Hi there!

I'm a geek from South Africa.

I have your fairly standard set of geek interests. I spammed the tags area a bit, so check those details to get a quick idea.

About my personality: Well, I'm seriously introverted, and seem to have a condition known as Avoidant Personality Disorder. Check it out on Wikipedia - basically this line from there describes me pretty well:

"Loss and rejection are so painful that these individuals will choose to be lonely rather than risk trying to connect with others."

So, I tend to hang out online on forums and email or IM a lot, but don't make many friendships. Anyway, I'm working on that problem.

My main reason for joining this site is to make more geek friends - hopefully locally - and maybe meet someone special at some point.

(this seems perfect for me, except for the lack of local members. Well, trying this anyway).

More about me in general: I'm a programmer at a local advertising company. I work with a lot of systems stuff. I get to work with Python all day long, and don't need to deal with clients =)

I spend most of my free time at home (I live by myself). I spend a huge amount of time on the internet - lurking tech sites like Slashdot or Hacker News. Plus I'm involved in various other hobby and interest-related forums.

I also spend a lot of time on various hobbies - generally random programming-related things. At other times, I'll play video games (generally RPGs), watch anime, random scifi TV shows, or anything else that's interesting.

Some specific examples:

- Favorite video games: Diablo 2, Star Control 2, Ar tonelico 2

(seems like I like the second game in video game series a lot of the time)

- Currently Playing: Mass Effect 2

- Favorite Anime series: Trigun (amongst many others)

- Currently watching: Nanoha Strikers

- Favorite manga: Negima

- Currently reading: A.I. Love You

(Ken Akamatsu is my favorite mangaka)

- My favorite project: A visual novel I worked on called "An Ordinary Life". Basically an obscure fan game based on an obscure Japanese Console Roleplaying game.

- My current project: Translating a flash game into English from Japanese, and also writing a replacement website and web service for it (the Japanese game company that runs it, is shutting it down at the end of this year).

My social and family life, is next to non-existent. I'm pretty much a hermit at this point in my life - most of my friends are online. I wish I could change that, but I first need to overcome my "avoidance" personality, which stops me from connecting with people. Like I said, I'm working on that.