[Keith]

Here's where we tell each other who we really are:

Let's keep chit-chat to a minimum so the thread doesn't get clogged up.

Real Name: Keith
Age: 39 (but not for long)
Location: Cardiff
Nationality: 
Occupation: Youth Worker/Wannabe writer
Other Aliases: Elrawkum, Psycho/PsychoMod (old, old alias)

Geek Factor: CM/FM (since the Amiga), RPGs, Civ, D&D, comics,  playing computer games since Pong, still have a working Commodore 64 and an Atari VCS. bookworm, likes educational stuff, and sci-fi.  Greatest Sensi player the world has ever seen (not bragging, s'true).  There's almost certainly more.
Non-geek hobbies: Outdoor pursuits, travelling, live music. New hobby - karting.
Preferred Music: Indie, Alt Folk, Beatles, good songwriting.
Three Games (not FM): Sensi, Frontier, Baldur's Gate trilogy.
Three Films (sequels/franchises count as one): Original Star Wars trilogy, LOTR trilogy, Betty Blue

LLM?: Born again Zealot.

Personal stuff I don't mind sharing:  I have a son, Paul, aged 22.

[fids]

Real Name: Andy
Age: 23, till the end of September
Location: Addlestone
Nationality:
Occupation: Baker
Other Aliases: fids, fids2k, fidsy
Geek Factor: CM/FM since mid/late '90s, play a range of Sport Console games, own every Nintendo console bar the Gameboy SP.
Non-geek hobbies: Football, drinking, clubbing. Did I mention drinking?
Preferred Music: Dance, Trance and Hard Rock.
Three Games (not FM): Madden 2006, The Sims 2, Pro Evo 5
Three Films (sequels/franchises count as one): Ultraviolet, Four Brothers, Pirates Of The Carribean: Dead Man's Chest.

LLM?: Zealot

Personal stuff I don't mind sharing: I've tried out for a couple of local football sides before, only to suffer two b�stards of injuries (one ACL, one fractured ankle) on both occaisions. I tried to get a Sunday League team setup last season, but it fell through. Played twelfth man for Surrey before in a friendly. I have a tattoo on my back. I tend to do very stupid things when drunk, leading me to avoid certain local towns for fear of seeing certain results.

[iajafer]

Real Name: Ian
Age: 46 (all this year)
Location: East Lothian, Scotland
Nationality: Jock
Occupation: Paramedic Practitioner (Emergency Care Practitioner)
Other Aliases: iajafer only

Geek Factor: CM/FM
Non-geek hobbies: Music, Photography, Music and Music.
Preferred Music: not Scottish Country Dance Music, virtually anything else, preference the blues.
Three Games (not FM): Sonic the Hedgehog, Flashback, Sega Rally
Three Films (sequels/franchises count as one): Laurel and Hardy, The Godfather, Goodfellas

LLM?: Pffft! Stupid question!

Personal stuff I don't mind sharing: Wife, son (15) and daughter (10)

[LFCfan]

Real Name: Pete
Age: 36
Location: Colchester
Nationality: Maltese-born Brit (I'm not English )
Occupation: IT contractor
Other Aliases: -
Geek Factor: Quite a bit of geek-factor
Non-geek hobbies: Chinese Medicine, Taoist Meditation, Internal Martial-arts
LLM?: Zealot.

Personal stuff I don't mind sharing: Currently retraining as a shiatu practitioner

[Gillmacs]

Real Name: Chris Gillman
Age: 19
Location: Basingstoke
Nationality:
Occupation: Student
Other Aliases: None
Geek factor: School scholarship, CM/FM, no qualifiactions lower than an A (doesn't say much nowadays ), once won a chess competition.
Non-Geek Hobbies: I love playing sport, photography, hiking.
Music: Pretty mainstream really. Particuarly Pete Murray, Alex Lloyd. Also, virtually all music without lyrics.
Three Games: Sims 2, Re-Volt, Age of Empires Trilogy
Three Films: The Silence of the Lambs, Rounders, Oceans Films
LLM?: New but loving it

[fids]

[quote name='Gillmacs]Three Games: Sims 2' date='[/quote']

Bloody dangerous game that, lost most of Tuesday after deciding to play it for the first time in a while.

Thank fuck for late shifts

[jcb]

Who nicked my thread?

I'll C&P; from elsewhere when I can be arsed.

[wewak]

Real Name: Charles
Age: 33
Location: Sunshine Coast
Nationality: Upsidedownland
Occupation: Civil Engineer
Other Aliases: None, I'm not running from anyone.... yet.

Geek Factor: Spend a few hours each evening on the pc, even though I work in front of one.
Non-geek hobbies: I have 2 small kids. Next question.
Preferred Music: Anything the kids aren't listening to really.
Three Games (not FM): Civ 4, Simcity 4, Ricky Ponting Cricket on the PS2
Three Films (sequels/franchises count as one): Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Doing Time for Patsy Kline.

LLM?: Bordering on Zealot.

Personal stuff I don't mind sharing: My brother is married to my wife's sister

[jcb]

Real Name: Julian
Age: 34
Location: New Jersey
Nationality: English
Occupation: Scientist. Father of two (5 and 2, both boys)
Other Aliases: jcb23, Obi-wan Drivelmeister.

Geek Factor: Very
Non-geek hobbies: What? Yeah, right
Preferred Music: Taking the fifth.
Three Games (not FM): Lego Star Wars, Jedi Knight, KotOR. Hmm. I sense a theme.
Three Films (sequels/franchises count as one): ^Guess the first one?. LotR, Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Ni.

LLM?: Always

Personal stuff I don't mind sharing:
I met the missus when I crashed her birthday party.
I got married at Disneyworld.
I can use the C&P; functions on my PC (that one's for everyone who finds the first two oddly familiar)

[Dr. Hook]

Real Name: Jeff
Age: 36
Location: East Texas
Nationality: , PnP RPGs (not for the past dozen years though), Fantasy books incl. Tolkien, Lewis, Robert Jordan
Non-geek hobbies: Boxing, weight-lifting, shooting, following Hockey
Preferred Music: Southern Rock, Classic Rock, Alt-Country (Wilco, Son Volt etc.)
Three Game Series' (not FM): Total War series, Civ series, Baldur's Gate series
Three Films (sequels/franchises count as one): Dodgeball, Slapshot!, Die Hard and sequels
LLM?: Definitely, with strong zealot tendencies

Personal stuff I don't mind sharing: I have a wife of 10 years, 2 Dogs (Aussie Cattle Dogs- 1 blue, 1 red), 5 cats, no kids and no plans for any. I am an HR for SI's EHM games (U.S. minor pro leagues), I served in the U.S.A.F. and am starting National Guard service next spring. My professional historical interest is the Early Modern Atlantic World.

[Gaz]

Real Name: Gaz Reid
Age: 22
Location: Wrexham
Nationality: English/Welsh (Born in England but have Welsh Grand-parents )
Occupation: Boredom
Other Aliases: - Geordie Gaz (SI forums)
Geek Factor: FM, Warhammer Danw of War (plus I used to apint them ), Total War games
Non-geek hobbies: Erm, eating?
LLM?: n00b, waiting for FM07 before getting into it (Blyth Spartans have been promoted and they have a special spot close to my heart, but can't be them on FM06 without using an up***e or the ed***r, but being them would hopefully cure my short attention span)

Personal stuff I don't mind sharing: I have a 4 month old daughter, and four years ago I was manager of the Worst team in Wales irl.