Mike7599: well after browsing through edwardcapriolo.com I realized that do we, the viewers, actually know the REAL Edward Capriolo!? I think not. you need an "about me" section! maybe u can call it "a moment.... with ed"
ZZZAPOZZZ: Yea that's a good idea
Mike7599: QUOTE ME ON THAT!

It is a good idea, but where do I start? What Do I talk about and how lame am I going to make myself sound? I am going to break it down into sections and add to it as I go on.

My Major- Computer Science

Let me tell you how I ended up in computer science. When I was registering for classes at Westchester I had to check a box for MAJOR. So I checked computer science. I honestly had no plan until the second I filled out my registration, but here I am. Into my forth semester.

What get me through the bad days.

Basketball! I am not going to tell you that my life is one big disaster, I made the best of it. I did have my down times, but I always had basketball. My favorite b-ball player is John Starks. I got to shake his hand. I never get to see him play anymore. (is he still playing?) So now my favorite active player is Jason Williams, so the only games I check out when I get a chance is Sacramento.

My Hair-

Well something about me, I really do not mind looking scruffy at all. At times I go way to long between haircuts. When I was in about 4th grade my hair was the longest it had ever been. One day in class I decided to stick a pencil in my hair and start twirling it around. It got stuck. My "friends", a bunch of shithead kids, from ST. Pius X school (more on the school later) told me it looked like " A turret machine gun as my teacher tried to twist it out of my hair "

My car-

I worked for about 5 summer of my life, and saved up for my first car. It was a Honda civic. We got a good deal on it. Jealous people keyed it, and dented the hood. Everyone used to be all nice to me because they wanted rides home in high school. Do not let people use you for your car.

Anyway one day someone cut me off and I was forced into the huge cement statue. Let me tell you air bags save lives man. Anyway my car was totaled. So I got used to taking the bus.

The bus-

Actually if you have never taken the bus you are missing out. My favorite bus is the 40 bus. I think of an Ol'English 40 ounce every time I get on the bus. I always try to make a "40 bus rap" it never sounds that good, but try to freestyle with me sometime. I am not that bad at it

About rap-

I HATE IT. I do not want to hear about some guy and all the crack he sells, people he kills, and "bitches he hits" I mean every since rap song is the same. They may sound slightly different, but they are all like:

    Sell my crack
    Kill some people
    Hit that bitch

lol.

My friend Pat and I often role down south Lexington blasting classical music from his bmw as payback, for all that loud rap, from beat up cars with a loud mufflers.

Nintendo

Of my god I used to play a lot of Nintendo, and watch a lot of TV. When my father used to come home and he used to say to me, "THAT TV BETTER BE OFF AND YOUR HOMEWORK BETTER BE DONE". hehe At least he was trying to motivate me. Anyway not even my 10 lbd. dog Guile was scared when my dad raised his voice :) Actually he never raised his voice at the dog. He loved it way to much.

(as you can see in this picture I have no carpet, My crazy house is about half completed. Its been that way for half a decade. My family tricked me into taking out my carpet telling me they were going to get me a new one. It was about 4 years and I decided to get one myself)

About Guile

Yes I did name my dog after the guy in street fighter. What can I say? I loved video games and I of all the street fighter characters Guile was the coolest looking. His skills sucked though. Eventually I got good with Ken. I just loved his wild hurricane kick to Sho-Ryu-Ken combos. Ken was wild, I liked that in him.

Martial arts

I did end up taking karate, Tae Kwon Do to be precise. Honestly it had nothing to do with street fighter. I was a Bo-Dan in Tae Kwon do, and they were just basically taking peoples money and giving them black belts. I mean heck, all you have to do to make it to the Olympics is win one event! anywhere! then you are eligible. 

My Grand Master is now heading some Olympic team. He was always in a suit. I think I saw him in uniform about twice. I am quite sure he could kick anyone's ass though. Its just that my Karate school was not going to make you into a grand master.

Anime

Ironically a geocities page can be in up to three categories. One of mine is RPG the other is Anime. Certain anime movies are pretty damn cool. I really have not seen that many good ones, but a friend and I plan to make one day. I have the story boards in one of my notebooks somewhere. Some of the movies like Ninja Scroll are awesome. 

My notebooks

I am always coming up with ideas. Which is cool except for the fact that my creation time is always math class. What can I say? I have about 4 notebook filled with cool ideas of mine. Math class bores me to death. I never really had an outlet for my ideas until I started this site. 

My site /Apo-Net/EdwardCapriolo.com

Well for a site that cost nothing except my time, I have to say that my site is well worth its. I started writing html when 2.0 was the standard. The most advanced thing 2.0 has was image maps. The internet was so bland back them. CGI was not even that big yet. Every web page was an ugly looking table. Now today the web sites are so incredible. If you could only see a web site from 7 years ago and compare it to a site of today. It really has become such an incredible art form.

I am not really fond of the phrase Apo-Net, I like Apo-Networks a little bit better. I do not know if I could ever start a company named that. When register a true domain I just might register two of my old hacking names. I know they are not taken so I am not going to tell anyone about them. Sorry.

My middle name is Guy

Yes that is right my middle name is Guy. I like it let me mention this funny name thing. Turo calls me Edbert ManGoat. Y? Because Capriolo means goat in most languages including English. Guy is a name for a man. That is kinda cool. Well my point is that if you don't say your middle name with confidence people will naturally try to poke fun at u. I am always confident when saying my middle name.

Computer Science

You have seen that their are some people that live and breath and eat computers. Are most of them NERDS? I am. Yes I am a computer Nerd. If you are into computers you know what the deal is. I mean if a friend wants to hang out, I am not going to sit on my computer and tell him/her I am too busy. But a lot of the time is spent on computers. You can not really keep me away from a computer. Luckily I can do other stuff like play basketball and bowling.

Bowling-

I have not been bowling in about 4 years. Ever since my father left (talk about him later) My father was so into bowling. I mean he could have let me play other sports. Every Saturday during the school year for about 12 years it was bowling bowling bowling 

"You cant play Basketball you have to bowl"
"You cant play Baseball you have to bowl"
"You cant play Soccer you have to bowl"

I will play anything from basketball to football to Frisbee to hackisack. And I have a cool dart board in my room that is great for killing time.

Ok what is the deal about St. Pius?

St Pius is a little Catholic school in Scarsdale. It is where I went to school. That school was crap. One of my teachers one time gave a test. Everyone did bad in it, except me. So we removed the questions that everyone got wrong. Thus lowering my grade. I was suspended for a day for Play-fighting. My 8th grade class had about 20 kids in it and I am only in the yearbook like 2 times. And its a pretty big yearbook.

The sad thing is that my mother, aunt, uncle all went to this school. You think that I would get some special advantages because they were alumni or something. 

In fact they even went as far as to send me to summer school twice. I mean no one went to summer school. The kids in my summer school were so hubba they could barely read. The class was only 5 kids and two of us could read. I have never been so insulted.

A kid in my class John was failing summer school. So his mother came in and beat the crap out of him in front of a nun. Those crazy nuns. Anyway I got the last laugh. At the award ceremonies the head of the church gave me and the other kid that I had to go to summer school with Darron awards for being long standing alter boys.  It felt pretty good. If it was up to those friken nuns they would have suspended me through the award ceremony. Just so I could not receive the thing. God when they used to go over the girls homework my teachers pen would fly right through it, but mine she went over with a fine tooth comb.

So after going to catholic school  I went to Stepinach. Not a bad place really. They used to give me detentions for being late all the time. And the sad part was I lived the closest to the school. Most people came from the Bronx and stuff to go to it. Of course they were not so sharp either because they used to mark my lates as absents. The only kid who lived closer to me was late one time. He lived right across the street. He slipped down the grassy hill as he was going to school. He got all dirty and went home to change.

Italy

SO anyway I was failing at Stepinach and they wanted me to go to summer school. enough of that crap I was going to Italy. Yes I had a trip already planned out to go to Italy and nothing was going to get in my way. Italy is a very cool place, The busses are free! The trip was so awesome I can not even begin to describe it. The Italian dance clubs were whack though.

CLUBS-

I don't dance that is all there is to that

Back to Italy

Honestly it really is the most beautiful country in the entire world. They think America is the coolest place. They like it much more then we do actually. You can give the kids one dollar bills and they know they are not worth anything, but the idea of American money is so cool to them. 

Also the churches in Italy are the most incredible buildings you have ever seen. I have been to a lot of museams and been bored out of my mind. But those churches with their solid gold steeples, have incredible art work. They have this these paintings in the Vatican that are like 20 ft x 20 ft but they are actually not paintings, they are incredible frescos made of tiny painted squares half the size of your pinky nail. 

If you have never been outside the US go to italy.

Back to school

So let me tell you about some of the funny stuff that happened after I left Stepinach to go to white plains high. It seems that there are a lot of be be holes in my front windows. One day about 4 years ago I had seen mike running around hunting squirrels with his be be gun. So I confronted him. I scared the living shit out of him I think. But he did not do it. Or so he says :) Sorry Mike.

You see once you are in high school one cool thing happens. If you fail you do not have to go to summer school. You just take that crap all over again next year. So no more summer school!

In high school I took my first programming class that taught GWBASIC I still have my first CLASSIC GW basic program "Break into the pentagon" It used to scare the living crap out of people, because no one knew crap about computers.

The shake thing

Really funny most people have never seen this, but when I think about things in the past I would rather not think about I either slap on the forehead or do this head shaking thing.

Final Fantasy VII

Let me tell you Final fantasy VII was about the coolest game ever made. I know a lot of people do not like RPG games, and I am cool with that I understand. But FF7 had the crazy plot. and I mean the game came on three cds. It had the crazy cut scenes. I beat that game senceless i had two million gill. There is a joke in the beginning of the game where someone asks you if you want to buy the house for 50,000. Well I brought that house. I had every final weapon, every final limit break. I had the Mountain Chocobu, the River Chocobu. The Ocean Chocobu and finally the golden Chocobu. I won the Chocobu championship with him. I also had stratagies for beating the two bonus bosses. I had the final summon spell called Nights of the Round table. It would kill just about anything. I played the game though a second time and I did not run from a single battle. My timer for how long I had been playing stopped at 99:99:60 and I played a long time after that.

FF8 had its moments I really liked the giant Robotic spider but it was nothing compared to 7

Battletech/Mechwarrior

I really got into Mechwarrior II. what a great game. It was the first game I ever played online. I had my own level. That got lost when my old hard drive went down. 

That got me into the board game battletech and the novels. The company just wet out of business so no more novels. I have been batting around the idea of writing a couple short stories set in the battletech universe. If you have ever wandered onto the APEX ltd part of my site now you have some clue as to what it is about

Humanoids 

Well I got into battletech and a friend Rithas came up with the idea for a home made RPG. Its called Humanoids. The rules are not really that higher level neither were the scenarios that we created, but I will tell you what it is a lot of fun. If you have never played a role playing game give it a try sometime. Hell try humanoids, ill even GM the game.

Free space - Shogun- These are the games of the present day. I had a crappy 100 mhz computer for so long and I could not play any of the cool games. Once I got the 800 mhz it was over. is a space combat game with really awesome graphics and good mechwarrior like game play. It so much fun to be fighting in space with these really cool fighters. 

In shogun you command Samurai armies to kill other huge samurai armies. Its so damn cool. Its awesome when these huge 1000 man armies fight it down to the last man.

MY paintball gun

My friend Boris and I got paintball guns, Why so we could shoot each other with them. Paintball guns are cool to say the least. Running around the woods and shooting is a lot of fun. Especially if you are in the woods outside your school W.C.C. It was not cool when I came out that  had like 4 ticks on me, luckily I had my socks rolled up.

My poor family-

People are always laughing or telling me how sad it is or whatever, but my family fights a lot. We are good at it, and sadly we somewhat like it. I do not think I have ever been in an argument with anyone outside my family. Weird . Do not go thinking I am so spoiled angry guy either my family is just so weird and demanding you have to take a stand. My father could not take it. Well he seemed mild mannered to everyone but he could dish it out too. Really though no one could put up with it. I can not say I blame him for leaving. Who wants to hear BS everyday when you can move down to Florida and swim in the ocean.

not that my dad is a bad guy

Actually one of the coolest things is my dad kept a journal on me. since the day I was born. the last thing he wrote about was my incredible ticket

The ticket

Yea I was doing about 85 in a 40 and I was trying to race the guy behind me. That guy was a cop. That was stupid. Well I learned my lesson, kinda my grandfather says that I have a lead foot, but I am not that bad. Most of the time I take my time. Sometimes I do rush a bit. But at least I am not some crazy women that makes a left turn from the middle lane and drives me into a statue.

My favorite drink

My favorite drink is Arizona ginseng honey tea. The plum variety is pretty dope too and the Manderine orange flavor is FLAVA. I had literally about half a gallon this after noon after playing basketball. That is how I can stay up into the night writing this story.

My favorite song.

At the moment its Smooth Criminal. More then anything I like the name.

My 800 number

Yes I have an 800 number so I can call home from a payphone for free. It is so cool. No I am not going to tell it to you.

My favorite candy

Starburst, those little things are so awesome! I am going to run out and buy some now at 2 o'clock in the morning.
(update: I did got out at 2:00 in the morning for them)

MY favorite restaurant

Actually I just used to love Kennedy Friend Chicken. It was like a really cheap KFC. Also if you went down to post road in white plains its kinda on a bad corner. One day we told 3 girls that it was a shirt and Tie restaurant. When we got there they did not want to get out of the car.:) They thought we were crazy to go in.

My physics teacher listened to slim shady

My college physics teacher one day heard about Eminem. And some one bought in a CD of it for him. He loves it ! Its so crazy.

I just learned how to whistle:

Ha I had not whistled in 20 years and then magically I figured it out. Then I taught my friend who likewise had not whistled ever.

I suck at spelling

Yea I can not spell very well. I am learning though working on this site has helped me a lot. Spell Check helps more

I suck at typing

I am trying not to look at the keys right now, but I have to cheat I can not touch type what a shame.

If I had a million dollars what would I do with it

The first thing I would do is get my mother a car so I can get her out of my hair. Then I would go to Kennedy's and get chicken. Then I would go play basketball, and top if off with a game of mechwarrior, go skateboarding then I would go online and make a site update. I would also throw Marvin some loot because I always borrow bus tickets from him.

    Next day I would hire a team to produce my anime movie. take 10,000 and do some day trading. Buy myself this computer stuff:

    NIC vending code- Every nic card has a hexadecimal number built into it 1-F representing 1-16 I would register the ED-ED-ED-ED code even though I will never make NIC cards.

I would get an IP address for a class c network a host computer and I would host my web site myself.

Then I would call everyone I do not like for the "BIG FANCY DINNER" This is the dinner where they are all waiting for me at some fancy restaurant in the city with big glass windows. I pull up in a Ferrari F-40 that's not even street legal. Then I come in and tell all the nuns that I have an urgent business meeting.  So peace out Bioytch!

I would hire a maid. I would stick most in trust funds so no one can kidnap me. Maybe hide out in an Italian Villa for a while.

Thinks I need:

    Microwave
    New Mattress (mine is really lumpy)

The rest, I am not sure what I would do with it. Not yet anyway.

Physically

6'0" more or less anyway
145 too damn thin.
20 Years old
Brown Eyes
Brown Hair

(read the door)

My Secret ability

A used to have this really cool ability where I would always find the hot girls and always magically turn up where they would be. Now a days I have to avoid a lot of people so my abilities goes to waste.

MY summer job

Remember those 5 civic summers I told you about? Well I was working with my grandfather. He is an 82 years old construction worker. Let me tell you this his is still stronger then me. He fell on the table saw one time and got 130 stitches. He was working the next day. 

I had two main jobs in the construction field. One was fetching "vitamins" This is the word my uncle and grandfather used to mean get me some coffee. After about 2 Summers I was a veteran vitamin fetcher and I was promoted to painter.

They would build it, I would paint it. Paint Paint Paint all day long. Paint the fence, paint the house paint the stuff that no one is going to see anyway. paint it to waterproof it. Paint it and then we will go home. I was painting everything for every reason. About 3 1/2 summers into it my grandfather began to realize that he did not have to give me busy work.

That is when I became Mr. Lay the tiles down. It seems I had a skill for laying down floor tiles. (my grandfather did not have enough patients for that stuff. He would rather be hammering something. So I became Mr floor sticker. I also earned the title of Mr cement mixer and Mr. Dont do the work the backwards Jackass way. I also earned titles like Mr. Pull the nails out of these boards.

Now its only a two and a half man operation. There is me, my grandfather and my great uncle. My great uncle is a card. He would get to work so late. He would try to bring vitamins to appease my grandfather. and it worked for a while, but when work ran later then my grandfather liked things got ugly. My Grandfather is pushing around my uncle telling him to "Get off the scafle before I hit you with this 2X4, and clean up the place we are going home. !"

What I do now.

Right now I am an independent contractor. Which means you better watch out because the hit might be on you next. LOL. just kidding it means I am doing whatever work I can get in computers while I look for an awesome job that will pay me hundreds of millions of dollars.

My nicknames

Bonk- This is one of those big head nicknames I aquired over the course of my life
Ed sells Beds- this was a name given to me by a friend who used to have a friend named ed who sold beds
Head Detective- This is what my friend Pat and his mother call me. She does not really know what it means and I am sure not going to tell her
Pagal- It means Crazy in hindi I think
Edwin- Some people call me this to frustrate me
Edbert ManGoat- Turo's nickname for me
Mr Ed- This is what lame people sometimes call me, God is that joke played some 20 odd years ago.
Eddie two times- We got this from Goodfellas. They call me this because I always make typo's and have to do the update Two times, two times.
Apu- This is when people are making fun of Apo they call me Apu like the monkey from Alladin
Edward James Almost- This is what a friends friend used to call me
Edward "Wise" Guy - this was pretty clever my dad gave it to me.

My friends:

Everyone is so upset that I have not mentioned them anywhere in the story. Well this is the story of MY LIFE SO forget you all!

Just Kidding

Well I did not want to just go putting random peoples names on the internet. SO to be put on the list you will have to ask me.

MaMa Dukes- That right me madre. Well she has to go first because she is my mom of course. I did not ask her permission but I do not need to. My mother is always asking me for an email address. I always ask what computer she would check her e-mail from since no one, I mean no one touches my 866 mhz MACHINE.

Friends in order that they asked to be added:

Marvin- pic Marvin is one of those people that is quiet. This semester we decided to take the same calculus class, and Networking. Then all of a sudden he is in my data structures and my unix class too. He is like a shadow. Hah no its just a coincidence the picture was taken after Marvin spent to much time trying to do a program with recursive calls. I made Marvin the Manager of the International site, which he is constructing. (Marvin is Chinese does not mind when we poke fun at him)

Mike- Mike.jpg http://www.rebelskateboarding.com Mike put me onto a this .com thing thus getting me EdwardCapriolo.com. He lives up the street from me so as a result we do a lot of things like skating, installing small office networks, not to mention numerous other classic things. Mike has chosen to take his anger on the world out on my dart board well actually the wall around my dartboard being that he has not hit my dartboard once.

Noelle and Deanna- These are my two cousins. They barely ever get to visit the site because there internet access is blocked. This was done because they go to crazy sites. No just kidding, they are cool cousins, and they are the only people in my family I can talk to who.

Boris- boris.jpg http://geocities.datacellar.net/bormart - Boris is a computer science Major like me. He drives a 78 Honda that looks like the time machine from back to the future. I got to know him because he used to work in the transfer office with me at school. Now he has moved onto being a Tutor for the rookies that do not know the first thing about computers yet are trying to be computer science Majors good luck. Boris often contributes areticals about the differenced between here and Bulgaria and thus he has earned a place on the writing staff

Pat- Patrick has been a good friend of mine since High School. We used to sit in Spanish Class together and Hablamos engles. Actually Pat slept every day in class for about a year. Now a days when we are not doing some form of work we Play Shogun. In fact you can check out our player Bios to see how much but we are kicking online.

The stats for Capriolo Industries

Job 1 the transfer office

Let me tell you about what I do at my job in one line:

That is right nothing! I watch the Desk, and I watch the computer lab. I work at the career and transfer center, my job is I am a Renaissance Man. I practically run the place. Lol just kidding. The transfer center has inspired many stories for the site. Namely the guy looking for a 2 day internship, or the dog wallpaper that got lost. Also when a Fax or phone call comes in I answer it. Thus far I have gotten 3 jobs by working at the transfer center. One was to make a Golf Site. It got me my part time Job as an independant contractor, and a 2nd site.

The calculus saga

This is how bad I am at calculace. I just learned that the correct spelling is calculus and I have bee taking it for 4 semesters. one day I was in class for two hours and did not understand a thing that was going on. Finally at the 2 1/2 hour mark it started to make some sense. 

In conclusion I really have to say that working on the site has been a blast. I think the about me section is about wrapped up. Thanks for reading.

Edward Guy Capriolo
President
Beta Tester
Lead Programmer
Writer
Site Manager
Fight Choreographer
of Edward Capriolo.com

February 10th 2002 Update:

New nick names:
The Cisco Kid ( I got the CCNA)

Slim Shady- I actually wrote the lyrics to my Physics teachers rendition of Slim Shady Check it out
Ill be 21 in two days scary huh

I have gotten into playing guitar and am skilled at playing the national anthem

December 29 2002 Update:

Pace

I have completed my first semester at Pace University. This is what I got

Datastructures II        A
Computer Design       A
Bio                            C+
History                       B
English                        ? 

So it looks like I am going fall short of the deans list for the second time. Pace is a great school/country club. I only say that because I spent most of the time in the new gym building lifting weights and playing bascketball.

That is right I am lifting weights

Yea for a long time I was sneaking into Balleys total fitness. Finally they caught me so I had to sign up. Since then I have stopped going to balleys and I use the Pace gym. One of the busiest days of the entire year I was doing curls. When the gym is noisy I lose concentration. This happened to me and it caused me to drop all the weights I was curling and bring and instant silence to the gym. It was quite for a good two seconds until some girl saved me by saying, " Don't worry I don't think anyone heard it." 

Compare my old stats to me new stats

Physically

5'11" No I did not shrink, but I have to go the chiropractor. Once my back is aligned I will once again be 6'0"
165 on a good day. a 20 pound improvement since the old stats!
21 Years old (22 in Feb)
Brown Eyes 
Brown Hair