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Something about you that continually surprises people when they hear it: arrested twice as a pre-teen

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Don't leave us hanging...lets hear a story

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First time for busting into video games, and either playing the game or stealing quarters, for which to play the game. Did anyone ever see that SNL in the 80s about the kid who was addicted to video games? That was me! I just followed what the teen stoners did, and I was the only one who was arrested.

Second time for breaking into a kindergarten classroom, stealing a few misc things (tape, glue, etc). I was hanging with a bad crowd.

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Forum Name: tehox
Real Name: Steve
Sex: M
Age: 28
Job: Graduate Student
Education level: Completing my M.D./Ph.D.
Living arrangement: 2 cats
Other hobbies: Golf, Bowling
A little about your signifigant other: Recently Dumped
Something about you that continually surprises people when they hear it: I used to be able to dunk a basketball (I'm 5'11" and white)
Where you want to be in 5 years: Hopefully finished with school
Myers-Briggs Personality: Too lazy to figure out what this means

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Forum Name: MrPowers
Real Name: Don
Sex: M
Age: 41
Job: Computer Specialist
Education level: BS Pastorial Studies
Living arrangement: Own My own home
Other hobbies: Reading, Golf, Homebrew, Chess.
A little about your signifigant other: My wife and I are best friends and childhood sweethearts. We have been married for 23 years.
Something about you that continually surprises people when they hear it: I own a 2000 Porsche Boxster.
Where you want to be in 5 years: Playing winning poker.
Myers-Briggs Personality: INTJ

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Other hobbies: I have been doing brazilian jiu-jitsu for almost 4 years

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When I lived in Southern Cal. a few summers ago I noticed this stuff was pretty popular...How did youget started in it?

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Went to a UFC (ultimate fighting championship) event in Vegas. Wanted to try it out, so I went online and found a school right by my house. It's super addictive for someone with a competitive personality and very little outlet for it, other than poker. It's seriously kinetic chess.

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Forum Name: stealthy
Real Name: Chris
Sex: M
Age: 35
Job: Office work
Education level: mediocrety
Living arrangement: Married with 2 girls 6 + 4 in a nice detached house
Other hobbies: Golf
A little about your signifigant other: A lovely woman who was still stupid enough to say yes!
Something about you that continually surprises people when they hear it: That I make money playing poker. In the UK when you say that you play poke they say "really how much do you lose?"
Where you want to be in 5 years: 5/10 making more money than my job pays

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Forum Name: The artist formerly known as MrWookie47
Real Name: Matt Seetin
Sex: Male
Age: 23
Job: Graduate Student
Education level: BS in physics, working towards Ph.D. in biophysics
Living arrangement: Solo in an apartment that's actually the downstairs of a small house.
Other hobbies: Lindy hop, choral singing, alcohol (wine tasting, bartending, etc.)
A little about your signifigant other:No one signficant
Something about you that continually surprises people when they hear it: I was a member of a Collegiate National Champion formation ballroom dance team, although I haven't kept up with it since college.
Where you want to be in 5 years: Working as a post-doctoral fellow somewhere.
Myers-Briggs Personality: INTJ

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Forum Name: UATrewqaz
Real Name: Phillip
Sex: M
Age: 24
Job: Software Developer
Education level: BS in Computer Science
Living arrangement: apartment
Other hobbies: college football
A little about your signifigant other: a chick named Stephanie
Something about you that continually surprises people when they hear it: dunno
Where you want to be in 5 years: dunno
Myers-Briggs Personality: dunno

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I start such popular threads, I [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] all of you.

I'm big on first names, so expect me to address many of you by your name instead of screenname from now on.

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One thing's for sure, micro limit poker forums draw a lot of INTJs. (which most computer geeks tend to be in my experience [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] )

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One thing I find interesting about this thread is that almost everyone who replied is an "N" personality type. I think Ns are only about 30% of the overall population, IIRC. (I may be way off on that.) Otherwise, we have Es and Is, and Ts and Fs, and Js and Ps.

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I forgot. ISTJ. But that was about 10 years ago. I should do it again.

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Forum Name:Schwartzy61
Real Name:Patrick
Sex:Male
Age:23
Job:Accountant
Education level:BBA in Accounting
Living arrangement:Deal with the Devil
Other hobbies:Golf
A little about your signifigant other:There isn't one
Something about you that continually surprises people when they hear it:Bonus whoring is my source of income for the time being
Where you want to be in 5 years:Retired
Myers-Briggs Personality:Not sure what the correct order of the letters are since it's been awhile but I worked it out so that I am a PIST pessimist, works out funnier that way...

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Forum Name: Jaran
Real Name: Russ
Sex: Ummmmm, male.
Age: 37
Job: Full time student, work in University bookstore
Education Level: Finishing my BA this year
Living arrangements: Solo
Other hobbies: Writing, music, reading, basketball
A little bit about your significant other: She's not mine [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]
Something about you that continually surprises people when they hear it: That I'm 37.
Where you want to be in 5 years: Getting ready to defend my dissertation, or living in Rome.
Myers-Briggs Personality: Don't know.

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I thought I would put this as a reply to Matt since it's similar in some ways. It's funny that both mods are grad students.

Anyway:

Forum Name: Gregatron (formerly Greg J)
Real Name: Gregory Johnston
Sex: Male
Age: 28
Job: Grad Student
Education level: BSE, MA/ABD Political Science (working on my dissertation right now)
Living arrangement: 1 wife
Other hobbies: News junkie (goes with the territory of what I study), Star Wars geek (not Star Trek)
A little about your signifigant other: She is now a college student (sociology/psychology double major) with a GPA >3.9 , a former pastry chef
Something about you that continually surprises people when they hear it: I asked my wife and she said that I have as much education as I do, despite being a total goofball. Also, I was a middle school special ed teacher for two years before going to grad school.
Where you want to be in 5 years: Getting tenure, and striking fear into the hearts of undergraduates
Myers-Briggs Personality: INTJ (just took it)

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Rick,

Memorizing everyone's first name would be impressive. Good luck with that, and great thread.

Am I mistaken or am I the oldest one here [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]. I hope some of you are lying [img]/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img].

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Forum Name: 12ozLongneck
Real Name: Kevin
Sex: M
Age: 28
Job: Bean Counter
Education level: Going back for an MBA next fall. Yuck.
Living arrangement: Right now I'm housesitting for a friend of mine and his wife who are in Japan for the next several months. Usually I'm in a 1 bedroom apartment.
Other hobbies: Film (especially stuff from the 1930s and 1940s), playing guitar, rock climbing, football (Longhorns and Cowboys), news junkie.
A little about your signifigant other: Single and happy that way for the time being.
Something about you that continually surprises people when they hear it: [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]
Where you want to be in 5 years: Self employed.
Myers-Briggs Personality: INTJ

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Forum Name: Guruman
Real Name: René
Sex: M
Age: 27
Job: Audio engineer
Education level: AAS in Sound Technology and 6 years OTJ
Living arrangement: Condo in downtown Dallas
Other hobbies: running, watching hockey, sex
A little about your signifigant other: coolest chick I know
Something about you that continually surprises people when they hear it: I'm hispanic
Where you want to be in 5 years: better shape, cooler car.
Myers-Briggs Personality: iNTj

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Forum Name:pryor15
Real Name:Lucas
Sex:M
Age:26
Job:none...poker winnings and freelance film stuff
Education level:BA in broadcasting
Living arrangement:apartment
Other hobbies:sports, film
A little about your signifigant other:n/a
Something about you that continually surprises people when they hear it:former star athlete
Where you want to be in 5 years:still w/o a job
Myers-Briggs Personality:INTJ

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Forum Name: Aaron W.
Real Name: Aaron Wong
Sex: Male
Age: 25
Job: Graduate student in math
Education level: C.Phil
Living arrangement: One room in a 3-bedroom/2 bath condo in La Jolla
Other hobbies: Leadership role with Graduate Christian Fellowship @ UCSD and my church, basektball, guitar, cooking
A little about your signifigant other: She hasn't been selected yet.
Something about you that continually surprises people when they hear it: I don't play poker very often.
Where you want to be in 5 years: Hopefully teaching math at a university somewhere, but I don't really care where.
Myers-Briggs Personality: I've never taken the tests, but the first guess is I?TJ.

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Forum Name: Kwazzie

Myers-Briggs Personality: WTF



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I googled the Myers Briggs.

No surprises - another INTJ

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Forum Name: Kwazzie

Myers-Briggs Personality: WTF



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I googled the Myers Briggs.

No surprises - another INTJ

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And I was about to look up the "WTF" type.

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Forum Name: Disconnected
Real Name: Marc
Sex: M
Age: 38
Job: Software development
Education level: BA Economics
Living arrangement: House in the burbs with wife and two kids (6 and 4).
Other hobbies: Golf (does obession = hobby?), tennis, snowboarding. Used to read and play guitar a lot more.
A little about your signifigant other: Former elementary school teacher, now stays home with the kids and helps out in their schools a lot. Went to college on a tennis scholarship, and is a pretty good golfer despite only playing a few times a year.
Something about you that continually surprises people when they hear it: That I'm smart? I don't know, that one's kind of dated -- I hung out with the "wrong" crowd in my school days. Nowadays, I don't think I'm too surprising.
Where you want to be in 5 years: Not sure about 5. In 10 or 15, I want to be caddying for my daughter on the LPGA.
Myers-Briggs Personality: INTP

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Forum Name: McGahee
Real Name: Mark
Sex: M
Age: 25
Job: Billing Coordinator
Education level: Bachelor's (Economics)
Living arrangement: Studio by myself
Other hobbies: watch football, drink, jerk off
A little about your signifigant other: significant other? There's a reason I list "jerking off" as a hobby.
Something about you that continually surprises people when they hear it: - I'm pretty friendly.
Where you want to be in 5 years: - with a hot chick and making dough.
Myers-Briggs Personality: ISTP

Interesting how many introverts there are - definitely a higher percentage than the general population.

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Forum Name: Brain
Real Name: Brian
Sex: M
Age: 25
Job: chemist
Education level: BA Chemistry, I'll be done with my masters in December
Living arrangement: 1BR apartment w/me and myself
Other hobbies: volleyball, drinking, crossword puzzles
A little about your significant other: Let me know if you find one for me
Something about you that continually surprises people when they hear it: That I work for a cosmetics company
Where you want to be in 5 years: not sure, but probably anywhere but New Jersey
Myers-Briggs Personality: not sure, but I've done it before and INTJ sounds familiar

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Forum Name: McGahee
Real Name: Mark
Sex: M
Age: 25
Job: Billing Coordinator
Education level: Bachelor's (Economics)
Living arrangement: Studio by myself
Other hobbies: watch football, drink, jerk off
A little about your signifigant other: significant other? There's a reason I list "jerking off" as a hobby.
Something about you that continually surprises people when they hear it: - I'm pretty friendly.
Where you want to be in 5 years: - with a hot chick and making dough.
Myers-Briggs Personality: ISTP

Interesting how many introverts there are - definitely a higher percentage than the general population.

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also INTJ's, don't they make up <5% of the population? something like that

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Forum Name: Hotdog
Real Name: Pat Casey
Sex: Male
Age: 34
Job: Manager
Education level: BS
Living arrangement: Own a house
Other hobbies: Travel, Football, Reading
A little about your signifigant other: Cool enough to let me play poker too much of the time.
Something about you that continually surprises people when they hear it: Single Father
Where you want to be in 5 years: Not sure
Myers-Briggs Personality: Don't know

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Forum Name: Nick Papageorgio
Real Name: Sean
Sex: Male
Age: 28
Job: Loan Officer
Education level: B.A.-Economics
Living arrangement: I live in a 2 bedroom apartment in Newport Beach, CA with my cousin. I lived in Vegas for a year and am torn over whether or not I want to go back.
Other hobbies: I used to play guitar a lot but have really been focusing on poker lately.
A little about your signifigant other: I'm so lonely
Where you want to be in 5 years: At a Gambler's Annonymous meeting or sitting at the final table of the Main Event. Either will do just fine.

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Forum Name:aces_dad
Real Name:Frank
Sex:M
Age:29
Job:Electrical Engineer for Software Co.
Education level:BSEE - we put the EE in geek
Living arrangement: First New Home as of one month!
Other hobbies:Golf, basketball, camping
A little about your signifigant other:She thinks I spend too much time on 2+2
Something about you that continually surprises people when they hear it: Hmm, not sure ...
Where you want to be in 5 years: Playing with my children
Myers-Briggs Personality: ESTJ

Surprised to see Extrovert as I am somewhat reserved, perhaps the free google test wasn't accurate. I do enjoy spending time with my friends though.

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Disconnected,

Whenever I look at your Avatar, I don't know why, but I see a Wookie head.

It took me ages to realise it wasn't one.

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I am also a INTJ

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This seems like as good of a place to bring this up as any: let's talk about 'gregatron.'

Does this sound like it was an unsuccessfully self-imposed social circle nickname to anyone else, or is it just me?

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Just took it again, and I'm still ISTJ. It's close, though. I used this test.

Introverted (I) 51.11% Extroverted (E) 48.89%
Sensing (S) 56.41% Intuitive (N) 43.59%
Thinking (T) 52.63% Feeling (F) 47.37%
Judging (J) 69.44% Perceiving (P) 30.56%

Only Judging is clear. Anyone else have results like this?

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Yeah it does.

Still, the transformers kick much arse.

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This seems like as good of a place to bring this up as any: let's talk about 'gregatron.'

Does this sound like it was an unsuccessfully self-imposed social circle nickname to anyone else, or is it just me?

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when i think of gregatron, all that goes through my mind is the old transformers my little brother used to play with back in the 80's. [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]

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Where you want to be in 5 years: Not sure about 5. In 10 or 15, I want to be caddying for my daughter on the LPGA.

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hope to see you there. My daughter has her first tournament this sunday. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

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I am also a INTJ

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Just took it again, and I'm still ISTJ. It's close, though. I used this test.


Introverted (I) 51.11% Extroverted (E) 48.89%
Sensing (S) 56.41% Intuitive (N) 43.59%
Thinking (T) 52.63% Feeling (F) 47.37%
Judging (J) 69.44% Perceiving (P) 30.56%

Only Judging is clear. Anyone else have results like this?

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I was also an ISTJ...not sure about the %s, though. Maybe a math thing? I'm a little surprised about how many of us math dudes are here (I very rarely run into someone who also has a degree in mathematics)

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Your avatar always brings me back to the fondness of my youth watching those cheesy but awesome holiday season claymation shows! Thank you!

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Disconnected,

Whenever I look at your Avatar, I don't know why, but I see a Wookie head.

It took me ages to realise it wasn't one.

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It's related to an old hobby of mine. Probably could have used that one as a surprise considering my life these days....been to over 200 Grateful Dead concerts.

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Where you want to be in 5 years: Not sure about 5. In 10 or 15, I want to be caddying for my daughter on the LPGA.

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hope to see you there. My daughter has her first tournament this sunday. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

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Awesome, good luck! [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

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Job: Student at Wake Forest Universtity

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Weak.

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A little about your signifigant other: We've dated 3 years, she goes to Duke.


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Dump her immediately.