What interests us? LOAP wants to know.

[_silentkid]

I like using chinchillas to smuggle drugs.

Is this a veiled reference to American Gangster? Denzel wears a sweet chinchilla coat with matching hat. He also smuggles drugs, though not in the coat.

[_Doctor Steuss]

I like using chinchillas to smuggle drugs.

Is this a veiled reference to American Gangster? Denzel wears a sweet chinchilla coat with matching hat. He also smuggles drugs, though not in the coat.

I haven't seen it yet. Two of my friends have though... they kind of gave it mixed "reviews."

[_Runtu]

LOAP: good drummers are hard to find.

I work as a research scientist at a small biotech company in Colorado. Before that, I taught biology at UVSC. Therefore, I guess you could say that one of my interests is science (specifically molecular biology, evolution, and genetics). When I'm not working, I enjoy reading, watching movies, and playing/writing music. My favorite fiction writers are Cormac McCarthy, Don DeLillo and Tim O'Brien. I also love to read cheesy mysteries...books by Michael Connelly and Robert Crais. I like all kinds of movies. I'll watch pretty much anything. I like to write reviews of movies, too. You can read some of those here if you'd like (profanity warning). When I exercise (I've been lazy the last few months), I prefer swimming. I was a USS swimmer as a kid. I love music. I currently have over 50 gigs of music in my iTunes, nearly all of which was imported from my CD collection. My favorite band is Wilco. Some of my other favorites include Calexico, Grandaddy (still sad that they broke up), Built to Spill, Pavement, Califone, and The Frames. I'm on a metal kick right now, two of my favorite groups being Mastodon and Orange Goblin. I like to write and record music. I play guitar and bass and keyboards and program drum beats and stuff.

Love Wilco, too.

[_barrelomonkeys]

Thought of 2 more:

I was looking at silentkids blog and was reading reviews and was reminded that I LOVE horror movies!

Also, I'm slightly addicted to sudoku.

[_Bond...James Bond]

I was looking at silentkids blog and was reading reviews and was reminded that I LOVE horror movies!

Just checking the blog out myself. Quite funny silentkid.

Also, I'm slightly addicted to sudoku.

I think I"m the only person on earth who's never done sudoku.

[_LifeOnaPlate]

silentkid: I enjoy those bands but still lean towards the more mainstream counterparts like Death Cab, Mates of State, Guster, etc. I also enjoy the Weakerthans, Shout Out Louds, Ben Kweller, Bishop Allen (no Mormon relation), Red Hot Chili Peppers, Postal Service, etc.

[_skippy the dead]

Also, I'm slightly addicted to sudoku.

I think I"m the only person on earth who's never done sudoku.

Now there are two of us! Never felt inclined.

[_Dr. Shades]

Not too much interests me, so my list is short.

• I like board games, especially the more unconventional games by German designers (Klaus Teuber's The Settlers of Cataan and Reiner Kinizia's Quo Vadis? come immediately to mind). I also enjoy tactical wargames--the board-based ones, not video games. I especially love tinkering with the rules to make improvements.
• I am a huge World War II devotee, with particular interest in all things Axis.
• I am combining the previous two items by developing a board-based strategic simulation of WWII using components from the Axis & Allies: Europe and Axis & Allies: Pacific game systems. I'm about 95% of the way done with writing up the rules (88 pages and counting); the next step will be alpha playtesting. This will be the single most historically accurate World War II board game on a grand strategic scale that I've ever seen, that's for sure. (It won't be the most complex game out there, mind you, just the most historically and strategically accurate one).
• I'm a dedicated devotee of Magic: the Gathering. It was the very first in the collectible card game genre and, amazingly, it's still the best by virtually any standard, be it total sales, fan base, or what have you. The great thing about the game is that it's not just the individual cards themselves that make the game; it's the interactions between cards that the player must coax out or develop on his/her own. Therefore, creating a winning deck is an intellectually challenging and mentally stimulating enterprise.
• I can draw/illustrate quite well, if I do say so myself. Bryan Inks and Keene can back me up on that; they commissioned me to create a few religiously-based T-shirt designs, but they never got around to using them, darn it.

[_The Nehor]

Not too much interests me, so my list is short.

• I like board games, especially the more unconventional games by German designers (Klaus Teuber's The Settlers of Cataan and Reiner Kinizia's Quo Vadis? come immediately to mind). I also enjoy tactical wargames--the board-based ones, not video games. I especially love tinkering with the rules to make improvements.
• I am a huge World War II devotee, with particular interest in all things Axis.
• I am combining the previous two items by developing a board-based strategic simulation of WWII using components from the Axis & Allies: Europe and Axis & Allies: Pacific game systems. I'm about 95% of the way done with writing up the rules (88 pages and counting); the next step will be alpha playtesting. This will be the single most historically accurate World War II board game on a grand strategic scale that I've ever seen, that's for sure. (It won't be the most complex game out there, mind you, just the most historically and strategically accurate one).
• I'm a dedicated devotee of Magic: the Gathering. It was the very first in the collectible card game genre and, amazingly, it's still the best by virtually any standard, be it total sales, fan base, or what have you. The great thing about the game is that it's not just the individual cards themselves that make the game; it's the interactions between cards that the player must coax out or develop on his/her own. Therefore, creating a winning deck is an intellectually challenging and mentally stimulating enterprise.
• I can draw/illustrate quite well, if I do say so myself. Bryan Inks and Keene can back me up on that; they commissioned me to create a few religiously-based T-shirt designs, but they never got around to using them, darn it.

Hey, have you ever tried World in Flames? Possibly the best grand strategy WWII game I've ever played.....if you can spare that much time. :)

[_Dr. Shades]

Hey, have you ever tried World in Flames? Possibly the best grand strategy WWII game I've ever played.....if you can spare that much time. :)

No, I've never tried it, although I own a copy of the 5th Edition. I'd like to play it someday, but I don't know anyone who can teach me.

I don't know if this counts, but I was a bigtime enthusiast of the Advanced Third Reich/Empire of the Rising Sun game system (I'd even made a magnetized set) up 'till about 10 years ago. I quit because I wasn't much good at it.