Post by ShippouSensei on Sept 25, 2016 1:25:34 GMT -6
Hello to all you denizens of the shack. I guess some introductions are in order.
Seeing as I'm the only one here* here at the moment it behoves me to kick off and give you nice folks self introduction.
Name - My internet moniker is (as you can see over that way <-- ) Shippou-Sensei but most people just call me Shippy. I have a real name (in fact you hear it in the dice funk Patreon credits as of late) but this Internet handle has been with me in one form or another for a little shy of 15 years and even a bunch of people who know me in that vale of tears also know as the real world just call me shippy. So feel to use Shippou-Sensei, Shippy, Shipster,Shipping forcast or even "hey, you other there" it's all fine (hey if you work out my real name too (probably not hard) you can call me that too).
Age - Just had my 35th a few weeks back. Not super old but my salad days are wilting in the bottom of the fridge.
Job - I teach computer science stuff in colleges (FE colleges not HE university/college). Mainly stuff like programming and web development but if it's IT I have probably taught it at one time or another. I'm a jack of all trades rather than a master of one or two.
Hobbies - Staying in bed (not necessarily sleeping just being in bed. Like I am at this very moment in fact.). Reading books (Mainly sci-fi and fantasy). Buying games on steam and then practically never playing any of them (I have a serious problem here** ). Anime and Manga (As you mighta guessed from my name i'm a wee bit of a fan.*** ). Buying tabletop games and then practically never playing any of them (wait i'm seeing a pattern emerging here)
I've probably dabbled in most of the usual geeky suspects when it comes to entertainment.
Location - London, UK (Brixton to be precise).
Relationship Status -
Super condensed life story
- Born (1981)
- Very young person stuff (what i can remember of it was good. already on my way too geekdom by reading by 2/3. being a comics fan [although in my case it was asterix rather than american stuff] and watching doctor who [my eairlist memory that I can actually put a date to (thanks to broadcast dates) is me watching the caves of adronazi i would have been two and a half] )
- Primary school (kinda shitty time)
- Secondary school (very shitty time, Includes having a cigarette put out on my arm
Seeing as I'm the only one here* here at the moment it behoves me to kick off and give you nice folks self introduction.
Name - My internet moniker is (as you can see over that way <-- ) Shippou-Sensei but most people just call me Shippy. I have a real name (in fact you hear it in the dice funk Patreon credits as of late) but this Internet handle has been with me in one form or another for a little shy of 15 years and even a bunch of people who know me in that vale of tears also know as the real world just call me shippy. So feel to use Shippou-Sensei, Shippy, Shipster,Shipping forcast or even "hey, you other there" it's all fine (hey if you work out my real name too (probably not hard) you can call me that too).
Age - Just had my 35th a few weeks back. Not super old but my salad days are wilting in the bottom of the fridge.
Job - I teach computer science stuff in colleges (FE colleges not HE university/college). Mainly stuff like programming and web development but if it's IT I have probably taught it at one time or another. I'm a jack of all trades rather than a master of one or two.
Hobbies - Staying in bed (not necessarily sleeping just being in bed. Like I am at this very moment in fact.). Reading books (Mainly sci-fi and fantasy). Buying games on steam and then practically never playing any of them (I have a serious problem here** ). Anime and Manga (As you mighta guessed from my name i'm a wee bit of a fan.*** ). Buying tabletop games and then practically never playing any of them (wait i'm seeing a pattern emerging here)
I've probably dabbled in most of the usual geeky suspects when it comes to entertainment.
Location - London, UK (Brixton to be precise).
Relationship Status -
Super condensed life story
- Born (1981)
- Very young person stuff (what i can remember of it was good. already on my way too geekdom by reading by 2/3. being a comics fan [although in my case it was asterix rather than american stuff] and watching doctor who [my eairlist memory that I can actually put a date to (thanks to broadcast dates) is me watching the caves of adronazi i would have been two and a half] )
- Primary school (kinda shitty time)
- Secondary school (very shitty time, Includes having a cigarette put out on my arm
and once being doused in aftershave and set on fire [lucky i wear cotton cloths so all I lost was some of my eyebrows] )
- Incomplete A level (a lot less being set on fire but they wanted me to repeat the first year and I felt I was studying the wrong subjects in the first place so I left)
- College (much less shitty Studied electronic and computer engineering. Discovered that love programming and i'm not very good with electronics )
- University (BSc Computing Studies. Was fairly cool. Finally doing the stuff i really loved. I did slack off a bit towards the end though. )
- Being on the dole for about 3 years trying to work out what job I want and trying to find a reasonable job that i could actually get.
- Go on a dole funded training course at a small college where the teachers liked me so much they offered me a job.
- Slowly move from doing web development work for them to doing teaching assistance on the side, then doing some actual teaching.
- University again (Postgraduate Certificate in Education, done while keeping the same job)
- government cuts funding for a lot of training some my first job ends and my new life of being a roaming IT teacher for hire begins
- not dead yet (2016)
I even managed to have a bit of romance back in my younger days.
So... Questions? Comments? flaming torches and pitch forks?
Oh and my avatar is an actual picture of me. I had just purchased a chainsaw so i kinda had to do it.
* the create thread page
** steamcommunity.com/id/professorh/games/?tab=all
*** you can read that one as die hard otaku who even collects anime merchandise (ask me about my enormous dakimakura/hug-pillow collection, then weep.)
- Incomplete A level (a lot less being set on fire but they wanted me to repeat the first year and I felt I was studying the wrong subjects in the first place so I left)
- College (much less shitty Studied electronic and computer engineering. Discovered that love programming and i'm not very good with electronics )
- University (BSc Computing Studies. Was fairly cool. Finally doing the stuff i really loved. I did slack off a bit towards the end though. )
- Being on the dole for about 3 years trying to work out what job I want and trying to find a reasonable job that i could actually get.
- Go on a dole funded training course at a small college where the teachers liked me so much they offered me a job.
- Slowly move from doing web development work for them to doing teaching assistance on the side, then doing some actual teaching.
- University again (Postgraduate Certificate in Education, done while keeping the same job)
- government cuts funding for a lot of training some my first job ends and my new life of being a roaming IT teacher for hire begins
- not dead yet (2016)
I even managed to have a bit of romance back in my younger days.
So... Questions? Comments? flaming torches and pitch forks?
Oh and my avatar is an actual picture of me. I had just purchased a chainsaw so i kinda had to do it.
* the create thread page
** steamcommunity.com/id/professorh/games/?tab=all
*** you can read that one as die hard otaku who even collects anime merchandise (ask me about my enormous dakimakura/hug-pillow collection, then weep.)