Where is everyone from?

[Darstand]

Another chance for everyone to express themselves.

I am from Phoenix, AZ. The land of perpetual hot! We are still boiling through 100-degree temps.


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[Rick]

Currently live in Dallas, Texas but there's no way I'm going to say that I'm from here. I am originally from Indianapolis and have lived in a quite a few places between then and now.

[Thomas Davie]

I'm from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Situated directly north from Grand Forks, North Dakota.

Tom

[Sten]

Stockholm, Sweden.
It's cold and dark, but hey, it's my home. http://www.battlefront.com/discuss/smile.gif

[aikidorat]

Phoenix, Az. Originally from Colorado.

Darstand - where in Phoenix are you? I'm down south (Chandler)

Dave

[Sefchick]

Stafford Virginia USA

[Kevin Peltz]

Prince George, British Columbia- 800 km NNE of Seattle. Just had our first frost last night (-5C)

[sage]

Seattle, WA.

I don't feel guilty about playing games for 10 months of the year, because it's raining.

Sage

[Greg Scurlock]

Augusta, Georgia, USA

[Ithai]

I'm from bolivar mo although I grew up in jefferson city mo. Thomas where in winnipeg do you live? I've been there a few times. I have friends in the garden park area.

[Mike D]

Highlands Ranch (Denver Metro area), Colorado, USA.

Mike D
aka Mikester

[wingnut]

Auckland
New Zealand

[Moon]

Köln, Germany

[chaos]

I'm from Mason, Ohio, which is a suburb of Cincinnati (a fine city with a good baseball team, but a suck a## football team)

chaos

[Fred]

Hamburg, northern Germany

[Pixman]

Born: Rochester, NY 1962
Grew Up: Ontario, NY 1965-1980
College/Grad School: Syracuse, NY 1980-1987
Hartford, CT: 1988-1991
Pittsburgh, PA: 1991-1994
Wilson, NC: 1994-1995
Goldsboro, NC: 1995-1998
Wilmington, NC: 1998-Present

Bought a house and hope to not move for a while! http://www.battlefront.com/discuss/smile.gif


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The enchanter may confuse the outcome, but the effort remains sublime.

[aikidorat]

Mike D:

how long have you lived in Highlands Ranch? I grew up near there in Littleton and still visit my folks there a few times a year.

dave

[rune]

Coming from you live from Chicago, IL.
Been here all my life, minus time spent in the service. Going back to lurk now...

[PanzerShark]

Nijkerk, Netherlands

Not much to say about it, flat/rainy/15 degrees...bit like a bad dream going on and on and on and on and on and on and on....

[rwcanuck]

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

The most beautiful city in North America....when it doesn't rain that is.

[ChrisPick]

Herndon, VA.
I have been on this side of the pond for about 5 years now, though I originate from Old Blighty... =)

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chris@chris-and-donna.com

[Herr Oberst]

Location: Vienna.
Just me, my wife, and two little boys, Nicholas and Alexander.

If we have more, I shall be sure to try and have a Peter and Catherine. http://www.battlefront.com/discuss/wink.gif

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[Lokesa]

Living large in San Diego.

Canuck, Vancouver is pretty, I stopped by there for a day on my way to Alaska.

[dano6]

I'm from Shingle Springs, California. Its between Sacramento and Lake Tahoe. 30 mins. from 3 lakes and 40 mins. from snow skiing. I wakeboard all summer and ski all winter and whatever combination in between. I play computer wargames when I'm too damn sore to do either.

dano6

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[buddy]

Evansville in Southwest Indiana - right on the Kentucky border, y'all.

[Rex]

Corvallis, Oregon,

Home of rain, more rain, and Oregon State University, (Any school with a beaver for its mascot can't be all bad).

[Larry Marks]

Pixman, what the hell were you doing in Hartford, CT for 4 years? I used to work in Hartford. I now work in Farmington and live in South Windsor. How about those former Hartford Whalers.

Larry

[Thomas Davie]

Ithai: I live in Tuxedo just near the Assinaboine Park.

Tom

[Johan Brittz]

Cape Town - South Africa also called Cape of Storms (which it is quite often) and also called Cape of Good Hope (since I'm waiting for the demo - that's also true) :)

[Mike D]

Mike D:

how long have you lived in Highlands Ranch? I grew up near there in Littleton and still visit my folks there a few times a year.

dave
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Dave,

Bought my house here on the "Ranch" exactly 3 years ago this Thur. I've lived in Denver area though 3 different times during my life so far and bloody well plan on staying here this time around. Spent most of Junior High and High School years actually living in Littleton as well. Went to Euclid and then Powell Junior High's and then Arapahoe for High School. My folks old place was just west of Arapahoe High School about 3/4 of a mile or so. Other locations I've lived include Rockford, IL, a little town in S.E. Kansas called Iola, Rochester, MI (just north of Detroit), and Seattle, WA.

Mike D
aka Mikester

[Mike Oberly]

Columbus,Ohio.Moon-do you drink Kolisch(sorry-no umlaut on keyboard)? http://www.battlefront.com/discuss/smile.gif

[Chris Jenkins]

Tempe, AZ. I'm an ASU History student.

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[KwazyDog]

Gold Coast, Australia, around 9:30 in the morning. Nice sunny day at the moment http://www.battlefront.com/discuss/smile.gif

[Strider]

Thru school years in Kellyville, Oklahoma, just a bit SW of Tulsa. Been living in Bakersfield, California for the past 20yrs or so...

[Wesy]

Foster City, CA - About 20 miles south of San Francisco

[SGTRock]

Real name is Dave Calyn, Just loved the comic book war hero.
I reside in Toronto, Ontario, Canada before that Virginia Beach, VA, and before that back to Canada in a little town called Chatham.

Man, the net is awsome isn't it!
I just get chills everytime I come on to find that I've been dicussing German weapons with someone who lives in Germany (where it all went down!) I love it!
I just love it, Welcome Everybody..We gotta all get together sometime (pipe dream)
hehehe
Oh, by the way vying for most beautiful city in Canada if Vancover didn't have the mountains, Toronto would be up there.

Always enjoy the Chat guys!
D.Calyn
AKA
SGTRock



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[MERC]

Wichita, Kansas

Gox Shox!

[aikidorat]

Mike D:

small world - Littleton High School grad ('85). Moved to Phoenix 9 years ago (job - $$$). Folks live in the same house near Isaac Newton Jr. High. Pretty darn close to ya!

Too darn strange!

catch ya later

dave

[Bobb]

Fredericksburg, Texas. My folks retired here in 66 and I made it in 94. Otherwise from near Houston, a place now known as Baytown. The originally unincorporated community where I lived was Cedar Bayou, about 10 miles from where Sam Houston had a summer bay home.

Fredericksburg was settled by German immigrants. The language is still spoken here and the accent is often heard. During the War Between the States (or as some would have it, the War of Northern Agression) a bunch of the local boys and others from surrounding communities gave up on a Federal invasion and headed for Mexico to join the Union. They were were intercepted by a Confederate force and gave a good account of themselves in a battle that lasted several hours before being overwhelmed.

Not everything happened east of the Mississippi. There is a local monument inscribed in German which translates, "True to the Union." Not something to be expected in what was then Commanche country as well as deep Southern Confederacy.

These guys made a treaty with the Commanches and it is now celebrated with an Indian Pow Wow and local festivities as the only treaty in the US between Europeans and Indians that was kept by both sides. However, there were also the Lipan Apaches around who were left out and felt the need of an occasional scalp.

[John Maragoudakis]

Montreal Canada. Where the beer is cold and the French girls are hot.

[Ralph]

Columbia, South Carolina.
We started the Civil War!

[mike_in_texas]

Originally from Allentown, Pennsylvania USA, and currently residing in Houston, Texas.

[Marko]

Sydney, Australia - where it's too bloody hot in the summer, but we do have the best harbour in the world. http://www.battlefront.com/discuss/smile.gif

Rex,

I attended OSU for a year. I once rode my bicycle from town (Dairy Queen, I think) to the OSU library with no hands! I nearly lost it on the final hill to the library. Corvallis is a nice town.

Marko;

[Mikeydz]

Well, I'm another Mike that lives in Houston, TX. Born and raised.... http://www.battlefront.com/discuss/smile.gif

[BenSp]

Fribourg, Switzerland.. hi everybody!

[Thomm]

High, everyone !

I live in Vienna, Austria.

Great historical city, but hard to find places open after 5 a.m. !

[titan]

New Zealand
Auckland City

Where the air is clean and the land green,shared with 3.6mil souls about the size of californa Approx
Also inhabited by 50 odd mil sheep surrounded by ocean where in another few months our humble nation will be battling for the america's cup .Just one day we may also become a world power :)

[Stef]

Hi there !! I'm from Liège in Belgium ( you know...Battle of the Bulge ...as on your PC in some months with CM !! :)
To make some people jealous (he he :), I was, 1 week ago, to have a look at the Tiger II wich still lays in La Gleize ( 40Km from my house )It's very impressive...it has received 8 rounds (seems 75mm) in the front and it has just suffered some scratchs !!

[SimonFox]

Perth
Australia

Where the air is clean (if the wind is blowing in the right direction) and the land is reddish brown and shared with a considerable number of souls who have "escaped" from that soon to be world power next door http://www.battlefront.com/discuss/smile.gif

[guachi]

I reside in Billings, MT, USA.

The state is a little bigger than Finland, Germany, or Japan in area. But it has a population density less than that of Australia.

A land of immense natural beauty and limited economic opportunity.

Jason

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[KwazyDog]

"But it has a population density less than that of Australia."

Damn, how do you find each other, hehe. It must be very sparsely populated indeed. Peaceful I imagine though http://www.battlefront.com/discuss/smile.gif

[krm]

Adelaide, SA, Australia

[NCrawler]

Razorback country - Sherwood, AR

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Steel Lightning Productions

[NCrawler]

Ack, double post...

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[kingtiger]

Buffalo Grove, Illinois, USA ( Northwest Suburb of Chicago)

[137th Gebirg]

Loudoun County, Northern Virginia

[Pixman]

Larry,

I worked for RPS at their hub in South Windsor. I actually lived on Prospect St in East Hartford, right behind Corky's restaurant -- best damned pizza on the planet!!

Know Farmington well, still have friends there and in Avon (Secret Lake Rd) and Simsbury. My wife graduated from Storrs and worked in Avon for 2 years while in school -- talk about a long commute. From East Hartford to Storrs in the morning, classes all day, then to Avon, work until 10 pm and then back to East Hartford. All this while taking 19 credit hours, getting a 4.0 her senior year and graduating Phi Beta Kappa. I still marvel at that today.

I was tenor soloist at Immanuel Church on the corner of Farmington and Woodland (across from the Mark Twain House). If you like good music, check out the Woodland Concert Series that Larry puts on at Immanuel. I also did several Operas at the Bushnell with ConnOp.

Left Connecticut when I got transferred to RPS corporate in Pittsburgh. We liked Connecticut okay, but Pittsburgh is the best place we have ever lived by far.

Funny you mention the Whalers. Right after I moved to Pittsburgh, the blockbuster trade (Ronnie and Ulfie for Zalapski and some other change) took place. People in Pittsburgh were groaning (this was right after Johnston took Ronnie's captaincy away -- idiot). I told them all that they should quit whining because Ronnie and Ulfie were going to be the best thing that ever happened for the Penguins. Sure enough, two cups followed.

Then I move to NC and within 2 yrs the Whalers move here and Ronnie comes down to join them!! I was ecstatic. He has been my favorite player for a long time. The most underrated center in the history of the game. But I think he will get his due in the Hall of Fame.

Looking back on the old Whalers, I cannot see how they failed to win more. Francis, Samuelsson, Verbeek, Dineen, Burt, Ferraro, Kron, Sanderson. I mean give me a break. Sidorkiewicz was a liability in goal, but the rest was rock solid.

Anyway, this is probably much more than you were interested in hearing. But you know how the mind gets in reminiscing mode. http://www.battlefront.com/discuss/smile.gif

Pixman

P.S. Go Whalers!! -- uh Hurricanes!!

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[risc]

I'm living in Toronto, Canada...being here for 9 years now, originally from Czechoslovakia...

Peter

[Ken B]

Portage, in southwest Michigan

[Zackary]

Living in Boise now, but I spent most of my life in northeast Kansas.

Ithai--Small world! Not too many people reading this board have likely heard of Bolivar. My brother, sister-in-law, and two nephews live there. My brother and sister-in-law are former basketball players at Southwest Baptist. My sister-in-law is from Bolivar originally, as well.

Lokesa--This isn't nearly as remarkable a coincidence, but my sister, brother-in-law, niece and nephew live in San Diego.

MERC--Go Shockers! I lived in Wichita from 8/96-8/98. My wife earned her masters at WSU. If you like small greasy burger places for lunch, I can recommend many, many holes-in-the-wall in Wichita. My personal favorite is Tak-hom-a Burger by Lawrence Dumont. You'll love the ambience including the metal trash can by the cash register filled with fresh potato peelings, as well as the hole in the ceiling tile. My second favorite is M-R Fatburger on South Seneca (not to be confused with the newer Fatburger on Hillside). Order their large fry just for fun one time. You have never in your life received so many fries with a single order. The portion makes McDonald's SuperSize look plain silly.

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[Moon]

NCrawler - I never heard of Ack, Doublepost before? http://www.battlefront.com/discuss/smile.gif

(do I win the cheap joke award now?)

[Larry Marks]

Pix, I was a season ticket holder for the Whale during the 85-86 season when I was at Trinity College. After law school (don't hold that against me), I was a season ticket holder from 1991 until they left. I have actually played on the Civic Center ice twice. What a sauna. I had season tickets to the AHL team in Hartford for the first two seasons, but it isn't the same. I am jealous. You always move to a place with an NHL team. By the way, you are right the Trade killed the franchise.

I worked at State House Square for about 6 years, and now I work for a firm across from Batterson Park in Farmington. My wife and I like it here. It isn't bad. I heard that Pittsburgh is a great place to live.

Larry

[Rex]

Marko,

Good to see a fellow OSU alum here. What years were you a pris...er, student?

By the way, if you happen on a copy of this months issue of Playboy, the centerfold girl is from Corvallis. Some shots of campus in there. Might bring back some memories. And for the rest of you, all the girls in Corvallis look like the one in the magazine.

[Pixman]

Yeah, sure they do Rex. http://www.battlefront.com/discuss/wink.gif I get every issue. I must say that this year's pictorial of the girls of the PAC 10 is not as good as previous college "spreads". But OSU seems to have some real eager Beavers. BTW, are they ever going to win a football game?

Zack, you're back!! We still need to finish at Gaines Mill. Email me.

Larry, I don't hold being a lawyer against you. I didn't finish my wife's saga -- she went on to study law at PITT and now practices down here in Wilmington, lol!!

Been to the Civic Center a couple of times to see my Orangemen beat up on the Huskies (back when they could). Yeah, it was hot in there.

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[Rex]

Pixman,

The Beavs are 3-0 so far this year. Dennis Erickson, former coach of the Seahawks, is the new head coach. Everyone in town is hoping for a winning season. The first since 1970, I believe.

By the way, you're right about this years 'Girls of the Pac-10'. I remember pictorials like this being 20-30 pages when I was younger...

[Boris Balaban]

Kitchener/Waterloo Ontario, Canada
Were Oktoberfest will be going on in about a week.

[MOS was 71331]

I was a USAF dependent for twenty-odd years, so we moved about every few years. The places I remember were Oklahoma City, OK (Tinker AFB), Washington, DC (Andrews AFB), London, England (Bushy Park AFB), and Colorado Springs, CO (Ent AFB). I went through high school in the Springs and then attended Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University) in Pittsburgh, PA. Carnegie Tech had an Army ROTC program leading to a commission in either the Signal Corps or the Corps of Engineers, which was my choice. [Hence my handle: 1331 is a Combat Engineer Troop Leader. The 7 prefix signifies airborne qualified -- 5 jumps from an airplane in fright, or should I have said "flight?"

My two years on active duty took me to Fort Belvoir, VA, for Engineer school, Fort Benning, GA, for Airborne school, the 2d Engr Bn of the 2d Inf Div where I was a platoon leader, a property book officer, and an assistant ops officer, and finally back to Fort Belvoir for my last six months in the procurement directorate.

When I left the army in 1968 I went to work for Univac as a computer programmer on the Safeguard ABM program under contract to Bell Labs in Whippany, NJ. After 18 months there I was assigned to the test site on the Kwajalein Atoll. Of the next thirty years, I spent twelve there.

Kwajalein was a German colony in the latter 19th century, and it was involved in both world wars. The small German fleet under Graf Spee which fought at Koronel and the Falkland Islands sailed from Kwaj at the beginning of WWI. The Japanese took all the German colonies in the Pacific during WWI, so in Jan 1944, we took the Kwajalein Atoll from the Japanese with the marines landing on Roi-Namur and the army's 7th Inf Div landing on Kwajalein Island. After the war, Kwaj supported the A and H bomb tests in the Pacific. The German heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen was one of the target ships at Bikini Atoll. After the test, the ship was towed to the Kwajalein lagoon, and it capsized during a storm. For many years it was a favorite wreck for the scuba club, but the army (which runs the missile range) placed it off limits after two bell employees drowned while exploring it. I remember many club members in the early 70s having souvenir crockery and cutlery with swastika markings taken from the Eugen.

I alternated tours on Kwaj with defense software development in Denver and now in Colorado Springs. My wife and kids went to Kwaj with me in 1989 and they hated it out there. I doubt I'll ever go back.

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[Oly]

Grew up in Pierre, South Dakota. Went to college in Colorado (Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, GO RAMS). Currently reside in Midlothian, IL (SW suburb of Chicago).

[AD]

Hi everyone,

Long-time lurker, first-time poster.

Originally from Webster Massachusetts, went to school at the University of Lowell, and now reside in lovely Springfield, Virginia - just outside Washington DC.

Thanks to everyone on the board for providing lots of education and entertainment over many months!

[SGTRock]

Amen, amen to that. Battlefront has become an intrical part of my life...crumb I spend more time here than in real social circles...(Crowd goes Awwwwwwwwwww)However I do find the 'conversations' here to be a lot more rich in thought and wit than most other social circles.
Feel like I know everyone of you guys!



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[Marko]

Rex,

I attended grad school at OSU in '94-'95. The women were beautiful it goes without saying. While the football team struggled we had a very good women's soccer team. I was their number one fan. Did I mention that the women were beautiful? http://www.battlefront.com/discuss/smile.gif

Marko;

[Pete]

I live in (a rainy) The Hague

ASL. My way of living. Will CM turn it around???

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[Adjudant]

Hello,
I'm a reader of this board, and i'm from FRANCE in Orléans on the Loire river .

[Pixman]

Does the name Jean D'Arc ring a bell? http://www.battlefront.com/discuss/smile.gif

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[Gespenster]

I've been lurking on these message boards for some time now and figured its about time to say hi... And that I am very much looking forward to the release of Combat Mission...

I'm from Ashburn, Virginia (Loudoun County)Lived here all my life except the 9 years I spent in the service... http://www.battlefront.com/discuss/smile.gif

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[The viking]

Hey
Im also a often reader of this board.
I liv in Nyborg (or Newcastle in English) Denmark, Skandinavia.
Like sweden it is a beautifyl place in the sommer, but cold in the winther.
Can`t wait to play CM.

[Harold Jones]

I'm from Iowa. Although thanks to the Army I've also lived in Colorad, Kansas and Germany for varying amounts of time.

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[Joel]

I'm a long time reader of this board, and I live in France, in the countryside 160km SW of Paris, which I left after living 10 years in this crazy city.
By the way, Adjudant, I'm 90km NW of Orleans, and I used to live there for 11 years! (college, high school, and university time)

[Joel]

Darstand,
There is quite an interesting fighter museum in Phoenix, I visited it some years ago... Isn't it the "Fighter Aces" museum?

Marko,
I spent two months in Sydney 2 years ago, this city is "bloody" great, mate! ;o)
(in fact it's the only city in the world where I would like to live...)

[Doug Beman]

Better get my response in before this thread is locked.

Originally from State College PA, home of the PennState Nittany Lions (and about 15,000 drunken fraternity brothers who wish they were on the team 'cause of all the girls who hang on football players)

College in (where else?) PennState.

Graduated Dec '98, degree in history, minor in German.

Moved to N. Plainfield New Jersey in January, probably will spend the greater part of my remaining life here.

DjB

[sage]

Joel, Adjudant --

I rode my bike throgh France last June. I spent two days at the youth hostel in Orleans, and then rode N. from Tours to Chartres. Joel -- what is the name of your town? -- I may have ridden through it the day I rode from Tours to Chartres.

Salud

Sage

[Das Baron]

Hey all of you from AZ. I'm from Mesa and love to LAN. Gots the 16 port hub, gots the cables and gots the plethora of games. Let me know ;)

Von Edward Das Baron

[Mikeman]

I gotta agree with Sgt. Rock. This internet thing is amazing! We really should have an annual get together in a centrally located place. Rio de Janiero would be about right. Maybe a little inconvenient for the Scandinavians.

I'm from Hot Springs, Arkansas; the boyhood home of Bill Clinton and vacation spot for Al Capone and his cronies back in the '20s. Could there be some kind of connection?

Pleased to meet you all! Isn't this board a kick in the pants. Do you think the forum will get more active or less so, once we get our hands on the game? Mikeman out.

[Carp]

I'm from Prince George, British Columbia and to expand on what Kevin mentioned, in addition to the frost we also had out first snowfall. Yup you read correctly -- Freaking SNOW

Cheers, Carp

[Chris Jenkins]

Excuse me Baron, but what is a plethora? I would hate for someone to tell me they have a plathora, and not know what a plethora is. (from the three amigos). Chris Jenkins, Tempe, AZ

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[ebaker]

From Biloxi, MS land of hurricanes and humidity. But on a positive side the last state to be visited by President Clinton.

[mike_in_texas]

Doug,

Being originally from PA myself, I might be the only other person on this forum who knows what a Nittany Lion is. http://www.battlefront.com/discuss/smile.gif

Go Penn State!

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[crocky]

Christchurch

New Zealand

[Rod]

From Ames, conveniently located in the center of Iowa. Also at the top of Big 8 ...oops... Big 12 country.

[Big Time Software]

This has been a great thread. Very interesting to know where you all are, both personally (wargamer) and professionally (wargame publisher http://www.battlefront.com/discuss/smile.gif) Unfortunately, the danger point of this thread's size is getting near, so I am going to have to shut it down. Things can get ugly when a thread gets too big!

Thanks to all who posted!

Steve