Get To Know Your LACWAC Community! (Fun Facts Inside!)

User Name & Origin: Wanted something that sounded like a "real name" but wasn't (really mine, that is!).

Real Name: Val....

Age: um, must I? For the non-math-challenged, I graduated high school the year we left Vietnam.

Status: Same as when I was born. Single. No, I am not that crazy woman with cats - I have ONE cat. He's (unfortunately) the only male in my life - and he's both neutered and non-human.

Astrological Sign: Aries

Location: suburb of Seattle, WA

Job/School: Licensed insurance agent. (Ducks)

Favorite Food(s): Does it have cheese? Dark chocolate? Make you fat?

Favorite Drink: Pina Coladas or Diaquiris - but have them very rarely

Favorite Non-Alcoholic Drink: The doctor said to cut down on coffee.

Favorite Music: Easy listening, orchestral, 60's folk music... I'm pretty fond of most genres

Recent Stuff I've liked: Josh Groban, Sarah Brightman

Favorite (non-SW) Films: Moulin Rouge, non-foul-mouthed comedies

Favorite OT Film: Must I choose?

Favorite PT Film: Revenge of the Sith

Favorite TCW Episode: no particular one, but every episode gets bonus points if Obi-Wan actually does something

Favorite TV series: None currently - watch Discovery & History channel stuff (The Universe, etc)

All Time Favorite Game: games, I play no games.

Currently Reading: fan fic

Last Vacation: 2 week road trip to Arizona via Bryce, Zion & Grand Canyon with my mother for grandfather's 100th - 1 week of hiking in Oregon (Bend) in September.

Current Car: 2009 Subaru Forester (which I love, btw, replacing an also loved 99 Subaru Impreza Sport Outback)

Other hobbies: Hiking, photography, snowshoeing, x-c skiing, reading fan boards

 

Cool, my wife and I have gotten into cross-country skiing the last couple of winters. The 5/6 months of winter are much more bearable this way.


Hiking in general is great, particularly in Alberta. We did our first "real" backpacking trip up the Berg Lake Trail off the backside of Mount Robson this summer, I should try to dig up some of the incredible photos we got.

 

Do you go to Calgary Expo Garth?

 

User Name and Origin: LordMarduk (Marduk is a black metla band from Norway)

Real Name: Jess

Age: 33

Status: married

Astrological Sign: Libra

Location: Azusa Ca

Job/School: Image scanner

Favorite Food: Fried Chicken

Favorite Drink: Pepsi

Favorite Music: Death Metal
Recent Stuff I liked: Seinfeld

Favorite Non Star Wars Films: Rambo First blood, Terminator 1 and 2, The Predator, Used Cars

Favorite OT Film: Empire Strikes Back

Favorite PT Film: Revenge of the Sith

Favorite CW Episode: Cargo of Doom

Currently Reading: Book 5 from Rogue Squadron
Last Vacation: Have not had any

Current Car: Toyota and a nissan frontier

 

Don't even know what this is.

 

Been there, done that

We took the copter in to Berg Lake and backpacked out a few years ago (Seattle Mountaineer group).

With the photo committee of said group I've been to Lk O'Hara several times and Assinoboine as well - in fact I was there up on Little Nub when 9-11 took place. I also coptered in/out for a spring snowshoe/x-c trip there staying in the wood-stove heated cabins with a final night in the lodge.

I mainly shot film in those days, so my digi photos are mainly digicam photos on my website (so far) (see profile if you want to take a look).

I love LOVE LOVE the Canadian Rockies and California Sierras (not to mention my own Washington Cascades).

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http://www.calgaryexpo.com

I came out two years ago and met Daniel Logan......and was too impatient to hang around and chat with Matthew Wood. Looking back I wish I would have waited the extra couple hours. Anywho, it a fun Con. Peter Mayhew and Ray Park have been there in the past few years as well.

 

Never been to any kind of a convention.


So, helicoptering into base camp, eh? The lap of luxury! We hiked up from Robson. I thought I did quite well for my first extended hiking trip. Berg Lake was incredible, I kinda thought if it was more accessible, it could beat out Lake Louise.

I should dig up some of my photos - got one of me actually swimming with the icebergs in Berg Lake.

Did you do the Snowbird Pass? It was crazy to see this huge expanse of sheer snow/ice....got a feeling of what the Ice Age must have been like.

 

Ah, yes, Snowbird. Went on my own, sat up there staring at the ice sheet all by my lonesome (others came/went) while I was there. Felt like I had been thrown thousands of years into the past. It was rather awesome and humbling. (Back in 65 or so, we went on snowcats over the Columbia Glacier - it had not receded as far as it has now, but it wasn't quite so awesome and humbling).

We were asleep at the half way camp when a HUGE rockfall or thunder clap just reverberated behind us. Scared me awake. That was fun.

 

Just wondering.. why do we have two social/community threads up? Is it to seperate the 'normal' people from the quacks?

 

Well, I thought my first post kinda explained it.

The Social Thread tends to pop up once every blue moon for a few days, then fades to obscurity.

We had done a similar "get to know your community" thread in 3NS I think, with [borat]Great Success![/borat]

The social thread is really about anything, this thread is supposed to be for people to post some interesting stuff about themselves.


Like, I have an Autobot tattoo on my left bicep.

 

Hey Garth, are you going through some identity crisis? You've been changing colours and icons every other day recently!

It's so hard to keep up with who you're supposed to be that I almost banned you the other day...

 

User Name & Origin: Darth KreVass

crevasse |kr?'vas|
noun
a deep open crack, esp. one in a glacier.
? a breach in the embankment of a river or canal.
ORIGIN early 19th cent.: from French, from Old French crevace (see crevice ).

Real Name: Steve

Age: 45

Status: Married

Location: East Tennessee

Job/School: Print & Web Design/Front End Developer

Favorite (non-SW) Films:BraveHeart, 300, Gladiator, Italian Job, American Gangster, Gone in Sixty Seconds

Favorite OT Film: Empire Strikes Back

Favorite PT Film: Revenge of the Sith

Favorite TCW Episodes: Trespass, Rookies

Last Vacation: Princess Cruise

Current Car: Subaru Legacy

 

I'm kinda known as an ADD guy, always changing my colours and icons at a moment's notice.

Right now, because there's approximately 7 billion Hallow'en icons, I'm trying to do one per day if I remember.

 

Hmm, random fun facts.. Here's something, movies I haven't seen: The Godfather, Pulp Fiction, Citizen Kane, Slumdog Millionaire, Two Towers and Return of the King (and I hardly remember Fellowship), The Matrix, Saving Private Ryan, Kill Bill, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Dark Knight..

Lots of acclaimed stuff everyone else seems to have seen.

And hey, I got my second star.

 

Me neither. What's up with that? People really dig going to them, but I've just never had a hankering for meeting celebs or getting autographs signed.

 

Oh yay. I'm not the only one who hasn't been to conventions, no matter how delicious the material seems. XD

I suppose it's due to the knowledge that I'm really just gonna get the complete thing in the future eventually.

So instead, I dream up novels and visit a variety of wikis, including TVTropes. XD

 

Wow, cool, you sound just like me!

I actually admin a bunch of wikis, and managed to get the Thomas the Tank Engine, Pigeons, Jurassic Park, Left Behind, Theodore Tugboat and Primeval Wikis featured by Wikia.

I had help of course! I put the most work in the Thomas the Tank Engine and Primeval Wikis.

 

Heh, glad you think it's cool, though I admit I'm really more of a viewer than an editor.

 

User Name & Origin: JediBendu

For this reason, the Skywalker entrusted the secret of The Force only to his twelve children, and they in turn passed on the knowledge only to their children, who became known as the "Jedi Bendu of the Ashla": "the servants of the force". For thousands of years, they brought peace and justice to the galaxy.
- from the second draft of The Star Wars script

Real Name: Ben

Age: 34

Status: Married

Astrological Sign: Dantooine

Location: Epsom, Surrey, UK (just outside London)

Job/School: IT Consultant

Favorite Food(s): Thai, French

Favorite Drink: Mojito

Favorite Music: All-time: Powderfinger, Raconteurs, Hunters and Collectors, Bowie, Eurythmics, White Stripes, Nick Cave and the Bad seeds

Recent Stuff I've liked: Brendan Benson, Ting Tings, regina Spektor, Johnny Flynn

Favorite (non-SW) Films: Seven, Brick, Casablanca, Dodgeball

Favorite OT Film: Star Wars

Favorite PT Film: Revenge of the Sith

Favorite TCW Episode: Trespass

Currently Reading: Tokyo Year Zero by David Peace, About to start Jordan and Sanderson's The Gathering Storm

Last Vacation: A week in Havana, Cuba

Current Car: Ford Ka

 

User Name & Origin: CWQuest (i used to promote mma (cagefighting) for a company in england called Cage Warriors & my particular sub promotion was called Cage warriors quest, because it focused on up and coming tallent)

Real Name: Rob

Age: 30

Status: Engaged (getting married in june next year!)

Astrological Sign: Cancer

Location: Sheffield England

Job/School: i own a printing company called 1 click print (www.1clickprint.com) Day to day I do graphic design work here.

Favorite Food(s): Im a complete foodie, absolutely love cooking & eating the food i rank above all others is still egg on toast though.

Favorite Drink: red wine, brandy, irish whisky

Favorite Music: The Prodigy, rage against the machine, faith no more (generally 90's metal)

Recent Stuff I've liked: Prison break, batman arkham asylum, halo ODST

Favorite (non-SW) Films: Aliens, starship troopers

Favorite OT Film: Empire Strikes Back

Favorite PT Film: Revenge of the Sith

Favorite TCW Episode: trespass or hostage crisis can't decide between the two

Currently Reading: The Magicians by Lev Grossman. Just finished Iain M. Banks' Matter.

Last Vacation: a week in corsica with the missus & friends, fantastic place, good food, nice scenery.

Current Car: 2008 mercedes slk 55 AMG brum!


general info:

Since being 3 years old i have lived and breathed star wars, when i was at school i was also a big fan of warhammer tabletop games and when they released the star wars micro machines figures back in 97 i set about making a star wars version of my favourite game (warhammer 40k) I have been working on it building scenery, customising & collecting ever since then (coming up 13 years) and a fair few thousand pounds later im about half way there. i have a website for my game here www.galactic-conflict.co.uk where you can check out my micro machine customs of some clone wars inspired stuff (commando droids, arc troopers etc.). We have an entire room in our house dedicated to my star wars stuff but my wife to be is very understanding about it all. I suppose thats why she's my wife to be

 

cwquest - did you just cut and paste my current readings, or are you actually reading the same books as me?

 

oops

im currently reading: Republic Commando order 66

 

More and more I just feel like I'm on completely the wrong forum here.

And to think that I just spent a whole weekend chatting with Alex Milne and watching him draw Transformers Garth.

Conventions are about so much more than the celebrities. Gaming, Video Gaming, Retail(Dealer) areas, Costume Contests, Writing Workshops, Animation Workshops, Customizing Classes, Photo Oppurtunities and a lot more. Mostly its about gathering together with other people who have similar interests and just really having a great time.

All you who have never got a hankering check out these pics http://www.cccomiccon.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=502 and then if you still don't feel like going, well there's nothing I can do for you then