Meet the Forumites

[treespider]

Job: If I told you, I'd have to...[8D]
Age: 43
Residence: Knoxville, TN
Family: Wife, two sons (17 and 15), 17 year old is currently the 2nd best High School Bass Clarinetist in the state of TN
Education: BA Sociology, Pennsylvania State University, 1990
Work: See job...
Favorite Quote:

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.

Reading: Lost Chance in China, The WWII Dispatches of John S. Service

[Feinder]

Job: Systems Analyst
Age: 40
Residence: Land o Lakes, FL
Family: Married 11 years, 2 boys: 6 and 7 years old.
Education: BS Comp Sci Univ Florida
Work: Large retailer
Favorite Quote:
Reading: Wheel of Time and Neptune's Inferno

[JeffroK]

Job: Production Accountant (Though 15 years as National Credit Manager of a Tyre retailer)
Age: 53
Residence: Somewhere west of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Family: Married 28 years, 1 son
Education: School of Hard Knocks, Bugger all really, worked hard to get where I did.
Work: manufacturer of marine safety pyrotechnic devices et al.
Favorite Quote:
Reading: Clay Blair's book on the Uboat war vol2.

Maybe like others I am loath to put too much on the net, I have been hacked off better sites than this, put my name on "private conversations" which were then published and still have some secrets I want to keep.

Kinda ruins the image of some when you know what they really are[8D]

[zuluhour]

Job: sucks but pays
residence: Zulu HQ already posted in another of Dans threads. See picture there
Family: Yep. girls. all of them.
education: schooling has yet to interfere with it.
reading: an Atlas. sales report. NYT crossword. Island (Huxley).
quote: "For every vacation, there is an equal and opposite two anti vacations" Dr. Mandrake.

oh yeah, 51.

[JeffroK]

It would be interesting to anyone with the time.

Plot the ages, seems to be several groupings, did wargaming go through high/low periods of interest.

Plot the locations, Lots of Finns, and I think Sardarkaur was deported to Malta. A number of Kansas City/Lawrence people (I not these as head Office was Lenexa and I visitied about 10 years back) Not many NY/SF/LA.

[wdolson]

There is a blob in the US Northwest too. They seem to be more clustered in Washington than Oregon, but I do know at least one, now inactive, member who live in Oregon.

I was thinking that across the age range, those of us over about 40 probably grew up playing games from Avalon Hill, SPI, etc. I suspect many of the younger forum members have never played with little cardboard counters. The old wargames are sort of like vinyl records. They have a lot of nostalgia and some positives, but newer technologies like CDs and MP3s are much more convenient and give you flexibility vinyl never allowed.

Bill

[PaxMondo]

ORIGINAL: KMCCARTHY

Job: MetOp Mission Manager (Google works, you figure it out)
Age: 50

Since we devoved to bragging.



Everytime I move somthing hurts. Benning, Bragg, and McCall may have something to do with it....

My other favorite quote is: 1SG Rutland--Deal with it![&o]

[;)]

Good to see you here Kevin ...

[Cuttlefish]

Job: technical writer/editor
Age: 53
Residence: Corvallis, OR
Family: wife of 27 years, two children, two grandchildren, several cats
Education: BA, Michigan State University
Work: when I have to
Favorite Quote: "The dice never lie." (Professor M.A.R. Barker)
Reading: "Blood of Victory" by Alan Furst

[LoBaron]

Job: IT Architecture Analyst
Age: 37
Residence: Vienna, Austra
Family: In a relationship, and might be 3 soon... [;)]
Education: Loads of unfinished stuff.
Favorite Quote: See 1st sig line.
Reading: History - ok for the nerds here, yes, history is science too, Science (Physics, Social, Evolution, Geography,..), SF,
too much to list here.

I feel far more uncomfortable to post personal information on a forum than on facebook, Canorebel.
On facebook I can control to whom I show what. Here I cannot, except by not posting, or by posting
50 PMs.

[Blackhorse]

Job: Transportation policy and management
Age: 50s
Residence: Washington, DC area
Family: Blissfully married. DINKs ("Double-Income, no kids")
Education: BA (econ & gov't); MBA (in, er, business)
Work: U.S. Department of Transportation. Among my other hats, I am the "Co-Chair of the Executive Steering Group of the Space-Based Position, Navigation & Timing Executive Committee." Really. Bureaucrats take their titles very seriously.
Favorite Quote: See first quote in sig
Re-Reading: Churchill's History of the Second World War; Terry Pratchett's Discworld series

[hkbhsi]

A most interesting thread.

Job: Corporate Lawyer
Age: 42
Residence: Rome, Italy
Family: Married with 2 daughters (11 and 9 years old)
Education: B.A. at Temple University (Ancient History), J.D. at Georgetown Law Center.
Work: Too much.
Favorite Quote: I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it (Voltaire)
Reading: Nothing but tax law books (sadly).

[cohimbra]

Job: Electronic Merchant
Age: 32
Residence: Livorno, Italy
Family: No
Education: High(?) school
Work: It's 1pm! I must go...NOW!
Favorite Quote: "Fanno il deserto e lo chiamano pace" (Tacito 55d.c.?-120d.c.)
Reading: Il pendolo di Focault by U.Eco

[treespider]

ORIGINAL: wdolson

The old wargames are sort of like vinyl records. They have a lot of nostalgia and some positives, but newer technologies like CDs and MP3s are much more convenient and give you flexibility vinyl never allowed.

Bill

Unfortunately although the "newer" computer wargames are certainly much more compact and therefore convenient than cardboard and paper... I disagree that they are more flexible.

When I have the capability to re-write the rules (code) then I would say they have flexibility....till then I am stuck playing the game rules as written.

[DOCUP]

Job: PICU Nurse
Age: 32
Residence: West Virginia
Family: Will be married in May
Education: BS Nursing, EMT-P, Paralegal
Quote: Honey, WITP-AE isn't a game it's a lifestyle.
Reading: Shatter Sword

[soticrandy]

Job: IT Help Desk, Forum Lurker
Age: 26
Residence: Lakewood, CO
Family: Single, no pets, family in same town
Education: AA Computer Science
Work: Swisslog Translogic
Favorite Quote: "Strippers hate cinnamon but love Funyuns!"
Reading: Just finished Capital Punishment by Jack Abramoff and Shattered Sword

[Canoerebel]

I figured the average age of Forumites might be 50 to 55, but based on the posts in here thus far it might be closer to 40 to 45.  It is encouraging to note so many young folks with a passion for history and strategy of this kind.

[Historiker]

So where's your posting with the template, Canoerebel? Or have I missed it?

[Canoerebel]

I pledged not to post my information at the beginning of this thread to try to make it clear this was not a "look at me" kind of thing.  I wanted forumites to know that they were being asked to participate not out of that motive, but out of true interest in getting to know each other better. 

[Historiker]

Allright, but now you're asked [:)]

[RogerJNeilson]

ORIGINAL: Roger Neilson II

Job: No longer have one, retired (Thank you ConDem Government) Used to be a teacher. Now a nature warden and volunteer at a 'Stately Home' and into genealogy
Age: Big 60 later this year
Residence: Newcastle upon Tyne
Family: Wife and two kids (one of each type)
Education: English Literature, Education management (York University & Open University)
Favourite quote: The past is a foreign country, they do things differently there (L P Hartley)
Reading: Just finished A Man of Parts

Err this is who I 'used' to be........ Grrrrrrr

Roger the Umpteenth, founder of a new Dynasty. No not the TV type.