# New Member Introduction **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 1, 2014, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-member-introduction/680297 "2014-02-01T20:13:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Harmicky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/4bbf92/32.png) [@Harmicky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmicky)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2014, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-member-introduction/680297/1 "2014-02-01T20:13:37Z")
Hi Dopers. Not sure where the best location for this type of post is, so I thought I’d try here. I’ve been lurking on the boards for the past few weeks and figured it was time to register and officially become a participant. I am a late twenties man living in Florida with my wife and child. I am a veteran of the USN and am currently employed as the manager of a contracted team of threat intelligence analysts working in a global command center for the security and investigations division of an international financial institution operating in more than 100 countries. I am ambitiously pursuing a promotion to a more senior program management position (fingers crossed). I like gardening in my tropical landscape, offshore fishing, beaching the boat on a sand bar and drinking too many beers, playing video games…and posting on internet message boards. Cheers ---
**Author:** ![arielburns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6de8d8/32.png) [@arielburns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/arielburns)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2014, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-member-introduction/680297/2 "2014-02-01T20:32:25Z")
> [@Harmicky](#): > > Hi Dopers. > > Not sure where the best location for this type of post is, so I thought I’d try here. > > I’ve been lurking on the boards for the past few weeks and figured it was time to register and officially become a participant. > > I am a late twenties man living in Florida with my wife and child. I am a veteran of the USN and am currently employed as the manager of a contracted team of threat intelligence analysts working in a global command center for the security and investigations division of an international financial institution operating in more than 100 countries. I am ambitiously pursuing a promotion to a more senior program management position (fingers crossed). > > I like gardening in my tropical landscape, offshore fishing, beaching the boat on a sand bar and drinking too many beers, playing video games…and posting on internet message boards. > > Cheers Global command center, cool stuff. I operate one out of the center of my living room, but that is very secret and I can’t talk about it. 😃 In my spare time I work as an RN, two jobs, one with pediatric clients and another with chemically dependent at risk clients. I also play piano, write music and poetry, and love to read about controversial subjects. Florida would be an awesome place to live, I thinks, Minnesota is crazy sauce right now. Welcome. Ariel ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2014, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-member-introduction/680297/3 "2014-02-01T21:55:08Z")
Welcome from Australia. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2014, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-member-introduction/680297/4 "2014-02-01T22:11:06Z")
Harmicky, before we proceed, can you give us your coordinates? It’s nothing, really. If you have nothing to hide, you certainly won’t have a problem with this, right? And, by the way, welcome. ---
**Author:** ![Harmicky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/4bbf92/32.png) [@Harmicky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmicky)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2014, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-member-introduction/680297/5 "2014-02-01T23:22:31Z")
> [@arielburns](#): > > Global command center, cool stuff. I operate one out of the center of my living room, but that is very secret and I can’t talk about it. 😃 > > In my spare time I work as an RN, two jobs, one with pediatric clients and another with chemically dependent at risk clients. I also play piano, write music and poetry, and love to read about controversial subjects. Florida would be an awesome place to live, I thinks, Minnesota is crazy sauce right now. Welcome. > > Ariel Very cool. My wife is going to school to be an RN. > [@bobot](#): > > Harmicky, before we proceed, can you give us your coordinates? It’s nothing, really. If you have nothing to hide, you certainly won’t have a problem with this, right? > And, by the way, welcome. [http://goo.gl/maps/BlORm](http://goo.gl/maps/BlORm) ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2014, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-member-introduction/680297/6 "2014-02-02T00:01:10Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > Last edited by bobot; Today at 04:11 PM. Reason: Spelled new blood’s, ahhh… new member’s name wrong. So, we’re calling them “new members” now? I didn’t get the memo. 😕 I guess it sounds nicer than “squid food”. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2014, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-member-introduction/680297/7 "2014-02-02T00:22:55Z")
Welcome, welcome! Please come this way, we have some ice-cream treats in the cooler on the left. (Please don’t open the cooler on the right. Bob down in Department 4 gets a little testy when newbies do that before the appropriate time.) ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2014, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-member-introduction/680297/8 "2014-02-02T00:26:40Z")
> [@Harmicky](#): > > [Google Maps](http://goo.gl/maps/BlORm) Well played, sir. Welcome! ---
**Author:** ![Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2014, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-member-introduction/680297/9 "2014-02-02T03:56:38Z")
Welcome! We need more Floridians here. Are you from the crazy part, the part that makes the news for being crazy, or southern part up north? I guess there may be other options. (I’m in the part that makes the news for being crazy…Miami/Fort Lauderdale area) ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2014, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-member-introduction/680297/10 "2014-02-02T06:42:34Z")
I spent a week or so in Miami in 1977. It was a lot like Coney Island of the time… it’s where elderly Jewish couples go and give birth to Hispanic teenagers. ---
**Author:** ![Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2014, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-member-introduction/680297/11 "2014-02-02T16:07:59Z")
> [@Ranger\_Jeff](#): > > I spent a week or so in Miami in 1977. It was a lot like Coney Island of the time… it’s where elderly Jewish couples go and give birth to Hispanic teenagers. Still pretty much true today. Plus some other nationalities that are sometimes mistaken for Hisapnic. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![BobArrgh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobarrgh/32/2881_2.png) [@BobArrgh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobArrgh)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2014, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-member-introduction/680297/12 "2014-02-02T20:34:51Z")
I hate being mistaken for Hisapnic. Having sleep apnea is bad enough without being labled as Hisapnic. Welcome to the SDMB, **Harmicky**. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2014, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-member-introduction/680297/13 "2014-02-03T01:02:53Z")
> [@Harmicky](#): > > [Google Maps](http://goo.gl/maps/BlORm) That puts a whole new spin on the mutterings of the Russians about using a nuke to disrupt the hole of the _Deepwater Horizon_’s well during the oil spill. ---
**Author:** ![Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2014, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-member-introduction/680297/14 "2014-02-03T04:02:13Z")
> [@BobArrgh](#): > > I hate being mistaken for Hisapnic. Having sleep apnea is bad enough without being labled as Hisapnic. > > Welcome to the SDMB, **Harmicky**. Oops. I mean…yeah…I meant that, as a super deep commentary on South Florida. Yeah…that’s the ticket… ---
**Author:** ![Harmicky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/4bbf92/32.png) [@Harmicky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmicky)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2014, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-member-introduction/680297/15 "2014-02-04T03:53:25Z")
Thanks for the welcomes, all. Yes, I live in the crazy part of Florida (isn’t it all?). ---
**Author:** ![jimbuff314](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c57346/32.png) [@jimbuff314](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimbuff314)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2015, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-member-introduction/680297/17 "2015-01-13T14:18:06Z")
Whoa. ---
**Author:** ![DrumBum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e79b87/32.png) [@DrumBum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrumBum)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2015, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-member-introduction/680297/18 "2015-01-13T15:01:31Z")
> [@Harmicky](#): > > Very cool. My wife is going to school to be an RN. > > [Google Maps](http://goo.gl/maps/BlORm) Based on your location you have already been introduced to the squid. Don’t get too cocky - the goat is in a particularly foul mood today and you are fortunate to have an RN close by. Oh, and greetings from West Africa. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![swampspruce](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampspruce/32/261_2.png) [@swampspruce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampspruce)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2015, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-member-introduction/680297/19 "2015-01-13T16:44:40Z")
Greetings **Harmicky**! Enjoy your stay in this twisted portion of the Internet. The fact you appear to have a sense of humour is a huge bonus, and will greatly facilitate your…integration… into our little family. Please note the exit doors have been secured for your safety and convenience. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2015, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-member-introduction/680297/20 "2015-01-13T18:13:55Z")
> [@swampspruce](#): > > Greetings **Harmicky**! Enjoy your stay in this twisted portion of the Internet. The fact you appear to have a sense of humour is a huge bonus, and will greatly facilitate your…integration… into our little family. Please note the exit doors have been secured for your safety and convenience. **Harmicky** came in February of last year-the thread was bumped by a now-banned spammer. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2015, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-member-introduction/680297/21 "2015-01-13T18:30:52Z")
And **Harmicky** has made a total of only 5 posts and hasn’t posted since November. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-member-introduction/680297.md?page=2)