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"Uninteresting Autobiography"
magas   |
Apr-05-00, 10:33 AM (EST)
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"Uninteresting Autobiography" |
For the sake of new people on the boards, like Carlos or caseyjones1964 (I hope I didn't mix up the names), I'll post an autobiography of mine which I hope will be complete and objective enough.
I was born on the 12th of August, 1978 in Athens, Greece, at around 8:15 in a hospital by an abnormal manner. (That is, the doctors extracted me from my mother's womb by means of a surgery rather than the normal manner.) I lived in Ambalokipi, a region of downtown Athens, for two years, when we moved to Suda Bay Naval Base, in Crete. (That is the time from which I have my earlier recollections.) We lived there for two years, when we moved to Marrousi, a suburb of Athens, when my father was transferred to the Athens Naval Hospital.
We lived there for three years when we moved to nearby Chalandri, another suburb of Athens, when my parents felt that they could buy a house of their own. (Up to then we leaved on lease.)
We lived in Chalandri until 1989, when my father was transferred to SBNB again, this time to handle the base's entire hygionomical organization. We lived there three years and then I moved to Soufli, a small town (<4000) in North-Eastern Greece where my mother was born, with my mother and sister and brother while my father moved to Athens alone. The family was then reunited and I studied the senior high-school in Chalandri. (That lasts three years and when it ends you can be admitted to university.)
I didn't make it into the uni the first time, primarily because I was busy going to concerts and entertaining girls rather than studying, but the second time I tried, I made it very easily, studying no more than an hour a day, and am now studying civil engineering in the city of Xanthi. (I hope to become a transportation engineer and I can see post-graduate studies abroad after I'm finished here.) I own the apartment I live in here, which the government thinks is preposterous and forces me to pay exorbitant taxes, considering my income, which is not very high. I hope I'll be able to buy a small used car during the summer. (My sister is definitely going to buy a bigger new car and she's making a fuss about it, just to bust my...)
I first read RAH, on my father's advice, namely Starship Troopers, during our first stay in Chalandri and during my second stay there, I went about going downtown and buying sci-fi books, in English, every three or four weeks. (I would have done so more regularly had I been able to afford it.) RAH has shaped a great deal of my views of politics and life in general and I am grateful for the fact that his book have opened a whole different mentality from the one I experience here. (Did I mention that almost everyone here's a socialist, to a certain degree?)
My family life has not been particularly stable or peaceful and fights among members of the family (father vs mother, me vs father, sister v mother and all sorts of combinations you can think of) were a daily afair. They still are and that is why I think my brother wants to leave home and come to live with me, (he's graduating from senior high school this year and wants to study electrogical engineering and electronics at the same university with me) despite the fact that Xanthi is hell, compared to Chalandri.
I read and listen to music a lot, whereas I write for practice, you know to maintain a farily good standard in my English, paint miniatures and play basketball for a considerable portion of my time's. I'm a natural athlete and there is nothing I can make myself do with ease, except perhaps jump four meters in the air, execute a thee-flip roll and land on my index finger. IQ tests also state I rate above 99% of the population and my memory is excelent, with the minor exception of names and book titles. (I can remember what I've posted here for instance, and in the old boards, with amazing detail.)
This is rather long, but it was worth it.
If anyone should like to see a photo of mine, just to make sure you get how handsome I am as well, you can e-mail to impergus@hotmail.com and I'll be sure to get back to you.
I'm 181cms tall and weigh 69kgrs, which translates to, approximately, 6' and 150pounds.
My eyes are brown and so is my hair and my skin is a couple of shades lighter than that of the average Greek. I guess that wraps it up...
C.C.
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Raydeen  |
Apr-07-00, 06:18 AM (EST)
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2. "RE: Uninteresting Autobiography" |
Hey guys,
I didn't want to sound like I was bragging in my last post. It was more that I wanted to explore another area that I suspect we all have in common. I would imagine that if we did total up our common characteristics, it would be a long list!
raydeen
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carlos |
Apr-07-00, 08:56 AM (EST)
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3. "RE: Uninteresting Autobiography" |
hi Raydeen,a jerk is a jerk wether her/his IQ stands at 210 or 65. inteligence has got little to do with social behaviour. a brilliant mind can be spoiled by wrong education and bad values and an average person in terms of IQ can be just delightful to be with. that is just us humans, capable of the very best and the very worst. i have no idea of my IQ except that it has been enough to take me through my life so far. what i usually find is that regardless of linear intelligence people tend to concentrate on what interests them. being so a dimwit can be brilliant at handling precision tools and a genius can kill himself trying to use a nail clipper. i hope that the characteristics we do not share at least equal to the ones we do. that is what keeps me coming to this boards. i know that will always have some friends to agree with and some others to "fight" with. thanks to you all for being there
all the best
carlos
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Amanda |
Sep-06-00, 07:26 AM (EST)
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17. "IQ" |
As far as I understand it, IQ is just a measure of how quickly and easily one can learn, not at all how much one knows. That's why it can change in the course of one's life. Though I wouldn't swap my IQ for love or money (my mom refused to tell me what it was when I got it tested years and years ago, but I found out anyway), what I find much more important is a person's drive to know. I will have much more in common with a person who is interested in things and sees life as a process of learning and growing than one who doesn't but has a preposterously high IQ.For any who are interested, here is an on-line IQ test that takes less than 15 minutes: http://www.iqtest.com It claims it is accurate, though the few people I know who have done it (including myself) say that it seems to run several points high. In my opinion, MENSA is a crock of #####, just a group to make lame people feel better by thinking they're lording it over everyone about how smart they are. I once played in an orchestra at a MENSA gathering and found them to be a boring, repulsive lot. I rather prefer folks who could get into MENSA but shiver at the thought and decline membership.
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SailFree |
Sep-06-00, 09:49 PM (EST)
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18. "RE: IQ" |
LAST EDITED ON Sep-06-00 AT 09:50 PM (EST)Hi, Amanda, If you don't like MENSA, you could go for Triple-9 Society or 4-Sigma. But I think you are right, in general, about the folks who join such. As Heinlein said about the small lizard who was a brontosaurus on his mother's side... --Al
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Tony |
Sep-09-00, 02:48 AM (EST)
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23. "RE: IQ" |
I took the test, too, and I thought that the results were significantly exaggerated in two ways.First, the numbers. Without giving a mean and standard deviation, they're meaningless. But the two commonest IQ scales have SDs of 15 and 16, and on them my IQ comes out as 12 or 15 points below what I scored on this test. Secondly, the descriptions. It says that an IQ of 130 is "entry level Genius". But the Termin scale gives 150 as Genius level. I'm no statistician, but I suspect this test would call something like 10% of the population "genius". The clincher, of course, is that they want to sell you something. Salesmen _always_ flatter the customer.... As for Mensa, I joined when I was at University. Half a dozen of us got around together, drinking Coke, listening to Tom Lehrer, and talking about _everything_. When the Mensa crew came recruiting on campus, we all took the test. All breezed through, too. One of us (not me) was a certifiable genius. Anyway, we didn't find any of the arrogasnce that others have mentioned. Maybe a difference in national character. We did find that IQ made very little difference in the way people got through life. It was a commonplace in the club that "IQ is a pretty rough measure of nothing in particular." We had at least our fair share of dropouts, dole bludgers, alcoholics and failed marriages. About the only thing we had which differentiated us from any random group was that we could all _talk_ to each other, about pretty much anything. But of course, the same thing is true of this group. And, frankly, we all seem to get on a whole lot better than my old Mensa chapter ever did.
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Raydeen |
Sep-10-00, 03:21 PM (EST)
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24. "RE: IQ" |
Hello, all,
This topic is interesting! I took the test, and it corresponded with the two times I have taken an IQ test in my life. I still concur, that while knowing your score is fun, it doesn't always mean success. Raf says that his IQ is lower than mine by around 10-20 points (if I remember right), but I know that he is a much quicker thinker than I am. He gets more out of information than I do, too. And he is very successful. So, IQ is a measurement of a certain kind of variable...but it sure doesn't guarantee that you will make it in life. I think that well-directed natural curiosity can count for much more, anyway.
Raydeen
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Occula |
Apr-07-00, 12:13 PM (EST)
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4. "RE: Uninteresting Autobiography" |
Just wondering, Costas, how you came to own your apartment ... saving your money through hard work, probably, or was there a "luck" factor? I have "homeowner's jealousy" since I can't imagine being able to own a dwelling for another five years at least.
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Occula |
Apr-07-00, 12:14 PM (EST)
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5. "RE: Uninteresting Autobiography" |
Just wondering, Costas, how you came to own your apartment ... saving your money through hard work, probably, or was there a "luck" factor? I have "homeowner's jealousy" since I can't imagine being able to own a dwelling for another five years at least.---Hope I managed to stop this before it posted. I wanted to add that when people say they own a home here, they usually mean "I'm $120,000 in debt," which to me means the home owns them - but still, I'd love to live in a house. *sigh* someday, maybe ...
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magas |
Apr-12-00, 01:35 AM (EST)
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7. "RE: Uninteresting Autobiography" |
Well, the answer is simple enough...
A. I am lucky, but not to the extent of buying a house. (That is, I have never won a lottery or something, however things just seem to come along my way when luck is concerned. (Like always catching the bus, no-matter how slow I move...))
B. Apartments here are cheap but...I have a debt to pay up to a bank you know. (20000 dollars approximately.) Thank goodness interest rates are low, I have fifteen years to pay it up AND I have an income higher than the monthly pay to the bank. (I do have to economize though, therefor the car can wait (almost indefinitely (argh! this is surely wrong spelled)), the new computer that I desperately need can wait and I have to buy much less CDs that I would have liked. (In short, in the past year that I have had to pay the mortgage, I have cut my other expenses by 35-50%.)
C. I don't have anyone else's needs (or financial worries) to trouble myself over, so if I screw up, it's just me and I can take the chance.And answering Raydeen's message,
a copy of MENSA's tests reached my hands and I found it very easy. (There was this preliminary test that had something like 30 questions which you had to answer in thirty minutes. I answered 27 of the questions in ten minutes and didn't care to bother with the other three. (As it happened, you earned more points for answering quickly rather than correctly so the twenty minutes to spare that I had would weigh more that the remaining three questions answered in five minutes and I let it be as it was.) The result read "You'd make the perfect MENSA member" and I decided "it would be the perfect waste of time" because I had little interest in taking easy tests.) I don't like non-challenging situations, so I never pushed the matter further (that is bother to actually take the tests and join MENSA). I feel like bubbling, don't I?
C.C.
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Occula |
Apr-12-00, 08:28 AM (EST)
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8. "RE: Uninteresting Autobiography" |
Thanks! I was just being nosy, but I was curious.I think that's how you spell "indefinitely." I always thought I was lucky and things just came my way - until I was about 22 or 23. I'm not sure what happened - I think my karma's off!
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magas |
Apr-13-00, 01:23 AM (EST)
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9. "RE: Uninteresting Autobiography" |
Yes...
Or no?
What am I typing?!?!?!
Anyway, I forgot what I was going to type, probably because it was unimportant. (Something more interesting than my thoughts invaded my mind.)
Hehehehehe
C.C.
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magas |
Apr-17-00, 03:32 AM (EST)
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11. "RE: Uninteresting Autobiography" |
Tha bank happened to appreciate the fact that my grandmother left me a house back at the village when she passed away three years ago.
(Since you got something you can draw upon, they said, we can lend you the money, but be warned! Should you fall back, you can kiss both your houses goodbye.)
Luckily, I've not fallen back on payments and if things keep good, I'll not do so. (Since I'll be leaving this hell-hole in 2.5yrs' time, I'll be renting the apartment, which mind you is not something fancy, so it will be transformed from something I pay for into something that pays for.)
C.C.
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magas |
Apr-28-00, 08:46 PM (EST)
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13. "RE: Uninteresting Autobiography" |
Nor really, it's pretty factual!
hahahahahahahahahahahahahah
I'd rather have my granny around than the house. People can't be replaced by material possessions, no matter how intensely you disagreed with them.
C.C.
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Willis |
Sep-11-00, 11:16 PM (EST)
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26. "RE: Uninteresting Autobiography" |
C.C. (or, is it "Magas" now),Sorry I couldn't wade completely through your bio, but I did notice you mentioned Marrousi. I visited Athens about 3 years ago and remember being there. Also, I was in Kafisia. Loved the souvlaki and tsadziki (spelling?), but the baklava was a little too sweet for me! Willis
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magas |
Sep-21-00, 04:57 AM (EST)
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27. "RE: Uninteresting Autobiography" |
Willis,
Actually, spelling and pronounciation differ from one region to the other. In Athens, the thing, which I find too abusive for my sensitive stomach, is called "tzantziki" and pronounced very much like what you wrote it. In Crete, it's called "santziki", with the ntz part pronounced n-dz, instead of dz and...well, in other regions it's called differently as well.
A question...how come and you came over by my home-town? (If a five million city can ever be called a town...) Is there any chance of you visiting us again? If so, drop an e-mail at impergus@hotmail.com and I'll be sure to give you the exclusive QH-boards-member-only tour guide!
C.C.
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Tony |
Sep-22-00, 03:06 AM (EST)
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28. "RE: Uninteresting Autobiography" |
Hi Constantinos.I've heard of tsatziki, of course, but if I ever knew what it was I've forgotten. So when I read this thread I went and looked up my little book of Greek cookery. All of the recipes are named in both Greek and English, but the index only references the English names. Aaugh! So I had to scan the whole book. Actually, I only got a quarter of the way through before I found something called "Tzajiki", which sounds pretty close - it seems to be mostly yoghurt and cucumber, flavoured with garlic and dill. Is that what you and Willis are talking about? Apart from the garlic, it doesn't sound too "abusive", so maybe I better continue scanning the book... *sigh* Tony.
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magas |
Sep-22-00, 05:20 AM (EST)
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29. "Greek Cooking" |
Yeap, that's it. It may not be abusive to you, but it is to me. (It is also a breath destroyer!) Officially, it's a salad...There are many others of its kind, much more spicy, which are actually good. (Bujurdi for instance.) If you want Greek recipes, I can e-mail anything to you, cause my mother knows them all!
C.C.
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Tony |
Sep-23-00, 02:02 AM (EST)
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30. "RE: Greek Cooking" |
LAST EDITED ON Sep-23-00 AT 02:08 AM (EST)Ah, well, the thing about garlic breath is that it bothers other people more than it does you.
Have to tell you this story. A few years ago I met a friend while walking around town. We wandered around a bit, chatting, and occasionally going into shops and even more occasionally buying things. Then she decided to go home, and invited me along. I didn't have anything else to do, so I agreed. The last shop we went into was a greengrocers, where she obviously knew the owner. She bought some stuff, I can't remember what, and the storekeeper gave her a handful of garlic.
"Thanks!" she said, and promptly started chewing it. I could live with that, I do it myself from time to time, although usually only when I've got a cold. Anyway, we got to her place, and she opened the door, to find her boyfriend sitting on the couch, waiting. "Dhaaarling!" she cried. "Kiss me!" He jumped out of the window and ran away. Literally. Neither of us saw him again until the next day.
And yeah, I'd love some recipes. That bujurdi sounds interesting. Also, I've got a recipe for something called trahanas, which seems to be a sort of home-made pasta made with milk, but I don't really trust commercial recipes. They're full of "1 medium onion" (what's medium? the size of a golf ball? a tennis ball? a baseball?) and "cook until done" (but do they ever tell you how to tell when it's done?) I was well into my twenties before I even figured out how to cook porridge properly. So if you, or your mother, can give me some hints, I'd appreciate it.
Tony. PS - I suppose I should give you mu email address, just in case you don't want to post the responses here (but I'm sure many people would be interested.) It's tonysl@ihug.co.nz Live long and prosper (no, that's not right. Um...)
Use the Force, Luke! (damn!)
Never Thirst. (Yeah, that's it.) Tony.
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SailFree |
Sep-23-00, 10:13 AM (EST)
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31. "RE: Greek Cooking" |
Hi, Constantinos C., Tony,I had some (unsure of spelling) "terropenes" at a Greek restaurant about 1969. Sort of a very cheesy-flavored little pastry. Loved them. Never found or heard of them since. --Al
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magas |
Sep-25-00, 06:24 AM (EST)
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32. "RE: Greek Cooking" |
Tony, Al,
When I get the recipes, they're beyond my meagre cooking skills, I'll be sure to post them.Trahanas is more of a soup, than anything else, and the correct spelling should be trachanas. (X becomes ch from Greek to Latin alphabets, hence chaos or chromatic.) And that's tyropites, which literally means cheese-pies. (It ain't the sorta (sic) pie you might think though.) There are lots of kinds of them, depending on the kind of cheese used, size, the sort of the pastry...I'll get three or four different ones and we'll see... And yes, commercial recipes are unreliable. (Maybe I should post photos designating "medium sized onions" and "done" food? Usually recipes are targeted to people who have, at least, eaten the thing a couple of times, so they know what it's supposed to look like.)
C.C.
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SailFree |
Sep-25-00, 08:55 PM (EST)
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33. "RE: Greek Cooking" |
Hi, Constantinos C.,Thanking you ahead of time. As I recall the little treats, they were only an inch or two across (2.5 to 5cm), basically bite-sized. This might be one variant of which you speak. I had them, by the way, at the Minsi Trail Inn in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, not far from the steel mills, most of which are now closed down, as I understand it. I haven't been back there in many, many years. --Al
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magas |
Oct-05-00, 01:46 AM (EST)
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34. "Update!" |
Well, quite a few things have been happening in my life lately, so I guess I should post an update.
First: I finally got to arrange a trip to foreign lands with strange people! With one year's delay, I will be visiting Scotland from November the second to the fifteenth. I'll be staying at a friend's place, which means that I won't be spending much. (Still, I expect to spend, beside the 150$ the airplane tickets to London cost me, an additional 200$ during my stay there.)
Second: The radio show I host with another guy will resume next week, but at a different time. Instead of noon, Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, we'll air in the evening Tuesday, Thursday and so two hours each time, instead of one. This is because last year's show was immensely successful and we had to be moved to a...prime-time zone!
Third: Thanks to Mike Bohrer's invaluable assistance, I have completed an entire novel in the English language! (This one is, I think, readable. Oh, the first ten chapters are ready, out of twenty, but I expect the next ten to follow soon enough.) I claim full responsibility for its failings, whereas Mike should be credited with quite a lot of the good stuff. Nevertheless, since the first half is available, I could e-mail it to anyone interested. So, the address is impergus@hotmail.com so anyone who feels like they have time to waste on my insanities, can drop an msg asking for the most precious MSWord file in history. (Okay, okay, so I blow things out of proportion. Big deal.)
Oups! Gotta go! I have a show to prep!
C.C.
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magas |
Oct-11-00, 03:33 AM (EST)
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36. "RE: Update!" |
Yeah, I even amaze myself!
Nevertheless, all this is, to a certain extent, a by-product of insomnia. If you can't sleep, you got to do something, and be it writing, radio-hosting or playing EA Sport's F1-2000, it all amounts into doing more than what you're supposed to.
Until you drop down exhausted.
C.C.
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magas |
Jan-01-02, 01:12 AM (EST)
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37. "I wasn't supposed to be here" |
Hmm...
Well, here are the...breath-taking news over my life, and an almost credible explanation over why I will only dropping by with weeks of interval at times.First, in order to get my civil (transportation)engineering degree, I have to do a dissertation which includes the design of a new airport's runway and aircraft parking space, which as you may easily understand, does take time. (No, I haven't grown bored of teasing you!) I also have to make arrangements for postgraduate - PhD studies, either in Greece or Deutschland, and that has gotten me pretty anxious, because there are some...legal matters that need my attention. Despite Al's speculation, I don't suffer from depression, since I know what it's like and I don't experience it now. Things COULD be better though, I'll admit to that much! You are invited to communicate with me at impergus@hotmail.com and there's a pretty good chance that you may even get mail from me, such as Greek music or translated comic books, if you ask for it, and be extremely patient. With a little luck, I'll have a personal web page up in the not-too-distant future, which will be devoted to engineering. That's all, happy new year!
C.C.
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C.N.Christidis |
Aug-25-02, 06:35 PM (EST)
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38. "August2002Update - Too Much Work!" |
Hi folks,
Sorry I was away, but there is simply too much work. One day I was fourteen hours at the office, and that was followed by twelve hours next day. I was supposed to be vacationing a couple of weeks back, but I actually worked all through it, while going from vacation area to workplace every other day.Actual vacation time: Two point four days
Working time: seven days Take a guess what workdays are really like! I like it though! Transportation engineering is so interesting...and I get to meet all those people in meetings who actually look up to me as an expert! (Well, I AM an expert.) And an apology... I had promised people CDs, and I had acquired their addresses. These were...deleted when my e-mail got flooded by viruses, and I deleted everything with no discrimination (can't play with these things). I'll send the stuff to Mike a month before Christmas, so he can include it in his Rare & Unusual Audio packages, provided he agrees of course! If anyone has any questions about transportation engineering, since I won't be able to put up my personal website soon which will be devoted to the subject, music, and science fiction, you can either ask me about it here, or impergus@hotmail.com or impergus@yahoo.com (yep, that's a new one). Provided I HAVE time, I'll respond as soon as possible, or at least provide required reading regarding your question. So long amigos!
C.C.
PS The Samurai movie series with Mifune, (Musashi Miyamoto and stuff), are required viewing. Yojimbo too, but you know that already, don't you? Bottom line, I've developed a taste for Japanese movies, not just Samurai ones.
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Constantinos Christidis |
May-23-06, 04:33 PM (EST)
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39. "PhD" |
Guys,
I've been absent of late, so there's some catching up to do...First of all, the University where I got my undergraduate and graduate education accepted my proposal for a Ph.D. thesis on the subject "Forecasting Airport Demand with Neural Networks - Comparison with Econometric Methods", so that means I'll be working very hard on that. With some luck (i.e. making good impressions on the right people) I might even get government grants for my research, but I don't count on it: my work involves minimal lab work, or resources for that matter, therefore it is not suited for...funding misappropriation - a must for many a research project. Furthermore, now that I've been discharged from the Navy, bad luck has struck my family, so they get a lot of my attention too. Let's just say that whoever finds a real way to beat cancer, whenever and wherever that may be, will probably rate second as a contributor to humanity only to the guy / gal who first lit a fire. I've seen so much pain and suffering of late that I could never imagine. Last, but not least, I've gotten my hands on the collected works of H.G.Wells. I planned to read the whole of them in just a few days, like I used to back when I was a student. Haven't read a single word yet. There just isn't time, and that's trully frustrating: there are all sorts of things that I want to do, but can't find the time to allocate to them...still, the thought I'll be making a contribution to science, minascule to be sure, but contribution nonetheless, usually sets me back on the right track. Well, I hope I'll be able to drop by more often, but can't guarantee it.
C.C.
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SailFree |
May-23-06, 08:26 PM (EST)
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40. "RE: PhD" |
Hi, Constantinos C.,You always have much interesting to say, so please try. Thanks for dropping in again, and congratulations on your acceptance, and good luck in your endeavours. --Al
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Willis |
May-24-06, 07:47 AM (EST)
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41. "RE: PhD" |
Hi, CC, I concur with Al. Here's hoping you can drop in on the board more often as you are a valuable contributor. You embody the cogent thought and erudite insight for which this board is known. My prayers are with you in everything you are facing! -Willis
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Mike |
May-25-06, 03:00 PM (EST)
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42. "RE: PhD" |
Hi, Constantinos,Yeah, I echo Al and Willis' comments as well- congrats on getting your thesis topic approved, and our thoughts/hopes/prayers are with you and your family on this ordeal with cancer... OK- if you're able to spend just 10% (ok, 2%) of the time you planned to spend reading Wells on logging in here and posting your comments, you'll liven this place up considerably!
Stop by again soon! -Mike
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