Introducing RSLancastr

[RSLancastr]

Hello, everybody!

My name is Robert S. Lancaster - "RSL" for short.

I am a 54-year-old (55 in one week!) collector of playing cards living in Salem, Oregon with my Better Half, Susan.

I have been collecting decks of playing cards - especially decks with custom courts - actively since the 1990s, but bought my first deck with custom courts (a "Peanuts" deck with Linus, Lucy and Charlie Brown portraying the Jacks, Queens and Kings, and Snoopy on the Jokers) in 1968, at ten years of age!

I've lost track of how many decks I have in my collection, but it is more than 2,000.

Some here may have seen my old web site about the hobby, "The Bob Lancaster Gallery of Unusual Playing Cards" (now defunct, but a partial archive of it can be viewed here:

NOTE: SOME OF THE IMAGE LINKS DO NOT WORK!

http://web.archive.org/web/20041214091346/http://members.aol.com/rslancastr/blgupc/blgupc.htm

I heard about this place from Emmanuel Jose, who I met over at  unitedcardists.com.

I am NOT a cardist/flourisher, nor am I likely to be, as I only have the use of one hand - my right hand.

See, I am what is called a Left-side Hemiplegic ( the muscles in the left half of my body do not function very well, the result of a MASSIVE stroke I experienced in 2008).

The most obvious effects of this:

- My left hand is always closed in a fist of sorts

- My left arm is always clenched close to my torso

- My left foot and leg do not work, so I live life in a motorized wheel chair.

Aside from my card collecting, I was the author of a series of DOS-based Shareware games in the 1990s:

- MicroLink Yaht (MLYAHT), a Yahtzee clone.
- MicroLink Shut The Box (MLSHUT), an old dice game
- MicroLink Otra (MLOTRA), A Simon-like game
- MicroLink Loyd (MLLOYD), the "15" sliding tile puzzle/game
- MicroLink Push Your Luck (MLPUSH), a dice game
- MicroLink Crux (MLCRUX), a puzzle/game

 and became known for my skeptical web sites in the past ten years or so:

- "Stop Kaz" (www.StopKaz.com)

- "Stop Sylvia Browne" (www.StopSylvia.com).

In my spare time, I write over-long introductions and put things in bullet-pointed lists:

- for
- no
- apparent
- reason
- whatsoever

If you aren't bored to tears already, you can read more about me here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_S._Lancaster

I can be contacted via:

- eMail (RSLancastr@aol.com)

- Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/RSLancastr)

- Twitter (http://www.twitter.com/RSLancastr)

[Emmanuel]

Hi Robert, I'm glad the registration link worked you. Welcome to the Discourse!

[RSLancastr]

Hi, Emmanuel!

The problem I was having (the button not showing beneath the registration Agreement) is apparently a browser compatibility issue.  At least, when I loaded that page using Firefox, the button shows, but it doesn't when I load it with IE7 (I'm using Windows 7).

[Magic_Orthodoxy]

Welcome!  Come share in our addiction

[RSLancastr]

Welcome!  Come share in our addiction

That reminds me of something i wrote a while back, and perhaps should repost here - an essay titled "How I Started This Addiction - er, Collection"

[Magic_Orthodoxy]

ha ha - EXACTLY! I should cut back and buy things I actually need... like food

[Don Boyer]

Welcome again, Robert!

Regarding the browser issue, Microsoft started introducing some new code into Internet Explorer, thinking that the rest of the world would follow suit with their standard.  They might have been able to do that ten or fifteen years ago, but not today.  As a result, many current websites don't load well with Internet Explorer.  Web builders are more interested in compatibility with Chrome, or perhaps even Firefox, than they are with IE.  Nowadays, I seem to recall hearing that they can't force an OEM (original equipment manufacturer) to include Internet Explorer with a Windows computer as a result of an anti-trust settlement of some kind.  In time, either Microsoft will cave in and make IE more compatible with the rest of the world, or the browser will wither and die.

Well, enough of that - if you need anything around here, feel free to drop me a line!

[Lara Krystle "Lane"]

Oh my goodness!! First of all WELCOME!
Second. your site for the unusual playing cards.... I spent a long time looking through it until I almost forgot  I needed to respond to posts!! hahaha! Those are really awesome cards in your gallery. I loved the CanCan and fell in love with the Transformation deck! I have to say the designs from those unuual cards were just so ACE and so timeless. Even the UFO deck and the others as well.

Thanks for joining us here in Aethercards: The Discourse! We'll have to thank @Emmanuel for bringing you over. squeeeee!
You'll find us here a rather energetic bunch and Im sure you will find it enjoyable to be within the ranks of the crazy people here.

• We
• don't
• mind
• the
• bullet-point
• lists

Hahaha! Anyway feel free to message us if you have any questions. Although your best bet is to get in touch with DON since you both are of the same caliber of sorts.
`Have
`A
`Great
`Day!

[RSLancastr]

Thanks, Lara!

Are you saying that Don and I are both old?

[Don Boyer]

Thanks, Lara!

Are you saying that Don and I are both old?

We don't fart dust yet, but we're getting there...  I think you're five or ten years my senior (born Aug. '67).

[ibrahimjaber]

Welcome RSL

[Magic_Orthodoxy]

hey, I am right up there with you guys! I am 44, born in 68. And I bought reading glasses this year! YIPEE!

[RSLancastr]

Thanks, Lara!

Are you saying that Don and I are both old?

We don't fart dust yet, but we're getting there...  I think you're five or ten years my senior (born Aug. '67).

Nine years and six months (Feb. 1958), but who's counting?

Welcome RSL

Thanks, Ibrahim!

BTW, you said you are a software engineer. On what platforms, if I might ask?

hey, I am right up there with you guys! I am 44, born in 68. And I bought reading glasses this year! YIPEE!

Just wait until you buy bifocals/trifocals! And then, wait until you wear them on a chain around your neck so you won't forget where you put them!!