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Sardaukar -> RE: Meet the Forumites (4/11/2012 8:47:56 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Nikademus quote: ORIGINAL: Sardaukar So...does it srike that bunch around is...kinda old... [:D] speak for yourself! We no speaky to spacecraft people! [:D]

Sardaukar -> RE: Meet the Forumites (4/11/2012 8:53:55 PM)
Firefighting is a young mans job. I had two knees with severe arthritis and found something else I could do to support my brothers. Hence the "retirement" and another job. Gosh...FDF army, police, docs, firemen and nurse parties....[:D] I **** you not.

John 3rd -> RE: Meet the Forumites (4/11/2012 8:54:18 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Historiker quote: ORIGINAL: John 3rd Job: Subway Manager and THANK GOODNESS returning to College Education in the Fall are you already accepted in grad school? Where will you do your PHD? Or will you something different? Returning to TEACHING college in the fall. Cannot wait! BANZAI!

KMCCARTHY -> RE: Meet the Forumites (4/11/2012 9:28:14 PM)
quote: Job: MetOp Mission Manager (Google works, you figure it out) Age: 50 Since we devoved to bragging. Everytime I move somthing hurts. Benning, Bragg, and McCall may have something to do with it.... My other favorite quote is: 1SG Rutland--Deal with it![&o]

mike scholl 1 -> RE: Meet the Forumites (4/11/2012 9:35:40 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: John 3rd quote: ORIGINAL: mike scholl 1 Job: Retired. Former Theatre Manager and IT tech. Age: 63 Residence: Kansas City, Mo. Family: Two Sisters, One Mother, Many Friends Education: BS, MA, 50 years of reading... Work: Not if I can help it..., I'm RETIRED. Favorite Quote: "There are always three courses of action open to your enemy..., and of these he will inevitably chose the forth." Reading: 1636: The Saxon Uprising. (I enjoy historical fantasy..., just not in my historical gaming.) Did you work for Commonwealth Theatres (was based at Kansas City)? My Father worked for them for 31+ years. Started out with Elmer Rodin's Commonweanth..., and stayed for the ride when the company got passed around like a bad penny until they sold my theatre out from under me on my 50th birthday. My favorite owners were the "Holding Company in Barcelona, Spain". Who was your Dad? I probably at least met him.

crsutton -> RE: Meet the Forumites (4/11/2012 11:10:13 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Chickenboy Job: Veterinarian (poultry specialist) Age: 43 Residence: Just north of St. Paul, Minnesota (USA) Family: married, two children (ages 5 & 8) Education: BVSc (Veterinary Science), MPVM (Preventive Veterinary Medicine), DVM, MBA Work: A rodent-themed large upper Midwest public university. Diagnostic pathology, teaching, research. Favorite Quote: Don't Tread on Me Reading: American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History. by Chris Kyle OMG! You really are a Poultry Lad...[:D]

Schanilec -> RE: Meet the Forumites (4/11/2012 11:22:30 PM)
Job: Architectural/Electrical Engineering CADD tech and designer. Age: 53 Residence: Grand Forks, North Dakota Family: One daughter[:)], two grandchildren[sm=nono.gif]. Wasn't ready for that yet. Ex-Girl friend and family are still close. Education: One year UND (history), but I need to live on something. BS Architectural Drafting & Estimating Technology 1985 (workman's compenstaion) Work: Arch/civil/elec/mech firm. Still part time since the down turn. Was unemployed for eight months. Been here almost two years. Reading: Just started S.E. Morison's US Naval Operations..., Volume XIV: Victory in the Pacific, 1945. Reading season is about over. Quote: Not so much a qoute per se. The Gettysburg Address.

bradfordkay -> RE: Meet the Forumites (4/11/2012 11:37:25 PM)
Job: Parts and Accessories Buyer Age: 53 Residence: Olympia, WA Family: single - no one was willing to put up with me for very long! Education: BA History, 1981, University of Georgia Work: local chain of bicycle shops Favorite Quote: Wherever you go, there you are. Reading: Destroyermen: Rising Tide (everyone needs a little light reading once in a while) Okay, Dan... you really need to post your info here as well.

Mundy -> RE: Meet the Forumites (4/12/2012 12:03:54 AM)
What the hey... Job: Programmer Analyst Age: 43 Residence: Neenah, WI Family: Married - just about 22 years; Two sons: One, a 17 year old HS Junior and the other 20 years old and currently in USAF at Minot AFB Education: BS - Mathematics. University of Wisconsin - Superior Work: Unemployed the last 6 weeks [:(] Favorite Quote: "Success is commemorated; failure merely remembered." Reading: Naval Camouflage 1914-1945 A Complete Visual Reference by David Williams

JWE -> RE: Meet the Forumites (4/12/2012 12:22:44 AM)
Ok, Nik made me do it. So ... Job: IP consultant and Businessman Age: 64 (11 months away from being a serious parasite) Residence: Fairhope, AL; Puerto Varas, Los Lagos, Chile; Hua Nui, French Polynesia. Family: wife (divorced), two daughters (deceased), shootloads of sisters and nieces and nephews, and the friut of their loins. Education: BS Physics/Chemistry, Bates College. MBA UF, MS Physics, MIT. JD Law $hit, USD. Work: Semi-retired, but doing R&D for optical timing and sensor systems for DoD and Private firms; still doing IP consulting for NASA, Hustsville, Litton Systens, Eaton, Boeing and Rocketdyne. Favorite Quote: What Ted Turner said when talking aboutthe nouvelle keel of the Mariner; "Hell, even a piece of $hit is round on both ends!" Favorite Things: Building wooden ship models of 18th century vessels; kicking the living squat out out of any other sailboat racer. Favorite Reading: Consider Phlebas, by Iain Banks, and the Starfisher Trilogy, by Glen Cook. [/quote]

treespider -> RE: Meet the Forumites (4/12/2012 12:30:00 AM)
Job: If I told you, I'd have to...[8D] Age: 43 Residence: Knoxville, TN Family: Wife, two sons (17 and 15), 17 year old is currently the 2nd best High School Bass Clarinetist in the state of TN Education: BA Sociology, Pennsylvania State University, 1990 Work: See job... Favorite Quote: 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, who 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 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 neither know victory nor defeat. Reading: Lost Chance in China, The WWII Dispatches of John S. Service

Feinder -> RE: Meet the Forumites (4/12/2012 12:51:47 AM)
Job: Systems Analyst Age: 40 Residence: Land o Lakes, FL Family: Married 11 years, 2 boys: 6 and 7 years old. Education: BS Comp Sci Univ Florida Work: Large retailer Favorite Quote: Reading: Wheel of Time and Neptune's Inferno

JeffroK -> RE: Meet the Forumites (4/12/2012 2:08:29 AM)
Job: Production Accountant (Though 15 years as National Credit Manager of a Tyre retailer) Age: 53 Residence: Somewhere west of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Family: Married 28 years, 1 son Education: School of Hard Knocks, Bugger all really, worked hard to get where I did. Work: manufacturer of marine safety pyrotechnic devices et al. Favorite Quote: Reading: Clay Blair's book on the Uboat war vol2. Maybe like others I am loath to put too much on the net, I have been hacked off better sites than this, put my name on "private conversations" which were then published and still have some secrets I want to keep. Kinda ruins the image of some when you know what they really are[8D]

zuluhour -> RE: Meet the Forumites (4/12/2012 2:46:40 AM)
Job: sucks but pays residence: Zulu HQ already posted in another of Dans threads. See picture there Family: Yep. girls. all of them. education: schooling has yet to interfere with it. reading: an Atlas. sales report. NYT crossword. Island (Huxley). quote: "For every vacation, there is an equal and opposite two anti vacations" Dr. Mandrake. oh yeah, 51.

JeffroK -> RE: Meet the Forumites (4/12/2012 3:30:38 AM)
It would be interesting to anyone with the time. Plot the ages, seems to be several groupings, did wargaming go through high/low periods of interest. Plot the locations, Lots of Finns, and I think Sardarkaur was deported to Malta. A number of Kansas City/Lawrence people (I not these as head Office was Lenexa and I visitied about 10 years back) Not many NY/SF/LA.

wdolson -> RE: Meet the Forumites (4/12/2012 3:50:44 AM)
There is a blob in the US Northwest too. They seem to be more clustered in Washington than Oregon, but I do know at least one, now inactive, member who live in Oregon. I was thinking that across the age range, those of us over about 40 probably grew up playing games from Avalon Hill, SPI, etc. I suspect many of the younger forum members have never played with little cardboard counters. The old wargames are sort of like vinyl records. They have a lot of nostalgia and some positives, but newer technologies like CDs and MP3s are much more convenient and give you flexibility vinyl never allowed. Bill

PaxMondo -> RE: Meet the Forumites (4/12/2012 4:08:10 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: KMCCARTHY quote: Job: MetOp Mission Manager (Google works, you figure it out) Age: 50 Since we devoved to bragging. Everytime I move somthing hurts. Benning, Bragg, and McCall may have something to do with it.... My other favorite quote is: 1SG Rutland--Deal with it![&o] [;)] Good to see you here Kevin ...

Cuttlefish -> RE: Meet the Forumites (4/12/2012 6:43:04 AM)
Job: technical writer/editor Age: 53 Residence: Corvallis, OR Family: wife of 27 years, two children, two grandchildren, several cats Education: BA, Michigan State University Work: when I have to Favorite Quote: "The dice never lie." (Professor M.A.R. Barker) Reading: "Blood of Victory" by Alan Furst

LoBaron -> RE: Meet the Forumites (4/12/2012 7:11:46 AM)
Job: IT Architecture Analyst Age: 37 Residence: Vienna, Austra Family: In a relationship, and might be 3 soon... [;)] Education: Loads of unfinished stuff. Favorite Quote: See 1st sig line. Reading: History - ok for the nerds here, yes, history is science too, Science (Physics, Social, Evolution, Geography,..), SF, too much to list here. I feel far more uncomfortable to post personal information on a forum than on facebook, Canorebel. On facebook I can control to whom I show what. Here I cannot, except by not posting, or by posting 50 PMs.

Blackhorse -> RE: Meet the Forumites (4/12/2012 9:07:45 AM)
Job: Transportation policy and management Age: 50s Residence: Washington, DC area Family: Blissfully married. DINKs ("Double-Income, no kids") Education: BA (econ & gov't); MBA (in, er, business) Work: U.S. Department of Transportation. Among my other hats, I am the "Co-Chair of the Executive Steering Group of the Space-Based Position, Navigation & Timing Executive Committee." Really. Bureaucrats take their titles very seriously. Favorite Quote: See first quote in sig Re-Reading: Churchill's History of the Second World War; Terry Pratchett's Discworld series

hkbhsi -> RE: Meet the Forumites (4/12/2012 10:58:35 AM)
A most interesting thread. Job: Corporate Lawyer Age: 42 Residence: Rome, Italy Family: Married with 2 daughters (11 and 9 years old) Education: B.A. at Temple University (Ancient History), J.D. at Georgetown Law Center. Work: Too much. Favorite Quote: I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it (Voltaire) Reading: Nothing but tax law books (sadly).

cohimbra -> RE: Meet the Forumites (4/12/2012 11:41:48 AM)
Job: Electronic Merchant Age: 32 Residence: Livorno, Italy Family: No Education: High(?) school Work: It's 1pm! I must go...NOW! Favorite Quote: "Fanno il deserto e lo chiamano pace" (Tacito 55d.c.?-120d.c.) Reading: Il pendolo di Focault by U.Eco

treespider -> RE: Meet the Forumites (4/12/2012 1:16:11 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: wdolson The old wargames are sort of like vinyl records. They have a lot of nostalgia and some positives, but newer technologies like CDs and MP3s are much more convenient and give you flexibility vinyl never allowed. Bill Unfortunately although the "newer" computer wargames are certainly much more compact and therefore convenient than cardboard and paper... I disagree that they are more flexible. When I have the capability to re-write the rules (code) then I would say they have flexibility....till then I am stuck playing the game rules as written.

DOCUP -> RE: Meet the Forumites (4/12/2012 1:23:21 PM)
Job: PICU Nurse Age: 32 Residence: West Virginia Family: Will be married in May Education: BS Nursing, EMT-P, Paralegal Quote: Honey, WITP-AE isn't a game it's a lifestyle. Reading: Shatter Sword

soticrandy -> RE: Meet the Forumites (4/12/2012 2:52:13 PM)
Job: IT Help Desk, Forum Lurker Age: 26 Residence: Lakewood, CO Family: Single, no pets, family in same town Education: AA Computer Science Work: Swisslog Translogic Favorite Quote: "Strippers hate cinnamon but love Funyuns!" Reading: Just finished Capital Punishment by Jack Abramoff and Shattered Sword

Canoerebel -> RE: Meet the Forumites (4/12/2012 3:23:44 PM)
I figured the average age of Forumites might be 50 to 55, but based on the posts in here thus far it might be closer to 40 to 45. It is encouraging to note so many young folks with a passion for history and strategy of this kind.

Historiker -> RE: Meet the Forumites (4/12/2012 3:31:16 PM)
So where's your posting with the template, Canoerebel? Or have I missed it?

Canoerebel -> RE: Meet the Forumites (4/12/2012 3:34:28 PM)
I pledged not to post my information at the beginning of this thread to�try to make it clear this�was not a "look at me" kind of thing.� I wanted forumites�to know that they were being asked to participate not out of that motive, but out of true interest in getting to know each other better.�

Historiker -> RE: Meet the Forumites (4/12/2012 3:35:29 PM)
Allright, but now you're asked [:)]

RogerJNeilson -> RE: Meet the Forumites (4/12/2012 4:18:28 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Roger Neilson II 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 Err this is who I 'used' to be........ Grrrrrrr Roger the Umpteenth, founder of a new Dynasty. No not the TV type.

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