What do you do and where?

[geldonyetich]

You're a serial killer, aren't you?

I balk at harming a fly.  However, as a computer game addict, I'm close enough in the public eye.  My pixel lust will cause the seas to boil red, or so CNN tells me, but for the time being the only person I harm is myself from lack of exercise or social contact.  I get out once in awhile as I am, after all, a full time college (soon to be university) student.

[edit: I edited to add further details and make this longer.]

[Yegolev]

Every time you edit a post, I get a stabbing pain in my skull.

[Cheddar]

Every time you edit a post, I get a stabbing pain in my skull.

Should at least include a reason as to why the edit was done.

[geldonyetich]

There, I added a reason why I edited, happy?

That stabbing pain in your skull is the excellent vibes from my edits performing karmatic chemotherapy on malignant cells that might have otherwise caused issues 10 years down the line.

Cheddar's sigpic was the cause of those cells.

[edit: Edited to make fun of Cheddar's beefy Santa Claus, fully aware that a guy with a Psi-5 Trading Company sigpic is in no place to judge.]

[Cheddar]

There, I added a reason why I edited, happy?

That stabbing pain in your skull is the excellent vibes from my edits performing karmatic chemotherapy on malignant cells that might have otherwise caused issues 10 years down the line.

Do not take your failed site out on us.  Shit, back on topic, people!  Save derails for the non stickied threads.



edit.  And thank you Geldon.  I like ya, but you do use lots of words sometimes.
edit 2.  In response to Geldons edit: I will fucking crush you.  Thanks for hopping back on the rail!

[Raging Turtle]

On Topic:

Windsurfing doesn't work so well in december here in cheeseheadland.  I need a freakin' job.

[geldonyetich]

Almost on topic, I'll say you can mock my failed site all you like, but I was mocking it before I wrote my first article for it.  An in response to Cheddar's Edit2, what, is that guy family?  If it's Cheddar himself, I both confirm that he could indeed crush me but threaten that in doing so my transfats will infect his well defined abs.

[Etro]

putting the thread back on topic 

Hello, i'm Mark!

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'Lurker Foozle' <- could this be a new forum title?
Final Year Computing Student @Aberdeen.
Honours project is to make some sort of web service that runs on a mobile device (ie the mobile phone has a webserver running on it)

[Cheddar]

'Lurker Foozle' <- could this be a new forum title?

Schild is niggardly about titles.  FYI, Schild is pronounced shilled, though I still prefer to call him S - Child.  Signe is pronounced Sig knee, but I still call her Sign (she prefers the name "Feet"), and Triforcer is pronounced Cum Guzzling Know It All Future Ambulance Chaser.

I accepted an offer from a biiig company and will be officially enveloped into its giant maw in January.  My current plans are to enjoy the rest of my vacation and play games too much.  Oh, and drink.  A lot.

[Etro]

'Lurker Foozle' <- could this be a new forum title?

Schild is niggardly about titles.  FYI, Schild is pronounced shilled, though I still prefer to call him S - Child.

ah Danke for that info, I always picture Sean Connery saying the phrase 'a skilled worker' when i see his name (if you can do the accent, it makes sense). Will have to remember that silent c! 

[schild]

I'm making custom titles special again. See how I don't have one?

[MrHat]

I'm making custom titles special again. See how I don't have one?

I thought you were just having an uncreative couple of months.

[Quinton]

30.
Senior OS/Kernel/Embedded Engineer.
Mountain View, CA.

[bhodi]

New job: Vonage. They need a new marketing department, I know. And yes, they really like orange at their NJ campus. I do, uh, computer stuff. Engineering/Dev on Unix variants and perl programming.

[Lantyssa]

As a Vonage subscriber, does that make you beholden to me?

[Strazos]

Only if you're a stockholder.

[dusematic]

I'm making custom titles special again. See how I don't have one?

I feel special.

[shiznitz]

I'm making custom titles special again. See how I don't have one?

Mine shoudl be retired, btw. I lost badly this year in both FFL endeavors.

[Cyrrex]

When I first saw the name "Schild", my brain decided that it needed to be pronounced phonetically.  Phonetically in my brain, that is, as I've not had reason to actually say it aloud.  I will do that right now.   Yup, it is definitely suh-child.  You have to say the "suh" part pretty quick, otherwise it just sounds stupid. 

And Signe, that must be "see-nuh".

[Sky]

I guess you don't sprechen the deutsch.

[Cyrrex]

I guess you don't sprechen the deutsch.

I tried to avoid it, generally.  Which name are you even referring to?

[Signe]

Schild, because Signe is so not German. 

By the way, the Norwegian pronunciation is Sig-nee.  Seen-ya is just how my mother (who was from Italy) and her side of our family pronounced it.  She thought the Norwegian sounded awful.  Everyone in my family says it different.  I don't even hear it anymore... I'll answer to mostly anything.   I rarely speak to anyone but my immediate family, anyway, and all my friends live in other countries.

[Endie]

Hardly anyone has really answered the questions in this thread for ages, so I have no idea how much detail is the norm.  I develop stuff.  I like computers, and despite various degrees in law, economics and international relations to try and deny my destiny, I am all about the code.  And I am in Edinburgh, Scotland, which used to mean more to more people when Trainspotting was big.

[Yegolev]

And I am in Edinburgh, Scotland, which used to mean more to more people when Trainspotting was big.

You should remind them about that totally awesome camera obscura.

[Signe]

Just don't remind them about all the English people who live there.

[Yegolev]

Ha, no need.  If you are touring Scotland, you'll find most of the B&B are owned by English, presumably rejected from their own society.  If I wanted to endure the unfathomable glares and sarcastic mumbling of an Englishman, I'd tour England instead.  Maybe those B&Bs are run by Scots?

[Endie]

And I am in Edinburgh, Scotland, which used to mean more to more people when Trainspotting was big.

You should remind them about that totally awesome camera obscura.

I've often wondered what the effect would be of a well-aimed class 3B laser would be if aimed at the viewing mirror of that thing.  I mean in both directions.

And Signe, yes, we do have plenty of English here, but we treat them, in the main, with a sort of benign tolerance: all Jock Tamson's bairns, and all that.  I think that they hope that when they go abroad they can legitimately claim to be "from Scotland" and therefore avoid the worst of Continental Europe's loathing.  If they pick up an accent and a kilt then that helps even more when they go stateside.

[pxib]

Golly, I ignore the General Discussion forum so completely that I missed this thread.

I'm 30, and I keep the books circulating at busy public library in Santa Rosa, CA.

[Yegolev]

You push the carts, or you just check out a lot of books?

[Sky]

Two library people. Time to form the Library Mafia.

You're overdue, bitches!

[Endie]

Two library people. Time to form the Library Mafia.

You're overdue, bitches!

I rather like some of the t-shirts here: I got my mum - a librarian herself - a "What would Dewey do?" one.

[Signe]

Somehow I got on a list for nurses and the last two weeks I've been receiving a barrage of nursing type emails.  So now I'm a nurse.  Feel free to ask me any sort of medical advice. 

[Yegolev]

I am sure it is very much like your mailing-list-based MMO advice.

[Jayce]

Two library people. Time to form the Library Mafia.

You're overdue, bitches!

My wife aspires to be library people.  I'll tell her about the Mafia; it's sure to inspire her!

[pxib]

You push the carts, or you just check out a lot of books?

Yes and yes. I've joked that my title "Library Tech" is the ideal sort of answer to "So what do you do?" Everybody hears it and nods as if they understand, so nobody actually cares to ask what it involves. I sort, I check in books from other branches, I retrieve things from the closed stacks. I magically transform newspapers and magazines into Library newspapers and magazines. I check the shelves to make sure they're in order. I shelve books. I find piles of books that patrons have left under tables. Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

I'm a college dropout and I've worked a series of government jobs because they're the best pay and benefits I could get without a degree. That said, I wanted to work at a library the way that Homer Simpson wanted to work at a bowling alley... I could win the lottery tomorrow and I wouldn't quit. 300,000 books at my fingertips. No pressure, no late fees.

Two library people. Time to form the Library Mafia.

You're overdue, bitches!

My wife aspires to be library people.  I'll tell her about the Mafia; it's sure to inspire her!

We call them "union reps".