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Airship Ballet

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  1. What interests the hell out of me bores others to death.

     

    You just haven't found the right people to talk to yet! It's difficult to bore me in conversation anyway, as you can probably tell; I'm very aware that a lot of the forums on the front page were last posted in by me...

     

    I know a few people who've never stepped off their rock of birth, even as briefly as that =P

  2. Now public speaking on the other hand, I'm one of the rare ones that doesn't mind it.

     

    Yeah, I don't mind it at all once I start. Beforehand I'm stressed for days, which is why I dislike it. I'm fine with speaking in huge crowds, too, which is odd. I once had to fill in for the violinist of the uni's nerdy vidya orchestra, didn't so much as jitter while playing in front of the entire music festival's crowd. I used to get really nervous about oral exams though. It'd be horrible knowing I was about to step into what was pretty much a broom closet with a native speaker and have to look them in the eye while butchering their poor beautiful language.

     

    As for Spanish, I'm not a huge fan. Something about the way it's spoken and sounds, I think it sounds really graceless. I was just lucky to have an interest in other cultures planted in me when I was young, so I ended up renting out books on other languages before I hit 10. Some people don't care for some subjects, and languages are difficult to learn. I couldn't stand another minute of math once it started veering towards being applicable to engineering and the like. Confusing and rarely applicable? No thanks!

     

    I am a total beast at Dr Kawashima's arithmetic tests though.

  3. What do you do..?

     

    I'm a network manager at a hospital. Technically I'm only supposed to keep check on people working network security but they lumped IT support in with us. I'm supposedly the manager but I do as much legwork as anybody else. I get called out as well as having to keep records and accounts. It's infuriating how many people don't know how to use a computer, but will no doubt have claimed they do or have taken a Microsoft Office course in University so they could be called qualified. I get pretty moody when I have to think about how surprisingly elitist medical school graduates can be when talking to IT dorks, and even more irritated by data entry jobbers who act just as entitled. The I.T. Crowd got a lot of things right =P

     

    I'm also a part-time QA tester but I'm not allowed to speak about that so I won't because I could be taken away by men in black.

  4. That almost definitely comes from speaking German. It's the same as Swedish in that it's a very blocky language, spoken quite haltingly. French and Finnish do just merge together into sentence-long words. I feel sorry for people who try to learn either through just listening.

  5. Life without enemies is a life without enjoyment.

     

    More like a life with false friends you tolerate is a life full of misanthropy.

     

    Don't worry, you didn't make any mistakes that actually matter, it's just you have the air of a foreign speaker about you. It can't really be removed without living in a country that speaks it. I was only making sure you're not one of the elitist types who gets off on correcting others. I hate it when people do that; it made learning the language that bit more of a struggle.

     

    But welcome, anyway! If you're as talented as you say I'm sure people will find you a great help.

  6. I can welcome you as far as my relatively short membership would allow (I'm sure I've made enemies already). You certainly seem capable, but a portfolio is always handy to hand out to people as you need. Again I have no dealings with anything like that, so essentially ignore me.

     

    if you make mistakes, then I REALLY HOPE you don't mind me poking you and telling you how to fix it, or just to fix it.

     

    You have plenty of little mistakes in your own post, I'm afraid. I really do take exception to those who pick out grammatical errors when talking in an informal context like this. If it's a professional production such as a book, a game or a mission briefing, it's fine to correct them there because the creator no doubt wants to make a good impression anyway. English isn't everybody's first language, and I'd venture as far as to say it isn't yours either. Some people try very hard to fit in and speak English as fluently as they can, often without teaching, so if you're intentionally going around correcting people making an effort, boo to you. This only applies if you're the type to reply to people with one-word corrections with an asterisk. It's a pet peeve.

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  7. Hehe, I was lucky enough to grow up in Finland so the learning wasn't really a conscious process. I'm sure things would be different if I tried to learn it as an outsider. French is actually the easiest of any I learned, very formulaic once you learn the basics, and its etymology is fairly well-behaved compared to some. I did go through my optional language classes in Uni with people who struggled to retain the information but were really charismatic with presentations and the like. I was the opposite... really terrible at public speaking. Still, it's nice to go missed ^^

  8. Ты говоришь по русски? Oder nur Deutsch? Jag talar liten Svenska.

     

    да, ja, och lite svenska är nog! Auch Dänisch, Norwegisch und Französisch, Finnisch natürlich auch. German is my weakest... =P

     

    I wanted to be a linguist when I was young, maybe an interpreter or something. I lost the job ambition but kept the interest in foreign languages through university ^^

     

    @RJ Foreign languages aren't necessary for all walks of life =P

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  9. Well, you do have been around a lot, I must say.

     

    It's mostly backpacking with the few close friends I've kept over the years. It simply means being allowed to go wherever you want in a city without having to get back to a bus or anything like that. That said, we pretty much only went around Germany, France, Scandinavia and Russia. I've never been anywhere else, actually, maybe just because I find them the most interesting in terms of history and culture. That, and they speak languages I learned growing up.

     

    Meissen-Altstadt2.jpg

     

    It was these kinds of streets I had in mind too. They're built similarly but have lovely dressings, trims and facades and can obviously afford a sorcerer of some sort to conjure awesome weather. Whitby is the Everyman's Meissen, let's say =P

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    These three view especially look almost exactly like my birth town Meissen (Germany). It's fascinating how alike those old medieval cities were, even after all those modern-day renovations and such.

     

    I went through Meissen when I was backpacking from Berlin to Dresden and back. It was a wonderful place, but a lot more grandiose in places. It's far more interesting than Whitby, but less quaint I found. German architecture usually is really impressive though =P

     

    @ Airship Ballet:

    I my early days of mapping I did try to re-create the Whitby Abbey in an attempt to learn how patches worked and how to create fancy archways.

     

    Oh wow, that's awesome! =P It would've been great to take that and then try to rebuild it into its former glory.

     

    Now I know where you live Merry, I'm coming to get you...

    Google spiders this forum.

     

    While that used to be an issue, it doesn't really matter anymore. That's not because personal details don't still give things away, but rather because there are a ton of things people can do without them. With just your IP and email addresses, people can find out where you live, where your family lives, how much rent you pay, who your landlord is, where you went to school, where you work etc etc. Besides, you'll end up putting all that on the internet just networking for a job. It's pretty much inevitable nowadays but it's only ever used for targeted advertising. It's unfortunate, but trivial information unless it's police trying to arrest you, or unless you have a Thief somewhere with a personal vendetta.

     

    On another note

     

    if not your welcome to go pillion.

     

    I'm probably short enough to go piggy-back, but don't quite feel worthy of such an awesome bike...

  11. *wants to play in an MC Escher level now, there was an MC Escher house built in Second Life that was fun to romp around in.

     

    Oh Second Life... you meant well...

     

    @Biker Nothing right now and for the foreseeable future. I'm chronically ill, so much so that I had to re-take perception tests and the like and failed too many. I was technically allowed to keep going but didn't want to risk it. I was just starting to bike on the roads here when I had to re-take them, which is a shame. I've got a Honda CBR sitting in my garage waiting to be sold on should I end up in dire straits.

     

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    ignore me sitting there it's the only photo I have

  12. Bristol was quite nice while I was there, I'd recommend visiting

     

    Aye, it's always looked like a nice place. When I visit a city it's usually with friends to visit galleries/museums and shop, prioritised in that order. Prettiness factors into whether or not we eat outdoors =P

     

    multi-dimensional shack.

     

    It's bigger on the inside :o

     

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