Topic: Probie - about me. (Read 5445 times)

Probie · « **on:** February 27, 2009, 07:32:47 AM »

Hi I'm Probie,

-I'm a c++ / graphics developer.
-I'm looking for a small community to call my own, /. just isnt personal enough.
-I want to meet geeks, they are hard to come by in the real world as they don't often leave the house.
-I'm into metal music, getting drunk and tattoos... i also like science.
-I'm from the uk.

and I'm 23 and a girl.

Yo! x

Demosthenes · « **Reply #1 on:** February 27, 2009, 09:46:31 AM »

Ah, yet another FBI agent.

Welcome!

Probie · « **Reply #2 on:** February 27, 2009, 09:54:39 AM »

not a feebie, ~~but am looking for pr0nography~~. Kidding.

Hai! So are most of the members to the west of me?

Joe Sixpack · « **Reply #3 on:** February 27, 2009, 10:17:12 AM »

Did you get your name how I think you got it?

LuciferSam · « **Reply #4 on:** February 27, 2009, 10:21:36 AM »

Welcome. What are your thoughts on the more esoteric works of Francis Bacon? Do you prefer a Freudian diet or a Gogolian diet?

Probie · « **Reply #5 on:** February 27, 2009, 10:24:31 AM »

*uses bendy mind powers to sense how you think I got it*

I watch a show called NCSI and there is a guy in it and his nickname is Probie, he's a little socially awkward and he likes a Goths. - very similar to me.

Also Probie is short for probationary, as in probationary period when you start a new job or something, so I always find it apt when I join a new forum, and usually no one else has chosen it. which helps to!

Probie · « **Reply #6 on:** February 27, 2009, 10:42:58 AM »

Bacon (the scientist) I'm only vaguely aware of The new Atlantis, so maybe that should be on my reading list, it should be a good follow up to 1984, which I finished a little while ago. (I know, its disgusting that I am 23 and only just read it)

As for Gogol I know little of him, Freud on the other hand walked that fine line between insanity and genius, I think I would have liked him. Troubled but a hedonist in my opinion. I often wonder what he would make of my dreams.

How about yourself?

ivan · « **Reply #7 on:** February 27, 2009, 11:42:04 AM »

Gogol didn't exactly walk that fine line so much as plummet headlong towards the insanity side.

There is no shame in reading something later rather than sooner, especially something like Nineteen Eighty-Four. Read it again when you are 50, and again when you are 75, and each time you will realize you didn't get it on the previous read at all (assuming that in the course of those years your worldview had undergone some refinement).

Also, you should read Down and Out in Paris and London. A link to the etext is at the bottom of the wiki page.

Finally, this week I'm doggedly insisting that everyone should read Candide.

HEY EVERYONE! READ THE FUCK CANDIDE ALREADY!

LuciferSam · « **Reply #8 on:** February 27, 2009, 11:47:50 AM »

I was actually referring to the painter. The scientist was English, and post-euclidean, therefor of little relevence to my life. As for myself, I prefer the Gogolian diet, as it includes more grains and simple carbohydrates with a good balance of red meat.

Ivan, I feel Candide is overrated - I much prefer Peter Seller's views on the monarchy.

Probie · « **Reply #9 on:** February 27, 2009, 11:58:06 AM »

ahh my mistake, a quick google tells me my opinion of HIS work is; it is terrifying.

are you irish or american?

Edit: jeez call the gammar police!

LuciferSam · « **Reply #10 on:** February 27, 2009, 12:18:01 PM »

My dear, I am whatever you want me to be.

ivan · « **Reply #11 on:** February 27, 2009, 12:20:11 PM »

Quote from: LuciferSam on February 27, 2009, 11:47:50 AM

I was actually referring to the painter. The scientist was English, and post-euclidean, therefor of little relevence to my life. As for myself, I prefer the Gogolian diet, as it includes more grains and simple carbohydrates with a good balance of red meat.

Ivan, I feel Candide is overrated - I much prefer Peter Seller's views on the monarchy.

I'm not sure what Peter Seller's views on the monarchy are. But I quibble with your take on Candide -- for something to be overrated, it has to be rated in the first place. No one recommended it to me -- I came upon it by accident. What impressed me was that something written a thousand years ago could still be funny. So, I'll give it an 8 out of 10, so as not to contribute to its overrating, but secretly, in my heart of hearts, consider it to be a solid 9.

Also, if Gogol stayed true to his Ukranian roots, his diet probably included a lot of butter and sour cream.

Probie · « **Reply #12 on:** February 27, 2009, 12:23:54 PM »

Quote from: LuciferSam on February 27, 2009, 12:18:01 PM

My dear, I am whatever you want me to be.

How very elusive of you.

LuciferSam · « **Reply #13 on:** February 27, 2009, 12:32:20 PM »

Quote from: Probie on February 27, 2009, 12:23:54 PM

How very elusive of you.

I'm very much like a fox, my darling. You remind me of the interconnectedness of Chopin to the metal signatures of the eighties. Complex, interwoven, but with such a pure and honest background. Tell me, what are you plans for this evening?

Ivan, I would have recommended it to you had I any idea that you held anything but loathing for the pre-revolutionary french. You simply must see a performance of Bernstein's opera of the piece.

Joe Sixpack · « **Reply #14 on:** February 27, 2009, 01:02:48 PM »

Quote from: Probie on February 27, 2009, 10:24:31 AM

*uses bendy mind powers to sense how you think I got it*

I watch a show called NCSI and there is a guy in it and his nickname is Probie, he's a little socially awkward and he likes a Goths. - very similar to me.

Also Probie is short for probationary, as in probationary period when you start a new job or something, so I always find it apt when I join a new forum, and usually no one else has chosen it. which helps to!

So it has nothing to do with a rubber glove and an abnormally long and dexterous pinkie then.

On an unrelated note, what's wrong with being a hedonist?

Novice · « **Reply #15 on:** February 27, 2009, 03:10:44 PM »

I'm going to duck under most of the topics being discussed so far (though I guess they are already over my head

) and say

Welcome, new person!

pbsaurus · « **Reply #16 on:** February 27, 2009, 03:33:42 PM »

Welcome special agent Probie

Min · « **Reply #17 on:** February 27, 2009, 04:20:14 PM »

She said she's looking for geeks, not nerds. Stop tripping over yourselves, you silly boys.

Welcome Probie. Hope you like it here.

HeavyJay · « **Reply #18 on:** February 27, 2009, 04:39:52 PM »

Tits or GTFO.

No, I'm kidding. Just GTFO.

xolik · « **Reply #19 on:** February 27, 2009, 05:20:29 PM »

Quote from: Probie on February 27, 2009, 07:32:47 AM

and I'm 23 and a girl.

OMG R U REALLY A GURL?!?!?!?!?

BUTTSECS?!

Ok, Internet Male idiocy aside, welcome and I hope you stay around and become a regular contributor.

Probie · « **Reply #20 on:** March 01, 2009, 04:03:07 AM »

Thank you all for such a gracious hello! I think I'm going to stick around... I like it here.

Probie · « **Reply #21 on:** March 01, 2009, 04:14:20 AM »

Quote from: LuciferSam on February 27, 2009, 12:32:20 PM

I'm very much like a fox, my darling. You remind me of the interconnectedness of Chopin to the metal signatures of the eighties. Complex, interwoven, but with such a pure and honest background. Tell me, what are you plans for this evening?

You got a lot from a few posts haha. My plans where to have dinner with a friend and have an early night so we could get up early and watch battlestar galactica! Exciting I know, but battlestar galactica was very good. Also yesterday I made orange chocolate cookies, which was fun!

LuciferSam · « **Reply #22 on:** March 01, 2009, 08:37:33 PM »

Ah the noble cookie. Tell me, do you enjoy travel? If so, I have a business proposal that may captivate your interest. It involves plenty of travel, and canned meat goods. Very lucrative, my dear.

Probie · « **Reply #23 on:** March 02, 2009, 07:06:20 AM »

Quote from: LuciferSam on March 01, 2009, 08:37:33 PM

Ah the noble cookie. Tell me, do you enjoy travel? If so, I have a business proposal that may captivate your interest. It involves plenty of travel, and canned meat goods. Very lucrative, my dear.

Canned meats, you say? Sounds ominous. I hope it is nothing untoward, that would never do.

LuciferSam · « **Reply #24 on:** March 02, 2009, 01:10:29 PM »

No, no, it's nothing beyond, you know, private enterprise. My guys in new york collect pallets of Spam and Hormels products that have fallen off of trucks, and to get the most use out of them, we put them in the lining of your luggage, and you sit on them from New York to San Francisco, where someone else takes over and drives them to Willy's Bar. Willy sells them off in his alley, pays up the vig, and we all get a cut of the pie - totally fine, totally Bee's-Knees. If you're in, you're going to have to ship me a carton of Chesterfields first, to show you're reliable. And not a GMan. Then, we'll outfit you - you'll get a mohair, camelhair, minkhair trenchcoat in Taupe, knee length, some tea shades and a set of aviators, a switchblade, and some alligator skin shoes so that you'll blend in with the rest of us, and the general public. Then, we're all ready.

Are you in!?

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