Off-Topic

sweet. I agree with pavlov, a lot of forums here have them and it does help soften the sometimes very formal nature of a lot of threads here, in fact transient posters might feel inclined to stop by more often.

I start mah new job tomorrow Johnny (social care, working with elderly at moment, hoping to get into occupational therapy in the future)

unemployed here too

rainbow kirby wrote: »

Just finished a masters in computer science. Looking for a job now - hoping to find a decent graduate Java developer job.

zxy - good luck with the new job

thanks it's a rung on the ladder.
Am working in computer research lab (as a scrubber) until then if you'd like I can make some inquiries. (I know the head of dept personally )

and for the OT, I think there's room for one as often other threads and posts tend to go that way so it's useful to have a place designed to accommodate them. Should deter a clique forming too.

rainbow kirby wrote: »

masters in computer science.

MYOB wrote: »

Field engineer in a medical IT company.

ItsThatManAgain wrote: »

Finished a Degree in Software Engineering and working away in the Electrical industry

zxy wrote: »

Am working in computer research lab (as a scrubber)

Is there something I should know about the computer industry?

I don't work in IT either, I just empty the bins (arty type myself) but I've really enjoyed working there. sound people I'm going to miss them.

zoegh wrote: »

So many gay nerds, I love it!!!

I'm going into final year of my PhD, although I'm a qualified social worker, but there was no work when I qualified, at least not in the field I wanted, so I managed to blag myself a funded PhD out of my last placement!

I work with older people with intellectual disabilities to tell their life stories, and (queue nerdiness!) I have built an online archive to house them. It's a great project, I get to get my doctorate basically by chatting to little old ladies over tea about their lives and playing around with web design. WIN! :cool:

Outside of workiness I play videogames (quelle suprise) and collect vintage games systems. Yeah I know. :P

I suspect we will be having much discussions in the near future :pac:

zoegh wrote: »

Star Trek FTW! But which series?

Gotta be Voyager for me, closely followed by Next Gen.

We do not speak of Enterprise.

Next Gen because I grew up on it and always loved Data, Deep Space Nine because it seems a lot of people didn't like it and Dax was so very hot, the original series for how camp it was and because of the films. or rather, some of them. I watched the voyage home loads of times, and it's always great.

Voyager I didn't like so much? dunno,

what enterprise? never heard of it!

I know, it's a connundrum

zoegh wrote: »

So many gay nerds, I love it!!!

I'm going into final year of my PhD, although I'm a qualified social worker, but there was no work when I qualified, at least not in the field I wanted, so I managed to blag myself a funded PhD out of my last placement!

I work with older people with intellectual disabilities to tell their life stories, and (queue nerdiness!) I have built an online archive to house them. It's a great project, I get to get my doctorate basically by chatting to little old ladies over tea about their lives and playing around with web design. WIN! :cool:

Outside of workiness I play videogames (quelle suprise) and collect vintage games systems. Yeah I know. :P

AWESOME job and good old fashioned nerd hobbies.

zoegh wrote: »

I didn't like the way the Borg ended up just being a bit "BOO! Hahahahah we scared you!" by the end of Voyager, because they were proper badass when Picard went all Locutus.

how they handled the Borg was definitely a low point as well, I loved when they introduced 7 of 9 but as it went on I went from being excited about episodes about the borg to going "oh no" you're definitely right, they were extremely badass back in next gen, really unstoppable and powerful. voyager ruined them

what made DS9 really great was that they went their own way, had their own bad guys, and the dominion were really quite bad ass.

zoegh wrote: »

And yeah some of the characters of Voyager were annoying (God I wanted to SMACK Chakotay for all his "I shall call my spirit guide" things :mad:), but c'mon... Janeway. FREAKING JANEWAY! Kate Mulgrew is an epic actress, and that voice... HOLY MOLY! :eek:

NYOM NYOM NYOM

She's a great actress, but didn't save the series for me. I think most of the characters were annoying, or sometimes just bland and forgettable, like Tuvok or Harry Kim or Kes. there was some really awful episodes too, like that one where Tom Paris turns into some lizard creature for some silly reason? that has to be one of the worst I've seen in any trek series.

I liked Voyager at times, but it just wasn't as good at all as TNG or DS9 or the original series. and it had the worst cast of characters out of the lot. in DS9 even some of the minor characters were brilliant like Garak.

electrobi wrote: »

My hobbies include: bombing internet forums, drinking copious amounts if tea, traveling, graphic novels/manga/cosplay, cycling and stalking models.

cool, what kind of graphic novels are you into? I love the Sandman and what manga?

electrobi wrote: »

BTW. No thanks @ Star Trek.

Awww

Thaedydal wrote: »

Babylon 5 beats Trek, DS9 was the best of trek but Babylon 5 still wins.

it was probably the better show but I didn't have the same fondness as I did for the next gen. like, I grew up with trek, it was a big part of my childhood, but babylon 5 I didn't see until years after it aired.

I don't think I've ever really played any board games with friends. I remember one time trying to play some game, but we couldn't get the rules so just ended up playing poker instead lol