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Login/Join to ParticipateCarpal \'Tunnel
3,899 posts
Location: Austin, Texas, USA
Well, since so many people had their intro threads wiped out and are starting new ones, I figure I could use these events to start my own, ultra-untimely intro, seeing as how I've been around HoP for like 3 years.
So then:
Name: Vance
Alias: Van, Vanize, Add, Zaidou (my 'African' name) ... oh, and I almost forgot, Pixie Banger! (don't ask if you don't really want to know).
Age: 34 (35 now)
Location: Potchefstroom, South Africa (WSW of Jo'berg) presently. Grew up in Houston, Texas. Most of my Family lives in Austin, Texas. I'm moving to Berlin, Germany in January for 2 years. (ok, been in Berlin for a year now)
Favourite Toys: sailboats (been sailing 29 years), surfboards (been surfing 19 years), poi (3.5 years) (almost 5 years now)
Occupation: Reasearch scientist (Ph.D. in space physics)
Hobbies: Too many - sailing, surfing, poi, scale models, travelling, collecting stamps and paper money from places I visit, Dungeons & Dragons, SCUBA diving, tropical fish, reading, painting, drawing, getting projects ready for Burningman, ....
Your favourite website/s: www.burningman.com
Music: I'll listen to most anything except modern country music. My favorites are classical (e.g. vivaldi, beethoven), trance, classic rock (led zep, hendrix, beatles), and what used to be called alternative (foo fighters, pixies, whale, ...)
Movies: blade runner (director's cut), strictly ballroom, band of brothers (more like a mini series I guess), amelie, ... er, I know there are more, but I can't think of them just now.
Books: mostly sci-fi, fantasy, and history.
Philosophy: Technological Gaiaism, Quantum Fatalism
Favourite Colour: Burgandy ( sorry Alice!)
Favourite Quote/Saying:
From a movie: "Gentleman, we have a blind date with destiny, and she just ordered the lobster!" - the Shoveler (Mystery Men).
From literature: "The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love" - W. Somerset Maughn
From personal life: "I was just telling Sara K. that I have no particular segway between being stone cold sober and really wasted. Then she kicked her glass of water across the room..." - Zouwera (Christmas day, 2002, west africa)
So that is that. We'll see if it goes anywhere, eh?
EDITED_BY: vanize (1111489303)
-v-
Wiederstand ist Zwecklos!
Carpal \'Tunnel
3,899 posts
Location: Austin, Texas, USA
yeah, the sig is an abreviated version (to fit the 250 characters max length for sigs) of the number in the following:
These are the 10 winners of this year's Bulwer-Lytton contest (run by the English Dept. of San Jose State University), wherein one writes only the first line of a bad novel:
10) "As a scientist, Throckmorton knew that if he were ever to break wind in the echo chamber, he would never hear the end of it."
9) "Just beyond the Narrows, the river widens."
8) "With a curvaceous figure that Venus would have envied, a tanned, unblemished oval face framed with lustrous thick brown hair, deep azure-blue eyes fringed with long black lashes, perfect teeth that vied for competition, and a small straight nose, Marilee had a beauty that defied description."
7) "Andre, a simple peasant, had only one thing on his mind as he crept along the east wall: 'Andre creep... Andre creep... Andre creep.'"
6) "Stanislaus Smedley, a man always on the cutting edge of narcissism, was about to give his body and soul to a back alley sex-change surgeon to become the woman he loved."
5) "Although Sarah had an abnormal fear of mice, it did not keep her from eeking out a living at a local pet store."
4) "Stanley looked quite bored and somewhat detached, but then penguins often do."
3) "Like an over-ripe beefsteak tomato rimmed with cottage cheese, the corpulent remains of Santa Claus lay dead on the hotel floor."
2) "Mike Hardware was the kind of private eye who didn't know the meaning of the word 'fear'; a man who could laugh in the face of danger and spit in the eye of death - in short, a moron with suicidal tendencies."
AND THE WINNER IS .....
1) "The sun oozed over the horizon, shoved aside darkness, crept along the greensward, and, with sickly fingers, pushed through the castle window, revealing the pillaged princess, hand at throat, crown asunder, gaping in frenzied horror at the sated, sodden amphibian lying beside her, disbelieving the magnitude of the frog's deception, screaming madly, 'You lied!'"
-v-
Wiederstand ist Zwecklos!
Pirate Pixie Crew Captain
8,428 posts
Location: Wales
I love numbers 2 & 4!
Feed me Chocolate!!! Feed me NOW!
Carpal \'Tunnel
3,899 posts
Location: Austin, Texas, USA
another quote I considred for my new sig was:
"Wherever the standard of freedom and independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will her heart, her benedictions and her prayers be. But she (America) goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy." -John Quincy Adams
but I was feeling more light hearted than that at the time. maybe next week...
-v-
Wiederstand ist Zwecklos!
2,354 posts
Location: Away from home
*rolls around giggling helplessly*
I like number 7
Carpal \'Tunnel
3,899 posts
Location: Austin, Texas, USA
I'm partial to #10 myself, but only because I'm a scientist and all...
-v-
Wiederstand ist Zwecklos!
old hand
863 posts
Location: Berlin, Germany
er... 6 made me not laugh but smile
1 is pretty close to life
What is psychology?- Looking for a black cat in a dark room. What is psychoanalysis? Psychoanalysis is looking for a black cat in a dark room -- in which there is no cat -- but finding one anyway.
old hand
863 posts
Location: Berlin, Germany
A little story to your sig
A woman is walking through a garden as a frog is hopping over her way. "Rescue me" says the frog " I am enchanted. If you kiss me I will be a beautyful prince again, we can marry and have sex three times a day so rescue me, kiss me. The woman takes the frog, puts him in her bag and walks her way. " Hey you didn't understand me" shouts the frog " I am a prince and I want to marry you and have every day sex with you! "
The woman smiles and says "You know I think I like a speeking frog much better".
What is psychology?- Looking for a black cat in a dark room. What is psychoanalysis? Psychoanalysis is looking for a black cat in a dark room -- in which there is no cat -- but finding one anyway.
Carpal \'Tunnel
3,899 posts
Location: Austin, Texas, USA
wow - that woman is a real perv!
-v-
Wiederstand ist Zwecklos!
old hand
863 posts
Location: Berlin, Germany
Yeah you can see in this way or may she just don't need a prince on her side ??
What is psychology?- Looking for a black cat in a dark room. What is psychoanalysis? Psychoanalysis is looking for a black cat in a dark room -- in which there is no cat -- but finding one anyway.
Carpal \'Tunnel
3,899 posts
Location: Austin, Texas, USA
or maybe she is a lesbian!
-v-
Wiederstand ist Zwecklos!
old hand
863 posts
Location: Berlin, Germany
who knows?
What is psychology?- Looking for a black cat in a dark room. What is psychoanalysis? Psychoanalysis is looking for a black cat in a dark room -- in which there is no cat -- but finding one anyway.
Carpal \'Tunnel
3,899 posts
Location: Austin, Texas, USA
well, I suppose a lesbian wouldn't really have need for a prince by her side, so that is sort of the same thing you said...
-v-
Wiederstand ist Zwecklos!
old hand
863 posts
Location: Berlin, Germany
sort of
What is psychology?- Looking for a black cat in a dark room. What is psychoanalysis? Psychoanalysis is looking for a black cat in a dark room -- in which there is no cat -- but finding one anyway.
veteran
1,459 posts
Location: Dublin, Ireland
*dashes thru naked for 700th post celebratory streak*
woohoooo!!!!
My mind not only wanders, it sometimes leaves completely
old hand
863 posts
Location: Berlin, Germany
congrats
What is psychology?- Looking for a black cat in a dark room. What is psychoanalysis? Psychoanalysis is looking for a black cat in a dark room -- in which there is no cat -- but finding one anyway.
Carpal \'Tunnel
3,899 posts
Location: Austin, Texas, USA
ah ha... is that what the "putting my clothes back on and going home" thing was all about - sorry I missed it!
-v-
Wiederstand ist Zwecklos!
Written by: Fabergé
*dashes thru naked for 700th post celebratory streak*
woohoooo!!!!
So when did this become a clothing optional thread?
Pooh-Bah
2,014 posts
Location: Galveston, TX, USA
It's vanize. That goes without saying.
Ah true, my bad!
old hand
863 posts
Location: Berlin, Germany
new rule entry only naked?
What is psychology?- Looking for a black cat in a dark room. What is psychoanalysis? Psychoanalysis is looking for a black cat in a dark room -- in which there is no cat -- but finding one anyway.
Carpal \'Tunnel
3,899 posts
Location: Austin, Texas, USA
ooo... nice to have someone keeping on top of things so I don't have to!
-v-
Wiederstand ist Zwecklos!
Written by: vanize
ooo... nice to have someone keeping on top of things so I don't have to!
old hand
863 posts
Location: Berlin, Germany
welcome back
What is psychology?- Looking for a black cat in a dark room. What is psychoanalysis? Psychoanalysis is looking for a black cat in a dark room -- in which there is no cat -- but finding one anyway.
Carpal \'Tunnel
3,899 posts
Location: Austin, Texas, USA
Eek! what's with the new avatar Baba!?!?
you scared me with it!!!
-v-
Wiederstand ist Zwecklos!
Written by: babajaga
welcome back
old hand
863 posts
Location: Berlin, Germany
o.. it fits better right now and scaring that's what it is for;)
you don't like it?
What is psychology?- Looking for a black cat in a dark room. What is psychoanalysis? Psychoanalysis is looking for a black cat in a dark room -- in which there is no cat -- but finding one anyway.
HOP Mad Doctor
13,925 posts
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
So here we have a happy couple...one's avatar is a psychotic, murderous kitten with glowing eyes and the other is some old crone out of a "Mad Scientist" or witch movie.
Anyone else find this slightly...disturbing?
-Mike
Certified Mad Doctor and HoP High Priest of Nutella
A buckuht n a hooze! -Valura
Carpal \'Tunnel
3,899 posts
Location: Austin, Texas, USA
well, I'm disturbed - does that count?
-v-
Wiederstand ist Zwecklos!
Hey! Maybe Vanize is her 'Witch's Familiar'?
old hand
863 posts
Location: Berlin, Germany
by the kitten I understand that one
What is psychology?- Looking for a black cat in a dark room. What is psychoanalysis? Psychoanalysis is looking for a black cat in a dark room -- in which there is no cat -- but finding one anyway.
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