I'm Pyrite, been playing UrT off and on for about 10 years. I used to be heavily involved in the gaming community, not so much anymore though. I have a pretty extensive range of interests other than gaming and computers (it's pretty obvious I'm a geek), so I'm just going to throw a few out and see if anyone has anything in common with me
Lately, I am uber addicted to Genealogy, and have just completed my application (which took me several months to write) for membership into the National Society Sons of the American Revolution. During this time, I used my vacation days to travel to several states I had never been to so I could sit in libraries, cultural centers, court houses, and gov archive buildings for hours on end until my head started to bleed. If you do not know what genealogy is, DO NOT LOOK IT UP, cause if you do, you could get addicted, and then you will be FSCKED for the rest of your life.
Since 2006 I have been very involved in modding the original XBOX. I have bought/sold at least 15 of them so far. I prefer the TSOP method of modding. Recently in 2009 I started getting into XBOX paint jobs. I once ran a 5 node Linux XBOX cluster on an OpenMosix clone. If you are interested in XBOX's at all, contact me, I enjoy just talking about it.
I am also into Geocaching. A friend and I last year built what we call the "geEKocache" (see
http://www.geekocache.us/). It's an electronic totally geek geocache built inside of a .50 cal ammo can. You go to our website, make a digital log, it generate a barcode, you print it out, located the cache with your GPSr, open the lid, the LCD turns on (with various all your base references, and other geek terminology), scan your barcode, it saves your log onto the built-in SD card, then asks if you want to leave an additional log message, and if so, you can plug in your PS/2 keyboard (this is out in the woods by the way), and type something cool. It then gives you the password to the treasure box, which has a combo lock on it. It's a very interesting alternative to traditional caching. We used an Atmel PIC and open sourced the C code. Pictures of this are on my Facebook if anyone is really interested.
I also like shooting. My dad started training me when I was about 9. I'm a member and proud supporter of my local range, NRA, etc etc. I also love shooting skeet, but I use an old full choke wood butted obsolete scatter gun, which my friends don't know how I can stand the recoil on. My woman hates the fact that I spend hundreds of dollars on guns and not her
But she'll still come out to the range in the chilly evenings and loads the traps for us.
I am a world traveler. I have lived in 4 countries, and traveled to about 25 others. I have studied 6 languages, none of which I can speak anymore.. except Thai. I boarded my first flight overseas when I was 2 (my parents were freakin crazy). I love visiting new countries, learning the language and culture, doing photography and see what the local pubs are like (I got addicted to Guinness when I was in Ireland, and if you ever go there, YOU WILL know first hand what U2 is singing about in the song Beautiful Day!). The aussies told me NSW was God's country, but I had to disagree after spending a summer in Outer Mongolia with my Dad, out-backing in old Russian jeeps.
The only sport I really like is pocket billiards (and yes it is a sport). I love 8/9 ball, BCA style, and also learned to shoot Snooker when I lived in Thailand. In 2007 I attended (not played in) the Guinness 9-Ball Tour in Singapore, and got to see the world champions go toe to toe, plus there was free Guinness, which I think I mentioned I like.
I used to play everyday for several years, but now it seems like I only get out to do it once a month.
Music? All the punk that SlimPickens and DJ Menthol listed which I was very into during the 90's. Now, I'm all about electronica, and the music that Tits McGee listens to
I am a very big collector of Music Videos, of which I have about 300 GB of. So if you're into that, hit me up for some trades.
That's enough for now, Greetz to all of you who actually read all this **** I wrote.