How old were you when you started reading the series?

[Aurora]

Actually, I lied. RIGHT NOW, I'm actually 13, but I'll be 14 in december, so I thought, eh, what the heck. I'll say I'm 14. Yeah. I'm honoured, Mich, that you thought I was older than you... I still feel young... all you older and smarter people...
I think I'll go to the library and fing Le Morte D'arthur now... The late middle english version...so I can feel smart again...

Aurora the Phoenix

Dang and I thought I was the youngest well actually I am the youngest one to post you'll be 14 before me I'll be 14 in March.

*Nita*

Not old enough to love as yet-but old enough to die indeed.
--DD Deep Wizardry

I'm 25 (well at least until Thursday) and I would also have pegged many of the poeple here as being older then they are.

I enjoy the Young Wizards as much now as I did when SYWTBAW first came out, when I was 8.
Only difference is that then they were new and wonderous, and now they're familiar and wonderful.

There is no other wisdom, and no other hope for us, but that we grow wise
- Surak of Vulcan

[Polly6]

I'm 16, I shall not sue anyone for liking cartoons I will be imature forever (it's so much more fun)
and cartoons rock the proverbial socks!

Wow, I think I spelled proverbial right it be a mirical!!!!!!!!!

[Kaatje]

Chiming in at 26 years old. Still regularly peruse the young-adult section--and I scoff at the notion that anyone can be too "old" to read children's books. As I've said before, literature is literature, no matter what age group it's meant for.

[worlebird]

Well, Worlebird, I suggest we become friends now. (I shouldn't be pestering my senior, anyway. [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_razz.gif[/img])
I hereby extend to you the e-olive branch. (Yes, all the way to Idaho!)

Well, I had hoped we already could be friends [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif[/img] Nonetheless, I accept your offer of friendship. Even if you don't check your posts for grammatical errors. I'm mocking you again, only now, it is a friendly-type mocking between friends who mock.

And, just because we seem to be getting all "getting to know you"-like here...

(I'm also a Libra, blood type O positive, favorite color blue, prefer cats, am a zoologist, have a posty-note obsession, favorite artist is Van Gogh, I hate winter, am a compulsive door-closer, and I love rock and roll.)

I think I'm a cancer (I've never paid much attention to astrology), I don't know my blood-type, dislike pets in general, am a software engineer, lose most of the post-it notes I ever write, favorite artist is Ralph McQuarrie, winter's not so bad if you have snow tires and lots of hot cocoa mix, don't think I am compulsive about anything, and love music of many types, including rock-and-roll.

Whew!

Oh, and Mad King Soup said:

...and politley asking computers to do things in C++.

In my philosophy, I don't politely ask computers to do anything. They obey my every whim and give me the respect I so greatly deserve from them or I reformat their sorry drives post-haste. [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif[/img]

Worlebird
------------------------------------
At the beginning of the week, we sealed ten BSD programmers into a computer room with a single distribution of BSD Unix. Upon opening the room after seven days, we found all ten programmers dead, clutching each others' throats, and thirteen new flavors of BSD.

[Aurora]

Your computers OBEY you??? mine don't...they don't respect me. *glares at computer screen*

And as we're getting to know each other...
I'm a sagattarius, don't know my blood type, like cats, favourite colours blue, green and violet, a student(glares at pile of hw on the desk), likes history, and reading, and am an obsessive writer. I'm a martial artist (brown belt trained in use of bo, sai and tonfa...) and obsessed with being perfect... (high grades, straight As, the whole deal).

Aurora the Phoenix

[squashlittle]

Well, Khendon's got me beat - I thought I'd be the oldest, sitting here at age 30.

I've been reading YA literature for a long time - since before I actually was a "young adult", to be perfectly honest.

Also, since I teach intermediate elementary kids, I joke that I still read them for "legitimate research purposes," to explain why I'm so often in that section of the library/bookstore. As I get older though, I care less about what anybody thinks!
[img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif[/img]

Squash

[EWizard11]

Um, Nita, you're not the youngest. I'm only 12. Worried to post this before because it's that thing where people judge you by your age and consequently listen to nothing you have to say.

*Ella*

[Khendon]

Originally posted by EWizard11:
Um, Nita, you're not the youngest. I'm only 12. Worried to post this before because it's that thing where people judge you by your age and consequently listen to nothing you have to say.

*Ella*

EWizard - you don't have to worry about that in these forums. Everybody's opinion here matters - no matter what their age is.

The fact that DD's books appeal to individuals of all ages - from pre-teens to old codgers - is a credit to her skills as a writer.

So no need to worry about being discounted.

Khendon

[EWizard11]

Thanks. [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif[/img] [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif[/img]

*Ella*

Originally posted by worlebird:
In my philosophy, I don't politely ask computers to do anything. They obey my every whim and give me the respect I so greatly deserve from them or I reformat their sorry drives post-haste. [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif[/img]

I wish I could do that... however when your job is to maintain a system that has evolved over the last seven years to do something it was never originally intended to do, incoporating two third party communication layers both of which should've been retired or upgraded long ago, you'll find that sometimes asking the program to work is really all you can do!

Oh, and Ella, I'm sure that most people here are smart enough to decide whether someone's worth listening to based on what they say, rather than their age.

[worlebird]

I wish I could do that... however when your job is to maintain a system that has evolved over the last seven years to do something it was never originally intended to do, incoporating two third party communication layers both of which should've been retired or upgraded long ago, you'll find that sometimes asking the program to work is really all you can do!

Ah, yes. Well, you're right, you don't often have the luxury of capital punishment at work (capitol punishment of a computer, would that be digicide? ). I have had the same experience. In fact, my current assignment is to completely replace just such a system. Lucky me. [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif[/img]

Worlebird
------------------------------------
At the beginning of the week, we sealed ten BSD programmers into a computer room with a single distribution of BSD Unix. Upon opening the room after seven days, we found all ten programmers dead, clutching each others' throats, and thirteen new flavors of BSD.

[Rysade]

No, I think Digicide would be when you cut off someone's finger or toe.

Yikes, sitting here trying to think of something else to put on this post. Can't think of a thing. I do and try everything, and only a little. I'm a gamer, but a moderate one. A partier, but a small one. I like music, but all types. I read a lot, but less than I did. I'm in college for computers, but all I can do is think about reading and writing, so I don't know what I'll be doing 10 years down the road, and I dont even know what I want to do 10 years down the road. I do know one thing though. I don't like to work. If finding things out were a job I could do for pay, that would be my job. Learning is all I'm exceptional at, and that doesnt seem to get a person very far. Hey, maybe I'm just a 'confused teenager' or something. Confusion just took a lot longer to hit me than it did anybody else, that's all.

Funny, I always thought I didn't have it all figured out. I knew

[Aurora]

No, Rysade...the last paragraph did NOT make sense....not to me, anyway. And we all know that I am crazy and stupid...

odd thing about school...How come they laugh at you whether you're smart or stupid? It makes no sense...

Aurora the Phoenix