Name: KGIII Age: Old... Mid 30's. Location: Northern Maine, not far from Canada. Quote: "Ayuh." Position: Lackey to the whip

• Do you have pets? A golden retriever and an ex-feral cat.
• What is your favorite color? Green.
• What kind of music do you like? Most anything but hip-hop or rap.
• What do you do on your free time besides spending time on SMF? I don't have any free time.
• What are your goals/dreams in life? To have free time.
• What got you involved in SMF? *sighs* It all started with a question and then waiting for an answer and, while waiting, deciding to look around and then answering questions. I lurked for a long time.
• Who do you admire? Why? Castro. Because everyone hates him but he just keeps on going.
• Are you into sports?  If so which ones? I enjoy playing pool (not billiards nor snooker) and watching American Football or even Aussie Footy if I can get the chance.
• What is your dream job? I am doing it. I have a small hosting company that mostly markets locally - offline.
• What was your first screenname? KGIII
• Do you have any piercings? Not any more. I grew out of 'em.
• Are you a lefty/righty or ambidextrous? Depends on the task really. I mostly use my right hand but in kindergarten my teacher forced me to use my right hand even though I was left-handed.
• Do you have any tattoo's?  If not do you wish/plan to get one? Yes.
• Do you have any siblings?  If so, how many of each? Yes. One brother, two sisters.
• What is your favorite website? There are so many. I am just going to say this one for the time being.
• Do you play computer games?  If so, which ones? Mostly I just play PHP lately. I do like Zork though.
• Do you play video game consoles?  Which ones? No.
• Are you married or planing to get married? I am not. I was. I might again someday.
  
  
  
  • If so do you have any kids? Yes.
  • How many kids? Two. One of each.
• How many languages do you speak?  If so which ones? None. I do flounder around with English and Typo. Does Piglatin count?
• Do you drink? Yup. Beer. Usually good imported beers.
• Do you smoke? Cigars.
• Did you play hookey from class? It was difficult but yeah. I lived on campus.
• Do you have a license? Yes.
  
  
  
  • Do you own a car? No - I own an SUV. (Ford Explorer Sport.)
  • Have you ever been stopped for speeding? Yes. Once. It was bad.
• Do you obtain a good amount of sleep daily? Have you seen my hourly presense here? Of course I do not.
• How do you sleep? Usually tangled up and snoring, I even drool on my pillow when I sleep. Sexy eh?
• Have you ever been on an airplane? Technically yes but normally I am in them. I have been on the wing of a few small planes though to get into them.
• Have you ever broken a bone? Oh yes.
• Do you wear jewelry?  If so what jewelry do you wear? Nope.
• How do you dress? Very warm.
• How many keys are on your keyring? Two. One for my parents house, one for my truck. No one else locks their doors around here.
• What time do you go to bed?  What time do you wake up? Varies. I like to go to bed at 9:00 in the morning and wake up at 2:00 in the afternoon though.
• What's the freakiest thing you have done? This is a family-friendly board, please pick a different question.
• Do you live alone? No, I have a dog and cat.
• How many hours a day do you spend in the computer? Varies. 16 to 24. (I work on one.)
• How many hours a day do you spend in SMF? Varies. A lot.
• What is your favorite beverage - coffee, tea, soda, beer, other? I only drink coffee and beer normally.
• What do you hate? Extreme anything. A wee bit of moderation in beliefs, views, and actions would be nice.
• What do you love? Snow, cold weather, animals (they taste good), a good beer, a fine cigar, quiet time, waifish anorexic women who are mentally unstable but can fire a rifle accurately, and music.
• What is your religion? Bokononism.
• What is your hair color? Brown though it is usually shaved off to the scalp other than a beard and mustache.
• How tall are you? 5' 11"
• How much do you weigh? 172 pounds normally.
• What's the feature on SMF you can't live without?
  
  
  
  • As an administrator? Package manager. I'll poke anything though to see what it does.
  • As an end user? Quick reply.

#13 Details? Pics?

#23b How bad? 

Do you still speed and if so, how do you manage without getting caught?

#27 Details?

#32 Details? (send them privately )
btw, I'm joking

Quote from: Amacythe on March 06, 2007, 10:28:06 PM
#13 Details? Pics?

Left shoulder, Steal Your Face (Grateful Dead) tattoo. Pics sometime perhaps via private sharing.

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#23b How bad? 

Do you still speed and if so, how do you manage without getting caught?

90 something in a 35. And no, I don't speed nearly as much these days. The resulting fine and additional expenses has pretty much curbed me of this. As for avoiding it, well, don't be extreme about it for the most part but here it is easier as there really aren't a lot of police officers in the more remote areas. There are cities that have a larger population than the entire State here has.

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#27 Details?

Quite a few, too many to really list them all actually, I lead an interesting and adventure-filled life. Most recently a wrist but I have broken everything from my nose to my jaw and even had a compression fracture in my neck after a snowmobile ISSUE.

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#32 Details? (send them privately )
btw, I'm joking

Here's one I can share... When I am out and about with someone I have no problems making them embarassed. I will do things like wait until there is no one really paying attention and then I will yell out, "Hey! Stop touching me there!"

Did you flash your military ID for that ticket?

Peter: he doesn't need to pretend to be stupid - he is a Jarhead

I am, of course kidding. Inter-service jokes are common and they shouldn't be done by people outside of the military. We kind of take offense to 'civies' doing that, but we only fire back with another insult when "one of us" does it. Don't worry Mike (Thantos), you can joke on me being in the Nasty Guard and the Army all you want.

QuoteWho do you admire? Why? Castro. Because everyone hates him but he just keeps on going.

I never thought of it way way...

Quote26 Have you ever been on an airplane? Technically yes but normally I am in them. I have been on the wing of a few small planes though to get into them.

I like that, on an airplane vs in an airplane, it creative... I gonna steal it j/k

QuoteHow many hours a day do you spend in the computer? Varies. 16 to 24. (I work on one.)

Don't you mean 18-26 hours a day.
Further proof KGIII is a machine.

Quote from: groundup on March 07, 2007, 07:17:43 AM
Did you flash your military ID for that ticket?

Under the circumstances I am pretty sure that wouldn't have helped. It was a wee bit too fast for the officer to be forgiving.

Quote from: Rickc on March 07, 2007, 02:13:19 PM

QuoteWho do you admire? Why? Castro. Because everyone hates him but he just keeps on going.

I never thought of it way way...

Most people never do. He is a man who adheres to his convictions regardless of adversity. While his politics and antics aren't appreciated by the masses his country manages to survive and, frankly, compared to some of what is going on in the world really aren't that bad.

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Further proof KGIII is a machine.

Yup...

And, here you go... I have moved this out into the blog section so that you can do your worst.

What was the winter like up there in Maine this year?

LOL Thanks for helping me drum interest up Femlow. (For those who don't know she is actually my girlfriend who came all the way to Maine to go to a small college.) We want, SMF, to keep the blogs alive and to have interesting content here that exposes who we are and so...

The winters in Maine. Well? They are pretty sad really lately. We didn't get much snow this year and the coldest it got up here on the ridge would be maybe -45 to -55(f) degrees. Many years, here, I see windchills take it down to 20 degrees cooler and, I think, the most I have seen would be about 16 feet of snow. The snow drifts, though, can be well over 30 feet.

Today, well... We had a freak storm that resulted in a couple of deaths and some accidents. Nothing too major really but, the snow was unexpected and there are no snowbanks to keep people safe from hitting hard stuff. The snow melted recently.

Tomorrow night we are expecting a foot or so of snow but this is April and predictions are hard so we could get 2 inches, none, or 2 feet. They really can't tell. While it is spring elsewhere it really isn't here.

The blistering cold is followed by some insane heat so we get some extreme weather when you compare the differences between the two numbers. The saying, in Maine, goes: "If you don't like the weather, wait a minute." I've seen snow in July and seen a pond (small one though) ice up on my way to watch the fireworks in July.

In short? I wouldn't live anywhere else. I live here by choice and I love the weather, the seasons (except for Black Fly Season) and being in a remote area even though it is a hardship.

Quote from: KGIII on April 03, 2007, 09:26:55 PM
the seasons (except for Black Fly Season)

So you'll tell us about Black Fly Season?

I'm fairly sure that averaging 80 in the hottest months of summer does not count as "insane heat"... That hardly even counts as heat where I'm from during that time of year... 80's are the days when the rivers are empty because its finally cool enough to be outside without needing to be wet as well to prevent over-heating. Those are good days. I'm looking foreward to the "insane heat" here this summer...

Peter:

I can do better than that. I will bring pictures. You will have to wait and subscribe I suppose.

Femlow:

From 100 to -75 counts as extreme I suspect. And, when the average is 48 or something silly... Well... 80 is insane heat.

Michigan's weather isn't quite that extreme, our range is pretty much averaging the 0 to 100 F range most of the time.

But we don't have blackflies that bad.

Are you into any anime or comics or anything like that? 

Video Games?

I am not into anime or comics either though I do have a bunch of old comics still wrapped in plastic. I also have no real love of video games and the last really good games for the PC were, in order: Zork, Fallout, and Fallout 2.

We are currently getting the snot pounded out of us by the weather. Dead people and major flooding and the likes. The floods, while certainly beautiful, are something that happen here most every year but this is particularly bad with a good portion of the State without power.

Anyhow... I said all that just to say this - which is actually why I am posting this. Please take it easy on this as some of these images can be VERY large.

http://maine.kgiii.info

That will share a bunch of pictures though some of them are from Mt. Washington and I've just been too lazy to clean them out. Weather and all, I live here by choice and truly wouldn't change it very easily. (I may move further North at some point.)

Why did you choose the nickname: KGIII. Has it some sort of special meaning?

If you found one of those magic lamps that could fullfill you 3 wishes for one day (one day deal), what would these wishes be?

It has special meaning that I opt not to disclose in public. You can ask me via chat some time if you would like assuming that my response stays there with you.

Three wishes eh?

1. For the day, seeing as it is only a single day, to be the best one, for me, ever no matter what.

2. To experience all the non-harmful things I can experience in a single day because I am greedy.

3. For everyone else to have a mediocre day because, well, today's mine and I've got three wishes so to heck with everyone one else - just give me my good day so that it makes me feel special and strokes my ego.

*grins*

Alright, so really I'd wish for plenty of money (and be specific enough to say that it couldn't disappear the next day) and I'd use that to make people (and myself) happier because money really doesn't buy happiness but does help put people into a position where they are more likely to be happy. A few thousand dollars is nothing to you or I but, well, imagine what that is to someone who's entire year's income is less than I spent this past weekend?

I'd also likely really wish for people to make more sense. While I haven't any desire to strike up a conversation about the faulty logic of zealous people I will say that it strikes me as odd to see people who are "naturalists" that don't eat meat. After all, well, what's more natural than eating meat? At the same time they are (may be) the same people who push for longer life but, at the same time they are pushing to put the Earth back as it was meaning that the health care they are so adamant about but, at the same time, it was that health care (or lack of it) that relied on technology and that diet when people died at much younger ages. So... I guess I'd either wish for people to be more logical or me to understand.

Hmm... And seeing as these are secondary wishes I think I would wish for all of the above and then, for my final wish, make one final one that asked that the QUALITY of the day be the same until we, those who existed now, died from natural causes.

QuoteA few thousand dollars is nothing to you or I but, well, imagine what that is to someone who's entire year's income is less than I spent this past weekend?

I understand perfectly, in my country is like that. A few thousand dollars there, is relly a lot  for plenty of people, it could make their lives much much easier

Thank you very much for answering my questions

I wish you all the best bro
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