This site was pointed out to me when one of the youth I work with in a youth group in my commmunity when he was doing a little research on John T. Haller and he found this out http://www.hallerlaw.com/. I looked at it and got a chuckle or 2 from it. seems there are 2 John T. Haller. I wondered what happened to one of a kind :P. Anyway to make things even more strange my fathers name is Mark-Anthony Rector. about a couple of years back we were recieving mail from someone else with that name (Yes last name as well was Rector too) as well. strange isn't it and he lived down the road too. Different people but same names. I wonder if there are other people with same names as well. Anybody have these expirences yet?
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Haller is actually a pretty common German name. (I'm a complete mutt - 7 different things - but my name is German.) And John is, well, about as common a first name as you can get. So, there are actually a bunch of John T. Hallers out there. There was a Haller chocolate maker in Germany that was pretty good. I even had a manager once when I was a waiter back in high school whose last name was Haller and he had a son named John.
Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!
I understand the idea of being a mutt. my last name being Thibeau which is french (even though I don't speak a lick of it) (get it lick,Mutt :P) but my background from my mother's side is german, dutch, a little bit of swed in me and even french My father's side was mostly french in his blood so I'm more french than my mothers side
your friendly neighbourhood moderator Zach Thibeau
I (+ family) live in Switzerland.
I once googled for my Brother and found a bald body-building german basketball-player...(My bro isn't bald nor basketballplayer)
"What about Love?" - "Overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate." - Al Pacino in The Devils Advocate
Being that Mr. Haller is such a mysterious man, I tried doing some research. I found out that Haller was a German last name (which explains a few things that I've seen here). I myself am Mexican by birth, but I'm actually 1/2 Mex. 1/2 German. And it seems that neither my name (Olaf) nor my last name are very common, not even in Germany. So every time I see either one, I get pretty exited. A while back, on the X-Files, I saw a Brunjes store in NYC.
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Arquitecto Brunjes Lozano
Egresado de la Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on." -- Robert Frost
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: baby ain't mine." -- Adam Holguin
Hmm... never been referred to as mysterious before online. I always thought I lived a far more public than normal online life.
Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!
you use a full name, in my books that makes you less mysterious than >95% of the net.
Yours
Steve Lamerton
My Blog
Is that, there are a few topics here on the forums that ask personal stuff (your fav computer, dream computer, tell us about yourself, fav apps, what apps do you have, etc), and John just never answers them. That's what I meant by mysterious, not that he's hiding from the rest of the world or anything like that.
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Arquitecto Brunjes Lozano
Egresado de la Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on." -- Robert Frost
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: baby ain't mine." -- Adam Holguin
I usually just don't have the time. I didn't know that anyone was really wondering about me.
Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!
know this is starting to get quite funny, me and Ryan were having a conversation about this a couple of weeks ago about how you don't seem to post in any of those topics.
Yours
Steve Lamerton
My Blog
Well I guess you could create a Staff introduction forum so that anybody can take a look at and ask their questions or even start a blog and not just on your other site John
your friendly neighbourhood moderator Zach Thibeau
Can't you see that everybody here just LOVES you for what you do!!! That's why every time someone new tries your programs, they join the forums and their first post is a Thank You message. And everybody is interested in you, that's why someone always asks "How about John, he has not answered".
Now, as far as the time issue, well, I understand. I just don't see how you can do your "real job", have your personal life and still have time to do this here. I mean, I've seen things that you post at 2,3,4 a.m. It must be killing you.
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Arquitecto Brunjes Lozano
Egresado de la Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on." -- Robert Frost
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: baby ain't mine." -- Adam Holguin
I fully agree but if you are in a different timezone but in the same forum, things become nice...
For example:
When I start posting here in the morning, for Ryan its lunch break time.
:\ducks away just in case he screwed up with his calculations and Ryan starts searching for him with a :(:barf: look\:
"What about Love?" - "Overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate." - Al Pacino in The Devils Advocate
I get Ryan in the morning and John in the evening, on that note time for a new topic for people time zones. See here https://portableapps.com/node/5927
Yours
Steve Lamerton
My Blog
Don't worry, I don't get fire-breathing like John
AFAIK, I get you Yanks (:D) in the morning and you Poms (:D) at night.
Sorta on this subject, I wanna know how many Aussies there are. John, any chance you could look at the database.
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Ryan McCue
Cube Games
Don't Live to Geek, Geek to Live
Lifehacker
"If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate."
whats Yanks/Poms?
"What about Love?" - "Overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate." - Al Pacino in The Devils Advocate
It's actually nothing geeky
Yanks = Americans
Poms = English
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Ryan McCue
Cube Games
Don't Live to Geek, Geek to Live
Lifehacker
"If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate."
When I go to my account I can click on the portable device that I have and it will list everybody who has a similar portable device. How about doing the same for countries?
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Arquitecto Brunjes Lozano
Egresado de la Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on." -- Robert Frost
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: baby ain't mine." -- Adam Holguin
I was hoping that, but either way is fine.
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Ryan McCue
Cube Games
Don't Live to Geek, Geek to Live
Lifehacker
"If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate."
Except the yanks like me who are on during the wee hours of the morning local time.
Vintage!
But that's you
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Ryan McCue
Cube Games
There are only two states in Australia: Queensland and Drunk
"If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate."
Well, thanks for the compliment. If people are actually interested, I'll make a point to drop a note in similar threads in the future.
And, at the moment, I eased back on working my real job (web applications development in the financial services industry) to work on portableapps.com. I'm hoping to make it self-sustaining so I can pay my rent and funnel some money back into the open source projects on which the portable apps are based. Haven't quite gotten there yet.
Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!
Ryan McCue is sorta my full name, my middle name (David) doesn't count, since the only time I use it is on my passport.
And so do you Steve
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Ryan McCue
Cube Games
Don't Live to Geek, Geek to Live
Lifehacker
"If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate."
I didnt know you own a Golf Club in Bali:
http://www.balidiscovery.com/update/update048.asp
"What about Love?" - "Overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate." - Al Pacino in The Devils Advocate
Nice. I got a good laugh from the John T. Haller law too.
Ha, try to find another Patrick Patience.
The first thing that comes up on google is my other account which I didn't like cause it had my full name.
although I wouldn't mind! Also
comes up in Google.
Yours
Steve Lamerton
My Blog
That's not near Brisbane, it's on the Gold Coast and I've been there.
Small world
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Ryan McCue
Cube Games
Don't Live to Geek, Geek to Live
Lifehacker
"If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate."
Or didn't you get an eye on the director...
"What about Love?" - "Overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate." - Al Pacino in The Devils Advocate
I'm not into paying $500 bucks for a game of golf
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Ryan McCue
Cube Games
Don't Live to Geek, Geek to Live
Lifehacker
"If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate."
claim to know him
Yours
Steve Lamerton
My Blog
If I ever go back there again
Technically, I do know him, just not that instance of him
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Ryan McCue
Cube Games
There are only two states in Australia: Queensland and Drunk
"If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate."
I once googled my name and found a guy who died on the 15 of Feb, 1943. I was born the same day, but different year... Interesting isn't is?
~.Maurits
~.Maurits
Is very interesting indeed.
very wierd. My sis was also born Feb 15.
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Arquitecto Brunjes Lozano
Egresado de la Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on." -- Robert Frost
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: baby ain't mine." -- Adam Holguin
I was actually contacted by another Ryan McCue via email.
He'd checked out the site here then saw me. He went on to my site and contacted me
Small world, eh.
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Ryan McCue
Cube Games
Don't Live to Geek, Geek to Live
Lifehacker
"If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate."
Yeah Really. thats pretty weird if you ask me. At least each peoples expirience makes them as they are. I mean if everybody experienced everything in the same way as I did or even one individual. The world would be a boring place. Personally I like being me for who I am. And as far as I know I am the only Zachary Edgar James Thibeau that I know of (I hope)
EDIT: Well I did a search and as far as I know I found an old website that I did a long time ago with freehomepages.com that someone hacked saying that I hate you go away with my old email address with it but other than that I can't find any evidence of any other Zach Thibeau anywhere
Hmmm it seems my first and only Portable Songbird was called a virus at http://vendors.prevx.com/VVGJCA112803/by+Zach+Thibeau.html
but other than that I'm one of a kind on the net
your friendly neighbourhood moderator Zach Thibeau
I saw this on some sort of news station in the U.S. This girl writes a letter, ties it to a balloon full of helium and lets it go. Later she receives a letter though mail from another girl. Here are the similarities that they have: Same name, same age, same hair color, both live in a farm, both have the same pets (including a Labrador) and a few other things that I can't remember. After then they became very good (if not best) friends. Now that's weird.
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Arquitecto Brunjes Lozano
Egresado de la Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on." -- Robert Frost
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: baby ain't mine." -- Adam Holguin
Now that really is freaky.
Maybe it's just someone pulling a prank
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Ryan McCue
Cube Games
Don't Live to Geek, Geek to Live
Lifehacker
"If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate."