I was just telling Senjak, ingame, that this is the best thread EVAR! to all the folks and their stories Even the twisted ones...

1) I'm addicted to drag racing

2) I built my own engine (86 Buick Grand National 600hp)

3) My favorite video games are from the original nintendo

4) I killed someone with a kitchen knife who broke into my house, but it was self defense

5) I love dogs

6) Italian food is the best food

7) always try to save room for desert.

8) I was an assistant gunner in a light artillery air assault unit in the Army for 6 years.

9) Getting married in a month

10) I consider my compter speaker headphones to be one of my best purchases ever.


bonus) I can do a pretty good Al Pacino impression from Scarface

 

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I'll play.


1. Riddles and problem solving are fun for me, which I attribute to my vaguely-eccentric engineer grandfather who composed a ridiculously hard problem every year, which he sent to all his children and grandchildren, and rewarded the first correct answer. See #11.


2. Last (and only?) game I finished was Freespace2, which is still my favorite game ever. Most games have a very short shelf life with me.


3. Nature photography is a hobby I think I would enjoy.


4. Athletics weren't a strong point of mine until about my senior year in college, at which point it was too late to take part in HS sports or prepare for intercollegiate competition. Occasionally vaguely regretful.


5. My recommendation is that if you can afford it, one time in your life drop $700 on dinner at Charlie Trotter's on a special night - if you're "into" food, you won't regret it. http://www.charlietrotters.com


6. Engineering (software, specifically) is my job, but I love music and cooking more than coding. I have a lot of engineerish traits (see #7)


7. My eating habits are insane. Every meal is a challenge in optimization to make the last bite the best one. The perfect meal would start with the least-desirable bite and finish with the most-desireable. See #6 for why I'm crazy.


8. After high school I was fortunate to take a school trip to London, Paris, and Madrid. Paris is most memorable because of a certain incident where I spilled hot (HOT) coffee on myself and ran away swearing in french, rather than admit that I had no clue what a random stranger was saying to me.


9. Techie gadgets are a weakness of mine, even if I know I won't use them.


10. Tiramisu = <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

Addendum to 10)

http://groups.msn.com/percivalpictures/hibernia.msnw?action=ShowPhoto&PhotoID=433

 

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I'm going to start at 8 because I left off at 7.


8. I love movies. I mean, I LOVE them. I could spend everyday watching one or two of them, and actually this reminds me that I need to poke my friends and corral them into watching The Lord of the Rings with me one saturday or sunday... sad fact is that DAOC has taken a lot of that movie time away from me, which is an indication of how bad this game gets into ya.


8.A Best movie? gods... that would make my mind explode. I'll leave it at a simple sampler of favorites : The Princess Bride (of which the book which came out first is just as beautiful, even with a slightly different story) The Lord of the Rings trilogy, which left me agog in the theater, many a time after something exciting I would realize that my mouth was open and my hands clasped together before me as if I were praying. And third on this non-comprehensive list would be American Beauty. Which many think is just macabre but reaches a level of emotion that was very personal to me.


9. Should I know you and like you I am a fantastic conversationalist. Should you make me uncomfortable in any way which includes being a stranger then it would be darn difficult to speak.


10. I have a (at least to me) an impressive vocabulary which may or may not be a ruse to disguise the fact that I dont really know what Im talking about, and many times I end up thinking after the fact "wait, did I use "Amorphous" right?"


I reserve the right to add 11 through 20, because this thread rocks and it should go on.

<< 10) In nearly 39 years on this world, the saddest day of my life was the day my dog, Charlie passed away, February 16, 2004. Miss him more every day. >>


That was on my 24th birthday Emeryc

 

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Random fact about Senjak: He is much more sharming than he either knows or admits.


Edit: was gonna edit because I sound like a Senjak fangrrl, but hey, who f-in cares!

1. I'm probably too nice for my own good.


2. I enjoy being anonymous.


3. I am shy, extremely so. I will usually go out of my way to put myself away from people I don't know.


4. Love seafood. Almost all of it. Only thing I can't stomach is Soft Shelled Crabs.


5. I am part german, part scottish, part english, part native american.


6. I can trace my family back to Scottish AND English royalty.


7. I'm usually a lazy person, however my job requires a lot of physical work.


8. Love video games. Probably too much.


9. I have so many scars on my back I look like a plague victim.


10. Not sure why I'm posting this. Damn I must be bored

1) This is my first post ever on VN's. Reason why is because my sister Froujke has told me to keep away from the boards, since they are mostly crap. A lot of it is, but it's entertaining crap.


2) When I was 6 years old, I was trapped in an elevator in a Macy's for a total of 1 hour and 15 minutes....in the dark. I left a gift for the janitorial crew in the corner of the elevator. (I was scared)


3) I try to avoid the side of my family that's involved in the mafia. Didn't really know it till I googled em.


4) I spent the last 2-3 months on the road working for the Vans Warped Tour, it was lots of fun, and I wouldn't do it again.


5) Both my sisters Ilanore (Percival skald) and Froujke (Percival Runie) met and married/are engaged to Chris's from Canada (Dace and Bombarta). If you're a female named Chris and live in Canada, please pm me.


6) I despise when 2 people are arguing a topic on the boards, and some schmuck comes by to point out that somebody mispelled a word, and is therefore an idiot, and loses the debate. i.e.- "Dude, you can't even spell zephyr, how could you be right about this?!"


7) I've met some of the nicest, most honest, most fun people I've ever met playing DAOC. I've met some of the biggest jerks, most dishonest, and most boring people I've ever met playing DAOC.


8) I'm a scorpio, and that means....absolutely nothing to me.


9) I have a blonde/white patch of hair on the top of my head. It's natural, have had it since birth, and people always think I'm getting gray hair cuz I'm too stressed out. But it's not, it's like John Henson's. (Too obscure of a reference? )


10) Oh, yes...and people who log on to game, or chat rooms, or boards and say, "Dudde, Im' soooo drunkl. Mann, thics is teh greateest!" Just focus a little bit, I've been pretty hammered and still be able to type well, or is it that you feel you need the attention?


That's me.


Hemmy

 

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10.) In my younger years, I was a rodeo queen.


9.) I love to cook - but find it depressing to cook for myself.


8.) I am a natural flirt, and have been all my life. My mother insists I used to bat my lashes as a toddler to get my way -- a habit I maintain to this day.


7.) I was nearly kidnapped as a toddler - twice. By seperate people.


6.) I was a total tomboy growing up: in high school, I was on the volleyball, basketball, softball and tennis teams, and also played powderpuff football annually.


5.) I am pretty much ALWAYS reading something -- if not a few different books at the same time.


4.) Animals and small kids love me.


3.) I've had enough pets to populate a zoo over the years: cats, dogs, horses, cows, goats, sheep, chickens, geese, ducks, rabbits, snakes, hamsters, gerbils, fish, guinea pigs, birds, a hedgehog and even a monkey.


2.) I have never met my biological father, although we lived in the same city for 10 years. I am too afraid of being an inconvenience, a disappointment, or a skeleton in his closet to make contact.


1.) People tell me I have a great voice, but to myself I sound like Alvin the Chipmunk's sister. The thing I like most about myself is either my hair (long and blonde) or my eyes (grey), depending on the day.

 

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