Post by Witchfynde on Aug 17, 2004 21:36:24 GMT -5
Heh, Carole's going to end up regretting putting up this general thread (but I have to do this with EVERY forum I'm on! 
), due to this being one of the very first posts on here ;D Don't worry, not ALL of my non-music posts will be this big though!
Since I just got on board here last weekend (signed up on Friday the 13th, muhahhaha!), I don't really know anybody yet...but do YOU really know everyone either? I'll bet you don't!
So, with that in mind, feel free to add or delete whatever parts you like. The new person shall go first:
Name: Witchfynde
Real name: Darryl
Other internet alias': Witchfinder General, FatalRewind, Darryl B.
Place of Origin/Currently living in: Houston, Texas
Sex: currently not enough...oh, THAT sex! Well, I'm a male dude!
Occupation/work interests: Career transition/resumes, but I mostly temp and do contract work in the meantime, just doing general office stuff
Interests: I have a rare illness that currently limits things (a lack of money is another factor), so most of the following is in regards to things I either used to do or would like to take up once I'm well and/or have money coming in: drumming, biking, indoor rock climbing, bowling, movies, writing (songwriting, mostly), women of all shapes, races and sizes (except for those in the "Lardbutt" and over category)
Dislikes: liars, backstabbers, people who don't listen to THE simplest thing after it's been explained 500 times, Houston's god-awful heat 90% of the year, Willard Scott
Favorite movie of all time: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Runners up: True Believer (my previous "favorite movie of all time" for 12 years until Rings came out), all Star Wars (some more than others), The Fugitive, Toy Story (both), The Iron Giant (ruled!!!!), City Slickers, Keeping the Faith, Freaky Friday (2003 version, believe it or not...man, that was damn funny!) and Rumble in the Bronx for their hilarity, Titanic, RoboCop (THE best cyborg movie EVER made...NOTHING has matched the action, ideas, etc. since), Holes (just hang in there after the first 10 minutes, it's pretty stupid, but it gets WAY better afterwards), The Ring (American remake, haven't seen Japanese original yet), 28 Days Later (MAN that was scary! "Horror" movies hardly *ever* scare me, but that one did!)
Currently watches: Star Trek Enterprise (more or less, I currently don't have a tv), King of the Hill, Just Shoot Me (just cancelled last year, actually)
All time favorite tv shows: Babylon 5 (despite the low budget, the BEST sci-fi series EVER!!), The Critic (too bad it didn't last any more than two seasons), Reboot, Night Court, Red Green (PBS), Hill Street Blues, Married...With Morons (uh, CHILDREN, that is!)
What?! There's other places than this Coroner site? (Other internet places of personal interest)
www.classicgaming.com I've written several of their Game Museum articles (as Witchfinder General).
www.atariage.com If you want to get rid of old games, sell or trade, it's not just all Atari, you can also deal with Vectrex, Intellivision, various personal computers, Colecovision, PC, etc. games as well. I made over 20 transactions there myself and only two of them were delayed--one my fault; whups, the other, due to weather delay (what is this "snow" stuff I hear about? Those of us in Texas don't understand this myth
)--with barely a hitch. Just beware of people with crappy attitudes in the off-topic forums and all!
www.imdb.com The Internet Movie DataBase has all kinds of stuff in regards to movies and tv; best part are the Goofs in movies that you didn't realize, the bad part is a lot of mistakes and bad info going around, so don't believe everything you read.
I'm also an administrator at a friend's heavy metal site; just send me a PM if you're interested in joining. I would say his site also has over 60 metal reviews (most done by myself, and I've got lots more to do!), which are open to contributions, but that part of his site is gone for the moment as he searches around for a new dot com to store them (new provider won't give any more than five megs of space; whoopie!).
So what do I look like anyway?
If you go to the second page of this thread, third post from the top, you'll see a picture of me and my former, uh, "tools" (don't worry, it's work safe; you'll see what I mean!). (And a current photo just taken in the last year can be seen here: members.bluefrog.com/~haller/emdpics.html, as Darryl B.)
So what do I SOUND like then?
If you go here www.forumplanet.com:80/classicgaming/topic.asp?fid=4566&tid=974080&p=1, and click on the link on post #10, that's me, but I don't have a deep, sexy voice or anything; sorry.
True pieces of personal trivia:
I wasn't born with what's commonly called "webbed feet", but two toes on each foot never fully separated. (Don't know what it's called--I was told it once and forgot [should've written it down, I guess]--need to Google...)
I'm not left-handed, but I do several things with my left hand, like eat left-handed, use the tv remotes, and play some old video games (like Scramble) left-handed that have buttons on both sides of the joystick (my mom's right-handed, but my dad left, so that's where I got it from).
I have very excellent hearing; don't let the small ears fool you!
You remember that HORRIBLE Y2K incident when everything went to hell and the human race almost totally annihilated itself? Oh, that's right, nothing really happened. This is a fact, though: I actually own a piece of machinery that was affected by the Y2K bug. My vcr can't record programs anymore...which I noticed 10 days AFTER 2000 hit, so there's no way it could've been anything else, as all it's other functions still work. I can still record manually but the timer doesn't work anymore. So when it eventually dies I'm going to keep it since it's a museum piece.
About myself, in a nutshell: Kind of hard to describe yourself, you know? I like being by myself (especially with my current living situation, as I had to move back in with my parents)/am independent (somewhat), computers, gadgets, and games, drumming, MUSIC IS LIFE!! It would take five pages to describe all the kinds of music I have, so I won't bother (just to BARELY tap into it involves from heavy metal with folk to heavy metal with opera to dark ambient to new age to Indian music to video game music [yeah, I know! Go figure!], etc.). Looooove digital photography! Even though I'll never work in the legal field again I will probably always have an interest in law. Love animals, especially dogs and cats. I've also been published as a local writer, mostly as a movie critic, and would like to get back into songwriting again.
Guess that's about it...
), due to this being one of the very first posts on here ;D Don't worry, not ALL of my non-music posts will be this big though!Since I just got on board here last weekend (signed up on Friday the 13th, muhahhaha!), I don't really know anybody yet...but do YOU really know everyone either? I'll bet you don't!
So, with that in mind, feel free to add or delete whatever parts you like. The new person shall go first:
Name: Witchfynde
Real name: Darryl
Other internet alias': Witchfinder General, FatalRewind, Darryl B.
Place of Origin/Currently living in: Houston, Texas
Sex: currently not enough...oh, THAT sex! Well, I'm a male dude!
Occupation/work interests: Career transition/resumes, but I mostly temp and do contract work in the meantime, just doing general office stuff
Interests: I have a rare illness that currently limits things (a lack of money is another factor), so most of the following is in regards to things I either used to do or would like to take up once I'm well and/or have money coming in: drumming, biking, indoor rock climbing, bowling, movies, writing (songwriting, mostly), women of all shapes, races and sizes (except for those in the "Lardbutt" and over category)
Dislikes: liars, backstabbers, people who don't listen to THE simplest thing after it's been explained 500 times, Houston's god-awful heat 90% of the year, Willard Scott
Favorite movie of all time: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Runners up: True Believer (my previous "favorite movie of all time" for 12 years until Rings came out), all Star Wars (some more than others), The Fugitive, Toy Story (both), The Iron Giant (ruled!!!!), City Slickers, Keeping the Faith, Freaky Friday (2003 version, believe it or not...man, that was damn funny!) and Rumble in the Bronx for their hilarity, Titanic, RoboCop (THE best cyborg movie EVER made...NOTHING has matched the action, ideas, etc. since), Holes (just hang in there after the first 10 minutes, it's pretty stupid, but it gets WAY better afterwards), The Ring (American remake, haven't seen Japanese original yet), 28 Days Later (MAN that was scary! "Horror" movies hardly *ever* scare me, but that one did!)
Currently watches: Star Trek Enterprise (more or less, I currently don't have a tv), King of the Hill, Just Shoot Me (just cancelled last year, actually)
All time favorite tv shows: Babylon 5 (despite the low budget, the BEST sci-fi series EVER!!), The Critic (too bad it didn't last any more than two seasons), Reboot, Night Court, Red Green (PBS), Hill Street Blues, Married...With Morons (uh, CHILDREN, that is!)
What?! There's other places than this Coroner site? (Other internet places of personal interest)
www.classicgaming.com I've written several of their Game Museum articles (as Witchfinder General).
www.atariage.com If you want to get rid of old games, sell or trade, it's not just all Atari, you can also deal with Vectrex, Intellivision, various personal computers, Colecovision, PC, etc. games as well. I made over 20 transactions there myself and only two of them were delayed--one my fault; whups, the other, due to weather delay (what is this "snow" stuff I hear about? Those of us in Texas don't understand this myth
)--with barely a hitch. Just beware of people with crappy attitudes in the off-topic forums and all!www.imdb.com The Internet Movie DataBase has all kinds of stuff in regards to movies and tv; best part are the Goofs in movies that you didn't realize, the bad part is a lot of mistakes and bad info going around, so don't believe everything you read.
I'm also an administrator at a friend's heavy metal site; just send me a PM if you're interested in joining. I would say his site also has over 60 metal reviews (most done by myself, and I've got lots more to do!), which are open to contributions, but that part of his site is gone for the moment as he searches around for a new dot com to store them (new provider won't give any more than five megs of space; whoopie!).
So what do I look like anyway?
If you go to the second page of this thread, third post from the top, you'll see a picture of me and my former, uh, "tools" (don't worry, it's work safe; you'll see what I mean!). (And a current photo just taken in the last year can be seen here: members.bluefrog.com/~haller/emdpics.html, as Darryl B.)
So what do I SOUND like then?
If you go here www.forumplanet.com:80/classicgaming/topic.asp?fid=4566&tid=974080&p=1, and click on the link on post #10, that's me, but I don't have a deep, sexy voice or anything; sorry.
True pieces of personal trivia:
I wasn't born with what's commonly called "webbed feet", but two toes on each foot never fully separated. (Don't know what it's called--I was told it once and forgot [should've written it down, I guess]--need to Google...)
I'm not left-handed, but I do several things with my left hand, like eat left-handed, use the tv remotes, and play some old video games (like Scramble) left-handed that have buttons on both sides of the joystick (my mom's right-handed, but my dad left, so that's where I got it from).
I have very excellent hearing; don't let the small ears fool you!
You remember that HORRIBLE Y2K incident when everything went to hell and the human race almost totally annihilated itself? Oh, that's right, nothing really happened. This is a fact, though: I actually own a piece of machinery that was affected by the Y2K bug. My vcr can't record programs anymore...which I noticed 10 days AFTER 2000 hit, so there's no way it could've been anything else, as all it's other functions still work. I can still record manually but the timer doesn't work anymore. So when it eventually dies I'm going to keep it since it's a museum piece.
About myself, in a nutshell: Kind of hard to describe yourself, you know? I like being by myself (especially with my current living situation, as I had to move back in with my parents)/am independent (somewhat), computers, gadgets, and games, drumming, MUSIC IS LIFE!! It would take five pages to describe all the kinds of music I have, so I won't bother (just to BARELY tap into it involves from heavy metal with folk to heavy metal with opera to dark ambient to new age to Indian music to video game music [yeah, I know! Go figure!], etc.). Looooove digital photography! Even though I'll never work in the legal field again I will probably always have an interest in law. Love animals, especially dogs and cats. I've also been published as a local writer, mostly as a movie critic, and would like to get back into songwriting again.
Guess that's about it...
, books, computer games (mostly strategy games,) board games, music, camping, the outdoors, writing (anything,) animals (and rats in particular,) astronomy, prehistory, evolution, humor (even if it's dark, and especially if it's "wrong" 
) movies, science, science-fiction, amusement parks...
I don't watch a whole lot of TV... I used to watch Third Rock From the Sun and Fear Factor regularly. There are other American series I used to watch while still living in Switzerland, but I don't know their English titles...
I often feel nostalgic about all those old games I discovered on the Atari (and later on the Amiga, and later on the PC.) So I visit these sites every now and then:
Funny, I was just thinking about it last week, for some reason.
