Ricken: RICKENBAKR, RICKENBKR1


Real Name: David M. Bania
 
Computer Stuff
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Delphi Accounts:  RickenBakr, Rickenbkr1
Conference Aliases: Ricken, RickiannaJones(Halloween),
               [A-Z]icken (depends which letter is featured in
               Stew91's Alphabet Soup Trivia Game)
Games I host:  "Crossword Trivia" (when I have a game written and
               when I can fill in for someone else.)
Other Computer Accounts: RickenBakr@aol.com,  ewdt52a@prodigy.com
 
Personal Stuff
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Age: 22
DOB: 31 January 1972
Eyes: two blue ones
Height: 6'2"
Hair: long brown
(there's a .GIF of me in the database for you to download)
 
     Ok.  I'm 22 years old when I wrote this.  I've been on
Delphi since March 1993 and been playing trivia with these
lunatics on Delphi since June 1993.  I don't think that I would
be here if I didn't go to OC Bash IV(?) in June '93.  There I met
most of the people that made this trivia thing tick on Delphi --
most of whom defected from another service to continue the
trivial pursuit without restraints of an obviously blind and
bloated management. (but I would really know for sure -- I never
really found out what the cause of the whole disturbance was.  Oh
well).  Hmm may be I should write more about myself other then
what most people know from just being on Delphi.
 
     I live in a medium sized town called Madison in New Jersey.
I was born and raised in the next town over, Chatham, but I moved
out at the beginning of December 1992 because I needed to get out
of the house before I became a top story on CNN about killing my
whole family due to temporary insanity.  Don't get me wrong, I
love my family, but with a younger sister entering puberty and my
parents entering their middle aged lives, they would all push me
over the edge.
 
Personal Stuff
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     I'm a fun loving sort of guy and I'm quite mature for my
age.  People honestly think I'm in my late twenties early
thirties when they first meet me.  If I was to go in to my
personal philosophies this would be a book so I won't go in to
them, but I think I'm quite liberal in most thing but
conservative in a few other.  I'm not really religious -- born a
Roman Catholic, but currently non-practicing.  I consider myself
an intellectual.  I tend to see things in a different light then
most people my age.  I really can't stand the way that some of my
"friends" carry on in that childish sort of manner that you'd
expect from a 2 yr old.  I hated High school and I love college.
I love parties, I love women (I do treat women like people not
like things for guys to play with), sex is cool, love to meet new
people, I'm a good natured sort of guy, I get along with most
people, I love kids, love to travel, love music, love movies.  I
really don't know what else to say.
 
Schooling & Work
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     After I graduated from good and boring Chatham High in
1990, I went to the New Jersey Institute of Technology where I
attended for two years before the University decided it was best
to let me go because my GPA at the time was 1.81 -- I needed a
2.0 to stay in the school.  Talk about fussy!  After that I just
really bummed around the house.  I was talking about going back
to school but I really had no set plan.  I've since gotten my act
together and I'm attending the County College of Morris -- for
now.  My plan is to take the university requirements for Rutgers
there and then transfer to Rutgers to finish out my degree in
Computer Science.  Right now I still consider myself a student
working at Foodtown part-time until I graduate and get the 70K
per year job programming for some company.  Right now I'm working
as a Courtesy Clerk/Cashier. ( I hate my job)
 
Hobbies
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     I love computers!  I really really love computers and new
technologies.  I'm really fascinated by all that stuff that AT&T
is going to come out with in the next few years.  I love
programming and have used the ProComm for Windows ASPECT script
language to write a little utility for the "/send" (/zend)
command in the conference areas.  I would really like to turn out
some really cool application that would get me noticed but I
really can't think up anything that would -- right now.
 
     I collect comics too.  I collect mainly DC comics -- the
Super titles -- the Bat titles and al few others.  I used to
spend $30 - $40 a week on comics but I got smart (and became more
and more poor) and my spending is down to $10-$20 a week.
 
     I also play guitar and bass and a little keyboards.  I've
been playing bass for 10 years -- guitar I really only fool
around on and I only fiddle on the keyboards.  I used to be in a
band -- a really good band at that! -- but they turned really
hippie at the time the Greatful Dead came back in 1987 and I was
eventually kicked out because I didn't turn hippie -- oh well.
I was in a few other smaller type bands after that but nothing
that lasted more than one or two times playing out.  I'm not in
any band right now -- I have no time -- But I still do pick up
the guitar and "write" these songs that I'll forget in a few
minutes.  Oh, I also play the clarinet.  I was in the high school
marching and concert bands.  Marching band was really great!  Not
that I'm a band fag or anything.  Anybody that was in a marching
band would know that I'm talking about (I hope).
 
     I also do/did a little writing.  I have a composition book
full of little poems that I've written earlier in my life.  And I
also have about 50 pages of a book written.  I have outlines for
a few book ideas but they'll never come to light until I get my
butt in gear and sit down and write them.
 
well this is all I can think of for now...
LAter!
Dave