Well, for starters:
I'm a 24 year old guy coming from Norway , the so called Land of The
Midnight Sun, as the foreigners (not) so eloquently put it.
Born in Trondheim 11th of January, in The Year Of The
Lord 1975, and have lived all my life at Ørland. My parents
who have made such a good job in raising me are Rigmor and Odd. I'm an
only child, something which I guess can have its advantages sometimes :)
(At least one doesn't have to care about the annoying thought of
constantly sharing your parents' attention with some geek of a brother or
sister :) ).
Currently living in Trondheim, I'm attending the Norwegian University of
Science & Technology (NTNU) , where I'm attending the Applied
Linguistics class for the 2nd year.
At the moment, I'm yet not sure of what I'm devoted for in this life. I
have plans of studying language/communication. As I for the moment see it, I
will try to become a teacher or maybe educate within science regarding
communication.
Former education includes:
- degree in norwegian (Volda 1994/95).
- degree in biotechnology (Namsos 1996/97).
Most tragically the
biotechnology class in Namsos was officially
closed
down during summer
1998, due to severe reduction of grant of money from the norwegian
Government. Indeed a sad outcome, since that class was one of the most
interesting ones I have ever attended, and because our teacher, Stein
Skjønberg
(mentioned in the article above) was the most inspiring teacher I have
ever experienced in my life.
Hobbies & interests include:
Playing/composing and listening to music, reading, roleplaying (Krynn AD&D
and Krynn 5th Age (The Dragonlance SAGA)), sports (among other things
indoor hockey), composing computerized music, computer games, chatting
(IRC and other chats), surfing His Microsoft-ness Bill Gates' 'Information
Highway', and basically hanging out with my friends, having fun!
(Party anyone? :-) ).
Music has always played an important role in my life, and I know it will
continue to do so for the rest of my life. I guess I have always been
interested in music, ever since my parents first made me begin listening
to children's songs at a verly early age.
Being raised in a musical family (my dad used to play the alt
saxophone and my mom sings in an amateur choir), music has never been far
away in our home. In addition of attending a regular kindergarden during
my younger days, I also attended a musical kindergarden, where I guess I
first learned to become interested in musical instruments.
When I was at the age of seven, I began starting playing the organ, being
a member of my local community's School of Music, and I have played the
organ ever since that time, although I quit the School of Music back in
1989. A BIG "thank you" from me goes to my organ teacher and a kind of
musical tutor during those years, Bernt Gjelvold, with whom I got so lucky
to work with for seven straight years (thanks Bernt; I'll always be
grateful for the things you learned me and the way you guided me during
those years.) In addition of playing the organ for about 17 years now, I
also play keyboards and synthezisers.
In February 1984, I was signed up as a member of my community's marching band, Ørland Skolemusikk, playing the cornet/trumpet. Having witnessed both the last uprising successful year (1986) and the nearly downfall of the band around the mid 90s, I eventually quit the band just prior to my graduation celebration in May 1994, after having served the band loyaly for 11 straight seasons. I truly miss those very first years being a member of the band, when it was still on the top, enjoying its last successful year. Since '86, more and more members eventually quit the band, and for the last years, during the 90s, playing in the band eventually became more of a duty than of enjoy.
Additionally, when being a student for the first time after High School (at Volda College 1994/95), I participated in winning a brass band price for "Best Brass Band In Amateur Class", with The Volda College Brass Band, at the Norwegian Brassband Festival 1995, at that year held in Ørskog.
When I got my, at that time fairly new (now long ago outdated)
Amiga500 Computer back in 1990, I started out composing songs on it,
eventually ending up in a cooperation together with one of my best
friends, Harald Venes (who goes under the nick of "Solinari" on IRC),
forming a musical duo, which later would be known as The Sundance Kid and
El Loco, respectively. During summer 1993
we then became members of one of the best computer groups in Norway par
excellence, called Talent
(and most surprisingly we are still regarded as members of it, now four
years later, despite of heavily inactivity during the recent two years).
The finest moment so far in our "carreers" as computerized music-scoring
dudes, took place back in '94, at Norway's annual largest-holding computer
party, "The Gathering", when we managed to get hold of the 10th place
in the music competition being held there (among other competitions).
If you want to hear two samples of our work (please take into
consideration that these
two songs was made during 1993-94, and that we never had the best
standard equipment, even at that time), you should go here: Talentiaden
, and here: Ultra
Violet Rays. If you want to know more about the computer group
Talent, you can go here.
IRC (Internet Relay Chat) has come to my knowledge of being the superior chat program
among the jungle of chat programs lying on the net. Although I had
heard about IRC for quite some time on forehand, it wasn't until January
'97, that I eventually managed "to get my two feet inside it". The
main channel of which I have become nearly "attached" to over the months
is #Krynn, located on the usefnet. Over the past year I have made a
lot of new friends on this channel.
Another channel I've had the pleasure of visiting every now and then is
#Kenderhome. When being on IRC I go under the nick
Justie, and to some people I'm also known as Riverwind.
I would like to send regards to the following people (no order
whatsoever):
Solinari, Ryen, Sistance, Eltanin, Firelady,
Raistlin`, Isolde, Cran, Tristam, Vladic, Luke_S, Bezerker, Shena,
LadySarah, Amano, SirGeoff, Arsenal, Nyks, Pest, Nylander, Matrim and the
rest of you I have forgotten. :)
I also like to pop by the great channel #tut, on euroefnet. Greetings here
goes to (still no order whatsoever):
Ludus, Ludolf, Fuzzywuzz, Torkild, Mordor, Hemulen, Thiron, Nysalor,
Maddie, Ayla, Dr_Feelgood, Morpheum, Ack, Khi, Bratt, AK and the rest.
When it comes down to sports I really enjoy watching, it's basically european soccer together with the best of U.S. sports, like basketball (NBA) and hockey (NHL) in particular. In addition I also like to watch Michael Schumacher & Co speeding around like mad men during the car races of Formula 1. I also very much enjoy playing tennis, which is my very favourite pastime in sports for the moment. Quite recently I have begun to take up sports as versatile as badminton and dancing.