I’m a professional fire/sideshow performer and certified freak. I know a lot about things that are weird, morbid, or dangerous. I also have a split tongue and love to show it off. I’m fun at parties :)
Ask me anything I guess?
I also have a split tongue and love to show it off. I’m fun at parties :)
Is this your way of flirting?
I have a partner so not really? If anything it made dating harder because people are scared of it and I was always upfront about it. Other freaks love it however, as do dentists lol
How dangerous are these fire shows for the performers?
Incredibly, but that’s why we’re insured professionals. In addition to the obvious dangers of burns and fire spreading, fire eaters and breathers risk chemical pneumonia. Sword swallowers risk permeated stomachs.
A really painful type of coordinate transformation I once had to develop to try and shed some insight on Hawking radiation near black holes.
Unfortunately the results were fucking ugly and I gave up trying to understand them, largely due to the fact that except under very specific circumstances they’re basically impossible to calculate (you get something similar to divide by zero errors).
Nice case:
Not nice case:
There was a ton more related stuff I could have spent a PhD working on, but life didn’t really allow it (and frankly I’m okay with that, I’m actually doing enjoyable stuff for the first time in my life instead of fighting my brain).
I know how RuneScape’s bot detection works, and currently have an OSRS account that’s nearly maxed from nonstop botting over the last 6 months
Edit: I’m so confident (or maybe stupid) I’ll even share my progress: https://secure.runescape.com/m=hiscore_oldschool/hiscorepersonal?user1=nk best k
You should grind everything up to 99 and do like that one person and max them all out one after another at the same time.
Edit: Ah, nevermind, I didn’t realize 99 was the max.
I’ve delved way too deep into the fall of the Western Roman Empire. I think I know a lot about Majorian, Stilicho, Aetius and Ricimer. My gf at this point even knows who Honorius is and why he was a bad emperor.
When I saw the meme “How often do you daily think about the Roman Empire”, I knew that it was about me, because the answer is yes :/
I, too, would like to be destroyed by goths
I think it’s neat that you’re taking an interest in history. You could do worse things with your free time :)
I stumbled into an optics development project over a decade ago. Today I develop multiple systems a year and know the math behind it pretty well, although I use the dedicated software. I’ve also worked on the manufacturing of lenses. I’ve always been into photography and hope to start a niche camera lens company in the US just like MS optics in Japan.
I am a steadicam operator and have been making power cables for cameras. I get calls from around the USA and the world from people trying to troubleshoot their electrical systems on their Steadicam and cinema cameras.
I got way too hard into the Minecraft anarchy scene so I’ve got knowledge that even Minecraft fans find abhorrent.
Setting up bots and automation, using server exploits to hunt for hidden bases, exploiting item duplication glitches, and of course using cheat clients. I’ve even written a few hacks for a private client my group used to make.
Meanwhile I get blown up by a creeper trying to set up a fence around my cobblestone and dirt house…
haha yeah, same when I play solo without cheats. but it’s better to have a creeper blow a hole in your dirt shack than in your carefully designed redstone contraption!
Cats. Cats everywhere. I started playing Minecraft a few months ago. My kid wanted to play it so I decided to try it. Now I’m hooked.
Reggaeton, and the rise of música urbana from around 2005-2015.
Edit I also enjoy learning about Latin American history.
I can look at a blueprint (top, front, and side views) and imagine the object in 3D. This is probably why I find topo maps easy to read as well.
Though currently on hiatus, I do HEMA (historical european martial arts) so know a thing or two about swords and swordfighting.
Acoustic propagation. I design large format PA systems and as a result need to know both how to make sound and stop sound at a large scale. It is entirely possible and actually relatively easy to be super precise with where sound goes or doesn’t go. The problem is cost.
Noticed you haven’t been getting any feedback on this. That’s probably a good thing right? ;)
Progressive Rock
Oh yeah? Name three of their albums.
That’s a pretty low bar, I know, but as I’m more into ProgMetal, I’m unable to name albums that are actually ProgRock. Well, except Rush.
I’m an enthusiast about Mezo American history and Mixtec Pueblo culture pre European contact. In other words I’m an Aztec Fanboy.
Imagine a Venn Diagram with three circles:
Ships and their electronics
Linux servers
Industrial roboticsI’m in the middle where all of those intersect. Pays well.
If you need an expert on the long-discontinued Motorola 96002 digital signal processor, I’m your guy! I wrote an entire graphical operating system in its assembly language and still need to maintain it from time to time, so my skills remain sharp.
