PC Board OT thread

[penbeast0]

I used one of my nicknames for my dog at the time, Penny. That and I used to write when I was younger (and hungrier).

[Timmaytime]

One thing I've always been curious of is how people came up with the idea for their screen name. For me, I watched the movie Reservoir Dogs by Quentin Tarantino and I was absolutely blown away by how awesome it was. After that, whenever I sign up for message boards I always do an iteration of ReservoirDawgs because my high school self thought it was funny and clever and I see no reason to change it.

Additionally, everyone should go see Guardians of the Galaxy. I saw it last night with a friend and it's an incredibly entertaining movie.

My name was fairly obvious to come up with lol

And I feel the same way about Guardians, great movie!

[ronnymac2]

I was (a very scary) Ronald McDonald one year for Halloween when I was a kid. That's where Ronnymac comes from. Honestly, the number 2 has little to no significance to me, so I have no idea why I added a 2 to my username. I don't think I'm going to change it to just Ronnymac though. Too much RealGM paperwork involved most likely...

[GSP]

Im 27yo and a big sports fan of the major Boston teams aside from the Red Sox because baseball sucks.

As big a basketball fan as i am, football (Nfl and college), Mma and boxing are my favorite sports. Username is the Goat Mma fighter.

[ardee]

One thing I've always been curious of is how people came up with the idea for their screen name. For me, I watched the movie Reservoir Dogs by Quentin Tarantino and I was absolutely blown away by how awesome it was. After that, whenever I sign up for message boards I always do an iteration of ReservoirDawgs because my high school self thought it was funny and clever and I see no reason to change it.

Additionally, everyone should go see Guardians of the Galaxy. I saw it last night with a friend and it's an incredibly entertaining movie.

Pretty simple... my initials are R. D., ardee is just the phonetic pronunciation of it haha.

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[bondom34]

Mine's just a shortened version of my name (Dominic), I'm a big James Bond fan, and my lucky number is my dad's HS number, 34.

[Quotatious]

my lucky number is my dad's HS number, 34.

For some reason I always thought that you have that number in your username because of Ray Allen, when he was a Sonic. Were you already a fan of this franchise when they were the Sonics, or is Ray one of your favorite players? Just curious, maybe at least I'll learn something more if my guess was incorrect.

[bondom34]

my lucky number is my dad's HS number, 34.

For some reason I always thought that you have that number in your username because of Ray Allen, when he was a Sonic. Were you already a fan of this franchise when they were the Sonics, or is Ray one of your favorite players? Just curious, maybe at least I'll learn something more if my guess was incorrect.

Nope! Was actually a Pacers fan in my earlier days (Reggie Miller, hence the sig). After he retired, and the Malace at the Palace, I couldn't root for that team for a stretch and liked Lebron at the time, was a Cavs fan for a few years til the decision, then flipped to KD and the Thunder. Since I've just started to like the whole team and how they work, Westbrook's become my favorite player by a decent margin currently, but Miller's my all time guy.

[RSCD3_]

Why do you Americans acting like Jews were only victims of Germans? Poles or Russians suffered much more than Jews during (and after) WW II.

We'll agree to disagree about just how bad Columbus was, but I meant no offense with regards to this.

It's just how we're taught in school, the suffering of the Jewish people is focused on the most.

Yes, I know, and it's really disappointing. The same is when media from USA or even Western Europe talk about "Polish's death camps", when in fact they were German's camps, often located in Poland. Small difference, but quite important and create really misleading narrative.

I know Stalin actually killed MORE people than Hitler did.

True, and he even killed many of his own people. (BTW, my family during WW II was under German's occupation and then under Russian's and all grandparents agreed that Germans were much better people, quite normal actually, even paid for food and so one, when Russians were basically savages). But they both combined (around 40 million deaths) still can't match Mao Zedong"s "achievement" (around 80 million!):

Mark twain wrote a stinging political satire in which leopold defends himself against accusations

In a Wikipedia article referencing it :

"Leopold says that he did not take any of the government money, that he did not use the revenues as his personal "swag" "

So this mark twain was putting Leopold on blast for using government money on his own " swag "

Word


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[RSCD3_]

One thing I've always been curious of is how people came up with the idea for their screen name. For me, I watched the movie Reservoir Dogs by Quentin Tarantino and I was absolutely blown away by how awesome it was. After that, whenever I sign up for message boards I always do an iteration of ReservoirDawgs because my high school self thought it was funny and clever and I see no reason to change it.

Additionally, everyone should go see Guardians of the Galaxy. I saw it last night with a friend and it's an incredibly entertaining movie.

Pretty simple... my initials are R. D., ardee is just the phonetic pronunciation of it haha.

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Those are my initials too.


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[Greatness]

I really like the GreenBay Packers and when I realized the G stood for Greatness and not Greenbay, I thought it was a decent enough name to make my screen name. I was previously Superman5190 but that's a story for another day .

[D Nice]

Hah, awesome idea Ardee, there are definitely some awesome people on the PC board. I guess I’ll split up my post into a few different segments to limit how all-over-the-place my post is.

Basketball…
Is probably the love of my life. I’m half Jamaican, and as such was playing soccer pretty much as soon as I could walk, and was always just a good a Soccer player as I was a basketball player (I was probably actually better at Soccer than basketball up until age 9 or 10) but I gravitated towards hoop (guessing anyway) because I’m American and like doing things on my own (dad could coach me up in soccer but as much as he grew to love basketball, he was never actually very good at playing it, so I had to figure out that game for myself).

Growing up I was pretty lucky, both my dad and an uncle were tape nuts. Virtually every big nationally televised basketball game, superbowl, and boxing match from the 80s and very early 90s we have on tape. As a kid I always got a kick out of the fact that here are these two guys who are HUGE sticklers for rules/the law and yet everytime I popped in one of those old Laker/Celtic/Piston/76er/Jordan tapes the first thing I would see was the “re-dissemination warning” from each telecast. Hell, even today I get a chuckle out of it. I always felt pretty special having access to all of those games that nobody else had access to, and now they’re all on youtube haha, although this does allow me to fill in the gaps in series they didn’t fully record (missed game here or there) and besides my parents I’m not sure I even know anybody who owns a VHS player anymore . Both of them are scientists, so in retrospect their desire to record as much as possible makes perfect sense now.

I was born and raised in Stamford CT, moved to Philly when I was 13, and NJ when I was 15 where my family still resides to this day. I was hugely entrenched in the basketball scene growing up, town league, played for my middle school but wasn’t big on AAU (not for lack of ability, Harvey, the CT Flame assistant coach at the time, begged me and my dad to give it a go and for 1 year we did the 5-star camp/AAU thing and my dad simply hated the way the league was run and I never got to play again, but honestly when you get to Middle/High school I don’t see the purpose of AAU anyway, unless you’re playing in a crap conference or are trying to get Collegiate recognition). I played travel soccer every year until we moved though, it’s just run way better than travel ball (granted this is some 15+ years ago, I’m 27 now, things may have changed).

I played 1 year of JV and 3 years of varsity in HS, starting my junior and senior years. Jr year of HS was the first and only time I wasn’t the full-time PG for my team (our best player was our senior PG and a future Penn Benchwarmer) so I went Rip Hamilton on offense (16-footers were layups for me)while still playing the 1-spot in our matchup zone and press.

If I were to give myself an NBA comparison it’d be Chris Paul when he was quicker than everyone, or Isiah Thomas with some Stockton thrown in (I’m quick as hell, even now, the only time in HS I ever checked someone who was quicker than me was when I guarded a future d-1 football player). Other teams had “lightning bugs” like me (5’9-ish guys who were super quick) but they almost never started.

The way I like to watch basketball these days is title-run by title-run. I simply go back an via youtube and the private torrent group I’m a part of I watch the run unfold from the view of the title-winner (meaning I watch all the playoff games the eventual champ played that year (right now I’m watching the ’02 Lakers and ’83 Sixers title campaigns, paying especially close attention to Kobe’s defense, Erving’s defense, Moses’s defense, and Shaq’s defense, because people here seem to be pretty clueless re: those guys on the defensive end). It’s a really fun way to re-live NBA history, and it has a lot of analytical benefit too. I could start posting takes on title runs with ShaqAttack-like specificity if people would be interested in that sort of thing (he or Doc MJ would probably be my pick for realgm MVP (HM to Tsherk as well). I used to have TrueLaFan as my favorite poster but he’s not that active anymore, though he did drop some gems early on in the top 100 project).

Background
I graduated from UNC chapel hill with a BA in Computer Science (I minored in English). I’m literally the only person I know who got into Kenan Flagler and then left of their own volition. I found business school to kind of be a joke, it’s common sense that they try and turn into a pseudo-science. I seemed to be the only one who realize that they’re just trying to build up a bunch of low-level skills to pass us off as “well rounded” when anyone who actually knows how the world works would ask “uh, why would you not hire a statistican over us to do this? Why would you not hire an engineer to do that? Why would you have us write your pitch and not an English major? Why would you have us build your models when econometricians and physics blow us out of the water there?” I switched to statistics briefly before settling on computer science and never looked back, and it was one of the best decisions of my life.

In a past life I was what you would call a “social butterfly,” as co-social chair of my fraternity and all that, which is probably why despite coming into school with an abundance of AP credits it took me 5 years to finish undergrad (much to the dismay of my parents but all has been forgiven ). Like TS, I’m the kind of guy who always has to be doing 4 or 5 things at once or else I’ll literally go crazy. It’s a proclivity that my ex’s seem to loathe, not realizing that’s one of the things that attracted them in the first place but that’s an entirely different discussion.

Out of school I spent 1.5 years doing Kiosk Consulting for Kelly services (first in Durham, then in Charlotte, then briefly in Atlanta) and after that I did value stream mapping for Michaels Corp. for about a year. For the past 1.5 years (roughly) I’ve been living in South Florida (aka heaven)working for a Miami-based hedge fund, and despite taking up a huge chunk of my life it’s the most enjoyable thing I’ve ever done. I’m one of our 2 lead analysts (in a shop of 11, we have 5 analysts, a fund manager, a research director, a proprietor, an accountant, and 2 custodial administrators) despite being the youngest analyst and 2nd youngest person in the entire company. I plan on staying on for another year or so while I figure what kind of masters I want to do, then go into business for myself.

Nowadays my weekends mostly consist of software stuff (not to mention these days I work most Saturdays anyway), I can barely recognize myself. I’ve got some friends from UNC in the area, but none of them are what I would call my “best friends,” they’re all more social acquaintances, which may play a part in it. Being a card-carrying heat hater (although really it was more Shaq/Lebron hate, I LOVED Miami growing up, Tim Hardaway played a big part in my development as a player and Alonzo Mourning is the Mother ******* Man) these last couple years has been a blast though, because even when the Heat win I get the silver lining of partying with heat fanatics and when the lose, well, few things give me more joy then seeing Lebron fall on his face (is this bad? haha).

We were family friends with the Starks growing up, I actually went to middle school with JJ. My mom was good friends with Johns wife (the Starks were big on getting to know the other black families in the area), and I as a regular at all of his camps. Other than Mike hanging it up in ’94, the saddest baskeball moment of my life was John getting traded to the warriors, by far. Not sure if he would remember me or not (I hope so), the best way I would think of jogging his memory would be asking him about the kid who had him sign all of the Jordan basketball cards and bulls memorabilia (yeah…I was THAT kid).

Art
Art-wise, I’m literally all over the place. My 2 favorite genres of music are Rap and Classical Music. R&B, Jazz, and the catch-all I simply deem “Molly Music” would be a distant 3-5.

As a kid I was a voracious (bordering on obsessive) reader, which evolved into a love of TV and Movies over time. I can literally go on about The Sopranos, Mad Men, The Wire, Breaking Bad, Deadwood, BSG, Boardwalk Empire, Carnivale, or House of Cards for hours on end. The same can be said for my GOAT Directors (Coppola, Fincher, Kubrick, Aronovsky, Tarentino, Nolan, Scorcese). The TV shows were listed in order, directors I’ve never really tried to rank them, I find it to be a borderline impossible exercise. I’m partial to Coppola and Scorcese, but that may be due to the fact I LOVE the mob (err, Mafioso history anyway – it’s the history of business in its purest form). On the comedy side South Park and Boondocks have no peer (IMO everyone you grow up with can be likened to a South Park character, but maybe that's just me).

Lifting
I’m 5’9 140 with a lightning fast metabolism. I can eat whatever whenever and never get fat, but bulking can be an issue. I go through cycles of being in tip-top shape and a lazy ****. It’s funny, ever time I’m in shape I think to myself how the hell do I have trouble being like this all the time? Who is that guy who lets himself get out of shape? Only to have life get in the way (which of course is always just an excuse) for a couple weeks and that’s really all it takes for the routine to be broken. I have found though that it has becomes increasingly easier for me to re-bulk when I exit one of my lazy phases which I’m told by my more serious exercise friends is actually normal. Once you get in the shape you want, it’s much easier to re-capture that if you have a metabolism like mine. I’d consider myself lucky, but then I remember that I’m 5’9 and almost all of them are 6’+ =/.

I’m actually on vacation right now visiting with the family in NJ (a cousin of mine is getting married later in the week) and I can’t remember the last time I was this bored. If I want to see any of my HS friends I have to take the train into the city and catch them after work, and of course they can’t get very drunk because they have to wake up in the morning. I pretty much never take vacation, and as such have like 12 more days left over, and really I can’t see myself using them all before December (considering the 3 days we get for X-Mas and 2 days for New Years aren’t even counted amongst the 12). It’s just another one of those things that makes me barely recognize myself (aka I’m…gulp…becoming an adult. Nothing in the world scares me more than that).

The family dog is a Golden Doodle (Golden Retriever mixed with a Poodle), and he's the most awesome creature on the planet.

[ardee]

Can anyone recommend a good routine that's NOT a body part split and operates 4-5 days a week?

Progressive overload on Starting Strength is killing me, can't do the 3x a week squatting anymore haha.

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[Reservoirdawgs]

Background
I graduated from UNC chapel hill with a BA in Computer Science (I minored in English). I’m literally the only person I know who got into Kenan Flagler and then left of their own volition.

Class of 2009 over here...BA in Poli Sci and minor in History. I started UNC convinced I was going to go the business school route, and then I got tripped up in an intro business class my freshman year and had to drop it .

[D Nice]

Background
I graduated from UNC chapel hill with a BA in Computer Science (I minored in English). I’m literally the only person I know who got into Kenan Flagler and then left of their own volition.

Class of 2009 over here...BA in Poli Sci and minor in History. I started UNC convinced I was going to go the business school route, and then I got tripped up in an intro business class my freshman year and had to drop it .

Haha nice, you're better off for it. You going the Law route? History is such an underrated minor, I love the way historians think.

Was it Financial/Managerial accounting that stopped you? It's so ridiculous that those two classes aren't just 1 class.

[Reservoirdawgs]

Progressive overload on Starting Strength is killing me, can't do the 3x a week squatting anymore haha.

If you don't mind me asking, what's the issue with progression on squats? Is it that you're not seeing gains, is it that you are tiring yourself out too much? I know that with Starting Strength, if you can't do the 3X5 with proper form or you're doing it slowly with progression three consecutive times then you are supposed to de-load by 20 pounds and try to work yourself back up. You only add weights for the next week if you were able to do 3X5 with proper form the work day earlier...otherwise you stick with the weight until you can move up.

[Reservoirdawgs]

Haha nice, you're better off for it. You going the Law route? History is such an underrated minor, I love the way historians think.

Was it Financial/Managerial accounting that stopped you? It's so ridiculous that those two classes aren't just 1 class.

My guidance counselor was pushing for me to do Law School, but I have yet to meet a lawyer who likes what they do so I chickened out, went to grad school at UNC, and work as an auditor in the Triangle. What stopped me was OM 22 (Operations Management, I think)...I just couldn't figure the class out (I later found out it is a weed-out class for people like me).

[D Nice]

Haha nice, you're better off for it. You going the Law route? History is such an underrated minor, I love the way historians think.

Was it Financial/Managerial accounting that stopped you? It's so ridiculous that those two classes aren't just 1 class.

My guidance counselor was pushing for me to do Law School, but I have yet to meet a lawyer who likes what they do so I chickened out, went to grad school at UNC, and work as an auditor in the Triangle. What stopped me was OM 22 (Operations Management, I think)...I just couldn't figure the class out (I later found out it is a weed-out class for people like me).

Yeah I got you. Operations Management ~ Business as Bio-Chem (1 & 2) ~ Pharmacy.

And nice. You in Raleigh? It's an awesome city, a ton of my boys ended up there or Charlotte.

And yeah, Law seems like the kind of practice that working your way up in is no fun in, but once you get to be a partner or have your own practice it can be killer. My mom was actually a Lawyer and she LOVED her work (and I loved going to her office as a kid) but she was a municipal attorney (meaning she worked for the city/mayor) and from what I understand being a municipal attorney is wayyyy different than working for the DAs office or for a private practice. Of course the trade-off is that municipal attorneys get paid like government employees, so if its money you're after it may not even be worth looking into.

Always fun to meet another heel though. You from North Carolina originally?

[Reservoirdawgs]

And nice. You in Raleigh? It's an awesome city, a ton of my boys ended up there or Charlotte.

Durham, but I'm only ten minutes from Chapel Hill and twenty minutes from Raleigh. I love the place...finally put on my big boy pants and bought a place, so I'm committed here for at least the next ten years. If I have anything to say about it, I would love to stay here...I get to go to UNC games and chill with my friends from college/grad school that stayed around the area . I rarely get out to Charlotte...surprisingly, very few of my friends moved out to the Queen City and I have no reason to go that far west. Now that the Bobcats have been renamed the Hornets, some friends and I are gonna try to make a day trip to Charlotte to see the first game back.

Always fun to meet another heel though. You from North Carolina originally?

Both parents are from the same small town in Missouri. I was born in St. Louis (hence, why I'm a Cards and Rams fan(, but I've lived in NC most of my life. I've lived in Fayetteville, Boone, Pinehurst, Chapel Hill, and now Durham. Durham has turned into a really great place, particularly the downtown area. Lots of great things happening:

http://durhamnewsservicemainfeed.blogsp ... -live.html

[ardee]

Progressive overload on Starting Strength is killing me, can't do the 3x a week squatting anymore haha.

If you don't mind me asking, what's the issue with progression on squats? Is it that you're not seeing gains, is it that you are tiring yourself out too much? I know that with Starting Strength, if you can't do the 3X5 with proper form or you're doing it slowly with progression three consecutive times then you are supposed to de-load by 20 pounds and try to work yourself back up. You only add weights for the next week if you were able to do 3X5 with proper form the work day earlier...otherwise you stick with the weight until you can move up.

The recovery is killing me. I can get the form down but my CNS is just about fried all the time and I feel like I'm sacrificing progress everywhere else to keep upping my squat. It's getting to the point where I'm dreading squatting because I know it saps 70% of my energy. It's just too exhausting to keep squatting three days a week at continually increasing weights.

I did deload down to about 235, but every time I cross 250-260 my CNS starts giving out on me.