Real world

[killagee 0]

29 Years Old. New Zealand. Live Sound Audio Engineer. I Spend 7 months of the year touring around the world with musicians.

My girlfriend is a Drummer who who likes to lay people to waste with an M-249.

I usually get 2 comps per show when overseas so if I am doing a show in your town...

[bohnicz 0]

19 years old, living in Düsseldorf, Germany, currently still student. Nearly always broke, but if I have Money it's most likely spent on some Metal Stuff ;)

At the moment I'm learning swedish/danish/norsk, hoping that I'll get a job either as dipomat or as a translator.

[Jinef 2]

I used to run up mountains in mid Wales a lot, however i got tired of the pneumonia it caused.

We don't do sun here.... it's so just below our latitude you know, way out of the fashion.

I'm jealous of you people who live in nice places, another few years and i'll be off somewhere with less sheep and more sun i hope.

[Tamme 0]

What's so cool about the sun and hot places? Snow, ice and -20 degrees celsius is the best it can be. Maybe I'm just different.

[walker 0]

Hi all

The Short Version

43 climber currently residing in The Peoples Republic of South Yorkshire but have done many a stint in London. Been to most of Europe and a lot of Asia some of it with a visa.

Been playing with computers since the 70s when they were programmed with punch cards and ticker tape, anyone remember Hunt the Mugwump? Love climbing and have done for the last 17 years. Learning to be a climbing instructor. Nearly died of typhoid in India once and 6 month later after climbing in Thailand of something that made the doctors lock me in an airtight room and that they could never work out what it was just they didn't want it. Play and write rock music largest audience 2000 people. Never shot a real gun in my life.

At some point I will write a book about my self as even I think I have had an intresting life. I just wish it was not in the Chinese sense of the phrase.

Kind Regards Walker

[Badassdom 0]

I'm 17 and doing mi final year of highschool(vwo dutch system)and applied for KMA(royal militairy academie)where if chosen militairy arts whitch is basicly the workings of politics and war (NATO) and this is a 3 year bacholor(?) plus 1year officers training

[4 IN 1 0]

Hi all

The Short Version

43 climber currently residing in The Peoples Republic of South Yorkshire but have done many a stint in London. Been to most of Europe and a lot of Asia some of it with a visa.

Been playing with computers since the 70s when they were programmed with punch cards and ticker tape, anyone remember Hunt the Mugwump? Love climbing and have done for the last 17 years. Learning to be a climbing instructor. Nearly died of typhoid in India once and 6 month later after climbing in Thailand of something that made the doctors lock me in an airtight room and that they could never work out what it was just they didn't want it. Play and write rock music largest audience 2000 people. Never shot a real gun in my life.

At some point I will write a book about my self as even I think I have had an intresting life. I just wish it was not in the Chinese sense of the phrase.

Kind Regards Walker

hum........it is highly possible

[walker 0]

OK here is a the long version from the CoC Developers forum for those who can be bothered

Username: walker

Proper name: Ian Glen Walker

Age 43 (Yes I am an old B)

Webmaster for several sites, Got a BSc. Hons. in Business Information Technology from Westminster University. Can Program in several languages although I still have not leaned Java. But I know bit of FORTRAN from the 70s, Z80 assembly language (bit rusty there), VB, C and C++.

I have programmed every thing from an ICL mainframe (that had 1K of Ram and Buff colored cards to program it, proper plate size Winchester hard drives, and spinning tapes just like in the old movies). Through the ZX80, ZX81, and Spectrum, Commodore Vic 20, Commodore PET, Apple2, RML 380 and 480z, the acorn before the BBC connection, the Amiga (my favorite operating system of all time), PCs from DOS to win 2000, Unix on Sun, and of course Linux, IBM AS400s, and VAX mainframes.

I have been everything from a welder to a systems analyst and software engineer, with stop offs as a social worker, a librarian and building site laborer in between. I am an accomplished rock musician and singer song writer played in front of audiences of up to 2000 and organized music festivals and raised several thousand pounds for charity.

Traveled a lot most of europe and east asia. With many great tales to tell. Married and divorced a beautiful spanish lady by the name of Loli. Divorced amicably after seven years we are still good friends and she says if she goes traveling again it will be with me. Currently in love with a Malasian born Scientist and Doctor who works as Genetecist for Cancer Research and is a better climber than me and she has a sports car.

Worked as volunteer for homeless persons charity called SHIP (Southwark Homeless Information Project) you have to have been homeless to work for them. Heavily involved in the squating movement in the 1980s. Attended and gave advice on up to 400 eviction cases per week for five years. Helped formulate legal strategies to prevent the eviction of people who were renting from council tennants, people who had got behind on their mortgage payments in the 80s housing slump and equity chrisis, squatting, disabled by mental illness or age and got behind on their rent, were unmarried spouses/partner of tennants who died or left the property they lived in. Helped change the policy of the local council on empty properties so that they had a very successfull hard to let policy. Helped negotiate tennancies for long term squatters of rundown south London estate on back payment of rent for period they were squatters. Member of the tennants association for another rundown Peckham estate that was redeveloped.

Worked for the Nicargua Solidarity Campaign; we used to use the MI5 agent as Tea boy till he sussed it out but we never asked him to leave. The El Salvadore campaign in the 80s was involved in trying to prevent the repatriation of a close friend. He was taken by imigration department one day he was shot as his feet hit the tarmac at the airport in El Salvadore. Found a homes for about 30 different refuggees over the years including Russians, Tibettans, Chzechs, Poles and Nigerians; The Chzechs included when he went back the head of Police and Secret Services under Vaclav Havel.

Was an Extra and Safety expert on the film Kiliing Me Softly with Heather Graham, Natascha McElhone and Joseph Fines, we helped teach Actors to climb I liked Natascha I belayed her in the film. We put on a show for the film crew and I re-enacted the climbing scene with the reverse crusifix from Mission Imposable II (the Drop Dyno it shows is physicly impossable you would dislocate both shoulders on any drop dyno of more than about 3 feet)

Climbed with some of the best climbers in the world Victor Saunders is a good friend. Lin Hill gave me Cherries from her Cherry tree after we had climbed in the same group at Beux for a month and a half I belayed her on a couple atempts on an French 8c. I am embasingly filmed swearing a lot while failing to onsight the French 6b Pepsico Man just before Catherine Destiville solos it.

Been playing OFP since the Demo

Switched on the Editor and changed it to advanced on day one and forgot there was an easy mode in the editor. Cue some vicious replies at OFPEC

Walker " you put it in the initialization field"

Some poor sod " I cant see the initialization field is it a script?"

Walker " No its in the unit editor Idiot"

Some poor sod " I cant see the initialization field in the editor"

Walker " In the the unit window moron"

Some poor sod " I have done that I still cant see the initialization field?!"

Walker " LOOK! dimwit"

Some poor sod " I have done I still cant see the initialization field?!"

Lots of discussion about what could be seen latter

Walker " In the top right hand corner of the editor; does it say EASY or ADVANCED?"

Assumptions they will kill you every time.

I have been climbing for 17 years and so far lost 8 friends (two this year). It happens.

I try not to make assumptions while climbing.

Like I said I am training to be a Climbing Instructor to get to Guide takes at least 10 years in the UK.

Intresting stories about traveling in war torn countries, near death experiences from, close calls with men firing guns over the top of my tent from less thn 5 feet away, close calls with with drug smuglers on trains full of men with guns, glaciers in the arctic that disapear in to rivers in the space of minutes after you have crossed them 3 times that day. Climbing close calls not that many one big fall a few close rock falls and no serious injuries except for a shoulder with a tendency to dislocate. I could go on

Now not many people done all that!

[edit]I could chat for england [/edit]

Kind Regards Walker

[ofpeditor 0]

31, Just married this past July to a wonderful wife of 27.

Currently residing in the small state of Delaware in a new home with the wife, although I've lived in the UK and various parts of the States throughout the years.

Undergrad @ Univeristy of Michigan - Ann Arbor (Go Blue!) and abroad @ Imperial College, London (BioMedical Engineering)

Medical School @ Kalamazoo Center for Medical Studies (Internal Medicine - Cardiology)

Currently pursuing a secondary degree in Psychology in the little spare time I have.

Currently in my sixth year as a Combat Medic, Airborne Search and Rescue with a private firm dealing with Rescue and Retrieval of persons domestic and abroad.

Big music fan in my spare time, as well as climbing, and ice hockey, even at my age.

Just another old head on the BAS team  

Cheers

ofpeditor

[Guest]

21, braving the frigid winds of Rochester, NY.  Studying public policy/int relations.  Being a student and all that it entails...

Finally, another western New Yorker! I thought I was all alone.

although I'm just studying here...  i'm moving back to Israel once I get my masters, then to the army (haven't decided what unit I want/can join)

Rochester is... cold

Although the nightlife is surprisingly active.

I noodle around with some Eastman School students at a few of the local Jazz bars (Usually struggling to keep up with them)  

[Assault (CAN) 1]

I'm 20, my real name is Tyler Stefanich, and I'm in my first year of university at Nipissing U in North Bay, Ontario. (if you see the picture, I'm in the townhouses on the right) I'm majoring in History and I plan to go with a career in the Canadian Army. Though that depends on wether or not we have an Army by the time I finish school. I wanted to join the Armoured Corps but there's no point in that when your government decides that the Army no longer needs Tanks, and that APC's with oversized 105mm guns on top are a good replacement. I wonder if the British Army is hiring??......

Anyways, when I'm not in North Bay in school, or on some isolated base or training area as part of my army training or summer tasking, I live in St. Catharines, Ontario with my folks and thier dog.

In my spare time I enjoy shooting, snowboarding, cycling, PC games, women, hanging out with friends, gettting drunk with sed friends, and building scale models.

Tyler

[Grizzlie 0]

@walker

I still remember sound of tape device going down

Would be nice for jet engines in OFP

[Dauragon 0]

hmm 19 , i am a martial artist, i specialize in Viet Vo Dao and Gung Fu, i have won 3 Viet Vo competitions in a row.

And i'm going to do my university in switzerland EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) or might go to Harvard Business School in USA, i travel alot and after i finish my university i will go back to Japan and finish my life there, where my grand parents reside

I love video games, movies and anime.

[walker 0]

@walker

I still remember sound of tape device going down  

Would be nice for jet engines in OFP  

When you could hear it above the roar of the twenty air conditioners or the buzz of the card reader or the machingun stutter of a balistic printer shaking the room like an earthquake.  

For a sec there you had me confused I was thinking music or maybe some other walker then I remembered the vaccum clearners they used to suck the loop of tape before it hits the reader head. Thanks for the memory.

Kind Regards Walker

[bn880 5]

i will go back to Japan and finish my life there

Oh no, you are not planning on finishing your life yet are you?

[teacup 2]

Fifteen seems to be a popular age amongst OFP fans..

Can't even remember being fifteen.

I'm 26, from Romania, and love rambling about myself.

I did Art-Highschool(drawing, painting, sculpting, etc..), but my main interests were philosophy (don't laugh) and literature. For mysterious reasons, i did not pursue any of the above. Instead, being the offspring of a true proletarian family, i eventually got a job. [Flips page]

For the last 4+ years, i've been making a living as pixelpusher. Doing mainly character animation in Maya. This summer i also got a part time job as graphic designer, for a company that makes digital slot machines. So i have virtually no spare time. Really funny..

Also, yours truly is a convinced draft dodger. To keep my sorry ass out of them army barracks i did 2x2 years of computer school, so guess who's a certified computer technician and programmer? (big deal )

Right now i'm kind'a tired of this working for a living routine, and thinking of taking a big break in the spring, maybe flip another page. Time for a breather. If i wasn't this lazy (don't let the 2 jobs thing fool you), and had a bit more money, i think i wouldn't mind spending a few months, kicking back in Cuba. There's nothing like a crumbling communist tropical paradise to bring back one's "joie de vivre".

That's about it. If you're in for some consistent reading, you can check out the afterburners on Walker, back on page 9.

I almost forgot: this thread reminds me of a similar one on CGTalk, where the members were invited to post pictures of themselves (now that i looked it up, i can see there's a series of "Don't be shy.." threads). I don't have one handy, but i could find one. What do you say? If there's one exhibitionistic bone in your body, show yourself..  

[GuyKorn 0]

Im 18, Im in my 5th year of high school WOO HOO SUPER SENOIRS RULE! I live in Addison Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. I pre-enlisted in the U.S. Army and im a Private First Class with my MOS being Infantry with the goal of being in Special Forces. I leave june 23rd 2004 to Fort Benning Georgia HOO-AH! I currently work at Blockbuster and it SUCKS ASS!

[Major Fubar 0]

I think we had a thread ages ago where people posted pics of themselves (me included)...most regretted it.

My pic is currently on display at the "Hot or Not" website, and I'm currently getting a solid score of 7-point-something

[hellfish6 7]

Eeeeew.

[PiNs_Da_Smoka 0]

Hmm....Can I change my previous post to this....?

20, currently living in Camp Udairi, Kuwait, getting battle ready for my vacation in Iraq. And you can obviously tell what i do from my signature.

Hmm, its kinda cold out here in the winter. Not what you would expect from the desert. Peeaaaace....

[theavonlady 2]

Max Res, Pins! Don't smoke any camel dung!

[hellfish6 7]

TAKE PICTURES!!! If you don't you'll totally regret it. And we'd all appreciate it.

[MLF 0]

I live in England atm and im at college (16-18) i play hockey mostly in my spare time and last year we Won the National Cup (BSC) and also the Mixed National Plate

[Consigliere 0]

HELLFISH and Avon,sitting in a tree, K-I...

[theavonlady 2]

HELLFISH and Avon,sitting in a tree, K-I...

.......... kiliing Consigliere in MP!