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geekhack Community => Off Topic => Topic started by: xsphat on Sat, 25 August 2007, 00:17:36

Title: Hey iMav
Post by: xsphat on Sat, 25 August 2007, 00:17:36

How long have you been in Iraq? How long do have?

Title: Re: Hey iMav
Post by: iMav on Sat, 25 August 2007, 00:24:54

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How long have you been in Iraq? How long do have?

I've been here 10 months so far.  I am a civilian contractor, so I can leave whenever I want...but it is in my best interest to stay at least through 12 months (contract completion bonus).  I am ultimately targeting sometime in March '08 to come home for good.  Although, anytime after October '07 is fair game.

Title: Hey iMav
Post by: xsphat on Sat, 25 August 2007, 01:43:54

That's cool, what kind of contracting do you do?

Title: Hey iMav
Post by: iMav on Sat, 25 August 2007, 02:05:52

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That's cool, what kind of contracting do you do?

I work for MNF-I, providing information assurance oversight for the networking infrastructure within theater.  Basically, an IT Security gig  for the military...including firewall management, web caching and filtering services, and some IDS "stuff".

Title: Hey iMav
Post by: xsphat on Tue, 28 August 2007, 02:52:58

Well I bet you make more than this (34 year old) college kid. I'm going for writing, so I'll most likely die face down and drunk in a gutter, but I would like to get one of my keyboards in a museum ...

Title: Hey iMav
Post by: xsphat on Tue, 28 August 2007, 02:56:19

What else are you into?

Title: Hey iMav
Post by: iMav on Tue, 28 August 2007, 03:52:05

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Well I bet you make more than this (34 year old) college kid. I'm going for writing, so I'll most likely die face down and drunk in a gutter, but I would like to get one of my keyboards in a museum ... What else are you into?

Well, I'll be 37 next month.  Have three kids (7, 5, and 2 yrs) and a wife (of 11 years) back home.  

I've owned a motorcycle pretty much constantly since I was 12 years old.  I currently have a 2003 Kawasaki Vulcan 1600 that I bought new back in the fall of 2003.  I (along with my two older kids) am a karate student.  Assuming I return home next spring, I should get my black belt before the end of 2008.  I am a casual golfer.  I am a UNIX geek and an IT security professional.

Title: Hey iMav
Post by: xsphat on Tue, 28 August 2007, 08:46:05

Remind me to never fight or race you  :D

Title: Hey iMav
Post by: ashort on Wed, 29 August 2007, 23:04:24

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Well, I'll be 37 next month.

awww crap...

Title: Hey iMav
Post by: iMav on Wed, 29 August 2007, 23:47:49

Quote from: ashort

awww crap...

It's not my fault you're as old as dirt.  ;)

Title: Hey iMav
Post by: xsphat on Thu, 30 August 2007, 02:49:41

And just how old is old as dirt? I'm 34, a college sophomore and proud of it.

Title: Re: Hey iMav
Post by: microsoft windows on Wed, 07 May 2014, 20:10:13

WINDOWS 98 IS OLD AS DIRT.

Title: Re: Hey iMav
Post by: nubbinator on Wed, 07 May 2014, 20:12:10

Quote from: microsoft windows on Wed, 07 May 2014, 20:10:13

WINDOWS 98 IS OLD AS DIRT.

(http://i.imgur.com/kfH3IEz.jpg)

Title: Re: Hey iMav
Post by: mkawa on Wed, 07 May 2014, 20:14:19

woah. now that is a necro.

true story. imav was in his bunker in iraq once, sleeping in the top bunk of his quarters when a mortar hit the bunker dead on. the force of the explosion was so large it threw him out of his bed and onto the ground from about 6 feet up.

imav got up for a moment, then got back into bed and immediately went back to sleep.