Having made ~200 posts now some of you have deduced somewhat who I am. I thought I'd state simply, however, some things about myself.
I'm a boy. I'm 17 years old for a couple more weeks still. I'm a good student at my high school in Michigan. In the fall I did marching band all four years, I've been a diver during the winter season since my sophomore year, and I ran track my Freshman and sophomore years and I'm debating doing it again this year.
I'm going to the University of Michigan next fall and majoring in undecided with an inclination towards The Brain (Neuroscience/psychiatry/neuro-stuff research) I'm particularly interested in things like controlling computers with tiny electrodes poked into your brain or... potentially the same way controlling things like vehicles, robot suits/prosthetic limbs(the possibilities would be endless). I'm also interested in astronomy and physics by proximity to my brother, who is currently in Grad school at Cornell for Planetary Astronomy.
I only have the one brother, my parents are both retired. My dad just retired from being a veterinarian, my mom was a plant pathologist/entomologist with the Michigan Dept. of Agriculture. I'm not religious and go so far as to say that I'm atheist. My grandparents (on one side) were born in Utah and for whatever combination of reasons basically got fed up with their mormon families and moved to the then-booming michigan. They still keep in touch, but they were not religious. My mom's parents were some form of christian. (Only my grandpa from my Dad's side is still alive).
I like doing stuff... sporty stuff, outdoorsy stuff, reading, learning, talking with people/musing is always fun. I'm in my fourth year of spanish-spanish 5, so I fancy myself at least slowly conversational in spanish. ...
When I was younger I was quite shy, I've gotten over that quite a bit over time. I've always fancied myself more mature than my peers in general (which I believe is a well-founded fancy), and I've always been smart and knowledgeable so I'm a bit smug or arrogant at times. I think that, in general, I'm a pretty nice guy.
So. There are some things about me. I don't know if this is superfluous, or just annoying and dumb. Here's an official "Hi" for all of you.
(I can't... can, with difficulty, wait for my landmark post...)
Posted by Kwea (Member # 2199) on :
Welcome (belated and all).
Where in MI do you live? I lived near Detroit for years, and my parents live half the year near Traverse City. My wife and I were just there about 8 months ago...
Posted by Dark as night (Member # 9577) on :
Welcome to Hatrack! Posted by Starsnuffer (Member # 8116) on :
South-East MI. About a half an hour from Detroit metro airport, and about due west from it.
Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
Howdy. Posted by Tatiana (Member # 6776) on :
Welcome, Starsnuffer! Please don't snuff out any stars in the neighborhood. We need all we have. Posted by Kwea (Member # 2199) on :
I grew up in Utica. My dad was a manager for JCPenney at Lakeside Mall in Sterling Heights.
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
Nice to become better acquainted. I've been reading about current research in brain control of the environment in ways that don't involve implanted electrodes. Like this. Because, c'mon, who wants to sign up for brain surgery?
My husband is pretty much completely paralysed (he can move his eyes OK, and his head a little), and is unable to speak above a bare whisper, which makes it kind of hard for him to perform any environmental controls. Once plunked down in his wheelchair, he can move the electric wheelchair independently with small head movements and with a straw in his mouth that he blows or sucks on (kind of like this). And he can work the computer with a combination of software that reads his eye movements and translates them into input (like this) and with a Morse code device that he can tap with his head (like this). He'd kind of like a cross between Stephen Hawking and Captain Pike.
What a cool area of interest for you. With medical technology and rehabilitation progressing, I foresee more and more need for this kind of thing.
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
quote:Originally posted by Tatiana: Please don't snuff out any stars in the neighborhood.
Oh, I don't think he snuffs out stars. I think that he is just a very good, even famous, snuffer. In any group of snuffers, he's the star.
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
Oh, and just so you know, it is considered to be bad form to double post. Triple posting is just gauche. You have to be especially beloved and revered to get away with that sort of behavior.
Posted by Tatiana (Member # 6776) on :
Who triple posted? I'm exiled in this hotel in Augusta, GA which has almost nonexistent internet, that times out and gives errors on almost every page click. I've been expecting it to triple post me because I have to hit "Add Reply" six or seven times to get it to take. But I only see one here. I know I'm certainly not beloved and revered enough to get away with that sort of behavior, so I'm hoping it was you. Posted by Threads (Member # 10863) on :
Tante triple posted Posted by imogen (Member # 5485) on :
Welcome Starsnuffer. Posted by imogen (Member # 5485) on :
Also, not to dogpile, but I do agree with Tante on double posting. One to watch out for.
Posted by imogen (Member # 5485) on :
quote:Originally posted by Threads: Tante triple posted
Telling tales! She did not. Like anyone who had been posting here for a while would do that.
*tsk*
Posted by BlackBlade (Member # 8376) on :
If there is anything worse then triple posting it's pointing it out, bad form Threads bad form.
Everyone knows the best way to respond to triple posting is to convince the thread originator to simply delete the thread without giving any advance warning.
edit: BTW Welcome to them here hatrack forums Starsnuffer, hope to hear from you often.
Posted by Starsnuffer (Member # 8116) on :
Well my name is from "So, You want to be a Wizard?" A young adult book about... a kid who becomes a wizard when he checks out a book of spells for fun and finds out they're real. "The starsnuffer" was one of many ominous names for the villain of the story, and an example of the sort of things they thought him capable of--starsnuffer, kindler of wildfires, etc. Wiki Edited to fix URL
Posted by Starsnuffer (Member # 8116) on :
Also, in the spirit of double posting and not wanting to edit that post again, those input things are really cool Tante. Especially the EEG robot one, I'd heard of that sort of "startle" thing for typing before too.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
quote:Originally posted by Starsnuffer: Well my name is from "So, You want to be a Wizard?" A young adult book about... a kid who becomes a wizard when he checks out a book of spells for fun and finds out they're real.
I wondered if that was it.
BTW, Nita is a girl. (Kit is a boy, but he doesn't get his copy of the manual from the library.)
You know they're going to make it into a movie, neh?
Posted by BandoCommando (Member # 7746) on :
Heya! Welcome to Hatrack!
As a band director and former college/high school drum major, I hafta ask: what instrument do you play?
Posted by Miro (Member # 1178) on :
Starsnuffer, if you're into outdoorsy stuff, check out the Society of Les Voyageurs (http://umich.edu/~lvs/). The absolute best part of my two years at Michigan.
Also, the libraries at Michigan are awesome. I would spend hours (days, sometimes) wandering the stacks and browsing the books.
Posted by Starsnuffer (Member # 8116) on :
Rivka, yeah I forget some details from the book... (most.. of the details), but that was the gist of it.
I play(ed) the trumpet. I hope I can keep doing it at least at some level in the future... We'll see how I feel.
Yeah, come not-being-stressed/busy I plan to look at the clubs and various... Stuff that there is to do. (table tennis club? haha.. we'll see)
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