INTRO THREAD THE THIRD

[cerberus]

Hi my name is Tim. i am 22 years old currently in college although i couldn't tell you what year because i have taken time off and been a general slacker when it comes to figuring out what i want to do. I got introduced to this comic by a co worker and love it. ummm...that is all.

[wildhalcyon]

I didn't post here first. That clearly means that I'm particularly evil. Or I just didn't read the rules. I try to follow the rules pretty carefully usually, but this is what happens when one assumes. Ignorance of the law is no excuse however.

Anyhow, you can call me whatever you like, although most people stick with some variant of wildhalcyon. I'm 26, and have a EE background, but mostly I'm into computing and math.

Nothing exciting yet, but who knows, maybe someday...

[StrangeQuark]

Good evening. I am, I think, a 19 year old female person who nominally studies physics. In fact, I like physics quite a lot. I also like poi, trampolining, sci-fi novels, music of a gothy or metally persuasion, cheese toasties and cider.
I come from Bristol, UK, though I mainly live in Oxford these days.
I only discovered the wonderfulness of xkcd a few weeks ago, but since then have read every single one .

[Rodan]

I'm sad from how many of these people have only one post ever.

[Paeter Melsee]

Hello

I am Peter Melse. generally unavailable, occasionally neurotic, I host oboe-comics.com on a glorious Linux router, which is located in my obligatory parent's basement. I go to college, (computer systems technology) read slashdot, and occasionally sleep. I've seen the sun for two decades, though it is generally avoided due to interesting medication.

future goals include a 59000 character post, and forcing ubuntu on the masses,

(you know that ibook can run linux, right ren? )

-son of mel

[Joe Phlanx]

Hello all, Derek Jansen. College student, Cincinnati Ohio. Right now I should be doing a paper but meh. Thus ends my required intro post.

Edit: Also, if someone with power could do so, I didn't read carefully my first registration, so if you could delete the botched account Phlanx it would be nice.

[Ren]

(you know that ibook can run linux, right ren? )

I remember, yes, and it is becoming a distinctly interesting possibility now that I've got an external hard drive.

Also: YAY Mike is on the fora.

[Xannon]

Hello. I am not going to disclose my name or the town I live in. I am a 19 year old male who is currently studying computer technology. I was introduced to xkcd by a friend and have been lurking on the fora for a while now.

[_W_]

Raymond Wold, aka W, male, bisexual, living in Oslo but moving to London soon.

I come here from Netgamers.

[jareturns]

Ahoy there, well I'm Joe, 19 and from England. I've been reading xkcd forever now, and only properly realised that a xkcd forum exists so.. here I am.

Umm, I'm currently on a gap year at the moment, with the intention of going Uni next year to do Computer Science - yay. Oh and I love waffles.

[Maseiken]

I don't think it's valid to assume that the default state is that of *Not* Loving Waffles.

[I, Lounger]

Well my name is A... eh, for the sake of not fucking people's shit up with pronunciation, let's just say Andrew - it's similar enough. I'm 19, from Ljubljana, Slovenia (bet you don't have any other Slovenes here yet, ha!), and I am a student of the English language and literature at the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana.

My main interest is music. Not so much the making of (being much too lazy to start properly learning an instrument), but rather the 'listening to' and 'thinking about' parts. This is the topic I'll probably spend the most time writing about during my stay here. Despite the aforementioned laziness I do (try to) play and am self-taught at the guitar, sitar and a bit of keyboards.
Other interests worth mentioning include linguistics (also one of my reasons for joining this message board, I might add), movies, billiards and ... y'know. Stuff.

Being a non-native English speaker I try to (and have been trying to for quite some time now) seize every opportunity to improve my English beyond the level of a second language - for the purposes of my education and my own interest - and I have a feeling that joining this message board will definitely contribute to this cause.


Also, does anyone know where that image in my avatar came from? I've had it on my hard drive for ages and I can't seem to recall where I got it from. Seemed an appropriate avatar, though.

[jareturns]

I don't think it's valid to assume that the default state is that of *Not* Loving Waffles.

You'd be surprised how many people don't like waffles. Oh and I like French toast too.

[tiny]

Hi, my name is tine (german short form of Christine). I'm 24 years old and have been passionately reading xkcd and this forum for quite a while now. I love xkcd to pieces. It's just great, really. So witty and surprising and funny and wise and poetic and geeky and all. Love it. Totally.
Today I decided that it's about time I joined the community. Because I like this community very much, too. It's geeky. I like geeky.

At the moment I'm a student of educational science, psychology and philosophy (gonna be mistress, uh, master roughly a year from now). I normally talk very little (I'm just so exited right now O.O) and take pride in my genuinely nerdy nature. I'm really friendly though, as long as I don't have to deal with gnomes (aka 'children', they freak me out, I'll educate adults when I'm all grown up) or dumb, ignorant, narrow minded people. Crowds make me duck and cover.
I like to use brackets when I type, would hit Alan Rickman and Gustav Mahler, listen to MCR when I'm in a good mood/Suzanne Vega when I have a bad day, I like slashes, too, physics, philosophy, 'Perfume' by P. Süskind and 'Brother of Sleep' by R. Schneider. I play the guitar (badly) and write novels as well as short stories (short like in 'not long'). When I'm all grown up I'm gonna be a famous writer. Probably. Or not.

Well... that's it for now. Thanks for reading. Later 'n buh-buy.

[keesti]

Salutations!

My name is Christi, and I am not here to post porn or spam. That being said, I am now suspicious of myself.

I am 27 years old. I work full-time. I go to school part-time. I'm a wannabe derby girl. Xkcd is the only comic I read on a regular basis.

I'm not a robot, I swear.

[Cytoplasm]

Hello all, I'm Cytoplasm, but you can call me Cy for short. I am interested in DNA, a certain guy from the Netherlands, and variety of other activities. I play the cello and I love reading. I live west of the mighty Mississip' con queso. I speak some Spanish and not very much Dutch (obviously English). I am a religious person and Roman Catholic. Though I do know a lot about the Mormon religion so don't be hating on them.
I work at a radio station, I write poetry, I’m one of those “amateur grammar Nazis” and still depend on Microsoft Word to help me put. What else? I am not strong in mathematics. Don’t quiz me, please.
I can’t remember how I ran into xkcd exactly, though I think I randomly discovered it through a Google search.

I hope I didn’t blab too much.

Tot ziens.

[masher]

G'day

My name is Matthew and I'm currently residing in Melbourne, Australia. I'm a post-doc at CSIRO. I enjoy intense x-ray sources and small puppies.

[abzde]

woohoo... intro post.

i'm hunter. 14 years old, male (though, most people i first meet tend to think i'm female...) i've got really long hair <obvious jokes about pubic hair here /> i do a lot of python programming, and some web design, but it's all hidiously (<-- that isn't spelled right, firefox's spellchecker doesn't seem to be working.) ugly. i read a lot, if i find a book i like. i like math quite a bit. i'm definitely almost failing english i (if you haven't been able to tell from the fail structure of this "paragraph".) i'm from the eastern us. chapel hill, north carolina to be specific (no, i don't care if someone starts stalking me now... i really don't) i'ma linux nerd/geek/otherWord. i barely play any computer games (even if i were running windows, i still wouldn't), i play nethack some, and doom a lot (doom 1 and 2, not the crappy new doom 3) i'm really just typing so much to avoid talking to one of my friends who's bugging the hell out of me, and to avoid doing homework.

belial, you aren't the same belial from the zdoom forums are you? (i just looked up belial, and i've now learned it's some demon or something, so probably not)

i'm not sure where i came across xkcd, i think it was in like, quakenet/#php, (if any of you have ever been in that channel, it isn't about php, it's about a bunch of php nerds talking about stuff, and then answering questions when they're asked) i don't frequent quakenet much anymore, as the people i talked to on quakenet migrated to oftc because it doesn't netsplit 5 times daily, and some of the people in quakenet/#php were being asses... i'm abzde on oftc tho, and foonetic, if i feel like having a conversation.

i'm also a huge red sox fan. they're going to win the world series by the way.

(do i win the longest intro post award?)

[Kasekopf]

I'm Kasekopf, High-school male in North Carolina, US. I tend to lurk in forums, so I rack up post count slowly. I like logic puzzles, but I'm no good at solving them. >_>

That is all.

[Ame]

Hi, my name is Chelle, I'm from Australia, No I don't say G'day and we really don't ride kangaroos to school. (just to clear up a few misconceptions I've heard some Americans have, and i really am trying not to sound bitchy so i thought I'd better add that i doubt anyone who reads this comic would harbour those said misconceptions.) I'm 16. And that sums me up.

My friend linked me to one part of xkcd to prove a point and since then i've been hooked, partly because it in ways makes me examine myself and partly because I am afraid of raptors, for weeks after watching Jurrasic (yep that's definitly not looking like i spelt it right) Park i had nightmares where they chased me and I was paranoid that eventually, they would catch me. Which thankfully i have over come as well as my fear of getting my shoelaces trapped in the bottom bit of escalators... ok so admitdly i'm still working on that one but one day I wont be afraid of anything.

What else do I like about the comic... hmmm. Basically things that make me laugh appeal to me, and i think partly it's because when you read each one it feels like you're being let into an inside joke.

So that's me, don't know if i will ever post again, just thought it would be nice to state my existance.

So catch.

[hermaj]

G'day

My name is Matthew and I'm currently residing in Melbourne, Australia. I'm a post-doc at CSIRO. I enjoy intense x-ray sources and small puppies.

Together, or just as separate entities?

[masher]

mmm... puppies...

[stephen]

Spose I'd better introduce meself.

I'm Stephen, a computer programmer by trade.

24/M/Aus.

I got my first "first to post the comic" thread just then. Yay!

[SF17]

Hello. I don't normally use forums, although I have visited many. We'll see how this one goes.

I'm 15 and male. I don't talk a lot, but I think a lot, and I type a lot. I value solitude, introspection, and witty jokes. My MBTI personality type is INTP, for those who care. I was born in Russia, but live in Michigan. Life is quite dull here.

I enjoy xkcd because I find that I'm able to relate to it.

My interests are many. I aspire to be a programmer, and am currently experimenting with C++. Graphic design is my secondary source of stimulation. Engineering, photography, drawing, math, physics, 3D modelling, audio, language, comedy, the stock market, and wilderness survival are areas that I have taken interest in at one time or another.

Organization and motivation are NOT my strong points.


I put a lot of thought into very short forum posts.

[Kung Pao Mao]

Hi, I'm a 22 year old male making my obligatory first post and whatnot.

I'm a microbiology major, and enjoy fish, soccer, and arguing over the most efficient biological weapon that I could make using only my bathroom.

[steve.howard]

Steve Howard. Male, 17. I live in northern California.

I've been coding since I was probably 13, but I find that I don't enjoy doing it for work. Finished AP Calculus AB last year and I've had enough of that for a while.

[Cortez]

Hi there everybody!

I'm Cortez, long time reader, first time poster (oviously )

I live in Australia and i'm interested the sciences, mainly biological and geological, and I LOVE drama.

I'm always the one first up dancing at a party and I love performing in front of a crowd.

Well, I can't think of anything more to say, so I 'spose I'll see you all around then

[zonk]

hello, new here, zonk is my name, as far as you know, work with it support 19 years old, tata!

[Belial]

belial, you aren't the same belial from the zdoom forums are you? (i just looked up belial, and i've now learned it's some demon or something, so probably not)

Yeah, no, sorry. I don't even know what zdoom is.

[MFHodge]

Hi, my name is tine (german short form of Christine).

My fiance's name is Christine and I call her "Steen". Maybe I'm half German and didn't even know it.

Nope, I don't like sausage enough to be German.

[fephisto]

Hi.

Math student at ISU (Iowa State). I don't have much else to say.

[stu]

I'm Stu.

I'm a college student in Northern California. I attend Cal State Eastbay (Hayward) just south of Berkeley. I'm a physics major, but I have yet to take some upper div physics classes, so I like to think of my self as a computer science/math major. I'm 20 years old.

I started reading around comic #150, and ever since I have wanted to have Randall's babies.

[Owehn]

Hi, I'm a maths student in the UK. This year I'm taking a broad survey of several different subjects to see what I want to do my PhD in.

And I think I probably did cry when littlefoot's mother died, but it was so long ago I'm not sure.

[Mad_Gouki]

I'm Alex. I generally rock and I am a total geek. I enjoy long walks on the beach.... really really long walks. Most people say they like long walks on the beach, but they really mean like a 30 minute walk. If you don't want to walk for 3+ hours on the beach, don't pretend that you like LONG walks on the beach.

[zingmaster]

Hey all. I prefer to be called by my standard nickname, which is Zing, but if you find me elsewhere, I'll let you in on my life. I'm currently in college at UW - Madison, studying piano performance. Tough one, I know. Other than music, I like reading comics (mostly manga, but of course I read xkcd), answering masses of emails and Facebook wall posts, and DDR. Oh, and I'm a hopeless romantic. That's always nice to put out there. ^_^

What else do you need to know...? Oh yeah, I'm a dual citizen. America and Australian. It's pretty nifty.

[Jessica]

Yo.
In my search for fora to frequent, I've finally given in to the temptation, and signed up for the XKCD forums.

I hail from the frozen north, also known as Soviet Cannuckistan. My previous forum experience includes a long standing presence on the clanbob forums. I'm a recent grad of UW, and currently work in tech support. yay.

About me in meatspace. I'm trans, or if that's too much, lets just stick with female. That's generally good enough for most people.

I've lurked a while, and will probably continue to lurk even more. I just get bored at work, and like having other places to forum whore. At least here, I'm not prevented from posting.

See you in the forums.

[justReadingPosts]

Hello, I'm here mainly to read but I figured I may as well create and account should I ever feel inclined to post something.

My name is Matt, and I truly enjoy reading discussions invovling physics and mathematics, however only when the topics are informed. I've found many of the discussions here to be quite acceptable and I hope to continue to enjoy absorbing the information, which hopefully will continue to be thrown around here. As for what I could contribute... I doubt much at all to be honest. I just mainly wanted to show my appreciation for providing a less formal environment for discussing more intellectual topics with the reduced hassle of weeding through the annoying bickering that is found in most fora.

[CrackTheSky]

My name is Ben, I'm 19, in college, currently studying (and for the most part, failing at) physics. My area of interest is astronomy, but I have a long way to go before I get there, assuming I make it at all.

I recently discovered XKCD through a friend at another forum/website I frequent, and I decided to join these forums on a whim today. I don't know how often I'll post, if I do at all, but at the very least this seems like an interesting place to lurk.

I'm also quite fond of watching and making AMVs and go by the same name there that I do here.

Anywho, that's me, hopefully something good'll come of this...

[its-m3]

Hi, I'm Mel. I am 16, I am a Christian, and I like anime, cartoons, books, the color green, and I have been told by (at least) a few that I am quite annoying at times. I love funny stuff, and sharing stuff that is funny with people, even though they may not want to hear it . I dislike profanity, pervertedness, and mushrooms.
I registered here kinda just in case i wanted to post anything.
I want to be a linguist when I grow up, and have a list of at least ten languages that i want to learn. I would like to learn at least three fluently.
yeah...

[bookishbunny]

I dislike profanity, pervertedness, and mushrooms.

I don't want to chase you off, but this is going to be a very dark and scary place for you.