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biography
⤑ Daniel Armstrong Born 29 August, 1980, to an affluent family in Denver. Colorado. He was the third child of five, with two younger sisters, and an older brother and sister. Father: Jacob, Aeronautics Engineering Manager with Lockheed Martin. Retired. Mother: Sonya (nee Lancaster), Senior Program Manager, Propulsion Systems, Lockheed Martin. Retired.
⤑ Childhood Daniel had a fairly typical upper middle class upbringing, with mandatory little league where he was exiled to right field. He was relatively healthy, though he suffered from minor ailments: suffered from asthma, various seasonal allergies, needed glasses at an early age, and was very academics-oriented and reserved, which made him a bit of an outsider. His grade school life revolved around scholastic book club, science fairs, mathletics, and verbal abuse. In middle school, he was moved to Kent Denver School. Daniel was a gifted student with an affinity for computers and physics. He wasn't particularly involved in any sort of social scene. His focus was still his studies, with computer & video games, unrequited love, and comic collecting rounding out his activities. His senior project, a robotics system designed to select and play the user's desired compact disc from a pre-defined collection caught the attention of several college recruiters. He went on to graduate as Saludatorian of his private school graduating class.
⤑ University Sizeable scholarships to various computer science programs came his way, and Daniel ultimately chose to attend Stanford University. The change of environment to California, and one better equipped to understand and nurture his interests, brought out his social side. His skin cleared up. He got a tan, started exercising, and making friends. Daniel lost his virginity at age twenty-three when a woman, frustrated after months of her flirting being completely ignored (not noticed), pounced on him after a study session in her dorm room. He added a new interest to his list, though it had never really been a priority in his life.
⤑ Career Cisco was the first company Daniel worked for, thanks to an internship he participated in during his junior year. He was brought on as a data security analyist. He got his feet wet improvingdata security solutions for clients. He had an immediate impact on systems performance and had a few patents in filed in his name. Unfortunately, he didn't enjoy the grind of data security and looked for greener pastures in the robotics field. After a long search, Daniel moved to Orange County in 2006 to accept a Robotics and Vision Engineer position at iRobot. He spent four years developing improvements for collision detection and pattern algorithms. In 2009, a friend of a friend turned him on to an opportunity with Google that was right up his alley. He became a founding developer at Google X, working on their autonomous vehicles and Google's Self-Driving Car project. It was a position he maintained until Google's restructuring in late 2015. He applied to be part of the Opportunity Mission as an Information Technology Passenger, focused on automation systems.
⤑ Training Daniel took to mission training very well. He was a positive, motivating force to teams to which he was assigned to work. He specialized in keeping the team's composure in stressful situation, thinking through issues, and encouraging perseverance even through seemingly impossible odds. During downtime, he was eager to organize social events for anyone interested in an attempt to build camaraderie and friendships. But he doesn't consider himself a leader, just someone with a positive mental attitude. Although he was in very good health, his medical records showed he was prone to respiratory issues when he was younger. Daniel was obsessed with his packing and getting as much as he could into his limited baggage allowance.
⤑ Daniel Armstrong Born 29 August, 1980, to an affluent family in Denver. Colorado. He was the third child of five, with two younger sisters, and an older brother and sister. Father: Jacob, Aeronautics Engineering Manager with Lockheed Martin. Retired. Mother: Sonya (nee Lancaster), Senior Program Manager, Propulsion Systems, Lockheed Martin. Retired.
⤑ Childhood Daniel had a fairly typical upper middle class upbringing, with mandatory little league where he was exiled to right field. He was relatively healthy, though he suffered from minor ailments: suffered from asthma, various seasonal allergies, needed glasses at an early age, and was very academics-oriented and reserved, which made him a bit of an outsider. His grade school life revolved around scholastic book club, science fairs, mathletics, and verbal abuse. In middle school, he was moved to Kent Denver School. Daniel was a gifted student with an affinity for computers and physics. He wasn't particularly involved in any sort of social scene. His focus was still his studies, with computer & video games, unrequited love, and comic collecting rounding out his activities. His senior project, a robotics system designed to select and play the user's desired compact disc from a pre-defined collection caught the attention of several college recruiters. He went on to graduate as Saludatorian of his private school graduating class.
⤑ University Sizeable scholarships to various computer science programs came his way, and Daniel ultimately chose to attend Stanford University. The change of environment to California, and one better equipped to understand and nurture his interests, brought out his social side. His skin cleared up. He got a tan, started exercising, and making friends. Daniel lost his virginity at age twenty-three when a woman, frustrated after months of her flirting being completely ignored (not noticed), pounced on him after a study session in her dorm room. He added a new interest to his list, though it had never really been a priority in his life.
⤑ Career Cisco was the first company Daniel worked for, thanks to an internship he participated in during his junior year. He was brought on as a data security analyist. He got his feet wet improvingdata security solutions for clients. He had an immediate impact on systems performance and had a few patents in filed in his name. Unfortunately, he didn't enjoy the grind of data security and looked for greener pastures in the robotics field. After a long search, Daniel moved to Orange County in 2006 to accept a Robotics and Vision Engineer position at iRobot. He spent four years developing improvements for collision detection and pattern algorithms. In 2009, a friend of a friend turned him on to an opportunity with Google that was right up his alley. He became a founding developer at Google X, working on their autonomous vehicles and Google's Self-Driving Car project. It was a position he maintained until Google's restructuring in late 2015. He applied to be part of the Opportunity Mission as an Information Technology Passenger, focused on automation systems.
⤑ Training Daniel took to mission training very well. He was a positive, motivating force to teams to which he was assigned to work. He specialized in keeping the team's composure in stressful situation, thinking through issues, and encouraging perseverance even through seemingly impossible odds. During downtime, he was eager to organize social events for anyone interested in an attempt to build camaraderie and friendships. But he doesn't consider himself a leader, just someone with a positive mental attitude. Although he was in very good health, his medical records showed he was prone to respiratory issues when he was younger. Daniel was obsessed with his packing and getting as much as he could into his limited baggage allowance.
inventory
⤑ REI GrandTour 85 contains
⤑ Two laptop computers
⤑ Dell XPS 13 Touch
⤑ CyberPower Fangbook 4 VR Extreme SLI 4000
⤑ Two Kindle ebook readers
⤑ Five 2TB SSD external drives
⤑ Contain movies, TV, music, ebooks, porn
⤑ Two Samsung Galaxy S6 Active smartphones
⤑ Ten microUSB charging/data cables
⤑ Ten Apple Lightning charging/data cables
⤑ One dozen USB flash drives (128gb capacity)
⤑ One small electronics tool kit
⤑ One soldering iron & three spools solder
⤑ One digital multimeter
⤑ One LED headlamp
⤑ Two rolls duct tape
⤑ 27 postcards sent from family and friends
⤑ Three fabric posters
⤑ Star Wars: The Force Awakens
⤑ Game of Thrones: House Targaryen
⤑ Radiohead: OK Computer
⤑ One Loony Labs Pyramid Arcade board game
⤑ Four decks standard playing cards
⤑ Three Funko Pop! collectibles
⤑ Deadpool - Movie version
⤑ Suicide Squad - Harley Quinn
⤑ The Fifth Element - Leeloo
All items are individually packed in airtight containers in the hopes of preserving functionality.
⤑ Duffel Bag contains
⤑ Four plaid flannel long-sleeve shirts
⤑ Two blue oxford shirts
⤑ One three-piece suit, charcoal grey
⤑ Four pairs of slacks, various colors
⤑ Four pairs of jeans
⤑ Two pairs of flat shorts
⤑ Two pairs of athletic shorts
⤑ Twelve pairs of underwear, boxer briefs
⤑ Twelve pairs of socks, six white, six black
⤑ Four pairs of shoes
⤑ Saucony Triumph 2 road-running shoes
⤑ Clark's desert boots, brown
⤑ Van's classic slip-on, charcoal
⤑ Slippers, fuzzy bunny
⤑ One Victorinox Dive Master 500 watch
⤑ Two 550 paracord bracelets
⤑ 100' additional paracord
⤑ One hand-crank flashlight
⤑ One compass
⤑ One flint firestarter
⤑ One hand mirror
⤑ One magnifying glass
⤑ REI GrandTour 85 contains
⤑ Two laptop computers
⤑ Dell XPS 13 Touch
⤑ CyberPower Fangbook 4 VR Extreme SLI 4000
⤑ Two Kindle ebook readers
⤑ Five 2TB SSD external drives
⤑ Contain movies, TV, music, ebooks, porn
⤑ Two Samsung Galaxy S6 Active smartphones
⤑ Ten microUSB charging/data cables
⤑ Ten Apple Lightning charging/data cables
⤑ One dozen USB flash drives (128gb capacity)
⤑ One small electronics tool kit
⤑ One soldering iron & three spools solder
⤑ One digital multimeter
⤑ One LED headlamp
⤑ Two rolls duct tape
⤑ 27 postcards sent from family and friends
⤑ Three fabric posters
⤑ Star Wars: The Force Awakens
⤑ Game of Thrones: House Targaryen
⤑ Radiohead: OK Computer
⤑ One Loony Labs Pyramid Arcade board game
⤑ Four decks standard playing cards
⤑ Three Funko Pop! collectibles
⤑ Deadpool - Movie version
⤑ Suicide Squad - Harley Quinn
⤑ The Fifth Element - Leeloo
All items are individually packed in airtight containers in the hopes of preserving functionality.
⤑ Duffel Bag contains
⤑ Four plaid flannel long-sleeve shirts
⤑ Two blue oxford shirts
⤑ One three-piece suit, charcoal grey
⤑ Four pairs of slacks, various colors
⤑ Four pairs of jeans
⤑ Two pairs of flat shorts
⤑ Two pairs of athletic shorts
⤑ Twelve pairs of underwear, boxer briefs
⤑ Twelve pairs of socks, six white, six black
⤑ Four pairs of shoes
⤑ Saucony Triumph 2 road-running shoes
⤑ Clark's desert boots, brown
⤑ Van's classic slip-on, charcoal
⤑ Slippers, fuzzy bunny
⤑ One Victorinox Dive Master 500 watch
⤑ Two 550 paracord bracelets
⤑ 100' additional paracord
⤑ One hand-crank flashlight
⤑ One compass
⤑ One flint firestarter
⤑ One hand mirror
⤑ One magnifying glass
miscellany
storylines & connections
ooc ⤑ played by: Tom Hiddleston
⤑ 3rd person past. 300-400 word replies
⤑ adult scene or fade to black
⤑ customs for ic communication
⤑ cst writer. availability varies
⤑ ooc contact here
storylines & connections
⤑ STELLADan got close to her during mission training, but her insistence on not distracting preparations with social entanglements put that attraction on hold.
⤑ JULIEA trip to Daytona Beach to celebrate the completion of flight training led to a drunken few minutes of ecstasy and a walk of shame for him the next day. Awkward.
⤑ WILLOne-third of the Triumverate of Power, the name he came up with for their study group in Seattle. Helped him get in shape for final physical exam.
⤑ RINAYOne-third of the Triumverate of Power. Calls her Doc. Helped him get Will ready for final skills exam. Bonded over achieving fitness goals.
⤑ RYANThey knew many of the same people and frequented many of the same establishments back before training, but never actually met. "She kinda looks familiar."
ooc ⤑ played by: Tom Hiddleston
⤑ 3rd person past. 300-400 word replies
⤑ adult scene or fade to black
⤑ customs for ic communication
⤑ cst writer. availability varies
⤑ ooc contact here