How old are you? (plus Meet and Greet)

[bilu]

Originally posted by Boulder
Being a chem fella, they put me to a place where they research different methods of protection from the gases and other stuff that are used in chemical warfare. No beans for lunch then :D

Bilu

[Boulder]

Originally posted by bilu
No beans for lunch then :D

Bilu

Hmm, a practical approach to protecting yourself from such gases.. I'm on it:D

[Belgabor]

Originally posted by netterpaladin
26, male, doing PhD in biochemistry,
I can count my own backups on one hand but have been reading these pages for a long time (I think I could qualify for the least skill for the time I have been around here).

Why am I here: I like watching movies and anime.

Wow, another one =) (Although I'm 27 :p)

[coona]

I´m 25. Engineer of information management - but unable to find this thread after I forgot to post two weeks ago :D.

No wife, no children - only girlfried and fun :p.

Really interesting reading - identity of some nicks was surprising for me, but in good way. I thought there are a lot of young teenagers but fortunatelly it is not true...

[virux]

Hi I'm 19
I am currently in my second year of college pursuing a course in computer science.
My current hobbies are collecting anime and manga and backing up my dvd collection. :D

[Dark-Cracker]

hi, i am 21 years old, engenering student, live in France (near bordeaux => yes very good wine :) ).

Bye.

[DevilsChild]

21 years old. Graduate student in physics at the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD). Specialize in theoretical studies of conjugated polymers and carbon nanotubes.

Hobbies include weightlifting, riding bicycles, hunting, music, and computer/console games.
Screen name comes from a song on Judas Priest's "Screaming For Vengeance" album.
Enjoys learning about new video codecs and applications.

[fccHandler]

I'm 37 years old. I've been programming (strictly as a hobby) for most of my adult life. I don't do much DVD ripping, but I love film and video talk. I'm about to start training for a position as projectionist at my local movie theater. Right now I'm the guy who fixes the arcade games. I have a passion for 80's anime and music videos. My screen name comes from M$VfW. :sly:

[ChristianHJW]

36, soon 37 :D, living in Bavaria ( 100 km north of Munich ) with wife and 2 kids ( 1 and 5 ), in a small rented flat. Graduated as electronics engineer once, i am working more than 10 years in sales and marketing now. Been a former Hi-Fi freak, designing and building high-quality speakers and tube amps myself, also trying to sell them once but with very bad luck and leaving a financial desaster.

My first MPEG4 CD i ever had was 'Bone Hunter', made with DivX 3.11 fast motion, it fitted well on 1 CD, MP3 96 kbps CBR, that was in early 2000. I was amazed by the quality vs. size, especially because i had a company laptop without DVD drive and the idea to take movies with me on my bussiness journeys looked to good to be true, so i started learning and posting on the old Project-Mayo Forums, then on the DivX.com forums where i met BetaBoy and BlackSun. The rest is history :p ....

[SeeMoreDigital]

Don't let this thread die!

[Beastie Boy]

Agreed. It's a good opportunity for the newer members to introduce themselves and to find out a little about their fellow members.

[r6d2]

Originally posted by r6d2
Male, approaching dangerously to 40 (fortunately I got to vote already)
Passed the barrier already. Fortunately, the range still includes me. :)
Just finishing my sabatic.
Thanks to the huge amount of paychecks I've gotten as moderator, I'll stay on sabatic one more year. :D:D:D

Currently writing my first script for a movie.

[Kika]

OK, i try to keep it alive. ;)

I'm 41 Years old, single (and loving it).
I'm living in Bavaria near Munich (hey, ChristianHJW, guess we are kind of neighbours), i'm working as an Editor for a small internet related PC-Magazine.

Hobbies... Hm, MPEG2 and TMPGEnc - and a lot of other things (yeah, one of my Hobbies is collecting Animes..., sound's like a strange Hobbie for an old Guy like me, eh? ;) ).
I started my "Video-career" in 1994 by producing small Video-Clips (Intel Indeo and MS Video 1) for Multimedia-CD-ROMs.

[epere4]

Hi!

I am 24, studying Informatic Engineering. Before that I started studying Medicine and quited (yeah, what a change!)

I believe the reason why there aren't many kids around here is that this forum is serious. I think you will find more young people in forums that discuss where or how you download a movie, what codec you have to use to see them, etc (of course, you will also find a lot of adults there :D ).

[Human_USB]

I'm 18 years old and living in Mississippi. I'm going to college for Local Area Networking and maybe Computer Programming. I have no job, no girlfriend, and I can't drive. Oh happy day!

In my free time I watch anime and rip dvds. I also love music because I can hear more then a normal person can.

-Jason

[Fotis_Greece]

Hi top everyone. I am 32 male, single and I live in Athens, Greece.
I have studied cooking (full 2 years) and work as cook for 14 years. Currentlly I am a sous chef (that's the position in a kitchen just after the head chef) in a big hotel in the island of Rhodes. In such islands hotels are open for the summer season (well actually 7 months) in in the winter time I am back in Athens doing completelly nothing, spending all the summer money I got in computers.
I've had a PC for a very long time and I deal a lot with video editing. I think I've transferred to DVDs most of my colleagues wedding VHS.
By the way, me and a couple of fellow chefs have created a web site where you can find some good recipes and other food concernign stuff (hasn't been completed yet). You can have a look at it

www.interchefs.com

[Pyscrow]

40, and post mid life crisis!
Do a little programming, work in road construction.
New to this forum, and soaking up the wisdom like a sponge!!

[hendrix]

30 year old married male living in japan, ive been working professionally as a director/producer/editor/cameraman for a TV station for 10+ years. I edited 1000+ episodes of tv programming - qualified in Video Toaster and Video Toaster 4000 for the Amiga, Play Trinity 2.0 and countless video softwares, currently working on a short film (well its not even shot yet since i dont have a camera yet) - gonna shoot it with the 24p Panasonic AG-DVX100A, and i love my Alpine White w/gold hardware Gibson Les Paul w/a custom made gold Bigsby Tremolo bar - GROOVY.

[SeeMoreDigital]

Time to resurrect an old friend.... me thinks!

[Beastie Boy]

I'm pleased to say that I'm still in the same age category as I was when I started this thread :p

Cheers, Beastie.

[Shinigami-Sama]

wow
I was way off in sirber and SMD's ages <.<

anyways
18
Computer information system tech student, year one

all hail SMD's necro-posting :P

[Cheesus]

31 year old cockney/pommie/limey now living in Brisbane, Oz. I'm married with an 18month old son who was born in Oz, his mothers a kiwi so I guess he may grow up confused, especially when there's any sports on.
I've worked in the technical side of broadcasting and post production for seven years now and have been DVD authoring specifically for about a year now. Still very much learning, I'm a one man band at the company I'm working at and Doom9 forums have saved my bacon on many occasions, so thanks everybody!
It's a great site, the best out there by a long way, IMHO.

[tritical]

Added another one to the 18-30 category (I'm 21, male). Currently I'm a lazy and unemployed student studying electrical/computer engineering... 7th semester with 24 hours left to complete once this one ends. My main hobbies, or what I do with most of my free time, are programming (mostly video/image processing), running, tennis, and anime (watching/encoding).. though the anime part has been on a decline for a while.

I wasn't expecting to be quite so far towards the younger side of the membership here, but it's not all that surprising.

[Mug Funky]

hey, looks like i missed this thread when i signed up...

23 atm. like music, anime, art. oil painted for 13 years but have been too lazy in the last year to do any (the smell turns me off unfortunately).

i'm fortunate enough to do anime encoding for a living :). this involves field-blending a lot of the time though, making all the DVD backerupperers lives all that little bit more difficult, but providing lots of material for plugin developers to use for inspiration :)

[Shinigami-Sama]

oh I forgot to mention

i'm an apperntice black smith and native art carver
mug just remined me of that, you know with the making of field blaned stuff making me want to fillet him with one of my knves an all :P

[Joe Fenton]

I just hit the big 4 0 in August. Unmarried and done a bit of programming and board design over the years. Currently I'm caring for my grandfather. He hit that age where it was put him in a home, or move him in with a relative. Since I work out of my house and don't mind taking care of people, I got the job. :)

@Mug - I like the smell of oils. They're my favorite medium. I don't care for ink personally. When I was in art class ages back, someone left a bottle open overnight. That'll put anyone off ink. :D

[Mug Funky]

the making of field blaned stuff making me want to fillet him with one of my knves an all

i aim to please :) seriously though, there's not really an alternative with most anime content for PAL land.

though new stuff is increasingly coming in a nice IVTC'able form, and so we're moving toward doing speed-up IVTC conversions ourselves here. you wouldn't believe the hard disk space required though... at the moment everything is captured in MPEG-2, but obviously we can't use that as a mastering format, but rather a delivery format. once we get the kinks sorted out on our machines, and get in a new RAID rig with enough space for a week's worth of uncompressed footage, we'll start converting things the nice way wherever possible :)

I like the smell of oils. They're my favorite medium
it's the turps and kero that did it for me. oils smell nice enough (except if you leave a bottle of stand oil open for a night in 30+ degree heat... it's a bit whiffy), but the solvents are quite awful. as a kid i'd leave this stuff in my bedroom. as a consequence i have almost no sense of smell at all...

[dragongodz]

well i voted ages ago but never replied. so just incase there was anyone out there interested i am late 30's, married with 1 son. :)

[castellanos]

Well, well... nice to know this things... many ages and many computer analyst, engineer, technicians... etc...
Here I go: 31 yars old, born in Argentina and living in Germany already 8 years, where I got my "Diplom" and "Konzertexamen" of Violoncello... yes! classical musician!! and working as solo cellist in a German orchestra.
I thank you all!!!
Greetings!

[Centurione]

41, electronic engineer, working in a communication industry as laboratory manager ( I liked more before to be a designer ).
Married 2 kids ( 8 and 2 ).

Bye

[movax]

Pulled <18 to 9 votes. :)
Explains my user title.

[cabanaboy]

57! Yes, seriously. Makes me the second oldest to post in this thread? (Saw one 71 year old's comments).
I live in the SF Bay Area in Northern California. I'm in the process of transfering my huge LaserDisc accumulation to DVD. For my own personal use but don't tell the MPAA!
Great Forum and a helpful site.

[SeeMoreDigital]

57! Yes, seriously. Makes me the second oldest to post in this thread? (Saw one 71 year old's comments).Hello and welcome to the forum...

[*.mp4 guy]

Just added another >18 vote.

I'm 17, my primary interests are reading, computer gaming (especialy rpgs) music, movies, multimedia compresion and computer hardware. I found this forum back in 2002 or 2003 when I googled for Xvid, before I found this place I was trying to rip dvd's with flaskmpeg (yeah...) and I couldn't figure out what was wrong with the picture. After that I lurked for a long time trying to learn all the ins and outs of AviSynth and Xvid/DivX/Mpeg compresion.

[Amnon82]

Me, I'm 23. Code in Delphi. I realy like this forum. Let's see if someone else is older than 71 ;)
I realy like people who stay at computers so long. I hope I'll do it also :D

[mpucoder]

57! Yes, seriously. Makes me the second oldest to post in this thread?
Up until now, maybe. I did answer the poll earlier but never posted. 58 next Saturday.
I think people know most of my interests - computers (computer programmer in my earlier career) and video (previously licensed broadcast engineer). But I'm also seriously into model railroading from the technical aspect (Digital Command and Control, pic signaling controllers, automation, animation).

[danpos]

I'm 33 years old! I'm living in Rio de Janeiro city for now with my (second :D ) wife and her daughter. I'm a M.Sc. in physics (I did leave behind my PhD studies cos I was tired after so long 12 years in the university. Maybe someday I come back and so end up my PhD, who knows?) and I'm currently working with criminalistics. My interests are physics (of course ;) ), computers & new technologies. Video edition is my hobby for now.

Nice meet all you here. :)

Cya!

[Bester]

Well, I'm 30. Worked 7 jears as fitness/personal coach.
I'm very skilled in "life science" :D and currently studiing computer science.
One month ago I started to code another gui for avisynth and will release it in
a few weeks.
i like the bab5 series, wushu, breakdance, cooking and my bad english...

[Inventive Software]

17, first got into video encoding when I was 16, with my current rig. I started backing up DVDs when I needed to replace my ailing CD-ROM drive with something a bit more potent!

Currently studying I.C.T and Physics at A2, and French and Maths at AS. Those in England will know what I'm on about!

No girlfriend as yet. Still waiting! ;)

[hank315]

Age: 49, M.Sc. mechanical engineering, for the last 15 years mostly doing number crunching stuff.
Maybe that's the reason I still like Fortran most :)

[movax]

Maybe that's the reason I still like Fortran most :)

Ahahah, one of the better lines I've heard. :)

[LordRPI]

24 years old.

I finished my B.S. in Computer and Systems Engineering and my B.S. in Computer Science last year. I specialized in Microprocessor Systems and Computer Architecture (not VLSI). I owe around $40K in University loans. I'm trying to figure out how I'm going to do a Masters.

I have not had a g/f in 6 years since I don't like to stick to one woman :)

I'm not exactly sure what my job entails. I threaten my parents that I will join the Navy.

[Shinigami-Sama]

I'm not exactly sure what my job entails. I threaten my parents that I will join the Navy.
ohhhh
that'll strike ph34r into any mother who wants grandkids :P

[LordRPI]

I ph34r that it might be the only way I'll have a chance of having kids...

The Marine and Naval officers I know drive some really nice cars...

[CirTap]

my turn to increment "31-40" by one.
I managed to reach 39 recently w/o getting married or being presented with a kid by one of the female I met in my life -- but I'm working on that ;-)
self employed, running a small web company (4 freelancers) in Germany; RL (aka girlfriend) and job dictate the amount of time I can spent with composing: music, graphics, and video lately, and writing.
My first "personal computer" was labeled with "Atari ST 512" back in 1985, mainly to make music with Steinberg's "24 Track" (which evolved into Cubase) and my holy Roland MT-32 -- still using it since then (the MT). I resisted Wintel-PCs and stuck to Ataris (Falcon, TT) personally until the first P4 appeared at the IT horizon, then switched platform due to business needs.
First "GEM" GUI apps written for the ST in Omicron Basic & PureC (Borland clone) in the late 1980s, early '90s, moved to VisualBasic 3-5 with my P4 but stopped writing any GUIs/Win when VB6 hit the shelves.
Since then I "script" in JS and PHP only, and trying to get used to PHP-GTK (for a bit of a GUI) and Python :D

Have fun,
CirTap

[movax]

The Marine and Naval officers I know drive some really nice
cars...

Only when you're past O-5 rank or so, and are usually stationed on land. :/
I'm only a JO-1 now anyways.

[bern]

Well i'm 64 and still going strong. Living in Ireland in the wild west. Struggling on dialup (Can't get any sort of broadband and it doesn't look like coming my way for a year of two yet). I have one way satellite alowing downloads but still using dialup for transmit and the service is dabolical(regular dropouts). So I don't get to post that often.

[zilog jones]

I'm 20, and I'm going into my 3rd year of my Bachelor of Science in IT & Telecomms, which involves a lot of stuff - programming (C, 8051 ASM, Java), databases, radio, frying logic chips ^_^, etc.

General computer nerd, and because I'm a student I don't have that much money so I mainly rely on junk that's being thrown out - let's just say my second PC is a Pentium Pro 200, and in my bedroom there's about 5 hard disks lying around (and the largest one is 6 gigs!), 2 PSUs on the floor, 2 soldering irons, a ZX Spectrum, 2 broken PS2s (though I have a working one that's not on the floor)... my room's full of crap, basically.

I got into messing with video on PCs after getting my first CD burner and DVD player (which could also do SVCDs) in 2003. Then when I started college I became the president of the University of Limerick Games Society (http://www.gsoc.net) (mostly LAN games and paintball these days), and put my video knowledge to good use by producing promotional videos for the society - and more recently I've started helping other clubs/societies with their video woes too (mostly with AviSynth saving the day, not to mention the downloads on this site ;-) ).