I just got off the phone with one of the master skinners from this site.

I needed some pixels pushed (because I'm a no-talent hack) and sent a private message a few days ago asking for some help.  I got 25 images sent back the next day that were over and above anything I could have asked for.

Unfortunately, because I described what i wanted poorly . .they were not useful.  I PM'd again apologizing and describing better what I was hoping for.

Not an hour later I get a PM with a phone number.  We spent two minutes talking about the image and anther ten jsut talking.

Now . . I've been on teh internet since there were only BBS.  I was a Compuserve member and then a AOL and then . . well . . I've been around a while. In all those years though, in all the sites I've visited, only one has reached across the cyber-space into meat-space; this community.

I've made real friends here that I've become closer with over the past ten years than I have with my neighbors.  I've even had skinners over to the house and gone out to dinner with.  

Crazy? Yes.

Cool?  Also yes.