User:CaptainVindaloo

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Hey! I'm CaptainVindaloo. Don't ask about the name, I'd been playing a lot of Armed and Dangerous a few years ago.

Things I work on







 * My off-wiki University work (hence my recent low activity).
 * SWAT 3: Close Quarters Battle - trying to polish it up a bit, possibly as far as featured status.
 * Other video game articles I'm interested in.
 * Cars, particularly my favourites, MINI and Ferrari.
 * I keep an eye on Sussex (chicken), Marans and Rhode Island Red, the breeds some of my old pet hens.
 * Occasional photography and illustration.
 * You may even catch me making copyedits (spelling, grammar, etc.) to any article I find myself reading.
 * RC patrol.

Insane rantings
This week's interesting computer problem: GeForce number 4 just burned out. This, Nvidia, is why you don't give fabrication contracts to people who insist on holding the negotiations in underground car parks at midnight and pay you in used notes in a briefcase. Hopefully ATI don't pull the same stupidity...

Selected odd vandalism

 * Te and Levi Sion
 * Moo!
 * cyprus' highest point is 0m
 * I wish my hens were this good!
 * My 3000th edit - apparently, Tiger Woods is an 18 foot, 97 year old Russian living in Iraq

Selected quotes

 * "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein


 * "Veni. Vidi. Vici.", "I came. I saw. I conquered." - Julius Caesar


 * "To jaw-jaw is better than to war-war." - Winston Churchill


 * "If you pretend to be good the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism." - Oscar Wilde


 * "You look sharper than a page of Oscar Wilde witticisms rolled into a point, dipped in lemon juice, and stabbed into somebody's eye." - Ace Rimmer, addressing the Cat, Red Dwarf


 * "Error no. 101, no keyboard connected. Press any key to continue." - Microsoft Windows


 * "A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic." - Josef Stalin


 * "GeForce 8800 GTX: Scarface–corruption during the game." - nVidia ForceWare graphics driver release 162.22 release notes, page 13.


 * "The first step on the path to enlightenment is to admit that you are ignorant" - Darth Revan, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic