Like the illusion of Wall Street, with its vast and powerful investment banks, now shuttered, China too is an illusion perpetuated by the Globalists that gave us the 15,000 mile Caesar salad, poisoned cat food and lead based paint on babies' pacifiers. Like the illusion that money would come from thin air to always push housing prices higher, China has spent a generation pursuing its illusion. Pursuing an unattainable dream to be like the West, while 6000 years of its carefully shepherded top soil blows into the sea.
Joined: Jul 12, 2005 Posts: 249 Location: The Netherlands
Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2005 3:37 am Post subject:
*deleted* _________________ "In the U.S., fears are so exaggerated and out of control that anxiety is the number-one mental health problem in the country.", Barry Glassner
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Joined: Jan 29, 2005 Posts: 363 Location: New Zealand
Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2005 3:57 am Post subject:
*bite*
32 years old. BSc (computer science), married, 2x sons. Lost a business in IT (IP telephony + systems integration), now sysadmin to unix servers (HP superdomes, sunfires) and SANs + libraries.
Location Singapore, suburbian nightmare ultra!@#$!@#$^%. Debt free 30/July/2005 (no house/car/edu), looking for relocation to other countries, NZ 1st priority, others pipelined as backup. Learnt PO 16/March/2005, accepted 20/March/2005. Wife accepted 22/June/2005. Desperately accumulating non-IT skillsets and preparing to uproot in prospective community. Unknown use of army scout+marksman skillset from past.
Pessimistic by nature, driving myself with a SHTF date of June/2007. If fail at least I tried, or maybe TS_won't_HTF that fast? Time will tell. _________________ regards,
Rostov
"Some {} are more equal than others"
45 year-old old-time fiddling gay organic farmer cow-tit-squeezing volunteer EMT/firefighter and adjunct prof of English(in that order) _________________ "By the time individuals discover that remaining resources will not be adequate for the next generation, the next generation has already been born. " David Price
19 year old Engineering Physics student at Queen's University. Major interest in energy technology, especially nuclear. Also enjoy sailing and playing paintball. I like auto racing and cars for their own sake but absolutely hate suburbia and car-dependent culture. _________________ Il faut d'abord durer.
passion (other than the future of the human race): i make beats and produce for an NYC-based independent hip-hop crew and entertainment company. played guitar for 16 years. used to play trumpet. play some keys. www.saywordentertainment.com
education: bachelor's in human social awareness (bachelors degree with individual concentration) from UMass Amherst, cum laude, in 1997, certificate in audio engineering from SAE in 2002. planning on returning to school for a Master of Arts in Energy and Environmental Analysis from BU. http://www.bu.edu/cees/grad/eea.html
job: worked in several small companies doing computer-related things most of my life. was an audio engineer in NYC for a couple of years. went broke. currently working in the contract IT field for a huge company in southie, getting out of debt.
faith: born/raised jewish. not practicing. strong faith in god, just not in organized religion (canned god). i believe in the collective conciousness of all living things, god is the unconditional love that exists within this entity.
outlook: undecided. wouldn't be surprised if crash came hard and fast. would much prefer it to be a gradual and peaceful transition away from capitalism and exponential growth. by 2010 the crap will be in the general vicinity of the fan... _________________ UNLESS
Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2005 9:08 pm Post subject: Re: Members Personal Info.
I am a 13-year-old illegal immigrant from an air-conditioned portion of the jungles of SE Asia. I am living off the United States welfare system, and I like to spend my time on aim, irc, social networking sites and internet forums.
Joined: Oct 11, 2005 Posts: 415 Location: Arizona, USA
Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 9:46 pm Post subject: Re: Members Personal Info.
B.S. Nuclear Engineering from the University of Arizona. Saw students better than I not get jobs in the stagnant US nuclear industry, so I jumped ship and landed in education. I'm now a science and math teacher at a private day school for students with disabilities, usually emotional and learning disabilities.
I had personally been speculating, calculating, and pondering the US energy situation for a couple of decades. When I stumbled upon Matt's Peak Oil site some weeks or months ago, I was shattered with fear that my coffee table personal musings of many years had been consolidated and made real in front of me. It was frightening because I couldn't dispute it; I'd already been agreeing with myself for a long time.
The girlfriend readily accepted PO, which was a huge relief. We're in it together. She's the senior paralegal at her law firm.
We're 33 and 30 with no children, wondering whether we should have some now or after PO.
Joined: Feb 25, 2005 Posts: 772 Location: Luton, England
Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2005 5:24 am Post subject: Re: Members Personal Info.
BA English and History
Was MD of a payroll company, resigned and went consultancy, they've asked me to go back full time in Jan 06 doing the following.
Work as an Accounts Manager (That includes Network Admin, Supervision of Morons, dealing with complaints and UNBLOCKING DRAINS urgh, don't ask.) Jack of all trades master of none.
Tough decision to make, money good, job awful boring.
Married with no kids and no plans unless we move to the country.
Joined: Aug 14, 2005 Posts: 766 Location: Dead civilization walking
Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2005 12:08 am Post subject: Re: Members Personal Information
BS Biological sciences, MS ecology and evolutionary bio with a thesis on Postfire community dynamics in alluvial fan sage scrub.- try and say that 10 times fast why don't you!
AdJunked prof at local colleges but mostly commercial real estate investor soon to be precious metals hoarder & energy investor.
For a post peak career on the downslope I plan to 1) stay alive and 2) do a good bit of market gardening and consulting to the locals on how to grow lentil beans & squash in the cracks in their driveways.
Joined: Sep 02, 2005 Posts: 3047 Location: In a Nigerian compound surrounded by mighty dignataries
Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2006 5:58 pm Post subject: Re: Members Personal Information
MALE 35 Rings around the tree
Married with 2 girls
BS In Business from Oklahoma State University
Southern Baptist
Currently working in credit dept of a Monolithic Mortgage company. I am however working on 2nd income raising cattle on family ranch. Hobbies are ultralight backpacking, kayaking, and general on-line loitering and bullshitting.
Peakoil aware since 2000
Fence fixer since 1980 _________________ Hair in my eyes like a highland steer, spring in my step like a white tailed deer. Hitch in my hip like an old sheep dog, puff up my chest like a big bull frog.-Corb Lund
Joined: May 23, 2006 Posts: 31 Location: Kingston, TN
Posted: Sat Jun 03, 2006 3:38 am Post subject: Re: Members Personal Information
Eh....22, high school dropout, Electronics Technician's Apprentice diploma from vocational training, did slightly over 2 years at ITT Tech working on my Computers and Electronics Engineering (AS) where I spent over $30k worth of loans but failed in the end and didn't get a degree (go me). At home I'm mostly a jack of all trades. There isn't much that I don't get into...everything from music to physics and astronomy...I've studied it all...
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