Updated 3 months ago
April 17, 1967 – January 29, 2012
Network Engineer
“Paul Hrisko was born in Ossining, New York in 1967. He died in the Philippines in 2012.
Between these two dates he lived a life turned up to “11.”
Hrisko.net was Paul’s private domain during his lifetime. Although he never put up a webpage, he used it as a file storehouse and for email.
It is now a memorial.”
Memorial Link – https://hrisko.net/
A quick search for “Hrisko” on Ancestry.com came up with this:
Two out of four ain’t bad. Pretty sure he was Hungarian or Slovakian.
Paul grew up in Ossining, New York.
He worked with Ben and John Lollis and Pseudo Program’s Josh Harris at Prodigy, then moved to New York, where he found all these guys in the trance scene.
Paul was a gregarious guy and always the life of the party. We spent many nights in the late 1990s and early 2000s tripping on very good LSD and going to parties. He was always fun with a tremendous and twisted sense of humor.
It was funny to bring the brain machines to Pseudo (here is the building it was in on Houston and Broadway- top floor –
…a friend lived in the building next to it, same floor as Pseudo, windows separated by an alley – once I and a New Zealand prostitute bought E from him over a clothesline pulley.
Paul would go to Pseudo, there talking with Josh in disbelief.
After I had a huge bust in 2001, Paul was nice enough to host my site on his Ciaobella.tv. until i got a more stable domain. Paul was as solid as ask you could ask. He also helped finance our DMT Ski events out in the Poconos in the early 2000s, in a partnership with Mike Donahue, who also died tragically young.
He was very loyal and tolerant of all sorts of insanity.
His father passed away in 2004, and we said prayers for Paul and his family.
Eventually, Paul moved to San Francisco, where I called him in 2005 to inform him of Mike’s death, it was a serious heartfelt conversation. He then made it to the Philippines where he partied hard and died.
No joke, I am glad he died doing what he loved – partying and drinking. I just wish he had a few more decades in him. That time he went to Amsterdam – God I wish I could tag along one more time.
Paul is survived by a sweet and gorgeous daughter. He had a great time playing with her and taking care of her although only for a very short period. Elizabeth is now 9 years old.
Here are a few emails Paul sent out in early 2002:
Re: Online radio
This is something I’ve been doing for years, namely netcasting from outdoor/indoor venues including the Tibetan Freedom Concerts & The Detroit Electronic Music Festival. I have the encoders & equipment so that’s no big deal. The main issue is in the connection out to the net.
The main issue are bandwidth and audience. If most of the listeners are 56K modem connections, then there’s little need to stream 320K. You realistically need about 128K bandwidth (ISDN) for a decent signal. We always use 56K for backup and that even provides a decent quality stream, albeit low fidelity. Also, the new codecs have
improved greatly so the quality issue becomes less of an issue (that sounds redundant).
Cell modems are out, most providing 19.2K connection (ir less), plus error correction in the cellular protocol trashes the stream to make it almost unusable.Now we come to 802.11b LANS. Hmm, I’ve been war driving around the city and noticed a bunch of wireless networks with little or no security. We could look around the venue and possibly ‘acquire’ a connection to one of these networks and use it to stream the signal. 802.11b provides a lovely 11Mbps connection which give us tonnes of
overhead.
If anyone want to give this a shot, I’m up for it.
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What can be said about Wed. night at Who’s on First?
From the look of the crowd, everyone seemed to be having a good time. Jeff and Tony were great on the decks (as usual). The bartender (Viviana(?)) was pouring me increasingly more dangerous drinks as the evening wore on. In all, the pounding in my head tells me I enjoyed it.
Now, on to business.
Response to the house was great. We received plenty of positive feedback and managed to take in most of the cash needed to secure the house for the season. A BIG THANKS to David, Ben, Jeff and Daniel for bringing us almost to what we need.
All told, we’re at $2400. We need $3000 by Friday, which is when we have to get the realtor the cash to be able to move in for the weekend of the 18th. We’re only $600 short! That’s 12 people at $50 for a weekend, or 6 at $100.
If you want to contribute and secure a place, you can PayPal either myself using neural at prodigy or Mike using rocktheshow as the account. Enter the amount and tell us how many weekends you want.
If you want more information, take a look at /dmtski/
You’ll be able to see pictures and a description of the house.
C’mon people, don’t leave us out in the snow!
-Paul Hrisko
I am reminded then that all the LSD we took was relatively harmless, and one of the most dangerous to him ultimately was something we can buy anywhere.
We miss you Paul.
