McCahill admits self-identity
by Idoru Wellman (Herald Bureau of Personal Identity)
For three years now the most pressing question facing denizens of the interwebs has been the real life identity of Herald editrix Pixeleen Mistral. Is she, as Mark Wallace once surmised, actually one of Prokofy Neva’s spare personalities? Is she, as others opine, the girlfriend of uber-philosopher Peter Ludlow. Or is she, as still others conjecture, really a Linden? Last year, many readers (including yours truly) were convinced by an expose written by griefer Deadly Codpiece in the prestigious Augusta Georgia Pennysaver News, in which he made the case that Pix was actually Herald founder Urizenus Sklar. But now in an extended rigorously argued thought piece involving many long chat logs, Prokofy concludes that Pixeleen is not Prok, nor Uri, but one Mark McCahill of Duke University. If McCahill’s wikipedia page is to be trusted, he is a techie who led the development team for POPmail, led the team that developed Gopher at the University of Minnesota, worked with Tim Berners-Lee on codifying the standard for Uniform Resource Locators, was on the team that developed GopherVR and is currently working on the Croquet project. Reached for comment, Mr. McCahill would admit only that he is self-identical.
Obviously, if true, this would explain much. It would explain why the Herald has consistently had the most technologically sophisticated analysis of virtual worlds as well as the consistently informed updates on the Croquet project (most recent being here). The time sink that is the Herald would explain why Croquet is going nowhere. And then of course there is the clincher: Prokofy just knew that Pixeleen would be the same age as her. Hey, wait a minute….
*Sigh*. In the hall of mirrors that is the interwebs, the world may never know.
What an honor!
Apparently, my work still resonates and "idoru" is trying to muddy the waters.
Posted by: deadlycodec | January 18, 2009 at 05:33 PM
I'm not the real Tom Grant, Editor of the Metro Spirit but if I were, I'd be thanking you for the traffic xD
Also, resorting to name calling? You got trolled. Kthxbai.
Posted by: Tom Grant | January 18, 2009 at 05:55 PM
I really don't give two shiny shites who Pixeleen is.
Posted by: Alyx Stoklitsky | January 18, 2009 at 08:26 PM
Well God Damn if it isn't YET ANOTHER useless article from the SLH. When are you all going to start screening this shit?
Or has the Herald started to become nothing more than a blog site for the grid? Get rid of this trash heap.
Posted by: Professor C | January 19, 2009 at 12:32 AM
wait, when did I surmise that? (not saying I didn't, just can't recall)
Posted by: Mark Wallace | January 19, 2009 at 07:32 PM
The real Prok... lol. She is a phantom of the sl imagination. A cyber-burp. A turd cloggin the lines of dns, a byte of vomit within the esophagul canal of the grid.
Posted by: Marc Woebegone | January 20, 2009 at 09:09 AM
I had the unpleasant -I think opportunity- to meet the person named in this article, through email exchanges. I have to report I was not impressed one bit, it appears to as a self-paid "want to be superior to all intellectually" -loner with too much time to post, and too much time to write.
Prokofy Neva represents some of the worse of "polemical-wanna bees" of SL a person that enjoys making fun of others to hide his/her emptiness, I know ppl like that in rl, and if I feel sorry for them in real world, how sad can it be a pretender like him living all this time in SL.
It was a complete disappointment exchanging email with that person. My advice pay no attention and ignore him 100%. The more attention you give him, the more fuel he gets.
Prokofy Neva, has not substance to endure 1 minute of serious conversation and thinks SL.... its all about Prokofy Neva.
This is are 5 cents on this subject.
Sorry P, you are a disappointment and a empty shell for people like me thought you could be an opinion leader of SL... "My mistake, no need to reply" as I finally wrote you back then. I was fortunate enough to find out first hand.
Posted by: Mony Markova | January 20, 2009 at 05:34 PM
Pixeleen Mistral uses a mac. Plus she doesn't have the technical knowledge. And you see how trolled Ludlow has been for the last six months. After more thought, I'm still convinced Pix == Ludlow. Good luck with that.
Posted by: deadlycodec | January 20, 2009 at 07:18 PM
I thought it was well-established and wisely known that Urizenus == Pixeleen == Ludlow. I think the only person who really cares is Ludlow, who seems to get off on the "mystery"...
Posted by: Brother Theodore | February 02, 2009 at 03:43 PM