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Get to know the Team: Antechinus
Posted by Antechinus on June 24, 2009, 01:52:13 AM
Name: Pete
Age: 48
Location: Australia
Quote: "Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fancies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child-mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after-years relieved of them. In fact, men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth - often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you can not get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable." - Hypatia
Position: Currently vertical (subject to change without notice).
*ETA: Was just reminded of an important omission from the "What do you hate?" category: Spammers. Yes, that's right, those gormless waste-of-oxygen-and-bandwidth excuses for human beings that should be confined to cages and used for painful medical experiments of the decidedly unethical variety. I hates them, I does.
Age: 48
Location: Australia
Quote: "Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fancies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child-mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after-years relieved of them. In fact, men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth - often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you can not get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable." - Hypatia
Position: Currently vertical (subject to change without notice).
- Do you have pets? Yes. Two cats. They came with the house.
- What is your favorite color? All of them. Except for the ones I don't like.
- What kind of music do you like? All sorts, from medieval to Arabic to rock to trance.
If it's a good example of it's type I'll probably like it. (Disclaimer: country or anything involving accordions is not music) - What do you do on your free time besides spending time on SMF? Depends on the weather.
- What are your goals/dreams in life? To enjoy it.
- What got you involved in SMF? An unfortunate turn of events.
- Who do you admire? Why? Currently, the protesters in Iran. For standing up for their rights against some very nasty people.
- Are you into sports? If so which ones? Not much.
- What is your dream job? Lamborghini test driver.
- What was your first screenname? Can't remember.
- Do you have any piercings? No, but I did shoot myself in the finger with a nail gun twice. Same finger both times.
- Are you a lefty/righty or ambidextrous? Righty. I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous.
- Do you have any tattoo's? If not do you wish/plan to get one? Yes. One tatt on my left arm.
- Do you have any siblings? If so, how many of each? No.
- What is your favorite website? Is this a family-friendly site?
- Do you play computer games? If so, which ones? Nope,
- Do you play video game consoles? Which ones? Nope.
- Are you married or planning to get married? Nope.
- If so do you have any kids? Why do you assume that only married people will have kids?
- How many kids? None.
- How many languages do you speak? If so which ones? Two. Australian and English. They're different. Know a few words of other languages too, of course.
- Do you drink? Occasionally.
- Do you smoke? Why on earth would I do that?
- Did you play hookey from class? A bit.
- Do you have a license? Yep. 007.
- Do you own a car? Yes.
- Have you ever been stopped for speeding? Sure, but I was innocent. Really. Velocity is relative.
- Do you obtain a good amount of sleep daily? Usually, but not always.
- How do you sleep? Dunno. Hard to tell when I'm asleep.
- Have you ever been on an airplane? Yep. Window seats rock.
- Have you ever broken a bone? A few, but then again, to few to mention.
- Do you wear jewelry? If so what jewelry do you wear? No.
- How do you dress? Variably. Sometimes not at all.
- How many keys are on your keyring? Which one?
- What time do you go to bed? What time do you wake up? Depends. Usually crash between 9 and midnight. Usually wake up between 5 and 7.
- What's the freakiest thing you have done? Leaned into a blind hairpin corner on a narrow road while riding a BMW 900 and was confronted with a logging truck coming down the hill.
- Do you live alone? Usually.
- How many hours a day do you spend in the computer? Some days none. Some days twelve. Whatever.
- How many hours a day do you spend in SMF? See above.
- What is your favorite beverage - coffee, tea, soda, beer, other? Coffee.
- What do you hate? Bananas.*
- What do you love? You want the short list?
- What is your religion? I don't have one. No need for it.
- What is your hair color? Brown, with grey bits these days.
- How tall are you? 5'8"
- How much do you weigh? Slightly more than I should.
- What's the feature on SMF you can't live without?
- As an administrator? The log in form.
- As an end user? The log in form.
*ETA: Was just reminded of an important omission from the "What do you hate?" category: Spammers. Yes, that's right, those gormless waste-of-oxygen-and-bandwidth excuses for human beings that should be confined to cages and used for painful medical experiments of the decidedly unethical variety. I hates them, I does.
pmsl
If you follow Union, looks like SA is dealing to us both!
Where?
That SO speaks for itself XD LMFAO
Can you record yourself saying "Fairdinkum" and "bloody oath" for me please?
Eloquent? LMFAO
So odd reading this one.. you were lucky to miss it. My son hit a logging truck 5 weeks ago. The bike took off on its own 300 feet into the woods after he was thrown off. (somehow it managed to not hit any trees) He has a rod/pins/metal the length of his left arm. Helmet saved him - scary looking at how much it got banged up. Physical therapy, lots of pain, out of work for several more weeks. His determination to ride again is pushing him to get better.