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RE: Meet the Forumites - 4/11/2012 6:35:48 AM   
warspite1


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ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

4. Just to prove this isn't a way to boast about my own self (like those horrid "What music are you listening to now" threads), I am disqualified from participating.

Warspite1

Nice idea btw, but two things:

a) if this is "meet the forumites" and you are a big contributor to the forum, then why would you not participate?

b) the comment about the "what music are you listening to now" (and there is one I started for books and programs/films) is a little unfair. I have found that thread really useful for trying music (bands and genres) that in many cases I would never have heard of let alone tried. I hoped the book thread in particular would do the same. Why rubbish it?

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RE: Meet the Forumites - 4/11/2012 6:42:22 AM   
Puhis


Posts: 1737
Joined: 11/30/2008
From: Finland
Status: offline 		Job: Conservation biologist
Age: 31
Residence: Mikkeli/St. Michel, Finland
Family: Wife
Education: MSc
Work: Administration of Forests
Favorite Quote: "This isn't right. This isn't even wrong."

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RE: Meet the Forumites - 4/11/2012 6:43:05 AM   
PizzaMan


Posts: 200
Joined: 7/14/2007
Status: offline 		A few more good questions added at the end of my list:

Job: Production and Media Departement Leader

Age: 50

Residence: Las Vegas

Family: 1 Parrot

Education: B.S. Finance from San Diego State University

Work: A community church

Favorite Quote: A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week. George Patton

Reading: 1) Ameritopia, The Unmaking of America by Mark Levin, 2) Fist From the Sky, Japan's Dive-Bomber Ace of WWII by Peter Smith, and 3) The Holy Bible inspired by God

Other Games I'm Playing: World of Tanks

Last Battlefield Visit: Gettysburg

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RE: Meet the Forumites - 4/11/2012 6:50:29 AM   
DSwain


Posts: 171
Joined: 9/23/2006
From: United Kingdom
Status: offline 		Job: teacher
Age: 39
Residence: Hanoi, Vietnam (I'm from the UK orginally)
Family: unmarried
Education: BA in English Literature
Work: teaching English language and literature to students in Vietnam, including officers in the Vietnamese People's Army
Favorite Quote: WiTP related - "When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take, choose the bolder." Bill Slim. Non-WiTP related - "When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro." Dr Hunter S Thompson
Reading: "A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam" by Neil Sheehan

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RE: Meet the Forumites - 4/11/2012 6:56:18 AM   
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From: Brisvegas, Australia
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Age: 52
Residence: Brisbane Australia
Family: Wife, daughter 23, son 21, Border Terrier 6
Education: BA Griffith Uni, Brisbane
Work: as little as possible - it interferes with WitP and flying
Favorite Quote: Emperor Hirohito in August 1945 - the war situation has developed not necessarily to Japan's advantage
Reading: A Storm of Swords

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RE: Meet the Forumites - 4/11/2012 7:10:20 AM   
Barb


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Age: 28
Residence: Bratislava, Slovakia
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Education: High school - Electronics and Computing
Work: Testing Software in a Bank
Favorite Quote: see under the banner :)
Reading: Band of Brothers (currently about 5th time)

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RE: Meet the Forumites - 4/11/2012 7:36:36 AM   
Roger Neilson II


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Status: offline 		Job: No longer have one, retired (Thank you ConDem Government) Used to be a teacher. Now a nature warden and volunteer at a 'Stately Home' and into genealogy
Age: Big 60 later this year
Residence: Newcastle upon Tyne
Family: Wife and two kids (one of each type)
Education: English Literature, Education management (York University & Open University)
Favourite quote: The past is a foreign country, they do things differently there (L P Hartley)
Reading: Just finished A Man of Parts

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RE: Meet the Forumites - 4/11/2012 8:30:54 AM   
cantona2


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Age: 37
Residence: Gibraltar
Family: Married. One son.
Education: History degree. PGCE in Education (History). PGCE in Leadership and Management in Education.
Work: Sacred Heart School
Favorite Quote: 'Attack don't look back'

Reading: The Legion of the Damned (Warhammer 40K Space Marine Battles), I have Japan at War awaiting.

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RE: Meet the Forumites - 4/11/2012 9:26:29 AM   
1275psi

 

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Age. nearly 50
Residence. Sydney, working in Melbourne (so all over the bloody place!)
Family. Married, one quite clever son
Education. What the Navy and life did not teach me, wasn't worth knowing.
Work BAE Melbourne
Favorite quote : John 3:16
Reading. Game of thrones, the NIV Bible

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RE: Meet the Forumites - 4/11/2012 9:39:44 AM   
Sardaukar


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From: Finland/Israel
Status: offline 		Job: Content Producer (as for today, just gave in my notice...). Still think myself as Army "ossifer".
Age: 44
Residence: Malta
Family: Separated but friendly
Education: BSc, military
Work: Try not to...but
Favorite Quote: "Life is profound and passionate thing."
Reading: "Crusades" by Thomas Asbridge

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RE: Meet the Forumites - 4/11/2012 11:10:05 AM   
DD696

 

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Family: Children, grandchildren, and one cat "Too Much Trouble"
Education: Half way thru college and the USMC; back seat of a '60 Cadillac
Work: Herding the local Corvette club around and mowing the lawn
Favorite Quote: Life's a bitch, and then you die
Reading: Business plan for possible investment

Edit: forgot one of the more important aspects of my education....

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RE: Meet the Forumites - 4/11/2012 11:58:21 AM   
dr.hal


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From: Covington LA via Montreal!
Status: offline 		Some very interesting folk on this site and playing this game!

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RE: Meet the Forumites - 4/11/2012 11:59:12 AM   
HansBolter


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From: United States
Status: offline 		Job: Architect
Age: 54
Residence: St. Petersburg, Florida
Family: Single, two cats
Education: University of Florida
Work: Santiesteban and Associates Architects
Favorite Quote: "I am the way and the truth and the life" second: "Never appeal to a man's better nature, he may not have one. Appeal instead to his self interest."
Reading: The Triumph of Christianity, How the Jesus Movement Became the World's Largest Religion

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RE: Meet the Forumites - 4/11/2012 12:05:16 PM   
dr.hal


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Age: 61
Residence: Central Vermont
Family: Married 2 years (first marriage too!)
Education: Ph.D.
Work: Education!
Favorite Quote: The crime is NOT that life is so short, it's that people take so long in living it!
Reading: Neptune's Inferno (just started it!)

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RE: Meet the Forumites - 4/11/2012 12:08:18 PM   
oldman45


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Age: 52
Residence: Jacksonville, Fl
Family: Amazing wife, 3 teenagers
Education: AS computer networking, 18s USN
Work: raising 3 teenagers
Favorite Quote: It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
Reading: Operation Drum Beat

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RE: Meet the Forumites - 4/11/2012 12:20:42 PM   
Historiker


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Age: old enough to be allowed to use a computer
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Family: Mom and Dad
Education: MA in Newer and Newest History, Medieval History and European Ethnology
Work:
Favorite Quote: "Government isn't the solution to our problems. Government is the problem" Ronald Reagan
Reading: Milton Friedman: Capitalism and Freedom

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RE: Meet the Forumites - 4/11/2012 12:21:26 PM   
Historiker


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Status: offline 		How is it possible that so many of you are already retired while still being so young? Retirement age is 67 in Germany!

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RE: Meet the Forumites - 4/11/2012 12:38:38 PM   
obvert


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Family: maybe soon (GF now)
Education: BA Literature, MFA Photography + Mixed Media Arts
Work: Photography and Art; currently working on the idea of the romanticized image vs historical actuality (painting a clipper on canvas over a map of China)
Favorite Quote:(no favorite, but this is one)

This is what it means to be human,
to witness the heart of a moment like a photograph,
the present standing up through itself relentlessly
like a fountain.

Dennis Johnson

Reading: A Submariners War: The Indian Ocean 1939-45 by Michael Wilson; 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
Favorite Film(s): Burnt by the Sun; The Thin Red Line; Spirit of the Beehive

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RE: Meet the Forumites - 4/11/2012 12:42:35 PM   
Roger Neilson II


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From: Newcastle upon Tyne. England
Status: offline 		For some of us retirement was forced upon us as the alternative to being unemployed...... its called the economic crisis.

Allegedly Germany has not been affected by this at all.

Roger

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RE: Meet the Forumites - 4/11/2012 12:57:03 PM   
Itdepends

 

Posts: 937
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Age: 36
Residence: South West Western Australia
Family: 1 wife, 3 daughters, 1 bitch
Education: BsC Chemistry and Extractive Metallurgy
Work: I get expensive toys/trials to work on and then see if I can make money with them
Favorite Quote: I'll remember one after I've posted this I'm sure.
Reading: Awakened
Favorite Film(s): Hot Fuzz, The Life of Brian


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RE: Meet the Forumites - 4/11/2012 1:00:16 PM   
Smeulders

 

Posts: 1879
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Status: offline 		Job: Phd Researcher in Operations Research
Age: 22
Residence: Leuven & Mol (Belgium)
Family: Single, but good parents and brothers
Education: Continuing, have a BA and MA in applied economics.
Favorite Quote: Don't panic - Douglas Adams. It's good solid advice in any situation, this was written (in large friendly letters) on a number of my course books.
Reading: A song of Ice and Fire
Hobbies: Basketball, both as a coach for 12 to 15 year olds and as a player. (Interesting that this one wasn't on the list. Maybe CR assumes we don't have time for anything besides WITP ?)

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RE: Meet the Forumites - 4/11/2012 1:09:33 PM   
Empire101


Posts: 1950
Joined: 5/20/2008
From: Coruscant
Status: offline 		I don't normally post details, but here goes;

Job:AA Patrol
Age: 51
Residence: Great Wyrley, near Cannock, England.
Family: Long suffering girlfriend, getting married in May 2012
Education: History Degree, never used
Work: Dealing with motorists who think steering wheels are 'beneath' them.
Favourite Quote: See signature line below!
Reading: 'K-Boats: Steam Powered Submarines in WWI' by Don Everitt.

Favourite Film: Dr.Strangelove


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RE: Meet the Forumites - 4/11/2012 1:16:51 PM   
frank1970


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From: Bayern
Status: offline 		Job: college teacher
Age: 41
Residence: Grafenwöhr (Germany)
Family: married, two daughters
Education: PhD
Work: College teacher, some readings at university
Favourite Quote: There are no problems only solutions!
Reading: "Mein Leben mit Tieren" (Desmond Morris)

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RE: Meet the Forumites - 4/11/2012 2:37:50 PM   
crsutton


Posts: 9590
Joined: 12/6/2002
From: Maryland
Status: offline 		Lot of interesting diversity here.

Job: Realtor and Investor. Prior: Ten years in the Seafarers International Union.
Age: 57
Residence: Silver Spring, Maryland
Family: Married, no kids. Two dogs and two disrespectful cats.
Education. University of Maryland, College Park. US and Byzantine History.
Interests: Volleyball, history and dog training.
Favorite quotes: Too many to note. How about this? "No time for the old in-out, love, I've just come to read the meter."
Reading: Re-reading the "Collected Short Stories of W Somerset Maughan."

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RE: Meet the Forumites - 4/11/2012 2:46:26 PM   
Cap Mandrake


Posts: 23184
Joined: 11/15/2002
From: Southern California
Status: offline 		Empire 101:

You do realize May 2012 is in 3 weeks?

Sounds like you have an interesting job. "AA Patrol":

"Here comes a Toyota Tundra with a twin Bofors...GET HIM!"



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RE: Meet the Forumites - 4/11/2012 2:53:51 PM   
Cap Mandrake


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RE: Meet the Forumites - 4/11/2012 3:00:01 PM   
aztez

 

Posts: 4031
Joined: 2/26/2005
From: Finland
Status: offline 		Job: IT specialist
Age: 38
Residence: Western Finland
Family: separated, 2 daughters 5 and 6 and 1 cat.
Education: Marketing degree and some random IT degrees.
Work: Customer IT support specialist
Favorite Quote: never start anything you cannot finish
Reading: Nothing at the moment

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RE: Meet the Forumites - 4/11/2012 3:15:31 PM   
pmelheck1

 

Posts: 610
Joined: 4/3/2003
From: Alabama
Status: offline 		Job: Food Service
Age: 51
Residence: Ohio
Family: Wife, 3 grown kids
Education: 20 years Air Force Metrology
Work: Fast food
Favorite Quote: Don't be conspicuous it draws fire
Reading: Neptune's inferno


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RE: Meet the Forumites - 4/11/2012 3:24:35 PM   
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Job:Software QA
Age:almost 45
Residence:Raleigh, NC
Family:wife, Sara, and son, Alex
Education:A.S. Computer Engineering Technology, State Technical Institute at Memphis.
Work:Small company providing SaaS for the Agriculture industry
Favorite Quote:"Good times will set you free." - Jimmy Buffett
Reading: Lord of Chaos - Robert Jordan


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RE: Meet the Forumites - 4/11/2012 3:27:07 PM   
Empire101


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ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Empire 101:

You do realize May 2012 is in 3 weeks?

Sounds like you have an interesting job. "AA Patrol":

"Here comes a Toyota Tundra with a twin Bofors...GET HIM!"






Yep, May 26th to be precise.....my life comes to its end...

.....wilco command, have been hit by German BMW.....am going down........


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