Not Your Average Geeks
Rich
Organic Growth Specimen 7: Richard
Jun 20th
Richard can best be described with a time line of interests and events:
1985: Air
1985: Food
1985: Sleep
1985: Family
1986: Travel
1986: Cabins
1987: More Family (Baby Sis)
1987: Snow Skiing
1987: Amiga Commodore
1987: Math
1987: Computers
1989: Boats
1989: Cousin’s NES
1989: Girls
1990: Water Skiing
1990: School
1990: Did I see my way older cousins playing this awesome table top game that I won’t actually get to play until I’m 25? (…Yes, it was D&D)
1991: Apple IIe
1992: Cousin’s Sega Genesis
1993: Apple LC
1993: Justin!
1993: Friend’s Super Nintendo
1993: Rollerblade
1993: Drawing!
1993: Creative Writing (Part I)
1994: Baseball
1994: Basketball
1994: MY VERY OWN Gameboy!
1994: Lego Logo
1994: Programming
1994: Final Fantasy Adventure (My first “RPG”)
1994: Rollerblade Hockey
1995: Photography (Part I); Fail camera is fail!
1995: Sim Tower
1995: Warcraft
1995: Heroes of Might and Magic
Warning!!! A Major shift is about to occur from the world of Macs to the world of PCs. There is no turning back.
1996: PC Gaming and Windows!
1996: Sim City 2000
1996: School Internet!
1996: Web Development
1996: Warcraft 2
1996: Custom Map Building
1996: Heroes of Might and Magic
1996: C&C Red Alert
1996: Friend’s Nintendo 64
1996: Magic the Gathering
1996: Reading
1997: Ultima Online
1997: Track (Part I)
1997: Creative Writing (Part II)
1997: Paint Shop Pro
1998: Baldur’s Gate
1998: Public School math = Fail; Charter school here I come!
1998: Neurocybernetics
1998: Quantum Mechanics
1998: Wakeboarding
1998: Pokemon
1999: The Matrix (Hey…that was my idea!)
1999: Hand Drawn Map Making
1999: Underground Shelters
2000: The media lies to us most of the time?
2000: Baldur’s Gate II (Best game ever?)
2000: Adobe Photoshop
2001: Charter School Sports = Fail; Public School with PSEO, here I come!
2001: MY VERY OWN CONSOLE!!! Xbox
2002: Football
2002: Track (Part II)
2002: Competitive Skiing
2002: Pottery
2002: Creative Writing (Part III)
2002: More Drawing
2002: Painting
2003: Graduating
2003: Custom Built PC (Pax)
2003: College
2003: Friends for Life!
2003: Alcohol
2003: Future Wife!
2003: Soccer
2003: Ice Hockey
2004: Economics
2004: Business
2004-2005: Oh…so this is college!
2006: World of Warcraft: A taste
2006: Shatteredcube
2007: World of Warcraft: A second taste
2007: Xbox 360
2007: College and Video Games
2008: Money
2008: iPhone
2008: World of Warcraft: OH GOD IT’S CRACK!
2008: My Own Car!
2008: Custom Built and Modded PC (MIGHTYMITE!)
2009: Good Bye WoW
2009: Home Ownership
2009: Pool Ownership
2009: Dungeons and Dragons
2009: Business Travel
2010: Marriage
2010: First Laptop (LAPPY!)
2010: Photography (Part II)
2010: Digital Map Making
…Now
A few things may have been missed! If you know them, help a specimen out and do your best to provide the missing data in the comments bellow.
Enjoy.