GTP's Member of the week no. 6 - Introducing Diego440

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Diego440
I stopped buying CDs in 1999. Until then I had 837 CDs, which between 1999 and 2002 I sold or gave away. Since then, I lean more towards mp3s. At the moment I have 1Tb of mp3s, between hard drives, CDs and DVDs.

OMG! A terabyte?!

Diego440
Pat Metheny

I went to one of his concerts about two weeks ago.
 
explain a typical weekday for you.

explain a typical weekend day for you.

How come everyone in Europe, America, Asia, Africa and Antartica always say "one day I'd like to go to Australia"?
 
daan
OMG! Eddie Van Halen is dead?
I let that one go, because Eddie's music career is over. I don't think we'll ever hear a new album from him. So, he's not really "alive" as far as making new music. :indiff:

Mike and Sammy are touring right now calling themselves The Other Half. Cool name. 👍
 
Solid Lifters
I let that one go, because Eddie's music career is over. I don't think we'll ever hear a new album from him. So, he's not really "alive" as far as making new music. :indiff:

Mike and Sammy are touring right now calling themselves The Other Half. Cool name. 👍


Well, I took it more from that angle. Eddie will probably not make another album, hence his career is dead... Still, I put him down because he was a great influence to the music I like to listen to, but not because I like him that much, really.

McLaren Man
explain a typical weekday for you.

explain a typical weekend day for you.

How come everyone in Europe, America, Asia, Africa and Antartica always say "one day I'd like to go to Australia"?

Weekday: Get up at around 11am, turn on the computer, chat with Ben (Specialized), send mp3s back and forth, turn on the TV, play GT4 for about 3 hours. Lunch at around 4-5pm, check out GTP. Wait for my wife to call me to pick her up at around 6:30pm, pick her up, come back home, watch TV or browse the net. Have dinner around 10pm, sex prior or after dinner, depending on how much dinner I've had. Browse the net again and go to bed around 2am. Hey, I'm unemployed, it'll all change on 10 July :)

Weekends are usually the same save for not going to pick up my wife.

Meh, Australia seems like such a different place... although I bet it's almost the same. But still, it'd be nice to see where all the bad people were sent away to... :lol:

Midnight Runner
Do you like ice cream?

A lot. Matter of fact, my favourite is Ben & Jerry's Cookie Dough... and last night I tried B&J's Peace of Cake... really nice ones. When I lived in NY I used to buy a Haagen Dasz (sp?) jar per month.
 
Diego440
But still, it'd be nice to see where all the bad people were sent away to... :lol:

Don't worry we'll be waiting for ya :trouble:

*pulls large knife from behind crocodile skin jacket*


:D
 
Originally Posted by Diego440
I stopped buying CDs in 1999. Until then I had 837 CDs, which between 1999 and 2002 I sold or gave away. Since then, I lean more towards mp3s. At the moment I have 1Tb of mp3s, between hard drives, CDs and DVDs.

Is a Terabyte 1000Gigabytes??????

I thought my collection of 81 CD's was lots :indiff:
 
Diego440
I stopped buying CDs in 1999. Until then I had 837 CDs, which between 1999 and 2002 I sold or gave away. Since then, I lean more towards mp3s. At the moment I have 1Tb of mp3s, between hard drives, CDs and DVDs.
Holy crap. Do you ever listen to them all? How many songs?
 
Diego440
Weekday: Get up at around 11am, turn on the computer, chat with Ben (Specialized), send mp3s back and forth, turn on the TV, play GT4 for about 3 hours. Lunch at around 4-5pm, check out GTP. Wait for my wife to call me to pick her up at around 6:30pm, pick her up, come back home, watch TV or browse the net. Have dinner around 10pm, sex prior or after dinner, depending on how much dinner I've had. Browse the net again and go to bed around 2am. .

*sigh*

(sings) dre-e-e-e-eams, Dream dream dre-eam

that would be sweet.
 
Yep, one Terabyte.

That's my WHOLE collection, though. I DJ sometimes, so I always need to have music lying about. I also have about 400 mp3 CDs and around 50 mp3 DVDs, plus a few external drives. My "permanent" collection, the one on which Winamp plays is about 25 Gbs, though. And I've also played in about 3 discos, where I "borrowed" their entire mp3 collection :D

Also, I'm always looking for new music, so I'm always getting new stuff. And I enjoy many different styles. As to how many songs that is? Dayum, I don't know. I've never counted them... I've never had the chance of putting them all on one drive. Keep in mind, I've been burning mp3 CDs since 1999.
 
Have you ever had a "I'm bored" summer Holiday project? Like a potato cannon for example, or some down hill racer.

Do you know how many volts are needed for a small spark between 2 metal bolts?
 
If you had to chose for one parent to die, which one would it be? (if they're both still living).
 
^Not a nice question to ask mate, I know you wouldn't get an answer from me.
 
ExigeExcel
Have you ever had a "I'm bored" summer Holiday project? Like a potato cannon for example, or some down hill racer.

Do you know how many volts are needed for a small spark between 2 metal bolts?

I'm completely manual-labour-ignorant. I once burned all the electrical fixtures in my wife's house (when she was my girlfriend) by changing a lightbulb. The good part is that they never ask me to do similar stuff again :D

Once when I was about 10 or 11 some friends and I had just watched American Ninja and decided we should do that. Jumping from tree to tree and playing around with swords and stuff. Luckily, I realised it was stupid before I ot hurt... although my group of friends called me a wuss. Eventually they got hurt. That was the end of summer projects :lol:

Antihero, I don't think I'll be answering that question. I don't live with my parents now, and haven't lived with them for quite some time now.
 
- Do you like to cook?
- Do you like ducks?
- Do you like cookies?
- How 'bout nuts?

If so, what are your favorite kind?
 
ROAD_DOGG33J
- Do you like to cook?
- Do you like ducks?
- Do you like cookies?
- How 'bout nuts?

If so, what are your favorite kind?


I'm assuming there's no hidden meaning in these questions...

I don't really like to cook; or rather, my wife loves cooking, so I let her take charge of that. I'm pretty good at making sandwiches and creating new stuff in the kitchen... too bad most of it is unedible, though.

I only like ducks if it's on a plate, although paté is really nice too.

Cookies, yes. I love Chips Ahoy, Oreos and Pepperidge Farm, but not all of them. I also like Stroopwaffels. In limited amounts, I'm afraid.

Nuts? Umm... not a big fan, really. I like macadamias and that's about it. Peanuts are also nice, with beer chasers ;)
 
Favourite climate....
Very Cold. (Northern Europe)
Very wet (British)
Boring (France)
Meditaranean/tropical
Or Desert?
 
ExigeExcel
Favourite climate....
Very Cold. (Northern Europe)
Very wet (British)
Boring (France)
Meditaranean/tropical
Or Desert?

Call me crazy, but I love it when it's about -5ºC... as long as it's snowing/snowy. I also like mild temps, like 10-14º, as long as it's not raining. I hate hot weather (above 25º). Unfortunately, here the coldest it gets in the winter is about 12º, but very rainy. Although it does snow in the peaks. In the summer it's usually around 31º but there are about 2 or 3 heatwaves per summer when temps can be above 40º.

Hottest I've ever been in: 52ºC, in the southern par of this island (Gran Canaria)
Coldest: -66ºC, in Northern Minnesota.
 
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What are some your favorite movies?
What are some terrible\disappointing\terribly disappointing movies you have seen?
What's the worst food you have tasted?
How often do you eat junk food?
What's the smallest car you have been in?
 
Samberto
And there I was thinking that the rain in Spain fell mainly on the plain. :sly:


52ºC- in the shade and measured professionally? I’ve experienced 48ºC in North-Western Australia, and it was so very unbearable that we cut our holiday short and flew back to Perth.

Question:
Greater aversion for Yoko or Heather?

Well, the clocks/temperature readers on the street said it was 52º (I'll try to take a pic next time). It does rain in Spain, but since the Canary Islands are only 100 miles off the coast of the Sahara, we don't get much rain. Most of it is between December and February, but the yearly rainfall varies a lot between the coast (where I live) and the center of the island (higher altitude).

ROAD_DOGG33J
1. What are some your favorite movies?
2. What are some terrible\disappointing\terribly disappointing movies you have seen?
3. What's the worst food you have tasted?
4. How often do you eat junk food?
5. What's the smallest car you have been in?

1. Requiem for a Dream, Fight Club, The 5th Element, Se7en, Dobermann, Snatch
2. Any movie my wife rents. The latest one was Closer, although it's also the least in her style; she usually goes for classic chick flicks like Legally Blonde.
3. Marmite
5. Too often. My wife works at a gas station manager, and whenever I pick her up (everyday) I end up buying some junk food like a candybar or a sandwich.
5. Driven, a VW Beetle (older one). I once tried fitting inside a Mini Cooper (older model) but my knees rubbed against the steering wheel. I've been inside a friend's Smart too, with no trouble at all.
 
If you had the option to be born in another year, which year would it be?
What would you do with a trillion dollars or whatever the equivalent is?
What's the longest time you have spent sleeping?
Do you like sleeping?
What was your first console?
Do you like bugs/insects/etc. ?
What's you're favorite animal (not domestic) ?
Who's your favorite actor/actress?
What do you think of Cliff Burton?
Are you paranoid sometimes?
What's your favorite soda?
Potato chips?
What do you think of this video?
 
If you had the option to be born in another year, which year would it be?
I've always been attracted to the late 50s to mid 60s designs... but maybe it's because I've seen the most pics about them in my parent's albums. But my answer would've been to be born in 1969 or so... I was less than 10 years old during the 80s music boom, but I always enjoyed it a lot; I would've liked to have been older so I could be able to dance to it.

What would you do with a trillion dollars or whatever the equivalent is?
Gah! I dunno... I'd probably become very materialistic... not that I see that as a bad thing. I'd end up buying a ton of stuff I wouldn't use, a bunch of cars I wouldn't drive and sit around all day complaining about the weather.

What's the longest time you have spent sleeping?
On January 1st 1996 I went to bed at 4pm, woke up at about 6pm the following day, went to the bathroom, ate a sandwich and went back to sleep til 1:30pm on the 3rd. So about 40 hours with a break.

Do you like sleeping?
Very much. Although nowadays, because there's so much natural light in my bedroom, whenever I sleep past 10am, I wake up with strong headaches because of the direct sunlight. No, we haven't put up curtains because this is Spain... and Spain is different.

What was your first console?
I used to have an Atari 2600 (not sure of the number, but it was the first editions) at my dad's place. In my place the first one I had was an Intellivision.

Do you like bugs/insects/etc. ?
I'm quite sure humankind could do without them. That's especially why I like the winter and the cold months... lack of insects.

What's you're favorite animal (not domestic) ?
Call me corny, but it's the dragon... IRL I don't have a very favourite animal... I like Zebras, but I don't think much about them.

Who's your favorite actor/actress?
Edward Norton is my fav actor. And Ben Stiller, when he isn't doing a crappy chick flick. Actress: Jenna Jameson and jewel D'Nyle :)

What do you think of Cliff Burton?
His work in Master of Puppets is the epitome of what a great heavy metal bassist must be. There should be a statue of him at every modern musical school.

Are you paranoid sometimes?
You'd be too if everyone was trying to kill you.

What's your favorite soda?
Dr. Pepper, sadly, not available in Spain.

Potato chips?
Frito Lay used to do these chips with lemon. They were really nice. Last time I was in the States they'd been discontinued, but I heard they were available in other states. I was in Florida at the time.

What do you think of this video?
I once did that in a pick up... it was running. But the video is hilarious.
 
Do you like answering lots of inane questions?
 
Is Brazil losing to France a sign of the apocolypse?
 
Heres some random ones.

Braclets Or Necklaces?

Saudi Arabia Or Togo?

Black Or White?

Nissan Or Toyota?

France Or Italy?
 
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