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MemberInterviews — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMT

This week:

::MeiLing::

Name: Nuyn
Nicknames: Mei, wolfy, fox
Online Aliases: Astarling, MeiLing
Gender: F
Location: America's dairy state (come to WI and smell our dairy air)
Occupation: Analyst
Area of Tech Expertise: I am certified from Telcordia University in LAN/WAN design and technologies. I build websites and design client server databases. [I have] 5 years experience as a IT manager of a medium size call center at one of the worlds largest telecoms.
Hobbies: computer hardware, movies, anime, 3d rendering (via Poser)
System Specs: AMD 5200+ x2, 7900 GTO, 2 gigs EL 667 MHz DDR2, Audigy 2zs, 2 x 200 gig HDs, DVDRW, Razor Copperhead mouse, Eclipse II keyboard and Logitech 5500 THX 5.1 surround sound speakers all running on WindowsXP
Favorite Quote: "No matter where you go, there you are."
Favorite Food: Pizza
Favorite Kind of Music: I love all music from classical to rock, just no gangsta rap for mei.
Favorite Movie: This is a very hard question as I love movies so much. But to bring it down to just one would have to be Spiderman 2 (I cried when Mary Jane came to Peter and confessed her love and he finally accepted her). Nope can't do just one. Also The Great Gatsby as it reflects the pain love for someone can bring.
Favorite Game: City of Heroes
Favorite Book: Sword Dancer, as it tells a story of a young gal that, despite her traumatic childhood, grows up to be a strong hero and equal in skill and power to the man she falls in love with. Yay!!
Favorite Forum thread at EggXpert, this very moment: The Anime thread under Off Topic
Favorite EggXpert member (other than yourself) and why: Venture, because he reminds us all to not take this forum or life too seriously or you can get hurt for no good reason at all.
Favorite Website: http://www.yahoo.com/ This is Mei's portal to the world!!!
Favorite hero: Black Cat, as she was a bad girl that became a hero because one man took time out to show her some love and compassion
Most Embarrassing Moment: I was on a school trip with the HS orchestra and we stayed overnight at a hotel with a pool. I had not brought a swim suit but a gal I was rooming with had an extra pair of shorts she let me borrow. So I put that on with a t-shirt and went swimming. Some of the guys talked me into a race and when I kicked off the side of the pool the shorts went right to my feet. O_O Luckily for me, the t-shirt was long and covered most everything, I hope. But I lost the race stopping to pull up my shorts.
Most frightened of: Spiders, if they get too close, my brain will actually turn off from fear and I am paralyzed. :(
Happiest Moment: The day I got married to my huggy pie!! ^_^ Love you hun.
A Vivid Childhood Memory: There was a spider with a very large tummy sitting on a flower just behind the house. I knew this spider was about to lay her eggs and I did not want hundreds of baby spiders in the house, so I picked up a small stick, a twig really, to hit the spider. But I was afraid I would miss so I slowly did a couple practice swings and the 2nd one just barely touched the spider's back and it exploded. It had waited too long to lay its eggs and the spider burst its guts and eggs all over the back of the house and me. It was on my face, in my mouth and eyes and all over my new top. I could not move or breathe for a long time as my head spun and spun. I do not remember anything after, like how I got cleaned up. I just remember the screaming. I was deathly afraid of spiders before that happened and since then I often just lock up if they get too close to me.
Your “good deed” of the century: I took in a stray cat that had been abused and tortured. She was my guardian angel, SusieQ.
Guilty Pleasure(s): I like grade B sci-fi movies and romance manga.
If you had 1 wish, what would it be and why?: That every one I know would know how much they are truly treasured and loved by God.
When refilling your toilet paper, do you prefer it over or under?: Oh this is not a question, has to be over!!!

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MemberInterviews — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 17:00:00 GMT

This week:

::Volfann::

Real Name: Kevin
Age: 48
Marital Status: Married to a Cardiac RN
Occupation: Retired/Stay-at-home dad
Hometown: Middle Tennessee
Pets: 2 dogs and 2 cats
Toilet Paper Over or Under?: over

For those of you who frequent the forums or Newegg Trivia Challenge, Volfann is no stranger. He’s a helpful hand or an innovative quizmaster, depending on where you find him.

Volfann was born and raised in middle Tennessee and is retired from manufacturing supervision and quality assurance. By his own admission, he’s “an avid movie watcher and critic,” but on television, he prefers to watch Discovery, A&E and the History Channel documentaries (where he finds inspiration for his trivia questions).

He’s also the proud father of 6 kids, ranging in age from 5 to 29. “The children keep me too busy to do much else since they have much more energy than I do now.” His youngest is getting ready to enter kindergarten and his oldest is serving in the Air Force, which helped him make the decision to donate his Uber prize (a $100 gift card) to Dagger, another forum member who’s serving in Iraq. “I'm still shocked about having the Uber title bestowed upon me. It was honor enough just to be nominated.”

His favorite forum currently is the Off-topic Debates: “We have some very insightful people posting there on a variety of topics. Genseneca posts some of the best political satire that I have seen anywhere.” And though he refrains from taking part in the discussions, he enjoys following them. “There seems to be a forum to suit anyone’s tastes which I feel is necessary to build a strong community. There are many forums where you can go and talk about computers, but not that many I know of where you can discuss your computer and then go talk about your favorite car or movie.”

The Newegg Trivia Challenge was also his idea. “As an Uber, I felt the need to try and start something that all forum members could enjoy doing and hopefully keep them coming back to the forum.” He says that it’s off to a good start, with several members playing every day. “It gives the members a chance to socialize a bit and laugh at themselves when they have a bad score. It's all in good fun and that's what matters most. Of course I thought I would devastate the competition, but so far, that isn't happening. We have some very good players right now.”

Ultimately, Volfann’s attitude is what makes him such a valued community member. “I mostly try to add a bit of humor to the forum and hopefully give someone something to smile about that might help them through a bad day.”

Volfann’s Rig

“This should get lots of laughs from the do-it-yourselfers, but I have 2 Dells. Yes, I said it: DELL. I have built my own in the past, but I like Dells and have had very good luck with them. I use a 4600i model that I bought in 2004. I still have the stock Intel 2.8 gig hyperthreaded processor and Seagate 120 gig SATA hard drive. The twin NEC 3550 DVD burners, Crucial RAM, ATI Radeon X1600 video card and the Seagate 160 gig external HD are from Newegg, of course. I'm not a ‘gamer,’ so it serves my needs very well. My wife is a Sims enthusiast of the highest order so she gets to use the newest computer, which is a Dell XPS 400 dual core. It is stock except for the Nvidia 7600 GT overclocked video card from Newegg. I am so old school that I still use a 19 inch Viewsonic CRT monitor. My wife has a 19 inch LCD, but I like my old CRT better.”

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