As for me, my name is Chris, I'm 29... earned a nickname "lemon" after I came into a pizzeria on my day off and ticked a co-worker off who was prepping fish-frys for the day... he came around and tried to bean me with whole lemons as I skated off down the street. Opened up a Geocities account as my first webspace, and picked "geolemon" as a combination of the two, and I just use it everywhere.
I've got way too many hobbies..
skateboarding, snowboarding, mogul skiing, bmx and flatland biking, kiteboarding (surf and snow), autocross racing, showing my Civic, building mini-trucks, customizing 1:64th model cars, computer programming (C, C#, Java, RPG, Net.Data, advanced MS SQL and IBM DB2 SQL, VB of course, Net.Data, and typical web stuff), and of course car audio.
If I could only pick two, I'd pick skateboarding and car audio.
I got into car audio way back when I was 15 or 16, just because I was amazed at how you could get so much "boom" out of a car, on such a low-voltage electrical system. I thought it was a cool, and also the physics just baffled me.
Now, I've become an old fogey and primarily care about sound quality.
My real perpetuating interest in car audio (and a reason that I'm not really a home audio guy much at all) is the challenge.
...In case you couldn't tell by my other hobbies, I enjoy a challenge. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/satan.gif.9c6a335ed7aeeed3ee273e573f1fcaac.gif
The car is a horrible place to try to replicate sound smoothly and create a realistic image, and the techniques used, and experimentation involved, is like a never-ending difficult puzzle - except you can see and hear your progress. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif
I ran an install business during the college years, but now I really just help friends, forumgoers, and my own self tends to come in last. Getting a "real" job tends to limit the time a bit more than the college years. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif
I'm also cofounder of
BEtter Audio... Largely, Bart and I are both taking our hobby to the next level, trying to support like-minded enthusiasts, and try to push some boundaries - but it would be **** cool if it took off financially, so we could support ourselves with it. We've both got a bit of history behind us, but neither of us are the type who live in the past.
I wouldn't even want to list out what's in any of my cars... or what's
not in the cars... let's just say I used to play with lego blocks, and I always liked to have a good assortment of building blocks on hand.
I've got quite a few pics on
my personal page (and maybe some other interesting info there too), of experimentation and finished installs in the Civic and the Hardbody, and my Pathfinder will be my next project... I'm thinking all-passive this time, with some interesting twists... //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif
And I also tend to type too much. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crap.gif.7f4dd41e3e9b23fbd170a1ee6f65cecc.gif
Sorry about that.. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/boring.gif.42c69fa49b1e73e6332d62b462a2a4b3.gif