Dipdude is a mystery. There is NO offline way to contact him. At least with Funky, you just to Mnemonics and stand for a day or two and he is bound to turn up.
Dipdude was a very very closed guy and AFAIK, no mad or admin had his phone number or anything. He just vanished one fine day. Feb 07 I think. Really puzzling. I mean, even if he got busy or something, I thought he would have at least posted once in a way or informed the mods/admins as he was a mod himself.
I dont mean him any harm, but maybe something really bad happened to him overnight.