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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)
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Wiederstand ist Zwecklos!
912 posts
Location: Cheltenham
Arrived safe? Good good. So does this mean you'll hop on over to the UK and I finally get to meet the infamous vanize of whom I have heard so much?
"We have done the impossible and that makes us mighty" - Mal Reynolds
"I can't tell the difference between an electron and a cat" - Brother of a friend
Carpal \'Tunnel
3,899 posts
Location: Austin, Texas, USA
oh, I'm 'imfamous' now, am I? ah well, better imfamy than no fame at all... I guess.
I don't suppose any of you out there know a girl by the name of Valerie from the San Fran/Berkeley area who is now living in Berlin - good with poi, excellent with double staff?
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912 posts
Location: Cheltenham
After what I've heard? Infamy is the only option. Yes.
"We have done the impossible and that makes us mighty" - Mal Reynolds
"I can't tell the difference between an electron and a cat" - Brother of a friend
Carpal \'Tunnel
3,899 posts
Location: Austin, Texas, USA
Hmmf! If imfamy is the only option, then I guess I'd best get in my messerschmidt and shoot that spitfire down for spreading rumors - even if they are true....
-v-
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Mand's Girl....and The Not So Shy One
2,723 posts
Location: Calgary, Alberta Canada
I'd Like to see you TRY!
Solitude sometimes speaks to you, and you should listen.
912 posts
Location: Cheltenham
Actually I'd like to see you try too, come to think of it.
Would be fun to watch. "We have done the impossible and that makes us mighty" - Mal Reynolds
"I can't tell the difference between an electron and a cat" - Brother of a friend
4,224 posts
Location: Back in Paris... for now !
Hey angel can you please log on yahoo ?????????
i see you online and i want to chat rather than reply to you by email
Miss you
SMOOOOOOOCH
Cass
"I want brown bread... no, that is diesel oil..."
"So I was raised in Europe, where History comes from ..."
"NON !!! La Plume de mon oncle n est pas Bingibangibungi !!!"
Carpal \'Tunnel
3,899 posts
Location: Austin, Texas, USA
sorry dear, but I do not have admin priveledges on the computer I am currently using and therefor can't install programs. I'll have my personal computer soon (supposedly yesterday), which I'll be able to do such things from. until then, I am a guest on someone else's machine and can't do things like install new programs.
which sucks - since I could realy use a chat about now.
-v-
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HOP Mad Doctor
13,925 posts
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
I haven't had a good chat in ages, either. A good chat is a special thing. Some people get good chats all the time, but I seem to have bad luck.
-Mike
Certified Mad Doctor and HoP High Priest of Nutella
A buckuht n a hooze! -Valura
Pooh-Bah
2,014 posts
Location: Galveston, TX, USA
Comes in with some stroganoff to stick in the fridge for you to find when you're hungry. I brought some to Lightning and figured you might like some as well..
Carpal \'Tunnel
3,899 posts
Location: Austin, Texas, USA
yeah! stoganoff!!! one of my favs!
-v-
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Carpal \'Tunnel
3,899 posts
Location: Austin, Texas, USA
Check it - I found some pics on the web of me playing with my long-poi about a year and a half ago:
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This one shows my signature backbend thread-the-needle to good effect:
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Keeper of the Spitfire
2,317 posts
Location: Calgary Canada
Hey Vanize.
Just realised I haven't been round here to say hi in a while.
Nice pics m'dear.
Lets steal a spaceship and head for the sun, and shoot the stars with a lemonade ray gun.
Pooh-Bah
2,014 posts
Location: Galveston, TX, USA
I want to know where he found them, and where they are from?
That's definitely a good shot of your backbend.
All the neurotic makings of America's lesser known sweetheart
9,831 posts
Location: body in Las Vegas, heart all around the world, USA
very nice pics!!!!
I was always scared with my mother's obsession with the good scissors. It made me wonder if there were evil scissors lurking in the house somewhere.
Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons for you are crunchy and good with ketchup.
**giggles**
Carpal \'Tunnel
3,899 posts
Location: Austin, Texas, USA
Hi Mand, sorry I'll be missing you in Houston. It still feels like my turf and that you don't have a right to go there without meeting me, but than I haven't been there for like a year now....
some things die hard.
Spritie - got the pics from Flash's (not the HoP flash, the austin burner Flash) 'soupthang' photo album on www.burnaustin.org
-v-
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Keeper of the Spitfire
2,317 posts
Location: Calgary Canada
It would've been so good to meet you.
But nevermind. You still visiting the Ardeche in the Summer?
Lets steal a spaceship and head for the sun, and shoot the stars with a lemonade ray gun.
Carpal \'Tunnel
3,899 posts
Location: Austin, Texas, USA
that 'not allowed to be in houston without meeting me even though I haven't been there in year' thing applies to Pounce too!
-v-
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Carpal \'Tunnel
3,899 posts
Location: Austin, Texas, USA
Quote:
It would've been so good to meet you.
But nevermind. You still visiting the Ardeche in the Summer?
yeah, I'm pretty sure about that. Work here in Berlin seems pretty flexible about when I put in my time, so at the very least I should be able to take a 4 day weekend to come to Ardeche, even if I don't take any vacation time (which I might just do, depending on how hard of a sell you pitch me on staying longer than that).
-v-
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All the neurotic makings of America's lesser known sweetheart
9,831 posts
Location: body in Las Vegas, heart all around the world, USA
don't worry vanize, i'll come back and visit you
I was always scared with my mother's obsession with the good scissors. It made me wonder if there were evil scissors lurking in the house somewhere.
Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons for you are crunchy and good with ketchup.
**giggles**
Keeper of the Spitfire
2,317 posts
Location: Calgary Canada
Quote:
yeah, I'm pretty sure about that. Work here in Berlin seems pretty flexible about when I put in my time, so at the very least I should be able to take a 4 day weekend to come to Ardeche, even if I don't take any vacation time (which I might just do, depending on how hard of a sell you pitch me on staying longer than that).
I'm good at persuading!
hey, we've got lots of tanned, scantily clad, female instructors!
Enough?
Lets steal a spaceship and head for the sun, and shoot the stars with a lemonade ray gun.
Carpal \'Tunnel
3,899 posts
Location: Austin, Texas, USA
Quote:
I'm good at persuading!
hey, we've got lots of tanned, scantily clad, female instructors!
Enough?
what are they instructing exactly? I'm still not clear on that.
-v-
Wiederstand ist Zwecklos!
All the neurotic makings of America's lesser known sweetheart
9,831 posts
Location: body in Las Vegas, heart all around the world, USA
Quote:Quote:
I'm good at persuading!
hey, we've got lots of tanned, scantily clad, female instructors!
Enough?
what are they instructing exactly? I'm still not clear on that.
does it matter?
I was always scared with my mother's obsession with the good scissors. It made me wonder if there were evil scissors lurking in the house somewhere.
Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons for you are crunchy and good with ketchup.
**giggles**
Keeper of the Spitfire
2,317 posts
Location: Calgary Canada
Quote:Quote:Quote:
I'm good at persuading!
hey, we've got lots of tanned, scantily clad, female instructors!
Enough?
what are they instructing exactly? I'm still not clear on that.
does it matter?
I'm sure once they've seen you spin, they'll instruct whatever you want them to!
Lets steal a spaceship and head for the sun, and shoot the stars with a lemonade ray gun.
Carpal \'Tunnel
3,899 posts
Location: Austin, Texas, USA
oh really ???
Hmmm... this is starting to sound persuasive.
-v-
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All the neurotic makings of America's lesser known sweetheart
9,831 posts
Location: body in Las Vegas, heart all around the world, USA
starting to...?
what else do you need?
I was always scared with my mother's obsession with the good scissors. It made me wonder if there were evil scissors lurking in the house somewhere.
Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons for you are crunchy and good with ketchup.
**giggles**
Carpal \'Tunnel
3,899 posts
Location: Austin, Texas, USA
Quote:
starting to...?
what else do you need?
you my dear - what else would I need indeed?
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All the neurotic makings of America's lesser known sweetheart
9,831 posts
Location: body in Las Vegas, heart all around the world, USA
well in that case, i'll run right over
I was always scared with my mother's obsession with the good scissors. It made me wonder if there were evil scissors lurking in the house somewhere.
Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons for you are crunchy and good with ketchup.
**giggles**
15,417 posts
Location: South Wales
Hang on...
a) I have never posted in here before, for which I appologise profusely.
b) You havent written ANYTHING since the Kent meeting!! why not?
I may have to come over to Germany and say hello sometime this Summer. Will you be around? At sometime that is...
oooh..
Pooh-Bah
2,014 posts
Location: Galveston, TX, USA
Siily, huh?
Why, I'm gonna git you...
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