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my wish like everyone else is to be seen
"A stranger is being shown around a village that he has just become part of. He is shown a well and his guide says "On any day except Tuesday, you can shout any question down that well and you'll be told the answer." The man seems pretty impressed, and so he shouts down, "Why not on Tuesday?" A voice from in the well shouts back, "Because on Tuesday, it's your day in the well."
the well that was so popular they had to make a sequel, and like all good sequels this will probably have nothing to do with the original (because it was 10 years ago and I have changed a lot since then) and possibly even retcon it (because if i deleted it it's probably because i wrote a bunch of cringey things in it)
so yeah, a few things about me to get the ball rolling:
1. i'm a software developer - specifically SDET.
2. i am obsessed with bouldering. While the climbing walls were open I was going up to three times a week.
2a. Other things I'm interested in: plants, cooking, and uh *checks tinder profile* travelling. Oh and I take a passing interest in science/technology. Currently reading about electric vehicles, but to give you an idea of the stuff I'm into based on youtube channels I follow (which is currently how I kill a lot of my time):
PBS Spacetime
Binging with Babish
Guga Foods
Kraut
Ashens
Real Vision Finance
Pikasprey
3. born and raised in london, currently residing there and will most likely die here too. If you were born in the best city in the world why move?
4. early thirties
5. my involvement in pokemon these days is limited to gen1/3 randbats and lurking ruins of alph.
6. Generally quite interested in satire. I wrote The Oddish - a Smogon-centric equivalent of the onion, and a while ago had a blog where I wrote a bunch of satire articles (some of which are linked in the editions of the oddish). I don't do much writing any more, though. It goes without saying that I'm a massive fan of The Onion, as well as the works of Chris Morris and Armando Iannucci (oh and Charlie Brooker but I liked him before all the normies jumped on the Black Mirror bandwagon)
Smogon-related stuff:
for some of the younguns who only joined after my heyday here I started off moderating firebot, then a forum, then become social forums leader + smod, then I think back to firebot/cong once I retired. I honestly did not expect to be here for 15 years, but here I am.
So there you go. Welcome to my well, make yourselves comfortable and fire away.
the well that was so popular they had to make a sequel, and like all good sequels this will probably have nothing to do with the original (because it was 10 years ago and I have changed a lot since then) and possibly even retcon it (because if i deleted it it's probably because i wrote a bunch of cringey things in it)
so yeah, a few things about me to get the ball rolling:
1. i'm a software developer - specifically SDET.
2. i am obsessed with bouldering. While the climbing walls were open I was going up to three times a week.
2a. Other things I'm interested in: plants, cooking, and uh *checks tinder profile* travelling. Oh and I take a passing interest in science/technology. Currently reading about electric vehicles, but to give you an idea of the stuff I'm into based on youtube channels I follow (which is currently how I kill a lot of my time):
PBS Spacetime
Binging with Babish
Guga Foods
Kraut
Ashens
Real Vision Finance
Pikasprey
3. born and raised in london, currently residing there and will most likely die here too. If you were born in the best city in the world why move?
4. early thirties
5. my involvement in pokemon these days is limited to gen1/3 randbats and lurking ruins of alph.
6. Generally quite interested in satire. I wrote The Oddish - a Smogon-centric equivalent of the onion, and a while ago had a blog where I wrote a bunch of satire articles (some of which are linked in the editions of the oddish). I don't do much writing any more, though. It goes without saying that I'm a massive fan of The Onion, as well as the works of Chris Morris and Armando Iannucci (oh and Charlie Brooker but I liked him before all the normies jumped on the Black Mirror bandwagon)
Smogon-related stuff:
for some of the younguns who only joined after my heyday here I started off moderating firebot, then a forum, then become social forums leader + smod, then I think back to firebot/cong once I retired. I honestly did not expect to be here for 15 years, but here I am.
So there you go. Welcome to my well, make yourselves comfortable and fire away.
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