"So introduce yourself. Even if you've been around forever, introduce yourself. Tell us who you are, where you're from, how you found the H/P community, how you found PLA, your accomplishments, your goals and anything else you feel like sharing."
Signed up for the forums today, figured it only proper I post an intro.
My friends call me Comrade, draw your own conclusions
From the pacific northwest.
When I was a kid, always got stuck indoors because well it never stops raining here. Dad was tinker of sorts, so I'd sneak in his shop and hijack his old CB radios and break them, take them apart, rebuild them.
In high school friend and I started really getting into books on coercion. Next thing you know we were hijacking the pay phone every day on our lunch hour to talk to the operators. Eventually my friend came over to my shack with fourty pages of really poorly printed(this was in the late nineties so there were still lots of craptastic prelaser printers floating around) pages of vocab, and technical info on phones. Not long after, we were trying to build a beige box. Failed horribly. So we built other naughty toys and weapons of mass destruction instead*cough* car sized catapult *cough cough*. Thats how I found the H/P community.
As far as subject related accomplishments, three months before high school grad many years ago, I was a science and history nerd, had a full ride scholarship lined up. Was behind the gymnasium at a payphone phucking around one day, and some ditzy girl walked by and thought i was "trying to blow up the phone or use the receiver for a bong?". Brilliant I know. She was really shaken up, guess I scared her, or maybe it was my conspicuous two foot tall hawk. Who can say?
Anyways, Vice principal surprised me confiscated my red box. He was pretty internet savvy and figured out what it was for after running a search for "rat shack". Yeah, i scrawled rat shack on it one day, not to bright, but really who'd expect some one to google it, hell back then most lay people still didn't even know boolean.
To make a long story short, my vice principle decided the full ride scholarship would be better used by some one who wasn't a "criminal" in his eyes, bastard! So my major related accomplishment involves working my arse through college.
I don't mess around much though with that stuff any more(though I totally admire it and love reading about it).
Signed up to the forum for one reason only: So I could play at the official PLA arcade!Oh yeah, I made myself a PLA keychain about 8 years ago. That's a dam noteworthy accomplishment. Yeah, I rock.
Also a hobby blacksmith, make medieval armour, enjoy c# and like eating pizza.
Cactus Cactus Cactus?
