So just who the hell are you?

[Barley]

Having had a quick look through the threads, I can't see a who are you type thread? I reckon it'd be nice to find out a little more about the people that come here often. What do you do? where do you live exactly? What things are you into, except computers, obviously

I guess to get the ball rolling, my real name is, shudders, Nigel. I've lived on the Isle of Man for nearly 4 years now, but I originally come from Cheshire, and more precisely, Sandbach. Mmmm the Isle of Man, a haven for tax dodgers, fast drivers and increased postal charges (sorry had to get that is ).

I moved over here for a women when I was 19, stupid mistake! Now I'm 23, and still work for the same life insurance company, and it's VERY boring. Typical office admin job.

I'm hoping to move back to the mainland around November though, and I honestly can't wait! I'm hoping to land a job at a new company my dad is setting up with some associates, and my girlfriend and I are hopefully going to be buying a house.

I spend most of my time on my computer, or as much time as I can get away with without my other half shouting at me. \"You never spend time with me\", or \"you'll make yourself ill on the computer all the time\". I can build a PC, trouble shoot them, build websites, all that kind of thing.

I'm also a keen movie fan. I love watching films, especially at the cinema, another reason i miss England. I'll watch most things, but I prefer something funny, or with good action, or scary, or a good thriller. I'm also a fairly keen cyclist, however my bike is currently in pieces on the floor of the old flat I lived in! I've also started learning to play the guitar!

Anyway, that's me. Can't wait to see what everyone else has to say, especially Lucy! :mrgreen:

[DrunkDwarf]

Alright then...

My real name is Brian McGillivray... i live in the far far north of Scotland... in the most northernly town on the british mainland, Thurso, situated at the mouth of a river that passes through a small valley opening up into an almost crescent shaped bay. (originally a Viking settlement \"thor sa\" which translates to Thors Bay.) [Link to Google Maps]

Ive lived here all my life, though i have travelled elsewhere. I have a love/hate relationship with computers... i work with them as a Web Developer for a local IT firm, and im quite often at one at home... but i get really frustrated with them, something always goes wrong... i can build a computer, install things, and do some basic troubleshooting... but it does my head in having to fix things... if i could live without computers i would, but they are too large a part of things these days...

Apart from computers, im fond of Swords, Knives and Airsoft BB Guns, although i dont have any of my own at the moment, having sold what i did have... though i intend to increase my collection when ive got the money to spare...

I consider myself to be average looking, though people have stated that i look like Elijah Wood... infact, when the the LOTR movies first came out... i had people saying i was a spitting image of Frodo when i was leaving the Cinema...

I like to draw and such, though im not that great... im a fan of pen & paper roleplaying games... having participating in Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay, Dungeons & Dragons and other D20 systems, and more recently the World of Darkness series of games (Vampire: the Requiem etc) with a group of friends... ive also been the storyteller/dungeonmaster on many occasions, directing the storyline/plot/etc in long-running games... which i do in a very improvised manner...

Anyway... thats all i can think of to say at the moment... id better get back to work

[Gregoroth]

My name is Greg and I'm 19. I'm about 5'8\"-5'9\" without my shoes on. Currently doing nothing due to have a year off from life, but should be doing more college in September. I live in South Birmingham but I was born in Worcester. My favourite time of the year is Autumn.

My interests include using and maintaining my computer, music composition influenced by video game music and 80's rock/metal, I watch quite a lot of movies with my preference being 80's-90's films and I aim to be a proficient cook. My main instrument is the keyboard, been playing 7 or 8 years and I got myself an electric a year and a half ago (see avatar). My favourite bands include - but not limited to - Iron Maiden, Journey, Ayumi Hamasaki, Rush, Dokken, Queensryche, Van Halen. I'm pretty open minded and like a wide range of music, especially that dance version of the American Beauty song. That is fantastic.

I watch a lot ot TV such as Lost, Neighbours/Home&Away, Medium and car programs. I love Rally motorsport. Hopefully I'll get round to being in the crowd at the 2007 British event. I like photography and natural landscape beauty but sadly don't have a digital camera to enjoy that to the full (Aria get those Kodak C330's in that I asked for...please!). I am an adept artist but haven't done any artwork since 6th Form purely because of it exhausting me and being tedious. Very tempted to do a large portrait of Master Chief though! Hehe

Top video games include:

Halo series
Retro Sonic and Sonic Adventure series
Jade Empire
Shenmue series
Richard Burns Rally
Carmageddon (got to love that brutal carange from time to time)

Top movies include:

The Shining
The Last Samurai
Blade Runner
Mrs Doubtfire
Akira
Battle Royale
Alien
House of Flying Daggers
Azumi
Toy Story

Top TV programmes include:

Lost
Fawlty Towers
Saxondale
WRC
Neon Genesis Evangelion
Medium
Sunset Beach
Due South
Sliders


I'm fond of animals and don't like to see or hear about animal cruelty. Not keen on cats because of the claws and their nasty habit of trying to kill the little hedgehog that lives in my garden and the cat sh*t.

I'd like to go to Japan, or should I say mainly rural Japan, Canada and New Zealand. Anywhere else is too hot. In fact travelling would be one of my favourite things to do when I'm settled in a career and can support myself but I'd go with a friend or girlfriend because I don't fancy being stuck somewhere on my own with a flat tyre and caught with my pants down in the middle of a forest where I can't speak the native language...

That's all I can think of right now.

[Barley]

Ahh I see, it's going like that is it? Well in that case!

Favourite Movies

The Matrix
Serendipity
The Shawshank Redemption
Goodfellas
Alien/Aliens
Terminator 1 and 2
Hackers

Favourite Games

Starcraft - Replaying at the moment
Counter-Strike - Member of clans FoCA and dMw
Day of Defeat - Member of clan PF
Battlefield 2: Special Forces
Diablo II
Deux Ex
Call of Duty 1 and 2

Top TV Programmes

Top Gear
SugarRush
Faulty Towers
The F Word
Due South - One of the best programmes EVER!
Sliders - That was great too!
Property Ladder/Grand Designs - Anything property related

[Anonymous]

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[Barley]

[mac124]

Right here goes, my name is actually Mark and i was born and bred in Northamptonshire (not that much further north fom you PP :wink: ) and i am single through choice, i was engaged but we don't like to talk about that :evil: . I am probably a bit older than most on here being 30(ish) :wink: but hey i am young at heart and making up for lost time.

When im not stuck in front of my pc visiting the 2 or 3 forums i regulalry use or playing games i am usually watching dvds (horror, thrillers and sci fi are usually the films of choice) watching sport on tv footy or cricket depending on the time of year or occasionally watching \"normal\" tv progs Lost being the favourite atm. Weekends i am usually out with a few mates playing pool or watching local bands stuff like that.

With regard to pc's well i am no expert by any stretch of the imagination but i have built various pcs for myself and quite a few for friends / family / work collegues. The only real thing that stumps me is networking i can usually muddle my way through pretty much everything else eventually. In my spare time (usually sundays and the occasional week day evening) i review pc hardware as a \"hobby\" which i enjoy as quite often i get to try out new hardware before it hits the streets or very soon after.

To pay for this i work as an electronics enginner for acompany that makes equipment for radio stations / tv recording studios and any other application that needs audio distribution equipment.

Anyway thats a brief history of me

[Belso]

Well everyone, my name is Alex and im 18 Years Old. Im from Ipswich.

I work for a small company in Felixstowe called, MLITC. Been working here now for around 20months, and i love it.

Got my love from working with computers when my dad 1st bought a £2,000 Pentium 2 Machine from Tiny. I do consider myself pretty Geeky.
I was addicted to a game called Ishar.

When im not at work or with my girlfriend, im normally over the pub with all me mates, or down the park having a kick around.

My girlfriend who is 16 Years Old, and we have been going out with each other for around 9 months now. Infact it was 9 months yesterday. And she's wonderful ops:

I love mostly old music, Like Queen, Dire Straits, 90's Music. But also love a good bit of dance classics when i go clubbing.

My fave Films are Halloween Trilogy, Warriors, DodgeBall 8)

My fave TV Shows are Bottom, Men Behaving Badly, Orrible, Young Ones

My claim to fame is meeting David Beckham and Victoria Beckham, when i was working as a Kitchen Porter at Portman Road (Ipswich Town Football Club Stadium)

I was a right Terror at school :twisted:

Also currently trying to quit smoking, as my girlfriend bought me an Inhaltor, Pills, Patches and Gum. So fingers crossed!!

My jobs so far have been

Ipswich Town Kitchen Porter - Started when i was 14

Cinram - Basically you put DVD's in cases for 12hours a day

Mlitc - Fix Pc's, help clients setup networks, build pc's everything 8)

Hope im not to weird...

[kristoficus]

Hello, my name is Christopher and i have a serious alcohol addi....Oops, wrong forum

Im a 21 year old student studying an honours degree in \"Multimedia Technology\". Im a Scottish patriot, i enjoy a hard drink now and then (max one night a week...max!).

My first love was a 33MHz, 8MB RAM, 1MB Graphics, 440MB Hard Drive, computer. This was 13 years ago. I used it mainly for drawing with MSPaint ( and i was actually good ). A few machines in between and now im on a nice little powerhouse.

Dont work...mainly because im a lazy typical student during the Summer months.

My passions... Music, car racing, computers (anything), eating good human prepared foods, socialising, etc etc. The usual

Things i love (apart from Lucy):
Ice Tea (Tetley's brand), photography, the beach, warm and sunny days, cold and snowie days, birthdays (not just mine), planetarium, laying in an empty field at night watching the stars, talking with friends, my university work (when i get good projects), hot, frothy and sweet Cappuccino, hot beef bovril, watching everybody loves raymond, nights out with the lads, driving, holidays, Aria.co.uk, me, you...Ohh too much to mention.

[Mighty_Jah]

Hi folks...nice thread makes for some interesting reading,nice to know wev,e all got other things in life to contend with than all this chip related nonsense.

Ok, where to start?
Oh yeah..right I reckon Ill prolly be the oldie of the bunch,happily married with 3 great kids(sorry Lucy too late chuck) as some of you already know I live in that little rectangular peninsular called Wirraljust over the river from Liverpool, yeah the freakin place where all the golf crazy's are at the moment.

The wonderful Wirral Peninsular >>
http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j3...ONlOCATION.jpg
Ive done a few things in life, as far as education, employment go, from working in an old folks home, Building work, sales, painting and decorating, real estate, eventually got fed up and got my a.s.s in college, did graphic design, art and design, degree in fine art, teaching qualification,absolutely despised technology at that point but spent a large portion of my last years student loan on a pc then got into computers as a means of scanning photo's of my art work for gallery catologues,then found music composition and all the knob twiddling soft synths, rebirth etc spent a couple of years knocking a few albums up, sending em to loads of labels under the Band name Mighty Jah Freakshow, didnt do much, claim to fame was an entry on a chillout compilation album and a couple of white labeLs, Ill stick some tracks up later so you can have a laugh.

Mighty's Music >> http://www.esnips.com/web/Mightys-Music

Ended up where I am now, work for UK Online (yep Tony Blairs outfit), wev'e now ditched the concept and gone our seperate ways,(We knew learn direct would fail big time), now Im an IT manager, network admin, and teach ECDL, Digital imaging and multimedia, Ive got a cracking job,I pretty much decide whats gonna happen,spend loads of the bosses cash, but get results and hopfully people get jobs in the it industry as a bonus.

I do a normal 9-5...erm and then its me other job,evenings and weekends yep like a few on here I buy sell and repair PC's for people,bit of web design,often thought of aquiring premises, but then thought nah...to many pc shops round here, Incuding the big bullies of the pc market, so I just stick to my business card and poster approach, I cant grumble, as Im often inundated with clients,as Im cheaper than all the big boys(take that as you want to).

Super Mighty in freefall, in a whacky attempt to save the planet..
http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j3...MightyJump.jpg

I consider myself to be quite sociable, and always seem to be the culprit of any wise cracking, I love a good chuckle, with friends, drink smoke and swear like a trooper(not proud)dont watch much telly, like the odd film, Massive LFC Fan, like gaming, graphics n techy stuff, I have a very full life what with my main 2 jobs, the missus and kids, dogs n guineas, so I also like to play hard, with the lads, love music, going to gigs, pubs, larkin around with me mates etc, like many people in the IT industry, from Monday to friday + evenings Ive got my head on all things techy and exams, teaching etc, then have a good blow out, saturday night.

Known to give trees hugs, which makes perfect sense to me, having had a tft in my face, most of the week.

Thats all from me...!....for now...lol.

Greets and nice knowin ya...Mighty... :wink:

[Anonymous]

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[Biodoid]

well here goes ops:

My name is Jon, I could be amongst the older people here (33) I'm from Salford which isn't a million miles away from Aria :wink: and I'm a Man City fan (waits for the abuse) I'm a qualified electrician

My first computer (if it can be called that lol) was a good old Spectrum 48k which got upgraded to a Spectrum 128 (without the tape deck on the side) that lasted a while..(up until about 3 years ago). First PC was a P75 with 8meg memory and 1gig drive, which I thought was good until i found out Quake wouldn't run because it needed 8 meg minimum to run (didn't know I had on board graphics card which used 1meg) so had to go and buy another 8meg stick which cost about £60 at the time..ever since then I have just upgraded parts all the way upto the *current* setup

P4 2.8 (Northwood) @ 3.6 (air-cooled)
160gig WD Caviar SE 8meg cache
2 gig Hynix pc3200
6600 GT Vid card
SB Audigy2 ZS
as well as usual burners and fans

Most of my time online is either shopping here..Ebay..or playing America's Army, BF2, Toca 3 or Live For Speed online

Music tastes range from rock right through to death metal :twisted: with the odd bit of rap thrown in when I'm in the car

well thats me 8)

[Barley]

Yay, the thread got stickied, happy day!

[Belso]

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cradle snatcher! :wink:[/quote:ab442c55f3]

[Mighty_Jah]

Oi..I thought twas Brill...comment...Love our PP..He dont know Im stealing his broadband..yet....Ive got 6 houses, sharing his connex so far...10 quid a month...they think I'm...Talk Talk..


Raskle... :wink: