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| User: | smarier (724671) 
Fandom is a way of life
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| Name: | Shawn Marier |
| Website: | http://www.myspace.com/smarier |
| Location: | Bellevue, Washington, United States |
| Birthdate: | 10-28 |
| Bio: | Lets see a little about me. In my 40s, Married, 1 child, Software Engineer, DJ, and former Chairman of the largest SciFi convention in Washington state.
I'm a third generation native of Washington state.
Got into computers in the late 70s when I was still a youngster. Ran a SciFi related BBS in the early 80s. Started using the internet in 1987 and I'm still addicted.
Went to Roosevelt HS, which is were I got involved with the major hobby in my life: fandom.
Fandom has shaped my life since then. It was because of a Vikingcon I decided to go to WWU instead of the UW. I met most of my current friends through the different conventions I have attended over the years. I even meet my Wife through a mutual friend in fandom.
To pay the bills, I work as an unix software engineer. Started out at DEC, which got bought by Compaq, and then was bought by HP. So have worked for three companies and have never had to change buildings. Currently working on a Virtual Machine product.
To pass the time away I help organize SciFi conventions. I sit on the board of directors for SWOC which has sponsored multiple conventions in the Northwest including 3 past westercons and the 2005 NASFiC. If that wasn't enough I have been Chairman of Norwescon 3 times; which is a 3,000 person convention held every Easter weekend.
Other hobbies include DJing dances, collecting comics and playing computer games (City of Heroes and Hellgate London are my current addiction). |
| Interests: | 85: anime, babylon5, bellevue, books, city of heroes, city of villains, coffee, comic books, comics, computer games, computers, con going, con running, cons, conventions, csi, dancing, dec, democrats, directv, dj, djing, doctor who, dvd, fandom, fans, farscape, fen, goth, gothic, hard sf, heinlein, hellgate, hellgate london, hp, las vegas, margaritas, mariners, megatoyko, mmorpg, movies, music, neil gaiman, norwescon, nwc, nwsfs, orycon, otaku, rifts, rpg, rustycon, sakuracon, sci fi conventions, sci-fi, sci-fi cons, sci-fi conventions, science, science fiction, science fiction conventions, science fiction fandom, scifi, seahawks, seattle, sf, sf cons, sf conventions, sf fandom, smof, smofing, techno, tequila, tivo, trigun, tru64, tv, unix, vegas, video games, video poker, vikingcon, washington, westercon, worldcon, wwe, wwu |
| Schools: | Roosevelt High School - Seattle, WA (1981 - 1985)
Western Washington University - Bellingham, WA (1988 - 1991)
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| Friends: |  | 122: | 17345, activegnome, airlinepilot, apostle, avt_tor, babyclark, beki, black_tam, catjuggling, celedraug, cfoulger, cheriezel, cheryl_f, cheshire42, cithra, cleothyla, clfoulger, corwynofamber, cottonblue, crazedcamel, cryfordawn, cyberangel_, cynan_poly, dangerpuddle, darrius26, demofraily, divasheila, dizzy1, dpawtows, elfs, epawtows, errhead, fixerbard, fizh, freeamazon, freyaschild, gene_007, geojlc, girljim, grace_batmonkey, grahd, gypsiequeen, ivolucien, jacqueline1776, jeanineers, jeffreycornish, jenkitty, jessica_charta, johnco57, jugglebird, julzerator, jwyldragon, kamiilyaan, kaneda_khan, kendaer, kevin_standlee, khhtiger, kmarier, lasirenadolce, lisakit, littleone66, lorscara, magentabee, marahsk, mcjulie, mcjuliek, memegarden, mikec1157, missykender, mondokj, msadie, mspurplepearl, murphysraven, nemoblack, nesher, noiseinmyhead, officialpibgorn, one2ten, overduebill, patgund, paulcarp, pulpguy, racitrack, reeeuh, resqdog51, retcon, rexfelis, sablescorpian, samemaha, saphyre_blue, scott_t_s, sdrichards, shauna_lee, sheyeblaze, sirjerms, sirriamnis, smarier, solarbird, spitkitten, ssandv, staxxy, sylvan, tabbifli, talek, tealynx, technoshaman, the_kender, therobfather, thirdworld, tigermeep, toffereriksen, tracy_k_69, tugger, tw_babiez, usal_muaddib, verysmallcat, vordeth, wendy_lady, westwindeditor, woadwarrior, xthread, ypawtows |  | 30: | biohazard_party, cascadia_con, championsonline, city_of_heroes, cityofvillains, con_central, dethcon, fandom_counts, go_pods, hellgate_london, impstar, laconiv, lj_2008, lj_maintenance, lj_policy, merchants_deva, miskatonic_u, news, norwescon, nwsfs, paidmembers, rustycon, sakuracon, seatowndeviants, seattlecats, steamcon, timebinding, valhallacon, westercons, worldcons |  | 1: | nwc_announce |
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| Mutual Friends: | 98: 17345, activegnome, airlinepilot, avt_tor, beki, celedraug, cheriezel, cheryl_f, cheshire42, cithra, cleothyla, clfoulger, corwynofamber, cottonblue, crazedcamel, cryfordawn, cynan_poly, dangerpuddle, divasheila, dizzy1, dpawtows, epawtows, errhead, fixerbard, fizh, freeamazon, freyaschild, gene_007, geojlc, girljim, grace_batmonkey, grahd, gypsiequeen, ivolucien, jeanineers, jeffreycornish, jenkitty, jessica_charta, johnco57, jugglebird, julzerator, jwyldragon, kamiilyaan, kaneda_khan, kendaer, kevin_standlee, khhtiger, kmarier, lasirenadolce, lisakit, littleone66, magentabee, marahsk, mcjulie, memegarden, mikec1157, missykender, msadie, mspurplepearl, nemoblack, nesher, noiseinmyhead, overduebill, paulcarp, pulpguy, racitrack, reeeuh, resqdog51, rexfelis, samemaha, saphyre_blue, scott_t_s, sdrichards, shauna_lee, sheyeblaze, sirjerms, smarier, solarbird, spitkitten, ssandv, staxxy, sylvan, tabbifli, talek, tealynx, the_kender, therobfather, thirdworld, tigermeep, tracy_k_69, tugger, usal_muaddib, verysmallcat, vordeth, wendy_lady, woadwarrior, xthread, ypawtows |
| Member of: | 21: cascadia_con, championsonline, city_of_heroes, cityofvillains, con_central, fandom_counts, go_pods, hellgate_london, laconiv, lj_2008, lj_policy, norwescon, nwsfs, paidmembers, rustycon, sakuracon, seatowndeviants, steamcon, valhallacon, westercons, worldcons |
| Account type: | Permanent Account |
