User:Aichon

About Me

American Aichon is American.

GreaseKit I use GreaseKit and I write scripts for it.

Macintosh Aichon is a Macintosh addict and owns several.

Pseudo Zombie Aichon needs more sleep.

Support

Etiquette Aichon supports etiquette.

It's a Joke, OK? Aichon supports the use of humor, even when other people don't get it.

Logic and Reason Aichon rates the power of Logic and Reason over a shotgun any day.

Urban Dead

Alt user Aichon has alts but DOESN'T Zerg.

Urban Dead Aichon plays UD. What are the odds?

UrbanDead Sponsor! Aichon has contributed to the UrbanDead Beer Fund.

Wiki

Don't Take It Personally Aichon isn't crushed by criticism directed at him. It's all cool.

Formatting Nazi Aichon is a formatting Nazi and will fix your wiki-code without asking.

Grammar Aichon supports the use of proper grammar and spelling on the Wiki.

Sysop Aichon was a sysop.

Intro

I'm an Urban Dead player who first joined the game on August 15th, 2009. Since then, I've made a point of trying to enjoy as many aspects of the game and its community as possible. Towards that end, I've written userscripts, have led or helped to lead some of the top groups during my time, and have generally engaged in the wiki community quite a bit. This is the first wiki that I've really gotten involved with, so if you see me making stupid mistakes, clue me in, since I'm still learning. Despite that, on March 26, 2010, the community saw fit to make me a sysop, but when my term was up, I asked for a demotion rather than an additional term as sysop, and was restored to the life of a regular user on November 25, 2010. Since then, I've gone mostly inactive, though I do still poke in from time to time.

In terms of the game, I wanted to experience everything it had to offer, so as you can see by the character list, I have characters in some of the premiere groups of Malton. They all lead separate existences, and a few of them actively fight against the efforts of the others, though they've never met or even gotten close to each other (nor will they ever do so). Oh, and since they're all separate characters, please treat them as such. Just because my PKer may have ruined your day today doesn't mean that my survivor won't be coming in afterwards to help you patch things together.

If you need to get in touch with me for some reason, use the talk page. If you decide to stalk me and need to say my name over the phone or in-person, I've included a handy pronunciation guide for my screen name up in the header of this page. Just in case you aren't conversant with those characters, it's pronounced the same as "icon."

Background

I'm a software developer in College Station, Texas, USA. I've interned with various subcontractors for NASA (e.g. Lockheed Martin), and did a stint for four years as a Teaching Assistant at Texas A&M while in grad school, where I had the privilege of assisting the professors in teaching over 2300 students in numerous programming languages and over a variety of subjects.

To cut off the obvious questions, no, I will not help you troubleshoot your computer, nor will I design your wiki page for you. I use and love my Mac because it lets me get work done without dealing with the crap that Windows users put up with or the hassle that Linux users deal with. As for design, it takes me way too long to make things not suck, so I try to avoid it. That said, if you run into a technical issue and put in some serious effort trying to figure it out, I'm usually up for helping people get over those sorts of hurdles.

I've lived on all three of the major coasts in America, in each case in the southern half of the country, so my exposure to cold temperatures is pretty limited. In fact, the place I'm living at now is the furthest inland (around 140 miles/225 km), the highest elevated (about 360 feet/110 m), the coldest place (it'll get below freezing a few times each winter), and the hottest place (we routinely have highs over well 105°F/40°C each summer) I've ever lived, strange as that may sound to most people out there.

Otherwise, I guess I could point out the fact that I am a Christian that holds pretty traditional/conservative values in terms of most of the controversial issues. For some reason, this tends to surprise people. Go figure.

Technology

Primary machine: 2.7GHz i7 Mac mini running Mac OS 10.7 (and Windows 7 Pro 64-bit)

Monitors: 40" Toshiba Regza HDTV and two Dell 24" monitors

Additional Storage: 2TB HDD, 1TB Time Capsule, and 200GB HDD

Keyboard: Logitech diNovo Mac Edition

Mouse: Logitech MX Revolution

Speakers: Logitech LS21 2.1

Browser: Safari on Mac (Chrome on Windows)

Mobile machines: 32GB iPad 2, 32GB iPhone 4, and a 1.67GHz Hi-Res Aluminum PowerBook G4 running Mac OS 10.4.11

Hobbies

Backloggery.com: As most know, I do enjoy video games from a large selection of genres (pretty much everything besides sports games), but am most enamored with games that are classics or are likely to become classics eventually. I particularly enjoy underrated games that got overlooked by the mainstream, but I don't let the popularity of something dissuade me from playing it. If you're curious about the games I have or what I'm playing, check me out at the link. I'm on there almost daily.

MyAnimeList.net: In terms of anime, my tastes are a bit simpler: I usually avoid series that span hundreds of episodes, I don't watch hentai, and I usually only watch bigger productions. Check the link if you want more information about what I've seen or what I'm watching now.

Otherwise, I do a bit of coding for fun in my spare time, and have dabbled in several dozen different programming, scripting, markup, and query languages at this point. Check my userscripts for some examples of coding I've done for fun within the scope of UD.

Sports: N/A. I told you I was a Computer Science guy. 'nuff said. My last involvement with sports was refereeing soccer for three years while in high school.

Music: I listen to anime and video game soundtracks. That's about it, honestly. Yes, I know that's lame.

You might see me around the Internet since I do tend to get around. These days, I go by the Aichon handle almost exclusively, but in the past I've used Anubis IV and Orison as handles at various sites and in various services.