fury
07-29-2009, 04:10 PM
My first reveal was at 500 posts in August of 2008, because it took me long enough to make my first 500 posts I decided to stand up and admit my addiction right then and there.
Hi guys & gals. I've been here for almost a year now, and I finally made it to my 500th post. Nothing special. I feel a little bit accomplished just sticking around at any forum; I've been so crappy at posting on them the last few years (even the ones I run) that I didn't expect anything to catch on like I have here.
My name is Dennis Field, I'm 23, and I'm an avid new-tech geek. By that, I mean when I go to sleep at night, my dreams consist of gadgets, gizmos, and the cool things I could do or make with them. My daydreams are usually about the same thing, too. It's somewhat of a problem for my financial well-being; I take it too far every now and then, in fact lost my power, phone, net, and nearly lost my home. But I'm a little better at it now (those are the kind of mistakes where you get to a certain point, you really only make em once).
Professionally, I develop software for an audio company, ranging from using Visual Basic .NET to whip up user interface prototypes for old, complex speaker analysis software, all the way to getting down and dirty with C, reading binary files and learning the joys of pointers, references, indirection, and memory allocation.
In whatever spare time I can find, I try to manage a few online communities; two of them in the form of straight up discussion boards, and one in the form of an online, text-only, browser-based strategy game. I developed the game from scratch, based on what I wanted to play, and what I think other people wanted to play too (from another game that fell out of favor with its community)
I went to school for about 3 years from 2004-2007 for Web Development at Indiana University / Purdue University - Indianapolis. Dropped out without a degree, because it was getting too expensive and I wasn't learning anything new, and my concentration suffered because of it. Everything I was actually using at work, I taught it to myself, and everything I was doing in my spare time was how I learned. I realized around the same time that after all the experience I had, and the career path I want to go down (being my own boss, etc.), my degree wouldn't mean a lick.
User interface design has been my latest interest, inspired largely (initially) by the iPhone. I was totally enamored with it when I first saw it, and I wanted to know more about it and where it came from. I started to explore more about Apple, reviewing old product videos and Stevenotes and such, and learned that their modus operandi all along really fits well with mine - make things that you, yourself, would want to use, and make them easy and powerful. The kind of thing that can be figured out without a manual. I'd like to work for Apple, but they're pretty far away, me being in Indianapolis. So, I'll probably do the next best thing and just be a developer inspired by their philosophies.
man, this is getting deep... better cut it short before I get all emotional
Living with nothing but my dreams, but someday I'll be living them out...
Here's hoping for another 500 posts, which will probably take me long enough that I'll have another life story to write about.
Well, I finally did it. In another 11 months, I've accumulated another 500 posts, grown a year older, managed to move to a quieter suburb of the Indianapolis area, continued to annoy and frustrate my bosses, joined the dark side by getting a Mac Mini, had my heart mended and then broken by the woman of my dreams (or so I thought), and have generally become a very difficult person to get a hold of (not necessarily in that order). Despite having the most connected gadget out there, it is as hard to get a hold of me sometimes as it is to get a hold of Steve Jobs. Yet somehow I manage to make my way.
I've been slowly trying to put a leash on my downward spiraling credit & bank reputation, looking for that one-hit-wonder idea that will be my salvation, and searching for job opportunities that make more sense than what I've got now. In the meantime, trying to help out wherever I can by being a good standing citizen. Not that I plan on just falling back to being an ass when I can get my bills and debts paid, or anything. Just kinda figured I didn't have to have a lot of money in order to lend a helping hand. I get great satisfaction from helping people solve problems, and will probably, in my dream job, settle into some sort of problem solving position like tech support or programming. Even though sometimes those can be a nightmare. Posting on forums and chatting on IRC and AIM and Twitter is free...once I start getting paid for it, I'll get to talk to all the lovely customers who want the iPhone to answer the question of life, the universe, and everything, and be free with unlimited voice, data, and MMS messaging. ;)
The greatest irony I could ever have imagined for my genius post (http://www.everythingicafe.com/forum/iphone-3gs/my-pre-v-iphone-impressions-51736-4.html#post495743) (number 1,000) is for it to be posted from a palm pre, discussing nuances of (arguably) the best rival of the iPhone to date.
Such is the life of a true genius, always paying entirely too much attention to the smallest of details and then freaking out about it when something doesn't go exactly as planned. So I try as much as I can to keep in mind the big picture, with philosophies such as...
How far is "up?"
Hi guys & gals. I've been here for almost a year now, and I finally made it to my 500th post. Nothing special. I feel a little bit accomplished just sticking around at any forum; I've been so crappy at posting on them the last few years (even the ones I run) that I didn't expect anything to catch on like I have here.
My name is Dennis Field, I'm 23, and I'm an avid new-tech geek. By that, I mean when I go to sleep at night, my dreams consist of gadgets, gizmos, and the cool things I could do or make with them. My daydreams are usually about the same thing, too. It's somewhat of a problem for my financial well-being; I take it too far every now and then, in fact lost my power, phone, net, and nearly lost my home. But I'm a little better at it now (those are the kind of mistakes where you get to a certain point, you really only make em once).
Professionally, I develop software for an audio company, ranging from using Visual Basic .NET to whip up user interface prototypes for old, complex speaker analysis software, all the way to getting down and dirty with C, reading binary files and learning the joys of pointers, references, indirection, and memory allocation.
In whatever spare time I can find, I try to manage a few online communities; two of them in the form of straight up discussion boards, and one in the form of an online, text-only, browser-based strategy game. I developed the game from scratch, based on what I wanted to play, and what I think other people wanted to play too (from another game that fell out of favor with its community)
I went to school for about 3 years from 2004-2007 for Web Development at Indiana University / Purdue University - Indianapolis. Dropped out without a degree, because it was getting too expensive and I wasn't learning anything new, and my concentration suffered because of it. Everything I was actually using at work, I taught it to myself, and everything I was doing in my spare time was how I learned. I realized around the same time that after all the experience I had, and the career path I want to go down (being my own boss, etc.), my degree wouldn't mean a lick.
User interface design has been my latest interest, inspired largely (initially) by the iPhone. I was totally enamored with it when I first saw it, and I wanted to know more about it and where it came from. I started to explore more about Apple, reviewing old product videos and Stevenotes and such, and learned that their modus operandi all along really fits well with mine - make things that you, yourself, would want to use, and make them easy and powerful. The kind of thing that can be figured out without a manual. I'd like to work for Apple, but they're pretty far away, me being in Indianapolis. So, I'll probably do the next best thing and just be a developer inspired by their philosophies.
man, this is getting deep... better cut it short before I get all emotional
Living with nothing but my dreams, but someday I'll be living them out...
Here's hoping for another 500 posts, which will probably take me long enough that I'll have another life story to write about.
Well, I finally did it. In another 11 months, I've accumulated another 500 posts, grown a year older, managed to move to a quieter suburb of the Indianapolis area, continued to annoy and frustrate my bosses, joined the dark side by getting a Mac Mini, had my heart mended and then broken by the woman of my dreams (or so I thought), and have generally become a very difficult person to get a hold of (not necessarily in that order). Despite having the most connected gadget out there, it is as hard to get a hold of me sometimes as it is to get a hold of Steve Jobs. Yet somehow I manage to make my way.
I've been slowly trying to put a leash on my downward spiraling credit & bank reputation, looking for that one-hit-wonder idea that will be my salvation, and searching for job opportunities that make more sense than what I've got now. In the meantime, trying to help out wherever I can by being a good standing citizen. Not that I plan on just falling back to being an ass when I can get my bills and debts paid, or anything. Just kinda figured I didn't have to have a lot of money in order to lend a helping hand. I get great satisfaction from helping people solve problems, and will probably, in my dream job, settle into some sort of problem solving position like tech support or programming. Even though sometimes those can be a nightmare. Posting on forums and chatting on IRC and AIM and Twitter is free...once I start getting paid for it, I'll get to talk to all the lovely customers who want the iPhone to answer the question of life, the universe, and everything, and be free with unlimited voice, data, and MMS messaging. ;)
The greatest irony I could ever have imagined for my genius post (http://www.everythingicafe.com/forum/iphone-3gs/my-pre-v-iphone-impressions-51736-4.html#post495743) (number 1,000) is for it to be posted from a palm pre, discussing nuances of (arguably) the best rival of the iPhone to date.
Such is the life of a true genius, always paying entirely too much attention to the smallest of details and then freaking out about it when something doesn't go exactly as planned. So I try as much as I can to keep in mind the big picture, with philosophies such as...
How far is "up?"