03-22-2022, 06:19 AM
I am unsure about a whole introduction thread, seems this is the place to post, so I will just put it here:
My nickname is TDDA, it stands for ThatDamnDuckAgain, an insider joke on some ducks that broke out one day somewhere, kept seeing ducks for days everywhere and one didn't stop turning up at my patio. And I had to pick a username. Here I just chose the short form, because there is no cursing and many just call me TDDA or Ducky anyways.
I live in South Germany, come from a family where learning was upheld and encouraged and therefore also like to share knowledge. I am proud of my heritage but not the history of my country. It is tradition to learn the old way of writing and German language. Therefor I may be useful in decipher old texts that go way beyond 1800 written in a different set of letters all together. My interest in language and meaning of words is strong. Partly because my mother was following old Germanic-Pagan teachings, that I found myself naturally be drawn towards more and more. I could never ask her about it as my parents died before I was old enough to understand what she was doing. It has all the elements I always thought life would make most sense with, just that I read about them in those old writings afterwards what I always felt was true. You won't get me to argue for or against my or your faith. I always appreciate a respectful non dogmatic exchange of opinion and share of viewpoint though.
For a living, I build engines for race cars upwards past 500HP. BMW inline six cylinder and the Nissan RB26/28/30 series "Skylines" mostly. Drove some endurance and hill climb races myself but never made 1st. Loosers always say, they are in for the fun, but I was in for the adrenaline because I am addicted to it. I am very open about that. I also work part-time for a German sports car manufacturer as a race track instructor on the Nordschleife, to introduce the customers to their cars and show them how to handle the track. So it get my kick there.
Before I finished my master in motor vehicle engineering, I worked as a data analyst in grid management. Mostly PV power plant optimization, so I have some technical understanding about grid management and physics too. Beside that, I love all things I can do with my hands. Sewing, cooking and baking, lately drawing. Many more things that would just bloat this long post further more.
Oh one more thing though. I am used to people around me knowing that I can see tones and music as color and symbol flashes, so I tell you all straight forward. It's called synesthesia and comes with more strangeness but I did not know that myself, for most of my life. It's not a "condition" but just differently wired senses, a different kind of perception but also nothing special really (1 out of 10) and has nothing to do with intelligence. That means if people speak to me, I "see" their color of voice. People like me were invited to a study that and were offered/asked for help developing a haptic device for rehabilitating stroke victims. Sadly greed is a thing there too, had to decline because of the distances involved and the company expected me to cover these costs myself and that was a deal breaker. It was about a ball that has sensors inside and stroke victims would manipulate it and get a feedback. And that feedback, the type was thought to help them. Because stroke victims loose most of these connections that people like me have too much. So the idea was we could maybe find ways to help such victims. That was three years ago and never heard anything about that project anymore sadly.
But I drift off, also a quality of mine :D
My nickname is TDDA, it stands for ThatDamnDuckAgain, an insider joke on some ducks that broke out one day somewhere, kept seeing ducks for days everywhere and one didn't stop turning up at my patio. And I had to pick a username. Here I just chose the short form, because there is no cursing and many just call me TDDA or Ducky anyways.
I live in South Germany, come from a family where learning was upheld and encouraged and therefore also like to share knowledge. I am proud of my heritage but not the history of my country. It is tradition to learn the old way of writing and German language. Therefor I may be useful in decipher old texts that go way beyond 1800 written in a different set of letters all together. My interest in language and meaning of words is strong. Partly because my mother was following old Germanic-Pagan teachings, that I found myself naturally be drawn towards more and more. I could never ask her about it as my parents died before I was old enough to understand what she was doing. It has all the elements I always thought life would make most sense with, just that I read about them in those old writings afterwards what I always felt was true. You won't get me to argue for or against my or your faith. I always appreciate a respectful non dogmatic exchange of opinion and share of viewpoint though.
For a living, I build engines for race cars upwards past 500HP. BMW inline six cylinder and the Nissan RB26/28/30 series "Skylines" mostly. Drove some endurance and hill climb races myself but never made 1st. Loosers always say, they are in for the fun, but I was in for the adrenaline because I am addicted to it. I am very open about that. I also work part-time for a German sports car manufacturer as a race track instructor on the Nordschleife, to introduce the customers to their cars and show them how to handle the track. So it get my kick there.
Before I finished my master in motor vehicle engineering, I worked as a data analyst in grid management. Mostly PV power plant optimization, so I have some technical understanding about grid management and physics too. Beside that, I love all things I can do with my hands. Sewing, cooking and baking, lately drawing. Many more things that would just bloat this long post further more.
Oh one more thing though. I am used to people around me knowing that I can see tones and music as color and symbol flashes, so I tell you all straight forward. It's called synesthesia and comes with more strangeness but I did not know that myself, for most of my life. It's not a "condition" but just differently wired senses, a different kind of perception but also nothing special really (1 out of 10) and has nothing to do with intelligence. That means if people speak to me, I "see" their color of voice. People like me were invited to a study that and were offered/asked for help developing a haptic device for rehabilitating stroke victims. Sadly greed is a thing there too, had to decline because of the distances involved and the company expected me to cover these costs myself and that was a deal breaker. It was about a ball that has sensors inside and stroke victims would manipulate it and get a feedback. And that feedback, the type was thought to help them. Because stroke victims loose most of these connections that people like me have too much. So the idea was we could maybe find ways to help such victims. That was three years ago and never heard anything about that project anymore sadly.
But I drift off, also a quality of mine :D