Who are we (Bios)
 

Ok, time for the SE forum to get on the bandwagon with what some of the other regional forums are doing. Tell us about yourself!
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Desmo996: Jorge

Why you chose your forum username: I ride a Ducati with a desmodromic system (996 cc)

AGE: 35, but according to my wife behaving like a 21 year old

LIVING SITUATION: Married, with 8 month old daughter (Also known as the cutie-patootie)

LOCATION: Orlando, Florida

JOB: Aerospace/Systems Engineer. MBA. Worked on simulators, but currently working the the JSF (Joint Strike Fighter) program (Lockheed Martin).

HOBBIES: Motorcycle racing (dirt and track), F1 (just came back from Indi), Crashing (Not by choice), Fencing, traveling, lately obsessed with cars, painting, House remodeling (Just enclosed my patio), Wood Ship models, Plastic models, Golf and Life in general.

Anything else about you: Aggressive driver that hate "leftists". Please, slower traffic keep right. Speak four languages: Spanish, English, German, and Italian.

evot23: Eddie

Why you chose your forum username: initials/profession/MJ

AGE: 29

LIVING SITUATION: engaged...indefinitely...

LOCATION: Gainesville, Florida

JOB: Burn Unit Occupational Therapist

HOBBIES: The car...what's left after that?

I'm the ricer of the Gainesville crowd so they say. Fortunate enough to have really good rotary friends all within 5 miles of me. If it were'nt for them, I would have never gotten this far.

Also the MRCCFL has become my outlet for rotary meetings both for racing and just hanging out. Since owning this car, I have gotten to meet sooooo many people.

Rotary love.

I choose my forum name because it's my name. Not too original I guess! I'm 25, married and living in Charleston, SC. I'm in the Navy, so I move around a lot. Let's see, hobbies? my cars, running, traveling.

I've become a rotary lover. I used to have no interest in cars. That all changed when I got mixed up with my car-freak husband. He created a monster!! :D I currently have a 94 fd and my rx8. My hubby has a 350z that he bought to replace his 93 r1. I'm returning the rx8 and if all goes well will soon be purchasing my neighbors tt Supra. I guess my biggest vice is that I get tired of cars too quickly. I've had 4 in the last year and a half. I have never and will never get tired of my fd, though!

That's about it. I guess I won't be frequenting this forum too much after I give the 8 back today. I'll probably pop in every now and again. This forum is so laidback and (almost) troll free that I really enjoy reading it.

Take care,

Tracy

Who I be?
 

I be Yuri.

Nickname origin: Pretty silly. It's the name of a company that produces killer mutating robots in a old japanese anime I like a lot. Been using the same nick for 15 years or so online.

Location: Sunny Miami for the past 6 years.

Age: 30

Marital status: Engaged to be married next year. Had to buy the car now while I still could! :D

Job: I am the everything guy for a small company that builds and sell's high end video post production equipment as well as broadcast equpiment for TV stations into latin america, southern Florida and the caribean. I also do all the tech support, repairs and training. It's a lot of work usually, but I get to travel a lot (was just in P.R. for a week or so doing demos and training for 3 TV stations as well as a university).

Hobbies: Mainly computers, video games and electronis in general. I built my own arcade cabinet and stuff in some computer gear so I could play emulated arcade games (full size jobbie, I have pics for those that know what Mame is), and usually build my own little projects such as a LCD info display for my computer, a home built PVR, etc. Never much into cars until I started to learn about the rotary when I was looking for info on the RX-8 6 months ago. Now I am reading as much as I can on the stuff. Love my car and am having great fun with it so far.

Also hate lefties like desmo does. Speak 3 languages (English, spanish and portuguese) but can read another 2 (french and italian). I am also a avid Sci-Fi reader and movie fanatic (got to see Kill Bill 1 day early in P.R.)

I thought that was where Genom was from...sparked something in my old anime brain files.

Damian is the name...

Forum name dvls-7....combo of everyone making Omen referernces and i own a RX-7

age: 28

Marital status: engaged to wed this year to someone who supports my craziness with cars....:D

Job: in between right now....also in process of setting up own business.

hobbies: Cars....as Eddie said.....is there anything else...:) Im also part of the MRCCFL.

o_town_racer: Tom

Why you chose your forum username: I've always been a car nut, and I needed a screen name when I started using Yahoo! many moons ago. I was autocrossing quite a bit at the time and live in Orlando, so it seemed to fit.

AGE: 39 (so why don't I feel a day over 30?)

LIVING SITUATION: Engaged to be married on Valentine's Day 2004.

LOCATION: Orlando, Florida

JOB: Technical PeopleSoft consultant, Oracle DBA, MS SQL Server DBA, etc, etc.

HOBBIES: Cars first and foremost (Corvette Club member, former Miata Club member, still have a Miata and the Vette in addition to the garage's newest resident, my RX-9). Also enjoy a good online battle or a GT3 race on the PS2. Have to go to the movies at least once every couple weeks.

Anything else about you: Miss those Virginia mountains.....I'm a Hokie through and through.

aussie77: Glen

Why you chose your forum username: because I am australian, although not living there currently. Was born in 1977.

AGE: Just turned 26.

LIVING SITUATION: Married for 11 months now.

LOCATION: Decatur, GA

JOB: Currently doing research in physics. Have a Masters in Materials Science from GA Tech but the economy sucks (thanks G.W).

HOBBIES: Tennis, computer games and martial arts. Play tennis pretty seriously so not a lot of time left between training and work.

Anything else about you: Lived in Japan for a year and can speak pretty fluent Japanese.

miata2rx8: Peter

Why you chose your forum username: Pretty obvious- I love Mazda cars. Made fun of Miatas, then drove one and bought it that day. RX8 is the next step.

AGE: 32

LIVING SITUATION: Single

LOCATION: Nashville, TN

JOB: Systems engineer for an IT outsource/ datacenter company

HOBBIES: The Car, working on the house, motorcycles.

Anything else about you: Was in the Peace Corps in Africa before getting into cars. But I did get into motorcycles when I was over there!

GoodyRX8: Glenn or Goody or Glenjamin

Why you chose your forum username: Nickname is Goody

AGE: 40 today, yes I am the big 4-0 today.

LIVING SITUATION: Very happily married, with 2 boys, 21 months and 3 1/2 years old

LOCATION: Altanta, GA

JOB: Retired Information Technology Executive, okay I was laid off. Just received verbal offer for CEO position at a software company.

HOBBIES: Tennis, Golf, Cars, Computers, Home Automation, Reading, Watching Movies in Home Theater, learning new things, working around the house, socializing with good friends and especially spending time with my family.

Anything else about you: I grew up in the Boston, lived in both the Orlando and Melbourne Australia before settling here in Atlanta.

Racer X-8: Bill

Why you chose your forum username: Well, I really wanted Racer X. Racer X is Speed Racer's brother. And so you may ask, does your brother race? Why (and I'm glad you asked), yes he does. He races in SCCA GT2 up in the NorPac division (north-pacific, he lives in Seattle). His car was hand-built, it's a fully tubular, 100% racecar RX-7, pictured in my avatar, and it's gotten him quite a few championship seasons already. OK, nuf of him...[jealousy]

AGE: 49 (so why don't I feel a day over 30? That's right, 30! :mad: )

LIVING SITUATION: 7-2/3 years into my 2nd marriage. got 2 boys 13 & 15 from my first marriage (the older one is a member in here) who stay with me every other weekend & whenever else I want them (on good terms with the ex). Got 4 stepchildren (2 of each). The youngest is 21 & the oldest is 30! (My wife is almost as old as me, just started much earlier.) So, they're all on their own now, so me & she are living again without kids (except for when my 2 boys are here). They're all still in the area though, & now we are blessed with a newborn granddaughter ( :eek: ). My wife is a minister & gospel choir president (s. baptist) & I'm a trustee & gospel choir member (of course).

LOCATION: Lugoff, SC (Columbia area) Stone's throw to the whole SC coast, or to the mountains. Love 'em both :)

JOB: Mechanical Design Engineer for a kind of a job shop, except, this job shop has its own engineers. Westinghouse Nuclear Fuels Division is our main client. We design & build tooling for making the nuclear fuel assemblies that are used in good old nuclear reactors all over the world. (No, "it" doesn't glow - yet)

HOBBIES: Yeah, right. I guess - this is it. Oh yeah, softball. And travel - when I get to. And drums.

Anything else about you: Nope not a thing. :D Oh, alright. I grew up in Allentown, PA (Billy Joel territory). Also lived, more or less, in the Harrisburg area (college time) (actually, Middletown, yeah, where Three Mile Island is - and, yes, it happened when I was still living in the area. - and, yes, isn't it ironic that I'm making a living off of nuclear fuel assemblies now) & Chambersburg area (worked in R&D for Grove Cranes). I moved down here in '79 & stayed. So, I guess I'm a "darned yankee" (well, you know)...

nt5k: Nezir

Naming: initials and 5k is better then 2k

Age: 26

Maritals: Single

Locale: Atlanta, GA next to turner field

Job: Data warehouse developer, went to GaTech for CompSci.

Hobbies: A whole bunch, things that keep me awake I guess.. :)

Kevin
Naming: Went to UVa, they are the Wahoos ('hoos for short).

Age: 37

Maritals: married

Locale: Atlanta, GA (toco hills area)

Job: Prepress Manager for Vertis/Rock-Tenn.

Hobbies: When I make the time, I like swimming and sailing. For now my hobby is to look at RX-8's on ebay, autotrader, and mazdausa.com. Haven't bought yet :(.

AlexCisneros: Alex Cisneros

Why you chose your forum username: Make a wild guess

AGE: 27

LIVING SITUATION: Married for 2 Years, been together for 10

LOCATION: Miami, Florida --- Kendall

JOB(s): Help run my family's Box Manufacturing Company, Realtor, Mtg. Broker
Have a Bachelors in Business with a specialty in Marketing

HOBBIES: Anything cars, touch my speed vision and I'll kill you... AutoX, HPDE, Paintball, and fenced a while back. Collect Die-Cast Cars, specifically Le Mans winners (yes I bought the AutoArt RX-8)

Anything else about you: Very Aggressive driver that hate "leftists". Please, slower traffic keep right. (<--copied that, but sooo true!)

Need a house or a Mortgage?

oh and most importantly...
Silver GT 6MT, Black/Red interior, appearance pkg., rotary accent pkg., Rear spoiler, cargo net, spare tire... Paid $1000 over invoice 8)

Stu: Shannon (GUY)

Why you chose your forum username: A nickname all my friends gave me.


AGE: 27 physically. 7 mentally, though I should hit 8 in the next 4yrs.

LIVING SITUATION: With my girlfriend of 2yrs, and have no intentions of changing that to fiancee, or wife.

LOCATION: Nashville, TN.

JOB: Metro Nashville Police Dept. while I finish my last 500hrs of jet time to push over into a real job in the Aerospace field, specifically commercial aviation.


HOBBIES: Well, I ride & used to race motorcycles, both moto X back when I was 10-17, and amatuer street events up until about 3yrs ago. I fly planes for a living on the side. Those are my two safe hobbies, everything else is 'going to kill me.' Cliff diving, sky diving, water dives, and being a complete moron on a motorcycle on the back roads & interstates in every town I can.


Anything else about you: Not really. I'm boring.

zipdrive: Carl

Why you chose your forum name: kinda what I do. I was MrZippy on the Miata forum

Age 61: why is everyone younger than me?

Living situeation: Married, 6 children between us and 13 grandchildren.

Location: Iron Station, NC (about 30 miles NW of Charlotte)

Job: Retired

Hobbies: RX8ing, fly fishing, staying at our NW Carolina mountain retreat.

Anything else: just traded a 10AE for Sunlight Silver GT. No extras . . . . . yet!

Chrisbert: Chris

Why you chose your forum name: Nickname given to me by my coworkers years ago. Combination of Chris and Dilbert.

Age: 39

Living situation: Married, no children

Location: Braselton, GA (NE of Metro Atl)

Job: Engineer for Polycom - manufacturer of Video and Audio Conferencing products.

Hobbies: Hunting & Fishing - a high-tech redneck

Anything else: Love my 8

Gene is lamigre.

Lamigre - clue about my work. The one word yuo do not yell out at a chicken farm.

Age: 45 - I am proud I made it this far.

Living Situation: Soon to be a free man again.

Location: Miami.

Job: Miami based Taliban Hunter.

Hobbies: Cooking, Sports and keeping my car clean.


Anything else about you:

Speak four languages, lived overseas for a long time.. Wish I could have a device that would disable the cars of the wicked leftists society.

I believe the leftists are part of a plot by the oil barons to insure we burn more gas then is needed.

Name: Tommy

Why you chose your forum username: Name, Sports number, Last Initial

AGE: 26


LOCATION: Miramar, FL

JOB: Accountant (hold degrees in Accounting and Criminal Justice, with minors in Chemistry and Spanish)

HOBBIES: Paintball, the car, computers,


Anything else about you: A Paintball Freak!!

ONOFIVEO - Oh no! Five 0...Too many troopers on I-20
40 yrs - and glad to be
Hobbies - cars, reading about cars, esp RX-8
Location - Birmingham, AL

Why you chose your forum username: well... I like to run fast, and have been blessed in doing so. I'm a national class runner for my age.

AGE: 47 (old man), but running like a 30 year old.

LIVING SITUATION: Married 24 years with 2 kids (boys, 13 and 5). The 13 year old thinks the car will be his in 3 years! Yea, sure.....

LOCATION: Chattanooga, TN

JOB: IT Professional, Olan Mills, Inc.

HOBBIES: Running, and just learning how to drive "fast" cars.

Anything else about you: Owned 3 previous Miatas, but 8 is just awesome compared to the Miata. Needed room for the family, and the 8 works just fine!

Username: Had to be something I can remember.

Age: 61 (me too, zipdrive).

Situation: Married, 3 kids, 6 grandkids.

Location: Knoxville, TN

Job: Manufacturer's Rep

Hobbies: Cars, Woodworking, Old houses.

Other: Ex-AutoXer (may go back). Past Sports Cars = Triumph TR-6, (2)Fiat Spiders, Lancia Beta Coupe, Triumph Spitfire (autoX car), VW-GTI, & Alfa Romeo GTV6.
Both sons are car-nut clones, and the 3 grandsons (14, 12, & 10) are showing symptoms.

Username: easy enough

Age: 48

Situation: Married (26 years), 1 fifteen year old son.

Location: Houston, Texas (NW Side)

Job: Ops Analyst (Black Belt, Six Sigma Process Team)

Hobbies: Autocross, Commercial Aviation, Computers

Other: 15 years racing motorcycles (flat-track, then roadracing), gave that up when son was born. Avid autocrosser. Past cars include 99 10AE Miata, 97 Sport Miata, 92 Integra GS-R (back when it meant something) , and 11 other Honda's.

Real name: Alex

Username: I was watching an old episode of SNL /w the "Bill Swerski's Superfans (Da Bears)" skit. I thought the name was cool so I picked it up.

Age: 27

Situation: Longterm Girlfriend (nearly 9 years) Getting engaged in March/April, Buying a house by June, wedding date 04.16.05... Would have been maried sooner but life has it's little bumps along the way.

Location: Miami, FL

Job: Software Developer (Mostly in C++ on MS platforms)

Hobbies: Rotary powered cars, Firearms, Autocrossing, Computers, and tinkering with all sorts of things. My old man would have me take on all sorts of projects.

Other: Previously owned a 79, 88, 93 RX-7 before the RX-8. My father owned a "Mom&Pops type" autoparts store so I got to spend alot of time in shops. When I was 10 or 11 I first learned of the rotarty and have been hooked ever since.

Name: Mike

How I chose my username: I have been in the Air Force for 15 years and was the first person on my base driving an 8.

Age: 33

Married for 8 1/2 years with three children my oldest lives in MN with my ex and I have 11y/o boy and 6y/o girl. If not for my wife I probably would be driving a GTP...

Location: Robins Air Force Base, Georgia 20 minutes south of Macon.

Job: Non-Commissioned Officer In Charge of Wideband Systems

Hobbies: My 8, Xbox, computer, etc...

Other: One dog a Dachshund named Pfizer. (Pfizer pharmaceutical company makes Viagra and Dachshunds are referred to as weinie dogs...) :p Delivery date for my 8 was 11/06/03.

therm8: name: Mike

username: well the 8 is self explanatory, therm (from thermal) been using variations of it for years not sure why anymore

job: Navy, submarines (at least for a few more months), 5 years of sea duty hope to transfer this fall, first 8 on base :) , now there are 3.

location: Jax FL, hopefully moving to Charleston, SC this fall

28 years old, single

hobbies: cars, computers, gambling, theoretical physics, any electronic gadgetry and doodads, cars, taking on projects that i'll never finish, and cars

previous cars: 98 Volvo c70 (chipped at 17 psi, intake, exhaust, downpipe, ~310 crank hp, what a sleeper :D ). 93 Camaro Z28 (I/H/E, some head work, gears etc). Traded the Volvo in on the 8, and sold the Camaro(my knee couldn't handle the clutch anymore especially in Jax traffic). wish I could've kept both and got the 8 :p

next car: one or more of the following, depending on where i'm at in a few years :) : the hypothetical RX-7, Caddy CTS-V, Maserati conv.

waldo: Ed

Why you chose your forum username: College joke. Might have been into some software back in the day, of which I was 'warez waldo'. But those times are gone.

AGE: 22.

LIVING SITUATION: Single with gf with me until she goes to grad school.

LOCATION: Shelby, NC (just out of Charlotte)

JOB: Controls Engineer for Milliken. Graduated with EE and CPE from NC State 12/03. Had the job lined up for under a year.

HOBBIES: Unpacking boxes.

Anything else about you: I am a huge E46 fan. Had a cherry 03 330i lined up, but found out the owner sold it before I could formally offer a price. So I bought the 8. Which is a very sweet car. I _will_ have a 330i, but might have to keep the 8 too.

I kept my 92 explorer as a daily driver. 175k and counting, which is good since I have always driven it like anyone would drive their 8.

And no, daddy didnt buy it for me. Daddy didnt buy the explorer either. Paid cash over 3 years ago for it. Independant is the only way to go!

Slalom29: Anthony

Age: 16

Location: Miami, Fl

Living situation: Almost done with school, I work at a uniform store during the summer.
I love anything cars, got my Black 6speed 3 month's ago.

here ya go guys
 

Real name: Daniel. J. Goldberg

Why you chose your forum username: Well I had a 2001 eclipse Gt. and I just came up with eclps0 that was about 3 years ago and it stuck.
AGE: 19 (soon to 20 May 7), Have a lot of health problems for someone my age

LIVING SITUATION: Dating my boyfriend Orion for 1 month officially and 4 1/2 months unofficially

LOCATION: I live in Plantation Fl (for school) My real home is in Colonia NJ

JOB: Collage student and soon to be a Mazda detailer at my dealership (if i get the job)

HOBBIES: Cars, racing, (legally), Music, fashion, clubs, ect

Anything else about you: Owned an eclipse, sued Mitsubishi. My user name will be my artist name, since IM going to school so I can produce my own club trance CDs. Hopefully i can make it big

Zeke: Mark - Zeke is actually the RX-8's name. Was named in response to a query from one of my wife's friends. Long story...

Situation: Married 12 years, no kids, 2 dogs.

Age: 43

Employment: US Army Medium Extended Air Defense System - Replacement for PATRIOT. Engineer BS, MS.

Hobbies: MGs, restoring MGs, photographing and writing about MGs, home improvement, F1 - BAR, Surf Music.

Other Cars: 70 MGB, 60 MGA.

Speedy's Rx`8 : Jeromy

Why i chose my handle? um all my friends consistantly call me by that and add the given and wallah

Age : 19 ( be 20 april 18 )

Living situation : Single until i get slapped by this crazy phsyco that claims to know me =)

Location : Good ole Mobile, Alabama

Job : annoying biggot er Salesman

Hobbies : Cars of course, women ( sorry honey ), paintball, football, basketball, baseball, bowling, track, misdemenor's, clubs, and just about anything else that could possibly be fun or get me into trouble sigh...

Anything else about me : hmm ima lucky lil devil i survive through just about anything...ie wreck at triple digits, getting ran over by car after my coma and while i was still in a neckbrace by my own cousin lol she was doing 30ish, and i've never broken a bone in my life lol...survived spinal miningitis(spelling?), getting shot at, etc my life has been full of lil suprises but i love it =) if you live anywhere near me send me a email and we'll get together see how bad our 8 will be =)

Previous cars : 1995 Grand Marque, 2001 Honda Civic Lx, 2000 Celica GT-S ( tore this bad lil boy up at 120mph wreck hehe)

rx8gator: Jeff

BIG UF fan

Age: 38

Married with two kids (girls). Both small enough to comfortably fit in the back seat!

Job: Engineer, designing stuff for space and military

Hobbies: Racquetball, golf, and my 8

Previous cars: 1996 Pontiac Formula, Infiniti I30 (two of them), Acura MDX (Family Car

Name: Anthony aka DrIfTnDrAfT

Why i chose my username: because it just sounds fitting to the
atmosphere im used to

Age: 18 yoa

Living Situation: With my mom/grandparents/lil bros.

Location: Hollywood, FL

Job: Cashier at Target

Hobbies: Working on my car or friends cars, whoever needs help with anything. Aspiring pilot for the Broward Sherrifs Office and hopefully someday a Commercial Helicopter Pilot.

Anything else about me: I drive a focus for now. ATX ZX3 Hatchback in blue. It runs 15s in the 1/4..not bad i say, but still slow.

rjenk: Ray Jenkins

Why you chose your forum username: First and Last combo

AGE: 36

LIVING SITUATION: Married with a 6 year old son

LOCATION: Fayetteville, NC

JOB: Health System Network Manager

HOBBIES: Spending time with my wife and son, traveling, golf, computers, woodworking, spending time in the mountains.

Previous Cars: '04 RX-8*, '02 Acura RSX Type-S, Pontiac Grand Prix, Mitsubishi Eclipse GS Turbo

*Sorry folks, jumped ship to a 350Z in May. Experienced too much trouble with my 8.

Triangul-8: Jody

Why you chose your forum username: Triangle: Strongest shape known to man & Heart of the Rotary. -8 for the current series of car, obviously. So, thought fitting to choose Triangul-8.

AGE: 34

LIVING SITUATION: Married, with 10-year-old daughter

LOCATION: Dothan, Alabama

JOB: Owner, Kawasaki Motorcycle Franchise
HOBBIES: Motorcycle Anything, Scuba Diving the World Over, Travel Photography, & great cars.

Anything else about you: Previous 93 RX-7 R1 owner, and wife is future recipient of Titanium Gray RX-8 AT, just doesn't know it yet. Ordered Jan 12th.

Tidbit: Also, very long ago, our shop had a brand New Suzuki RE5. For those who are not aware of the RE5, it was a Wankel Rotary Powered Motorcycle built from 1975 -1977 by Suzuki Motor Corp.

Jeckle117 = Jon

My username has absolutly nothing to do with anything. Just kinda grabbed it out of thin air.

Age: 23

Living Situation: Married for the past 5 years and have 2 great boys. The oldest is 3 and his little brother is 5 months

Location: Panama City, FL

Occupation: Aircraft Structural Maintenance for the USAF. Translated from technical mumbo jumbo, I'm an aircraft body repair person.

Hobbies: Cars, Martial Arts, and playin with my family

Anything else about me: I used to be a die hard muscle car fan. As much as I greatly love my RX, I'm affraid I will always miss the rumble of a V8.

ok. my turn!

Paradigm = Jon

Paradigm:One that serves as a pattern or model.

Age:21

Living situation:Single. Living at home with the 'rents cause of some debt.

Location:West Palm Beach, FL

Ocupation:Operations supervisor for Yellow Transportation. A trucking company.

Hobbies:used to be pretty big into paintball, but I have no time anymore. Now it's just cars. :D

Turn Ons:Long walks on the beach, candlelight dinners, and......oh wait...CRAP! Wrong site!!
:D

Georgia8er = someone who drives an 8 and is from Georgia. Yes impressive imagination. :)

Age: 24

Occupation: Recent college grad desperately seeking work. If you need or know anyone who needs a Physics major with several engineering courses, let me know!

Location: Earth, usually. Dawsonville, GA. Only 8 in the county right now.

Hobbies: Give me a PWC and I'm always having fun. Except when I have to work on it!

Lynx

Why you chose your forum username: I'm training to handle & train big cats & have just always been fond of tigers, lions, lynx, leopards, etc. Lynx is my RX-8's name.

AGE: 28

LOCATION: Madison, AL

JOB: Aerospace/Systems Engineer (Hypersonics & Liquid Rockets)

HOBBIES: handling exotic animals, flying planes, jumping out of planes, 'flying my car' (but NOT jumping out), space & astronomy, playing with my 3 cats & dog, swimming, getting my MBA, and full contact football

MISC: i'm addicted to the show Alias, & i'm frekkin' impressed with the Renesis!!!

Name: Jourdan (no one ever says it right, so just "J" is fine)

Username: Japan8 -Kinda obvious... I'm in Japan and I have fallen in love with the RX-8.

Age: 26

Living Situation: 8 years and soon to be in prison... I mean married :D

Location: Tokyo, Japan, but in the process of moving back to Orlando, FL

Occupation: Sys Admin/Tech Support... general IT grunt.

Hobbies: CARS!! BIKES!!! Women (sorry honey)! Martial arts, Japanese history, politics, electronics, uh did I mention cars and bikes? women? :D

Anything else about me: I'm fluent in English and Japanese(actually about 3 dialects), I'm rusty at Spanish, and I can read Italian

Name: Richard


EDIT- after creating this I just realized this is a southeast forum- but here is the bio anyway)

username comes from an email address I used to use for Ford Probe (and other) mailing lists- how interesting......

Age: 39

Living situation- Living with girlfriend for 8 years - who knows what will happen! (I like the fact that 2 other people here have been living with GF for almost as many years before getting hitched)


Location: Manhattan, NY

Occupation: still to be determined!!! Make a meager living doing various freelance things related to film and video. Editing videos, TV shows, commercials, (Just worked on Girls Behaving Badly today) Directing some projects ( used to direct alot of fashion- it was horrible- all those naked models- even got on to the set of Victorias Secret)

I have a music video I directed and edited that is about to start running on MTV2's Subteranean, for The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players. You can see the video online at www.slideshowplayers.com or directly at this link.
http://nova.lunarpages.com/~editvi2/MTweb15.mov

It's nice work and pays very well, when you can get it. I also have my own high defintiion TV edit suite.

more videos at http://www.edit-video.com/

Hobbies- work is my hobby mostly, but of course love things involving racing. Also love home theater projection, High end stereo (using tube amplifiers) recording and producing records
for friends bands, helping them at gigs, with their career, (see above video as it qualifies as an unpaid hobby) Also love ebay!!

The RX8 - a big hobby as this car is total overkill for Manhattan - where I do most of my driving. I do have spots where I can open it up a bit though- lots of stoplight racing which the RX8 can be good for if your willing to rev high (and I do)

i figured i would go ahead and spill the beans here...

Real Name: Charlie (sorry you don't get the last name)

Username: It's had many many meanings...it used to be our teams Acronym at the races...X.E.R.O. = Xing (Crossing) the Extreme Racing Organization... then it also was the name of a band I helped start (and name) in college...then it means ZERO..Everything that is divided by zero = 0 and zero cannot be divided by any number...whew ok done with that...

AGE: 29

Living Situation: Married with an almost 8 month old daughter,

4 dogs (all rescues, Wolf/Malamute Hybrid (Cody), Black Lab (Sam), Akita/Rottweiller (Meika), and Samoyed (Macy)),

2 cats both rescues(HUGE 25lb Grey Tabby (Tiger a.k.a. Gurrr) and normal grey tabby (Saige), 1 rescued 6ft Ball Python 16lbs (Monty - yes you guessed why), 1 rescued Leopard Gecko (Zeke),

1 - 200 GAL Salt Water Reef aquarium w/ (3) Damsels, (2) Clowns, (4) Triggers, (2) Morays, (10-15) Shrimp,Hermits, Horseshoes, (1) Purple Tang, (1) Yellow Tang,

1 - 50 Gal Fresh Water Community Tank w/ Platies, Neons, Mollies, SwordTails, (2) Blue Crayfish, Snails lot's of PLANTS!

1 - 45 Gal Freshwater for the Oscar..he's huge!

1 - 75 Gal Custom designed (by me..of course) Turtle tank, with waterfalls and other cool stuff....

1 Greenwing Macaw, 1 rescued Blue/Gold Macaw (yes they talk all the time...even to each other), 2 Cockatiels..the male talks..the female bites no matter how much you handle her...

LOCATION: Valley, AL bordering West Point, GA, in the middle of redneckville...we hate it...but we have lots of land and space so we are pretty much secluded from the perks of living in a small southern town...and hey we're on the lake...

JOB: Senior Project Manager/Business Systems Analyst for our Telecom department, which happens to be the lifeblood of the business since we are a CONFERENCING COMPANY!!!

Have my own At Home business that is a small computer building/repair store that I started back in 93 that still putts along...

Still a National certified Wilderness EMT...worked in Boone, NC back in 97-98 for Mountain Rescue/Ski Patrol (just like Cliffhanger but without the Hollywood) then worked for Outward Bound NC as a climbing and mountaineering instructor.

HOBBIES: (do i have enough space left?) Computers, custom car stereo and systems(used to own my own shop,Sound Effects), Import Tuning (used own with the stereo shop but had a separate name, same building, CarTunes), PETA, Environmentalist, my wife and I run a rescue shelter at home that serves as temporary foster for unwanted and abused animals, firearms, skydiving, kayaking (playboating , although on occasion creek boating), mtn biking, mtn climbing, wood working, Soccer, College football (Auburn University!!), landscaping, skiing (water and snow), electric trains (N-scale) have a HUGE layout that is 10 years in the making..), model planes/jets, R/C airplanes - flown and built lots and lots....R/C cars..recently gotten into glow cars over the last couple years, last but not least guitar..( play a Takamine EAN-15C, a McCollum Grand Auditiorium custom to MY specs and inlay designs, a PRS Custom 24 Whale Blue played through a Crate Blue Voodoo full stack and the acoustic through a 1977 Musicman all original TUBE!)

i think i'm done...i'm just a do all kinda guy...

Pirate Rex ---> Joe

User Name:
My buddies tell me I drive my boat as if I where a Pirate. The Rex part is kinda self explanatory.

Age:
34, but feel and look like I'm 25

Living Sit.:
Soon to be free again

Job:
Admin/Budget geek for Miami-Dade County

Location:
Vice City, err Miami

Hobbies:
When I am not throwing money into the bottomless pit that is my boat, I also blow a ton of $$ on golf balls, cigars, movies, food, swiss watches and cars.

Anything else:
I am fluent in Spanish, and I have read and own a copy of every single James Bond novel ever published.

Name: Nathan

User Name: I like sarcasm, humor, and The Simpsons

Age: 27

Living Situation: Single with an apartment

Job: Unix Admin for BellSouth Internet Group

Location: Atlanta

Hobbies: computers, cars, living for the moment, driving my RX-8

Anything else: Not really

Name: Brian

User Name: I'm sure you can figure it out ;)

Age: 25

Living Situation: Living in the Barracks

Job: Combat Engineer, United States Army

Location: Fort Stewart, Ga

Hobbies: Rotarys, my rx-8, hanging with good friends, oh and anime

Anything else: hmmmm...i'm sure i had something witty for this but i forgot..lol oh well

name: Options2rx7

user name: I love watching the options2 videos and i drive a 84 rx7 gslse.

real name: Tim but everyone calls me Timmah thanks to south park which i dont mind

age 24

job: tech support for Nokia

area: Tampa, Fl just moved down here from Jacksonville

hobbys: eat, sleep, drink rotarys.. I love speedchannel and almost everything that plays on it except boat racing. I do alot of autocrossing and roadracing anytime you guys go here in tampa let me know.

timmah

Pinhy (pronounced Pin-High) - its a golf term and i love playing golf.

real name: doug

age: 32 on May 1st

job: purchasing / estimating for a custom home builder

interestes: golf, cars, females, just about any sport, hanging with friends (not in that order!)

anyone it tampa area ever wanna hang out, just PM me.....i love meeting new people.

Pinhy your birthday is on may 1st? i turn 24 that day lol

timmah