A short introduction

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A short introduction

Postby MrSpockSD » Wed Dec 23, 2009 5:11 am

Hi, folks. My name is Frank (or MrSpock, because of my ears and my dream). I have started programming in 1984 and I work as a software developer now. I am both an old-school programmer (started with Pascal) and a new one (a child of the Internet era HTML, PHP) at the same time. I have basically lost a decade in the programming world. Losing the nineties is not as bad as it seems; I skipped the Windows era ;-)

My dream in life is to develop affordable space travel and space tourism. As a result I also love collecting space related photos. One of own personal problems is that I tend to become an expert of a subject very quickly, so I have to keep changing subject often in order to stay sufficiently ignorant :-) This is why I am interested in many topics and many languages. Fortunately space travel has so far proven to be so complex that it will keep my attention for a long time :-)

I'm usually more of just a lurker on the net but I'll chime in when I feel I need to, looking forward to meeting everyone and being a part of the community! Well I won't bore you guys and girls any longer, see you all around!
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Re: A short introduction

Postby Mikethehack » Wed Dec 23, 2009 6:02 am

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Re: A short introduction

Postby Kurt » Wed Dec 23, 2009 11:11 am

Well, then you are our first "Space Tourist" themed poster.

Keep it up and make us cutting edge because we kinda suck in Coolville.
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Re: A short introduction

Postby Kurt » Wed Dec 23, 2009 11:19 am

He is a spammer!

Amazing. It was just coincidence that he posted a space tourism post to a danger tourism site and I fell for it.

Kind of cool and scary that bots can be like this.
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Re: A short introduction

Postby coldharvest » Wed Dec 23, 2009 11:34 am

Kurt wrote:He is a spammer!

Amazing. It was just coincidence that he posted a space tourism post to a danger tourism site and I fell for it.

Kind of cool and scary that bots can be like this.

He failed the coldharvest test right away.
Hi, folks. My name is Frank (or MrSpock, because of my ears and my dream). I have started programming in 1984 and I work as a software developer now. I am both an old-school programmer (started with Pascal) and a new one (a child of the Internet era HTML, PHP) at the same time. I have basically lost a decade in the programming world. Losing the nineties is not as bad as it seems; I skipped the Windows era ;-)

No one is that charming/creepy/informative about nothing with their first post.
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Re: A short introduction

Postby vagabond » Wed Dec 23, 2009 8:38 pm

Kurt wrote:He is a spammer!

Amazing. It was just coincidence that he posted a space tourism post to a danger tourism site and I fell for it.

Kind of cool and scary that bots can be like this.


You sure it was a bot and not an Injun?
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Re: A short introduction

Postby Chimborazo » Wed Dec 23, 2009 10:16 pm

vagabond wrote:
Kurt wrote:He is a spammer!

Amazing. It was just coincidence that he posted a space tourism post to a danger tourism site and I fell for it.

Kind of cool and scary that bots can be like this.


You sure it was a bot and not an Injun?


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Re: A short introduction

Postby Michael » Fri Dec 25, 2009 12:09 am

Kurt wrote:He is a spammer!

Amazing. It was just coincidence that he posted a space tourism post to a danger tourism site and I fell for it.

Kind of cool and scary that bots can be like this.

Damn! I was going to try and interest him in some real estate outside of Mojave, California as an investment in the future site of private space exploration. I'll have to wait for another chump, er, "visionary."
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