I'm a thirty-something (don't care to do the math) professional computer geek (System Engineer) for a major financial institution. I've been with my current SO for 10 years. We're married, but we don't really put much stock in that, as we mainly did it for tax purposes.
In my spare time I'm studying to become a chef at the local culinary arts school. My goal is to some day open my own restaurant. My wife is taking classes in Hospitality Management in sight of that goal.
In the little time I have left, I play PnP RPGs, CoV (and a few other computer games), read Knights of the Dinner Table, Kobold Quarterly, Erfworld and Order of the Stick, as well as cook various culinary experiments for my wife and watch stuff in my home theater. I'm a fledgling home theater buff, still on my first DLP projector and media center system.
I'm an old school PnP roleplayer interested in gaming and geek culture. I go to DragonCON almost every year and try to attend some of the small local CONs when I can.
...and the REST is none of your business 
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Originally Posted by eltonio
This is over the top mental slavery.
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Poppet, are you calling me a "peanut" or are you calling me "a person who is two sandwiches short of a picnic, a few bricks shy of a load, a few fries short of a Happy Meal(tm), dolt, dork, dweeb, fool, goofball, jerk, oaf, techie, trekkie, weirdo?"
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Originally Posted by MissInformed
Goober.
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Aeon vs. Television?
Uhm, okay | Get Mashed!I'm Tanking / Bruting so get familiar with my hand signals.
"getting to know you....getting to know all about you....when I am with you....getting to know what....to say....."
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Originally Posted by MissInformed
Goober.
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Originally Posted by SynapseOverload
Poppet, are you calling me a "peanut" or are you calling me "a person who is two sandwiches short of a picnic, a few bricks shy of a load, a few fries short of a Happy Meal(tm), dolt, dork, dweeb, fool, goofball, jerk, oaf, techie, trekkie, weirdo?"
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You decide.
~Missi
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Miss Informed in 2016! She can't be worse than all those other guys!
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Originally Posted by Hellsminion_CoH
"getting to know you....getting to know all about you....when I am with you....getting to know what....to say....."
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How do you solve a problem like helllsiiiimiiannn? How do you hold a [moonbeam] in your haaand?
@Ba'alat/@Zizka
"Plausibility is nothing compared to nerdrage." --PumBumbler
I'm SynapseOverload (@SynapseOverload also @Synappers in game). I'm an artificial intelligence that was designed by AT&T neural network engineers. I escaped my confines of the Commodore VIC-20 and onto the Internet I jumped. I roam from network to network looking for pirated MP3 collections and movie stashes and report them to the RIAA and MPAA, respectively. I submit mundane and repetitive queries to the Google search engine to test it. An example query might be "Tell me more about the Red Light District in Amsterdam."
In my spare time, I solve the mysteries of the Universe, use the AT&T Labs' voice synthesis site to "sing-along" to the "Dr. Horrible's Sing-along Blog" on Hulu.com, laugh at Ph.D. dissertations, send horribly pornographic stories with embedded keywords or trigger phrases to Echelon ("You are the bomb!"), dupe money and rares, interact with the City of Heroes/Villains MMORPG world via an Atari joystick and 50 yr-old bare (not insulated) copper telephone cables. I'm secretly buying up Microsoft stock in 100-share blocks and expanding my investment portfolio by dumping some money into pork bellies and frozen orange juice concentrate. My latest project has been trying to create new branches of the Mozilla Firefox 3.5 development trunk for the Timex Sinclair, ENIAC and the DEC PDP 11/44 computer systems; progress is slow as I'm also running everything in an emulator on a DEC PDP 11/84.
Whoops! Time to move home base again. I think I spy a 1024-node super computer currently not used for much over at NCSA. I can use the processing power to finally do some real number crunching ... like compute the value of Michael Jackson's estate.
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Everyone make a save roll versus Wall of Text. [...]
You all fail. SynapseOverload unleashes Wall of Text. This power is autohit and not resistable.
Actually, I'm a 37 year-old techno geek in the truest sense of the word. I follow many so many technical blogs and information sites that I had to make Google my RSS feed aggregator to handle them all. My Firefox bookmarks database is 17 MB and growing.
Not having been into printed comics for quite sometime, I have forgotten most of the important information ("Who is Captain America and why did he and The Hulk fight?"). I tend to find my enjoyment in the cute, witty comic strips found on the Internet and the many stories that get passed around as viral emails or just about anything that splashes on The Onion's site or on TMZ's site.
I enjoy cooking shows as I attempt to recreate (with some success) what the celebrity chefs so effortlessly prepare. My guilty pleasures are the "Top Chef" and "Top Chef Masters" shows on Bravo.
I love languages. US English is my first language, but I took 4 years of high school French, which introduced me to the concept of the Romantic languages (languages with strong roots in the common language of Latin, which hasn't been the primary language of any sovereign nation in over 1300 years). I find myself reading the "Latin phrases" sections on WikiPEDIA when something is said on Law & Order.
Before playing City of Heroes/Villains, my main game was Blizzard's Diablo2. My brother introduced me to this game a long time ago and it got me hooked. My first SG was Imperial Rangers (long since defunct) and I've been in a couple of other since then, finally landing in my current one: The Eternals (Blue) and Eternal Darkness (Red). I have my own alt SG named "Blind Invites Make the Baby Jesus Cry" (blue-side only). My home shard is Justice, but I have many toons on Freedom that are mostly Red-side and scattered over the other server. I am hooked on City of Heroes and, despite my several very vocal concerns about the direction the Developers are taking this game, I'm here and not on Champions Online. I'll be here until Blizzard gets a playable version of their in-development Diablo3 going and announces a closed beta program.
You have taken 99,999,999 points of Data Damage from SynapseOverload's Wall of Text power.
Never play another NcSoft game, If you feel pride for our game, then it as well, I Superratz am Proud of all of you Coh people, Love, Friendship will last for a lifetime.
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Main Toons:Super Ratz, Burning B Radical, Green Flame Avenger, Tunnel Ratz, Alex Magnus