Sup, Foo
 

I've been here awhile as a lurker but thought I'd do a more personal introduction. I'll add a comment here and there but I am mostly here to see your thoughts, since as a true zoob, I can't formulate my own.

My claims to fame:
1. I'm the first person to win a coin toss with a Euro (debatable) and to give one to a homeless person (near proven). I was on my mission in France when the Euros were first given out (December 14, 2001, I believe). My companion and I were in line at the post office before it opened, and received ours quite quickly. Most people were keeping them sealed, but I broke mine open and quickly (inside the post office) did a coin toss with my companion. I can't imagine anyone else did this as their first action, so I'm the first winner (comp is the first loser). In the subway ride home, I saw a bum playing the guitar and gave him one, another act I can't imagine anyone else would have done within the first hour of circulation.

2. My wife's cousin is the lead singer of The Killers. Her other cousin is on the PGA (although at the bottom), but none of my blood relatives are famous, yet.

3. I have been in a different city during the Utah/BYU game every year for the past 9 years (in Fremont in '98 as well).
2007- Boise, ID
2006- Caribbean
2005- Fremont, CA
2004- Eugene, OR
2003- Las Vegas, NV
2002- SLC, UT
2001- Lyon, France
2000- Biel, Switzerland
1999- Provo, UT

That's all for now.

p.s. My avatar is a pic of my sister and me beating Zelda, i was a video game prodigy.

I'm really sorry you have had the misfortune of living in Provo, Boise, and Eugene.

Actually, we were in Boise for Thanksgiving visiting my wife's family(I live in the Bay Area), and visited ParrotHead in Eugene. But yes, I accept your condolences for Provo.

It's too bad you spent time in SLC and not more time in Vegas. That explains a touch of culture but not too much.

Has this relationship translated into any free tickets or backstage passes?

Yeah, whenever they're in town (San Fran), we'll go and get backstage passes. It's kind of interesting seeing all the groupies and stuff (the guitarist Dave is sort of a man-whore). It's crazy seeing all the shirts/signs/general commercialism since when I first met my future wife, he was struggling to get gigs in Vegas, and the ones they did get were usually at gay bars.

Not so fast my friend....if you were a prodigy, why did you need your sister's help to beat Zelda?

PS Did you both ever play Double Dribble together? I loved shooting free throws on that game and passing the ball really fast. I also liked hitting the "reset" button so the computer could say "Double Dribble."

DOuble Dribble was fun but the ultimate nintendo sports game was RBI baseball.

RBI baseball was good, but Baseball Stars was better.

Name. I'd like to hear the name of the golfer.

Alice Cooper.

His wife's cousins are Brandon Flowers and Alice Cooper.

Cool.

I have a friend named Aaron Flowers who is a pretty good golfer and used to be a radio personality here in SLC.

We were an incredible duo, she was the Haydn to my Mozart. We also excelled in computer games such as King's Quest, and later the Secret of Monkey Island.

CougJunkie is correct, RBI Baseball was great (still play it on my computer from time to time), as well as Tecmo Bowl.

Answering Il Padrino Ute's question, his name is Craig Barlow. Like I said, he's not very good.

We need a thread about old computer/video games. Ever play Space Quest? Way more fun than King's Quest. I still remember having to sling (not throw) a rock at a guard's head using a jock strap.

Excellent avatar. I'm impressed you beat Zelda at such a young age. I tried it a few times when I was 9 or so and never got very far.

Do I ever! Space Quest was hilarious and very fun. PaloAltoCougar was an avid fan as well, as he obviously was the one buying all these. Do you know of anywhere that I could get these games?

You should start a thread, I also loved Wing Commander, oh the memories.

So is PAC your dad?

I got started with Wing Commander III, starring Mark Hamill and a race of giant cats!

As far as downloads... I've found a few sites that claim to be selling a CD with classic Sierra games for like $20 but I've been too wary to try them out.

You'd probably need to run DosBox to run any of them, as well.

Yeah, 'filsdepac' is French for son of pac. I know, weak name, but i was trying to be clever and was going through that whole 'post-mission-think-i'm-cool-because-i-speak-another-language' phase. I could have changed it here, i guess, but wanted to match cougarboard. Oh well.

My brother termed this "Bilingual Fascination Syndrome" while he attended BYU. He thought it was hilarious when a couple former mission companions would run into each other on campus and start speaking to each other in Tagalog when 2 years had passed since the mission. I'll admit I went through that phase too.

Abandonia.com is where you brethren long to be.

I was done with that phase 6 months before my mission ended. It used to piss off the sister missionaries who were still trying to learn the language when I would speak english 100% of the time whenever other missionaries were present.

The best part of Double Dribble was the way you could run up and down the court with your fist up and ready to deck someone, and then you could unleash a punch on your opponent. Very realistic, especially for NBA or LDS Church basketball.

I have no memory of the fist or the fighting element of that game.

Maybe the punching mode required a code.

yes, that was also an enjoyable activity. But I believe you are speaking more along the lines of casual conversation.

What really pissed off the Hermanas was when I would conduct an entire Zone or District meeting in english. Good times.