I have been a lurker on the SDMB since at least 1998. Shameful, isn’t it? I’ve spend untold hours here reading, and yet I think i’ve only posted once. In 1960. For 20 minutes.
Just kidding there. Still, it makes no sense to spend so much time in here without making my own contributions, so here I am at long last.
A very short bio: Born and raised in Cleveland, OH (except for 1 year of childhood in Isfahan, Iran), schooled in engineering in Chicago, a fan of reading, aviation (I really need to just pony up the $$ and get my license), motorcycles (especially racing and vintage bikes) and many other things. I volunteer with the American Red Cross and the American Motorcycle Association. Happily married and no kids. I suppose that’s enough, glad to be here!
As a former Greater Clevelander, I greet you, Dorjän. As a member of the welcoming committee (we should make that an official group, similar to the SDMB Brat Pack), I can assure you that there’s nothing to fear from the goat, no matter what impression you may have gotten from reading other “newbie” threads…
Welcome! I’m a licensed pilot, seriously out of currency (in more ways than one, but I mean I haven’t flown a plane since 1978) and my husband is a motorcycle kinda guy, and I’m an engineer, too. And yet, somehow, I don’t feel particularly close to you.
There are no squid. The goat is an illusion. No-one here has ever heard of lime jello, death rays, or salad tongs (at least in this context). The trebuchet is merely a fantasy among certain of the more creative elements. No-one has ever ordered an emu or 10-cm acrylic sheeting. We have no goat shampoo. The shower cap is dry.
There is no need to worry.
[sub]Emus? We’re using emus now? What went wrong with the calamari? (I have a horrible feeling that I’ll soon find out what the bathysphere is for…) And yes, definitely shampoo the goat. [/sub]
A fellow Chicago educated engineer! An excellent addition if for that fact only.
Now your first assignment:
Pick as obscure a topic as you can think of and write a VERY angry rant about said subject replete with a minimum of 2 curses per sentence. Minimum length - 2 paragraphs of no less than 3 sentences each.
Post the result in a new thread in the pit and await your grade.
Fear not! Once I get a new power supply for the RoboGoat Mark IV, we’ll never have to worry about delays like this again!
Errr…and once a few more tiny glitches in the programming are worked out. We had to take out the last power supply with a rocket launcher, 'cause that sucker was doing more damage than a sugar-addled Kiki spending a weekend in Riff’s lab.
:eek: How did you know the squid was named Mariah?
Do not be overconfident. The contest is more equal than you know. The squid has developed quite a taste for goat (preferably still struggling), and I fear that she would like to sample trickier prey: yesterday she was watching* the first part of The Lord of the Rings through the acrylic wall of her tank, and she kept repeating the scene where the Nine Walkers enter the Mines of Moria…
[sub]*How, you ask? She has an underwater remote, of course. It’s not the kind of thing you can get at Radio Shack, though.[/sub]
Just kidding there. Still, it makes no sense to spend so much time in here without making my own contributions, so here I am at long last.
