Allright so I'm finally going to write something about
myself here.
To be short about it, I would say that I am alot more geeky than people
expect me to be. I very much doubt people looking at me on the street would
think "oh she's definately a computergeek who never goes to parties", but
that's the truth.
There's mainly 4 interests I've had all my life:
1) Animals. In the kindergarten I would only draw animals and
dinosaurs, never humans. At school I had biology for 1 year, but I thought
the teacher was too much into bacterias and plants and not enough into the
"real" animals, so I didn't continue on it. Instead I like to pick up all
the interesting animal facts anywhere else, and I might choose a tv show on
animals rather than a comedy series.
I also grew up with a cat, got a new cat at age 13, got an aquarium at 60
liters size at the same time, almost went to Sweden for a gekko a few years
later, but ended up with an additional aquarium at 200 liters size instead.
Some animals I just always fancied for some reason, like cats, fish, bulls,
all kinds of reptiles. Never was a horsegeek though:p
2) I've always been drawing alot. There's been less drawing every
year since elementary school tho. Fact is, I only draw when I dont have
anything better to do, and that is more and more rare. I did consider an
education on drawing and such though, but I chose a general education that
could both let me into graphics education and pretty much everything else
afterwards. Midways in that education, I made up my mind on computer science
instead.
3) I've always been pondering about the world, the laws of mother
nature, how time goes by, how a personality is created in a brain, and
everything about how the world works, how things change, why things are like
they are.
With time I've come to the conclution that absolutely everything in the
world is purely physics and nothing else. Like politics exists because of
psychology and biology, psychology and biology is pure chemistry, and
chemistry is pure physics. Also, absolutely everything in the world consists
of energy. You know the formula E=MC2, but you might not know what it means.
It simply means, that absolutely everything in the world consists of pure
energy. It says that the bigger the mass of an object, the more energy the
object consists of. We also know that every single movement in the world
requires energy, and that energy can never disappear or be created. So,
absolutely everything is energy in all kinds of forms and shapes, moving,
changing, morphing with time. If there hadn't been any energy then 1)
nothing could move, 2) nothing would ever exist. Thinking about this, I dont
find it that weird anymore that "why do we exist", because the only option
to our existance is that absolutely nothing exists, and I find that thought
alot more funny than the opposite.
4) I've always fancied computers. My father is one of the "computer
veterans", the people who've been computer "geeks" since comodore 64 was the
big thing. I can just barely remember a comodore in front of my bed when I
was maybe like 2 years old, maximum 3. I remember my older sister sometimes
sat in front of it, and I know she was playing Pacman. At about 5 years of
age, my old brother started playing Doom, and he made me play multiplayer
with him. From that point, I would always be interested in knowing how
programming works. "Why does that happen when I click this button? How do
they do that?"
At age 9 I got my own computer, a rather crap old computer who used to be my
sisters before that, and used to be my fathers before that. At about age 11
I got brand new parts for my computer for the first time, and since then
I've always had my computer hardware up to date for all the new games.
At the same time I got completely hooked on a game for the first time - Age
of Empires. I would play it every single day if I could, and I got good too
actually, I won most matches on the internet(not that I player there alot
though).
At about age 13 I was playing Starcraft with my older sister, at age 14 I
got hooked for the second time, on Quake 3. I really loved Q3, I would dream
about it, and when I hear certain songs it still makes me think of certain
maps in Q3 that I would play at the time the music got out. I also got to
know alot of people through Q3, who I still know today. One of them is my
boyfriend, some of them are friends of me and my boyfriend.
At age 16 I got hooked on the third game, Warcraft 3. What I loved about Wc3
was the map editor. The first year I would play custom maps all the time,
and then I got completely hooked on making maps myself. I spent about 2
years just making maps all the time, I barely played anything, just made
lots of maps. You'll find the results on that on the Warcraft3 page on this
website.
At age 18 I also had half a year with programming in VB at school. From that
moment I would gradually program more and more in my sparetime.
At age 20 I realized "why do I keep spending so much times on these WC3
maps? What if I spent that time on real programming instead, I could get
real good at it with all that time." So I quit making maps for Wc3, quit
playing Wc3(by now, WC3 was being overrun by WoW too) and started some real
programming. I started making a game about taking care of an aquarium
(Norwegians can read about this game on the Akvariespillet-page), which I
planned spending one year on. By now I'ts 30th of August, the game is
something like 90% ready for the first beta version, maybe 75% for the first
official version.
Now at an age of almost 21 I've started on a 3-year education in computer
science, and I'm planning on becoming a professional programmer after my
education.
I have also been making mods to WoW for about 2 months now, and released 2
mods so far (you'll find some pages here about that too).
Btw did you notice I didn't say anything about getting hooked on WoW? 'Cause
I don't really think WoW is such a great game:p
You might be wondering about what I said earlier about me never going
to parties. Yeah I dont. I've been to parties 2 or maybe 3 times, and it
wasn't because I wanted to, it was to be nice to someone by showing up. See,
there's two reasons why I dont go to parties. 1) I have bad experiences with
drunk people, I dont feel that I can trust people who have been drinking,
nomatter who they are, even family or friends. People change when they get
drunk, and some people change in a bad way. My boyfriend is not allowed to
drink if Im there, but he can drink if Im not there. In addition to being
nervous of other drunk people, I dont want to do the mistakes I hear
everybody's doing while drunk:p 2) I have the luxuary problem of not having
enough sparetime to do everything I want to do, and it's extremely rare that
I get bored. Why would I go to a party and get drunk to have fun that I dont
remember the next day, when I have lots of other fun things to do without
being drunk and being able to remember them the day after?
Really, give me a good reason to go to parties.
So, I'm definately a true girlgeek. And I'm not embarrased in any
way, like some retarded 14yo rude asses think I should be. I never tell
anyone in the age of 12-16 that I'm a female computernerd, because in
atleast 50% of the cases I would get in return "omfg a girl playing computer
games! u gotta by the ugliest girl on earth, with pimples, glasses, fat like
a whale, no friends, no boyfriend, etc, go fuck urself I dont like u". Yeah
it really makes sense indeed... From guys at the age of 17+ though, I
usually get "wow a girlgamer! can I have your email? where you from?"...
Allright, that should be enough about me:p
