Get To Know Each Other

[.alchinko.]

hey guys seeing that no one actually fills out there profiles i think that we should all get to know each other. so ill start it off.



Name: Billy Lundin
Age: 14
Location: Wausau WI
Hobbies: snowboarding, computers
Occupation: none at the moment.. well pending actually
Computer: floresaint green with a lot of fans
Years modding: just started this summer
Real Life friends on TBCS: .Maleficus.

[CanaBalistic]

This could prove to be intresting latter, ill participate.

Name: Jaims Bereza
Age:22
Location: Maple Ridge, BC(Bud Capitol :) ), Canada.
Hobbies: Poker, Modding, Various other things
Ocupation: Currently between jobs
Training: PC Repair Technician (almost finished)

Website: http://members.shaw.ca/balistic/
This is my online portfolio showcasing my grafic abbillities.

[Cagedconnerman]

ooh, sweet

Name: Conner Dobson
Age: 13
Location: Citrus Heights, CA
Hobbies: skateboarding, girls, computer. (weird huh?)
Occupation: mowing lawns
Yrs modding: started this summer too :)

[Slug Toy]

Name: Mike Zagar

Age: 19 (just)

Location: Coquitlam, BC, Canada (i say vancouver because coquitlam used to be an extension, and most people know vancouver better)

Hobbies: weight training, food, biking, anything funny and deranged, relaxation, boating

Occupation: professional student (majoring in geology), did electrical stuff when i was between schooling and i will not do that again... the pain of it all!!!

Years modding: since about christmas

Talents: you name it... physics, chemistry, biology (sciences in general as long as i like them)... metal work, jewelry, automotive, woodwork... sports (dont like them, but im fast)... art (especially abstract and computer)... i like to think of myself as a jack of all trades

My computer: a black box with some blue bubbly things, i got it when i didnt know much about computers and i went for flashy instead of functional

Friends on here? no not really... all my friends are nearly intolerably hardcore gamers that dont do this stuff... they expect me to do it for them



Location: Maple Ridge, BC(Bud Capitol ), Canada.

well... jaims... seems you and i are reasonably close to each other.

[.jrauck]

Name: Jonathan Rauckhorst
Age: 15
Location: Houston, TX
Hobbies: Computers, Videogames, Graphic Desiging, Girls
Occupation: Nothing yet but in a month or so, maybe earlier.


MY Myspace (www.myspace.com/jrauck)(if the damn thing is not blocking you from seeing :/)

[CanaBalistic]

well... jaims... seems you and i are reasonably close to each other.

Yeah, i seen you on the frapper map. There is one more of us Vancouverites listed on there too. I think he lives in nanimo or somthing. I used to live in millardville, on Alderson ave. That was way back in the day however.

[.Maleficus.]

Name: Andy Summers (And no, I was never in the Police.)
Age: 14
Location: Wausau, WI
Hobbies: Snowboarding, guitar, gaming, computers
Occupation: I wouldn't call it my occupation, but I just got a job at McDonalds
Computer: My HL2 computer under-construction: White outside, orange inside, Lambdas, I will be trying my hand at etching later this week... (currently nothing in it due to having no money)
Years Modding: Started this summer
Real life TBCS friends: .alchinko.

[Airbozo]

This could prove to be intresting latter, ill participate.


Location: Maple Ridge, BC(Bud Capitol :) ), Canada.



Hehe and all this time I thought that humbolt county was BC.

Name: Terry Tracy
Age: Older than all of you
Location: Boulder Creek, CA
Hobbies: skateboarding, snowboarding, disk golf, computers, gardening, brewing, kayaking...
Occupation: Senior hardware engineer
Yrs modding: Before most of you were born...

[Cagedconnerman]

Occupation: I wouldn't call it my occupation, but I just got a job at McDonalds

dude, how'd u get a job at mcdonalds at 14!?!?!

[.Maleficus.]

Once you're 14 you can start working. At least where I live you can.

[Cagedconnerman]

hmm, i'll have to talk to dad about that for CA

[CanaBalistic]

British Columbian Drug Lords... lol

[.alchinko.]

well good way to make money but is a bit of a gamble.... .Maleficus. did you have to get a works permet.? and i tihnk im applying with you.

[.jrauck]

well good way to make money but is a bit of a gamble.... .Maleficus. did you have to get a works permet.? and i tihnk im applying with you.
A work permit why would you have to get a work permit.

[.alchinko.]

well idk my brother had to get one..... for working. im not sure if its for under 18 idk.

[Omega]

Name: Michael "Omega"
Age: 15.
Height: Damn near 6ft.
Hair: Brown
Intrests: Computers, Cars, Music, teh ladies =D
Real life friends on TBCS: Smaug777, if he actually registered. I remember telling him to, anyways.
Months Modding: Two.
Employment: N/A.
Website: http://www.thebornotaku.co.nr (Personal website with pretty much nothing good at all)

[.Maleficus.]

Yeah, you have to get a work permit. I think anyone under 18 has to get one.

[nil8]

Name: Mike a.k.a. Saltpork, Amaril, nil8
Age: 22
Location: Springfield, MO
Hobbies: Learning, philosophy, sociology, psychology, theology, occultism, American civil war, movies, winter hiking, firearms, fishing, cooking, graphic novels, and video games.
Occupation: PC Grunt (IT)
Yrs modding: 4 off and on

[tennysol]

Alright...
Name: Lars (that's it no nicknames or aliases)
Age: 30
Occupation: Architect/Project Manager (also getting my MBA)
Location: Melbourne Florida
Hobbies: Music, Real Golf:D , Photoshop, Computers, Sailing, Expanding my knowledge (reading, writing, learning).
Yrs Modding: 2 (but I usually just ruin things...its fun)

[Airbozo]

Alright...

Hobbies: Music, Real Golf:D ,


Funny stuff!

Took a friend of mine out diskgolfing a couple of months ago. He always thought we were just tossing plastic around like at the beach so how hard can it be?

He USED to make fun of us, but since he started going disking with us every week, he has new found respect for the sport. Hehe he really got a laugh when I told him about the PDGA...

I stopped ball-golfing about 6 years ago, because it got too costly for me. I got bored with the 9 hole local course and started going to the proffesional courses here, but now refuse to pay $50 (plus mandatory carts at some courses) just to smack a ball around... Not to mention the fact that I have been playing on OLD used clubs and am NOT paying for a new set. I could replace my snowboard, boots and bindings for less than the cost of a good set of clubs...

Disks cost me between $5-10 each and last for a couple of years, and course fees range from free to $5.

[.alchinko.]

I could replace my snowboard, boots and bindings for less than the cost of a good set of clubs...

What kinda set up you got... snowboarding

i just got the new NITRO T1, i have cartels and the nitro team boot. i got the T1 because last year i broke my elevation.:(

[qoou]

Name: Rafael Alvarez
Age: 16
Location: Austin, TX
Hobbies: Modding, duh.
Occupation: None.
Mods: Stalin's Desktop, Others, but no project logs.
Years Modding: about 4 years.
Real life TBCS friends: Tech Daddy
website:www.austinmodders.com

[Scotty]

Name: Scott Coxhead
Age: 15
Location: Peterborough, England, UK
Hobbies: Computers, graphical design, pc art, photography, destroying things
Occupation: NONE
Computer: x-qpack modded with 80mm fan on side window.
Years modding: started feburary 2006
Friends on TBCS(VIA MSN): Tybrenis, Crimson13, DaveW

[tennysol]

Disks cost me between $5-10 each and last for a couple of years, and course fees range from free to $5.

Wow...our disc course is free here in town...I go out a bit here and there but when it only costs me 18 bucks to play 18 holes of regular golf WITH a cart...I can't pass it up...I am going this afternoon!

Disc Golf is cool though, I must agree...we had a tournament here in town last year, I was suprised at how many people were there to play. Hundreds...

[Airbozo]

Wow...our disc course is free here in town...I go out a bit here and there but when it only costs me 18 bucks to play 18 holes of regular golf WITH a cart...I can't pass it up...I am going this afternoon!

Disc Golf is cool though, I must agree...we had a tournament here in town last year, I was suprised at how many people were there to play. Hundreds...


Well our course is "technically" free, our club just asks for $1 donation for upkeep and such. DeLaveaga Disk Golf Club. DeLa as the locals call it is probably one of the hardest courses in the world. 27 holes of trees and canyons littered with poison oak and Blackberry brambles. The disk golf course actually parallels the ball golf course for a couple of holes.

There isn't even a par 3 9hole ball golf course here for $18, I am jealous.

[DaveW]

Name: Dave Warnock
Age: 19
Location: Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Hobbies: Computers, Cycling, Photos, Creating things with my hands.
Occupation: I wait tables at TGI fridays and i'm a full time student in Computer Science/Software Engineering at Glasgow University
Computer: I'm running 4 computers and a laptop, suffice to say my hardware is cheap and depressing at the minute
Years modding: Hah, none i guess...haven't finished anything yet :)
Friends on TBCS: I like to think everyone is my friend.

-Dave

[CanaBalistic]

Friends on TBCS: I like to think everyone is my friend.



So true... So true...

[tennysol]

There isn't even a par 3 9hole ball golf course here for $18, I am jealous.

Man That sucks hard...I've got two 18 hole municiple courses for 18 bucks with cart and 3 courses less than 30 bucks with a cart and a nine hole for 12 bucks unlimited! My advice...GET OUT OF CALIFORNIA :D

[Airbozo]

Man That sucks hard...I've got two 18 hole municiple courses for 18 bucks with cart and 3 courses less than 30 bucks with a cart and a nine hole for 12 bucks unlimited! My advice...GET OUT OF CALIFORNIA :D


Yeah but then I would have to move to another state with a beach close by. No gulf states for me (been there done that). Not gonna join the other million peeps moving into oregon and washington is just too gloomy and cold for me (thats why I left colorado). Besides, ball golf is just not that important right now...

[Rankenphile]

Gloomy and cold?

Right now, out the window of my office, it is a wonderful 82 degrees witha slight breeze, clear blue skies and gorgeous mountains covered in trees.

I love Washington. The only problem with it is all of the Californians moving up here ruining the view! :p

Kidding, kidding. I love California, and yes, Washington can be cold and gloomy. We're just lucky this year. Most of the time we all get together and pray that summer comes on a weekend this year.

[Airbozo]

Gloomy and cold?

Right now, out the window of my office, it is a wonderful 82 degrees witha slight breeze, clear blue skies and gorgeous mountains covered in trees.

I love Washington. The only problem with it is all of the Californians moving up here ruining the view! :p

Kidding, kidding. I love California, and yes, Washington can be cold and gloomy. We're just lucky this year. Most of the time we all get together and pray that summer comes on a weekend this year.


Heh Yes my S-I-L lives in seattle (visiting her in august) and she l;oves it up there. She has been lucky with the weather. She travels about 60% of the time and has been at home during the niocest parts of the last year.

All those "californians" moving to other states are the ones that moved into cali in the last couple of years that could not take it and have moved on (only the plate is really from cali).

Out my office window: other buildings and 98, no view (unless you count that chick walking her dog).

[Aero]

Name: Curtis Szajkovics
Age: 17
Location: Gurnee, IL, US
Hobbies: Computers, Cars, Designing
Occupation: None, but looking
Computer: 2 Desktop computers, 1 Laptop
Years modding: 1 1/2 building, and 2 of designing.
Friends on TBCS: I really need to make some of these here :), been posting long enough.

[simon275]

Name: Simon Pearce
Age: 18
Location: Simon Pearce
Hobbies: Messing with comp, parties
Occupation: Student (Study Drone)
Mods: Saving my pennies
Computer: Read my sig, Gaming PC, Linux Box, Laptop

[maximan1]

The only problem with it is all of the Californians moving up here ruining the view!

Its not funny, ok?

[nil8]

Right now, out the window of my office, it is a wonderful 82 degrees witha slight breeze, clear blue skies and gorgeous mountains covered in trees.

Today in SW Missouri it was 92 with 80% humidity. Eugh.
I don't have a window at work. I don't even have an office.

I hate you ranken.

Computer: 6 running right now. After I stop being lazy, 9.
Friends on TBCS: I barely have friends in the real world, much less on the interweb.

[simon275]

Today in SW Missouri it was 92 with 80% humidity. Eugh.
I don't have a window at work. I don't even have an office.

I hate you ranken.

Computer: 6 running right now. After I stop being lazy, 9.
Friends on TBCS: I barely have friends in the real world, much less on the interweb.

Sounds like someone needs a hug or a change of job maybe both.

Oh and the weather in Australia pisses all over the lovely weather you guys get. hehe

Nah jk

We worry about South Africans and the Poms ruining our view. Dam backpackers who dont go back to their own countries.

[Slug Toy]

Today in SW Missouri it was 92 with 80% humidity

you think thats hot? when i was in mexico about ten years ago, it was hitting around 120 with about that humidity. we were in tulum and i think it was closer to 130 that day.

i like it hot, so for me, 92 and 80% is comfy, hotter is better.

here where i live... its actually a lot like what ranken said... we pray that the good weather hits on the weekends. it never does though... some sort of sick sense of humour. i hope especially hard because that not only means i can get a good tan, but that also means i can get out on the boat and kill myself on our 9 foot deck tube (if you've seen those videos of that guy getting airborne on this big tube... thats what we have, and it most definitely will do that... speaking from experience).

you know... i had a point to make, but now i forgot.

[nil8]

I'm a cave dweller. 62 degrees = happy.

I don't like anything over 85. Ever. Humid or not.

I work in IT as a pc grunt. It's not a bad gig and it pays for my schooling and living.

As for people, I prefer to be alone 80% of the time. It allows me to do what I want on my own timeframe. Often people waste my time and I don't have much to waste.

[Airbozo]

Slug: We all know canadians don't tan... Fish belly white is the national color :-)


nil8: One of the things I love about working with computers is the environmentally controlled rooms. Got 103 outside yesterday and was still 69 in my lab. All the warehouse guys kept looking for reasons to hang out in here.

[Rankenphile]

Today in SW Missouri it was 92 with 80% humidity. Eugh.
I don't have a window at work. I don't even have an office.

I hate you ranken.

Computer: 6 running right now. After I stop being lazy, 9.
Friends on TBCS: I barely have friends in the real world, much less on the interweb.

I forgot to mention. I also have a house outside my office window that has a pen full of puppies I can watch play with each other as I work.

:p

[opengswede]

Name: Erik Eriksson
Age: 27 (must be one of the elder here :) apparently)
Location: Umeå, Sweden
Hobbies: guitar, modding, software development, web-development, creativity and problem solving (much on a theoretical level, though)
Occupation: PhD student (should be done in May 2007(!), like that's going to happen...)
Mods: brain in a jar (planning, learning, reading)
Computer: 1 win, 1 linux, 1 laptop, plus my gf's and the two in the office (one linux, one windows).

As for modding I just don't understand how you guys get the time (but it's all about priority I guess). Currently, the biggest time drain is my kid, which isn't even born yet and is already claiming a large part of my time... naming, shopping, research etc.

I also must say that where I live the wheather is good (Thank you gulf-stream and Norway). The only complaint I have is that there is no spring. We go from winter to summer in about 4 hours.

-.erik

[maximan1]

About the kid part.

We're all pretty annoying, so get your rest while you can ;):D

[.jrauck]

Yeah, you have to get a work permit. I think anyone under 18 has to get one.
Dont kno where you live but I live in texas and my sister was 15 when she got a job no work permit, my bro was 17 when he got a job no permit, and im 15 now about to start putting in my application for some stores in a month or so and I dont have to get a work permit.

[maximan1]

Wow Texas is a highly illegal state here in California...wait a minute

[FyR]

As for modding I just don't understand how you guys get the time (but it's all about priority I guess). Currently, the biggest time drain is my kid, which isn't even born yet and is already claiming a large part of my time... naming, shopping, research etc.


Time drain??! Research?! Id be dead meat if the misses saw me writing like that ;)

[tennysol]

I forgot to mention. I also have a house outside my office window that has a pen full of puppies I can watch play with each other as I work.

:p

The view from my office looks like this...:)
http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f318/tennysol/d5f3cd04.jpg

Puppies...:rolleyes:

[Rankenphile]

Age: 27
Location: Sedro-Woolley, Washington (tiny town, about 8000 total people)
Hobbies: gaming (computer, console, board and card), building things, breaking things, hurting myself in the process and swearing a lot. Also, Warhammer.
Occupation: Marketing Director for small national company
Mods: Ultimate Arcade (on hold), a number of small projects, but nothing worth sharing yet
Computer: 2 windows desktops, one laptop, lots of broken/soon to be broken computers, one really old working computer which will be subject of mod project.

[opengswede]

Time drain??! Research?! Id be dead meat if the misses saw me writing like that ;)

I might have formulated myself ill. What I meant was that research, shopping and naming the child takes time. Not that I mind, it's just that when you go out to find somthing, you don't really know what you need, so you end up with three alternatives, buying neither and going back home to scan for better prices / look up safety details etc. On top of that, we have the option of using my sister-in-laws stuff (they have a one-year-old), but they can't make up their minds on which of their stuff we can have...

However, it is rather fun, and I'm looking forward bringing a kid up, getting to play with lego and computers and stuff, legitimetly, YAY!

-.erik

[.jrauck]

The view from my office looks like this...:)
http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f318/tennysol/d5f3cd04.jpg

Puppies...:rolleyes:
Pretty nice. I dont see them every day but im only about 15 minutes from a mirina and about 45 minutes from Galveston, Texas.

[tennysol]

Pretty nice. I dont see them every day but im only about 15 minutes from a mirina and about 45 minutes from Galveston, Texas.

Thanks...worked hard to get here...should have seen my last workspace! What a crap hole...
I'm lucky enough now to work about 3 minute drive from the beach...8)

[Luke122]

Age: 26
Location: Alberta, Canada (Oil Country baby.. yeah)
Hobbies: Biking, Driving, Singing/songwriting, modding anything I can get my hands on, Art
Occupation: IT Manager
Mods: The "Whitebox" (xbox mod), and currently working on the Breadbox Media Server.
Computer: 2 Dell Dimension PC's (dont hate on me, they were cheap), a Dell Laptop (work stuff), and a former Compaq laptop, soon to be in a breadbox.
Other Info no one cares about: I'm lactose intolerant. Haha.. you didnt care did you?

[Airbozo]

However, it is rather fun, and I'm looking forward bringing a kid up, getting to play with lego and computers and stuff, legitimetly, YAY!

-.erik


Since I don't have kids, does that mean I have to turn in my big box of legos?

[Aero]

Since I don't have kids, does that mean I have to turn in my big box of legos?


now way. Legos are fun for all ages:D .


wowo tenny, nice view. I'm about 10 min from the harbour up here by chicago. The closest on eis in Waukegan, which is the worst suburb of Chicago for gang activity :( so I don't go that often.

[.Maleficus.]

Where I live, in the winter time, I have a great view of our Skiing/Snowboarding mountain. It's very nice.

[Airbozo]

Where I live, in the winter time, I have a great view of our Skiing/Snowboarding mountain. It's very nice.

There are mountains in the dairy state?:D

[d_stilgar]

Biography: Born in St Louis, MO. Moved to Chicago; then Mtn. Home, ID (air force); then to Kennewick, WA. I now live in Rexburg, ID where I go to school.

Location: Rexburg and Kennewick.

Interests: Modding (duh), PC gaming, Nintendo, art of all kinds, music, music, music.

Your hobbies, etc: Modding, Downhill Longboarding, Trumpet, French Horn, Piano, Jazz Singing, gaming.

Your job: Sanitation Engineer Manager. Don't laugh! haha.

My Mods: NES PC

My Mod Projects: Hal 9000 (future), NES PC (take 2), Pirates of Caribbean trilogy (in time for release of third movie).

[Rankenphile]

Since I don't have kids, does that mean I have to turn in my big box of legos?

http://www.brikwars.com/

[Airbozo]

http://www.brikwars.com/
Heh, that is great!

Little off topic: (sorry mods) Does anyone know that lego uses VR systems to design some of their kits? In the VR world they have setup, you have unlimited access to any lego part and when done it prints out the parts list for the factory to pull.

Back to your regularly scheduled topic...

[tennysol]

now way. Legos are fun for all ages:D .

wowo tenny, nice view. I'm about 10 min from the harbour up here by chicago. The closest on eis in Waukegan, which is the worst suburb of Chicago for gang activity :( so I don't go that often.

Thanks...I appreciate it. Sucks about the gangs up your way...:(

Now on the subject of Legos...I have more legos than I care to count...ever. I must have about half a million...literally. As an architect I am fascinated by them, as a big "kid" I am fufilling my childhood dream of owning as many as I can...

For Example:
http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f318/tennysol/IMAG0046.jpg
My old apartment's "Lego/Computer" Room

http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f318/tennysol/IMAG0050.jpg
The closet of the "Lego/Computer" Room...

Ain't I a fool...:p

[.Maleficus.]

Well, I wouldn't say mountain, it's more like a large hill. Well medium sized. It's a nice place to snowboard though.

[BigV1027]

Age:14(bday in october yay! lol)
Location:as of now spain for vacation, but i live in northeast philadelphia
Hobbies:Tennis, computers, games, piano, drawing, hackysack
Occupation: Student
Mods: none lol the closest ive come was building my own comp
Computers: Gateway laptop, an emachines (i think), and my build
Other info no1 cares about: I can play chopins fantasie impromptu (look it up and listen to it :p )