Web.burza guys Interview
Jan 5, 11:33 AM by Marko
Interivew with guys at web.burza.hr
(wolverine aka emptyhead, spiderman aka maratz, spawn aka phoenix, lobo aka zytzagoo, punisher aka njava.)
Marko: Hello m8s!
* spiderman: Hi! Swish, swish!
* wolverine: Bundolo!
* spawn: Sup.
* lobo: ya man
* punisher: Ola
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* serious super hero: Hi! Thanks for inviting us!
Marko: For our readers could you tell something about you guys? (year old and other stuff)
* spiderman: male, 29, 173, 73, costume size: XT (extra tight)
* wolverine: male elephant ~(O)-, 28, 185, 100, 31337, 911, 666
* spawn: Twentythree years old male mammal.
* subzero@spawn: mammal is backward of LAMMA….m! lawl!
* lobo: a/s/l is so last 90s… character_name@server-name (+level, +horde or puny alliance)
* punisher: cow, warrior, hairy, big axe
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* serious super hero: We are a bunch of loonies making a living with what we like to think we are good at!
Marko: How are you doing these days?
* spiderman: good, gooood!
* wolverine: Grulj.
* spawn: Not bad, about 20k experience per hour.
* lobo: okedoke
* punisher: handling recent “moron invasion” in as diplomatic fashion as possible
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* serious super hero: We are tremendously lazy these days, recovering from all those insane amounts of food and drinks over the holidays.
Marko: When did you first encounter a keyboard or computer?
* spiderman: when I was 9, I think
* wolverine: o()o, zx-48+ with a fancy tape recorder (made in yugoslavia)
* spawn: Somewhere around 13 years ago. It was a commodore with a damn tape recorder and a tiny screwdriver!<
* lobo: when did i start playing wow?
* punisher: zx spectrum when i was 7. played games till i was 15 (told me dad that i was gonna be programming like mad but never did). started programming when i was 18 (told me family i am playing so the wouldn’t think of me as freak)
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* serious super hero: Most of us started using computers (and encountered keyboards) while we were in primary school. The rest is history.
Marko: What is your favorite art work /website!?
* spiderman: sand castle by my son/lately, it’s the http://maddox.xmission.com/
* wolverine: mi3dot.org / stylegala.com / index.hr / WoW forum / Order of the stick (http://www.giantitp.com/cgi-bin/GiantITP/ootscript) <- daily routine
* spawn: My own! /grin
* lobo: casting flash heal on spawn
* punisher: this is really difficult. next.
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* serious super hero: We are often wasting our time at www.mi3dot.org, www.stylegala.com, www.thefwa.com. Maratz and zyt sometimes read blogs, empty likes to read Oxton’s posts, pho feeds his soul on the EVE forums looking for amazing screen shots from the deep space battles. In general, we like independent art, unique stuff and such. Alternative concepts are not strange to us…
Marko: when you launched web.burza Superhero Edition are you happy with the result of the site?
* spiderman: Yes, yes indeed.
* wolverine: Yea, baby!
* spawn: You bet.
* punisher: aye. still makes me laugh
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*serious super hero: Yes, we are pretty happy. All the great mails we received made us really proud of what we do. As a result, we met some very cool individuals.
Marko: What do you do in your spare time (I do realize that spare time, in this context, is pretty relative)?
* spiderman: Laying on my bed.
* wolverine: Avoiding work.
* spawn: I… umm… spend it any way I want? It’s a long list tbh. =)
* punisher: tough one again. next.
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* serious super hero: Honestly, we don’t have real spare time, but we like video games. A lot.
Marko: Do you have a favorite drink? How much of it do you drink?
* spiderman: Yes. A lot.
* wolverine: Idrinkalotofcoffeecoffeeisgoodgoodcoffeealotofcoffegimmemorecoffee!
* spawn: Coffee. Too much.
* lobo: yes. conjured mineral water, and higher level conjured water… i drink tons, im a caster, we need to replenish our mana often
* punisher: no. i’ll drink pretty much anything besides wine
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*serious super hero: We drink coffee, fruit juices and coke during the day, beer and sometimes wine when we’re off the work.
Marko: Would you care to give us a brief overview of what a typical day is like for web-burza guys?
* spiderman: waking up, taking spiderman’s son to kinder garden, travelling to work, coming to work, having a morning fight with any villain in the kitchen,
* wolverine: waking up (in pain), smootching me lady, travelling to church and waiting for spawn to pick me up with his batmobile, having a morning laugh with anybody in da kitchen, playin quake, yellin at spiderman to guard that f*king red armor, playin World of Warcraft, pizza, pressing random letters on my keyboard, lookin busy, playin some more, dont having an aerobic class, coming back home, smootching me lady, sleeping.
* spawn: Wake up, make coffee, play wow while drinking coffee, pack stuff, find my batmobile, pick up subzero, “lmao” in the kitchen while drinking another coffee, play Quake, laugh at spiderman, make more coffee, work, order junk food, browse, play WoW, go home and play WoW with coffee…
* lobo: open eyes. play wow. or do some work so ppl get off my back and i can go back to playing wow or quake. eat. work some. play again. sleep.
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* serious super hero: Our typical day is really not all that interesting. Just a bunch of ordinary guys working on web sites.
Marko: I am always wondering how people such as yourself go about getting work? How do you do it?
* spiderman: I have no idea! It seems like those bad guys are simply following me every way I go?!!
* spawn: How? No clue…
* wolverine: We have people who are standing on every major street corner, looking innocent and yelling soto-voce: “Websites! CSS! STANDARD COMPLIANT! LENSFLARES! WEBSITES! WEBSITES!”
* lobo: that, and we farm money in wow which pays our bills…
* spawn@lobo: I CHINA!
* punisher: well, ppl usually come to us and say: how much would it cost me to create an interactive site from scratch and when can it be done. that and direct sales subzero mentioned – in your face sales.
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* serious super hero: A great deal of contracts we land come via our references and word of mouth. People seem to like what we do for our clients. The important thing is that we try to answer as many requests as we can while not sacrificing the quality. It’s sometimes hard, but at the end it all pays off.
Marko: Who are some of your biggest influences?
* spiderman: subzero, spawn and lobo, they always talk me over to do stuff which I really shouldn’t
* wolverine@spiderman: How sweet! Now start jumpin’ on your hands and sing croatian folk songs!
* spawn@spiderman: Do it! Do it!
* lobo@spiderman: don’t listen to them!!!1 don’t let them control you… listen here, i’ll tell you what to do…
* punisher: to many to mention here. someone would be left out and i’d feel bad about it
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* serious super hero: We are inspired by the problems we are running into when we build web sites. Also, we like everything that looks/works great, either if it’s from a well known agency or from an anonymous kid. <
Marko: Is your background in design? What was the progression into web development and design like? How did that take place and why?
* spiderman: No. By trade I’m a fitness trainer. The progression was easy, I was bitten by a spider. I don’t know, the spider simply bit me.
* wolverine: No. 31337. I was born with THE GIFT but i ignored it completely and started to draw because its funy and does not require me to do some actual work *wink *wink *nudge *nudge.
* spawn: Got bored of games and started clicking “other” stuff on my puter.
* lobo: dunno. im a developer. always felt that way.
* punisher: i was a bum by vocation. then i became tennis trainer. web development seemed like a logical step forward
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* serious super hero: We like anything digital. And we like to create stuff. Our job enables us to express our creativity through a new media.
Marko: If you where not a designer/programmer what would you be?
* spiderman: Professional spiderman (which is not far from this).
* wolverine: Professional gamer or rocket scientist.
* spawn: Professional liar.
* lobo: fireman
* punisher: no idea really. not that i actually chose to do what i do now.
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* serious super hero: We’d be working with computers, that’s for sure! Or not.
Marko: How do you like our site mcville.net?
* spiderman: no red and blue…
* spawn: Awesome!
* lobo: never seen it to be perfectly frank
* punisher: i’ll be really honest with you. it sucks. looks like it has been put together using bits & pieces from 10 different sites. content presentation is inconsistent – and your site should be all about the content right? your grammar, punctuation and writing style are horrible – ask a friend to proof-read your articles now and then. what purpose does the right column serve – if you dont have anything meaningfull to put there then loose it. did you try to turn javascript off? how is the fact that you use overlib helping me?
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* serious super hero: The idea is nice, you are obviously a dedicated and persistent guy which is great. The site itself is not so great… Hey, do you need our services? You know, we build accessible and usable web interfaces!
Marko: If you could change something on mcville what would it be?
* spiderman: color it red and blue and hang some net around it?
* spawn: Not a single thing.
* punisher: the thing you did with images in the middle column is cool. i wouldn’t change that.
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* serious super hero: We’d change a lot of things.
Marko: What kind of music do you fancy?
* spiderman: I fancy fancy music
* wolverine: alot of stuff.
* spawn: I fancy not so fancy music.
* lobo: shitz & gigglez
* punisher: house
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* serious super hero: Anything but turbo-folk. We mostly listen to punk-rock, house, sometimes trance or progressive. From time to time we play some commercial stuff, but rarely, really.
Marko: What’s your favorite food?
* spiderman: chicken breasts
* wolverine: kebab and breasts…chicken…breasts
* spawn: Ball!
* lobo: chicken. pasta. salads.
* punisher: Barbecue, a good one
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* serious super hero: Anything roasted, a good pizza, a rich sandwiches (like Subway, for example)
Marko: Where do you get out on Saturday’s?
* spiderman: Is that a trick question?
* wolverine@spiderman: Yea, it is.
* spiderman: I’m posing for my fans.
* spawn: Living room.
* lobo: used to go to Arthas, now it’s Kor’gall..
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* serious super hero: We don’t hang outside much. Some of us have families, others are playing massive online adventures.
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some relaxing question to follow
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Marko: Chinese or Thai (food)?
* spiderman: Chai
* wolverine: I china!1
* spawn: Whichever gets delivered faster.
* lobo: dunno.
* punisher: didn’t try thai yet. chinese is great
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* serious super hero: Chinese.
Marko: Coke or Pepsi?
* spiderman: Apple juice
* wolverine: Coke.
* spawn: Coke.
* lobo: coffee. or beer.
* punisher: coke
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* serious super hero: Coke, of course.
Marko: html or css?
* spiderman: both
* wolverine: wuts taht???!1
* spawn: Css.
* lobo: neither
* punisher: you’re hilarious man
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*serious super hero: Both. One cannot live without the other.
Marko: Do you watch television? If so, do you have a favorite show?
* spiderman: Rarely. Spiderman, the movie.
* wolverine: No.
* spawn: Only when I’m in queue. Anything on Discovery.
* lobo: not much lately
* punisher: no
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* serious super hero: We don’t have time for TV. Yeah, we know, we’re pretty boring..
Marko: What would we find in your favorites bookmarks-bar?
* spiderman: I dig RSS. I do keep my eyes on the bad boys.
* wolverine: Hunter items!
* spawn: Pr0n. *giggle
* lobo: wierd shit.
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* serious super hero: It’s usually a list of projects we are working at currently. Plus, all of those we’ve already mentioned.
Marko: What inspires you? This doesn’t have to be design related.
* spiderman: World peace… sigh
* wolverine: Noise.
* lobo: wow
* spawn: Stuff.
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* serious super hero: We like to make jokes in the office, we’d say a good laugh is the best motivator.
Marko: Thank again for having this interview, cheers m8s and the coffie was great!
* spiderman: Thank you for having this interview? Are you kidding me?
* wolverine: Bundolo!
* lobo: /greet
* spawn: Np, bye.
* punisher: Ajd
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* serious super hero: Thank you for having us here and pardon our French!
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