Bundaberg Rum :D

Hmm

1 Month: Get my drivers license, complete several university assignments
6 Months: Pass the university courses I am currently doing
5 Years: (Well thats a jump) Complete my uni degree, find a decently paying job to pay off my HECS fees
10 years: Hopefully a air conditioned office and an nice human resources job, might look into a law degree once I am settled into a pattern.


Ok next answerer will be... HiveTyrant :D

Hello HiveTyrant.
1) If you could be any animal, what would it be?

2) What caused your pac man pill-eating sig?

3. If you could pick any time era to live in, which one would it be?

4. What was the most recent time you had a 'reload' moment - when you wished you could load a previous 'save' of your life and do something over? And no 'I never regret anything' copouts either! [img]tongue.gif[/img] Everyone has things they wish didn't happen, like accidently cutting yourself or scraping your car or something ;)


I see. Sounds a bit too 'women's magazine quiz' to me ;) . I guarantee you my answer didn't provide any insight in that regard anyway :D

[ 07-14-2006, 12:53 AM: Message edited by: Aelia Jusa ]

5. Do you watch the news/read the newspaper alot? Why/why not?

1. Probably strategy/building type games like civilisation, colonisation, caesar, etc. I like RPGs as well but I have spent many many happy hours playing strategy games.

2. I think the last time was earlier this year. We were being kicked out of our offices at uni and the people in charge did not seem to be making much effort to find us new places. I was feeling really frustrated and kind of desperate because all we were getting was platitudes, while other 'special' people were getting found offices straight away. It was just a really frustrating situation and my brother was there and it all kind of came flooding out. To my surprise (and embarrassment), this turned out to actually be a useful thing because my brother was so incensed that he wrote a rather 'direct', to put it politely, email to the head of school regarding how shabbily the department was treating its postgrads and I found myself with an office soon after (possibly in spite of this though :D ).

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Originally posted by robertthebard: 3. What was your first computer/console game? Whichever applies. 4. Cheeseburgers, or Filet Mignon?

3. I think it was a game called Alley Cat where you were a kitten and had to get past levels like eating food out of dogs' bowls or catching fish in a bowl or getting things off a bookshelf without big cats attacking you. It was fun!

4. I guess cheeseburgers if I had to choose, I'm not a fan of steak, but neither do I like fast food cheeseburgers that much. A homemade hamburger with cheese is definitely yummy, though.

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Originally posted by Illumina: 5. Why the flying pig, is there a funny story there?

5. Not really; when I first joined IW I wanted a sig, and I found Pink at a Pink Floyd website (he is a Pink Floyd pig) and he was like my mascot/familiar/pet/etc. I think he was evil or something, some clan silliness or somesuch ;) . I think I just liked his cute little wings, mostly [img]smile.gif[/img] </font>[/QUOTE]Aelia;
Insights gained from the answer to the Cheeseburger question:
A person looking to take you out would find you a reasonable date. A small diner would be better to you than the extravagant steak house, perhaps even a pancake house. I'd say that you're not extremely high maintenance, or at least not such a stickler about life in general. One word give away "yummy". Your not the prim and proper, nose stuck up in the air type. All of this is based only on the response to that question. It's not an end all be all for a personality quiz, but it does give away more than you might suspect.

Bundaberg Rum :D
</font>[/QUOTE]Yaargh! Another Bundy man! I thought i was rare!

Good game this, very insightful. [img]graemlins/thumbsup.gif[/img]

Well since I live in Bundy its kind of hard to avoid it :D

Yeah, see I think that is reaching to a huge degree, and there are many other interpretations you could have made that would be equally valid and therefore equally useless. I could have read the question extremely literally, i.e. "which food item do I prefer" (which I did), so the fact that I said no to the filet has nothing to do with what sort of restaurant I would like - I could as easily prefer a fancy restaurant, but I would order the chicken or the foie gras. Or maybe the fact that I said no to both and said I'd make my own suggests I'm extremely high maintenance in that I'm fussy and controlling (but delightfully whimsical - see "yummy" ;) ) and no restaurant you'd take me to would be good enough. There are just too many variables affecting how people will answer this question, rendering any conclusions you might make regarding personality as meaningless.

Anyway sorry to harrass you for what is a perfectly harmless and fun question [img]graemlins/blush.gif[/img] [img]smile.gif[/img] . Possibly this debate has told you more about my personality than whether I like my beef in whole or reconstituted form - that I'm a boring harping pedant :D . I think this sort of 'pop psychology' is a bit of a bugbear of mine because it is the sort of thing that laypeople identify as what scientific, experimental psychology is about and it gives it a bad name ;)

Hmm, would have to be a Sloth :D

I'm a pretty lazy guy :D

Good question!

At the time, I was getting alot of my sig inspiration from old video games, and I actually was down the street (shopS) when I saw an old school pac man arcade machine which I had not seen in many years. I didn't actually play it, but I thought, "hey! I could make an awesome sig with pac man in it!" As I started making it, I realised the forums restrictions on sig size was going to make it hard to do something cool, and then the idea just *popped* right into my head! "Hmm, maybe I could use my head!" so I did! At first I thought it was a horrible idea, but I uaually go through heaps of sigs before I choose one that I like.

And I think it turned out fine. Most people seemed to like it.

Well, from what I have seen/learned about the past, it's pretty crap [img]tongue.gif[/img] So I would either like to live 20 years in the future-Not too far ahead that I would not be able to adapt, but I could jump through all the boring technical advances and get to the good stuff :D Or jump waaaay ahead in time-like 300 years (assuming we are still around then) just to see how far we have come in that time.

Hmm, spose that would be keeping silent when I should have told a girl how I felt, as it turns out, if I had said something, things would have been a lot different according to her, but by that time, it was too late :(

I won't go into detail, but thats one of the only things I regret.

I used to watch the news everyday, not only because I watched TV non-stop, but because I like to know everything I can, about everything. BUT, I have not watched more than 10 hours of TV in the last 6 months and it's great! I read up on all the news online now as I can pick the stuff i'm more interested in.

Some great questions there! Sorry for the delay in answering.

Next up has to be Bungleau(You have inspired me to revert back to that sig :D )

1. Do you get tired of flying all over the country for a living?

2. What event (if any. Gaming or otherwise) inspired the second line of your sig? "Save early..."

3. Why Bungleau? (and better yet how the hell do you pronounce it? :D )

Yeah, see I think that is reaching to a huge degree, and there are many other interpretations you could have made that would be equally valid and therefore equally useless. I could have read the question extremely literally, i.e. "which food item do I prefer" (which I did), so the fact that I said no to the filet has nothing to do with what sort of restaurant I would like - I could as easily prefer a fancy restaurant, but I would order the chicken or the foie gras. Or maybe the fact that I said no to both and said I'd make my own suggests I'm extremely high maintenance in that I'm fussy and controlling (but delightfully whimsical - see "yummy" ;) ) and no restaurant you'd take me to would be good enough. There are just too many variables affecting how people will answer this question, rendering any conclusions you might make regarding personality as meaningless.

Anyway sorry to harrass you for what is a perfectly harmless and fun question [img]graemlins/blush.gif[/img] [img]smile.gif[/img] . Possibly this debate has told you more about my personality than whether I like my beef in whole or reconstituted form - that I'm a boring harping pedant :D . I think this sort of 'pop psychology' is a bit of a bugbear of mine because it is the sort of thing that laypeople identify as what scientific, experimental psychology is about and it gives it a bad name ;) </font>[/QUOTE]No harm, no foul. as I said, it's by no means an end all be all for a personality test. It's really effective in situations like these, however, if people aren't looking for that kind of thing, but just answering questions. Note that the question doesn't specify going out to get these items, so that is open to the interpretation of the one answering, and that, too, says something about them. I have no illusions of becoming a lay psychologist, however.

4. When you get a PC game, do you read the manual before playing it or just start playing straight away? What about other stuff (e.g electrical appliances, cameras etc...) do you read the manual for those?

5. Two trains travelling at the same velocity the first is travelling from....

just kidding :D

Question 5.
What is you're opinion on Reality TV?

Only when surrounded by amateur travelers, people who get mad when a plane is delayed and such. C'mon, folks... if they're not flying, it's for one of three reasons:

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• Something wrong with the plane</font>
• Something wrong with the pilot</font>
• Something wrong with where the plane's going</font>

Which one do you think you can over-ride them on?

It's a gaming twist on legendary Chicago behavior. See, back in the early 1900s, voting was really exciting in Chicago, and someone coined the phrase "Vote early, vote often" because some people just got paid to vote... illegal, of course, but if someone offered you ten bucks (a couple hundred today) to go vote again some place else, could you turn it down?

I twisted that into a gaming mantra of "Save early, save often"... experienced computer gamers know the truth of that one.

And on the W&W board, Wyvern (I think) added the lines of "Save before, save after"... wise words, when you've just completed a major battle and the power suddenly goes out...

LOL! Fair question!

"Bungleau" became my standard CRPG name for a thief. When I created him, I figured that he, like most low-level thieves, would screw up almost everything he'd tried -- he'd bungle it. But I didn't want to call him just "Bungle", so, being the francophile that I am, I turned it into a French-like word by throwing "eau" onto the end.

It's pronounced just like the word "bungalow"... just spelled a lot differently. And B is a perfectly fine abbreviation in my book :D

Manuals... who needs 'em? :D

I usually don't read them initially unless setup or something is tricky. I mean, I won't even think of cracking the manual until I've put the CD in the drive and looked for a SETUP or INSTALL file.... assuming it just didn't fire off an install process by itself.

I do recall one time I read a game manual first... it was when MM7 came out. I picked it up, but it was going to be a couple of days before I could play. So I read the manual to get in the mood, so to speak.

As for other stuff, I usually don't read the manual until I've tried the common sense things... press buttons, plug in, set up wires, and so on.

Exactly half the distance to the goal line... just kidding [img]graemlins/hehe.gif[/img]

Reality TV... I follow Survivor, the real originator of it as far as I'm concerned. It's based on putting people into a stressful situation and seeing how they handle it. Most of Mark Burnett's reality shows follow similar lines -- the amazing race, the apprentice, and so on.

Most of the "knock-off" reality shows don't do it for me. Their premise seems to be finding a way to show maximum T&A with a side of innuendo and lots of body flashing. Not to say that the bodies on Survivor haven't gotten more buff and buxom as the seasons have gone on... but that's not all that's there.

Let's go with Machinehead next...

Hello Machine head.
1) What is the most intricate item you have milled / fabricated.

2)Do you actually like machines? If so, what got you interested in mechanics and all that fun stuff.

3. How did you come up with the name Machine Head?

Ooh, i gotta ask this one. Fairly open ended.

4) Metric or Imperial?

[ 07-16-2006, 02:57 AM: Message edited by: Sever ]

1. Hard to say as I've been doing this for 28 years. The most recent complex part I have machined is in the picture in my profile. It is a high pressure turbine inlet for General Electric. It has 20 bores with 40 grooves and 40 hook or "j" grooves, very close tolerance work. The joint has to be central and perpendicular within .001 inches which took three shifts just to set up and about 400 hours to machine, including flipping it over and machining the other end.

2A. I like machining but not as much as I used to. It was more interesting when I was learning how to do different things and how to run different types of machine tools.

2B. I was a mechanic in the Army. After I got out I kind of fell into machining while I was going to school in Boston as a way to pay my bills ;) Found that I was good at it and stuck with it. As far as mechanics go I hate working on my cars so I only do it if I have to, it's easier to pay someone else do it.

3. When I joined here I tried names from LOTR but the ones I wanted were taken so I came up with this name as it fit what I do for a living and it is also a great album from my youth. :D

4. Is the decimal inch Imperial? If it is then Imperial. I hate the metric system. I'm an old dog and I don't learn new tricks. :D

5. If you could make any machine (see what I did there, linking the question to your name ;) ) to make your life easier, what would it be?

A machine that made real money so I could relax the rest of my life. [img]smile.gif[/img]

Ok Sever you're next.
1. What the heck is the bundy war?

2. What's your favourite comic strip?

Ah, the B&S Bundy War. What a night! Sweet nostalgia...

Anyways, the bundy is short for Bundaberg Rum (my poison of choice and a far-from-the-top Aussie drop) and the war is kinda what happened when you get two thousand country bumpkins (and their utes) together in a paddock and provide them unlimited free rum and beer. Apparently a Bachelor and Spinsters (sp?) Ball is all about getting young people hitched. It works to a degree, i suppose. But for the most part, it's all about catching up with old mates and meeting new people and showering both with whatever drinks are at hand. Hence Bundy War. That night was killer for many reasons, but IIRC, it was the last time they provided full strength rum at such a gig. A pity.

Don't be fooled by my sophisticated appearance in the pic. ;) That was a five dollar suit (a genuine bargain [img]graemlins/thumbsup.gif[/img] ) and i photoshopped out the board shorts and thongs. It's traditional to never wear the same attire to more than one B&S Ball. Given the state of anything that's been to a B&S, it's usually pretty easy to conform to tradition. I have post Bundy war pics, but you won't be seeing them here. :D

Calvin & Hobbes. I've kinda grown out of the strips, but that one always made me laugh. And still does. Most of the comics i see in papers these days pale by comparrison. Is it just me, or are the funnies getting a bit weak? There is another sentimental reason why i like Calvin & Hobbes, but only Z would be able to guess at that. [img]tongue.gif[/img]

Ahh doesn't that peeve you off when all the names you want are taken, but at least you thought of a good one *gives thumbs up*

3. What is your favourite genre of music to listen to?
(wow number three questions seem to be my lucky number [img]tongue.gif[/img] )

Yeah, see I think that is reaching to a huge degree, and there are many other interpretations you could have made that would be equally valid and therefore equally useless. I could have read the question extremely literally, i.e. "which food item do I prefer" (which I did), so the fact that I said no to the filet has nothing to do with what sort of restaurant I would like - I could as easily prefer a fancy restaurant, but I would order the chicken or the foie gras. Or maybe the fact that I said no to both and said I'd make my own suggests I'm extremely high maintenance in that I'm fussy and controlling (but delightfully whimsical - see "yummy" ;) ) and no restaurant you'd take me to would be good enough. There are just too many variables affecting how people will answer this question, rendering any conclusions you might make regarding personality as meaningless.

Anyway sorry to harrass you for what is a perfectly harmless and fun question [img]graemlins/blush.gif[/img] [img]smile.gif[/img] . Possibly this debate has told you more about my personality than whether I like my beef in whole or reconstituted form - that I'm a boring harping pedant :D . I think this sort of 'pop psychology' is a bit of a bugbear of mine because it is the sort of thing that laypeople identify as what scientific, experimental psychology is about and it gives it a bad name ;) </font>[/QUOTE]I am wondering how much trouble I would get into if I made any comments here [img]smile.gif[/img] . Am I a man or a mouse? ;) .

Obviously a Mouse - so I will skirt the big issues of sticklers and down to earthiness. I will however let out the details of what was eaten at our 3 get-togethers.

Lets see - first time out with Aelia I bought here a hotdog and a coke. Next I took her to an all you can eat free feed (and then we left early on my account and she would have still been hungry), and I think the last time was a rather cold and untasty plate of Nacho's I think.

Gee - when you put it like that I sound really really cheap don't I?

[ 07-16-2006, 10:12 AM: Message edited by: Davros ]