Introduce yourself~

3rd-4th grade teacher here. Sci-Fi junkie. Firefly being my base... but I love all things other worldly. My puzzling interest was started with GAMES magazine (old school) and The Beast (A.I. pre-movie puzzle). I am off-school for another week and milking it for every puzzle-solving second.

My best always,

Hi! I'm grateful to be here. Here's hoping to share mystery and puzzles and stories together. I'm holding off of getting the actual subscription until my son gets his experience. He gets his mail at my place so he doesn't worry about roommates misplacing stuff. Which means he has keys and comes by to check the mail when I'm not here.

I love writing poetry, short stories, long stories, research papers, etc. I also do art - monotypes, watercolor, stained glass, etc. I read non-fiction, sci-fi, and fantasy.

BTW, the picture isn't me.  It's an avatar I use for my persona on another website.  It's actually the Indian actress Huma Qureshi.  Someone else picked it out for me.

The Genii here, actually Richard Kaufman, publisher, editor, and writer of many books on the subject of magic, magicians, and sleight of hand. This includes Genii, The Conjurors' Magazine, from whence I draw my nickname.

Myself, Mr. Andrews, and Mr. Erdnase are all ... familiar to one another.

Collector of oddities (MPC fits in here), world traveler, writer for Boing Boing, with a great fondness for Japan.

As an Aspie, unfortunately puzzles just seem beyond my abilities, but I have greatly enjoyed the experiences from The MPC and with Todd's help was able to decipher the one which was puzzlish. You would think that with the enormous number of horror movies I've watched the secret would have been obvious, but alas the obvious often escapes an Aspie. We see the micro images in the world.

I'm a 44 year old dad of a 3 year old named Atom. My wife and I are both cosplayers/ren fair types and sci-fi fans.

I'm a computer nerd for the Federal Gov., and my wife runs her own business making super hero capes for toddlers. (Atomic Momma Designs, go figure. )

I ran in to MPC from a Facebook ad too, and was floored when I figured out what they do. How freaking cool! I am getting a subscription but really wanted Tempus Fugit before it was pulled. Ohh well, I am working on putting together an "open source" experience in the general sub forum instead. That has been kind of fun.

For hobbies, I am a "maker of things" lol. I have done several movie costumes, made my own light sabers, furniture, kitchen cabinets, etc etc. My latest interests has been metalworking. I have a manual lathe and a CNC milling machine that I just recently finished assembling. I am now breaking tool bits and ruining material faster and with greater precision than ever. ;-)

So, that's me! Hello World!

Troy

Greetings from Ithaca, NY USA! I'm Steve Jenks, but I use the name CentaurOfAttn because I'm a punny guy and it fits with a fraternal organization I am with. I work as an admission counselor at a college and live with an awesome roommate and our two dogs (mine is a corgi-mix with one eye!). I am new to MPC however I am not new to long form interactive puzzles. I have been involved with solving the Tim Tang Test for almost a decade (don't investigate, you will get sucked in forever!) and I love any mystery, puzzle, or cipher. In addition to reading and puzzles I also enjoy performing in the theatre, hiking, music, traveling, creating my own puzzles, and paper crafting. I have a blog that you can find on my profile about my crafting adventures (and there is a hidden piece of a puzzle that I set for my partner to find some day!).

I don't have a character per se, since most would say the real me is plenty . I can't wait to meet more of you and for V3 to ship!

As the grandchild of a former Free Mason, puzzles were the original connection between I and my grandfather. Many an afternoon we could be found working through a series of logic problems from his latest book. As I grew older, all manner of games and mind-testing items came into my life. Puzzling through mysteries in written text, to trying to figure out movie plots, to trying ever increasingly difficult physical puzzles, solving things has been a common thread of my life. Becoming an adult seems to have presented me with all manner of other experiences, and I had put down the puzzling for a while. Missing our time together, and upon hearing of the MPC through an unlikely source, I became curious and thus have become a member of the Inner Circle. Beginning Curios and Conundrums in the "half way" point last year, I am eagerly awaiting my omnibus so I can catch up with many of the great puzzlers of this secret society. As I begin to cut my teeth on the traveling, I am fortunate enough to be able to revisit the places my grandfather once went through this type of society, even being able to easily retrieve my own Chinese coin was lovely!

This forum has allowed me one further experience in life, that of a story-teller - in giving me the space to begin embodying a strong female character. The Fixer is gainfully employed in a little cared about, male dominated industry full of mystery and intrigue of a different kind. Passions include strange ice-sports of a poetic, ballet nature, complete with all manner of high stressful yelling from those that think the louder they yell, the more their underlings will work for them. Strange sweeping of undetected debris in front of hurled stones into a target area that is home, is often cause for the many who enjoy to join secret societies of their own. Other interests include problem solving, reading, laughing, and a budding passion for alternative relaxation modalities.