Poll: Where are you from?

[Jesse]

My unfortunate habit of analysing and rethinking everything from first principles made this a bad situation for me especially as it was usually worst when trying to sleep.
I basically went through 1. Is there actually a TV or radio on somewhere ? answer NO.

That is a kind of funny, because if 1. answer is no, i would switch on a radio or something.
Yes, i am sleeping always with headphones on, maybe because i dont hear something else. 

I am not normal too, but there is no normality, only the one that they want to sell us 
And yes, handle drugs and everything with care and respect!

[lkmitch]

Phoenix, Arizona, USA

[Bent-Winged Angel]

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[David Makin]

Don't worry about it, I know it's a relatively common condition - specifically it's pschyzophrenia and in my case was brought on by too much weed combined with overwork and did reach the acute stage where I was "on another planet", clinically psychotic and suffering depression and paranoia too. When treated initially with chlorpromazine I asked the doctor was I on a high dose as it was making me very sleepy and lethargic - he said that I was on enough to put an elephant to sleep.
Fortunately my prescription was changed to risperidone and reduced to just 1mg a day, that worked far batter than the chlorpromazine and as I said I'm now even off the risperidone.
Because of my experiences I no longer believe that marijuana/cannabis should be classed as a safe drug, though I do still believe it's properties need investigating further to produce beneficial drugs (in particular for relief of acute/chronic pain).

Just to add that the worst point was around 20 years ago during the Kuwait War (which I remember being on TV when I was in hospital).
It was finishing the conversion of "Supercars" (Magnetic Fields/Gremlin) from the Amiga to the Atari ST that did me in, fans of retro games will note that Shaun Southern did the conversion of Supercars 2 to the Atari ST himself (I even had a forward for doing this that I had to pay back).
After I recovered I went on to write "Crystal Dragon" (Magnetic Fields/Black Legend) for the Amiga and then to help with "Tower of Souls" (Parys Technografx) for the Amiga and then the PC and then various phones.
Since then I've been working with Parys Technografx mainly on mobile software.
This is why I say I've "only" been working with fractals since 1999 as that's when I first played with Fractint

[bib]

"Supercars"

I had an Amiga when I was a teenager and it was one of my favourite car games, with Stunts

[Thunderwave]

Wow, that's a book waiting to be written, David.

[bib]

Wow, that's a book waiting to be written, David.

After "Gödel, Escher and Bach", "Computers, Fractals and Psychotropics"

[Jesse]

"Supercars"

I had an Amiga when I was a teenager and it was one of my favourite car games, with Stunts

I think i remember this one too, was it this fast and fluently awesome game, but i cant
remember stunts... must look for emulators...  

Edit: I guess i mixed it up with Vroom!
Supercars is that great game where you race in different locations like on the kitchen table,
if i am right. That i played also a lot      (such a long time ago)

[David Makin]

"Supercars"

I had an Amiga when I was a teenager and it was one of my favourite car games, with Stunts

I think i remember this one too, was it this fast and fluently awesome game, but i cant
remember stunts... must look for emulators... 

Stunts ? Hmmm - I guess you just mean being able to fire missiles and leave oil slicks etc. ? I've forgotten myself if that could be done on "Supercars" or if it was only Shaun's follow-up "Supercars 2", it's years since I've played any Amiga or ST games, the last one I played was Crystal Dragon on the WinUAE Amiga emulator when someone had asked a question about one of the puzzles

The best game ever (in its time) for car stunts IMHO was Carmageddon
Though my favourite "car" game on the Amiga was definitely Stunt Car Racer !

[David Makin]

Wow, that's a book waiting to be written, David.

Hmmm, I don't know about that, do really, really geeky books about nerdy geeks sell well ?

[Thunderwave]

Wow, that's a book waiting to be written, David.

Hmmm, I don't know about that, do really, really geeky books about nerdy geeks sell well ?

I'd read it, so does that make me a nerdy geeky reader?

[bib]

Wow, that's a book waiting to be written, David.

Hmmm, I don't know about that, do really, really geeky books about nerdy geeks sell well ?

You don't do that for money, do you?

"Supercars"

I had an Amiga when I was a teenager and it was one of my favourite car games, with Stunts

I think i remember this one too, was it this fast and fluently awesome game, but i cant
remember stunts... must look for emulators...  

Stunts ? Hmmm - I guess you just mean being able to fire missiles and leave oil slicks etc. ? I've forgotten myself if that could be done on "Supercars" or if it was only Shaun's follow-up "Supercars 2", it's years since I've played any Amiga or ST games, the last one I played was Crystal Dragon on the WinUAE Amiga emulator when someone had asked a question about one of the puzzles

The best game ever (in its time) for car stunts IMHO was Carmageddon
Though my favourite "car" game on the Amiga was definitely Stunt Car Racer !

Yes, Stunt Car Racer is what I meant

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[David Makin]

Wow, that's a book waiting to be written, David.

Hmmm, I don't know about that, do really, really geeky books about nerdy geeks sell well ?

You don't do that for money, do you?

I didn't have the experiences with making money in mind - but if I was to spend time writing a book then I'd want some return for the effort involved !

[bib]

Wow, that's a book waiting to be written, David.

Hmmm, I don't know about that, do really, really geeky books about nerdy geeks sell well ?

You don't do that for money, do you?

I didn't have the experiences with making money in mind - but if I was to spend time writing a book then I'd want some return for the effort involved !

Now that we're totally off topic, let's do a poll to see how many people would read such a book

[David Makin]

Now that we're totally off topic, let's do a poll to see how many people would read such a book

I guess I wondered into answering "Where are you coming from ?" rather than "Where are you from ?" based on:

But really I live mostly in my mind.