You know, it's annoying as hell that I have to work during the day. I need to work on getting fired more quickly.

I hardly know a thing about any of you. The only person who shared anything personal was Teledildonix and you all scared him off pretty good.

So in the interest of forming a more perfect message board, won't all of you share something personal about yourselves so we get to know you for something other than pedantic quips?

I'll start: I clean up cat vomit on average about 3 times a week. I use paer towels and Windex (orange flavor). I also have the responsibility of Chief Poop Engineer in my household. I don't like fish (ask me about my bizarre dietary requirements sometime), and Amy doesn't like beef, so we have chicken for dinner just about every night. There are a lot of ways to make chicken.

Shut up, Zamphir. I meant paper .

I don't think Teledildonix is scared off, unless he's told you that. I just think he's been busy with other things. But that's a guess - I haven't asked him what's up lately.

I've actually shared quite a bit about myself, in tiny little bits and pieces here and there.

And Deerboy has a daughter.

In Response to zamphir (#16710):

But in the interests of sharing, I'll recap.

I'm nearing 35, I'm married, with no kids (nor intentions thereof). I have a cat, and currently two dogs.

I'm traveling for work now, commuting by airplane between my home in Baltimore and central Florida during the week.

I like cooking quite a lot, both chefery and bakery. I'm probably a better baker than I am a chef - but not by a lot in either direction. My wife claims that she fell in love with me for my cooking - and we both agree that it wasn't for my charm!

I like to draw and paint and sculpt, but don't do nearly enough of any of them. I'd have had a double-major at college between CS and Art, but couldn't fit in the art history credits.

Well, my profile says much of it. But... um... I'll try and sum up.

I'm a bisexual Libertarian in-the-process-of-converting-to-Judaism college-aged female living with her Socialist Jewish boyfriend. Like at least one other person on the boards, I'm from Pennsylvania. You lot have seen my picture already, so a description shouldn't be necessary. I'm also a gamer geek and UberCon regular, too broke to go to any other cons, and diehard webcomics reader - I read one for every year I've been alive, although only 17 of them update regularly.

I keep kosher, am addicted to chocolate and Starbucks' Frappuccinos, and am extremely fond of tuna fish. I own several weapons, but can't use any of them effectively. I got kicked out of the sorority I was pledging. I roleplay regularly (White Wolf, not kinky sex games). I'm obsessive-compulsive, and a dependent personality type. I can't cook, I love to eat, and I say a little blessing every day for my Irish metabolism.

I killed my fish by dehydrating it, my cat had hyperthyroidism, and both my mouse and my dog got cancer. The goldfish my sister named after me lived to a ripe old age, but she started referring to it with her name after the first fish she'd done that to jumped out of the tank and died behind the piano.

... And what scares me is that all of that is actually true.

I recently turned 29 and am married with one cat and no children. My husband and I depart for Mali [northwestern.edu] in September to serve in the Peace Corps for 27 months. I'll be working on a health assignment, and my husband will assist in small-business development.

After flip-flopping around for six years I graduated with a BS in Biology because that is where I had the most requirements met. I look forward to using my degree again in my Peace Corps assignment.

When I'm not working I am may be found in one of three places--my garden, the pub a block from our house, or playing indoor soccer as a goalkeeper.

The only person who shared anything personal was Teledildonix and you all scared him off pretty good.

Although it may be fair to accuse me of scaring easily, it is never because of conversation. In case it wasn't blazingly obvious to everyone everywhere: i tend to speak my mind. Also, i'm terrible at prevarication; so my opinions may be strange or wrong, but they're honest.

If i haven't said anything this month, it's because 1) i didn't feel i had anything valuable to share, 2) i haven't felt like spending as much time on my iMac, nor any other activities that require excessive bed-getting-out-of, and 3) even though i enjoy participating in a friendly group, i don't like being the center of attention; when i become the very topic of discussion, i feel the need to be less conspicuous. I don't like to stick out, and i've been getting extra practise on my horizontal alignment lately.

The survey about "ways you found Goats [goats.com]" didn't have an option for me. A dear friend sent me the link to this comic [goats.com] around New Year's 2003. I immediately had to read the entire archive, and have been hooked ever since. This friend knows i appreciate good Crisco jokes. That's on the topic of sharing something personal.

(ask me about my bizarre dietary requirements sometime)

So, Jon, what are your bizarre dietary requirements and why?

In Response to jon (#16709):

Shut up, Zamphir. I meant paper .

BUT OMG!!! YOU WERE SO WRONG! YOU SAID "PAER"!

I THOUGHT YOU MEANT THAT THERE WAS NO PEE IN YOUR PAPER AND YOU LIKED IT THAT WAY!

HAHAH OMGGG ROFL LOL!


firetruck!

Well, like Z said, I've probably shared a lot over the last year in scattered forum posts, but here goes:

I'm 23, I'm from the Twin Cities, where it's cold. I'm a single-white-gay-workaholic-manic-depressive male (actually, the manic-depressive has been curbed to a great extent lately). I'm originally from Moline, IL, where I learned about tractors and racism. I was not-so-politely kicked out of every organization I was ever a part of in Moline when I came out, hence the living in Minneapolis (and the depression).

I currently live in Northeast Minneapolis (very close to the University) with my roommate, who's a music dork. I'm getting close to graduating (one more class...), but I've been in school for 6 years thus far.

I work for a small non-profit theater company (as an administrator), a church (as a singer), and any pickup work I can find (I was working today as a P.A. for a choral recording in St. Paul). I used to want to be a pastor, but 20 minutes in college changed that. My parents are divorced (about 50% of all marriages end in divorce, per my Sociology class last spring), and I've never met my father. I have a sneaking suspicion he may be darth vader. My Myers-Briggs personality type wavers between ENFP and INFP, and I have a "logical" learning style.

I cook like my grandmother, and make sauces, casseroles, pasta, etc. from scratch all the time. There isn't a day that goes by that there isn't flour spilled somewhere in my kitchen. In my freetime, I read goats (which I found while working an overnight security job), watch Cartoon Network & Nick @ Nite, and smoke about a pack and a half a day. Don't f*ck with your addictions.

I journal daily, and usually write 3-5 pages a day. I'm also an aspiring librettist/playwright. I was a vegetarian for two years, but I gave in and ate a big mac about 5 years ago, and have been a cow-eater ever since. I still don't eat pork. Questions?

In Response to zamphir (#16717):

Wow, Zamphir finally snapped. It was only a matter of time.

In Response to zamphir (#16717):

ROFL always makes me think of Rolfing and Rolfing sounds like cats vomiting hairballs.

I think I've shared a lot around here - probably due to the influence of alcohol. I'm 24, and female, graham, FEmale, and for a year now I have lived in our nations capital, which is either duller than it sounds or precisely as dull as it sounds, depending on how much you know about Canberra.

I don't drink as often as some [goats.com], but when I do, it's far too much [dumbrella.com]. But at least I have some great [dumbrella.com] stories [goats.com] This month, I am apparently the bane [goats.com] of insurance companies (there was a car incident a couple of weeks ago ... probably best not to ask).

These things just seem to happen to me. Last week I went out for a quiet night at the pub and some otherwise perfectly sane stranger spent the evening trying to bite me. I still have teeth marks on my arm.

That's right. I have a daughter. That's all you friggin need to know. She's just 7 months old, so no luck for Corns.

This is what I need to know:

1) At what point did orange become a magical cleaning product? They went through 408 formulae, eureka!, number 409 works, and nobody tried to pour a little orange on the stain? Didn't anybody see this when the lemons seemed to be working so well? I guess somebody should go try grapefruit.

2) Which Voltron is this thread about, the cars or the lions? Or the other one that was never on TV but the figures were advertised on the back of the box of the other Voltron toys? That would sure help my contribution.

3) Isn't 90% of Sturgeon's Law just a bunch of crap?

wait, Teledildonix is gone? I liked him, he was nice. That sucks.

About me: I am an insomniac who paints, draws, dabbles in photography, comic writting (books not strips save the crappy ones online that pale incomparison to cat-shit), poetry, short stories, screenplays, anything artistic that keeps me busy. Like most guys on-line I suck at the girls, so I am an official misogynist. I never had an imaginary friend. I am a "singer" in a "band"

In Response to sakuruth (#16713):

what type of conversion are you attempting? Reform? Neo-Conserv? Traditional-Conserv? Ortho? Have you done the "rejection" ceremony?

In Response to deerboy (#16722):

by Corns do you mean Kornz?
I am confused...

In Response to kornz (#16726):

I am confused...

Yes. [goats.com] Yes, you are. [goats.com]

Apparently, though, I am the punchline.

In Response to kornz (#16725):

Orthodox, most likely, although my ability to find an Orthodox rabbi is lagging behind. However, since my boyfriend's brother-in-law is on his rabbinical internship, that may well change in the near future.

And the rationale behind an Orthodox conversion (since he's Conservative and most of his family are Reform Jews) is actually the ease with which our children could then visit Israel. Jewish religious heritage is carried through the mother, so children of a Jewish mother are considered Jewish for Israeli legal purposes, such as vacations, semesters abroad, and immigration. And, since pretty much every Jew, no matter how Reform- or new-age-inclined, will accept an Orthodox conversion as valid... a little more hassle for me translates into a lot less hassle later on.

In Response to sakuruth (#16729):

be warned, orthodox conversions are VERY VERY hard, basically you have to learn all about judaism, meet with a Bet Din for your "examination" choose a new name and then have the public service. The thing that I am going to tell you about is that if a Rabbi rejects you, tells you "you are not ready" or "go learn about your own religion" that is part of the process; tradition dictates that a rabbi reject you at least three times before he will accept you to do so.

A few random facts that could (more or less) be worked out from previous posts of mine, plus one of two revelations :

I'm 31 (for another week), male, English, live in Scotland and have done for 26 years.

I'm heavily into roleplaying, especially Glorantha [glorantha.com] although Cthulhu and Fading Suns are up there too. I can pretty safely count Sandy Petersen as "someone I know" and Greg Stafford as a friend.

I'm married, with no kids (yet) and two cats. The cats are surprisingly well trained, and very rarely poop or vomit in the house. Cats in general like me - strange cats will run up for attention while I'm walking down the street. Apparently I've been secretly marked as "mug". I'm pretty keen on all animals, and have never really understood anyone who is a "dog person" or a "cat person" in exclusion of the other.

I run a small (two person) programming/web development/design company. I spend too much time marketing, not enough actually coding.

I enjoy ranting on the Internet. You might have noticed...

I'll eat pretty much anything, like experimenting, and secretly want to steal Jon's chicken recipe book.

I'll answer other direct personal questions in a straight-forward or vague manner, depending on my mood at the time.

Cheers,
Graham

I have, like all other cool people, posted a bit about me throughout.

I was gone for about 3-4 months becuase I became obsessive with a snowboarding forum. People posted there constinantly, and it is crazy. Then I realized that I missed people who spoke english at a college level, and then argued over the semantics of all their posts.

I was excited when I posted here again and someone noticed I was back. THRILLED. Before I left I used to tell my apt mate every time I got modded up (or down). I still do. It's quite the exciting event for me. Most have been +1 pathetic though.

But you want something about ME. I turned 22 a few days ago. I'm graduating UW Seattle with 2 majors in a month, Psych and History. I actually have a boyfriend (that was said in another thread tonight) and he does live 3 hours away from me. I don't drive. I don't even have a license. So every weekend he drives to Seattle to spend the weekend with me. It's really quite amazing.

And he just IMed me that I'm too attractive. I'm a sucker for sweet guys.

And I can't Spell. AT ALL. But I try my very hardest for you guys, even typing things in word, or an email so I can spell check the word.

In Response to daubergoat (#16719):

Wow, Zamphir finally snapped.

Nahh. It's a not-so-oblique reference to something going on elsewhere.

It was only a matter of time.
Sorry, but I think you missed your slot in the pool.

I just turned 28 and someone sent me a copy of "Tasty Yet Morally Ambiguous" for my birthday, but I have no idea who.

I've been married for a little over five years and we have a cat named Logan, after Wolverine on the X-Men. I want to continue the X-Men theme with other pets and children (except the fish, who is named "Fish"), but my wife disagrees. She also fails to see the humor in my collection of Goats T-shirts [goats.com]. Then again, I fail to see the merit in her obsession with buying crystal figurines on Ebay.

I'm a Leiutenant in the Navy. I got my commission from the University of Minnesota Navy ROTC in 1998 with a B.A. in Journalism, so I know how to use a semicolon. I freelanced a bit for the Minnesota Daily [mndaily.com] and was a DJ and reporter for a year with the college radio station, Radio K [radiok.org]. (Buy a Watt!)

I lived in Japan for two years and have seen a lot of Asia and the South Pacific. I love Australia; I've been there three times. I put my Journalism degree to good use [navy.mil] while I was there.

On my last ship I was in charge of all the guns and missiles and things that go boom. I also traversed the Panama Canal [pancanal.com] six times.

Now I live in "Scenic" Newport, RI (City by the Sea). I teach antiterrorism and air warfare to other officers and I'm going to night school for my MBA at UMass Dartmouth. I also hash [gthhh.com] frequently and am a beer snob, unless I'm doing down-downs, in which case the nastier the better.

All of which I'm sure you would've found out eventually.

24, M, 6'4

Have a girlfriend and a degree in archiecture
Live in LA, do 3D modeling, web development, and sysadmin

Enjoy cooking, but don't have enough time. Enjoy fine wines and beers, but don't have enough money.

I was born and raised in sunny Minnesota, in a town called White Bear Lake (as if any of you north or east coasters know or care about anything that isn't connected to an ocean). I'm your standard 22-year-old mid-upper-middle-class white male geek.

I currently attend school at the University of Minnesota's Duluth campus. It's my 4th year of college, but my first year here. I spent last year at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, and the two years before at Century College (in WBL). I have another two years to go at UMD before I'll graduate, if I don't give up first.

I'm majoring in Graphic Design, though I've changed my major at least 7 times in the past (video production, photography, film, multimedia, etc.). I do a lot of web design, and have been running my own web site "The Insane Asylum [theinsaneasylum.com]" for over 7 years now. I also do a lot of 3D design and animation, and I'm currently working on launching a weekly webcomic (though my files keep getting corrupted). You can see some renderings on my web site.

I don't watch any tv except for a few shows, which I download from the internet (Enterprise, Sopranos, Deadwood). I watch a lot of movies, and have over 400 items in my Netflix queue. I have over 150 discs in my DVD collection. I'm really into computer games (console games can suck it), and my favorite genres are RPG, Adventure, Strategy, and Shooter.

The only other webcomics that I read on a regular basis are PvP and Penny Arcade. I read Nodwick from time to time too, and I've been trying to get into Scary-Go-Round, but that's about it. Other comics I like are The Tick (though the ones not by Ben Edlund, Eli Stone, or Sean Wang are sort of hit-and-miss), just about anything by Jhonen Vasquez, and I just started getting into Hellboy. My favorite comics in the paper are currently Doonesbury and The Boondocks. I've been a huge fan of Garfield for my whole life, though I recognize that it hasn't really been very funny or original for the past few years.

I'm a HUGE Star Wars fan. Back in High School, I was on vacation in Florida, and I went into a bookstore where they had 22 hardcover SW novels, the big SW Encyclopedia, 2 "Guide To..." books, and a paperback of the trilogy novelization, selling for $40. To reiterate, that whole collection was selling for $40 TOTAL. At that time I had never read any of the SW books, and I had only seen the movies on TV a couple times, but I bought the whole collection. Since then my collection has grown to over 50 books, as well as some comics. I don't have much of the merchandise, except for the entire Ep. I collection of action figures (I worked at Wal-Mart at the time, so I fell under the spell of their subliminal brainwashing).

I drive a dark green `93 Oldsmobile Cutlass Cierra S. The brakes are starting to give out, which is bad because you REALLY need brakes in Duluth.