Thankee, thankee… I liked your picture… but why ‘nyet’ in the filename? Russian background?
::curious::
It’s just been my nickname in ‘real life’ for about the last 8 or 9 years.
My mom’s family is Russian, but the friends who gave me that nickname didn’t know that. I have no idea why they started calling me ‘nyet’, but they did.
And thanks for the compliment. 
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Yes. Yes, you did. Now if it were a giant cardboard cutout of a wiwaxia… yer still cool tho
av8rmike, if you mean “women” don’t say “anybody”, you knucklehead. But thanks for the “nice guy” bit.
saramamalana, a big giant smarmy “How you doin’?” in your particular direction.
OK what the heck.
SWM, 35, Network/Systems admin. Tall -6’5"ish, a little extra (or so) around the waist.
Listen to blues/metal/most anything but rap and country.
Currently reading my way thru Pratchett. Though anything sci-fi is good.
I own Firefly on DVD, watch Futurama and Family Guy as much as possible, and know Han shot first. Played D&D since before there were “versions.”
For physical activity I play softball, and, erm, watch baseball and hockey, and am a die hard Cubs fan.
Looking for someone interesting and fun.
And to go back to page one:
So um, MissTake, what part of Minnesota are you from? And the obligatory How you doin?
Hey, I found a recent pic. I’m not as speckled in real life; you can blame my scanner for that.
Old picture So young! So naive!
New picture. I’m supposed to be smirking scholarly or something. I don’t know why. There’s a bad shadow under my chin that makes me look like I have a ZZ Top beard. Trust me, it’s shorter.
Let me throw out a blanket “How you doin’?” to a lot of people.
So much for my coding. :: Sigh ::
Here’s the new picture.
Aww, shucks…you’re making me blush!
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Tell me about it…the new Aragorn figures look like the ol’ son of Arathorn’s suffering from the Gout. That, or he had a run in with a steamroller.
Well, at least they’ve (The LOTR figures) got pretty decent articulation…I mean, the McFarlane figures, for instance, look great, but they’re practically stuck in the “Lorne Green Death Pose.”
Forgot to mention that I’m an independent type of woman…who nonetheless thinks gentlemanliness is a good thing.
Little wigs, actually. NASA has people working on outer space, orbital space… and office space. Lucky me, I wound up in that last group, Facilities Management. My father is currently on contract at Goddard, so he’s probably heard of GISS.
In which case, sunfish, you’ve probably met rocks with a better fashion sense than I’ve got, even after a friend and I played a few rounds of Fashionista’s Eye for the I.T. Guy. If you’re a few steps above my “What’s clean?” and “I think these go together,” you’ll do fine.
Sure I’m game to get together. When are you next in North Wales? And which are your favorite Bond movies?
Thanks av8rmike for reposting the Dope-a-Ween photo!
I’m doing fine, for a Friday I’m in a vaguely Minneapolis area, one of the many many 'burbs (but not 'burbish enough to be a 'Burb, and NOWHERE near cool enough to be considered The 'Burbs). Where in Iowa do you hail from? My dad, poor soul, is originally from Iowa. Can’t remember the city, though. I believe near Dubuque.
Oh, and how YOU doin’?
(BTW, does being interesting AND fun have to be done at the same time? Whenever I have attempted it, I have injured myself. It’s not pretty. Truly)
Q.E.D., alas, I shall forever be a Minn-ee-soh-tan. Must have quixotic weather (sans hurricanes). Old guys wearing John Deere earflap hats. Sunday potlucks. Don’t get me wrong, Virginia is a beautiful state (what I can remember from going there 20+ years ago).
Two years ago at Christmastime, while I was working, an adorable redhaired two-year old girl saw me & asked “Are you Santa?” I freakin’ melted! I occasionally see her & her parents shopping & we still stop to talk- she is a total trip!
Hey, you haven’t lived til you’ve been to a good, old-fashioned hurricane party, let me tell you. Besides, shovelling out from under four feet of snow hasn’t had any appeal for me since I was but a wee lad. Alas!
Aren’t there any warm-weather geekettes about? 
Wow, catsix… reddish hair, blonde stripe, and Russian? I must be in heaven!
Hey, I could’ve posted the one with you shirtless! 
Well, you’re not in Iowa.
Seriously though, I’m more of a geek than anything else. A geek with a really, really serious addiction to sushi, sashimi and sake.
Im surrounded with warm weather. However, quite distant from Virginia.
Well, it’s funny that you put it that way… 
Fresh as can be…from graduation last weekend!
Aye, a respectable mug indeed! What’s the brew on the counter? I don’t recognize the label.
As with the mug, the beer is from the Pennsylvania Brewery here in Pittsburgh. It’s their spring seasonal Marzen, a nice, malty sweet German spring style…quite good, actually (even at the bottom of the liter mug!)
If you’re that redhead chick I saw from Pacific Sun last night, holla back. You were a thrill to talk to for the brief few mintues we chatted.