Meet the Forumites

[Thayne]

Job: Software Analyst
Age: 51
Residence: Colorado
Family: 1 wife. 2 cats. Or is it the other way around? (25th anniversary in 2 weeks.)
Education: Graduate school - moral philosophy (a.k.a. ethics)
Favorite Quote: Sleep is for the dead
Reading: I don't actually read much. I listen to podcast lectures. Today's lecture: A Critical Defense of Secularism by Cécile Laborde at the London School of Economics.

[FDRLincoln]

Job: baseball writer
Age: 44
Residence: Lawrence, KS
Family: Married 20 years next month. Two sons, ages 13 and 6.
Education: BA: European History and Philosophy; MA: European and Russian History; Did 3 years of PhD work in British History but did not finish dissertation
Work: I'm a writer
Favorite Quotes: "Do what you would do if you felt most secure": Meister Eckhart.
Reading: currently reading "Combined Fleet Decoded"

[tc464]

Job: Security Countermeasures Specialist, Chemical Weapons Treaty Specialist
Age: 49
Residence: Virginia
Family: 2 sons, 23 and 20.
Education: HS, South Africa. University of Bombs and Bullets, Indian Head, 1985
Work: Defense Threat Reduction Agency
Favorite Quote: "Do anything, even if its wrong. You can fix anything. You can't fix nothing." - John Stephens, Chief Engineer, Panama Canal
Reading: Just finished The Girl Who Played With Fire

[gradenko2k]

Job: IT Operations Manager for a multi-national BPO
Age: 25
Residence: Manila, Philippines
Family: Unmarried, but with my girlfriend of 2 years, living with my parents and my 3 other siblings.
Education: 4 year college degree in Computer Science from Mapua Institute of Technology
Favorite Quote: "Life's difficulties are supposed to make us better, not bitter"
Reading: Cold Choices by Larry Bond

[ADB123]

Job: Biotech Manufacturing Director
Age: 60
Residence: Canada
Family: Wife, daughter, son-in-law
Education: B.Sc. Chem U.C. Irvine, Ph.D. Inorg Chem McGill U Mtl
Work: Molecular Diagnostics
Favorite Quote: “Fortune blinds the minds of men when she does not wish them to oppose her designs”. “The Discourses”, Niccolo Machiavelli
Reading: “Rome and Jerusalem, The Clash of Ancient Civilizations”, Martin Goodman


... and what music am I listening to now?

Nothing, but it's usually jazz, latin jazz, or early baroque...

[nashvillen]

Job: Public Safety GIS Analyst for Rutherford County, TN
Age: 47
Residence: Christiana, TN
Family: Wife, Daughter 13, Son 11.97 (Turns 12 in 12 days), two dogs, two cats, one leopard gecko, and a variable number of crickets depending on how hungry the gecko is!
Education: BS, post graduate studies, Fire Service education
Work: Retired Fire Chief, now doing Geographic Information Systems for public safety in my county
Favorite Quote: If you are not having fun, you are not doing it right or FEAR the KB
Reading: Federation and Empire 2010 rules, trying to work out official answers for questions asked by other players (I am the official Q&A guy for this game.)

[rjopel]

Job: Analyst
Age: 45
Residence: Tampa, FL
Family: Just Me
Education: BS History
Work: Northrup Grumman
Favorite Quote: For you shall know the truth, and the truth will set you free.
Reading: too many to mention, Tom Clancy's two most recent book, The Last Sentry, just finished How Do You Kill 11 Million People?

[rmlpanzer08]

Job: Accountant
Age: 37
Residence: Weymouth, MA
Family: Married, with 2 little girls, a 2 yrs old, and a 5 months old, plus a Golden Retriver Dog.
Education: BS Finance
Work: Pension Management
Reading: Panzer Commander by Hans von Luck

[witpqs]

ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

I think I struck out on Rev Rick's list of things you're supposed to be able to do, but I do know his town (Meldrim, GA, well). 

It's a Robert Heinlein quotation.

[rockmedic109]

Job: Paramedic
Age: 48
Residence: Citrus Heights, CA.
Family: Wife, 3 stepchildren, 1 daughter and another wating us in China. We leave at the end of the month to go get her.
Education: EMT II class followed by Paramedic upgrade course.
Work: I currently work AMR28 in Citrus Heights/Orangevale 4 days a week/12 hour days
Reading: Audio books lately. Lucifer's Hammer currently.

[warspite1]

ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

4. Just to prove this isn't a way to boast about my own self (like those horrid "What music are you listening to now" threads), I am disqualified from participating.

Warspite1

Nice idea btw, but two things:

a) if this is "meet the forumites" and you are a big contributor to the forum, then why would you not participate?

b) the comment about the "what music are you listening to now" (and there is one I started for books and programs/films) is a little unfair. I have found that thread really useful for trying music (bands and genres) that in many cases I would never have heard of let alone tried. I hoped the book thread in particular would do the same. Why rubbish it?

[Puhis]

Job: Conservation biologist
Age: 31
Residence: Mikkeli/St. Michel, Finland
Family: Wife
Education: MSc
Work: Administration of Forests
Favorite Quote: "This isn't right. This isn't even wrong."

[PizzaMan]

A few more good questions added at the end of my list:

Job: Production and Media Departement Leader

Age: 50

Residence: Las Vegas

Family: 1 Parrot

Education: B.S. Finance from San Diego State University

Work: A community church

Favorite Quote: A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week. George Patton

Reading: 1) Ameritopia, The Unmaking of America by Mark Levin, 2) Fist From the Sky, Japan's Dive-Bomber Ace of WWII by Peter Smith, and 3) The Holy Bible inspired by God

Other Games I'm Playing: World of Tanks

Last Battlefield Visit: Gettysburg

[DSwain]

Job: teacher
Age: 39
Residence: Hanoi, Vietnam (I'm from the UK orginally)
Family: unmarried
Education: BA in English Literature
Work: teaching English language and literature to students in Vietnam, including officers in the Vietnamese People's Army
Favorite Quote: WiTP related - "When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take, choose the bolder." Bill Slim. Non-WiTP related - "When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro." Dr Hunter S Thompson
Reading: "A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam" by Neil Sheehan

[aoffen]

Job: Minerals Marketing (24 years with BHP), now consultant and amateur pilot
Age: 52
Residence: Brisbane Australia
Family: Wife, daughter 23, son 21, Border Terrier 6
Education: BA Griffith Uni, Brisbane
Work: as little as possible - it interferes with WitP and flying
Favorite Quote: Emperor Hirohito in August 1945 - the war situation has developed not necessarily to Japan's advantage
Reading: A Storm of Swords

[Barb]

Job: Software Tester
Age: 28
Residence: Bratislava, Slovakia
Family: none
Education: High school - Electronics and Computing
Work: Testing Software in a Bank
Favorite Quote: see under the banner
Reading: Band of Brothers (currently about 5th time)

[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

[cantona2]

Job: Teacher
Age: 37
Residence: Gibraltar
Family: Married. One son.
Education: History degree. PGCE in Education (History). PGCE in Leadership and Management in Education.
Work: Sacred Heart School
Favorite Quote: 'Attack don't look back'

Reading: The Legion of the Damned (Warhammer 40K Space Marine Battles), I have Japan at War awaiting.

[1275psi]

Job. training development/delivery for Australias new LHDs
Age. nearly 50
Residence. Sydney, working in Melbourne (so all over the bloody place!)
Family. Married, one quite clever son
Education. What the Navy and life did not teach me, wasn't worth knowing.
Work BAE Melbourne
Favorite quote : John 3:16
Reading. Game of thrones, the NIV Bible

[Sardaukar]

Job: Content Producer (as for today, just gave in my notice...[8D]). Still think myself as Army "ossifer".
Age: 44
Residence: Malta
Family: Separated but friendly
Education: BSc, military
Work: Try not to...but [8D]
Favorite Quote: "Life is profound and passionate thing."
Reading: "Crusades" by Thomas Asbridge