[tavilach]

I think it's time for me to update...



First Name: Tavi
Nickname: Tavi
MacNN Handle(s): tavilach
Age: 20
Profession: Student
Greatest acheivements: tavi nathanson - Google Scholar
Fav music: Rock, Alternative
Fav music group or person: Live, Vertical Horizon, Goo Goo Dolls
Listening to now: Pete Townshend
Fav TV show: 24, The Office, Heroes
Fav Movie: Back to the Future (I, II)
Fav food: Anything unhealthy
Fav drink: Lemonade
Fav alcoholic Beverage: Red wine
Fav book: I'm not a big reader
Superman or Batman?: Batman
Kelly, Ruben or Fantasia: No
Rock star or Billionaire: Rock star
Believe in aliens: Yes
Believe in ghosts: No
Car: I don't have one at school
Computer/Mac: 2.4 GHz MBP that always crashes
Deep dark secret: Nothing too deep or dark
Secret aspiration: It's always changing...
Dream Car: Honestly, I don't really care
Sexuality: Straight
Kids: I'll get 'em, in a (long) while
Relationship Status: Single
Height: 6'2"
Weight: ~170 lbs
Gender: Male
Religion: Jewish
Role Model: My parents
Yearly income: None
cat or dog person: Dog
outdoor or indoor personality: Indoor
Geek?: It depends on your definition
Ethnicity: White
Interesting Fact: I'm a Computer Science major, but I'm also an actor and I like to associate more with that crowd
MacNNers on cell phone: None
Disability/Allergies: Cats (mildly), pollen

[Oisín]

Greatest acheivements: tavi nathanson - Google Scholar
Geek?: It depends on your definition

No. It doesn’t. Not with that link.

(Actually, I just realised that I’m mentioned on Google Scholar, too, though not in regards to anything that I’ve really had anything to do with, apart from helping the actual writer clean up the writing and doing a bit of proofreading.)

[C.A.T.S. CEO]

Originally Posted by C.A.T.S. CEO 

Updated:

First Name: Brett
Nickname: none
MacNN Handle(s): C.A.T.S. CEO
Age: 16
Place of birth: Tampa, FL
Currently live: Tampa, FL
Profession: Student
Greatest achievements: Switching
Fav music: Anything other than rap and new country music (old country would be like Johnny Cash)
Fav music group or person: Weird Al
Fav TV show(s): None ATM
Fav TV mini series: none
Fav Movie: Any movie directed by Hayao Miyazaki
Fav food: Steak
Fav drink(s): Lipton green tea w/ citrus, coke, sprite, canada dry ginger ale
Fav alcoholic Beverage: I don't drink. Seriously.
Fav book: Time Travel In Einstein's Universe by J. Richard Gott
Superman or Batman? SUPERMAN!!
Rock star or Billionaire: CEO of Apple
Believe in aliens: Yes
Believe in ghosts: Yes
Computer(s): MacBook 2.0 GHz CD 1 GB RAM 80 GB HD (soon 120 GB) black, running Mac OS X 10.5.0 Leopard and Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon in a VM / iMac C2D 2 GB of RAM 500 GB HD running Mac OS X 10.5.0 Leopard and Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon in a VM / Custom machine 2.2 GHz AMD Athlon 1 GB of RAM 60, 120, and 250 GB HDs running Debian 4.1 Etch
Deep dark secret: Nothing (at the moment)
Secret aspirations: get a job at Apple. Seriously.
Sexuality: Straight
Status: Unhappily Single
Kids: None
Height: 5'4"
Weight: 175 lbs
Gender: Male
Religion: ????
Role model: none
Yearly income: Some computer upgrade or a new computer
Cat or dog person? CAT!!
Indoor or outdoor personality? Outdoors in the winter, indoors in the summer
Do you consider yourself a geek? Geek
Ethnicity: German-American
Interesting fact: one of the smartest kids at my high school
Car: none

Updates in bold (again).

[Peter]

so so humble. I'm in awe.

[Block8]

First Name: James
Nickname: Jaz
MacNN Handle(s): Block8
Age: 24
Profession: Web Developer
Greatest acheivements: Graduation
Fav music: Anything
Fav TV show: Hollyoaks (yes, I know)
Fav Movie: Pulp Fiction
Fav food: Sunday Roast
Fav drink: Coke
Fav alcoholic Beverage: JD
Fav book: The Devil and Miss Prym
Superman or Batman? Batman
Kelly, Ruben or Fantasia: ?
Rock star or Billionaire: Billionaire
Believe in aliens: No
Believe in ghosts: Yes
Car: Honda Civic Type-R
Computer: Macbook
Mac: Macbook
Deep dark secret: I like Britney's new song...
Secret aspiration: I want to be an F1 driver!

[Laminar]

I bored enough that I'm actually updating this.

Originally Posted by Laminar 

First Name: Mikael
Age: 21
Profession: Engineer-to-be
Favorite music: Rock, alt, other stuff too
Fav music group or person: Right now, Mae
Listening to now: Mae (on Pandora)
Fav TV show: The Office, Heroes
Fav Movie: The Emperor's New Groove
Fav food: Anything I can make
Fav drink: Apple Juice
Fav alcoholic Beverage: Hot Chocolate + Irish Cream
Fav beer: Snakebite: Guinness + Hard Cider
Rock star or Billionaire: Billionaire. I can buy my way into the music biz.
Believe in aliens: Nope.
Believe in ghosts: In a sense.
Computer/Mac: iBook G4
Secret aspiration: Be a rock star.
Dream Car: Saleen S7
Current Car: SVT Contour
Sexuality: Straight
Relationship Status: In one.
Height: 6'5"
Gender: Male
Religion: Christ Follower
Role Model: My dad
Yearly income: Whatever a 20hr/week on-campus job will give me
Cat or dog person: Dogs
Outdoor or indoor personality: I like being outside when it's nice.
Geek?: When it profits me to be one.
Ethnicity: Saltine White
MacNNers on cell phone: none

[C.A.T.S. CEO]

Originally Posted by Peter 

so so humble. I'm in awe.

I know.

[turtle777]

Originally Posted by C.A.T.S. CEO 

Interesting fact: one of the smartest kids at my high school

Originally Posted by C.A.T.S. CEO 

Updates in bold (again).

I'm disappointed in your lack of progression.

You are still only one of the smartest kids at your high school ?
Not THE smartest yet ? What have you been doing the last months ?

Oh, I know. You finally found teh ladies on the intarwebs. It's going downhills now

-t

[C.A.T.S. CEO]

Originally Posted by turtle777 

I'm disappointed in your lack of progression.

You are still only one of the smartest kids at your high school ?
Not THE smartest yet ? What have you been doing the last months ?

Oh, I know. You finally found teh ladies on the intarwebs. It's going downhills now

-t

We got a new school and all of the rednecks (IQ under 80) stayed at the old one, now we have more geeks and I finally found 2 other Mac users. One of which is doing collage level courses. The other one loves Dubbua (hes not a redneck tho).

[theDreamer]

Figured I would fill this out finally, I did the original post one, but it seems others are longer now. Oh well.


First Name: Matt
Nickname: N/A
MacNN Handle(s):
Age: 21
Profession: Student
Greatest Achievements: None yet
Fav music: Classical, rock
Fav music group or person: Red Hot Chili Peppers
Listening to now: Music by a friend (classical)
Fav TV show: House or The Office
Fav Movie: To many to really call "fav"
Fav food: Gummy Bears - weird I know
Fav drink: Lemonade
Fav alcoholic Beverage: Vodka
Fav book:
Superman or Batman? Batman
Kelly, Ruben or Fantasia: Kelly
Rock star or Billionaire: Billionaire
Believe in aliens: Yes
Believe in ghosts: No
Car: 2006 Saturn ION Coupe
Computer: VoodooPC ENVY Laptop
Mac: iPhone
Deep dark secret: I am good at fashion design
Secret aspiration: Doing work for an animation company

[turtle777]

Originally Posted by C.A.T.S. CEO 

One of which is doing collage level courses. The other one loves Dubbua (hes not a redneck tho).

Let me guess: you are also in the top 95% of spelling and grammar ?

-t

[Kerrigan]

Don't forget style and creativity.

[macmonkey]

I haven't posted on MacNN in awhile, but I'm bored at the new job, so what the hell, might as well start with this.

First Name: Dave
Nickname: none
MacNN Handle(s): MacMonkey just about everywhere
Age: 25 in February
Profession: Sales, specifically National Sales Manager for a company that does Document and Data capture primarily in Healthcare.
Greatest acheivements: Top 10% on the LSAT, then dropped out of law school after one semester :-) #1 Ranked Apple Higher Education Account Executive in 2007 (141% of quota)
Fav music: Probably Jazz-Vocal (Buble, Cullum, etc)
Fav music group or person: Jamie Cullum
Listening to now: At work atm, but been listening to a lot of The Streets lately.
Fav TV show: Dexter
Fav Movie: American Psycho
Fav food: Big, medium rare steak.
Fav drink: Coke Zero
Fav alcoholic Beverage: Martinis of various sorts.
Fav book: The World is Flat was pretty insightful.
Superman or Batman? Batman
Kelly, Ruben or Fantasia: American Idol fans are on the same intellectual level as NASCAR fans.
Rock star or Billionaire: Billionaire. The money would ensure fame, but fame doesn't ensure money.
Believe in aliens: yes
Believe in ghosts: yes
Car: 2000 Mercedes Benz 500SL .Mac Web Gallery
Computer: MacBook 2.16 at home, Toshiba M400 at work, Mac Mini on the TV, Power Mac 733 and 2Ghz P4 HP machine in the home office.
Deep dark secret: Now why would I put that on here?
Secret aspiration: To have enough money to say the hell with the rat race and be a teacher.

[imitchellg5]

First Name: Mitchell
Nickname: Mitch, Mitsu
MacNN Handle(s): imitchellg5 and one other that I can't remember
Age: 16
Profession: Student and MacNNer
Greatest acheivements: Winning a local geography bee two years in a row, getting rid of my Volvo.
Fav music: Alternative, Country, Rock, Pop
Fav music group or person: U2
Listening to now: Senses Fail
Fav TV show: The Pretender
Fav Movie: The Empire Strikes Back
Fav food: Smoked Salmon
Fav drink: A mocha frap
Fav alcoholic Beverage: I don't drink.
Fav book: I like a ton of books! I would have to say then, Revenge of the Sith or Shatterpoint.
Superman or Batman? Batman
Kelly, Ruben or Fantasia: Kelly
Rock star or Billionaire: Billionaire
Believe in aliens: No. Except the illegal ones that I see all the time.
Believe in ghosts: No
Car: 1999 Honda Accord EX-V6 coupe in San Marino red
Computer: Mac mini 1.83 GHz, PowerBook G4 867 MHz, Power Mac G4 533 MHz, iMac G5 1.8 GHz, iMac G3 333 MHz
iPod: 16 GB iPod touch, 2 GB iPod shuffle (blue)
Deep dark secret: I enjoy listening to Glamourous.
Secret aspiration: To not feel dead after weights class.
MacNNers on cell phone: 2

[harbinger75]

First Name: Nigel
Nickname: Nige
Age: 32
Profession: Fire Department Captain/Paramedic
Yearly Income: Not nearly enough...
Relationship status: Married to the love of my life
Greatest acheivements: My two daughters, then finally finding and marrying my beautiful wife
Fav music: Hard Rock
Fav music group or person: Breaking Benjamin
Listening to now: Mix...lots of hard rock
Fav TV show: Spongebob
Fav Movie: Tron, then the Star Wars movies in that order...
Fav food: Pizza
Fav drink: Diet Coke or Diet Pepsi
Fav alcoholic drink: If I do drink, it's Miller Light for me
Fav book: The Tommyknockers by Stephen King
Superman or Batman?: Batman. The quintessential gadget freak
Kelly, Ruben or Fantasia: Huh?
Rock star or Billionaire: Yes
Believe in aliens: Yes
Believe in ghosts: A definite "maybe"
Computer: Black Macbook 2.2Ghz, 2GB RAM; and a gaming PC I built
Deep dark secret: I'm obsessive compulsive.
Secret aspiration: I've always wanted my current local band to make it big
Car: 2003 Jeep Wrangler, black
Dream Car: Brand new Jeep Wrangler Rubicon Unlimited
Sexuality: Straight
Height: 6' 2"
Weight: 180 lbs.
Gender: Male
Religion: Nothing preferential at the moment
Cat or dog person: Was a dog person, but we now have a cat that I'm pretty attached to
Outdoor or indoor personality: Both
Do u consider yourself a geek?: Yes, in a few ways
Interesting Fact: I sing and play guitar in a local hard rock band
MacNNers on cell phone: 0

[sek929]

Figured I hadn't updated it in a while.

First Name: Sean
Nickname: Kennedy, skennedy, jerk
Age: 24
Profession: Master Carpenter
Yearly Income: 40K +/-
Relationship status: Been with current girlfriend for 2+ years
Greatest achievements: Built a custom fireplace mantle that turned out phenomenal
Fav music: Hard Rock, Prog Rock
Fav music group or person: The Mars Volta
Listening to now: Iron Maiden
Fav TV show: Venture Brothers
Fav Movie: Just one? 2001 I guess
Fav food: Chow Mein
Fav drink: Water
Fav alcoholic drink: Sam Adams White Ale
Fav book: anything Gary Larson
Superman or Batman?: Batman, d'uh
Kelly, Ruben or Fantasia: I despise American Idol
Rock star or Billionaire: Billionaire
Believe in aliens: Yes, but the chance of them visiting us within our lifetimes is nil
Believe in ghosts: Yes, but not in the classical way
Computer: 733 Quicksilver G4 maxed out
Deep dark secret: I don't mind living back at home one bit
Secret aspiration: To make custom furniture for a living
Car: 2000 GMC Sonoma 4x4
Dream Car: GMC 3500 Diesel
Sexuality: Straight
Height: 5' 8"
Weight: 140 lbs. soaking wet
Gender: Male
Religion: Agnostic willing to give anything a chance (cept Scientology)
Cat or dog person: Had cats all my life, but I love both of em.
Outdoor or indoor personality: I work outside and I love to relax indoors
Do u consider yourself a geek?: I'm posting here, aren't I?
Interesting Fact: I've been working mostly full time since I was 12
MacNNers on cell phone: 0

[Oisín]

Originally Posted by sek929 

First Name: Sean
Nickname: Kennedy, skennedy, jerk

Aha. I’ve actually wondered what ‘sek’ meant. Now I guess I know.

Fav food: Chow Mein

Weight: 140 lbs. soaking wet

How much is that in non-soaking-wet terms?

[MacinTommy]

UPDATE but who really cares? I'm bored.

First Name: Tommy
Nickname: T-bags, the Knife, Tom-Tom, Mayko, Tim-Tom, Saltine, Yoko
MacNN Handle(s): MacinTommy
Age: 20
Profession: Bank Teller/ Student
Greatest acheivements: Nothing too great yet...
Fav music: Rock(classic and modern)
Fav music group or person: Red Hot Chili Peppers.. But I love Incubus, Led Zeppelin, The Beatles and Metallica
Listening to now: Brainwashed- George Harrison (when I started editing) but now it's The Past Recedes- John Frusciante
Fav TV show: 24, The Price is Right, Chappelle's Show (when it was on )
Fav Movie: Fight Club -- and I just saw Rounders which was awesome I guess I like Edward Norton.
Fav food: ANYTHING Italian
Fav drink: Jones Soda
Fav alcoholic Beverage: Liquor- Jagermeister Beer- Bud Light
Fav book: Scar Tissue- By: Anthony Kiedis
Superman or Batman? Batman
Kelly, Ruben or Fantasia: Kelly
Rock star or Billionaire: Billionaire
Believe in aliens: Of course. I cash their checks every day.
Believe in ghosts: Only if i see one.
Car: 2006 Black Saturn Ion 3
Mac: 20" Aluminum iMac 2.4 GHz Core2Duo 1GB RAM.... soon to be 4GB of ram
Deep dark secret: secrets dont make friends
Secret aspiration: To work for Apple..

Dream Car: (Non realistic) 2000 Orange Lamborghini Diablo 6.0 (realistic) Black Audi S5
Sexuality: Straight
Kids: none... don't be a fool wrap your tool
Relationship Status: Single
Height: 5'9"
Weight: 165 lbs
Gender: Male
Religion: None
Role Model: My dad
Yearly income: well I'm hourly so it varies
cat or dog person: dog my dachsund Mac!
outdoor or indoor personality: mixed
do u consider yourself a geek? be HONEST: only when it comes to Macs