Tell us something interesting about you..

We've all been chatting for a long while now and I think it would be cool to know something interesting about everyone here; or about someone in your family.

ex:
My dad sparred the nephew of Mas Oyama and hit him in the nutsack with a shinai. Dropped him to his knees.

My Grandfather on my dad's side fought in the black forest of Germany.

I beat all but one of the students in my fathers old dojo where he learned and taught Shoryn-Ryu.

I developed a new technique in college for sliding brain tissue from mice off a microtome that was frozen with CO2 and sucrose.

I pioneered the Think First For Kids (Brain and Spinal Cord injury prevention) program for northern NY while in college.


Now you..

 

Ok well with only 17 years of being alive I've not got that much to say! But!

I've been invited to work for Renault F1 in the future, after doing work experience with them a couple of years ago.

My dad does rigging for nearly all the west end shows, my step dad does sound for most of the west end shows and did a concert for the queen at windsor of Les Miserables (by royal appointment!).

 

well im only 14 so..
but my relatives were loyalists
(american settlers who were loyal to the british, and fought for them, then moved to canada)
lol thats how i became a prooud canuck i guess

 

@goldy: That's pretty cool man. What sort of stuff did you do on that work study?

@Zulu: Love historical information. What else do you have? Did any of them make themselves known during the war?

 

I'm the first woman elected to office in my 110-year-old union local.

My grandmother on my father's side was in the first graduating class at Central Michigan College (now University) that contained women.

My father served his entire Navy career on the USS Intrepid, the aircraft carrier which is now a floating museum in the New York harbour.

When I was in first and sixth grades, I won the young authors contest for the region, and placed in the state, with stories I wrote and illustrated myself.

That's all I can think of at the moment.

 

My name is Valentine.

 

My grandfather worked with the space capsule programs, the first ever moon missions. He worked on the lenses of the lunar rovers' cameras.

 

TMI BeerMonkey!

 

All good stuff!!
C'mon!! I want more.. I think it's really neat how people have some connection to things they hear , see, talk about either every day or on occassion.

 

ummm... let's see,

i'm in grade 10 and
i've been to about 7 different schools located in 4 different countries

 

I used to hang out at Cocoa Beach and my boyfriend worked on the space shuttle program.

 

no, but we have been linked to the the bully boys, somehow (i dont noe, my aunts been digging the stuff up) the bully boys were a group of soldiers known for tricking the enemy, there is a book out by eric walters called the bully boys, its a factual book with a fictional twist about a boy who helps the leader out

thats my mom's half btw, my other half is from newfoundland... now if i only had some native relatives

 

lets see i moved about 7 times in a matter of 2 years i have been in 4 car crashes never been hurt and about 10 dirt bike crashes never been hurt but you should see the dirt bikes nothing left of them lol oh yea each time i crashed on a dirt bike it was on my mothers birthday and in each car crash was on my brothers birthday and my sisters birthday and hey i never once wore a helmet so it goes to show you if you got a hard head you cant get hurt lmao thats about it

 

Gee, thanks a lot, Kodo.

You forced me to take stock of my life, and I had to come the conclusion that there is nothing interesting about me.

What if my Wife finds out?!?!

Maybe I can go rob a bank or something....

 

Something interesting. Hmmmm I'll have to come back after I think about this one. Oh how sad!

>Oh I have one, I'm nice LOL

 

I've won first place for tallest corn plant three years in a row at illinois state fair!!!
is that corny or what???!!!

 

I used to be a NUCLEAR power plant operator. Qualified to operate a nuclear powerplant when I was 18.

 

Nothing too special about this 33yo Turk, really. Been in the States for about 15 years, absofreakinglutely love it here. Understand German and read/write but cannot speak it anymore...
I always loved technology, gadgets and computers and decided to get in the field and got a career going since 1999 after a 1-year schooling at local IT Tech school. Certified with MCSE+Proxy, CNA, A+, Network+, Hubbell but always valued and prefered hands-on, real-life experience over any certification. I have been pretty good with figuring almost al problems that had to do with HW, Windows, Networking using common sense and unorthodox troubleshooting techniques when the known ways didn't suffice.
Would love to time-travel back in the future (but probably get killed in a day or so ) .
I used to post messages/replies in a Tech Forum on a site that also had a show once a week in Turkey, they acknowledged my contributions to the tech forum, program producer thanked me and announced my name on TV.
Most of the family is abroad, engineers or self-employed, those back in Turkey are either Engineer, doctor or high ranking officers in the military.
Most people think I resemble/look like Joe Fatone from NSync (eew if you ask me).
...had enough?

 

I'm so uninteresting I put myself to sleep.

Although I've had some interesting entertainment over the years. Rode a motorcycle for about 15 years. Build & tinker with puters, which isn't anything unique here. At my last job, I got to work around, nose around and fly in some very interesting aircraft. Lots of common general aviation stuff, plus quite a few antiques and warbirds. We serviced quite a few from a flying museum on the field. Have been able to fondle P-40 Warhawk, P-51 Mustang, Navy SNJ trainer, Grumman Goose seaplanes, TBM torpedo bomber, B-25 Mitchell, A-26, F-86 Saber Jet, privately built/restored Cobra attack helicopter, Hawker Sea Fury. I got a wild ride in the Sea Fury, in a small jump seat tucked behind the pilot. Got to push around a lot of the small aerobatic planes during air shows.

My Dad was Navy in WWII, in the Pacific, from Guadalcanal to China. One uncle was in Battle of the Bulge, One uncle died in a B-17 over the English Channel. I guess I inherited my love of aircraft from him.

 

forgot to mention that I study math everyday, I am running out of things to learn Iam 34

 

My aunt has been on this 20-year genealogy kick, travelling to London, Glasgow and Amsterdam looking up birth certificates, death certificates and grave markers. She traced the family all the way back to London, 2nd Century A.D.

 

That's cool!
Mine was only traced back to the 1500s in Norway on my mom's side. Have no idea about my fathers side but I would like to get into researching that sometime.

 

I remember a lot more of what she told me that she's found, but don't wanna get any facts jumbled up. I do know that my ancestors came to North America by way of hiding out in The Netherlands for a few years after refusing to pay the King some exorbitant taxes. Either that, or they were just being stubborn and beligerent

 

me??? just call me mom. i'm just a plain old mom (a little crazy). but, in my lifetime of work and living i have met some incredible people. a pearl harbor survivor, many ww2 vets (worked in a old soldiers home), the man who had his finger on the big red button during the cuban missle crisis, several POW's.. just recently shared a bus ride with a member of the mexican mafia (way too cool)... one of my near relatives was on the warren commission.. (NO he won't tell me anyting.. just the truth will come out soon) oh my parents made detonators for bombs in our basement during the viet nam war.. i'm a wannbe geek... barely a nerd.

 

Shaved 3 semisters off my High School, and started college day before my 17th birthday. 23 years later, not much accomplished. Had a great gal to fall in love with, have a beautiful daughter. I wanted to be a geek, but started too late, and after the dotcom meltdown, was glad I did not take the path to IT.

Best job I had, marketing to the IT camp in the Fortune 1000. Nice job that was really fun and yet at 455 you knew it all went black with the screen. Only 2 bad days there in 21/2 yrs. Amazing what the lowly worker at the back desk will tell when bored. Amazing when a company finds the solution and yet will not commit to repair even with ROI of as few as 6 months.

I am geographically further west on the Continental US than any other geek I know of in the boards.

Ok GT you can wake up now.

 

I remembered one.

Grandpa was an Italian fascist. He was one of the interpreters between Hitler and Mussolini. One day, he took my mom and her sister along. Hitler gave them a kiss, and told an adjutant to fetch them some milk and cookies.

 

My great great great (I forget how many 'greats') Uncle was a druid and used to perform the ceremonies at Stonehenge, England, UK.

My grandma used to love to tell that story, though I have no idea how much truth there is in it.

 

i used to be a hippy smoking pot at stonehenge, does that count lol?

seriously, ive led a facinating life full of trauma and joy. the most special thing about me are my blind faith in Gods goodness, and that i can often 'feel' people's pain. if i run my hands over someones body, i can tell where the point, and often the cause, of pain is. if i run my psychie over theirs, i can do the same for mental pain. aloha

 

mmm pretty uneventful 16 years so far, dicovered not long ago that both my grand dads fought in WW2, with my dad's dad fighting all the way over in Burma - is that near India or somewhere??? Whilst my mum's dad was hit by shrapnel early on in the war and had to pull out. This later led to many problems and he sadly passed away about 3 years ago now.
My mum was involved very much so in music when she wsa at school, so was my dad, and thus I am brought up to play the piano to grade 7 standard last december and just last friday got my grade 8 result for clarinet - 135/150, aka distinction, aka very good!!!
the examiner commented that I should take it up professionally, so I might have a career there! Is that enough or do you want more Kodo????

 

Lets see...

Graduated high school (math and computer honors), college, got a good job, got married, a nice house, two kids and two cars, in that order. Clean record and sober. Pretty boring, but something I'm thankful for.

Now if I can only keep the my girls on the same track....

 

on my mothers side, we had out geneology traced. My family was fathered in america by the captain of the mayflower, Miles standish. Out geneology was traced all the way back to Martin Luther, the founder of the protestant church.

gee, theres a shocker...

My fathers family (which i don't know, may not be true he's a pathological liar) walked the trail of tears with the cherokee nation.

 

in middle school, i was running through the grocery store and got hit by a cart coming out of one of the isles. i fell to the ground and broke my two front teeth, so now i have caps on my front teeth. so does my dad.

in city baseball in 9th grade, i was the number 1 overall pick in the draft (all the players tryout for the coaches, then all the coaches pick who they want on their team).

My mom's great grandfather invented the rifle safety for the browning rifles. not sure if its what they use today though.

something interesting about my wife...in her whole schooling career (6th grade through her MBA at Ok. State) she has gotten all A's and only 2 B's.

 

Man, am I boring. After reading all of the previous posts...and I still can't really think of anything interesting about myself. Well, I'll try...

I met Mr. T once.

I jumped over a car once.

I broke my scapula (shoulder blade) once while skateboarding and didn't find out it was actually broken untill three years later.

I was a baaaaaaad kid in my high school years. (not drugs, but lot's of vandalism and other such shenanigans)

I am 29 and to this day have never once touched any drug, pot or otherwise, never drank, never smoked. I am true straight edge, and will be till the day I die. I have the words "straight edge" tattoo across the upper part of my back, from shoulder to shoulder.

I'm Dutch. Not that that's interesting, but others have been posting their nationalities.


Steve

 

Cool stuff!! I love it!
Here's another one from me.

When I was a kid I used to go bowling with Captain Lou Albano.. Yep, he had the rubber band in his beard then too..lol

 

Oh yeah. Back about 12 years ago at a small club in Phila on South St. called J.C Dobbs, I lost my wallet in the pit while Green Day was playing on stage. In between songs, I was pushing people around to get a good view of the floor in hopes to find it. The singer from Green Day hopped of the stage and asked what I was doing. (This place was real small, like just a bar, and Green Day wasn't real big back then). I told him I lost my wallet. He got back on the stage and announcedon the mic "Hey this guy lost his wallet. If anybody finds a wallet, bring it up here OK?" Sure enough, someone found my wallet and handed to Billie Joe, the singer, who handed it down to me.

Lame story I guess, but that's about the extent of my meetings with celeberities. Oh yeah, I met King Kong Bundy at the Phila airport two years ago. They lost my and his luggage. We both rode the shuttle together to the parking lot. He was really cool. He lives in Jersey.

About ten years ago, one of the many punk bands I was in was actually "scouted" by John Porcell from Youth of Today/Shelter and he asked us to come to the Krisna Temple to record an album. We did three songs, I ended up doing guitar and bass since our bass player was real flakey and didn't show up. Well, it was never released but I still have the masters. It was just cool and very flattering. Most of you probably don't know who Porcell is or have heard of Youth of Today or Shelter, but they are like iconic hardcore/straight edge bands from back in the day.



Steve

 

Let's see... on my mother's side of family, they go all the way back to early colonial Americans as South Carolina's plantation owners - Middleton, Rutledge -- these two also signed the Constitution (if memory serves me right) and the Declaration of Independence. Nathaniel Russel is another ancestor on my mom's side.

My Dad's father was an missionary in Japan prior to WWII (my dad and his brother were born there). When my grandfather's family came back to the US because of the war, my grandfather worked as a translator in the Army translating the Japanese communications.

 

Kodo, didn't know you were into martial arts.

I studied Jun Fan, or Jeet Kune Do for a while. My sifu was taught by, and still learns from Dan Inosanto, Bruce Lee's top student.

After that, I trained in Praying Mantis for a short while, and was able to train with Grandmaster Pan Quing Fu. I learned some Druken Style forms from him.

It's been a while, but I'd like to go back and train some more. Maybe someday. Having a kid and all..... sure changes a lot. You basically lose all of your free time. But I wouldn't trade it for the world.

Do you still train?

 

I have a son now too and I'm going back to school + a 40 hr/wk job.. I have 0 time for the dojo. Not to mention the dojo's around here are conveyor belt places that "guarantee" you a blackbelt in 2 or 3 years. So sad.. I can't wait to find a nice formal/traditional dojo around here after school is done.

 

Moved from England to Canada when I was 11. Got hit by a car in Victoria when I was 13. I was propelled by it headfirst into a parked car. Caved the quarter panel in with my head. Walked away. (Cross at the crosswalk.) First got drunk when I was 14. I raided parents liquor cabinet. They were mad that I watered down their booze. Never drank since. (That's a blatant lie!) Worked since I was 15. Married, three kids (one of each). I LIKE TO RIDE MY BIKE. Hmmm nothing really interesting though. Oh, I was a habitual streaker when I was a teen, and still am on occasion.

Oh, the kids. Girl, girl, boy, and they didn't get their looks from me, fortunately for them.

 

>I met a real Princess. I thought that was the coolest thing at the time. I worked at a hospital , it was kind of eerie and exciting with all the security in place.

>Almost had a mid-air collision, when my college friend and I were taking our graduation celebration trip together to the Grand Canyon. We were in flight for about an hour. While we were looking out the window, something very large and with lightning speed went flying by. We both just looked at each other for a moment, and then broke out in nervous laughter. I said,"Did you see that?"What was that?" All she could do was laugh and shake her head. I then told her to pull down the window shade, and we were freaking out the rest of the way.

>Have a family relative on my husbands side who was instrumental on identifying the Aides Virus.

>Wenchie may be related in some way(aren't we all connected?) my ancestor's came over on the Mayflower also. But we're connected to the preacher guy. Don't remember the name off hand. It may be Bradford.

>My grandmother is 102. Just received word from my brother, who is her caregiver, that she isn't doing too well. Hope she gets to enjoy the Holidays. Great lady.

****For the rest of you smarties, with something actually to brag about, kudos to you!***

 

Hey sibeer,
Awesome avatar... It is Phineas from The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers!

 

okay...

I've not done much worth speaking about, so I won't bore you with that

err...

My dad designed the new engines as they are now in vacuumcleaners (albeit more advanced nowadays).
he helped design and tested the Philishave shavers for about 8 years.
now helps reorganising Philips Medical Systems.

 

OK, you asked....
I'm new to this culture (computer, I mean)- about 4 months, now- and I'm overwhelmed by what you guys do!!!
I grew up "on the wrong side of the tracks"; my life revolved around gangs, crime, drugs, and prison. Then I graduated to a life of motorcycle clubs, crime, drugs, and prison. I eventually started using my head (time, and a broken neck, can really work wonders in evaluating one's position), and managed to find a good woman, and raise 5 kids (none of whom were as bad as me- talk about luck!). Seen some s**t, but I like being quiet- sort of- and boring now.

 

very clever MG,,I knew about this for awhile,,but now you have my name posting wiout messages LMAO,,whats the deal

 

Turcoloco! you told much about yourself by identifying Phineas Freak! deja vu! remember freddie and franklin too? i used to have all their comix. aaahhhhh the brain cells i burned up.

 

Ever since my first roommate in Dallas (originally from England) introduced me to that comiic book, I was hooked on it (for a guy who never smoked pot it is kinda odd, huh?)...anyhow, of the three I am not sure which one was my favorite but Fat Freddie's cat always cracked me up the most!

 

Thanks Turco. I chopped it off the cover of a book I have. I got the other guys too. I was gonna see if anyone knew who it was. Nice work.

 

on my mother's side i am directly related to thomas jefferson and robert e lee(nice combo huh?).
i am a member of the daughters of the american revolution(as a jefferson relative) and the sisters of the confederacy-or whatever they are calling themselves(as a lee relative)-my grandma pays my dues-or at least i think she does-i keep getting stuff in the mail from them and i have not ever in my life contacted them. (my grandma was raised in the south on a plantation passed down from generation to generation-the slave quarters still stand). my grandma refuses to this day to believe that jefferson had children with his black "housekeeper". perhaps you can tell, this is not the side of my family that i am particularly proud of, however roots are roots and all i can do is to learn from their mistakes. actually jefferson was okay.

on my father's side i am nez perce. my relatives fled down the lolo trail attempting to flee to canada. they got to within 50 miles(i think) of the boarder before they were stopped. that was where chief joseph said "from where the sun now stands i will fight no more forever".

my father has been researching his genealogy and is in the process of writing a book about his life.

my father knew bruce lee (one of my dad's college house brothers was lee's best friend and introduced them). my dad says lee was very quiet and unassuming-just a regular guy. but when he would spar with his best friend it was indescribable how fast he was.

my father was the artist chosen to participate in the pilot program of the artist in the school project.

my maternal grandfather worked on one of the apollo projects

i was one of the first fertility drug babies when it was in the human testing faze.

when i was 6(i think) my artwork was chosen to be displayed on the public transit buses in the city i lived in at the time.

when i was 10 my parents bought me a horse of my own and when i was about 13 i began training for the olympic equestrian team.

then at 16 i found drugs(heroin and cocaine), booze(jack daniels)and boys(too many to list) and headed out on a tangent for awhile (a lolooooonghile) which included drug dealing, drug smuggling and other miscellaneous bad deeds.

then i got back on track.

am now 37 with a home of my own on acreage, single, no kids, 3 cats, 1 racoon, 1 crow and retired.

 

Sibeer, you don't have Captain Guts, do you?

 

His name isn't Major Nelson, by chance?