Yeah, when I first typed "way back in the..." I put "mid 90's", which is more "way back". But then I remembered the internet didn't get big until 95, and I know it was at least 2 years after that that I found hatrack.com. So I guess late 90's isn't so way back... Just seems like it.
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Yes, late 90s now qualifies as "way back". We youngsters just have to come to grip with the fact that the decade we grew up in is 4 years gone, and we're on our way towards getting old.
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Hi Everyone, I'm came here cause I enjoy OSC. I got hooked cause Bob Scopatz had a pun smackdown thread going and I can see the folks on here have a very real sense of community.
I'm a 42 year old married male. I live in the midwest. I'm a self-employed house painter that enjoys, reading fiction, playing with Linux, evaluating and brewing homebrew, and making bad puns.
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I'm new. I'm from Ontario, and ummm... *looks shiftily around* I've never read anything by OSC except his posts here. But no! Don't panic! Ender's Game has been added to the top of my list for this summer. There's too many intelligent people here who worship his writing for it not to be amazing.
So how did I find this place, you ask? I'm here because Bob the Lawyer would always use my computer to check Hatrack at some point every time he came to my house to visit, and I eventually got curious, and decided it looked like fun.
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I guess I qualify as a newbie. Well, I live in Sweden, 17 years old and a student. I have read as many books by OSC that I can get my hands on over here, but unfortunately that isn't very many I also have a twin brorther on this forum, but I won't tell you who Posts: 132 | Registered: Mar 2005
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I posted the following in the other forum about a week ago:
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I just registered here, although I've been visiting Hatrack for several years now, mainly to find out what new books are out and such. I think the primary reason that I became interested in registering here now is seeing how frequently OSC posts and is a regular member here, which I think is really cool.
Regarding myself, I'm 20 years old, have been married for a bit over a year, and work as a software developer for an AI based company. My wife and I spend a lot of our time working through our church with predominantly African American urban children from broken homes and families from our neighborhood in the city of Pittsburgh. She co-leads an after school program for elementary school students and I run the junior high youth group.
I've long been a fan of OSC's books, and since being married, one of our favorite pasttimes has been reading aloud books to each other, so I've hooked my wife onto OSC as well. Shadow of the Giant was the most recent book we read, of course.
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Well, I'm a newbie, in that I signed on only in the last two weeks.
I've been an avid reader of Civ Watch/World Watch since OSC started writing them, and also have read Uncle Orson's reviews since back when he only reviewed "almost everything" And, of course, I got introduced to OSC over 10 years ago, when I found "Ender's Game" in my 7th-grade social studies/language arts teacher's classroom library. I've been hooked since, reading anything and everything I can find with Mr. Card's name on it.
Strange, then, that I didn't even know these forums existed until I did a google search to find out more, if I could, about the upcoming E.G. movie. How incredible! Mr. Card communicates with his fans, plays games with them, enters into deep (and not so deep) discussions about his novels and about life, politics, religion, and the universe.
Besides, any opportunity to see more examples of this man's wit and intelligence is one that I will gladly take, particularly when I also have the good fortune to witness the wit and intelligence of all of you other fans of Mr. Card's work.
A little about me: I'm finishing up my last year of college work prior to becoming a band director. My nickname there originates from my high school years, when I was the student conductor for the local marching band. One of my classmates dubbed me "Mr. Zander the Band Commander" and the name stuck, but then morphed once I got to college into "Bando Commando."
Here's a big "thank you" to the Hatrack River community, for being so welcoming, so kind, so witty, and so intelligent. I've never seen an online community be so darn nice, and it is quite refreshing.
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I'm new as well. Names Evan, just started reading forums and getting into the whole message board thing and I stumbled onto hatrack while looking at the cool new dragon army clothing stuff. Read OSC since I was little starting with Ender's Game. I'm a poly sci foreign relations major at the U of Minnesota and just reading and re-reading all of the shadow series and then looking at whats taking place has creeped me out a little as to how right he has been on a lot more of whats going on then I could have been ten years ago, so I've been very impressed with all of the foreign relations/earth war stuff OSC has been writing lately. Thats about it for me!
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And, of course, I got introduced to OSC over 10 years ago, when I found "Ender's Game" in my 7th-grade social studies/language arts teacher's classroom library. I've been hooked since, reading anything and everything I can find with Mr. Card's name on it.
