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Kettle
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posted January 23, 2004 15:02
I have been around the geekculture forums for a month or two now, made a couple of friends, and maybe a couple of enemies (unintentional).
It was when I was scouting around the old All about you! threads that I saw Xanthine's introduction that and realised that I haven’t actually made a proper introduction.
As many of you may know already, my name is S** K******[/EDIT], I am 14yrs old and I live in Wiltshire, England.
I enjoy playing a great many sports, manly ball sports, e.g. Football, Rugby, Tennis...Although my favourite sports are winter sports, I can Ski and Snowboard compentently. Going to the Italian Alps in 3 weeks, YAY!!! ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
I wouldn't call myself a true geek (in my own definition of the word) for I know no programming languages and can't hack much. my only real strong point is websites (but alas, I have none online at the present moment to show). I know HTML like the back of my hand, and have my sight on learning PHP and/or JAVA...sometime anyway.
Referring back from Xanthine's opening thread, my dad was really into Rock-Climbing, he tort me a little, but, to my dismay, we never did very much. My mum is a big walker, that is not one of my strongest points. For charity (Julian House, Bath) she raised over £2,500 and climbed Mount Kilimanjaro. She now her eye on Moutu Pichu (excuse the spelling, it is late, she is in bed and I do not wish to wake for the proper spelling).
I know several people on Geekculture IRL; it was Dogbert who introduced it to me in the first place.
I am sorry if I have got on anybody’s nerve here, maybe I was a bit immature or just plain annoying. Now is my time to turn that around. I want Geekculture to be a place that I can know I have people to chat to.
I hate to admit it, but I am not one of the most creative people in the world. I tried playing the drums and then piano, but neither stuck. I can draw, just not brilliantly. Acting I enjoy, not anything bigger than a small hobby though.
I listen to a lot of Rock style music. My favourite bands being: REM, Queen, White Stripes and Linkin Park (I know there is a big variety there, but I am overall picky in my music).
I have just started Ninjitsu, no grade but I have just ordered my uniform
I am a big fan of manga, and anime (to a lesser extent) www.megatokyo.com would by far have to be my favourite online and offline comic.
Gaming is always good with me, I have a Nintendo Gamecube and a few PC games, and I have Broadband so I am experimenting with online gaming. The major glitch in that is that my PC is shit:
Windows 98, Pentium 2, Processor speed 800. ![[Embarrassed]](redface.gif)
I have been promised a new Computer in March, so fingers crossed for that.
I love to read: Lord of the Rings, His Dark Materials...
I am a CofE Christian, confirmed. And I am presently a sound technician at my local abbey, controlling the music and microphones...
In school I am in KS3 SATS year (umm...compulsory tests that evaluate the school) and have just chosen my GCSE choices.
My ultimate career dream would to design a rollercoaster in a theme park (is that lame?). But really I would just like to be a designer of some sort in the near future.
I am tired and I can't think of anything else to say so I will draw to an end now...
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Xanthine
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posted January 23, 2004 16:21
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Originally posted by Kettle:
I have been around the geekculture forums for a month or two now, made a couple of friends, and maybe a couple of enemies (unintentional).
It was when I was scouting around the old All about you! threads that I saw Xanthine's introduction that and realised that I haven’t actually made a proper introduction.
![[blush]](graemlins/blush.gif)
That thing is still around? *cringe*
Welcome!
Your mom is going to Machu Pichu. I am insanely jealous.
<security tip> Your real name does not belong on a public bulletin board. Edit it out. Not that I have the motive or the means to come find you, but there's all kinds of whackos lurking.</security tip>
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dragonman97
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posted January 23, 2004 16:21
MMKK: Me too ![[Razz]](tongue.gif) . Yeah, I don't think I ever really got around to one of those things, and by now, a number of you probably have a decent clue about who I am as a person, so no intro for you. Next!
Kettle, welcome indeed. I hope things go nicely around here for you, and maybe we'll all get off on a better foot this time around ![[Smile]](smile.gif) .
Cheers,
dragon
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The Famous Druid
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posted January 23, 2004 17:05
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Originally posted by Xanthine:
Your mom is going to Machu Pichu. I am insanely jealous.
Not sure 'Moutu Picchu' and 'Machu Picchu' are the same place, 'picchu' being the Quechua word for mountain, and Peru being the kind of place it is, it's a fairly common element in place names.
Machu Picchu is no great challenge as a climb, any reasonably fit tourist with a good set of walking boots should cope, even I've managed it and I'm no climber.
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Xanthine
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posted January 23, 2004 17:24
Kilimanjaro is supposed to be a walk up too, at least by the main route. Doesn't lessen the achievemnet really - altitude adds an extra dimension to just about anything.
Ecuador also has nice big mountains.
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Zim'et
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posted January 23, 2004 21:31
Welcome! although i have read you in forums for quite some time now...
When you said "manly ball sports" did you mean "manly", as in 'of or relating to masculine attributes and qualities', or "mainly", as in most oftenly?
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Kettle
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posted January 24, 2004 02:20
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Originally Posted by The Famous Druid Not sure 'Moutu Picchu' and 'Machu Picchu' are the same place, 'picchu' being the Quechua word for mountain, and Peru being the kind of place it is, it's a fairly common element in place names.
I was talking about the Peru walk. No it's not a climb, she (mum) isn't a climber. Kilimanjaro was also a walk, and as Xanthine said, a great achievement. Sadly mum never made it to the top:
It was an 8 day trek, 5 days up, and 3 days down. On the forth day walking up my mum fell down with altitude sickness, which is a real shame, because <note> I am not sure of the measurements but...</sidenote> she went over 85% of the mountain.
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When you said "manly ball sports" did you mean "manly", as in 'of or relating to masculine attributes and qualities', or "mainly", as in most oftenly?
LOL
"mainly" My spelling has never been too great...that could have been an embarrassing mistake if no-one had pointed it out
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The Famous Druid
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posted January 24, 2004 02:42
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Originally posted by Kettle:
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Originally Posted by The Famous Druid Not sure 'Moutu Picchu' and 'Machu Picchu' are the same place, 'picchu' being the Quechua word for mountain, and Peru being the kind of place it is, it's a fairly common element in place names.
I was talking about the Peru walk. No it's not a climb, she (mum) isn't a climber. Kilimanjaro was also a walk, and as Xanthine said, a great achievement. Sadly mum never made it to the top:
It was an 8 day trek, 5 days up, and 3 days down. On the forth day walking up my mum fell down with altitude sickness, which is a real shame, because <note> I am not sure of the measurements but...</sidenote> she went over 85% of the mountain.
Well, your mum should have no problem with the Inca trail, it's highest point is around 4200 metres, about 1700 metres lower than the peak of Kili.
I too failed to climb kili, but for different reasons. A week or so before we were due to do the climb, we got shot at by rebels near the Zaire/Rawanda border, and were feeling fairly stressed. While en-route to kili, we got invited to spend a week on the beach in Zanzibar instead. It wasn't a difficult choice to make.
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posted January 24, 2004 05:22
Heh, Java and php are two completely different programming langauges. PHP is a server-side scripting language, and Java is a client side programming language.
Start with C, its a good building block and will introduce you to the main concepts of programming.
Move on to C++, Java, or Perl depending on which direction you want your programming to take from then onwards.
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Kettle
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posted January 24, 2004 07:19
I know what PHP and JAVA are... ![[Mad]](mad.gif)
I was ranting a little at that point of the introduction, but I beleive that PHP and JAVA would be very useful, besides maybe C later, but I don't think it is absolutly nessicary to know C before anything else.
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posted January 24, 2004 08:25
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Heh, Java and php are two completely different programming langauges. PHP is a server-side scripting language, and Java is a client side programming language.
Sure about that? I guess you haven't heard about Servlets, have you? Mind you, I teach Java, but I still think it sucks .
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posted January 24, 2004 09:38
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Originally posted by dragonman97:
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Originally posted by sconzey:
Heh, Java and php are two completely different programming langauges. PHP is a server-side scripting language, and Java is a client side programming language.
Sure about that? I guess you haven't heard about Servlets, have you? Mind you, I teach Java, but I still think it sucks .
Huh, JAVA rules!
Kettle, you may have only just started ninjitsu but you are still very good for a beginer (Just work on your rolling). By the time you can throw me across the room, or actully remember what we are sopposed to be doing, you should be ready to do your gradeing.
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posted January 24, 2004 10:30
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By the time you can throw me across the room, or actully remember what we are sopposed to be doing, you should be ready to do your gradeing.
Maybe he can't remember what to do because he was to busy staring at Mansfields legs ![[Wink]](wink.gif) only kidding. Welcome my fellow Linken Park fan.
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Kettle
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posted January 24, 2004 10:35
Well, it's safe to say that Ricegirls remark genuenly freaked me out...
But c'mon now Dogbert and Ricegirl this shouldn't be on public forums ![[shake head]](graemlins/shakehead.gif)
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Xanthine
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posted January 24, 2004 10:39
Kettle, I bit the dust on Denali this last summer. Your mom has my sympathies. Altitude sickness sucks.
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posted January 24, 2004 10:41
I'm sorry naughty naughty Ricegirl
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posted January 25, 2004 08:53
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Originally posted by dragonman97:
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Heh, Java and php are two completely different programming langauges. PHP is a server-side scripting language, and Java is a client side programming language.
Sure about that? I guess you haven't heard about Servlets, have you? Mind you, I teach Java, but I still think it sucks .
Meh, I had heard of serverlets... I thought 'what about jsp' just as I clicked 'add reply' and couldn't be stuffed to edit. Mainly though, Java is used for client side stuff in my experience.
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posted January 25, 2004 12:30
Client side Java sucks! It's easy to program, but it's just not practical - what with the JVM changing minor version numbers every few weeks, and the fact that most people don't have the proper one installed. Executable JAR files have potential, but Java is still quite slow. You probably haven't had enough experience to see it, but the serious usage of Java these days as I've seen it is for JSPs, and also some applets in said pages. I've seen many server appliances and/or pieces of server management software that have made the move to JSP and/or applets. One of the big ones that comes to mind is HP WebJetAdmin. It's a pretty cool piece of software, but it's kind of flaky, and the Java element of it makes it dog slow at times.
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posted January 25, 2004 17:46
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As many of you may know already, my name is S** K******[/EDIT]
Let me guess .. you're Sam Kinison?
But I thought he was dead?
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Kettle
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posted January 26, 2004 10:02
Hmmmm, you obviously didn't see this thread a the start, before Xanthine advised me to edit out my name...
No I am not Sam Kinison, he is dead
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posted January 26, 2004 10:07
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Kilimanjaro is supposed to be a walk up too, at least by the main route.
Errr... which of the twin peaks are you talking about?
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posted January 26, 2004 11:22
If she goes, she can rescue the party that was going to build a bridge between the peaks!
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posted January 26, 2004 14:11
Can we move the discussion of twin peaks over to here please?
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posted January 26, 2004 14:23
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