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rancored_elf
Daron
Vancouver, Canada
31M
2 boys
Psychiatric Nurse
AIM: rancoredelf
MSN: n/a
Email: drutter(at)hotmail(dot)com
Interests: Magic, frisbee-golf, weightlifting/fitness, finances.
Other: My favourite movie is Fifth Element and my favourite Magic cards are Fecundity, Greater Good, Gaea's Cradle, and Priest of Titania. I've been playing Magic since Mirage was Type 2 and I've been a member of The Called since it was formed in 2001.
jonnyjonski
Jon
The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, MD
age - 35
gender - Dude
marital status - Yes and happily!
children - 3 (Boy 11, Boy 9, Girl 7)
occupation - Turd Herder
aim sn - jonnyjonski
msn sn - jonnyjonski(at)hotmail(dot)com
email - jonnyjonski(at)gmail(dot)com
interests - Magic...(mostly Type 2 but I prefer Extended), Coaching my kids in whatever sport they play, movies, fishing, food, surfing, snowboarding...although the last 2 I haven't done for a while!
I have been playing Magic since early 1994.
The saddest moment in my Magic life was when I sold my Arabian Nights set to pay my mortgage!
My favorite movie is.....hmm.....probably the Indiana Jones Trilogy or the Exorcist.
I have been a CALLED member since....January 2005! In with the class of Rian!!
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Greg
Watertown(home)/Storrs(Uconn), Connecticut
21M
Single
Library Worker (eventually) on Campus. Rite Aid Pharmacy Employee at home.
AIM: overoverme
MSN: n/a
uselessend(at)gmail(dot)com
Interests: Movies, board games, music, magic (depending...)
Other: My favourite movie is Mean Girls and my favourite Magic cards are...I dunno. I've been playing Magic since Mirage was Type 2 and I've been a member of The Called since it was formed in 2001. (I was unable to use VBulletin from Odyssey until pre-Scourge...so there is a gap.)
Cyan
Nick Ernst
Queen Creek(Phoenix Area), AZ
Male, 27 years old
Still essentially married(one day I'll actually marry her, honestly)
3 daughters: Athena(Age: almost 8), Faith(Age: 6), Serenity(Age: 5)
Work: I'm a Billing Representative at GoDaddy.com. I'm planning to go back to college at the beginning of the summer to work on my Psychology degree.
AIM: Shalafi79
MSN: cyan79(at)gmail(dot)com
cyan79(at)gmail(dot)com
Interests: All sorts. Chess, poker, Magic of course. Movies, good food, women, books, art. The Called. I've been playing Magic since just after 4th Edition and Ice Age were released, though I didn't play at all during Urza/Masques or Masques/Invasion.
Binary Dragon
Name: Mike Fenwick
Age: 21M
Location: Tucson, Arizona
Eyes: Brown
Hair: Dark Brown
Maritial Status: Single
Children: None, but I want four eventually
Occupation: College undergraduate, majoring in Physics and mathematics.
AIM: Quantum Draco
MSN: binarydragon at hotmail dot com
email: binarydragon at gmail dot com
Favorite Movie: Garden State
Pets: A dog, Orion, and a cat, Lea, back at home, and three fish, Vela, Volans, and Fornax, with me in Tucson.
About Me: I'm a geek, I'm addicted to puns, and always up for having fun. I'm thoroughly addicted to mint (spearmint in particular) and hot chocolate (which I devour by the liter, usually with fresh spearmint leaves in it.) I'm a sucker for a good love story, even moreso if it's in the middle of a great action sequence. The two things I value most are friendship and knowledge, as you could never have enough of either. I also seem to be the only person who feels deprived by having to live on a planet with only a single moon. If there are any more of you out there, tell me so I can know I'm not alone.
Playing Magic since: Exodus
rianalnn
Name: Brian
Location: Adelaide, South Australia, OZ
D.o.B.: 25 April 1977
Gender: Male
Eyes: Green
Hair: Brown
Marital status: 7 years + counting
Children: 0
Occupation: Artist, Confectioner
email: shirgold(at)hotmail.com
Interests: Coffee, Magic, Travel, Art, Witches, Silly
My (sister's) pet: Mustafa "Sooty" Biscuit, giant schnauzer
Fav Magic card: Gaea's Blessing
Playing since: Legends
Collected since: the Dark
Daggertooth
Chris
Las Vegas, Nevada
Age: 23
Marital Status: single
Kids: none
Job: Arbys, student, National Geographic photographer, Global Trekker
AIM: SFB SPEEDY
MSN: Chris_Bernau(at)hotmail(dot)com
Email: Chris_Bernau(at)hotmail(dot)com
Interests: photography, hiking
Other:
Silent Prophet
Name: Christopher, or AL, as everyone has taken to calling me.
Location: Lewistown, Pennsylvania
Age: 23
Gender: Male
Eyes: Blue, I think
Hair: Dark Blonde
Marital status: single, although probably not for long
Children: 0, but definately want some someday
Occupation: Babysitter, but I don't get paid
AIM sn: cleansingraynepa
msn sn: cleansing_rayne(at)yahoo(dot)com
email: cleansing_rayne(at)yahoo(dot)com
Interests: Magic, writing, mission trips (really have to take another one), I dunno, I'll update this later, my mind isn't functioning correctly.
My pet: Spook, an eyeless dog
Fav Magic card: Fireblast, I guess
Playing since: Mirage
RUBRDUX
Dave
Nashville, TN
27M
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Blonde
Marital Status: Single... why, you want a piece?
Kids: 0
Job: Manager of an Auto Body Shop
AIM: rubrduxdave
MSN: n/a
Email: rubrdux(at)comcast(dot)net
Interests: Magic, women, partying, creating cards, movies ..and all the other crap that makes people happy.
Pets: 4x cats; Cotton, Sidney, Simon and Tux
Other: Started around Unlimited and quit during Homelands (Can you blame me?) Started again during Mercadian Masques and have been going strong since.
Zigathon
St. Cloud, Minnesota
25M
Marital Status: single
Kids: 0
Job: Parking Lot Attendant; Writer
Yahoo: Kingnerd420
AIM: Zigathon420
MSN: zigathon420(at)aim(dot)com
Email: zigathon420(at)aim(dot)com
Interests: Magic: The Gathering, Video games, All forms of Art, RPG/strategy games, Intelligent conversation, Free-thinking, Drinking booze, Writing, And being a recluse.
InfinityCubed
Name: Robert Hunnicutt
Location: Houston, TX
Age: 23
Marital Status: Happily with someone for over 6 years
J-O-B: Hewlett-Packard Credit Issuance
AIM: LigerZeroIX
MSN: silvus(at)hotmail(dot)com
Email: silvus(at)hotmail(dot)com
Interests: Magic, Yu-Gi-Oh!, Vs. System, mafia, WoW, MWS.
Other: In Concurring with theme, my favorite movie is too hard to choose, but I like most slapstick comedy and action
HKKID
Name: I prefer "God" or "Master", although I will answer to HKKID (or varients thereof) as well as Travis.
Location: I move alot, but generally it's near Seattle, Wa
Age: 22
Marital Status: Very single, and very desperate. very desperate
Work: Seasonal. I work for a Kayak Shop and a Ski School seasonally, and grade/tutor physics and math during the school year.
AIM: mtghkkid
MSN: H_K_K_I_D(at)hotmail(dot)com
E-mail: TravisJW(at)gmail(dot)com <== (Best way to contact me)
Interests: all that stuff I talk about doing in the clan thread.
Other: I'm trying to quit playing magic. I'm flunking at it.
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I'd stick around to rip BD's latest web-comic (Bra-Kets... I mean seriously...) but I just posted on the old thread. So POST you ninnies. Oh yeah, and do something immature and illegal. If at least one called member (probably me) doesn't get arrested over Christmas Break... I'ma gonna throw me a fit.
Ohh neighbors just walked past my window carrying a 1.75 L of Tanqueray. It's Martini time.
I was told today that this kid on my team called 911 twice this morning and hung up both times. They called back and his dad answered. The reason the kid called 911? He got an erection and didn't know what to do. I wish I was making this up.
Hey HKKID, I think you forgot someone's profile. Hint: Look in a mirror.
Also, Lil' Akroma is no longer in the clan.
And just for the hell of it, here's my updated bio:
Zigathon
St. Cloud, Minnesota
25M
Marital Status: single
Kids: 0
Job: Parking Lot Attendant; Writer
Yahoo: Kingnerd420
AIM: Zigathon420
MSN: zigathon420(at)aim(dot)com
Email: zigathon420(at)aim(dot)com
Interests: Magic: The Gathering, Video games, All forms of Art, RPG/strategy games, Intelligent conversation, Free-thinking, Drinking booze, Writing, And being a recluse.
You know something weird? I just looked up the word "recluse" (to make sure I used it correctly in a sentence) and discovered this:
Recluse; Noun: One who lives in solitude.
Synonyms: Troglodyte; Noun: One who lives in solitude.
So, does this make me a troglodyte? And if so, why in a lot of fantasy games do you fight several troglodytes at once? That defies the very intention of the word, doesn't it?
Wellllllllllllllll the profile looks fine, thanks Travis. But you need to get yourself on there. Also, the thread title is cool, although "nipples" is so 2004. Which reminds me, a good thread title might be something like:
[Called] since 2001
Anyhow. I don't really know what to post about. Maybe if someone came up with a topic. Preferrably something we haven't covered too recently.
EDIT: Also, I believe Brian has 0.2 children now, not 0.
Here is a topic of conversation that no one has touched upon in some time....or ever...I'm not sure!
So I drive 38 miles to work everyday. It is along a major highway...I-95 which is the main artery (north-south) on the east coast. I get on the road between 6:00 am and 6:15 am. If I leave my house any later it adds 15 minutes onto my commute. It usually takes me 45-50 minutes each way.
Here is my gripe.....how hard is it to stay on the road? I mean really....everyone is going the same direction....relatively the same speed...the road isn't all curvey or anything...so what's the deal!?!?
I'll tell you what it is....Cell phones and cigarettes! Everyday I get attacked by butts flying down the road at 65 mph. When did it become ok for people to throw them out the window? When I was young...my parents were sokers and they would ALWAYS use the ashtray. Granted...they would empty it in some random parking lot sometimes but they wouldn't throw them out the window. It is almost standard practice for today's drivers. Why is that? I know some of you guys smoke...please tell me. Smokers also seem to zone out when they smoke...especially right after they light up.....it kills me. But where that is bad...it's when they pick up a cell phone at 70 mph that makes me go nuts! They've got a butt in one hand and a phone in the other.....I told you guys about the lady I saw driving one day didn't I? She had a smoke and coffee in one hand...her phone in the other, and a dog on her lap and was driving with her knees!?!?:eek:
Well...I better start working...but that is my rant for the day!:swear:
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"Talkin outta turn....That's a paddlin'. Starin' at my sandals....That's a paddlin'. Paddlin' the school canoe....You better believe that's a paddlin'!" --Jasper
* HKKID reads Jonny's post and cringes in almost genuine shame
* HKKID bought an electric razor about a year ago, just so he could shave in the car.
I mean umm yeah, go Jonny. *shrugs* It's really an alertness thing. As long as the driver is paying attention to the road I don't care what the hell else is going on. Well, unless it involves nudity. Even then though, I only care because that will make ME not pay attention to the road :p.
Ugh... another final in 73 minutes. I hate finals week... Heh, if my brain was functioning correctly I'd even think up something funny to say about how it's gotta be against some religious code to put students through hell right before we all go home to celebrate god's birthday :p. Instead it's just ironic.
*Edit* Updated Ziggs and my profile, deleted Akroma's. Also too the (currently in japan) out of daggs.
*Edit 2* Just noticed that Tom is still in invisible mode and viewing the old thread. That's kinda funny actually.
I was told today that this kid on my team called 911 twice this morning and hung up both times. They called back and his dad answered. The reason the kid called 911? He got an erection and didn't know what to do. I wish I was making this up.
Uhh, its really really cold in my dorm room.
Our windows are weak insulators.
I have been playing Zelda:TP, FFXII, Bookworm Adventures (lol), and will soon return to playing WoW over my winter break.
I am not a very productive one.
Applying to grad school is looming, and I am quite afraid of the entire process. I may be near to missing the boat entirely.
And I agree, the nipples thing is old hat.
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I'm wearing an old hat? I guess when you are driving to work in the morning and you've left in time to get there on time adn you end up an hour late!! And I guess my gripe is....who the hell are you talking to at 6:12 in the morning!?!?!
Funny on the nudity note though....is this guys fist day on the job with me...and we were driving back to the office on teh highway and I pointed to the car on his side of the road and up from the guy's lap comes this chicks head!! She wipes her mouth and gives us a little grin...it was awesome!! That was the guys first day...and I think his best!:p
Actually...before I moved that far away from work...I thought about getting an electric razor for the same reason. I bet you don't have a dog on your lap though!:rolleyes:
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"Talkin outta turn....That's a paddlin'. Starin' at my sandals....That's a paddlin'. Paddlin' the school canoe....You better believe that's a paddlin'!" --Jasper
@jj...I think that's one thing that everybody experiences sees at least once in their lifetime. Same thing happened to me when I had my paper route. I think I was, like, 12. ****ty part about it, though... she considered me seeing as my Christmas tip.:-/
I've been the recipient of that sort of thing but never seen it happening to someone else!
It was hilarious!
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"Talkin outta turn....That's a paddlin'. Starin' at my sandals....That's a paddlin'. Paddlin' the school canoe....You better believe that's a paddlin'!" --Jasper
JJ, it may be because cars these days don't have ashtrays built into the dash anymore. Because people are inherently lazy, they don't buy an ashtray for the car, they just toss it all out the window.
I've four finals to take spread across this Friday, next Tuesday, and next Friday. It's going to highly suck, but after the 15th, it will all be over!
"I want to be a complete nerd with extra nerd sauce on top. I'm a nerd. Infinite nerd!"
-rancored_elf
:teach:If you torture data sufficiently, it will confess to almost anything.:teach:
-Fred Menger
Fleeting is this world
Growth and decay its very nature
Things spring to being and again they cease
Happy the marvel of them and the peace.
-Nidana Vagga
Cyan
Nick Ernst
Queen Creek(Phoenix Area), AZ
Male, 27 years old
Still essentially married(one day I'll actually marry her, honestly)
3 daughters: Athena(Age: almost 8), Faith(Age: 6), Serenity(Age: 5)
Work: I'm a Billing Representative at GoDaddy.com. I'm planning to go back to college at the beginning of the summer to work on my Psychology degree.
AIM: Shalafi79
MSN: cyan79(at)gmail(dot)com
cyan79(at)gmail(dot)com
Interests: All sorts. Chess, poker, Magic of course. Movies, good food, women, books, art. The Called. I've been playing Magic since just after 4th Edition and Ice Age were released, though I didn't play at all during Urza/Masques or Masques/Invasion.
Yeah, throwing butts out the window is really lame. I guess it's just so common that it becomes "okay", but if you think about it, it's not. If someone from another planet (one without tobacco) was here, how would you explain that? "Oh, sometimes we throw little bits of garbage out our road-vehicle windows while we're speeding around. And they're burning. Little sparks fly off, sometimes we start forest fires this way, sometimes people get burned, sometimes road-vehicles get a little damaged. And the bits of garbage smolder for a while and then just sit there piled up on the side of the road and in ditches and streams. Sometimes people are hired to put them into garbage bags. It's illegal to throw a gum wrapper out the window, though."
driving back to the office on teh highway and I pointed to the car on his side of the road and up from the guy's lap comes this chicks head!! She wipes her mouth and gives us a little grin...
I thought about getting an electric razor for the same reason. I bet you don't have a dog on your lap though!
Was she that ugly? Maybe she's so ugly, he can't have sex with her. Instead, he puts her in the car, goes for a drive on the highway, and pushes her head down there. 20 minutes and 3 exits later, he's on the way back home, where he puts the bag back over her head and sends her to the kitchen to make breakfast.
Was she that ugly? Maybe she's so ugly, he can't have sex with her. Instead, he puts her in the car, goes for a drive on the highway, and pushes her head down there. 20 minutes and 3 exits later, he's on the way back home, where he puts the bag back over her head and sends her to the kitchen to make breakfast.
And there's something worng with this....why? A little head...free breakfast cooked for you....all you need to do is drive 20 miles? Sign me up!!!:D
And no...she was actaully quite attractive. And Daron...I think you hit the nail on the head there....I try to equate it to about the size of a Trident gum wrapper. 300 Billion are smoked in the US alone each year....say one-third of those are thrown on the ground or out the window in some way or another. That's 100 billion little gum wrappers.....and that isn't littering? Look...I realize people smoke...and to throw a burning ember into a trash cna would be foolish....but come on! My dad does it...and it drives me crazy! I yell at him everytime but I know he still does it when I'm not around! I do my best though....I also run people off the road when they hit my car with them!!
Well...not really, but I honk and flip them the bird. I've thought about getting in front of them and throwing a bottle out the window at them.:D
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"Talkin outta turn....That's a paddlin'. Starin' at my sandals....That's a paddlin'. Paddlin' the school canoe....You better believe that's a paddlin'!" --Jasper
So... It's all about editing your last post in the old thread with the link instead of double posting so that it doesn't pop back up in my subscriptions, then making me think that noone's posted in 2 days. SHAME ON YOU actually shame on me for not manually looking.
Anywho, I guess since we're updating profiles at Travis' expense I'll go ahead and update mine.
InfinityCubed
Name: Robert Hunnicutt
Location: Houston, TX
Age: 23
Marital Status: Happily with someone for over 6 years
J-O-B: Hewlett-Packard Credit Issuance
AIM: LigerZeroIX
MSN: silvus(at)hotmail(dot)com
Email: silvus(at)hotmail(dot)com
Interests: Magic, Yu-Gi-Oh!, Vs. System, mafia, WoW, MWS.
Other: In Concurring with theme, my favorite movie is too hard to choose, but I like most slapstick comedy and action.
JJ: Also if you use the ashtray in the car it depreciates the car value when you trade it in, also would be harder to sell if you couldn't convince someone you didn't smoke in there. I also hate people that throw cigarettes out the window, almost as much as I hate people that need to turn right but don't wait in the right lane like everyone else, they speed all the way up until they almost get to the light, then stop traffic in that lane as they try to get over. I mean I can understand if you haven't driven that way before and realize you need to turn a bit late, but taking the same way every morning you start seeing the same people doing it over and over again and it makes me want to RIP SOMEONES HEAD OFF.
I'd also like to throw a "damn you!" out to Brian, Chris, and Nick for getting me addicted to mafia. What can I say, i'm a sucker for mind games, and it's nice to see a game every once in a while that actually requires your brain and not just mindless droning.
Been playing a decent amount of WoW lately, and with the expansion coming out, looks to get even better. Played Guitar Hero 2 last night for the first time. It was pretty fun, I tore up some "Killing in the name of"
I suppose that's all for now, glad to know everyone didn't die in a forest fire from a cigarette
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"Nipples" are only 2004 to Daron, because daily he has been playing with his own since then. SMAK!
HKKID - I like your observation on my card. The main reason I made it rare is because Regeneration was bumped up to an uncommon in 9th. R&D believes regenerating is underrated. I think I may agree. I also would like to point out again that it regenerates permanents, not just creatures. At it would be much more playable though. So how about:
Revivify -
Instant (R)
Regenerate target permanent.
Draw a card.
It's funny that R&D keeps saying they want to make regeneration more useful and more played, and one of the ways they're doing this is to reduce the number of "destroy target creature" cards that also say "it can't be regenerated". But they're also making regeneration more rare, so go figure!
What can I say, i'm a sucker for mind games, and it's nice to see a game every once in a while that actually requires your brain and not just mindless droning.
Been playing a decent amount of WoW lately...
Emphasis mine. I just felt like pointing out the inherent irony in those statements.
Good, and yourself? Just watched Survivor, CSI, and ER... my Thursday night addiction. Actually it's the only night of the week I watch TV. That's only partially because I don't have access to a TV the rest of the week.
Instead of studying, I just spent the last bit of time figuring out what I need in each final to get particular grades in each class.
Proofs Phil E&M Quantum
A 90 90 -- 85 A
B 70 50 -- 40 B
C 50 10 69 0 C
D 30 -- 29 -- D
E 10 -- 0 -- E
As usual, I'm on the edge of an A in all my classes (save for E&M, which is the worst class I have ever taken.) Basically, I need an A on the finals to get an A in the classes. And like usual, I expect to get 88% on all the finals (83% in quantum, where an 85% is the cutoff for an A) and end up with the highest B in the class.
* Binary Dragon Goes off to "study" for his proofs final in 8 hours, but really instead he's going to just rant because his school doesn't have a +/- system and that's screwed him out of nearly 0.25 on his GPA
"I want to be a complete nerd with extra nerd sauce on top. I'm a nerd. Infinite nerd!"
-rancored_elf
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-Fred Menger
Fleeting is this world
Growth and decay its very nature
Things spring to being and again they cease
Happy the marvel of them and the peace.
-Nidana Vagga
Just skimmed to catch up, I'll edit for content, but I just want to say that here in BUSHFIRE country, when we're having the worst drought since they started recording rainfall, getting caught tossing a butt out the window will get you beaten to death in short order.
I'd also like to throw a "damn you!" out to Brian, Chris, and Nick for getting me addicted to mafia. What can I say, i'm a sucker for mind games, and it's nice to see a game every once in a while that actually requires your brain and not just mindless droning.
I dunno, I'm seeing a lot of mindless droning at the moment. Did you get into a game finally?
Cyan, SP, did you guys play before I did? I started when the chop forum@MT died off, + I remember explaining to the clan a couple of times.
Yeah. It's basically an orally transmitted disease. I just got mobbed to death because my rolename was revealed - Sweet, the demon from the Buffy Musical Episode Once More With Feeling. . . town, even.
A Scanner Darkly was good, nearly as good as the book. Watch Waking Life too, while you're at it.
meh...I started with mafia in Newb 8, it hink, on here. The funny thing is, though. Everyone always says that Cyan is scum. I have three completed games with him. I've started two games and replaced into one. Out of those 3 games, he was scum exactly once.:p
Anyways, my sister and brother-in-law are going out this Saturday night, and since I'm the only person they know who NEVER has plans on a Saturday night...I get to babysit for them. It could be untill 12...it could be until 2...they don't even know yet. I've gone almost 15 months without having to change Alyssa's diaper. Looks like that streak is going to end.:crying:
~edit~ I woke up today and my left nipple was killing me. It still is, in fact. It feels like someone scratched it or something. It does make sense, though. In my dream, I dreamt that someone bit it. That must have been when I scratched it in my sleep or something.
Not here, but I got into 2 games on wifom, and they're...............progressing i guess, one's on night 1 after hitting the deadline (it started in october i'm a replacement) and lynching the person with the most votes. The other one started like last week and it's Loran's Star Wars mafia 2.
Hey, I picked up Neil Gaiman's new collection of short stories, Fragile Things, + it's starts off with a cool Lovecraft/Doyle pastiche A Study in Emerald. Everything in it so far has been really good.
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Link to our last thread:
http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=57739
The CALLED are;
BIOS:
rancored_elf
Daron
Vancouver, Canada
31M
2 boys
Psychiatric Nurse
AIM: rancoredelf
MSN: n/a
Email: drutter(at)hotmail(dot)com
Interests: Magic, frisbee-golf, weightlifting/fitness, finances.
Other: My favourite movie is Fifth Element and my favourite Magic cards are Fecundity, Greater Good, Gaea's Cradle, and Priest of Titania. I've been playing Magic since Mirage was Type 2 and I've been a member of The Called since it was formed in 2001.
jonnyjonski
Jon
The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, MD
age - 35
gender - Dude
marital status - Yes and happily!
children - 3 (Boy 11, Boy 9, Girl 7)
occupation - Turd Herder
aim sn - jonnyjonski
msn sn - jonnyjonski(at)hotmail(dot)com
email - jonnyjonski(at)gmail(dot)com
interests - Magic...(mostly Type 2 but I prefer Extended), Coaching my kids in whatever sport they play, movies, fishing, food, surfing, snowboarding...although the last 2 I haven't done for a while!
I have been playing Magic since early 1994.
The saddest moment in my Magic life was when I sold my Arabian Nights set to pay my mortgage!
My favorite movie is.....hmm.....probably the Indiana Jones Trilogy or the Exorcist.
I have been a CALLED member since....January 2005! In with the class of Rian!!
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Greg
Watertown(home)/Storrs(Uconn), Connecticut
21M
Single
Library Worker (eventually) on Campus. Rite Aid Pharmacy Employee at home.
AIM: overoverme
MSN: n/a
uselessend(at)gmail(dot)com
Interests: Movies, board games, music, magic (depending...)
Other: My favourite movie is Mean Girls and my favourite Magic cards are...I dunno. I've been playing Magic since Mirage was Type 2 and I've been a member of The Called since it was formed in 2001. (I was unable to use VBulletin from Odyssey until pre-Scourge...so there is a gap.)
Cyan
Nick Ernst
Queen Creek(Phoenix Area), AZ
Male, 27 years old
Still essentially married(one day I'll actually marry her, honestly)
3 daughters: Athena(Age: almost 8), Faith(Age: 6), Serenity(Age: 5)
Work: I'm a Billing Representative at GoDaddy.com. I'm planning to go back to college at the beginning of the summer to work on my Psychology degree.
AIM: Shalafi79
MSN: cyan79(at)gmail(dot)com
cyan79(at)gmail(dot)com
Interests: All sorts. Chess, poker, Magic of course. Movies, good food, women, books, art. The Called. I've been playing Magic since just after 4th Edition and Ice Age were released, though I didn't play at all during Urza/Masques or Masques/Invasion.
Binary Dragon
Name: Mike Fenwick
Age: 21M
Location: Tucson, Arizona
Eyes: Brown
Hair: Dark Brown
Maritial Status: Single
Children: None, but I want four eventually
Occupation: College undergraduate, majoring in Physics and mathematics.
AIM: Quantum Draco
MSN: binarydragon at hotmail dot com
email: binarydragon at gmail dot com
Favorite Movie: Garden State
Pets: A dog, Orion, and a cat, Lea, back at home, and three fish, Vela, Volans, and Fornax, with me in Tucson.
About Me: I'm a geek, I'm addicted to puns, and always up for having fun. I'm thoroughly addicted to mint (spearmint in particular) and hot chocolate (which I devour by the liter, usually with fresh spearmint leaves in it.) I'm a sucker for a good love story, even moreso if it's in the middle of a great action sequence. The two things I value most are friendship and knowledge, as you could never have enough of either. I also seem to be the only person who feels deprived by having to live on a planet with only a single moon. If there are any more of you out there, tell me so I can know I'm not alone.
Playing Magic since: Exodus
rianalnn
Name: Brian
Location: Adelaide, South Australia, OZ
D.o.B.: 25 April 1977
Gender: Male
Eyes: Green
Hair: Brown
Marital status: 7 years + counting
Children: 0
Occupation: Artist, Confectioner
email: shirgold(at)hotmail.com
Interests: Coffee, Magic, Travel, Art, Witches, Silly
My (sister's) pet: Mustafa "Sooty" Biscuit, giant schnauzer
Fav Magic card: Gaea's Blessing
Playing since: Legends
Collected since: the Dark
Daggertooth
Chris
Las Vegas, Nevada
Age: 23
Marital Status: single
Kids: none
Job: Arbys, student, National Geographic photographer, Global Trekker
AIM: SFB SPEEDY
MSN: Chris_Bernau(at)hotmail(dot)com
Email: Chris_Bernau(at)hotmail(dot)com
Interests: photography, hiking
Other:
Silent Prophet
Name: Christopher, or AL, as everyone has taken to calling me.
Location: Lewistown, Pennsylvania
Age: 23
Gender: Male
Eyes: Blue, I think
Hair: Dark Blonde
Marital status: single, although probably not for long
Children: 0, but definately want some someday
Occupation: Babysitter, but I don't get paid
AIM sn: cleansingraynepa
msn sn: cleansing_rayne(at)yahoo(dot)com
email: cleansing_rayne(at)yahoo(dot)com
Interests: Magic, writing, mission trips (really have to take another one), I dunno, I'll update this later, my mind isn't functioning correctly.
My pet: Spook, an eyeless dog
Fav Magic card: Fireblast, I guess
Playing since: Mirage
RUBRDUX
Dave
Nashville, TN
27M
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Blonde
Marital Status: Single... why, you want a piece?
Kids: 0
Job: Manager of an Auto Body Shop
AIM: rubrduxdave
MSN: n/a
Email: rubrdux(at)comcast(dot)net
Interests: Magic, women, partying, creating cards, movies ..and all the other crap that makes people happy.
Pets: 4x cats; Cotton, Sidney, Simon and Tux
Other: Started around Unlimited and quit during Homelands (Can you blame me?) Started again during Mercadian Masques and have been going strong since.
Zigathon
St. Cloud, Minnesota
25M
Marital Status: single
Kids: 0
Job: Parking Lot Attendant; Writer
Yahoo: Kingnerd420
AIM: Zigathon420
MSN: zigathon420(at)aim(dot)com
Email: zigathon420(at)aim(dot)com
Interests: Magic: The Gathering, Video games, All forms of Art, RPG/strategy games, Intelligent conversation, Free-thinking, Drinking booze, Writing, And being a recluse.
InfinityCubed
Name: Robert Hunnicutt
Location: Houston, TX
Age: 23
Marital Status: Happily with someone for over 6 years
J-O-B: Hewlett-Packard Credit Issuance
AIM: LigerZeroIX
MSN: silvus(at)hotmail(dot)com
Email: silvus(at)hotmail(dot)com
Interests: Magic, Yu-Gi-Oh!, Vs. System, mafia, WoW, MWS.
Other: In Concurring with theme, my favorite movie is too hard to choose, but I like most slapstick comedy and action
HKKID
Name: I prefer "God" or "Master", although I will answer to HKKID (or varients thereof) as well as Travis.
Location: I move alot, but generally it's near Seattle, Wa
Age: 22
Marital Status: Very single, and very desperate. very desperate
Work: Seasonal. I work for a Kayak Shop and a Ski School seasonally, and grade/tutor physics and math during the school year.
AIM: mtghkkid
MSN: H_K_K_I_D(at)hotmail(dot)com
E-mail: TravisJW(at)gmail(dot)com <== (Best way to contact me)
Interests: all that stuff I talk about doing in the clan thread.
Other: I'm trying to quit playing magic. I'm flunking at it.
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I'd stick around to rip BD's latest web-comic (Bra-Kets... I mean seriously...) but I just posted on the old thread. So POST you ninnies. Oh yeah, and do something immature and illegal. If at least one called member (probably me) doesn't get arrested over Christmas Break... I'ma gonna throw me a fit.
Ohh neighbors just walked past my window carrying a 1.75 L of Tanqueray. It's Martini time.
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Also, Lil' Akroma is no longer in the clan.
And just for the hell of it, here's my updated bio:
Zigathon
St. Cloud, Minnesota
25M
Marital Status: single
Kids: 0
Job: Parking Lot Attendant; Writer
Yahoo: Kingnerd420
AIM: Zigathon420
MSN: zigathon420(at)aim(dot)com
Email: zigathon420(at)aim(dot)com
Interests: Magic: The Gathering, Video games, All forms of Art, RPG/strategy games, Intelligent conversation, Free-thinking, Drinking booze, Writing, And being a recluse.
You know something weird? I just looked up the word "recluse" (to make sure I used it correctly in a sentence) and discovered this:
Recluse; Noun: One who lives in solitude.
Synonyms:
Troglodyte; Noun: One who lives in solitude.
So, does this make me a troglodyte? And if so, why in a lot of fantasy games do you fight several troglodytes at once? That defies the very intention of the word, doesn't it?
[Called] since 2001
Anyhow. I don't really know what to post about. Maybe if someone came up with a topic. Preferrably something we haven't covered too recently.
EDIT: Also, I believe Brian has 0.2 children now, not 0.
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So I drive 38 miles to work everyday. It is along a major highway...I-95 which is the main artery (north-south) on the east coast. I get on the road between 6:00 am and 6:15 am. If I leave my house any later it adds 15 minutes onto my commute. It usually takes me 45-50 minutes each way.
Here is my gripe.....how hard is it to stay on the road? I mean really....everyone is going the same direction....relatively the same speed...the road isn't all curvey or anything...so what's the deal!?!?
I'll tell you what it is....Cell phones and cigarettes! Everyday I get attacked by butts flying down the road at 65 mph. When did it become ok for people to throw them out the window? When I was young...my parents were sokers and they would ALWAYS use the ashtray. Granted...they would empty it in some random parking lot sometimes but they wouldn't throw them out the window. It is almost standard practice for today's drivers. Why is that? I know some of you guys smoke...please tell me. Smokers also seem to zone out when they smoke...especially right after they light up.....it kills me. But where that is bad...it's when they pick up a cell phone at 70 mph that makes me go nuts! They've got a butt in one hand and a phone in the other.....I told you guys about the lady I saw driving one day didn't I? She had a smoke and coffee in one hand...her phone in the other, and a dog on her lap and was driving with her knees!?!?:eek:
Well...I better start working...but that is my rant for the day!:swear:
* HKKID bought an electric razor about a year ago, just so he could shave in the car.
I mean umm yeah, go Jonny. *shrugs* It's really an alertness thing. As long as the driver is paying attention to the road I don't care what the hell else is going on. Well, unless it involves nudity. Even then though, I only care because that will make ME not pay attention to the road :p.
Ugh... another final in 73 minutes. I hate finals week... Heh, if my brain was functioning correctly I'd even think up something funny to say about how it's gotta be against some religious code to put students through hell right before we all go home to celebrate god's birthday :p. Instead it's just ironic.
*Edit* Updated Ziggs and my profile, deleted Akroma's. Also too the (currently in japan) out of daggs.
*Edit 2* Just noticed that Tom is still in invisible mode and viewing the old thread. That's kinda funny actually.
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Our windows are weak insulators.
I have been playing Zelda:TP, FFXII, Bookworm Adventures (lol), and will soon return to playing WoW over my winter break.
I am not a very productive one.
Applying to grad school is looming, and I am quite afraid of the entire process. I may be near to missing the boat entirely.
And I agree, the nipples thing is old hat.
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Funny on the nudity note though....is this guys fist day on the job with me...and we were driving back to the office on teh highway and I pointed to the car on his side of the road and up from the guy's lap comes this chicks head!! She wipes her mouth and gives us a little grin...it was awesome!! That was the guys first day...and I think his best!:p
Actually...before I moved that far away from work...I thought about getting an electric razor for the same reason. I bet you don't have a dog on your lap though!:rolleyes:
experiencessees at least once in their lifetime. Same thing happened to me when I had my paper route. I think I was, like, 12. ****ty part about it, though... she considered me seeing as my Christmas tip.:-/Official Deschanel Stalker of The Called
It was hilarious!
I've four finals to take spread across this Friday, next Tuesday, and next Friday. It's going to highly suck, but after the 15th, it will all be over!
A Webcomic of math, physics, and life as a geek in college.
Official Insomniac/Physics Addicted Uber Geek of The Called
"I want to be a complete nerd with extra nerd sauce on top. I'm a nerd. Infinite nerd!"
-rancored_elf
:teach:If you torture data sufficiently, it will confess to almost anything.:teach:
-Fred Menger
Fleeting is this world
Growth and decay its very nature
Things spring to being and again they cease
Happy the marvel of them and the peace.
-Nidana Vagga
I need to update my profile. Voila:
Cyan
Nick Ernst
Queen Creek(Phoenix Area), AZ
Male, 27 years old
Still essentially married(one day I'll actually marry her, honestly)
3 daughters: Athena(Age: almost 8), Faith(Age: 6), Serenity(Age: 5)
Work: I'm a Billing Representative at GoDaddy.com. I'm planning to go back to college at the beginning of the summer to work on my Psychology degree.
AIM: Shalafi79
MSN: cyan79(at)gmail(dot)com
cyan79(at)gmail(dot)com
Interests: All sorts. Chess, poker, Magic of course. Movies, good food, women, books, art. The Called. I've been playing Magic since just after 4th Edition and Ice Age were released, though I didn't play at all during Urza/Masques or Masques/Invasion.
Yeah I know... I've been enjoying that also. I notified him but he just said "nah" when I told him to fix it. What a dork.
Was she that ugly? Maybe she's so ugly, he can't have sex with her. Instead, he puts her in the car, goes for a drive on the highway, and pushes her head down there. 20 minutes and 3 exits later, he's on the way back home, where he puts the bag back over her head and sends her to the kitchen to make breakfast.
Meh. We're still a ways away from being able to repopulate the earth from within our own Clan, should everyone else suddenly die off.
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And there's something worng with this....why? A little head...free breakfast cooked for you....all you need to do is drive 20 miles? Sign me up!!!:D
And no...she was actaully quite attractive. And Daron...I think you hit the nail on the head there....I try to equate it to about the size of a Trident gum wrapper. 300 Billion are smoked in the US alone each year....say one-third of those are thrown on the ground or out the window in some way or another. That's 100 billion little gum wrappers.....and that isn't littering? Look...I realize people smoke...and to throw a burning ember into a trash cna would be foolish....but come on! My dad does it...and it drives me crazy! I yell at him everytime but I know he still does it when I'm not around! I do my best though....I also run people off the road when they hit my car with them!!
Well...not really, but I honk and flip them the bird. I've thought about getting in front of them and throwing a bottle out the window at them.:D
Anywho, I guess since we're updating profiles at Travis' expense I'll go ahead and update mine.
InfinityCubed
Name: Robert Hunnicutt
Location: Houston, TX
Age: 23
Marital Status: Happily with someone for over 6 years
J-O-B: Hewlett-Packard Credit Issuance
AIM: LigerZeroIX
MSN: silvus(at)hotmail(dot)com
Email: silvus(at)hotmail(dot)com
Interests: Magic, Yu-Gi-Oh!, Vs. System, mafia, WoW, MWS.
Other: In Concurring with theme, my favorite movie is too hard to choose, but I like most slapstick comedy and action.
JJ: Also if you use the ashtray in the car it depreciates the car value when you trade it in, also would be harder to sell if you couldn't convince someone you didn't smoke in there. I also hate people that throw cigarettes out the window, almost as much as I hate people that need to turn right but don't wait in the right lane like everyone else, they speed all the way up until they almost get to the light, then stop traffic in that lane as they try to get over. I mean I can understand if you haven't driven that way before and realize you need to turn a bit late, but taking the same way every morning you start seeing the same people doing it over and over again and it makes me want to RIP SOMEONES HEAD OFF.
I'd also like to throw a "damn you!" out to Brian, Chris, and Nick for getting me addicted to mafia. What can I say, i'm a sucker for mind games, and it's nice to see a game every once in a while that actually requires your brain and not just mindless droning.
Been playing a decent amount of WoW lately, and with the expansion coming out, looks to get even better. Played Guitar Hero 2 last night for the first time. It was pretty fun, I tore up some "Killing in the name of"
I suppose that's all for now, glad to know everyone didn't die in a forest fire from a cigarette
/Official "White and Nerdy" Poster Boy of The Called\
Good Movie Mafia - Townie - Survived - Win
Mortal Kombat Mafia - Mafia - Lynched - Loss
Star Wars Mafia II - Townie - Exploded - Loss
Newbie Mafia 11 - Townie - Survived - Loss
Don't Fear the Reaper Mafia - Solo Mafia after day 1 - Survived - Win
Unluckyville Mafia - Townie - Survived - Win
View Askew Mafia - Townie - Survived - Win
"Nipples" are only 2004 to Daron, because daily he has been playing with his own since then. SMAK!
HKKID - I like your observation on my card. The main reason I made it rare is because Regeneration was bumped up to an uncommon in 9th. R&D believes regenerating is underrated. I think I may agree. I also would like to point out again that it regenerates permanents, not just creatures. At it would be much more playable though. So how about:
Revivify -
Instant (R)
Regenerate target permanent.
Draw a card.
Well, back to FFXII...
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Homebrew is creating Magic.
Are you a pilot or a creator??
* rancored_elf waves at invisiMike *
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Emphasis mine. I just felt like pointing out the inherent irony in those statements.
So, how is everyone doing?
Good, and yourself? Just watched Survivor, CSI, and ER... my Thursday night addiction. Actually it's the only night of the week I watch TV. That's only partially because I don't have access to a TV the rest of the week.
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As usual, I'm on the edge of an A in all my classes (save for E&M, which is the worst class I have ever taken.) Basically, I need an A on the finals to get an A in the classes. And like usual, I expect to get 88% on all the finals (83% in quantum, where an 85% is the cutoff for an A) and end up with the highest B in the class.
* Binary Dragon Goes off to "study" for his proofs final in 8 hours, but really instead he's going to just rant because his school doesn't have a +/- system and that's screwed him out of nearly 0.25 on his GPA
A Webcomic of math, physics, and life as a geek in college.
Official Insomniac/Physics Addicted Uber Geek of The Called
"I want to be a complete nerd with extra nerd sauce on top. I'm a nerd. Infinite nerd!"
-rancored_elf
:teach:If you torture data sufficiently, it will confess to almost anything.:teach:
-Fred Menger
Fleeting is this world
Growth and decay its very nature
Things spring to being and again they cease
Happy the marvel of them and the peace.
-Nidana Vagga
edds - I dunno, I'm seeing a lot of mindless droning at the moment. Did you get into a game finally?
Cyan, SP, did you guys play before I did? I started when the chop forum@MT died off, + I remember explaining to the clan a couple of times.
Yeah. It's basically an orally transmitted disease. I just got mobbed to death because my rolename was revealed - Sweet, the demon from the Buffy Musical Episode Once More With Feeling. . . town, even.
A Scanner Darkly was good, nearly as good as the book. Watch Waking Life too, while you're at it.
Anyways, my sister and brother-in-law are going out this Saturday night, and since I'm the only person they know who NEVER has plans on a Saturday night...I get to babysit for them. It could be untill 12...it could be until 2...they don't even know yet. I've gone almost 15 months without having to change Alyssa's diaper. Looks like that streak is going to end.:crying:
~edit~ I woke up today and my left nipple was killing me. It still is, in fact. It feels like someone scratched it or something. It does make sense, though. In my dream, I dreamt that someone bit it. That must have been when I scratched it in my sleep or something.
Official Deschanel Stalker of The Called
Not here, but I got into 2 games on wifom, and they're...............progressing i guess, one's on night 1 after hitting the deadline (it started in october i'm a replacement) and lynching the person with the most votes. The other one started like last week and it's Loran's Star Wars mafia 2.
BD:Good luck on those finals I hate finals.
What I'm doing actually requires thought right now, PvP. but I agree that grinding for exp and whatnot is pretty mindless as well
/Official "White and Nerdy" Poster Boy of The Called\
Good Movie Mafia - Townie - Survived - Win
Mortal Kombat Mafia - Mafia - Lynched - Loss
Star Wars Mafia II - Townie - Exploded - Loss
Newbie Mafia 11 - Townie - Survived - Loss
Don't Fear the Reaper Mafia - Solo Mafia after day 1 - Survived - Win
Unluckyville Mafia - Townie - Survived - Win
View Askew Mafia - Townie - Survived - Win
Hey, I picked up Neil Gaiman's new collection of short stories, Fragile Things, + it's starts off with a cool Lovecraft/Doyle pastiche A Study in Emerald. Everything in it so far has been really good.