Jolly Roger

WHAT ARE YOUR FAVORITE TOP 5 GAMES OF ALL TIME (excluding Subspace)?
1) Warcraft II
2) Ultima IV
3) Magic the gathering (though not lately) :(
4) Tie Fighter
5) Streetfighter II (Tournament edition)

WHAT ARE YOUR FAVORITE TOP 5 BOOKS?
1) Lord of the Rings
2) the ORIGINAL 6 Dragonlance (the short stories just suck)
3) Hyperioni/Fall of Hyperion
4) Foundation Trilogy
5) Chtorr Series

WHAT ARE YOUR FAVORITE TOP 5 MOVIES?
1) The Princess Bride
2) Empire Strikes back
3) Porco Rosso
4) The Right Stuff
5) Secret of Nimh

WHAT ARE YOUR FAVORITE TOP 5 MUSIC?
1) "Noone is to Blame" Howard Jones
2) "Orinoko Flow" Enya
3) "Call me Al" Paul Simon
4) "Learning to Fly" Pink Floyd
5) Anything by Rush

WHAT ARE YOUR FAVORITE TOP 5 INTERNET SITES?
Mmm.. I really don't surf too much... Usually I use the web to find technical documents/leads on electronic hardware so I'd have to say:
1) Texas Instruments
2) National Semiconductor
3) Motorola
4) Toshiba
5) Hitachi

WHICH PLAYER IN THE GAME DO YOU ADMIRE THE MOST AND WHY?
Templar. A super team-player with the right attitude. He showed me that is IS possible to be a good sport and have fun and still win from time to time, even against hardcore ruthless 'win at any cost' pricks. And a super pilot who I speced a bunch and learned when to excersise the greater part of valor :)

AS A WINNER IN THE GAME WHAT ADVICE WOULD YOU GIVE TO NEW PLAYERS?
I would advise that Subspace is a fun game, let it be fun! Always remember that the great axiom is as true here as it is anywhere else: No matter how good you get, or how much you learn, there is always someone better who knows more. Find them and LEARN from them.

HAS THE INTERNET CHANGED YOUR LIFE IN ANY MEANINGFUL WAY?
Hell yes. I owe my job and most of my friends to the internet. I could say volumes more but there isn';t the space so I'll leave it at that.

DOES TECHNOLOGY INCREASE OR DECREASE MORALITY?
Ha. Technology is just a tool. Its the user who defines morality. It is like any other tool that has been created from gunpowder to baseball bats to Bulldozers. With the capacioty to great good comes the capacity to do great bad.. really all you have the ability to do is "great things" the technology doesn't care.

WHO WAS THE MOST IMPORTANT MAN OF THE 20TH CENTURY?
Yep. fraid I can't give you any kind of answer on this one.

DO YOU HAVE ANY RELIGIOUS BELIEFS? IF SO, WHY/WHY NOT?
None. The short version: it's hard to hold with arbitrary views of mythical nonesense when you are an engineer who works with the REAL world. noone ever "prayed" a building up.

DO YOU HAVE A FAVOURITE PHILOSOPHER?
Easy, James Burke.

IF YOU WERE STRANDED WITH 100 OTHER PEOPLE ON AN ISLAND WHAT SKILLS DO YOU HAVE THAT WOULD HELP THE COMMUNITY?
I have a backround in mechanics, electronics and computers (have a degree in ME and CPE) as such I have a good grasp of materials and material science I think I could help with shelter, day-to-day living and making the best with what we had until help could be summoned. I was also a boyscout, so I have probably a better knowledge of "outdoorsmanship" than your average bear.

WHAT IS THE NEXT BIG TECHNOLOGICAL REVOLUTION THAT YOU THINK WILL OCCUR?
Well, as my favorite philosopher James Burke would put it: If you learned anything from me at all you've learned that prediciting revolutions is impossible, who knows what someone is doing with a roll of toilet paper?

IF YOU HAD THE CHANCE TO SAY SOMETHING TO A HUNDRED THOUSAND PEOPLE FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD WHAT WOULD YOU SAY?
Or maybe something a teensy bit more profound, like "stop being so damn selfish! half the worlds problems could be solved if the odd person was willing to give a little to someonoe elses point of view"

-The Jolly Roger

"Poor pathetic soul.. always chooses rock.." -Lisa
"Good ol' rock, nothing beats rock" -Bart Simpson
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