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The Ready Room => Off Topic => Topic started by: @gentOrange on June 29, 2005, 11:34:35 PM

Title: Getting to know the community
Post by: @gentOrange on June 29, 2005, 11:34:35 PM: For some of the users who don't use IRC, and everyone in general I think this thread is a good way to get to know your fellow community members on a personal basis. We'll be tight yo!

Well, I graduated highschool and don't plan to go to college yet. I'm still unsure of what I'd like to do with my life and don't want to drop money "just because" or on something that I THINK I'd like to do but are still weary of.

Right now I work in a sporting goods warehouse. Basically I ship and recieve things for our head store. Occasionally I go and collect orders for customers. An example would be if a customer wants a shotgun, I go find the gun he wanted and then either myself or someone else would take it and wrap it up real nice and send it to him. I get a good workout from it and work with some close friends (like Greenground).

A bit about my friends.

When I'm not at home calling vinnie an ass I'm across the street at my main man Nigel's place playing gamecube and watching movies. He's been one of my best friends since grade 6. We watch wrestling together everytime it's on and play Day Of Reckoning on NGC daily.I work with him and he's a bit quirky. He's never had a girlfriend but he's real nice. I think if he'd stop trying so hard to make everyone like him he'd find one easy.

Green you know about, he's retarded to boot.

Ben is ****ing retarded alot of the time. He's described his perfect woman as someone with my personality who looks more like a woman. He says he's a communist existentialist which is crap. He essentially hates all new video game systems because they aren't the SNES. He has the exact opposite taste in movies as me but he stands by me through and through. He split my head open playfighting and rode to the hospital with me, waited while I got stitches and had to work 2 hours from when we got home. Good guy.

I enjoy a good malt liquor. 40 oz beers served icy cold are prime after a day at my job. I drink at least 3 a week. 1 for WWE Raw, one for Smackdown, one Friday nights and the occasional one inbetween.

NEXT! I'll add to this if I ever think of more.
Title: Getting to know the community
Post by: Anarki3x6 on June 29, 2005, 11:45:22 PM: hmmmm.... im just rocking my summer away in my sexeh basement...
last year of high school is coming up so i guess i should get my ass in gear..
as in goin out and finally gettin a job and liscence.

rat12321/kirby or whatever he goes by nowadays is an ok chap.. a bit moody at times but at least he has a liscence so we can go places :)

yeah nothing else to say... i always have a nice big pitcher of tea by my side.. nice and hot with freshly squeezed lemons too... none of that already in a bottle crap. (unlike rat with his stupid instant iced tea bs. yeah.) keeps me refreshed through the hours of sitting here!
Title: Getting to know the community
Post by: Malevolent on June 29, 2005, 11:59:49 PM: Yeah, I graduated from high school about a month ago. I've applied at 2 jobs because I am lazy. Gone to a lot of parties and laugh at my friends who get MIPs (got to be a little smarter). I also want to go camping again before the summer ends. I need to get my ass motivated so I can make some money to go towards a new computer. I'm going to the University of Michigan (computer engineering) in the fall.
Title: Getting to know the community
Post by: ziggot on June 30, 2005, 12:01:45 AM: I dont do anything really. I havent got a job yet since getting back form Iraq but I have an interview with UPS on tuesday at freaking 4 in the morning.

I make pretty decent money from the government though, they pay my tuition and then the GI bill gives me 600ish a month spending cash. Plus they keep sending me to training which makes me money. I go to Airborne school in August.

Since I just turned 21 yesterday Ill probably spend most of my time drunk for a while, even though my friends and quite a few strangers almost killed me last night in downtown Denver with insane amounts of alcohol.

im an airsoft fanatic too, my friends and I are driving to Cali in a week or two to play in a big tourny out there.
Title: Getting to know the community
Post by: Manta on June 30, 2005, 08:28:22 AM: Ahh, I'm a big airsoft fan as well, but I don't really go to tournaments. It's just a hobby for me.

I'm going to be a high school senior next year. I was looking for jobs, but all of my first picks were out because everyone applies during the summer. I went for community service instead.

On the days that I'm not working, I'm usually sleeping, on the computer, or playing Xbox games (Ninja Gaiden).

Oh, and have fun at U-M, Mal. Being a resident of southeast Michigan, the University of Michigan is pretty much the automatic first pick. That's the way it is where I live.
Title: Getting to know the community
Post by: Ulatoh on June 30, 2005, 08:52:17 AM: Im a studend at the University of Oklahoma ( largest public uni in Oklahoma, one of the 50 states)

i go to the occasional party, but i spend most of my time studying my ass off, the balance left usually gets spent on mah comp.

i write poetry,( part of how i got into the uni, awesome-1337 writing skillz) read ALOT, and love the hell out of the discovery channel

jackass is my guilty pleasure
Title: Getting to know the community
Post by: Anarki3x6 on June 30, 2005, 09:04:23 AM: my tv down here mostly has the history channel on all day

<3 the shows on the history channel, especially modern marvels because they go really in depth on simple things!
Title: Getting to know the community
Post by: Wolfwood on June 30, 2005, 09:27:53 AM: I'm going into my Junior year of high school, and setting high expectations for myself. I'm looking to get into some Ivy League school (highly doubtful, but a guy can dream) in a science program, but we'll see where my grades can get me.

Outside of academics, I usually hang out/party with friends on a weekly basis. We go to the shore every summer, etc etc.

Also... I'm a music freak. Marching band extraordinaire. Trumpeter, to be (co)section leader senior year. Teaching myself to play guitar, and attempting to re-learn piano to some vague extent. I don't plan to make a living on music, but I find it a good hobby to keep.

I'm a procrastinator to an extreme extent, and that should be the only thing that would keep me out of an ivy league school -_-.

Spending my summer lounging around, amongst taking summer school gym so I don't have to take it ever again. In recent weeks, I've gone through various RPG video games (kotor 1 + 2) and vowed to never play them again as they're taking up a vast amount of my time (30+ hrs each). Mmmm.... and....rarara... I like movies, long walks on the beach, drinking pina coladas and getting caught in the rain.

Oh, y yo sé español.
Title: Getting to know the community
Post by: LowCrawler on June 30, 2005, 10:02:38 AM: im a pizza cutter. I have a lovely girlfriend, a piece of crap car that im also in love with, and a host of neat friends.

Most of my friends are girls, but i have about 3 dude friends who ive known basically all my life.

Im a scorpio who enjoys cuddling, the sound of the rain, and a good cup of mint tea.

:p

seriously though, mint tea is delicious
Title: Getting to know the community
Post by: Malevolent on June 30, 2005, 10:16:21 AM: Quote
I was looking for jobs, but all of my first picks were out because everyone applies during the summer.

Oh, and have fun at U-M, Mal. Being a resident of southeast Michigan, the University of Michigan is pretty much the automatic first pick. That's the way it is where I live.
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Yeah it's pretty hard to find jobs in Michigan (especially in St. Clair County). So we probably live pretty close (less than a couple of hours away). I do plan on having a lot of fun btw. :D
Title: Getting to know the community
Post by: GrayDuck on June 30, 2005, 12:25:06 PM: I’ve been waiting to reply so I wasn’t the eldest one in the post… but oh-well. Hoots is slacking off today.

I am a Minnesota native (Twin Cities area), went to college at UW-River Falls (http://www.uwrf.edu). In the summer of 2001 I graduated college, got married, and moved to California. I got a job working here (http://www.cnprc.ucdavis.edu/) as a database programmer, and my husband started grad school at UC-Davis (working towards his Ph.D. in Physics).

Bought a house in 2002, got a doggie shortly after that (Schnapps, my beloved German Shepherd), and within the past few months found out we are <finally> pregnant! Baby is due in December of this year :D

The plan is for my husband to finish up his degree in late 2006, early 2007 and we’ll pack up and move to wherever he gets the best job offering (*fingers crossed for the MN area*) Plus at that point in time <hopefully> I can officially become a stay at home mommy. ^_^
Title: Getting to know the community
Post by: Goldy on June 30, 2005, 03:12:56 PM: I work as lemon tester in a lemon factory. Lemons are not manufactured, you say? Why, I beg to differ.

When I'm not doing that, I go to Northeastern University in Boston. :D
Title: Getting to know the community
Post by: aeroripper on June 30, 2005, 05:54:48 PM: I'm 22 (older than most of you :-P) and work at a retail store in lincoln, nebraska. I dropped out of the university because i hated the "college" atmosphere, or at least the university atmosphere. When i'm not working my grueling 25-30hr a week job, i play NS and hang out with the g/f and drink steadily increasing amounts of booze.

I live in a low rent wonderfully decreped neighborhood with 5-10 dangerous looking minorities that hang out in the parking lot right outside my apartment window every night till 2 in the morning. I ride with a '89 celebrity eurosport with defective paint and many rust spots and shot shocks. Now that wars back in style maybe i'll get drafted and have something fun to do.

(http://img83.imageshack.us/img83/7454/wonderful3kk.jpg)

EDIT: A lemon tester?? HAHHA that's awesome! :p
Title: Getting to know the community
Post by: Manta on June 30, 2005, 06:47:35 PM: I dunno, if I were a lemon tester, my face would get pretty scrunched after about three years on the job.
Title: Getting to know the community
Post by: Legionnaired on June 30, 2005, 09:15:09 PM: Quote
I’ve been waiting to reply so I wasn’t the eldest one in the post… but oh-well. Hoots is slacking off today.

I am a Minnesota native (Twin Cities area), went to college at UW-River Falls (http://www.uwrf.edu). In the summer of 2001 I graduated college, got married, and moved to California. I got a job working here (http://www.cnprc.ucdavis.edu/) as a database programmer, and my husband started grad school at UC-Davis (working towards his Ph.D. in Physics).

Bought a house in 2002, got a doggie shortly after that (Schnapps, my beloved German Shepherd), and within the past few months found out we are <finally> pregnant! Baby is due in December of this year :D

The plan is for my husband to finish up his degree in late 2006, early 2007 and we’ll pack up and move to wherever he gets the best job offering (*fingers crossed for the MN area*) Plus at that point in time <hopefully> I can officially become a stay at home mommy. ^_^
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Grats gray!

I'm a College student by day, Ice-cream slinger in the afternoon, and Bible-thumping crazy by night. Seriously though, when I'm not taking classes or studying or working, I'm usually taking a pretty active role in my church, hanging out with various people, and spending some scraps of the time I have left rolling d20s and playing games.

I go to OSU, where I'm majoring in Chemistry and Philosophy; I fence Epee with the local club too. Kind of an eclectic collection of activities.
Title: Getting to know the community
Post by: Goldy on June 30, 2005, 09:21:39 PM: Quote
I dunno, if I were a lemon tester, my face would get pretty scrunched after about three years on the job.
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I could tell you such stories, you would not believe... but no. Just know that many a lemon tester has been destroyed by the lemon testing industry and it is not something to joke about.
Title: Getting to know the community
Post by: confused! on June 30, 2005, 10:30:39 PM: well.

I'm 22 and three days old. i graduated from western albemarle high shcool in may of 2001. and Indiana University (http://www.iub.edu) in december of last year with a degree in history and one in politics, mninors in western europena studies as well as russia and eastern europe. essentially if it happened in eastern europe in teh 20th century i have aat least read about it.

During my time in college, i threw a party which made it into the pages of time magazine, didn't meet the girl of my dreams, and learned to hate snow.

After school, i moved home to charlotesville, virginia, home of the University of Virginia (http://www.virginia.edu). its nice to be back with the family. my dad is university, psych professor. and my mother is a cancer councelor at a private hospital (http://www.marthajefferson.org/) . i have two brothers, one older and one younger.

i am currently employed by Bodo's bagels. which has recently opened a new store, our third. i am the closing manager 4 nights a week. i worked as an employee during the last year of highschool and was interviewed in the store we just opened. the project has been in progrees for ten years. literally.

in terms of people i hang out with.

the guess i hang out with are all nerds. i actually live at RCG (http://www.riovia.net) with a guy you all may have played ns with called uberpea / paul. i used to hang out wih James T Kliss prior to leaving indiana.
he plays as Prof Chaos. and is a total sucker.

now then im off, i need a beer.
Title: Getting to know the community
Post by: That Annoying Kid on July 01, 2005, 01:21:28 AM: Hai

TAK here,
Graduated from Davis Senior high, the hippie town I've lived in all my life in 04. I could have walked 03' but my school neglected to inform me, no worries I lettered my senior year

Been with the server [it's not really TLM to me, but "the server"] since the days of 1.xx
Title: Getting to know the community
Post by: duherman on July 01, 2005, 10:55:30 PM: Well I just graduated from grade nine, and entering high school. I work as a busboy at a Ricky's All Day. That's about it, since there's nothing much about me.
Title: Getting to know the community
Post by: Asurada on July 01, 2005, 11:59:05 PM: hmmm...I am in my last year of high school in richmond hill, ontario. I am intend to get a part-time sometime this summer. As you all know, i am chinese with a uber chinese accent. Have been friends with Lito since grade 10, we were in the same math class using the abacus to do calculus! (j/k not abacus and not calculus, just a normal gr 10 math class) Most of my friends are ****s. Current hobbies are harrassing grade 10 girls and spreading yaoi all over the school.
Title: Getting to know the community
Post by: Black Mage on July 02, 2005, 03:48:54 AM: graduated (hs) a while ago, got back from a trip to toronto. it's also 5am and i have to work tomorrow (i sell paper plates after putting them on shelves ... meh, easy 6.75/hr)
Title: Getting to know the community
Post by: lolfighter on July 05, 2005, 10:44:10 AM: Don't you know the essentials about me already? I always have trouble replying to nonspecific questions such as "tell me something about yourself" anyway. Ask my job interviewers. I'm older than aeroripper, though.
Title: Getting to know the community
Post by: Niteowl on July 05, 2005, 12:05:04 PM: Quote
Don't you know the essentials about me already? I always have trouble replying to nonspecific questions such as "tell me something about yourself" anyway. Ask my job interviewers. I'm older than aeroripper, though.
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LF is a mid-twenties German who spent some time in... uh.. crap.. Denmark? Holland? Netherlands? One of those. He went to a really funky school that was all open ended and stuff and met cool people and chilled, he lurved it. He then plied his hand at... electrical engineering, I think. He didn't like that, not his cup o' tea! So he took a while stressin' what to do with his life.

He's now in school learning network/pc support/general IT stuff and hopes to enter the wide world of Working sooner, rather than later.
Title: Getting to know the community
Post by: LowCrawler on July 05, 2005, 08:13:10 PM: Quote
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Don't you know the essentials about me already? I always have trouble replying to nonspecific questions such as "tell me something about yourself" anyway. Ask my job interviewers. I'm older than aeroripper, though.
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LF is a mid-twenties German who spent some time in... uh.. crap.. Denmark? Holland? Netherlands? One of those. He went to a really funky school that was all open ended and stuff and met cool people and chilled, he lurved it. He then plied his hand at... electrical engineering, I think. He didn't like that, not his cup o' tea! So he took a while stressin' what to do with his life.

He's now in school learning network/pc support/general IT stuff and hopes to enter the wide world of Working sooner, rather than later.
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and now lets meet our next contestant!
Title: Getting to know the community
Post by: Goldy on July 06, 2005, 06:57:38 AM: Anyone want a crate of lemons that didn't pass inspection? They each have one bite taken out of them.
Title: Getting to know the community
Post by: bacon_flaps on July 06, 2005, 10:06:59 AM: What exactly makes a lemon not pass inspection?

SOMETHING ABOUT ME:

I GOT A PUPPY RECENTLY :D
10 week old welsh corgi.
Title: Getting to know the community
Post by: confused! on July 06, 2005, 10:32:42 AM: i for see a conflict betwee goldy and a flying lemon. who will take who first? what will each one taste like perhaps lemony goodness and pop tart sweetness. no one knows. except maybe redfrood and goldy, as they may have tasted themselves.

in more serious news i have purchased a projector. it allows me to enjoy the benefits of huge sweetness and surround sound. that and battlefield looks rather sharp on i if i do say so my self.