OT - Gandalf Parker, Who are you?
 

You know Gandalf, I don't know alot about you. Mind if I ask you a few questions so everyone here can get to know you better?

Is that your real name?

Have any Hobbies?

If you play Se4 how long have you played?

Do you like your toliet paper over the top of the roll or under the bottom?

What is your favorite breakfast food?

If you could make one wish what would it be?

Yes, or No?

Married?

Where do you live(you don't have to be specific)?

Childern?

Pets?

What is the meaning of life?

What is you specialist subject?

[ May 30, 2004, 17:47: Message edited by: Combat Wombat ]

Re: OT - Gandalf Parker, Who are you?
 

And of course the important question...

"Where were you the night of January 23rd at 7:43pm?????" http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

No idea what you're up to CW, but it's ammusing me no end.... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

Re: OT - Gandalf Parker, Who are you?
 

Is that your real name?

Its a real middle name. It used to be a lot more uncommon. Now alot of places wont let me use it. Always taken or I get the response of "only real names here". I often have to show my government ID card to prove it.

Have any Hobbies?

Computers, games, pets, games, wildlife management, games, music, games.

If you play Se4 how long have you played?

Not long. I played the demo abit and then received the full Version as a group of games from Shrapnel. Dominions is what I was in that brought me here altho I probably would have tried SEIV eventually since it has a lot of features I like in a game.

Do you like your toliet paper over the top of the roll or under the bottom?

Over the top altho there are extenuating circumstances for doing it that way at my house (a handicapped child)

What is your favorite breakfast food?

Probably pastrys. Generally my favorite foods are meat but you had to go and ask about breakfast which is where I indulge in pastry.

If you could make one wish what would it be?

Hmmmm I think I need to take the 5th on that.


Yes, or No?

True

Married?

Yes

Where do you live(you don't have to be specific)?

Vacaville California. Suburbia between Sacramento and San Francisco.
Mostly to be near Travis Air Force Base and the David Grant Medical Center. Im Air Force retired (non-officer) and being near gives me access to my benefits.

Childern?

2 boys. Well not boys. 25 and 27. both live with us. Plus a brother-in-law and he is 26. We all game computer, console, and tabletop including my wife. We have lots of consoles and a full network here (4 windows machines with individual IPs, and a Debian Linux server). My son has said he cant move out because now he has to not only come up with first-month, Last-month, security deposit but he also cant consider leaving without coming up with DSL install. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

Pets?

Usually many and varied but at the moment they are all domestic. Dogs and Cats.

What is the meaning of life?

Bigger Better toys (42 of them)

[b]What is you specialist subject?[/]

Hmmmm Ive always tried to be jack-of-all-trades. More general than specialist. My resume is full of interesting jobs that had nothing to do with each other. I guess one I ended up with that I didnt want would be system administrator for ISPs. I dont rely on ISPs now, I just do my own services.

Re: OT - Gandalf Parker, Who are you?
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Online. Pitiful huh? 6am to 9pm 7days a week.
Shrapnel isnt the only place I work. They are all telecommute which has major pros and cons to it.

-- Get a life?!? Excuse me but I HAVE a life ThankYouVeryMuch!
(Its virtual but its a life)

[ May 30, 2004, 18:56: Message edited by: Gandalf Parker ]

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Online. Pitiful huh? 6am to 9pm 7days a week.
Shrapnel isnt the only place I work. They are all telecommute which has major pros and cons to it.

-- Get a life?!? Excuse me but I HAVE a life ThankYouVeryMuch!
(Its virtual but its a life) </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Not sure if you got the Pun in that above http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif CW sounds like he's interrorgating you. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

No idea where the Get a life comment from unless it was an assumption on the next reply http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/confused.gif If you're thinking i'm accusing you or provoking you I'm not.

And Combat Wombat, what are you doing, An SE4 This is Your Life???? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif

EDIT: As for your name i can understand the problems there with people not believing you. I get it with my birthday, I was born on September 11th so many people won't accept that it is and give me a good lecture on making fun of a terrible day or i get shifty eyed looks, quite weird as there must be thousands of people born on that day... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/confused.gif

[ May 30, 2004, 19:47: Message edited by: Raging Deadstar ]

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Not sure if you got the Pun in that above http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif CW sounds like he's interrorgating you. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

No idea where the Get a life comment from unless it was an assumption on the next reply http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/confused.gif If you're thinking i'm accusing you or provoking you I'm not.</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">No no. The dash-dash-space at the beginning means its a sig (signature file). Im so used to newsGroups that I thought it would be understood that way.

I have lots and lots of sigs. 95% are my own creations and tend to cause giggles. Mostly poking fun at myself. The 6am-9pm/7days-week seemed like a perfect place for the "get a life?" sig.

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ahhh, all is understood http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

*Raging Deadstar leaves the seiv forum for the night with another interesting tidbit of useless knowledge never to be used but always remembered http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif *

Re: OT - Gandalf Parker, Who are you?
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I've never quite gotten that sort of response myself...

Re: OT - Gandalf Parker, Who are you?
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I've never quite gotten that sort of response myself... </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Really? i find that quite strange considering you live in the country it happened in. Then again i live in the north of england and it really is a closed minded area, anything to judge you by or grab the soap box if you know what i mean....Kind of Like Politicians http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif .

We now return you to CW's intended scheduling of this thread before it is hijacked http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[ May 30, 2004, 20:17: Message edited by: Raging Deadstar ]

Re: OT - Gandalf Parker, Who are you?
 

this looks like fun

Is that your real name?

No. My real name is Simon

Have any Hobbies

Yes, Reading, Gardening, Gaming , Writing.

If you play Se4 how long have you played?

Too long according to my wife

Do you like your toliet paper over the top of the roll or under the bottom?

both

What is your favorite breakfast food?

peanut butter sandwitch ( all natuaral organic peanut butter on flax bread or sour dough ) and a glass of oj

If you could make one wish what would it be?

To win the stanley cup as the captain of the leafs.

Yes, or No?

the middle one

Married?

yes

Where do you live(you don't have to be specific)?
Canada

Childern?

no

Pets?

1 cat

What is the meaning of life?

to answer the old man from scene 42 correctly

What is you specialist subject?

history

Re: OT - Gandalf Parker, Who are you?
 

Everyone just keep asking questions I guess.

Re: OT - Gandalf Parker, Who are you?
 

Hey Gandalf Parker wildlife management sounds interesting and very enjoyable. What do you do with that .

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">In the military they were great at finding out that you had a hobby, then "volunteering" you to help them out. It had its pros and cons. Nice to get some training and support in what was a hobby but rotten to turn a hobby into work.

Just about the time that my computer-hobby-turned-job was getting to me they offered to turn my animal-handling into work. There was a rabies scare and I was drafted to take care of a feral cat problem. In standard military fashion they widened it to I got called an anything that was alive and the security police didnt want http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

I had a 95% live-capture/relocate rate which is pretty good considering some of it. Had some interesting pets for awhile. A "wolf" which turned out to be an over-energetic dog became one of the best pets Ive ever had. a 6-foot wingspan vulture we had for a short time. a 6 foot "rattlesnake" I got called on which turned out to be a bull snake but it was neat so we kept it for a few years. A "tarantula" was a fun story. About the size of my hand. The SecPol that called me said "I stomped it, it got up, I called you". Made a great pet also. There was the time I got called to "get the possum out of the skunk house" (the people had a pet skunk and a possum took over the skunks dog-house in the yard.

Of course there were also real rattlesnakes, and "giant rats" (usually oppossums), a bull, skunks, bats, an eagle, an escaped cockatoo, some pitbull calls, mmm thats all I can think of for now. The worst of all were the cats-gone-wild though. I lost 2 partners that were laid up for weeks from trying to handle them.

I also got to do Environmental Impact Reports, Endangered Species Surveys, and became the only "Park Ranger" on the 10 acre park we had with a 2acre pond.

Lots of fun and it was a nice switch from the computer room. After awhile they developed a big "computer problem" (trying to migrate projects from the huge mainframes to PCs) and I got flip-flopped back.

I havent done much with it since I got out of the military except back to training my own pets and impressing people. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif Ive debated applying to the city to manage their park/pond (their fishing could really stand to be improved). I especially think of it everytime I notice what this computer life is doing to my waistline.

Did you know that Internet is fattening? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">LOL! Never thought about it, but yea, I can see your point. And all the people think about fat when they should reduce Internet... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

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Animal handling. I saw some photos - from the Congo, I think - of these guys walking Hyenas.

They looked like the local equivilant of gang bangers, as they all had this "Im tougher than you" kind of look, and red rags tied around their biceps. I dont know if they fought the Hyenas like cocks or dogs, or if they just walked them for exercise, but they had them on some heavy chains - and *most* of them were muzzled.

A Hyena is no small animal, either. Giant muscle bound things that were more than waist heigh at its shoulder - and thats waist high on a big African that looked to be at least a head taller than me. And Im a good six feet.

Some other guy in the background of one of the photos had an ape (not a monkey, an ape that looked to be about 3-500 lbs) on a chain. None of the pedestrians seemed to pay any notice to any of it.

Inner city Africa has some whacky stuff. Anyone have first hand accounts?

Re: OT - Gandalf Parker, Who are you?
 

its good to get out and about.

I do work for the historical society in my area.

Guess what that means.

Yep cutting grass and pulling weeds.

But hey it is outside and keeps you busy.

I think I am getting older when I realise that being out side is so much better than being inside.

Mind you I have a nice sized garden this year to ( 8 zuchinni , 30 Pepper , 20 Tomatoe Plants ) And then various herbs growing all over the place...( Basil, Parsley, etc... )

Takes up a lot of time.

But when I make the hot sauce in the fall I think it will be worth it.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">20 tomato plants? Wow, should pull a few to add 'Ongions, carrots, Cucumber, and string beans are easy to grow, and if you place one of those cheap arches in the garden the beans will climb up and make a nice garden feature.

Cheers! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Good comparison with Wildlife Control. The day to day job isnt near as good as it sounds but what the heck, its a nice title. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

I always have fun making up titles. For that one I think I had "Base Environmental and Animal Services Technician".
It let me officially put B.E.A.S.T. Master on my jacket.

[ May 31, 2004, 16:42: Message edited by: Gandalf Parker ]

Re: OT - Gandalf Parker, Who are you?
 

An old buddy of mine was a janitor. Liked to call himself the S.O.B., or Superintendant of Buildings.

But I guess that will only be funney to a small fraction of our native English speakers...