A day in the life of our Friend...

As posted in Anthony's blog...

http://aprenta.blogspot.com/

....which is linked from his website...

http://www.atkielski.com/default.html

Thursday, November 23, 2006
This was a bit of a bad day.

I couldn't sleep in the wee hours, as usual, so I fired up the Baron and
went for a trip. Tonight (virtual time) it was from Chandler Municipal (my
home airport) to Las Vegas . McCarren International Airport. I took the east
VFR transition through the Phoenix Class B, then out towards Blythe and up
the Colorado to Boulder, then into KLAS. I usually avoid Class B airports
when flying my little plane, but this was late and it was quiet, so I could
sneak in to a Big Airport without too much problem. I did misunderstand ATC
a bit and got confused, and ended up on final for the wrong runway, but when
I heard him expressing his reservations to another pilot, I realized my
error and swerved around back towards my assigned runway. No harm done,
fortunately. Once I landed, I couldn't figure out where the GA ramp
was-turns out that KLAS has very little GA parking. I thought about looking
for the Janet terminal, but eventually just parked in a quiet spot, with a
great view of the Strip.

That was the highlight of the day.

Finally it came time to go to school. By now I was finally starting to feel
tired, but it was too late to go to sleep. I walked to a distant Métro
station because mine is closed for renovation. As I descended onto the
platform, I heard announcements of "incidents" and saw tons of people
waiting, and realized that Line 13 was again screwed up. So I left and
started walking to school. I wanted to call to say I'd be late, but I had no
more credit on my cellphone, and only 4 euro in my pocket. And my land line
is disconnected because I haven't paid my telephone bill. So I showed up
half an hour late, losing my first class, which would have paid me all of 4
euro. It rained a bit as I walked to school. I don't have an umbrella.

After that, I went to the bank, as I had seen a bit of money on my account
and I wanted to withdraw it for groceries. I had to argue with the bank for
half an hour before they would let me withdraw any cash from my own account.
Seems there had been an "incident" (more incidents!) in the previous
month-meaning that a creditor had tried to seize money-and the bank felt
that I couldn't be trusted to withdraw cash from my own account. Maybe HSBC
has cash-flow problems or something. The teller found me a supervisor who
said this was "policy" and couldn't be changed. I asked for his name, and he
refused to give it-this told me that he really didn't know if it was policy
or not, and was afraid of getting in trouble if he were wrong. So I
persisted, and insisted on seeing the bank manager (and getting the
manager's name, if he wasn't too cowardly to give it). The bank then
relented and gave me my money. HSBC used to be CCF, which used to be
something else. Every few years, my bank is swallowed by a larger bank, and
service deteriorates. If you are poor, they aren' t even willing to give you
your own money; if you are rich, they invite you to lunch.

When I got back from the bank, I discovered that I had a student waiting for
me. Seems that a class had been added to my schedule a few days before. It
wasn't on the original schedule, and although I got a call about it, I
became distracted after the call and forgot to add it to my PDA. So I didn't
know about it, and missed most of it. Not paid for that.

I was prepared for my third class, but the student cancelled at the last
minute.

My fourth class went so-so. The student appeared, but was upset that he was
being billed for classes that he had had on vacation because the school had
forgot to deschedule them. Of course, I'll probably be the one who doesn't
get paid.

Then I had a meeting for four hours in the evening, and I forgot to prepare
for classes the next day.

I had some money so I bought McDonald's on the way home. It occurred to me
that today was Thanksgiving. I'm glad it isn't celebrated in France. Today
also marks the anniversary of my arrival in France, years ago. That was a
Thanksgiving day, too. Of course, back then I had lots of money, with
accountants and lawyers on retainers, and the bank would call to ask me out
to lunch. Now I have nothing, and the bank won't even give me money out of
my own account.
posted by Aprenta at 10:52 PM

Do I understand correctly that this web site and Blog site and the person
associated with these sites represent the real person who is known on these
newsgroups as Mxsmanic? Can the factual data that makes this connection be
presented please?
Dudley Henriques

"Gig 601XL Builder" wrDOTgiaconaATsuddenlink.net wrote in message
...



As posted in Anthony's blog...

http://aprenta.blogspot.com/

...which is linked from his website...

http://www.atkielski.com/default.html

Thursday, November 23, 2006
This was a bit of a bad day.

I couldn't sleep in the wee hours, as usual, so I fired up the Baron and
went for a trip. Tonight (virtual time) it was from Chandler Municipal (my
home airport) to Las Vegas . McCarren International Airport. I took the
east VFR transition through the Phoenix Class B, then out towards Blythe
and up the Colorado to Boulder, then into KLAS. I usually avoid Class B
airports when flying my little plane, but this was late and it was quiet,
so I could sneak in to a Big Airport without too much problem. I did
misunderstand ATC a bit and got confused, and ended up on final for the
wrong runway, but when I heard him expressing his reservations to another
pilot, I realized my error and swerved around back towards my assigned
runway. No harm done, fortunately. Once I landed, I couldn't figure out
where the GA ramp was-turns out that KLAS has very little GA parking. I
thought about looking for the Janet terminal, but eventually just parked
in a quiet spot, with a great view of the Strip.

That was the highlight of the day.

Finally it came time to go to school. By now I was finally starting to
feel tired, but it was too late to go to sleep. I walked to a distant
Métro station because mine is closed for renovation. As I descended onto
the platform, I heard announcements of "incidents" and saw tons of people
waiting, and realized that Line 13 was again screwed up. So I left and
started walking to school. I wanted to call to say I'd be late, but I had
no more credit on my cellphone, and only 4 euro in my pocket. And my land
line is disconnected because I haven't paid my telephone bill. So I showed
up half an hour late, losing my first class, which would have paid me all
of 4 euro. It rained a bit as I walked to school. I don't have an
umbrella.

After that, I went to the bank, as I had seen a bit of money on my account
and I wanted to withdraw it for groceries. I had to argue with the bank
for half an hour before they would let me withdraw any cash from my own
account. Seems there had been an "incident" (more incidents!) in the
previous month-meaning that a creditor had tried to seize money-and the
bank felt that I couldn't be trusted to withdraw cash from my own account.
Maybe HSBC has cash-flow problems or something. The teller found me a
supervisor who said this was "policy" and couldn't be changed. I asked for
his name, and he refused to give it-this told me that he really didn't
know if it was policy or not, and was afraid of getting in trouble if he
were wrong. So I persisted, and insisted on seeing the bank manager (and
getting the manager's name, if he wasn't too cowardly to give it). The
bank then relented and gave me my money. HSBC used to be CCF, which used
to be something else. Every few years, my bank is swallowed by a larger
bank, and service deteriorates. If you are poor, they aren' t even willing
to give you your own money; if you are rich, they invite you to lunch.

When I got back from the bank, I discovered that I had a student waiting
for me. Seems that a class had been added to my schedule a few days
before. It wasn't on the original schedule, and although I got a call
about it, I became distracted after the call and forgot to add it to my
PDA. So I didn't know about it, and missed most of it. Not paid for that.

I was prepared for my third class, but the student cancelled at the last
minute.

My fourth class went so-so. The student appeared, but was upset that he
was being billed for classes that he had had on vacation because the
school had forgot to deschedule them. Of course, I'll probably be the one
who doesn't get paid.

Then I had a meeting for four hours in the evening, and I forgot to
prepare for classes the next day.

I had some money so I bought McDonald's on the way home. It occurred to me
that today was Thanksgiving. I'm glad it isn't celebrated in France. Today
also marks the anniversary of my arrival in France, years ago. That was a
Thanksgiving day, too. Of course, back then I had lots of money, with
accountants and lawyers on retainers, and the bank would call to ask me
out to lunch. Now I have nothing, and the bank won't even give me money
out of my own account.
posted by Aprenta at 10:52 PM

"Dudley Henriques" wrote in message
...
Do I understand correctly that this web site and Blog site and the person
associated with these sites represent the real person who is known on
these newsgroups as Mxsmanic? Can the factual data that makes this
connection be presented please?
Dudley Henriques


Whois lookup for mxsmanic.com:

Registrant:
Anthony Atkielski
Anthony Atkielski
29 rue du General Bertrand
Paris, 75007
FR
Email:

Whosi lookup for atkielski.com

Registrant:
Anthony Atkielski
Anthony Atkielski
29 rue du General Bertrand
Paris, 75007
FR
Email:

The atkielski.com home page has a link (left side underf FAQs and Essays) to
http://aprenta.blogspot.com/

Interesting!
DH



"Steve Foley" wrote in message
news:h_voh.1664$GL.684@trndny06...
"Dudley Henriques" wrote in message
...
Do I understand correctly that this web site and Blog site and the person
associated with these sites represent the real person who is known on
these newsgroups as Mxsmanic? Can the factual data that makes this
connection be presented please?
Dudley Henriques


Whois lookup for mxsmanic.com:

Registrant:
Anthony Atkielski
Anthony Atkielski
29 rue du General Bertrand
Paris, 75007
FR
Email:

Whosi lookup for atkielski.com

Registrant:
Anthony Atkielski
Anthony Atkielski
29 rue du General Bertrand
Paris, 75007
FR
Email:

The atkielski.com home page has a link (left side underf FAQs and Essays)
to http://aprenta.blogspot.com/

Dudley Henriques wrote:
Do I understand correctly that this web site and Blog site and the
person associated with these sites represent the real person who is
known on these newsgroups as Mxsmanic? Can the factual data that
makes this connection be presented please?
Dudley Henriques



More than happy to.

First look up Mxsmanic.com in the Whois database and you get this...

Registrant:
Anthony Atkielski
Anthony Atkielski
29 rue du General Bertrand
Paris, 75007
FR
Email:

Registrar Name....: REGISTER.COM, INC.
Registrar Whois...: whois.register.com
Registrar Homepage: www.register.com

Domain Name: mxsmanic.com

Created on..............: Sat, May 10, 2003
Expires on..............: Thu, May 10, 2007
Record last updated on..: Sat, May 06, 2006

Administrative Contact:
Anthony Atkielski
Anthony Atkielski
29 rue du General Bertrand
Paris, 75007
FR
Phone: +33145671282
Email:

Technical Contact:
Register.Com
Domain Registrar
575 8th Avenue 11th Floor
New York, NY 10018
US
Phone: 1-902-7492701
Email:

DNS Servers:

dns5.register.com
dns6.register.com


Then Google Anthony Atkielski and it is the first link. The Whois search on
that domain comes back to same name.

And his Amazon Wish List is here...

http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/re...=1ADWAF35J648X

"Gig 601XL Builder" wrDOTgiaconaATsuddenlink.net wrote in message
...



As posted in Anthony's blog...

http://aprenta.blogspot.com/


Mosts of his entries are pretty glum. I didn't see anything positive written
about anything, except his time spent with his new joystick.

I wonder if he suffers from depression.

All in all, it's pretty sad. Almost makes me want to un-killfile him
(almost, but not quite).

Gig 601XL Builder wrote:
As posted in Anthony's blog...

Say, you wouldn't be a wee bit obsessed with him, would you ?

I'm not convinced that he's the actual blogger at that site, or if it's
his father instead, or if it's not him at all.

Sometimes, I half think he's a psych class composite, where the French
are laughing themselves silly at the egotistical foreign pilots.
Sometimes I think he _and_ some of the other posters being mean to him
are all psych class imposters.

Gotta love usenet. g

Kev

Kev wrote:
Gig 601XL Builder wrote:
As posted in Anthony's blog...

Say, you wouldn't be a wee bit obsessed with him, would you ?

I'm not convinced that he's the actual blogger at that site, or if
it's his father instead, or if it's not him at all.

Sometimes, I half think he's a psych class composite, where the French
are laughing themselves silly at the egotistical foreign pilots.
Sometimes I think he _and_ some of the other posters being mean to him
are all psych class imposters.

Gotta love usenet. g

Kev

No obseesion needed. It took two searches that took about a minute. There is
nothing on the site that would lead me to belive that the person in question
has a child and the blog entry even discribes his flight simming.

As has been explained here, just a litte more searching that he has a
history of going into groups like this and being a desruptive influence.

On Mon, 8 Jan 2007 11:45:33 -0600, "Gig 601XL Builder"
wrDOTgiaconaATsuddenlink.net wrote in
:

As posted in Anthony's blog...

http://aprenta.blogspot.com/

...which is linked from his website...

http://www.atkielski.com/default.html

Thursday, November 23, 2006
This was a bit of a bad day.


[Snip pathetic Thanksgiving day story of a delusional sim driver]

Now don't you feel bad for taunting the "Baron pilot"? As a good
Christian, you should consider contributing some simulated cash via
the link on his web site, so that the poor fellow has adequate funds
for simulated avgas. :-)

If he hadn't left the US, he'd probably be eligible for real Food
Stamps, but perhaps he has his reasons for fleeing the USA for France
as did Ira Einhorn:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ira_Einhorn
http://www.crimelibrary.com/notoriou...n/index_1.html
http://www.time.com/time/nation/arti...168382,00.html
http://dir.salon.com/story/news/feat...orn/index.html
http://www.bookrags.com/Ira_Einhorn
http://dir.salon.com/story/news/feat...orn/index.html
http://archives.cnn.com/2002/LAW/09/30/einhorn.trial/