
http://www.imaginalia.org
http://www.iphoneportal.us
http://www.iphonezone.us
http://www.krystynascreations.us
http://www.lasergenuis.com
http://www.maczone.us
http://www.magesguild.org
http://www.mediahiphop.com
http://www.megabazaar.net
http://www.megabazaar.us
http://www.megabazar.us
http://www.merlanciausa.com
http://www.metalgraphics.us
http://www.metalgraphx.com
http://www.notime-enterprises.com
http://www.palmreadermag.com
http://www.palmreadermag.info
http://www.reversepolarity.com
http://www.saifarm.com
http://www.scmartini.com
http://www.teconmenta.com
http://www.theyellowduck.com
http://www.timrim.com
http://www.tinanewhouse.com
http://www.treotekniques.com
http://www.treotekniques.info
http://www.treotekniques.net
http://www.treotekniques.org
http://www.underbase.org
http://www.womenshub.net
http://www.womenshub.org
http://www.zeronegativo.com
http://www.zoriarpg.com
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(http://artpersonals.com/pictures/m4_ed61bed167c9e6fcf4f1dfa5af7b679f.JPG)
(http://artpersonals.com/pictures/m4_9b05568017c6005ebe353c89799fde8f.JPG)
(http://www.myamiga.com/myamiga/amiga/news/amiwest/pictures/microsftproof1.jpg)
lol
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For does that are new here or have forgotten, this place have the old info about the infamous Dr. Ryan Czerwinski..
http://www.merlancia.us/
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That is some zany shit! Can't help but think I just watched a Loony Toons episode looking into this guy. lol
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Um, I believe that would be "re-imagefxed them", thank you.
I think the guy is a sociopath and a compulsive lier. I doubt respect for other people creative works is anything he is even capable of understanding.
One year he drove his DeLorian to the Gateway show in St. Louis.
He was giving out burned "Merlancia" CDs with loads of 80s music at his booth.
I doubt he got the permission if Duran Duran, let alone the rest of the 80s artists.
He was also giving away stainless steel business cards (to match his DeLorian). I still have that somewhere. I may have tossed the CDs.
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I only know very little about this guy through various posts on forums and the like. I must say though, an interesting character. Some of his tobacco blends sound interesting too.
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{various pics}
I'm just SO grateful I'm not the one in the picture with him at the Amiga show. We used to call him 'The Count' because he claimed to be Hungarian royalty.
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I'm just SO grateful I'm not the one in the picture with him at the Amiga show. We used to call him 'The Count' because he claimed to be Hungarian royalty.
Are you sure there's an "o" in Count?
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What is this "Homer Simpson" looking web site on about anyway (http://www.merlancia.us/)?
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Well, at least he is diversified.
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Are you sure there's an "o" in Count?
lol
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Really, Did he need finding?
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Really, Did he need finding?
I'm sure there's a line of creditors who'd like to.
And of course Rich Woods :D
I was kinda hoping the punchline to this would have been "...by the police." but sadly, no.
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OMFG! I had forgotten how *EPIC* http://www.merlancia.us was. XD
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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Guys thanks so much for that stroll down memory lane.
Yes, he was one crazy dude, but one that kept me entertained for hours. So many characters over the years.
Don't get me wrong, I have tons more respect for the real 'producers' (hmmm I sound like Ayn Rand now)...but even these psuedo-captains of industry were entertaining in their own way.
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Is he the same man selling the Phoenix, Invictus and the Amigo (or the re-badged Cybernet zero-footprint machines?).
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Is he the same man selling the Phoenix, Invictus and the Amigo (or the re-badged Cybernet zero-footprint machines?).
That'd be funny, but no, that's this guy.
(http://www.commodoreusa.net/i//tn_bsa3_2.jpg)
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Merlancia didn't had any real products, just big talk.
But hey, did he buy walker case desing rights??
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Can we stalk Doomy too?
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You mention Doomy, now its obligatory that someone must mention the "mil spec A2000" joke. Who is first?
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Me
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I understand he was also spotted a few years ago as the cover of, "Today's Modern Amish Male" magazine. I see not much has changed.
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You mention Doomy, now its obligatory that someone must mention the "mil spec A2000" joke. Who is first?
Are Doomy mil spec Amiga 2000's & 500's government certified?
:)
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Never trust a man in a bow tie...
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Merlancia didn't had any real products, just big talk.
But hey, did he buy walker case desing rights??
Yes and IIRC he got some Amiga IP license as well...
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I understand he was also spotted a few years ago as the cover of, "Today's Modern Amish Male" magazine. I see not much has changed.
i guess it was this photo then?...
(http://artpersonals.com/pictures/m4_0f60b95a250fe7f8c5e6443061f8bff9.JPG)
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That is some zany shit! Can't help but think I just watched a Loony Toons episode looking into this guy. lol
more history here...
http://www.amigahistory.co.uk/merlancia/merlancia.html
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tl;dr he bought that styrofoam box cut into the shape of an STB that Gateway threw together for the '99 Gateway Amiga show, spent three years bloviating about how he was producing a new computer, pulled in Dave Haynie and another former C= engineer, never paid them, stole A1200s and so forth from an Amiga, Inc. warehouse/storage bin, sold those and used Amiga junk out of a shithole masquerading as a storefront with his mom, disappeared.
And now has reappeared and is in to cigars, being ballpunched and peed on.
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He is Amish for real?
What is it with former leaders of Amiga and their religion. Bill truckdriver was a hardcore christian travelling with his bible all over the place (FYI, this is not normal behavior here in europe :) ).
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And now has reappeared and is in to cigars, being ballpunched and peed on.
A.org is the place for honest perspective. Now that is funny, thx BOOtDisk you made my day! :roflmao::roflmao::roflmao:
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Maybe Dr. Ryan and Doomy should do a duet.
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And now has reappeared and is in to cigars, being ballpunched and peed on.
It's funny when you put it that way, but it's true.
When he put that he was into being pee'd on and "water sports", I had a good laugh. I'd never heard that term before. Wish that site was never found though. Did we really need to find out he was circumcised?
I feel a little damaged emotionally now, like the first time I got rolled to goat.se
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Speaking of scoundrels, whatever happened to the guy in Canada who was supposed to engineer and market a new Amiga but every time the date got close for him to release his hardware, some contrived tragedy would occur. I think the last excuse he used was that his father died and that was over 2 years ago if my memory doesn't fail me. Why does the Amiga seem to have more than its fair share of scouldrels, thieves and liars?
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... pulled in Dave Haynie and another former C= engineer, never paid them ...
That is my problem with him. You can be weird as you want to be, just don't screw good people over. The 'Count' was very entertaining, but he went over the line. He had the nerve or ignorance to show up at Dave's Hayniefest at his house in New Jersey one time with the girl that won the Amiga tattoo conteat (Crystal??)
http://www.devtopics.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/amiga.jpg
I think this was before he ripped Dave off. If he *ever* shows up in New Jersey again, I have some friends that would like to meet him.
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Speaking of scoundrels, whatever happened to the guy in Canada who was supposed to engineer and market a new Amiga but every time the date got close for him to release his hardware, some contrived tragedy would occur. I think the last excuse he used was that his father died and that was over 2 years ago if my memory doesn't fail me. Why does the Amiga seem to have more than its fair share of scouldrels, thieves and liars?
Adam Kowalski (that's a phonetic pron. of his name).
Here's the thing: the PC is a commodity item and to a lesser but still prevalent degree, the Macintosh is too (well, the mac = PC now in terms of architecture but that's another discussion)...
at any rate, the only people left in the Amiga community - I mean the die-hard, day-to-day, yes-this-is-the-computer-I-use-Ibrowse-is-better-than-firefox types - are hardcore fans who think that any month now someone's going to announce something that will help the Amiga rise up and smite down the Evil Empire (apple or microsoft depending on the week). IOW, dreamers. It's easy to catch them up in the fervor of promises of world-beating hardware and software with totally unrealistic specs and so on. They want something to hang on to.
The PC on the other hand? It's entirely open, open to scrutiny down to the direction the atoms in Intel or AMD CPUs lean. You can't really create a motherboard company and, say, suggest that in six months you'll have an 8ghz 32 core board that supports nine-way SLI etc. etc.
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Also I think one of the saddest things was how he pulled Harv Laser in :(
I used to buy Amazing/Amiga (one of the last if not the last US made Amiga print magazines) and read Harv's columns with great enjoyment and enthusiasm.
It was either here, or on usenet, I made a comment about "Dr. Ryan" and got a nasty email (or PM - it was pre big-crash so if it was here I of course have no recollection) from Harv telling me to STFU, I didn't know what was really going on, don't believe the haters, great things were afoot, blah blah blah blah.
And it appears that relationship continues on.
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Yeah, Kowalski, that's the guy. I'd like to buy a whole case of whoop-ass for guys like that.
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From an old Amiga.org interview by Kess with Dave:
Can you shed some light on the relationship you have/had with Merlancia?
I had known Ryan Czerwinski, somewhat casually, through the Amiga community. He made my Summer 2000 house party, I guess I saw him a few other times, like the 2001 Gateway show (I was interested in AmigaDE for use in the Phoenix STB). A weirdo, sure, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing in my business.
As I was coming off the Met@box disaster, and not thinking terribly clearly I suppose, Ryan came by my 2001 summer party (also my 40th birthday party) and offered me the CTO job at Merlancia. Far as I knew, Merlancia was a small company based in Arizona, doing a variety of hardware projects, and funded by Czerwinski, who was apparently independently wealthy. Early on, things seemed to support that. For example, I flew with Ryan to meet with Bill McEwan at Amiga, Inc.; Ryan claimed they had about $650,000 ear-marked for his set-top/small computer project. Not a king’s ransom, but a reasonable amount for the work at-hand. So no alarms immediately.
The alarms began soon enough, though. First thing, Ryan was trying to weasel out of the agreement we had (verbal/email, sure, but that’s precisely the same as a full written contract, for the purposes of employment). Secondly, his supposed secretary, Christina, was making executive level decisions about who got paid, etc. Then there was the growing list of former associates of Merlancia’s, all of whom seemed to be owed substantial money.
We brought Skal Loret and Fred Wright on that fall, and that’s where things really started breaking. No one was getting paid. Ryan was disappearing for days at a time. He claimed to be an engineer, yet was stumbling on the most basic of things, and clearly had no concept about how engineering was done, or the time frames involved in product development. I guess, in retrospect, he knew his house of cards was falling, and wanted to get _something_ before it crashed.
I should have got out then, but I stuck it on for a few more months, and the lies just got thicker. The sad thing was, Skal and I had outlined a very real product strategy, using OEMed boards, to deliver a product that Skal could actually sell. Basically, nearly everything Ryan and Christina did from November 2001 to February 2002 could be explained as little other than sabotage.
So I spent some time, dug deep, and discovered that, basically, it was all a sham. Merlancia, as I’m sure some of your readers know, was nothing more than a storefront, with a few Amiga things for sale, and a bunch of that junk that Christina sells on eBay. Christina turned out to be Christina Czerwinski, Ryan’s mother. Ryan turned out not to be rich, but perhaps supported by a trust fund by his father (never married), who is apparently well-to-do and living in Florida.
And as it turns out, Ryan himself was the biggest lie of all. He was not an engineer, or a college graduate, in fact... I have my doubts about High School. He wasn’t 40, as he claimed, or “maybe in his early 30's”, as I guessed, but in fact, 19 or so at the time. So boy, did I feel stupid, being fooled by a kid, even if, as Skal guesses, he’s from Gypsy blood. Thing is, you don’t expect this level of fraud. I mean, he got to make some enemies, destroy any possible reputation he would ever have in the computer business, miss a genuine opportunity to actually BE something like what he pretended to be, probably wind up being chased by the IRS at some point (did he every pay FICA and all that other withholding he took from the little salary any of us got?) and what did he get in return? The right to day “Dave Haynie – CTO” on his web page for a few months. Idiot!
http://landley.net/history/mirror/commodore/haynie.html
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From an old Amiga.org interview by Kess with Dave:
http://landley.net/history/mirror/commodore/haynie.html
I remember reading this and it still gets me to this day..
Man oh man - that is certainly a testament as to why Dave became so jaded with the idea of NG-Amiga systems I am sure.
What a shame.
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He is Amish for real?
What is it with former leaders of Amiga and their religion. Bill truckdriver was a hardcore christian travelling with his bible all over the place (FYI, this is not normal behavior here in europe :) ).
Amiga and religion... hehe ironic.
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Forgive my ignorance but who is he and what has he done to upset so many people?
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Amiga and religion... hehe ironic.
At least there was/is some Amigas ;-)
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Forgive my ignorance but who is he and what has he done to upset so many people?
The too long, didn't read version:
Scammed the hell out of customers, didn't pay employees, or magazines who were providing advertising, ran away when people started asking questions and wanting their money/products.
Start reading here (http://www.merlancia.us/), continue here (http://landley.net/history/mirror/commodore/haynie.html) for a more in depth coverage.
I did read back in the day that Merlancia's failure to pay for it's advertising went a long way toward the collapse of the AmigaActive magazine. Anyone got a link to that?
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Yeah, Kowalski, that's the guy. I'd like to buy a whole case of whoop-ass for guys like that.
Yeah, strangely he was one of the people blessed by AInc/Eyetech(/Hyperion?) to be allowed to know what the partial fix (other than put a PCI USB controller in) for the USB problems on the Teron boards was and I think at a couple of shows actually did the fixes. Then people started sending in boards, and said boards started disappearing down the memory hole. I think a couple people wound up being in the same situation that PPC card owners wound up with DCE's vanishing.
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Forgive my ignorance but who is he and what has he done to upset so many people?
Wow did you not read the thread?
Fake Doctor Ryan Czerwinski scammed Dave Haynie and AmigaActive magazine out of $$$. The comments about him liking to be peed on and get punched in the ballsack relates to some singles profile of his out there.
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better watch out or Doctor Ryan Czerwinsk will bite you in the ass!
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LOL! better cover our asses then? :)
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video of him at amiwest - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpsYdwGjryI
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video of him at amiwest - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpsYdwGjryI
Wow. First video I have ever seem of him. I know he was a con-artist, but it looks like that video is from 2002 and has some really grounded ideas.
Should I be scared that what he says from 3:30 to 8:00 is dead on about the state of the Amiga scene, Amiga Inc at the time, and other ideas?
He has ideas such as:
Amiga needs an Office Suite.
Amiga Inc. is dillusional and will only work with companies making 50+ millions of dollars and are missing out on making money right now(time of the interview).
Amiga needs more hardware.
He seems petty grounded and I think his arguments make a lot of sense and are still relevant today.
It's not hard to see now how even someone like Dave Haynie got scammed by this guy.
Thanks for that link.
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What a kitty that guy was.
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Wow I can't believe this lol I got bored and googled Ryan because I went to the same high school as him for a year. Not surprised he's in trouble for being full of ****. He was fat, arrogant, unathletic and a know it all who nobody liked. He wore a suit and tie every day and the same stained white shirt. He also carried like 4 or 5 lunchboxes with him. If this had been public school I'm sure worse would've happened to him. We had a pool party once and seeing him without a shirt on is a mental image that's not easily forgotten. It was grotesque. He made up some bull**** about being royalty or nobility or something and a few gullible kids believed him but mostly everyone disliked him, even teachers thought he was an annoying wise ass. I thankfully transferred schools, and have no idea what became of him until now. Like I said I'm not surprised to hear any of this stuff happening to him.
I think my fondest memory was when he bit or attempted to bite a teacher who took his cell phone away from him. I do also remember he squealed like a girl too (with apologies to girls).
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I think my fondest memory was when he bit or attempted to bite a teacher who took his cell phone away from him. I do also remember he squealed like a girl too (with apologies to girls).
cell phone in HS? I feel a little old now...
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like him or not, its still bad manner to make a profile just to talk extremely bad about a person.
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like him or not, its still bad manner to make a profile just to talk extremely bad about a person.
He's a crook. If someone wants to log on and dish, the more the merrier.
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He was/is a bright guy to some extent but he was just a wise ass who smarted off to people a lot. I created the account because it was a "holy ****" kind of thing to discover he's become a swindler. I actually have the yearbook from that year (I was a freshman) and he looks nothing like he does now. He looks like he's lost around 100 lbs and grown a beard. Honestly he was a fat kid back then. Except not nerdy because he wasn't as smart as he liked to portray himself as. I talk to a few people from back then, theyll get a good laugh at this. I remember one time he was trying to explain to the teacher why she was wrong over an economics project we were doing and when she failed him on it he threw a fit and his mom or whoever she was came down and gave the principal hell about it.
I'll have to scan the yearbook photo of him at some point.
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He was/is a bright guy to some extent but he was just a wise ass who smarted off to people a lot. I created the account because it was a "holy ****" kind of thing to discover he's become a swindler.
I don't think he is an intentional swindler - just someone who is extremely narcissistic with some additional personality disorders.
He most likely got that way (and into water sports) because of the way people in high school screwed with him continuously...
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http://www.merlancia.us/
Someone tell the crazy person that wrote that page in 2003 to turn off the lame music that plays on that page.
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I don't think he is an intentional swindler - just someone who is extremely narcissistic with some additional personality disorders.
He most likely got that way (and into water sports) because of the way people in high school screwed with him continuously...
What are you, him? In high school he brought it on himself by being ridiculous. He always had to be right and everyone else was wrong and he'd throw a fit or get pissy if he was proven wrong (which happened frequently). Not to mention him lying about being nobility or whatever, nobody in high school cares or will like you because you're a narcissistic prick who is also a fat slob who smells bad.
I did get a good laugh at the attempted IAH though lol usually the defendants not plaintiffs are the ones who no show those kind of hearings lol I used to work in the legal field and found that extremely funny.
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@thread
...and found again. (slow day)
Source click parties (https://www.pacermonitor.com/public/case/4796128/Arizona,_State_of_v_Czerwinski)
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@number6
what exactly does the case involve? more fraud charges against the mother?
-- eliyahu
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Good greef, I had forgotten that name!