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You know, right after I joined the forum I thought "Why did I pick HunnyBunz as a user name? It sounds stupid & seems a little femish."
Oh well. It's still kind of fun when those of the opposite gender say "Hey HunnyBunz."
You know, right after I joined the forum I thought "Why did I pick HunnyBunz as a user name? It sounds stupid & seems a little femish."
Oh well. It's still kind of fun when those of the opposite gender say "Hey HunnyBunz."
It's weird, but in real life on resumes and emails and such, I go by my initials so my gender is not obvious. But for some reason online where it doesn't matter, I'm fine with being the Chevette Girl. Go figure...
Yeah, I get the same thing.
Wow, really? You're making ME feel old (you're ten years my junior, even my car is older than you) and my whole family's riddled with us sinister types on both sides, my brother the full-on righty is a minority if you consider all my aunts and uncles, Mom's ambi-right and I'm ambi-left. My dad was a full-on lefty and far as he ever told me, never caught any crap for it in school or from the religious ones in the family, and he was in the Boomer generation, well before your time...
I am finding much awesomeness in this thread. Aside from the obvious mead/homebrewing angle: I used to drive a Citation, my first car was also poop brown (a 1980 Pinto Station Wagon which I bought off my uncle for 100.00, drove for 3 years till it died then the wreckers paid me 50.00 for,) and I play WoW. I am finding much in common with the denizens of this forum.
Oh yeah, and in WoW, even though I am a straight male, I enjoy cross gender RP.
Oh yeah, and in WoW, even though I am a straight male, I enjoy cross gender RP.
Say there computer geek! Can you help me with posting a picture?
I was trying to post my label on the other thread. It was created with Paintshop Pro and we copied it to Paint and even shrunk it to be a smaller file, but when
we tried to upload it, the Gotmead image link window said that it exceeded my capacity - even though the image took up less MB than it said my capacity was.
I don't have any kind of social network accounts, nor do particularly wish to.
If you can help great. If not, I can live. The forum will just have to do without my label.
Easiest way that I've found is to set up an account at http://www.photobucket.com (you can make it private so no one can access your pics) and upload your pics into an album on it (also a great back-up method for pics) and just copy the photos "img" code into your post here on GotMead.
Yeah it seems that the image upload doesn't really like people. Photobucket, Flickr, Picasa, etc are easy and probably the way to go.
On an unrelated note, I remember being the young guy when I joined the forum. Guess I'm getting old now...
On an unrelated note, I remember being the young guy when I joined the forum. Guess I'm getting old now...
My first car was a '72 Camaro, Blue with gold pinstriping, a rear spoiler, a little bondo work on one of the rear fenders, and big wide semi-low-profile tires on the back. I loved that car. Some jerk went around a car in front of him (driving on the shoulder) and hit me head-on as I was starting to make a left turn. Totalled my car after less than a year.
TAKeyeser & akuek - Thanks guys. Maybe I'll break down and try the photo site thing.
Well, of course you do. The female characters are much nicer to look at. Why wouldn't you want to play one?
Yes, but although I am careful not to out and out lie, I play and interact with others in such a way that I let people assume that the person behind the keyboard is female when I am playing a female toon. and visa versa for male toons.
My first car was a '72 Camaro, Blue with gold pinstriping, a rear spoiler, a little bondo work on one of the rear fenders, and big wide semi-low-profile tires on the back. I loved that car. Some jerk went around a car in front of him (driving on the shoulder) and hit me head-on as I was starting to make a left turn. Totalled my car after less than a year.
TAKeyeser & akuek - Thanks guys. Maybe I'll break down and try the photo site thing.
my second car was a '73 Satellite Seabring. My dad got it from this old lady who had had it sitting in her garage in near mint condition. I put every dent and ding in that thing. Drove it into the ground and rust eventually took over (Wisconsin winters'll do that) Sold it to some guy who was going to take the motor out and junk the body.
I feel ya on the hurt of losing a cool car too soon. A couple years back, I got my first Mustang. It was an '86 LX automatic, but it was still a Mustang, dammit, and it was convertible too. I had big plans for that car. But after having it for a mere 7 months, I learned that in an icy parking lot, even at low speeds, a Mustang will always lose to a Tahoe.
That short question could result in a long answer, since my career working directly for NASA spanned 21 years (not counting the time that I spent at JPL), and I still do some NASA related work as a contractor.
But the short summary list of "stuff" that I've done includes:
1) Flight Controller at Mission Control in Houston for the Space Shuttle in the early days (pre-1984).
1a) Volunteer "guinea pig" for vestibular research and testing studies coincident with the early shuttle program (i.e. I got to know every cubic inch of the cabin in NASA's KC-135 "vomit comet," since I was one of the less sensitive test subjects).
2) Space shuttle payload accommodations engineer at NASA Goddard.
3) Attached payload accommodation manager for the Space Station Program
(back in the early design era - before any components were built).
4) Earth Remote Sensing engineering/science for various microwave instruments and IR-optical systems (things like developing the sensors that were incorporated on weather and climate satellites, and calibration of the instruments on Landsat satellites).
5) etc. (any more and this will no longer qualify as a short summary!)
I'm mostly ambi. I still eat by holding utensils with my left hand more than my right, and I can switch hands at will when using hand tools. I was also an expert at a left handed kill shot back in the days that I played handball. But pencil or pen are only useful to me when I wield them with my right hand.
Which is why everyone is always surprised when a female toon is actually played by a female! People never believe me.
Aaron, clearly you were not a Scout. In Girl Scouts we called them "smoke benders." A search for one *spoiler alert* is akin to going on a "snipe hunt."
It looks like you joined in 2006...are you saying you "got old" in a mere 6 years?
Oh, and do you know what the definition of "old" is?
The Definition of Old:
The definition of "old"
for any speaker who is stating the definition of "old"
is:
"Fifteen Years Older Than I Am Now."
Exception:
When the speaker turns 90
the definition of "old" becomes
"Ten Years Older Than I Am Now."
Exception #2:
When the speaker turns 100
the definition of "old" becomes
"What are you talking about? I am 'old'"
Trust me on this, I know a lot of "old" people.
Wayne, you were a vestibular research "guinea pig?" Thanks for donating yourself to the study. We need more volunteers like you.
Oh, and on the subject of cars, I'm a die-hard Mustang woman, myself, but you already knew that. Manual transmission preferred.
One day I will get another Mustang....
*hijack*
I'm having
Green Eggs and Ham
for supper
Neighbor-grown cage free eggs,
Easter ham and
garlic mustard greens(up already...I pull it out by the roots, something to eat plus I minimize an invasive species, a win/win) for the Green
I'm having
Green Eggs and Ham
for supper
Neighbor-grown cage free eggs,
Easter ham and
garlic mustard greens(up already...I pull it out by the roots, something to eat plus I minimize an invasive species, a win/win) for the Green
OOOoooooo.... the Vomit Comet.... always thought it would be fun to go up in that.
And then probably discover that I have weak stomach...
My hops in a pot are almost 10 inches tall, the silly things. Now I have to find something to run them up on.
