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Arantor:
Name: Pete "Arantor" Spicer
Age: 25
Location: England
Quote: "Know thyself" and "To thine own self be true"
Position: Customizer

* Do you have pets? No, but I would like to be a cat's pet sometime. (They're not our pets, they're our master!)
* What is your favorite color? Blue.
* What kind of music do you like? Rock/metal mostly: Iron Maiden, Queen, Meat Loaf. Recently a lot of Abney Park.
* What do you do on your free time besides spending time on SMF? I have free time other than at SMF? I take it you don't mean the IRC channel for SMF too? :P Other than being on SMF, I'm mostly enjoying the process of writing an RPG.
* What are your goals/dreams in life? To be able to support myself and my family financially and emotionally purely on my own creations; not relying on a company to pay my wages, but to go self employed. The aforementioned RPG is part of that dream.
* What got you involved in SMF? A project I started 3 years ago needed a discussion forum; initially we were using PunBB, but polls were not a core feature so I went searching for a forum package that was free and not riddled with security holes - and SMF was the best choice.
* Who do you admire? Why? Andrew Plotkin, aka Zarf - for opening my eyes to the worlds beyond worlds. It isn't the tools we have that shape the world, it is how we use them.
* Are you into sports?  If so which ones? I hate sport. I generally don't see the point of it.
* What is your dream job? RPG designer/maintainer/programmer (see above)
* What was your first screenname? The SpiceyOne, around 2000.
* Do you have any piercings? No.
* Are you a lefty/righty or ambidextrous? Sort of both. I write with my left hand, use a mouse with my right, type with both. *shrug*
* Do you have any tattoo's?  If not do you wish/plan to get one? No, though I would kind of like something of dragons on my back.
* Do you have any siblings?  If so, how many of each? One half sister - we're 11 years apart, but one day on the calendar.
* What is your favorite website? www.simplemachines.org, airshipescapades.net (not publicly available yet but the dev stuff is to team members)
* Do you play computer games?  If so, which ones? I do sometimes but mostly right now it's more for diversion in between playing my dev game or on here. When I do play, usually something like Bejeweled, or Bookworm Adventures. I do also play a fair amount of Scrabble/Lexulous on Facebook though, and have been prodded into trying FarmVille, but it's kinda limited.
* Do you play video game consoles?  Which ones? I own none of these.
* Are you married or planing to get married? It's on my to-do list, but right now in the 'long time away' category.

* If so do you have any kids? No, but would like to.
* How many kids?
* How many languages do you speak?  If so which ones? Multiple: PHP, HTML, CSS, Javascr... oh wait, you meant actual languages. Two: English and rubbish.
* Do you drink? Not now. Used to a while ago.
* Do you smoke? No.
* Did you play hookey from class? In my final year at college, yes. Still passed with good grades because when I did turn up it sunk in.
* Do you have a license? Open Source licenses FTW! :P I assume you mean driving - no, I don't drive. Too many nuts on the road already.

* Do you own a car? No, no plan to either.
* Have you ever been stopped for speeding? N/A
* Do you obtain a good amount of sleep daily? Not really. Am varying between 2-5 hours, with the last two days being two days with a total of 1 hour sleep in it.
* How do you sleep? In a big bed with my partner.
* Have you ever been on an airplane? A while ago.
* Have you ever broken a bone? No, but I fractured my leg when very small.
* Do you wear jewelry?  If so what jewelry do you wear? I have a dragon pendant necklace which I wear almost all the time. It's currently off being cleaned.
* How do you dress? As casually as possible. Some days just sticking to dressing gown.
* How many keys are on your keyring? 6.
* What time do you go to bed?  What time do you wake up? Bed: any time between 2am and 6am. Awake: any time from 7am to 12pm. Curse of unemployment.
* What's the freakiest thing you have done? Invented a new drink at college. We had a dispenser like you get in McDonalds or KFC for dispensing fizzy drinks. We discovered that if you start with 7-Up, then added Fanta Orange, then Coke in roughly equal measures, you get a drink that's drinkable and changes from black to orange to pale orange the more you drink.
* Do you live alone? No
* How many hours a day do you spend in the computer? As many as possible. Frequently 16+
* How many hours a day do you spend in SMF? About the same some days. Depends how much dev I need to do for my game on any given day.
* What is your favorite beverage - coffee, tea, soda, beer, other? Tea, milk, water, Pepsi in no particular order.
* What do you hate? Hypocrisy, spiders, insects and bugs especially wasps.
* What do you love? People working together for a common positive goal.
* What is your religion? Pagan in basis, worshipping a female deity, with elements of animal spirituality and our friends the dragons :)
* What is your hair color? Brown.
* How tall are you? 5'7"
* How much do you weigh? Too much.
* What's the feature on SMF you can't live without?

* As an administrator? Package Manager
* As an end user? Unread Replies

zorro18:
Good to know about you Arantor! Cheers for your determination and dedication :)

Costa:
London Wasps FTW!!

sAce:
first of all, congrats pal

and then, nice intro :)

:P

DannysForum:
Good to know ya!

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