Pet info (if any): 3 month old Shih-poo named Seekay.
Eye color: Hazel
Favorite word: Pants
Hobby: Reading, playing/writing music, programming, computer gaming
Posted by Emreecheek (Member # 12082) on :
Age: 26
Place of origin: Kentucky
Current location: Kentucky
Age first read OSC: 13
Occupation: Librarian - Music Teacher - Accompanist
Relationship status: Partnered
Gender: Male
Number of offspring (if any): 4 (Partner's from earlier marriage)
Ages of offspring (if any): 12, 11, 9, and 4
Gender of offspring (if any): Female, male, male, female
Political affiliation: SUPER lefty, but pragmatically speaking, Democrat (Like, the happy kind. Not the self-loathing kind)
Tagline: I don't know
Five word or less worldview: Kind is better than smart
Favorite website other than Hatrack: Vox
Describe yourself: Homeschooled, raised pentecostal, music major, deeply boring, play LoL too much and am still terrible at it
Pet info (if any): None
Eye color: Blue
Favorite word: Discombobulate
Hobby: Dance music
Posted by theamazeeaz (Member # 6970) on :
Age: 30
Current location: Swing State
Age first read OSC: 16
Occupation: Jatraquero
Gender: F
Nice Try Big Data.
Posted by Stone_Wolf_ (Member # 8299) on :
Female...cool, I had wondered
Posted by Vadon (Member # 4561) on :
Age: 26
Place of origin: Born UT, Raised WA/UT
Current location: WA
Age first read OSC: 10
Occupation: Training Director
Relationship status: Single
Gender: M
Number of offspring (if any): 0
Ages of offspring (if any): N/A
Gender of offspring (if any): N/A
Political affiliation: Democrat
Tagline: If the answer isn't shoot it with a rocket, you have asked the wrong question.
Five words or fewer worldview: Wow, this is a difficult--
Favorite website other than Hatrack: 538
Describe yourself: A once inspired, motivated man--Vadon currently spends his time procrastinating work by answering surveys in the wee hours of the morning.
Pet info (if any): None, currently.
Eye color: Blue.
Favorite word: Egregious
Hobby: Posted by zlogdanbr (Member # 13374) on :
Age: 43
Place of origin: Ribeirao Preto SP Brazil ( OSC lived there )
Current location: Sao Paulo Brazil megalopolis
Age first read OSC: 19
Occupation: Software maintenance engineer and System analyst
Relationship status: Married 16 years
Gender: male
Number of offspring (if any): 2
Ages of offspring (if any): 13/10
Gender of offspring (if any): m/m
Political affiliation: None thank God.
Tagline: Not all glimmering things are supposed to be gold but it is worth checking.
Favorite website other than Hatrack: http://www.multiverser.org ( Michael Moorcock deativated forum ), Goodreads and wikipedia.
Describe yourself: Over-weighted 1,85 m. I am phlegmatic, taciturn but I got my own type of humor.
Pet info (if any): Small lhasa apso female
Eye color: Brown
Favorite word: Beer
Hobby: Table tennis, bass guitar, music, reading and tv shows.
Posted by Elcheeko75 (Member # 13292) on :
Age:41
Place of origin: Ft.Worth, TX
Current location: Edmond, OK
Age first read OSC: 11ish
Occupation: Speech and Drama Teacher
Relationship status: Married
Gender:Male
Number of offspring (if any):3
Ages of offspring (if any):7,3,0
Gender of offspring (if any):M,M,F
Political affiliation: Liberal Pansy
Tagline: All right, let's do that again. Only this time, good.
Five word or less worldview: If only the world was as truly wonderful as I am, there wouldn't be any problems. (I get extra words. Because)
Favorite website other than Hatrack: McSweeney's Internet Tendency
Describe yourself: I was going for quiet desperation.
Pet info (if any): None
Eye color: Yes
Favorite curse word: Bastard
Hobby: Not much time for extracurriculars right now. Maybe in ten years.
Posted by Stone_Wolf_ (Member # 8299) on :
Grats on the newbee!
Posted by Elcheeko75 (Member # 13292) on :
Thanks. She is mostly fun.
Posted by SenojRetep (Member # 8614) on :
Age: Almost 40
Place of origin: Utah
Current location: MA
Age first read OSC: 15?
Occupation: Research Engineer
Relationship status: Married
Gender: M
Number of offspring (if any): 4
Political affiliation: Republican
Tagline: The world is big enough for all of us; let us not be too small for it (paraphrasing Edmund Burke)
Five word or less worldview: Community. It's important.
Favorite website other than Hatrack: FiveThirtyEight
Hobby: A lot of church-based service and a little bit of guitar
Posted by Lyrhawn (Member # 7039) on :
Oh this is fun. I haven't had to answer someone asking my a/s/l since the 90s.
Age: 32
Place of origin: Metro Detroit, Michigan
Current location: Metro Detroit, Michigan.
Age first read OSC: Don't remember exactly, probably 13?
Occupation: Buyer
Relationship status: Dating someone (finally).
Gender: M
Political affiliation: Flaming liberal
Five word or less worldview: Understand, theorize, analyze, cooperate, act.
Favorite website other than Hatrack: The Atlantic
Eye color: Hazel
Favorite word: Verisimilitude
Hobby: Writing and photography
Posted by Ron Lambert (Member # 2872) on :
Age: 69--will be "Threescore and Ten" in about two weeks.
Place of origin: Northern Suburbs of Detroit, MI
Current location: Troy, MI
Age first read OSC: 32 (in Analog)
Occupation: Retired; have worked professionally as national trade magazine assistant editor, free lance writer (published four times in Analog, also four times in Compute! Magazine), and many years as a computer programmer for a local reprographics software firm. My last job was picking up litter at a shopping center; so you might say I have professional experience in both literature and litter.
Relationship status: Divorced.
Gender: Male
Number of offspring (if any): None.
Ages of offspring (if any): ---
Gender of offspring (if any): ---
Political affiliation: None officially, but usually vote Republican, leaning Tea Party.
Tagline: One Truth does truly exist, and it is knowable.
Five word or less worldview: Biblical Christian Scientific-Creationist scholar.
Favorite website other than Hatrack: AI-Jane.org
Describe yourself: 5'11, 236 lbs, spiritual gifts for teaching and understanding the Bible--especially Bible prophecy.
Pet info (if any): I still miss my recently departed cat friends, Sherlock and Watson (brothers from the same litter who died at the age of 20 within the past 1½ years).
Eye color: Brown
Favorite word: Word (the divine Word/Creator as in John 1:1-3, 14)
Hobby: Contributing to on-line forums and Facebook.
[ October 30, 2016, 09:10 PM: Message edited by: Ron Lambert ]
Posted by Lyrhawn (Member # 7039) on :
Ron I keep forgetting just how close you live to me. You're literally 15 minutes away from me.
Posted by RivalOfTheRose (Member # 11535) on :
Age: 34
Place of origin: Lakewood, NJ
Current location: Toms River, NJ
Age first read OSC: Early-mid 20's.
Occupation: Music Teacher
Relationship status: Married
Gender: Male
Number of offspring (if any): 2 boys (4,1)
Political affiliation: Independent
Tagline: "Raging Against the Machine since 1982."
Five word or less worldview: be a good person please
Favorite website other than Hatrack: zerohedge.com
Describe yourself: easy going
Pet info (if any): a blue fish named Color
Eye color: brown
Favorite word: burst
Hobby: online DnD
Posted by Stone_Wolf_ (Member # 8299) on :
Roll20?
Posted by Liz B (Member # 8238) on :
Bumpity BUMP!!
Age: 42
Place of origin: Tennessee (hardly counts, don't remember it)--PA is more accurate
Current location: VA (northern, AKA not really the south)
Age first read OSC: 13ish. Hart's Hope. My goodness! I was obviously barely supervised
Occupation: English teacher, staff developer
Relationship status: married, 20 years v v soon
Gender: F
Number of offspring (if any): 1, thank you very much
Ages of offspring (if any): 9
Gender of offspring (if any): M
Political affiliation: So liberal. I can't even.
Tagline: It's always all about me.
Five word or less worldview: You never regret showing up.
Favorite website other than Hatrack: Basenotes
Describe yourself: Short, curly hair (my hair is awesome now that I am willing to (and can afford to) pay for great products), great smile, friendly. I get asked for directions A LOT. Like seriously. I was in NYC for a conference for 4 days and got asked for directions/ support/ local info 5 times.
Pet info (if any): lots of allergies here, so none.
Eye color: blue. But I have glaucoma in my right eye, so that one is always reddish b/c of medication. That's fun!!
Favorite word: pulchritudinous
Hobby: reading, writing, fragrances
I miss it here--it seems slow now, but I love seeing all the familiar names. Come find me on Goodreads or Basenotes...I use the same pseudonym there.
Posted by Heisenberg (Member # 13004) on :
Age: 32
Place of origin: Born in Whiston, a suburb of Liverpool. Moved to Phoenix at age 8 and lived roughly twenty years there.
Current location: Rochdale. Town a few miles north of Manchester, UK.
Age first read OSC: 13.
Occupation: Support worker for mentally ill and learning disabled.
Relationship status: Single
Gender: Male
Number of offspring (if any): 0
Ages of offspring (if any): N/a
Gender of offspring (if any): N/a
Political affiliation: Liberal
Tagline: Half full or half empty? Screw you. I wish I had a glass.
Five word or less worldview: Live cry laugh die.
Favorite website other than Hatrack: Ornery forums
Describe yourself: Depressive but decent guy who would literally kill someone for his family, and do most other things for friends, because there isn't much to lose.
Pet info (if any): Would kill for a dog but I'm put of the house for work sometimes for 8-18 hours at a time. Wouldn't be fair on the dog psychologically. Considering getting a pair of kittens.
Eye color: brown
Favorite word: English is a great language with many avenues to express yourself. I ain't picking one.
Hobby: Gardening, hiking, reading, gaming, pretending like my political opinion means a damn.
Feel free - Decent thread Stone Wolf.
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