The all New & Improved Who's Who at MURC thread ...

[Rakido]

Full name: Thomas
Fav food: Schweinshaxn (legendary bavarian food :-) )
Siblings: sister and brother
Age: 36
Location: near Munich, Germany
I am: German
I work as: web developer for the most-hated online company worldwide
Pets: four cats and a dog
Favorite piece of clothing: Jeans
Favorite Band: Marillion & Saga
Favorite Movie: Big trouble in little china (from John Carpenter)
House Color: White
Goals: getting rich, trying to fully understand how to throw a curveball in this strange american sport called Baseball
Havent Had: the same car as SteveC .....
Have had: a new palm, using it mainly to play backgammon


Rakido

[Dogbert]

Full name: Anan Zeevy
Fav food(s): Sushi, Italian food and good steaks
Siblings: 1 sister (too much)
Age: 27
Location: Tel Aviv - Israel
Parents: 2 of them, thank you
I am: Afgan-Persian / Uqrainian
I work as: QA - Software testing
Pets: a dog and 5(!) cats
Favorite piece of clothing: Everything I have is ok
Favorite Band: Pink floyd ?
Favorite Movie: The princess Bride
House Color: Don't have my own yet
Nieces and Nephews: 1 (born three days ago) - Roni
Goal: Marrying Alice, settling up in a nice house, having a few kids and a sport car.
Have Had: Light weight kickboxing championship of Tel Aviv at the age of 17 and 3 years in the army a year later
Havent Had: Never finished a single course I took in the university (2 so far).

[VJ]

Full name: Jörg V.
Fav food(s): a nice chique Belgian meal
Siblings: 1 brother
Age: 26
Location: Ghent - Belgium
I am: 100% Belgian
I work as: phd-student / assistant at Ghent University
Favorite piece of clothing: nothing in particular, wear mostly shirts
Favorite Band: Could be Dire Straits, but I also like '80s music (lot of one hit bands)
Favorite Movie: This one comes to mind: The Shawshank Redemption; but there are a lot of great thrillers (and I appreciate the occasional sci-fi), ...
Nieces and Nephews: Laurence - 1 year
Have Had: a long interest in photography, recently gotten even more involved through the purchase of my first digital SLR
Havent Had: much luck with girls... (and I'm not interested in guys )

Jörg

[RichL]

Name : Rich L
Fav Food :[/b] Homemade lasagne, battered fish & chips, chicken kiev.
Siblings : 1 sister.
Age : There is currently quite a book running on just how old I really am, and I'm not saying until the odds improve.....
Location : Essex, England.
I am : Alive. Most of the time.
I work as : Mild mannered BOFH by day, feindish BOFH by night....oh and between the hours of 9am and 5pm I turn up at the offices of a major IT services company and mill around for a while waiting for something to go wrong on their network so I can fix it. They send me a paycheck every month. Which is nice.
Favourite peice of clothing : I guess it would have to be my waistcoat. I'm recognised far and wide by everyone who knows me for wearing a waistcoat.
Favourite Band : I can only pick one? It would have to be The Black Crowes.
Favourite Movie(s) : The Usual Suspects, Ronin, Aliens, Remember the Titans (for the soundtrack), Tombstone.
Nieces and Nephews : 1, Chloe, aged 2 going on 5.
House colour : Outside : Orange bricks. Inside : White, Black, Burgundy, Shocking Pink and Blue. (not all in the same room).
Have Had : A very boring job.
Havent had : A single speeding ticket or traffic offence (apart from a single parking ticket). No really, I havent...
Goal : Scored a blinder once when taking a corner kick that curved just inside the near post, much to everyones suprise. Of course the 30mph wind might have helped a little...

Edit :
Pets : Three mice. Two by microsoft and one by Logitech.

[Taz]

Name : Paul Barry T...
Age : 32
Location : Spent first 30 years of my life living in London, couldn't afford the house prices so moved out to a little village in Kent, (probably the best decision I've ever made )
Parents : Barry and Jen
Siblings : Sister Michele
I am : English, although I don't look it, people generally think I'm Portugese, Spanish, Greek, Iranian, etc.
Occupation : Install Novell/NT networks, routers, etc. for a small computer dealer
Interests : Anything electronic, music, both playing and listening to, motorbikes
Two things I couldn't live without : My guitar and my bike, (Triumph Daytona )
Fav. band : Pink Floyd
Fav. films : LoTR, Monty Pythons - The Life of Brian
Have had : Too many bike accidents
Haven't had : Any kids yet

[Technoid]

full name:Mathias Johan Emil..
fav food: Pasta with Sauce
Siblings: Josefin (22) Isabell (18) Linus (11)
Age: 24
Location: Strängnäs, Sweden
Parents: Gert, Ingela
I am: Swedish with danish and german and ....... lots of other mixed in
I work as: PC magician
Pets: I got some spiders that are not domesticated but they do keep the mosquito population down....
Favorite band: Heavily depends on my mood
Favorite Movie: to many to mention here
House color: red and white
Goal: losing 40 punds and gain 20 pounds of muscle
Have had: more moped accidents than are healthy, and I was never the causing party

[Drizzt]

Full name: Mauro Bertozzi
Fav food: None. A lot of non-fav, however.
Siblings: 1, male, age 18
Age: 25
Location: Viareggio, Lucca, Italy.
Parents: Mom and Dad.
I am: 100% Italian.
I feel: 100% not Italian.
I work as: programmer.
Pets: 1 anonymous dog, two pitbull, 1 cat and a few chicken.
Animals: 1 mother, one father, one brother.
Favorite piece of clothing: on me, everything. On girls, nothing.
Favorite Band: Pink Floyd
Favorite Movie: The Matrix
House Color: None mine, so it doesn't matter. When there will be MY house, then it will be colourful outside and inside.
Nieces and Nephews: a few tenths.
Goals: bring back Claudia, see the human race extinguished.
Have Had: a wonderful girlfriend, an MSX, a lot of hit from my parents, a lot of time to reflect, tons of friends, other.
Havent Had: much love, fun time, enemies, too much luck with life in general

I Have: a mental smile, two wonderful eyes, a marvellous motorcycle (Morte, a Fazer 600cc), too much money to spend and too few in my pocket, a lot of other things. Uh, and a lot of english teacher!

[az]

Originally posted by Agent31

if you look <em>really</em> closely, you'll see it's actually a DJ at the turn-tables and a dancefloor in-front of him it was taken at a club I go to

OIC - I didn't pay attention to the left side of your avatar, and the purple part just looked a bit like a darlok (shapeshifting spies from Master of Orion)

AZ

[Agent31]

Originally posted by az


OIC - I didn't pay attention to the left side of your avatar, and the purple part just looked a bit like a darlok (shapeshifting spies from Master of Orion)

AZ

good to see you're paying close attention especially good to see you're paying attention to what this thread is actually about... c'mon, Az, who are you? which government funded secret agency do you work for?

[az]

Oh, maybe later

AZ