What do you do and where?

[Yegolev]

Yeah.  It should.  But gratz anyway!

[squirrel]

Ah what the hell - just noticed this thread. I'm a senior manager (ack!) of marketing infrastructure for a company called Business Objects. I started at a company called Crystal Decisions - we made Crystal reports if you've heard of it.

Am on linked in - search on

Pen Clark
Senior Manager, Marketing Infrastructure, Marketing Operations at Business Objects

EDIT: 37 years of youth, located in Vancouver, BC.

To be thorough I will now update this. I am no longer at Business Objects (as of Dec.06). I am now Director, Marketing at a company called FINCAD. We make incredibly niche software to do valuation and risk analysis on financial derivative instruments (FX Forwards and Swaps, Credit Derivatives, Fixed Income, Interest Rate Swaps, Option forwards, etc.). The website is undergoing a revolution - do not comment :P.

Oh and now 38 years young, still in Vancouver, BC.

[Murgos]

What is smoking gear?

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And that's just what Signe just happened to have had in her pockets.

[Nicodemus]

I am the CEO of Neogence Studios (mmorpg studio). I am the author of "MMO Evolution", and I blog over at killtenrats.com under the pseudonym of Nicodemus. I did some contract work for deviantart.com for a while as their Director of Prints, which ended recently so I can focus on Neogence.

I'm located in Raleigh North Carolina.

You can find me on linkedin at http://www.linkedin.com/in/robertrice feel free to add me.

[ShynDarkly]

Hmmm ... what to say .... I know ...

I'm a British ex-pat network code monkey at Day 1 Studios in MD, been there since September last year, before that way too many years to mention doing sims and datalinks for the military, and way back in the very dim past did a lot of contract work on C64 and Amiga games.

Drifted here from reading the news articles on the unfortunate folks who used to work at Sigil (avid MMO fanatic since Kunark days), and found what seems to be a very interesting collection of people and views.

[Engels]

Welcome, ShynDarkly!

[schild]

Welcome, ShynDarkly!

Kissass.

[WayAbvPar]

Welcome, ShynDarkly!

Kissass.

schild, you are the most eloquent and funniest poster on this site. You make it worth reading every day.



See, THAT is how you kiss ass. N00b.

[ShynDarkly]

Too much time on his hands!

[Engels]

Schild, I imagine you've had a few sycophantic interactions lately, so I forgive your snipe.

There's only one reason I try to be welcoming to devs in this forum, and that's to see more of them post. I actually like to see devs at home in f13 instead of seeing them be shouted down and driven away, as has been wont to happen in the past. You have to admit, the hostility in f13 has pushed it to the brink of complete irrelevance more than a few times during its odd existence.

I have no social networking aspirations with developers. I'm a dime-a-dozen network/desktop support person, with absolutely no interest in working in the game industry. Aside from having absolutely no qualifications for any 'opportunities' (not like that's ever stopped people from being hired) I really don't like the idea of working where I usually play.

[Mortriden]

Well hell

I work in a manufacturing plant.  My job is to oversee people we pull in off the street to do one of the easiest jobs ever conceived.

Despite the fact we hire temps on a daily basis to work on our products, I can't really say what we build because of our ; how lame is that?

So updates... Now divorced (no kids).  Got promoted and now I schedule and forecast customer accounts and production requirements for about half the factory.  Like someone else mentioned earlier, more responsibility, same pay.  Meh... I've got better chances of upward movement in this position.

[Signe]

Welcome, ShynDarkly!

Kissass.

schild, you are the most eloquent and funniest poster on this site. You make it worth reading every day.



See, THAT is how you kiss ass. N00b.

I saw what you did there and I've reported you. 

[ShynDarkly]

Pass me a magnifying glass someone

[Lantyssa]

The quote button is handy in situations like this.

[Strazos]

I usually copy and paste into the address bar.

[Memitim]

Early...ish 30s.
Orlando, FL.
Desktop support at a game studio.

[cmlancas]

Age: 21
Occupation: Full Time Student, University of South Florida (English); Butcher (Publix)
Spare Time: Writing critical articles, trolling forums because I have been inundated with online personalities since I logged onto AVATAR MUD at age ten.
Drink: The Fabled 50/50 Gimlet from Raymond Chandler's The Long Goodbye. If you don't know who Raymond Chandler is, you have no business appreciating the noir. He freaking scored #3 out of the last century's most influential people. #3 for Christ's sake.

[Murgos]

As I recall Marlow didn't care for Gimlet's he just drank them for that one guy's memory.  I can see why, with 50% Rose's Lime Juice they are sickeningly sweet.

[cmlancas]

As I recall Marlow didn't care for Gimlet's he just drank them for that one guy's memory.  I can see why, with 50% Rose's Lime Juice they are sickeningly sweet.

He drank one at the end just for Lennox! I'd have to pull out the book to find the quote though... maybe I will :D

[Chimpy]

Age: 29
Location: Champaign, IL
Occupation: Unemployed currently, most recently spent a month scoring 8th grade math test responses. Took what little of my sanity was left.

Used to work as a scenic carpenter/welder building theatre/television sets and museum exhibits. Decided I was tired of freelancing and the entertainment industry as a whole,  looking to move into something more intellectually stimulating that does not require me to inhale welding fumes and sawdust 8 hours a day.

[Signe]

You should become a housewife.  I know I like it. 

So this is how many for the Monkey Brigade?  Five?  I think the top of the hierarchy is Paelos if you need help adjusting. 

[Chimpy]

You should become a housewife.  I know I like it. 

So this is how many for the Monkey Brigade?  Five?  I think the top of the hierarchy is Paelos if you need help adjusting. 

I actually usually use MrSquirrel on boards, but I saw there is already a 'squirrel' on this board and I felt it would be rude to use that name as a noob.

Also I like the midnight spank logo for an avatar so I figured Chimpy was as good a name as any I could come up with at the time.

[Lantyssa]

You should become a housewife.  I know I like it. 

I'd love to, but I keep ending up being the bread-winner in relationships.

(And I can't even eat bread, dammit!)

[Wolf]

I am the CEO of Neogence Studios (mmorpg studio). I am the author of "MMO Evolution", and I blog over at killtenrats.com under the pseudonym of Nicodemus. I did some contract work for deviantart.com for a while as their Director of Prints, which ended recently so I can focus on Neogence.

I'm located in Raleigh North Carolina.

You can find me on linkedin at http://www.linkedin.com/in/robertrice feel free to add me.

Hey, I read some of your stuff over at ktr. I thought it was awesome, and you should post more :)

[Furiously]

You should become a housewife.  I know I like it. 

I'm taking a 3 week trial of that in 4 days.

[Signe]

How can you possibly fit 3 weeks of housework into 4 days!!!  I want answers!

[Yegolev]

He has testicles.

[Signe]

Testicles only make more work for women.

[Yegolev]

You are not disproving my statement.

[Signe]

I know but I can't figure out how. 

[Furiously]

I know but I can't figure out how. 

Well....

Most mammals have one pair of sex chromosomes in each cell. Males have one Y chromosome and one X chromosome, while females have two X chromosomes. In mammals, the Y chromosome contains the gene that triggers embryonic development as a male. This gene is SRY. Other genes (in addition to SRY) on the Y chromosomes of men and other mammals are needed for normal sperm production.

There are exceptions, however. Among humans, some men have two X's and a Y ("XXY", see Klinefelter's syndrome), or one X and two Y's (see XYY syndrome), and some women have three Xs or a single X (and no Y, "X0", see Turner syndrome). There are other exceptions in which SRY is damaged (leading to an XY female), or copied to the X (leading to an XX male). For related phenomena see Androgen insensitivity syndrome and Intersex.

Many groups of organisms in addition to mammals have Y chromosomes, but these Y chromosomes do not share common ancestry with mammalian Y chromosomes. Such groups include fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster and relatives), some other insects, some fish, some reptiles, and some plants. In fruit flies, the Y chromosome does not trigger male development. Instead, sex is determined by the number of X chromosomes. So XXY fruit flies are female, and fruit flies with a single X (X0), are male but sterile.

Other organisms have mirror image sex chromosomes: the female is "XY" and the male is "XX", but by convention biologists call a "female Y" a W chromosome and the other a Z chromosome. For example, female birds, snakes, and butterflies have ZW sex chromosomes, and males have ZZ sex chromosomes.

Does that help?

[Signe]

Yes.  Thank you.  I know what I have to do now.

[Chimpy]

Ok, now I am lost.

Clicking on "read unread posts" sometimes is not a good idea.

[voodoolily]

Oh snap I just figured out how to use our corporate employee/project tracking software Vision (the same software we use for timesheets) to look up my coworkers' employee ID numbers and how much they make. Keep in mind that I am not a haxx0r and do not have skillz. HR will be very interested to hear this, I'm sure. 

[Strazos]

Gonna use that info to bitch for a raise, right?

"Hey, BlardyBlar makes more than me, but I have more experience, and/or tenure, and or I actually do more work (or more difficult work). Pay raise plzkthx."