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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!
1,662 posts
Location: Bristol
yeah, me too
i still owe you a hug..
I had a dream that my friend had a
strong-bad pop up book,
it was the book of my dreams.
Still wiggling
5,967 posts
Location: Belfast, Northern Ireland (UK)
"damn! that worked better than I expected...! "
you complaining sunshine?!!
Getting to the other side 
Carpal \'Tunnel
3,899 posts
Location: Austin, Texas, USA
what are you talking about?!?!
getting to Berlin is cheap - you can get there from london for less than it too you to get to falmouth!!!
and Berlin is cheap cheap cheap too! and you all have a free place to stay right in city center (well, one of the city centers... there are a few of them) with great access to public transit only a block away!
all for the price of a few hugs and some poi time!
you can't be that!
(but seriously, easyjet is only like 35 euros each way if you book it right)
-v-
Wiederstand ist Zwecklos!
old hand
863 posts
Location: Berlin, Germany
I can provide a place to stay too even then I'm going to move pretty soon but then I live in the alternative scene of Berlin, I always have place for somebody who wants to come visit...
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
o and a huge thanks again...
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.
grumpy poorly froggy
3,999 posts
Location: Nuneaton, United Kingdom
oh i have never been Berlin....*Starts piggy bank*
Life's too short to worry about where you put your marshmallows
old hand
863 posts
Location: Berlin, Germany
so you must come feel invited..
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.
Pirate Pixie Crew Captain
8,428 posts
Location: Wales
Hey Mr V I have typed proof in your very own typie proof type way that you were staring at my bum! Bad, Bad, Bad, man!
Feed me Chocolate!!! Feed me NOW!
Carpal \'Tunnel
3,899 posts
Location: Austin, Texas, USA
can't help it - I've always been a bum looker...
-v-
Wiederstand ist Zwecklos!
grumpy poorly froggy
3,999 posts
Location: Nuneaton, United Kingdom
that would be so cool, need to really start saving up money
Life's too short to worry about where you put your marshmallows
Carpal \'Tunnel
3,899 posts
Location: Austin, Texas, USA
do it!!!
-v-
Wiederstand ist Zwecklos!
Pirate Pixie Crew Captain
8,428 posts
Location: Wales
He'll stare at your bum!
Feed me Chocolate!!! Feed me NOW!
old hand
863 posts
Location: Berlin, Germany
I'll take care of her but I think it is not the worst thing to be stared at your bum.
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.
grumpy poorly froggy
3,999 posts
Location: Nuneaton, United Kingdom
hehehe i don't care
Life's too short to worry about where you put your marshmallows
Carpal \'Tunnel
3,899 posts
Location: Austin, Texas, USA
-v-
Wiederstand ist Zwecklos!
1,662 posts
Location: Bristol
you're so dirty minded! and i always thought you were such a nice boy...
I had a dream that my friend had a
strong-bad pop up book,
it was the book of my dreams.
Carpal \'Tunnel
3,899 posts
Location: Austin, Texas, USA
you gotta watch out for the quiet ones!
-v-
Wiederstand ist Zwecklos!
1,662 posts
Location: Bristol
I had a dream that my friend had a
strong-bad pop up book,
it was the book of my dreams.
Super Gidg!!!!
8,506 posts
Location: Portland Oregon USA
Tao, that all depends on your definition of nice.
Growing old is mandatory; growing up is NOT.
Proud member of the HoP DPS.
Sanity is a highly overrated state of mind.
I'm normal ... it's everyone else that's crazy.
Gidg
15,417 posts
Location: South Wales
6 in a row Van?
Thats horrendus.
Im up for goign to Berlin. You know I am.
So I guess I will just have to actually look into it, rather than saying I wil... and not.
1,662 posts
Location: Bristol
what????
can i run away with you ucof? i've been taken in by a mean manipulative vanize.....
(love you really
- i can't even joke about it....) I had a dream that my friend had a
strong-bad pop up book,
it was the book of my dreams.
15,417 posts
Location: South Wales
Certainly.
Company ont he journey would be good.
I think quite a few of us should tunr up unnannounced and expect Van to shelter us, to feed us and to bed us
Suprises are always nice.
Unless someone has filled your wellies with custard, and you dont look inside them before you put them on.
1,662 posts
Location: Bristol
or awol poi biting your nose. that's never a nice surprise.....
I had a dream that my friend had a
strong-bad pop up book,
it was the book of my dreams.
Still wiggling
5,967 posts
Location: Belfast, Northern Ireland (UK)
Woohoo.
Come visit. Really. It'd be lovely. Lots of space
xx
Getting to the other side
1,662 posts
Location: Bristol
i'll visit you!!!! i'm a bit pissed right now...so i might take this backkk (never!) but i want to see you, and anyway....mymum fancied you now
i'm not sure how that changes things.,..but it does so there,.
I had a dream that my friend had a
strong-bad pop up book,
it was the book of my dreams.
grumpy poorly froggy
3,999 posts
Location: Nuneaton, United Kingdom
ya know i have never been to Ireland and always wanted to now i have a really great reason to get my ass and other parts over there
Life's too short to worry about where you put your marshmallows
Still wiggling
5,967 posts
Location: Belfast, Northern Ireland (UK)
Pooh-Bah
2,014 posts
Location: Galveston, TX, USA
an ardvark? Still wiggling
5,967 posts
Location: Belfast, Northern Ireland (UK)
Womble
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grumpy poorly froggy
3,999 posts
Location: Nuneaton, United Kingdom
hehehe i like wombles
Life's too short to worry about where you put your marshmallows
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