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RobC


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As it's been a very long time since I joined the board, I thought I should post an intro.


I'm a 37- year old bloke, living and working in North London: Stoke Newington, whose claims to fame are Daniel Defoe, Edgar Allen Poe, the graves of the Salvation Army's founders and numerous Meedja- types, who make for a quite villagey feel, and loads of local media... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoke_Newington.


I live here with my wife & our cats. No kids - not for the want of trying!


I've been following tennis (well, Wimbledon) for as long as I can remember: my Mum used to have it on the TV and radio when I was a kid - I think I remember Virginia Wade winning wimbles, and I certainly remember Borg, McEnroe & Connors.. I started following it closely in 2001- 2002, when I started working a lot from home, and found a gap in my life where the cricket scores should have been: Tennis turned out to be a great Internet sport: you can enjoy and follow it by checking on scores and results and stats, and you don't need to watch it.


My other big sports are: cricket, cycling (well the Tour de France anyway) and sailing (the round the world races) - all great internet sports. I played rugby pretty seriously until my early 20s, when I retired after my second knee operation, and I'll also watch and listen to football. My main sport now is sailing, where I regularly crew a 37 ft yacht called Habanero: www.teamhabanero.co.uk


I followed Tim's progress closely for those years, and picked up on the fact that we had a junior who was in the final of the US Open, so started to follow Andy's results where I could. I think it was the San Jose run that drove me to this site (via Wikipedia).


As you can tell, I enjoy working out the stats, and used to try to work out what Tim's ranking points should be (with great difficulty), so finding the Madelaine/GC77/Imoen/Niall/Michael rankings threads was a godsend. Especially when I worked out what GC77's spreadsheet was all about! Now it's generally a wonderful excuse for avoiding doing the work that I should be doing: there were weeks in 2006, when I lost most of Sunday or most of Monday putting the tables together. Now, I think the process is getting more streamlined, so I 'll have to find different ways of wasting my time.


I seem to have the "Hexxagon" game cracked: with nine of the top ten scores, including the one perfect 58 - and I'll get Akhenaten off that list eventually.


Finally, what do I do for a job - well, I spent the 90's & 2000-2001 working in Telecoms (for BT & AT&T) and the Internet (for AOL), then I went off to business school for two years.


Since doing my MBA, I've been working on a couple of startup businesses. One's in Telecoms, where I'm helping a friend to raise money to be invested in a new company. The other has taken up most of my time for the past two years, and it's a web site/ringtones business.


There, Intro over - it's great to meet you all!


 


 



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Salmon


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Good to know so much about you, Rob.
You have followed tennis for really long, it seems.


The Habanero isn't the hottest naturally growing chilli out there. That award goes to Naga Jolokia (or Tezpur Mirch) from India, which often has Scoville ratings of higher than 1,000,000.
Sorry, I'm a saddo who spends his time collecting such useless stuff.

Anyways, "Naga Jolokia" wouldn't be a good name for a 37 ft yacht.


Sailing seems really tough to me. Best of luck for all your future races.

-- Edited by Greenleaf at 20:04, 2006-12-12

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Hi Rob! (that's a wave hello not goodbye).


Welcome to the site, I hope you post regularly and become a valued member of the community. Glad you like the rankings threads, feel free to help out with posting anytime you can.


I'm sure I'll be seeing you around the board, enjoy!




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I'll let the guys know that we're not the hottest chilli in town.


& thanks Bethan,  I might just post something once in a while....maybe on the rankings threads?



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Greenleaf wrote:


Sailing seems really tough to me. Best of luck for all your future races.

-- Edited by Greenleaf at 20:04, 2006-12-12


Thanks - we won on Sunday - by a couple of minutes - we were horribly late getting to the start, but somehow managed to be first ovber the line, and then held it all the way. Had a great run into the finish, neck and neck witha  faster boat, but took the line about a length ahead. Very exciting!


I wouldn't call it tough: it's very much a team sport, and one where you're always learning how to do it better, so you can have a great time in your first race in a crew, and still be interested after many long years....



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Haha. You'll know better, really.

I really didn't know that you needed that many people! Ten people are quite a lot.


And love your comment there, "Self-made man".

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We'll only sail with a maximum of nine on the boat - and then one is basically just there as "intelligent ballast" - i.e. moving to the best side of the boat depending on how we're sailing.  Offshore, we can only take eight, as that's how many the liferaft holds.


It's a big boat, so sailing it with less than maybe five gets very difficult, and you need six or seven to do the manoeuvres well.



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