You know...this site has become a very comfortable place to interact with others. I don't get out much(my ankle monitor keeps going off)but if I should ever meet you in person I feel that your site id is probably an extension of your personality. This would really help me in preparing to meet you...so...what the hell does your id mean?
This post is not connected in any way to the recent identity thefts reported in your local news.
Your information and response is appreciated.
My id(samehereasthere)is a direct result of my inability to change the way I do things in my life. I will always be the same guy in the here-and-now as I was in the there-and-then.
two favorite bands are weezer and deftones. not really an insight into who i am, but it was the first name i ever used when i started using this internet thingy.
201 MPH: Added this when I was 14 and first joined the Viper community. I came up with it for my Dad's licence plate for the GTS. If I didn't use it universally on all the boards I visit I would have changed it by now. I might change it, I dunno.
Grew up at Dartmouth college as a teenage hacker (taking Fartmouth programming classes when I was 14); got busted by FBI for breaking into government computers (NASA). Went legit and worked for NSA for 4 years and NORAD for 2 while in the military. Been working with IP protocols most my life and am fasinated by what can be done over wires.
Grew up at Dartmouth college as a teenage hacker (taking Fartmouth programming classes when I was 14); got busted by FBI for breaking into government computers (NASA). Went legit and worked for NSA for 4 years and NORAD for 2 while in the military. Been working with IP protocols most my life and am fasinated by what can be done over wires.
haha... that was before the Apple IIs were out. I think they were called Textronic workstations. Those were the ones with the green screens. The others were just regular screen all hooked into the DTSS Dartmouth Time Sharing System.
Back the telnet was the tool of choice - no scripts, just long hours. telnet was based on area codes.
My father was VP of the bank and I used to lift passwords off the secretaries while watching them type.
My "first" computer was a Synclair (sp?) and a Commodore 64.
Well, my name is really Akmed Al-Shamir. I know you all want us towelheads to burn in hell so I figured I'd better come up with a cover. To avoid being harassed, I chose an American name for my screen name... Jeff M
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Serious Eric, pretty ironic huh? I wear it like a badge of shame/honor in memory of the blow dealt me by the only bastard I ever lost a smackfest to. That sonofabitch PMUM. [img]/images/graemlins/supergrin.gif[/img] Now those were some epic brawls ... "IEATVETTES", "Serious Eric Goes Mental", "Extreme Baconi", "Kid Gets Banned", "Doo-Dad Man & The Death Brakes", etc, etc. How many of you 'Old School' veterans remember those days? Golden age of the .morgue.
Anyhow, in the early days of the usual suspects I couldn't stand Paul Mumford. Thought he was the snottiest most assholy bullying piece of amphibian shit I'd ever seen. And I couldn't resist getting into it with him every time I turned around. His stripe of jackassery just hadn't grown on me yet I guess, so I fought him straight up, meaning with little humor and thus earned the tag of SeriousEric. The appelation didn't really offend me at all since I knew there was nothing very serious about me and that 'character' was more or less just a pose, so to get back at him and flaunt the irony, I went ahead and kept the name. It didn't take too long before I came to appreciate his sense of humor and his loathing for windbreakers and by that time I downright reveled in the ludicrous Serious Eric name.
Ah, PMUM and Kid. To be honest I hadnt given them a second thought in a long time. PMUM made some lame crack at my wife, I responded in kind and next thing I knew I had the whole SoCal possee on my ass. I was at a disadvantage from the get-go since I had taken the remarks personally.
Maybe I should change my name to Serious Packetjunkie. lol
