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ORIGINAL: Nikademus

I'll go with whichever author can get to the point faster..... [;)]

You must have read one too many by Isaac, or you heard about him early and shied away!!!

New to the forum, not nonetheless:

Job: Business Consultant in Demand Planning (Supply Chain Management)  
Age: 35
Residence: Toronto, ON, Canada
Education: MBA 
Family: Mother, sister and brother, many cousings and nephews, no significant other... yet
Work: At McCain Food in a SAP implementation
Quote: so many, I like any from Cormac McCarthy, but to keep it appropriate to a wargamer's forum:
"It makes no difference what men think of war, said the judge. War endures. As well ask men what they think of stone. War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner. That is the way it was and will be....
War is the ultimate game because war is at last a forcing of the unity of existence. War is god." Blood Meridian
Reading: "Pacific Crucible" ... I am just recently getting very interested in the Pacific War. I have "Battle of Midway" and "The Cruel Sea" in queu for when I am done with it
Also "The Rise and Fall of Great Powers" from Paul Kennedy, this one I had already read twice, but I like to keep it close to review from time to time... just to always remember that the concept of "decisive battles" is really overarrated and just a cheap source of income for the History Channel

ORIGINAL: Jorge_Stanbury

New to the forum, not nonetheless:

Job: Business Consultant in Demand Planning (Supply Chain Management)  
Age: 35
Residence: Toronto, ON, Canada
Education: MBA 
Family: Mother, sister and brother, many cousings and nephews, no significant other... yet
Work: At McCain Food in a SAP implementation
Quote: so many, I like any from Cormac McCarthy, but to keep it appropriate to a wargamer's forum:
"It makes no difference what men think of war, said the judge. War endures. As well ask men what they think of stone. War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner. That is the way it was and will be....
War is the ultimate game because war is at last a forcing of the unity of existence. War is god." Blood Meridian
Reading: "Pacific Crucible" ... I am just recently getting very interested in the Pacific War. I have "Battle of Midway" and "The Cruel Sea" in queu for when I am done with it
Also "The Rise and Fall of Great Powers" from Paul Kennedy, this one I had already read twice, but I like to keep it close to review from time to time... just to always remember that the concept of "decisive battles" is really overarrated and just a cheap source of income for the History Channel

Warspite1

Me too - read it at least twice though and will definitely return again in the near future - excellent book.

Great book, so well researched, so full of facts

They don't write books like this anymore

Gentlemen,
After a sevaral month hiatus pusuing the pleasures of the Carribbean and the intricacies of computer graphics, (while pursuing my other favorite digital pastime; railroads) it is a pleasure to be back amungst you.
I had just downloaded and installed the latest WitP-AE update this afternoon and tried it out. Later, I jumped on the forums to find out what was happening in the game, and it was just great to see your familiar monikers again.
I actually had missed your banter, openess and humor. (No, WitP folks aren't the nerdiest bunch...............Trainzers are!)
I bumped into this thread and have spent the last hour or so getting to know you.........again?
Since I expect I will be entertaining you with a few dumb questions and comments, in the future, as I familiarize myself with game mechanics (again) allow me to post my bit:

Job: Marine Engineer (quite retired!)
Age: 68 (now that's probably gonna put a bump in your stats curve, CR)
Residence: Massachusetts (north shore)
Education: B.S. Marine Engineering; Massachusetts Maritime Academy
Family:'Been sailing with the same Cheif Mate for well over 30 years, somehow managing to lay the keels of a he and a she between trips; two fine vessels, christened, commisioned and sailing their own course, now.
Work: Presently self-educating myself in the mysteries of computer graghics; mapping, texturing and model building. The general idea being to keep the wheels turning (and lubricated with a generous bath of the local spirits).
Quote: If it works, don't fix it! (annon.)
Reading: 'Founding Brothers', By Joseph J. Ellis; just completed 'Logging Railroads of the White Mountains' by C. Francis Belcher, representing the Appalacian Mountain Club and the State of New Hampsire. Heck!......I'll read just about any kind of history!

Regards to all and good to see you again

steamboateng - very cool avatar, I see it's not set to stop!  However, it is set to astern.  Do you actually believe you can pull that off?

I don't believe you!  You aren't actually an engineer.  You are somebody that John Grisham based one of his lead characters on.  He always has some lucky son-of-a-gun do something cool and then retire into the Caribbean to remain incognito and pleasantly inebriated.  [:)]

geofflambert;
quite observant of you! This antique engine order telegragh (one ringy, dingy.......two ringy, dingy........etc.) is actually displaying a quite legal and common situation.......stopping a vessels ahead motion.......with the engine in (manuevering?) Full ahead, the wheelhouse guy (generally an officer or pilot) has ordered a Slow Astern to brake the vessel's momentum........ Anyone who has bumped their 27 footer's bow into the quay, or their 900 footers port side into an iceberg knows how that works! (Next order.....Full Emergency Astern and panic.............Ooooooooooooops!)

Well, Canoerebel, it's my pleasure to once more make your (sesech.....!) aquaintance. I always enjoy your commentaries and AAR's.
Actually it was a late summer trip to the Caribbean as the Cheif Mate had to rejoin her gaggle of kindergarteners in September..........and as much as I enjoy a John Grisham novel, no high-powered-hi-jinx here! Spent the winter in the burbs,.........waitin' on Spring! Although we did recently spend a week in the New Hampshire White Mountains, tracking down old railraod roadbed while avoiding the occasionally (groggy and hungry) black bear and the ocassionaly (groggy and sober) gounded snowboarder!
You got most of the last sentence right though......
Regards and looking forward to reading more.....

steamboat....

Job: IT Software Development Manager
Age: 49
Residence: Boston, MA suburbs
Family: Wife, 2 kids boy 12, girl 10
Education: M.S. Public Policy
Work: Developing software for corporate lawyers
Favorite Quote: "Half the lies they tell about me aren't true" - Yogi Berra
Reading: Rise and Fall of the Thrd Reich - Shirer (should be finished by Christmas!)