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Post by clocketpatch on Oct 31, 2008 3:19:18 GMT
Lynda, you totally just gave me a mini heart-attack. Don't say such things!
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Post by wanderlust on Nov 7, 2008 5:51:43 GMT
Hmm, let's see...
I'm really into astronomy and the stars and traveling and things. I think that's why I was initially attracted to Doctor Who. Show up with a TARDIS and ask me to go? Baby, I'm yours.
Science absolutely fascinates me. Every menial detail about every menial grain. I'm perpetually intrigued. So before I figured out I really am just not gifted in the scientific sense, my degree was in Geology. Now, my goal is to write for the science magazine, Discover (or Scientific American, Astronomy, Modern Science.....ya know, whichever tires of my endless begging first).
I love comic books. Spider-man was always my favorite but as of late I've gotten in Batman. Maybe it's Christian Bale, or maybe it's because Spidey is a teen and the Dark Knight isn't and with me getting older....
I'm into politics recently. Jon Stewart, Keith Olberman, Stephen Colbert and Rachel Maddow are among some of my heros. I worked the election polls, too.
Um.....I hug trees? Really. Not to be strange or to garner attention, but I'm a big environmentalist/animals rights activist so yeah. It's all good.
.....so yeah, I'm a really big geek. Always have been, always will be.
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Post by Kit on Nov 7, 2008 14:32:03 GMT
Well, this is definitely the right place for geeks. =D
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Post by magnusgreel on Nov 8, 2008 5:47:53 GMT
Hi Wanderlust. There's a great Paul McCartney song called that by the way.
I'm very big on astronomy too. One of my first memories is sitting in the living room and drawing the planets. I'm not as up-to-date as I'd like, most of my information comes from old books that were out of date when I was reading them as a child in the 60s or 70s, but for awhile I got to listen to articles in Analog and I think the Smithsonian Magazine. I know about the Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud, so that's something.
I stopped with meat in 1971. I was never an irritating prosletizer though, it's just my personal decision.
The West Wing started me on politics, but I think it's only the Obama win that's got me really interested. If this had been business as usual we might have had that stuffed shirt Mitt Romney... politics just blew apart another board I'm on though, so that's all I'm doing on politics I guess.
A friend of mine is a geologist. Me, I have a limited interest in all science areas, but can only hang in there for astronomy.
The Burger King as an avatar??!
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Post by merrythemad on Nov 8, 2008 14:49:27 GMT
Wanderlust, YAY for hugging trees! I do quite the same thing, and as for astronomy I am sadly lacking in my skills in this field, but comic books, oh my! I love comics, though aside from the Sandman I greatly prefer Marvel to DC. But Batman is one of the few DC characters I like.
I quite like science, but haven't really tried to do anything with it since childhood, one of the reasons I am avoiding those labs that loom ahead of me, I'm rather afraid I am just not that good at it. I am great, however, with literature and people so psych is my field, a bit of this and dash of that, and voila! All the things I think I understand in one place.
I'm quite eclectic myself and found myself quite comfy and at home here, I am certain you will as well. It's a great place with loads of great people.
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Post by primsong on Dec 3, 2008 21:11:52 GMT
Non-who interests.... hm.... I spend a bit of time just keeping up with my kids, but I'm in a different phase than Merry here, mine are all teens plus we have a bonus teen who is living with us and her frequently-here brother adding up to FIVE teenagers in my house on an average day... you really don't want to see my grocery bills. On the good side, they're all really good, creative kids. I part-time homeschool my two younger ones, we have a hybrid school where they have classes MWF and homeschool Tu/Th, we really like it. Our property is about an acre, so in spite of a lot of it being taken up with huge Doug firs I still have enough to keep me occupied in one of my loves, 'gardening'... I put it in quotes because I really don't get enough sun to do a proper veggie-type garden but I have scads of bulbs and shrubs and fruit trees, etc. Nothing is more lovely that playing about with dirt and plants for me. I read quite a lot - history, poetry, novels, etc. etc. , write stories and poetry, draw, sing, paint and teach a bit at my church - just finished a church history class on the Reformation, now leading one on Romans. I work in our food cupboard there, we serve lots and lots of hungry folks. On oddball things, I do have a collection of Fisher-Price people, and another of Kiddles (anyone know what those are?), plus a novelty-whistle collection. I should probably sell them all off and collect something else now... it's the collecting part that's the fun part, after all. Fits with my being forever going to garage-sales, I guess. I also sort-of play the autoharp and nose-flute. And work? Well, I'm mostly a Mom, but I also maintain two libraries at two different private schools, been a librarian in one way or another for about 15 years now. Fave book series include The Scarlet Pimpernel set, anything by P.G. Wodehouse, Horatio Hornblower's series and most recently the Peter and the Starcatchers trio. My main other passion has been for Tolkien and his related authors, Lewis and Wm. Morris. I have WAAAY too much LOTR stuff. Anyone interested in buying some? Whew!
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Post by magnusgreel on Dec 4, 2008 0:34:31 GMT
I just laughed at ypur banner, merry...
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Post by Stripes on Jan 3, 2009 23:13:24 GMT
Traveling. My love is traveling. It's my drug. I have been to The Netherlands, Belgium, Costa Rica, Ukraine and USA (New York). I may go to Japan in the summer, don't know if it will work out though.
I want to help people, my dream would be to work for Doctors Without Boarders. Thinking of becoming a nurse. In the meantime I want to start volunteering at their office. Maybe around February I will start that. Right now I have others things to work on.
Life has been all about the computer for me. 2009 will be no more. Once I get a job, I want to get a gym membership with my friend and start to work out. I love being active and swimming is my favourite sport.
I will update this later in the year and see what has changed.
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Post by wanderlust on Jan 6, 2009 6:02:02 GMT
Stargate: Atlantis. Lately it's been something of an obsession for me, and forced to face the ugly truth that I appear to be attracted shows dealing with aliens and distant places far from home.
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Post by IMForeman on Jan 7, 2009 17:07:39 GMT
Reading is a big one for me. I read constantly, mostly fantasy or science fiction. I would list some names but I'm not sure if I could stop. Someday I may even have enough bookshelves to fit all of them but I doubt I'll ever be able to keep up.
My favorite word is "defenestrate." I have a slight obsession with the Victorian era, steampunk in particular. Not sure why, other than it being awesome.
I've become a bit of an accidental Anglophile. And I have a dog and two cats. I like them a lot.
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Post by primsong on Jan 22, 2009 17:02:07 GMT
Steampunk is awesome. Quite right! And wanderlust, isn't it interesting to see what other fandoms grab us, and why? For years I never thought of myself as any kind of 'fan' at all but looking back on it I just wasn't recognizing my fannish tendencies because I associated fandom with scary celebrity-stalkers and strange men who paint their entire bodies the colors of a sports team. Looking at my mounds of fanfic, two fandom paintings, crazy things I own...yeah.... every now and then a world or character comes along that just has too much to love in it, you have to stop and obsess on it for a while to give it proper due. :-D
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Post by evelyn on Jan 24, 2009 23:14:14 GMT
Ah, Stargate Atlantis! And I refuse to watch the last three episodes, because it would be too depressing to have nothing still unwatched.
I usually don't have time to discuss my fandoms once I've done a run through the list - which is waaaay too long. Steampunk, sci-fi, and general action and adventure type stories tend to attract me the most.
Like I said, I have too many fandoms, but those I'm most loyal to would probably be Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis, Doctor Who, the Chronicles of Narnia, classic Trek, X-Files, and Firefly.
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Post by clocketpatch on Jan 25, 2009 4:24:20 GMT
The Chronicles of Narnia! Are my favourite book series ever, bar none. They are like chicken soup to the soul; with the words so easy and familiar to read, and the story always unfolding differently and... I could wax poetic for awhile, but that's probably just the sugar-high talking.
The room mate made cake so um... *g*
But yes, Voyage of the Dawn Treader is by my favourite (followed by the Horse and his Boy), and though I'm still a bit divided on the movie version of TLWATW and haven't even seen Prince Caspian I am all excited for a movie version of Dawn Treader, for, should it ever happen, I can think of no story which would better benefit from CGI effects.
I don't want a new movie version of Silver Chair though. Not unless it has Tom Baker as Puddleglum!
Thus concludes my Narnia rant.
... except to mope that I lent out my Narnia compendium and 4 months later it STILL hasn't been returned and I'm getting twitchy. Those be my comfort books... I haven't gone this long without at least thumbing through them before... *wibbles*
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Post by Stripes on Jan 30, 2009 1:46:29 GMT
I remember my sister reading the Narnia books to me. I liked them but I wasn't crazy for them. I don't really remember the story.
Now Clocket about you lending. I hardly ever lend things any more. I had first addition Harry Potter books (English Cover) of book One and Two. I lent them out to friends. One friend lost the first book. THE FIRST BOOK!!
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Post by librarylover on May 11, 2009 0:21:11 GMT
I know this hasn't been updated in awhile, but I just got here.
Where have you people been all my life? Ok, many of you weren't alive for a significant portion of my life, but still. I am an eclectic geek, so I guess I fit right in. Professionally I work in corporate training, mainly involved in instructional design.
Non-Who Interests Music: My iPod has a little bit of everything, from ABBA to Zepplin. My forever favs are Sting/The Police, Billy Joel (yes, that's right), Paul Simon and the Beatles. I played clarinet and alto clarinet in school, but don't anymore. I just started to play the hammered dulcimer in the past year, so I'm still learning it.
TV: Bones, House (although this year may have been the last straw), Fringe, X-Files, The West Wing, Star Trek, Coupling, Sex and the City
Movies: LOTR, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, The Princess Bride, The Mummy, This is Spinal Tap . . . oh this could go on a long time. For movies I almost have to focus by era or genre because I love so many.
Books: Diana Gabaldon, Anne Rice, Patricia Cornwall, Nelson DeMille, Harry Potter, Narnia, Gone With the Wind, Dan Brown . . . ooo getting long here too. When I was a kid I read anything that I could get my hands on. Trips to the library were my favorite things, especially when I was reading every horse book ever written.
Family: I have 4 sisters, 2 brothers (twins), 4 nephews, 5 nieces, 1 great-nephew (one more due this month), and 1 great-niece. I am the youngest sibling, and the only one with no kids. I do have a sweet tabby cat named Minerva, who in her heart of hearts believes that she is a mountain lion.
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Post by primsong on May 11, 2009 0:27:47 GMT
So much to love there! Billy Joel (yay!), House (I'm a Hugh Laurie fan too), quotable movies... and 'horse books' - Marguerite Henry, perhaps? Brighty and Misty were two of my favorites as a kid... read all of them. And you even have a cat! You're definitely in the right place.
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Post by Stripes on May 11, 2009 1:09:48 GMT
Lots of us are cat people. I want to doa study and see how many people who watch who own or have own a cat. LOL
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Post by librarylover on May 11, 2009 2:44:57 GMT
So much to love there! Billy Joel (yay!), House (I'm a Hugh Laurie fan too), quotable movies... and 'horse books' - Marguerite Henry, perhaps? Brighty and Misty were two of my favorites as a kid... read all of them. And you even have a cat! You're definitely in the right place. I think I have read every book Marguerite Henry ever wrote! "Misty" and "King of the Wind" were my favorites. I also really liked Walter Farley's Black Stallion books.
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Post by primsong on May 12, 2009 6:19:04 GMT
Loved 'King of the Wind'...my copy was positively dogeared. I probably still have it somewhere. And yes, what's a home without a cat? I think it was Mark Twain that said something along those lines...something about a home only being a house without one. Ours is Pi, a brown tabby who came with the house as a built-in.
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Post by librarylover on May 12, 2009 14:11:28 GMT
Ooo, he is very cute, and makes a lovely centerpiece!
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