Straight outta 1991, nothing more complicated than a <br> it's....
Fensty's Ego Page
That's right! No frames! No flash! Not even any Java!
Believe it or not, this home page was updated on or about September 2008.
That's impressive, being that the previous update said, "Hey, Maverick is HERE" - meaning it'd last been updated about September 2002. Hey, I've been busy.
OK, so...let's get down
to it, shall we?
Welcome to my "ego page."
I find that term to be pretty accurate of these type of pages. "Personal Web Page" sounds too 90's-techno-pretentious. Other terms like "my site" I don't even want to get into... Please note this is an oldschool Web page. No frames, or scripts, or Java applets. Deal with it. I like it this way.
So...you have found me! Jeff Fenstermacher, from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
Nicks and aliases going back to my first modem call at 300 baud, circa 1982: Fensty, JD Fensty, JDFensty, The Nazgul and The Nazgűl.
Why'd you find me?
Are we family? Or are you another Fenstermacher who MIGHT be distant family? Hey, so many of us are descended from Mathais Fenstermacher one way or another, eh?
Did you just randomly plug Fensty or Fenstermacher into Google or some other search engine? Or just randomly type "www.fensty.com" into your web browser?
Perhaps you were looking for me as someone who once attended Freedom High School, East Hills Middle School, or Governor Wolf Middle school? Maybe even Northampton Community College?
Or...did we work together? Going back to my first job in the 80's, that could have been at Macada Service Mobil, Nazareth Pike Shell, the Sheraton Jetport, Two Bits Computer Corner, Schmell's Shell, Domino's Pizza, Pizza Hut, Lady Foot Locker, Omnipoint, VoiceStream Wireless, or T-Mobile Wureless USA.
Were we BBS Geeks together back in the mid 80's to mid 90's? Back when I was known as Fensty, JD Fensty, and later The Nazgul / The Nazgűl?
Did we hang out together on Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania BBS's like Irata BBS, Murphy's Bar BBS, OSB Systems, Planet of Magrethea, City Under Siege, Rosie's Bar, Stalag 13, Corby's BBS, Infinite Dimensions, or any of several dozen other local BBS's who's names are lost in the depths of my memory?
Did you call my BBS - either The Control Tower (not the original Atari Control Tower of the early 80's) or Minas Morgul BBS? Were you ever a Humble Guys Dist Site?
Were you a member of the infinitely short-lived little Warez group FCC?
Were you a member of the even shorter-lived "anarchy" group FIPO?
Did you just plain hate Ed Schenk like everyone else on BBS's in the Lehigh Valley back then?
Well, for whatever reason, you've found yourself
here on fensty.com - and if you'd like to email me, you can do so at: jdfensty@yahoo.com or, email “jd” at this
domain name. Either way.
However, since I do such a terrible job of
keeping this page even remotely up to date, you might be just as happy to visit
one of these places:
Me @
Facebook. Somewhat up to date. Thing about these “social networking” sites
is, silly as they often are, they are undoubtedly useful for finding people who
want to be found. Facebook at least is
somewhat more mature than MySpace. Less
glitter, y’know. Just, please, don’t
send me stupid invitations, pokes, or whatever.
We’re better than that, aren’t we?
Me @ Myspace. Yeah, I know, I know….. >sigh< But, what ya gonna do, ya wanna be findable
online, ya don’t have much choice, do ya?
My Flickr. Somewhat up to date…
Alicia (my much better
half)’s Flickr. By far the best
updated with new pics of us and family, etc…
And, let’s have a brief explanation of
"Fensty" for the confused or uninitiated:
Why Fensty? Well, with a name like Fenstermacher, this is what your grade-school friends INVARIABLY name you. I don't know ANY male Fenstermacher who was not called Fensty at some point. Females, I dunno, but presumably...
Anyway, when I first got into BBS's ("What IS a BBS anyway?" you ask...) in the early 80's, it was only natural I chose Fensty as my "handle." Yes, we called them that back then, not screennames or nicks or aliases. C'mon, the CB Radio was still popular at the dawn of the BBS age!
So, that has carried on
for over 22 years now, I have always been Fensty or JD Fensty
online...all my usernames/registrations/etc. are under that nickname...though,
in the Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania BBS scene of the 90's,
I was also known as "The Nazgűl" for a period
of time. As far as I've been able to tell, I was the first Fensty on the
Internet. Most certainly, the first one on Usenet message groups since
they began to be archived. Go ahead, hit Google, I’ll wait … you should
turn up a post written on rec.arts.disney around 1992 from the domain
lehigh.edu (No, I didn’t go there – just had a friend’s account…) and signed
“Fensty.”
Well, being the
obsessive that I am, I tried that myself and found this post, the first that
appears to have been signed “Fensty” – written from a Lehigh University account
“f012” which I actually have no idea who that is or where it came from. The one I really remember using mostly was a
friend named Jon Neal that was jn07.
(Wonder if he’ll ever Google his name and find this…)
Anyway, the actual
oldest post by “f012@lehigh.edu” that was made by me was this one, which I am very amused to find is a somewhat
snarky bitch at someone, what a typical way for me to have started my Internet
posting lifeline, eh?
And here’s the first ever signed “Fensty” post on the Internet…amusingly,
posting about continuity gaffes in Disney animation movies…
So, anyway, if there are others who can dispute the claim, of First Fensty, though, please let me know. It’s important to me. I’m weird like that.
So what is a Fenstermacher anyway?
OK, so here you are...were you
interested in:
(Most of this stuff is
ridiculously out of date, but I’m boring so I don’t have much to update it
with…)
BATH-CAM!
(Back online (until it crashes at some point after I’ve stopped paying
attention, and takes me another 6 months to restart it…)
Click here
for plain vanilla 15 second refreshed picture.
Click here for mini java server application with streaming video.
Mustang / Car Stuff:
As I'm very active (well, I was anyway…) in newsgroups and webboards on Mustangs, most people who find their way to www.fensty.com tend to be looking for this stuff:
R.A.M.F.M - the usenet newsgroup rec.autos.makers.ford.mustang. I am active on this newsgroup, as I am the proud and happy owner of a 2000 Mustang GT Convertible which has been at the local drag track a few times...
A.C.F-P - is the usenet group alt.cars.ford-probe. Not really as active a newsgroup as RAMFM, but I often post on this group also as I still have my 1989 Ford Probe GT. (no, I don’t actually, not since sometime in 2001 or so…)
For the benefit of car lovers, I've also organized a folder of "car songs" on the FTP Site. (Probably not working, I don’t keep it up to date, but hey, click it, y’never know…)
For Mustang websites, I'd recommend www.corral.net for the quality of info, and www.mustangworld.com for the pinup art. :)
For Probes, just check out www.probetalk.com as it's probably all you need, and has a great links section if you want more info.
The most amusing thing on this page is probably my scary life history with the automobile, which you can read in total here.
Other Fensty junk:
(ego! ego! ego!)
Biographical info / life story (ego! ego! ego!) of me? Including photos! Wow! You KNOW you are psyched now!
(ok, so I never did this yet. Read the car stories, they're a snapshot history)
My exwife and I bought this house in December 1999. Here are a couple photos of the house. I’m not going into divorce detail (who cares anymore) but short version is, I still have it and still live here. J
I’ve been an adult Disney fan since sometime around 1990, and have been to Walt Disney World a dozen times or so. Check out these two photos of the flag at half mast. Weird.
Eventually, I plan a whole separate set of Disney pages for this site, but haven't "gotten around to it yet." That’s some kickass procrastination we’re talking there, since I’ve been planning to ‘get around to it’ for about 10 years now.
My FTP Site contains a bunch of E-Books, lots of MP3s, a folder of just "Car Songs", and soundfiles of my Mustang's Bassani exhaust. (If it’s actually up and working, which is rare…)
I play Ultima Online, just the latest in a string of online game obsessions. (Also out of date, I’ve let that account lapse, tho someday I might start it up again just to inventory the characters and sell them on eBay – the account was set up the day the game became available in 1997 (I think?) and I have so many ancient “rare” items in the bank vault I could probably score a few bucks for it…)
And, of course, what ego page would be complete
without a link to the page owner's pet(s)? This is Eric's
page. Eric the cat. (I once tried to get him a cat license,
but....)
You can also see pictures of Ming
and Jade on the page, the new kitties.
SAD updates on those last two items:
Eric died (old age and
poor health) in 2002.
Ming and Jade went to
live with the exwife when I met my new wife who is horribly allergic to
cats. My stupid ex allowed Ming to escape
somehow about 2 years later and he never came home, though I hope it’s because
he ended up living with some other nice family (that’s what we tell my son
Maverick, anyway…) and Jade died in August ’08 of basic old age and poor
health.
They were some good
kitties. Maverick has several other cats
that live with his grandparents (my ex-laws) though so he is happy, and while
I’m not much of a dog person, my wife brought her nice cockapoo into the
marriage so we have a dog here. Woot.