The name's Roy (4.66 / 3) (#245)
by Wah on Thu Aug 23, 2001 at 06:39:06 PM EST
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although I found out at about 20 that Canadians pronounce it differently. And I like Canadians, soo...
I was born on Halloween, nearly 27 years ago, in Dallas, TX. I went to college in San Antonio, moved to Colorado to experiment with psychadelics, now I live in New York City.
Just your typical geek, I played football (American) for about 10 years, went to Homecoming with the Homecoming Queen (and nearly puked on her head after drinking to much), and then went to College and joined the jockiest frat in the bunch (which taught me how stupid I was in more ways than I want to type right now)
I come from a family of five children (Mormon) raised by a single mother, who is the greatest. That, and the fact that my gay father left us when I was 9, led to a certain degree of angst, which I display at every opportunity, it now seems. I like commas and parenthesis.
My quest for meaning has revealed some outstanding answers, and now I'm wondering if it would be too crazy just to share those all the time. I think I know, and I think I'm right, but that doesn't mean I don't listen.
I tend to fight ignorance wherever I think I see it, and I'm competitive as hell. Those two qualities help me fit in here.
A quick bit on some your high school experiences. I was a nerd then too, but my body didn't think so. However, I was too shy to make that point to the fellow nerds of my school, and they had an innate fear of my physical presence that I never understood, hence I did my nerding is solitary. It turns out that the shitheads I would beat physically on the football field took that anger out on others. Sorry about that, but we knew they were shitheads too.
I'm having trouble posting to these long k5 discussion since the pc I'm using now is Win98 with 64mb of RAM which chokes on anything interesting. I usually run a website, where I can post deep thoughts without community approval, it'll be back up real soon now. This could go on for a while, so I'll stop.
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I bet most people here don't even know what that means.
I am an Orcadian....
That means I come from Orkney
Still don't know?
Orkney is a group of Islands to the North of Scotland.
You don't care anyway!
Used to be in the army - radio call sign Holdfast signifies a military engineer.
I am 41
Married with 2 children
Live in the south of England in a place called Nuneaton
Do network and luser support in a hospital.
Christian
Cynic
"Holy war is an oxymoron."
Lazarus Long
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- Hoy! by the trinidad kid, 08/24/2001 04:05:28 AM EST (none / 0)
- Puke? by holdfast, 08/24/2001 10:05:51 AM EST (none / 0)
- Nuneaton by amanset, 08/24/2001 09:49:45 AM EST (none / 0)
- South by holdfast, 08/24/2001 10:02:46 AM EST (none / 0)
oh, what a pity (4.00 / 2) (#247)
by mami on Thu Aug 23, 2001 at 06:44:41 PM EST
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I am too shy to talk about myself, but then you all know me anyhow.
This reads like the newspaper's "Wanted" section. Too bad, I am just too old for you. And you are just too young for me. What a shame. Couldn't a couple of people troll for a mature, elderly something with a brain and a heart ?
What I do for a living ? Reading K5. What I do for fun ? Dreaming of making money. What I like to be when I am a grown up. A grandma with a job. What I do, if K5 gets on my nerves ? Cleaning the bathtub, scrubbing the kitchen floors, throw out the closet's stuff and put it back again, talking to myself and argueing loudly in my car with K5-ers, whose comments haunt me. What I wished I had done differently in my life ? Ooh no, that's too much to ask an old lady, you wicked 'boys'.
Hope this helps.
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I am a dreamer of the day. Anything that will make my life worth living I take up...anything that tears me down, I don't do anymore.
I've worked as:
Gardener
Baker
Secretary
Sex Worker
Soldier
Spy
Legal Assistant
Systems Admin
Network Engineer
Artist
Writer
Bodyguard
Public Health Educator
Parts Store Clerk
I'm only 33 years old. Not bad as things go, though there is so much more I feel needs to be done in my life. My educational background is in fine arts and sociology. Plenty of units, but no degree. Most of my education prior to college was done at a library, on my own. I've been working since I was 13 years old, working as a gardener and odd jobs person. Joined the Army at 16, went active service at 17, and found myself in the middle of Honduras (via Defense Language Institute) with people shooting at me by 19. Things kind of branched out from there after I got back stateside. Of late, I've been a tech worker, but I quit doing that when I found the hours (long, fruitless) made me unhappy. I enjoy CS though, so I will be going back to school to POSSIBLY finish a degree, one in CS. The idea of writing really good programs and user interfaces for artists and designers intrigues me, and having some formal education in CS would help.
Any time that I am not working for someone else, I am reading (Democracy in America, right now), painting or writing, practicing Aikido or Wing Chun Kung Fu, getting pierced (I set off metal detectors everywhere, something I picked up from hanging out with the archeologists and Mayans in Guatemala), or skateboarding. Oh, yeah, sleeping and dreaming...sometimes I wonder which world is real, and which is the dream.
"Live for lust. Lust for life."
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I feel like I havent posted enough. So here's round 2.
I'm 19, sophomore at Univ. of Texas Austin. Was just accepted into the Computer Science department (just barely..not from poor CS grades, which have been A's so far, but my extreme apathy towards advanced mathematics)
Jobwise, I'm a lead software engineer at a small financial services company. Most of their stuff is web-based, so I write the backend software for handling the market, trades, tracking and so forth. All of it is in java, with a ton of SQL mixed in there.
I'm religionless, but i've got my own beliefs on most everything. My family is non-religious for the most part, though my grandparents are episcopalian and thats what I was baptised as (in 1 of the 3 times ive attended church)
My hobbies involve many things from working on automobiles to paintball to kung fu video collecting. And college-cutie collecting too!
Originally I'm from houston, where I lived for about 18 of my 19 years. It is a hot, smelly and humid place. Now I live in austin which while still hot, isnt anywhere near as humid, and has better charms and coffee shops.
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My name is Wes, I'm 21 years old and I currently live in Toronto, Ontario.
I am entering my 4th and final year of Comp Sci at Ryehigh. Currently I work at Klick Communications, where my main concern is improving their web content administration software which is written using ASP+ActiveX+Scriptlets but occationally I get to do some really cool client side DHTML stuff (it's amazing what you can do if you only have to worry about IE 5.0+).
Apart from school and work I enjoy hanging out with friends, playing various sports (hockey, soccer, baseball) and riding my bike. Sometime I hang out in #kuro5hin on slashnet where I like to talk about politics, ethics, and other assorted things.
I have no clue as to where I'm going in life, or what I'll be doing when I graduate from school. But I'm not worried.
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I'm the local Roger, as opposed to other hypothetical Roger-type people who don't work for our company. What does a Roger do? Well, my business card says "programmer" but that's a bit like issuing Bucky Fuller one that says "architect." I basically do all the stuff nobody else can figure out how to do, if it can be done at all, and a lot of times even if it can't.
Rather than blather on about my experience and achievements and what a wonderful guy I am let me tell you about my name.
"Roger" is missing from a lot of names-for-your-baby books, and in others it's corrupted or given wrong. Back when I was a wee Roger my Dad had a handsome volume of Webster's Collegiate Dictionary with a "meanings of names" section in the back. Soon as I was old enough to read it -- which would have been age 7 or so -- I looked up Roger.
Roger -- Skilled with the spear.
Say what? I tried for years to imagine why a proper name might refer to use of a particular weapon or tool. I mean "skilled" I could expect, but what's with this spear thing?
Then, at the age of 24, I saw the movie White Mischief. FYI it is set in Africa at the turn of the 20th century and focuses on a group of depraved British colonists. Throughout the movie, the word roger is used as a synonym for, well, um, to give a couple of examples...
He had the biggest roger I've ever seen.
He rogered her right in the open on the football field.
Spear my ass. Or my whatever. OK, where was I?
For the record I do not play the piano, did not found the state of Rhode Island, do not play professional baseball, nor did I discover vitamin B-12. Those were all other Rogers local to some other group of people. The lure of fame has never tempted me, since no matter how famous I get nobody will know who I am anyway.
Now how exactly was your truck scale screwing up again?
I can haz blog!
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Deceptively Short Answer: Read my diaries (5.00 / 1) (#254)
by Eight Star on Thu Aug 23, 2001 at 07:20:03 PM EST
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Deceptively Long Answer:
I'm a 22 year old college dropout.
I Majored in: Comp Sci, Philosophy, Technical Communications, and Almost did Psychology.
Bah, Just read my diary, I don't want to type everything here, I'll never find it again. I promise to put up general stuff in the next week or so.
I don't want to talk about my current job. I hate it. I'd like a coding job someday. I'd do best in either Perl web work or Graphics in OpenGL (once I get comfortable in OpenGL I'll be Good, I can do wonders in QBasic and the like, but that's not exactly where things are these days)
My current project is 'Magenta Version 2' which will eventually do everything, but for the next 6 months or so will look like a web based filesystem with content-dependent attributes, Among other features.(The cool stuff is a secret)
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My real name is Justin Alan Kolodziej, and I don't have a rank or serial number because I am a civilan.
I was born and live in Hammond, Indiana (it's between Gary and Chicago), home of the TWO-TIME, TWO TIME, TWO-TIME FIRST Robotics Competition Nqational Champions. My only brother, Kevin, was the driver last year when we won the championship. I was a senior when we won the first time, and was asked to be on the team, but decided I was already committed to track, which I sucked at. Who's to say if we would have won had I joined...
After graduating high school as valedictorian and giving a typically bad speech, I moved on to Marquette University and got into their brand-new computer engineering program, which luckily got accredited. I graduated Magna Cum Laude in four years as one of the two top scholars in the curriculum, and am a member of Tau Beta Pi and Upsilon Pi Epsilon.
Now I'm at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, KAK UIUC, and I am studying for a master's degree in ECE. Unless something goes wrong, I'll work on microarchitecture for my thesis. I also hold a TA position for ECE 311, the Microcomputer Laboratory class, also known as "Learn VHDL or DIE!!!!"
Should be a fun year and a half. Don't know if I will continue on to a Ph. D. though. Given the choice, I'd like to work for someone other than Intel or AMD, though maybe Intel needs my help (why don't we go for 100 pipeline stages next time?!) :-P
As for stats, I'm 22, 5'10", 225 lbs, none of it muscle, and ugly.
Finally, the song that fits me most is "Antisocial" by Anthrax. I prefer King Crimson, Orbital, or Einsturzende Neubauten though.
Is that enough?
The BBC would like to apologise for the following comment.
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So many different approaches one can take to describing themselves, most of them limiting and dishonest by design. So I'll just try to do the itemized list thing. Bear with me, I have extreme difficulty expressing myself with any brevity.
- Born in 1979. (22 years old)
- Canadian citizen, currently living by myself somewhere in the corridor between Windsor and London, Ontario, in a rural farmhouse on Highway 2.
- Leaving on Tuesday for <somewhere>, where I'll be a first-year CS student at <something> university.
- Spent the last 5 years working on and off (Unemployment $ in between) in an automotive parts factory. Union employee, then salaried Company, then back with the Union on the factory floor after being a bit too outspoken about the infinite capacity for incompetence, waste, and nepotism within the white-collar sphere of the company. This is all a pretty interesting story unto itself but I digress.
- Anarchist in ideals, but realistically supportive of democratic-socialist / Communist parties and movements in this lifetime. In Canada socialism and labour militancy are not merely far-off utopian ideals you advocate, they're a tradition that already exists and which you defend from the rightist parties inside and outside of the country (coughcoughUSgovernment) eager to dismantle and tame it.
- Rational atheist, but very much intrigued by Mahayanan Buddhism and Zen.
- Been doing this talking-in-forums thing for a long, long time, since back in the days of the dialup BBSes (when I ran a few busy ones myself).
- Been around computers since I was a small child with a TRS-80. Was programming early on, then lost interest for awhile in my teenage years while getting into.. other things. Using Linux for over 3 years now, love it (always missed having a real shell after I had to retire the Amiga in favour of a PC), and have become a competent C programmer and sysadmin with it.
Still much to learn, so I figured I might as well go to school for it cause I've already got a leg up and a sincere passion for it.
- I am not your stereotypical geek in physique. I am a big bastard with broad shoulders who could eat you for breakfast. I only look gimpy when I wake up.
- I hate sports.
- I do not watch television. I like movies, but have no patience for most mainstream Hollywood fodder. I'm a cultural snob, deal.
- I like alcohol and can drink you under the table, twice on Sunday. I do not drink beer. Rye & coke is my staple drink, the venerable White Russian coming in a close second. Just about any liquor 35% or higher is fine by me though.
- I prefer having a few handfuls of close friends I care about to being a hypersociable individual with a universe of aquaintances and 'get-fucked-up' buddies. I've been that before, tired of it. So if I blow people off and am not terribly friendly, it's just because I don't have the time or inclination to have more people involved in my life than already are. I make friends slowly like one makes fine wine.
- I make music, sometimes by myself and sometimes with a couple collaborators. Have built up a large collection of rough masters over the years but still haven't yet put it all together to form coherent projects or albums.
- On the above note, I play guitar, keyboard, and I can do some amazing things with a sound editor and some plug-ins.
- My ancestry, though it doesn't mean much in a place like this, is varied. Alot of German with a fair amount of English, Irish, and Romanian, who knows what else. My family is a farming one on both sides, each coming here around the late 19th century. I grew up in the city however.
- Never finished highschool, and don't intend to.
- Don't drive, don't have a license, probably not going to get one anytime soon. I walk or bike, or catch a ride with friends.
- I am the inverse of a vegetarian. I eat meat, grains, dairy. I loathe almost all greens and fruits and do not eat them. Oddly enough I am in good health, despite the fact that supposedly I should be dead or near-death.
- I smoke cigarettes. And other things.
- My nick is meaningless, it's a made up word which appears aesthetically pleasing to me.
- Hobbies: reading (just about anything, with a particular interest in history), writing, listening to music, cooking with marijuana, having a good conversation, camping, swimming,
walking, photography.
- Yes, I am an asshole. But I'm an honest asshole.
And that about sums it up.
There is no K5 Cabal.
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Grad CS geek (4.00 / 2) (#257)
by njd on Thu Aug 23, 2001 at 07:40:10 PM EST
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I'm 24, CS PhD student..love hacking on compilers and parallel systems..Outside
work I love music most of all..I love reading as well but I'm kinda off it at the moment..doing too much reading in work for it to be relaxing afterwards:-)
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Real name: Craig Hall
Age: 28
Location: Vancouver, British Columbia
Occupation: Game Programmer (it says "Software Engineer" on my business card)
Employer: Electronic Arts (Canada)
Current/prior projects: SSX Tricky (Nintendo GameCube), SSX (PS2), Triple Play 2000, Scramble (pre-EA - free download! :-)
Hobbies: Music and playing games :-)
There was a point to this story, but it has temporarily escaped the chronicler's mind. - Douglas Adams
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- wow by core10k, 08/23/2001 11:57:40 PM EST (none / 0)
- SSX by kreyg, 08/24/2001 12:57:03 AM EST (none / 0)
- wow by core10k, 08/24/2001 01:37:42 AM EST (none / 0)
- Not long to wait by kreyg, 08/24/2001 04:08:38 PM EST (none / 0)
- Hi Craig by FirebrandX, 10/03/2002 07:09:15 AM EST (none / 0)
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Two days ago, I was at my friend's house, playing with his computer. His little brother walked in the door and said "Hi, who are you?"
I said, "Dan."
He sat down and said, "And what do you do?"
I said, truthfully enough, "I'm a student."
He said, "Well that's not very much."
At the time I laughed.
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32 year old video game programmer, currently contributing to both the UK brain drain, and the US immigration problem, by working for a Japanese mega-corp in the sixth level of hell.
Or LA as it's commonly known. Actually Santa Monica, which is nice, but expensive, even compared to London, which is where I used to work and live.
Currently putting the finishing touches on Kinetica for the PS2, while simultaneously wishing we had another month to do all the little things we wanted to, and being glad that it'll all be over soon, and I can get on with actually haveing a life.
(The title is a reference to the zero rating I got the last time we did this, like some scrote didn't believe me)
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I'm 25 on Monday, employed as a programmer in Victoria, BC, Canada, although I spend as much time in hardware / database hell as I do coding. Even the coding I do isn't all that shit hot - mostly Perl .cgi front ends for MySQL databases. I only ever learn as much as I absolutely have to at any one time; as a result, I am neither a Unix guru nor an uber-MCSE Windows bitch-slapper, but I can make my way around either. Every so often I get to work on actual software development in C++, and I'm even starting to look fondly back on my 4th year experiences with Java ( the horror ).
I tore through the 4 year Comp. Sci. program at the University of Victoria in a smoking 6 years, and when I say smoking, I mean, well, actually smoking. I almost got a Philosphy minor, but didn't want to spend the extra year it would have taken. I have the best of intentions about going back.
Lessee ... I play bass guitar; I ride a nifty mountain bike; I don't own a car; I smoke way too much dope; I drink way, way too much espresso, I drink a little too much beer; I get way too aggro in my posts here; I lurk the diaries section compulsively; I promise myself that eventually I will get off my lazy ass, if only for a wee bit of scratching.
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- Yeeehaaaawww by ezroot, 08/24/2001 02:28:02 AM EST (none / 0)
- So I hear ... by misterluke, 08/24/2001 03:08:44 PM EST (5.00 / 1)
I'm a 23 year old counterperson for a dry cleaners in Cross Lanes, West Virginia, USA.
I wrote software in Visual Basic and C/C++ for four years in the US Air Force and won't ever write software for pay again because I saw so much of my work indirectly used to kill people.
I'm smarter than the average bear and I enjoy cheap eighties horror movies.
I'm a registered communist politically and a taoist philosophically.
I just got cable internet access and am enjoying listening to Canadian radio in RealAudio.
I like Tom Waits and Mr. Bungle.
I'm five foot ten inches tall and I weigh two hundred pounds even.
My name is Jeffrey D Johnson.
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- Tom Waits by richieb, 08/23/2001 10:13:00 PM EST (none / 0)
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I am an 18 year old male, living in Brenham, Texas (north of Houston). I'm 5.9, about 140, long brown hair, a slightly reddish goatee, and blue eyes. I recently graduated from high school, and am attending Blinn College in the fall, due to my indeciciveness in choosing a school.
My major is computer science, though I'm up in the air for a computer science/music (performance) major. I'm going into college with 18 hours under my belt, but i'm still running with a full 15 hour load.
I have a job, as well. The business card says "Web Programmer", but that's because I told them I wanted "Resident Wizard" on it. I make $10/hr, and work quite a bit, especially late hours. Most of my work involves database backend work for ecommerce and credit union websites, all with SQL (MSSQL, specifically), PHP, ASP (eew.), VB (eew^2), JavaScript. On a regular basis, I have to patch (D)HTML for my boss, 'cause he's an MCSE. My love is UNIX. If I had the chance, I'd be doing systems programming, maybe embedded systems in any UNIX environment. I LOVE C, PERL, and big monitors full of (E/X/NX)term windows. Enlightenment (sans gnome/kde) is my windowmanager of choice, all running on a K6-2/400mHz box. My Compaq PIII/667 runs winamp and visualizations for me, as it has a teeny old monitor on it. That, and I've been working too much to put OpenBSD on it. Windows 2000 at work, and it sucks hard. So hard, it thonks when it crashes.
When I'm not at work, I'm reading or playing an instrument, whether or not I'm partying with my friends. Most of them are musicians as well (we were all band nerds in highschool), so when we get toasty, we go jam. I am competent, and quite good on a subset of instruments; bass guitar, guitar, french horn, trumpet, and mandolin have made beautiful music in my hands. I have at least 4 years of experiance on all, and play bass in two rock bands, and am looking for likeminded weirdos to put together an album of strange tunes I've written. One of my bands, Coop, is playing gigs and looking for a record deal, while the other is replacing a recently vacated drumming spot.
I'm working on a spiritual belief, though I was raised Christian (lutheran, specifically). I hesitate to call myself anything, but could probably be described as being the concatenation of christian, zen buddhist, and agnostic.
Somehow, amidst all of this, I've managed to meet a wubulously nice girl who amazes me with her intelligence. She may very well be smarter than I am. If she is, then I'm cool with it. Last night, I spent 6.5 hours at her house, going through her poetry, paintings, and photographs. hot cheese, I'm infatuated.
I went to my senior prom, with a date, and drank champagne in the limo. I partied waay to hard that night, and spent waay too much money on the ordeal. I could have been coding, but since it was only ONE prom...
I'm usually quiet, but after being around sara last night, whoo. I love jazz, death metal, funk, (underground) hip hop, and the beatles, and soul coughing. metallica is a bunch of pussies now, but I love their music. I am trying to become victor wooten.
the end until more happens
"Who uses a D or G string anyway? They're kind of silly."
--Fat Mike, NOFX
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I'm 23, Live in Japan and hate the management.
I graduated from the University of Michigan with a degree in Japanese literature. (Everyone take a weekend and read 'confessions of a mask' by Mishima Yukio or Kokoro by Natsume Soseki [now public domain = free downloads legally!])
I worked in a fiberglass lab making bodywork for Trans-Am cars when my boss showed me a SGI 02 and said 'make it work'.
From there I got sucked into the black arts of the SysAdmin.
I live in Yokohama (Japan) now and was a network engineer, which I liked, but then got transfered to planning and creative development for a collaborative portal and an e-learning system. I think I do good work but being 23 it seems most people aren't willing to listen.
Isn't life fun?
ugh...
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or is it dykegeekmom or momgeekdyke? Depends on the moment.
I am a 37 y.o. software developer. I make a living creating, tweaking and
enhancing VB applications that use SQL Server and Access databases, plus
an inhouse server my co-worker wrote. I am developer number 2 of a 2
person development group. My employer is a company called OCLC and they're in Ohio. They bought the company I worked for after I'd been there more than 10 years. It's now been 13+ years that
I've worked in the library industry. Some of my coworkers have known me
all this time and know way too much about me, they've watched me grow up.
The first programming language I worked with was PL/1 on an IBM mainframe. Just got out of that
and into desktop apps a couple of years ago... and I am sooo much happier now.
Although VB is currently paying the bills, the wind is shifting within my
company and I'm brushing up on my Java and C so I don't get sideswiped.
I like beer rather than wine, porters and good micro-brewed stuff not the
mass produced junk. I also like tequila, margaritas and dirty mothers
being my favorite vehicles for it. I practice yoga, drink coffee and love a good steak.
I play soccer very enthusiastically and because of that I have
reconstructive ACL surgery coming up a week from today. I'm hoping for a
full (or more than full) recovery so I can play soccer in the Gay Games in
Sydney, 2002. Wish me luck, please.
I am mommy to a 20 month old girl child who thinks that doing
death-defying stunts is funny and who is now exploding with new
vocabulary. My partner is a wickedly smart Leo who loves to talk on the
phone to all her friends every night. She works at the same place I do,
but usually on different projects. We use yahoo messenger to make comments
about our coworkers and plan our evenings. She's one of the sexiest
people I know and she makes me feel like I won the lottery of love . Ok,
enough of that <blush>.
I like to bake bread and cookies. I love to have food and visit with
my friends. I am a gardener, and promote organic methods and native plant
usage. I am a reader. Anything from geek books to sci fi, to fantasy, to
historic fiction, to popular science to anything that catches my interest
while cruising the stacks at the library or bookstore. I support my local
used bookstore, a lot.
I am still living in my home town. I used to be slightly embarrassed about that, but I'm not anymore... I love it here (Olympia, WA).
30 is not old...
I remember Mosaic and the days before the huge internet media explosion.
We've got two machines at home, Pentiums, Win98. We just got our DSL hook
up and have one of them connected. I'm still educating myself on routers
vs. hubs so I can get the other one connected and access the printer, etc.
from both (and wouldn't mind getting some advice on that decision). I'm going to get another machine to play with in the basement
- Linux, open source, etc.
I figured out the whole kuro5hin = corrosion angle before I read the faq. Wordplay is one of my favorite games.
Are you the windshield, or the bug? Come to www.amorsley.net/bugsplat Now available in minty-fresh RDF!
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- Good luck! by netmouse, 08/24/2001 04:52:22 PM EST (none / 0)
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The Lord Jesus Christ upon High. I sit on my Eternal Throne, dictating the fate of you petty humans, awash in a sea of boredom. My current residence is Everywhere, in Everything, as I am omnipotent. My job description is: creating shit and making it all work. If you can find it in yourselves to accept me in your hair, I am tall, with dark hair and green eyes. Ladies only plzthx.
My Father is awake, I must go. He's been up all night playing craps with Satan and is in a foul temper. Luckily his father, Ralph, is still asleep. He's been on a nasty bender for the past millennium, and will likely be a Beast when he arises. Farewell, my Children. Continue your life of pointless toil and meaningless suffering. Hold on to your fragile illusion that I will reward you, it makes it all so much more entertaining.
You better pray to God there's some Thorazine in that bag, otherwise you're in bad fucking trouble.
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I'm a 17 year old white male residing in a rather wealthy suburb of Detroit. Religiously speaking, I suppose I'd have to call myself agnostic. My parents, however, in some sort of state of denial, drag me to their Presbyterian church with them every so often. Politically, I suppose I'm a bit left of center. I probably would have voted for Nader if I were old enough. I listen to a variety of punk rock, including those famous Swingin' Utters and the chart-topping Dillinger Four (both of which are excellent bands, I suggest you try them).
I like tinkering around with GNU/Linux and the vast array of nifty software that people write for it. Programming has never really interested me for some reason. I'm far more prone to whip out Quake3 and Urban Terror and relieve some stress.
This year will be my last in high school (thank god). I'm probably gonna apply to the school of Engineering at the Univeristy of Michigan. I get good grades and enjoy math/science and the whole bit, but I'm still not totally sure if I want to commit to that. Part of me is rather irritated that I've wasted a good portion of my youth in front of a computer screen. I'm not playing football and getting drunk every weekend like "normal" kids. Sometimes I wonder how much I've missed by living the life of a geek, and how much more I will continue to miss if I maintain my present lifestyle. The very idea that I will have to leave my sheltered yuppy hometown and enter the harsh Real World is also quite daunting. My political, musical, and ethical opinions have been changing so quickly and so frequently (due in large part to constant exposure on the internet) that I'm beginning to wonder if I'll ever find my own footing. I wonder if I'll ever be able to say "I believe A beacuse B, C, and D" with certainty. It'll all work out, I guess. That's what the 'rents say.
--Greg
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I'm known as 'Signal 11' online. Most of the k5 regulars (hail eris) and slashdot 'old farts' know me. In meat space, my name is Bojay. The nickname comes from, obviously, the memory condition in the linux kernel - a segmentation fault. At the time I was installing linux, I was getting that error a lot... I figured it was obscure enough, and linux wasn't well-known at the time, that "Signal 11" would make a good nick. As far as my name in the real world goes, do a search on google... you'll figure it out.
At the moment, I'm unemployed. I'm considering getting out of the job market, and going into something else - what, as of yet, I do not know. My computer skills are broad, and in the areas of networking, web design, security, and hardware, fairly deep.
Visit my homepage for my personal history, if you care...
~ Siggy
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Society needs therapy. It's having
trouble accepting itself.
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I'm 28, a software engineer (ColdFusion, Java, XML, Oracle) working for a bank software company in Atlanta. Some days I love my job, others I hate it, although not very often. I'm bitter about some of my dot-com experiences.
But I digress.
Before working as a programmer I received a B.A. in Biology from Johns Hopkins University, then spent a few years working toward a Ph.D. in Genetics at Emory University. Thankfully I realized that I didn't want to spend the rest of my life at a lab bench with a Pipetteman, which brought me to my current career.
Outside of work I like to garden, this year I had a bumper crop of tomatoes, cucumbers, eggplant, tabasco and thai chili peppers and herbs. Of course, I garden because I love to cook, and nothing beats cooking up a meal with food you grew yourself. I consider myself the luckiest amateur chef in the world, I have two people who I am very close to who are both chefs. I'm lucky to be able to cook with one or both of them regularly, expanding my knowledge of cooking, food and wine.
I am passionate about all things Latin American. I have traveled through Mexico, including two weeks in Oaxaca de Juarez, the capital of the state of Oaxaca. I'm particularly fond of visiting many of the pre-Columbian ruins, I find nothing more peaceful and spiritual (which is saying a lot from an atheist) than spending time exploring long abandoned civilizations. I'm currently planning a visit to Macchu Picchu in the spring of 2002.
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- S1 by b0r3d, 08/24/2001 12:29:28 AM EST (none / 0)
- S1... not! by FullFrontalNerdity, 08/24/2001 12:33:37 PM EST (none / 0)
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Oi.. I've had to beat back the monster of paranoia to post this one, so here goes:
I'm twenty six, male. I'm a programmer at a dot-bomb in the process of detonation. I was raised by my father, and I've moved around quite a bit. So often, in fact, that I didn't develop a real friendship with anyone until age fifteen.
I study physics, electronics, computer science and engineering in my spare time, and what little I have left from that is reserved for games and science fiction (Cordwainer Smith is an unsung genius of the field).
Wandering farther afield, I study various occult subjects, politics, and any general bit of research I can lay my hands on.
I count myself a Libertarian of the L. Neil Smith variety, and listen to such groups as Enya, Deep Forest, System of a Down, Queen, as well as a smattering of classics. Oh, who am I kidding.. I'd fill up the rest of this message with nothing but groups and musical styles if I really tried to be inclusive.
I nearly joined the Society for Creative Anachronism, and on the occaisonal weekend I get together with friends for some 'traditional' pen-and-paper role playing.
Both of my parents are members of Mensa, and while I have scored sufficiently high to join, I feel absolutely no interest in it.
I do not think we currently have anywhere near enough understanding of this strange thing called reality, and I also think we devote far too few resources to the task.
Suffice to say, I am me, you're you, and this post is over.
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Hi everyone.
I'm a 26-year-old who was born, and lives, in Melbourne, Australia (ie., down the south end of the world). Currently I'm a full-time student, doing a PhD in Criminology, and my research area is femicide (female victims of homicide). I don't think that spending all my day thinking about murder makes me sick, twisted, depressed, or a dangerous lunatic, but then I'm probably not able to address that issue very objectively. I actually started out doing psychology, and while I still think psych is interesting, it's not quite as gritty as criminology (or, at least, my area of criminology). FWIW, there are currently only two people actively studying homicide in Australia (as far as I've been able to determine), and the other one is a good friend of mine.
Previously I've worked part-time in various social-science research roles in fields such as domestic violence and juvenile recidivism. I also do a bit of web development at the moment to help pay the rent. Oh yeah, I'm also a resident tutor at one of the residential colleges servicing my university, tutoring psychology (ho hum), criminology (yay!), and statistics (yukk!).
I'm a self-described geek and run Linux as my primary OS, and although I dabble a little in scripting languages which start with `P', I wouldn't presume to call myself a coder. I'm also one of those few social scientists who write in LaTeX (which makes it difficult to give my supervisor drafts of my thesis!).
There is probably more to me that the above, but I can't think of anything else interesting at the moment.
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For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak
With most miraculous organ.
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- So... by Kaki Nix Sain, 08/24/2001 12:55:19 AM EST (3.00 / 1)
- femicide by pobblebonks, 08/24/2001 08:48:37 PM EST (none / 0)
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I am a 27 year old computer geek, residing in Silicon Valley. I have been programming for almost twenty years (yes, since I was seven; growing up with a father in the military meant my elementary school had four Atari 800s in the library). Today, I work as the production sysadmin for a dot-com in Menlo Park, banging on a large scale web farm (Nothin' but *nix).
Most of my work involves network and host security. I have developed several protocols for secure online transactions; one of these is soon to be published.
While I have no degree as of yet, I am slowly working towards a B.S. in Mathematics. Flex time is a beautiful thing.
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Yet another sys enigineer... (4.00 / 1) (#279)
by b0fh on Thu Aug 23, 2001 at 10:58:51 PM EST
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Well, these days I am working on electronic cash transfer systems, both client-side (verix, C) and server-side (PERL+APACHE) woooho! Thank god no more MSCRAP. I used to work (old days) with Industrial Automation, that times it was WinBlows NT & C++ Builder.Besides working 300+ hours/month, theres no much time left these days to do intertsing things such as riding Bikes and driving offroad ;-). Well, cant win'em all.
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"Contrary to popular belief, UNIX is user-friendly.
It just happens to be selective on who it makes friendship with"
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Technological and Cultural Profile (5.00 / 1) (#280)
by Riktov on Thu Aug 23, 2001 at 11:05:30 PM EST
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I've been reading kuro5hin for about six months, finding my way here via Slashdot, where I have a three-digit account number (big fat deal!)
I currently live in Tokyo, Japan, which is where I spent the first seventeen years of my life. The next seventeen were in Seattle, USA, up until six months ago. I'm equally Japanese and American, a native speaker of English and Japanese, and a U.S. citizen.
Politically/philosophically, I am quite liberal in U.S. terms, strongly anti-corporate, and averse to consumer materialism. In 2000 I voted for Nader. I've never owned a car or a credit card. Some of my political beliefs are close to, if not outright, communist. I'm not at all activist, though, and tend to only admire from afar (and often scorn at the same time) folks like Greenpeace and WTO protesters.
Nonetheless, I work for a corporation, as a project manager for a software engineering company with a staff of about 30. It's the subsidiary of a Seattle-based company, and I'm the only foreigner in the office. I've been working in the software industry for about twelve years now, as a translator/editor, graphic designer, system administrator, applications programmer, QA engineer, and lots of other stuff. But my main interest when it comes to computers is programming, and most of my experience is in C++, along with quite a bit of Perl, and the fundamentals of Java. I'd like to learn LISP. And I really should remove Visual Basic from my resume, as it's kind of embarrassing and I haven't used it in ages.
Other than a college FORTRAN class (way back in 1984, on a VAX 11/780) and a C++ night class a few years ago, I have no formal education in computer science. The only degree I have is a Bachelor of Fine Arts in industrial design. I'd like to get a master's degree in computer science some day, but purely for academic rather than practical (career) reasons.
I own one computer, a Toshiba notebook with a 133Mhz Pentium and 48MB RAM, and it's almost good enough! Most of the time it runs Turbo Linux, which I use for the Japanese support. But if not for that, I'd be running Slackware. The desktop environment is KDE1.1, as 2.x is too heavy.
No PDAs, and a cell-phone primarily because it's cheaper than installing a phone in my apartment in Japan.
Though not "accomplished", I do some graphic art and photography, and play some piano and guitar. I recently bought a Spanish classical guitar so I can play my favorite style of music, Brazilian bossa nova. I also enjoy jazz and some Japanese pop. I'm a walking encyclopedia of American pop music from the '70s and '80s, and my favorite rock band is Steely Dan. Most of the music discussed here -- house, techno, Radiohead, whatever -- I'm too old for, thus I must consider it crap...
I've smoked pot only twice in my life, and I did not inhale. (No comment on whether I had sexual relations with that woman...) I've never taken any other illegal drug, and never once smoked tobacco. I drink alcohol, but only when socializing. I prefer a glass of orange juice.
I call myself a "pragmatic vegetarian", which means that when I cook at home, which I try to do as much as possible, I use no meat at all, but I have no problem with meat when eating out or as a guest. And as long as I'm eating animals, I don't discriminate. I've eaten dog meat and whale meat, as well as live crickets. In fact, I'm an advocate of entomophagy (eating insects).
Being of a (perhaps excessively) rational mind, I am a non-practicing atheist. There are religious people that I admire greatly, though. But the Pope is not among them.
I've traveled through Europe, Southeast Asia, and Brazil, about three months in each. But I've never lived anywhere besides the U.S. and Japan.
Random things I hate: Robin Williams, Microsoft, people who call someone "anal" who've probably never even heard of Freud, Caribbean resorts
Random things I love: The Simpsons, Rio de Janeiro, Lancia Delta S4, _Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance_, Vietnamese food
Fantasy (geek) rock band name: "virtual void"
Finally, though I have a girlfriend, I have never even come close to getting married.
That's me, userid:13035, username:Riktov.
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My name is Mark DuPrey and I live in Columbus, Ohio, USA. A year ago someone offered to let me teach myself ASP on the job and I accepted. A month and a half later they let me re-write a production tracking application. I think it needs a re-write now. It's amazing how much you can learn by shooting yourself in the foot repeatedly.
At work I must use Microsoft products but at home I'm a FreeBSD user. If I could find a job doing intranet stuff using some kind of unix/apache/language-starting-with-p I'd be in heaven. I don't think that job exists anywhere. I get annoyed that while the linux camp seems to have some decent artists the FreeBSD camp has none. Try and find a cool wallpaper featuring the beastie :-( (It probably doesn't help that the beastie is copyrighted and you have to get permission to use him :-p)
The other defining things about myself are that women with red hair turn my brain to jello and Taoism has had a huge effect on my life. Go get yourself a copy of the Tao Te Ching and read it. It'll take at most an hour and it might change your life. If not, its an hour well spent looking at a different viewpoint.
# I am now finished talking out my ass about things that I am not qualified to discuss. #
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My name is Matt Foley.
I am a motivational speaker.
I am thirty-seven years old, thrice divorced, and I LIVE IN A VAN DOWN BY THE RIVER!!!!
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Hi. I'm a nearly 18 year old student about to be a freshman at the University of Maryland, in College Park. I'm majoring in computer science and math.
I was raised Roman Catholic, but I refer to myself as either a non-practicing Catholic or a non-practicing Wiccan, depending on my mood
I am somewhat of a computer geek. I know Perl, PHP, c++, a bit of Java, and (forgive me) Lasso LDML. I know my way around Windows, Mac, and Linux, but I grew up on DOS, so I've got a soft spot for command lines. I know enough Solaris to dislike it. I'm in love with my new g4 powerbook, which has been booted to os9 just once. I built my own desktop computer, and my router is a 486 inside a cardboard box. I don't really play any sports right now, but a friend has comvinced me to join the crew team at Maryland. I enjoy a lot of music, but my three favorite artists would be Bob Dylan, Metallica, and Pink Floyd. I'll admit it though, I've got Backstreet Boys mp3s on my hard drive.
I have no idea what I want to do with my life, within bounds. Something in the vast realm of programming and computer science, though. I'll probably go to grad school.
My hobbies include computer games, battletech, hobby robotics, programming, violin, and plotting to rule Scotland.
Oooh, shiny...
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but you still don't get my real name :P I'd be intrigued to know if it can be found from my net presence if anyone cares. I don't think so, and Google on my real name produces only other people.
I'm a freshman at NCSU. I've been here a week, and I enjoy it. I graduated from the NC School of Science and Math (ncssm.edu), which is a great place.
I write code as a hobby. I'm ok at it, I like to think. I'm great at abstract concepts, be it code, computer architeture, math, or anything realted. I'm actually a relatively social geek. I have a wonderful girlfriend, who is sadly about to leave for Rochester (in new york. yuck. too far away.)
I am interested in computer engineering and computer science. I don't know which will be my major. I'm actually doing a dual degree program with a second major in the humanities, probably political science, econ, or perhaps japanese.
I designed and began building a computer with a few friends as an independent study in high school. It was going to be less capable than all you "old timers" worked with in many respects. We were going to build it out of basic TTL chips. Spec said 2MHz, 5 clocks per instruction. 64K RAM. *weird* architecture, carefully optimized to minimize chip count while maintaining "usability," if you can call it that. see details here.
I did policy debate for two years in high school. Great stuff, started my interest in politics in a real way. I program in Java mostly, with a smattering of Perl, C++ and outdated Pascal. I doubt I've forgotten any Basic (Eagle BasicA on dos 3.11), but then I never knew much of it. I learned basic in 3rd grade. We didn't have a home computer, so my dad brought me in to school early tuesday mornings to learn programming.
I've had a job at HAHT Software the past two summers, first doing QA and then Java / HTML stuff on their new product. It is, in my biased and not very humble opinion, the best active web server product I've ever seen. Everything anyone else has even claimed, it probly has better.
I normally use Win2K on my desktop. I don't know what everyone disses about it. It's rock stable. Anyone who tells you otherwise can't put together good hardware. It hasn't crashed since I put it on, after a couple days to get the settings right, excepting hardware failures. I'm installing RedHat 7.1 on my laptop, a Toshiba Libretto L1. I love the laptop. Be warned putting Linux on it though: PCMCIA (and with it network) needs a custom kernel patch, as does sound. I haven't done that yet. I do generally prefer it to Win2K, but I need some of the software and I like MS Office.
OK, this has probably rambled far too long. I usually write better, I swear. Tell me if you want more. If if you feel like making a summer intern offer for a really smart kid without real deep skills in any particular area, who knows his way around Java, HTML, C, Pascal, UNIX of various sorts, PC hardware, Networks, Win2K, boolean logic, and encryption theory, in no particular order.
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I am:
- named Horselover
- in the midst of graduate philosophy education, headed in the cognitive science direction
- a tool using primate
I spend my time:
- writing papers about things that are not what I would like to write papers about
- jumping through hoops
- thinking about thinking, nonsense, and sometimes talking
- drinking from the information well that we're in
- listening to fast, poppy eurotechno
- eating too much chinese take out
- planning and aquiring parts for my wearable
- planning the collective
- considering the tasks of a citizen of the cosmos
- wishing that there were a potientially infinite amount of time that could be used between each moment
- wasting my years on this tiny planet
- missing people that are far away
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I am 30, and I live in Long Island NY.
I have been into computers since I was 9 (My uncle bought be a Commodore Pet when I was 9), and I've been hooked ever since.
The last version of windows I liked was Win 3.1 and I've been 100% M$ free since 1999.
I am a Director of technology at a firm in NYC, but I am not a pointy haired boss :) I am a devout
Linux Advocate, and for fun, I word on my computer ;)
I am a Christian (An Intellectual Christian), I've studied every world religion (including Satanism) and Christianity was the ONLY religion where the "founder" said he was God himself. To me that was bold, so I had a 7 year quest to "disprove" it, and have become a Christian Apologist in the process.
I am a libertarian (Do what the hell you want as long as my rights aren't violated). I don't do drugs but believe drugs SHOULD be legal. It cleans up the gene pool.
Even though I look and act conservative, I am a "closet" fan of death metal (Strange, I know) preferring bands such as Obituary, Slayer, Cradle of Filth, et al.
I have a wicked case of ADD and am extremely opinionated ;)
Although I believe ADD is a character trait and not a "syndrome' as they like to say.
I've been dating a wonderful woman for 6 years, and we'll get married when we get around to it. (I don't believe in marriage for the sake of marriage. I don't belive in divorce ,and I want the best for my progeny once they come)
I have dabbled in every programming lamguage that has existed (except RPG, BLEH!), even ones such as Hypercard :)
I don't "get" OOP, and find Java excrutiatingly painful to grasp. I've been programming for nearly 15 years and feel extremely humbled when I try to understand java (I have bought and read every decent book on the subjecy "Thinking in Java", etc), and I believe the "procedural" methodology is too embedded in my brain for me to jump out of it.
I htink in *NIX, and have 10 PC's with OS's such as QNX, beos, Atheos, Intel Solaris, and of couse the BSD's and Linux. I prefer Debian but for some reason always end up using my Mandrake 8.0 PC because it is so cool. I just hate the RPM package system :(
I am a social butterfly, but I have only one friend which I've known for maybe 15 years. I find it hard to just "make friends" nowadys as most people don;t have my idealogies..oh wel
Have a great day
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My opinions are randomly generated... (4.50 / 2) (#301)
by mahlen on Fri Aug 24, 2001 at 03:45:26 AM EST
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...but you're welcome to try and determine their root causes from the following. Or you can use the following to ignore my opinions; I wouldn't blame you :).
My real name is Mahlen Morris. I am currently 37 years old, living with my wife Diane and our three cats in San Francisco, and I am a Senior Engineer at a next-generation advertising company called Harmonic Communications, which means that sometimes i write a lot of Java/Weblogic EJB/SQL code, sometimes I plan what to write, and sometimes I'm in meetings discussing what we should write. I spend too much time gently informing people what we should not be writing.
Programming is the tribe to which i was born. My father was an electrical engineer at Lawrence Berkeley Labs. I was a nerdy child in Berkeley and Orinda, both S.F. Bay Area cities. I started programming on IBM mainframes with teletypes in BASIC when i was nine years old at the Lawrence Hall of Science. I programmed a TI calculator, which only had 100 possible steps in memory (and forgot everything when turned off). My first home computer was an Atari 800 (64K of memory), which i got when I was 19 or so. On that I cut my teeth on 6502 Assembler, BASIC, and Forth, and really learned how to debug, because I would type in programs from Antic magazine and then have to debug my typing mistakes from the program behavior. Then I went to Berkeley (during the tech boom of the 1980's), and learned Pascal, and C. It took a while to graduate, cause I didn't like to write papers. But I was very lucky to have found a now-defunct student co-op called Barrington Hall, which taught me nothing about computers, but everything about life.
After graduating from Berkeley in 1989 with a B.A. in Computer Science, I moved to San Francisco and started working as a programmer (I refused to live in Silicon Valley, because then, as now, it was a suburban cultural wasteland, and I am a city-boy through and through; the weather is nice there, though). Here is a list of where I've worked before Harmonic, only two of which still exist (and one just barely):
I suspect that in the future I may have a title like Software Architect or CTO someday. I have successfully fled in terror from possible management positions. In all modesty,
I am pretty damn good at this stuff, and it's been pretty good to me. Nonetheless, I do look forward to retiring as soon as I can, so that I can code what I feel like.
But that's just my work life. The rest of me is actually interesting :).
mahlen
Operator, give me the number for 911!
--Homer Simpson, "The Simpsons"
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I think somebody's watching this and recording all postings and then append these to existing database. I think "they" try to profile people nowadays so that even when I try to change my name, address and go hide someplace "they" could still find me. oops, coffee break. so for this one time, I don't care and tell anyway: I'm 25, was born and live in Finland, Europe. I work as ADP support person/consultant and play Counterstrike all my freetimes except when I'm sleeping or working. Pretty easy living, I don't want more.
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- Yes... by rebelcool, 08/24/2001 12:29:34 PM EST (none / 0)
Just joking. First thing I did on this topic was searching for people from Asia, esp. Southeast Asia and there appeared to be none. Haven't read all the comments though.
Anyway, I'm from the North Borneo, the so called state of Sabah, Malaysia where the majestic Mount Kinabalu is located. Sadly, a Brit climber was lost there a few day ago and the body has just been found yesterday.
Bah, I'm an all around IT person, doing working for the IT dept. of a company which happen to be the biggest property developer in the state. And there are only 3 of us there... so you can imagine the kind of work I do. Nevertheless it gives me a lot of experience and the pay's not bad at all. I have also stated a company with a few friends so now I also work nights... wanna retire by 40 :)
Not really sure how I stumbled upon K5, but like many here, I was also at the other site before if you know what I mean.
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I am a 40+ controls engineer. I design the systems that are used for controlling Air Conditioning, CCTV, security and access conrol in large to very large buildings. I have designed and programmed some very high profile installations, including sports stadiums, high-rise office buildings, city office complexes, and government facilities. I got into computers in the late '70s on a DEC PDP-11/24 that was being used to control a hospital I was working in as a steam plant engineer. I was a Nuclear Power Plant operator on submarines in the Navy, and got into running boiler/power plants when I got out. I fell in love with computers at that time and bought an Atari 800 (pound for pound, still the best computer ever made). Switched my major from Electrical engineering to Computer Science in 82. Got into Linux in 95. Though my work is mostly on Windows and (historically) OS/2, Linux is still my intellectual passion. People call me a Penguinista, and I dont argue. I program C, Java (my favorite), Javascript, Pascal (Delphi) , and used to do a lot of Fortran-77. I have been married 21 years and have three teen-age daughters. And the gray hair that comes with it.
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It seems my primary calling in life is to drive this car and answer questions about it on garage forecourts.
Apart from that, I'm a PhD student at the University of Glasgow. I research accident and incident reporting databases. My master plan is to apply information visualisation techniques to these databases of incidents.
Computer wise, I don't program as much as I'd like to. I do Java, Objective C (Mac OS X) and perl primarily. I like learning new and (slightly) obscure languages, so I also know some Ada95 and Haskell. I primarily use Mac OS X on a Dual-500MHz G4 and a new-style iBook. I have a debian box at home routing my cable modem between the iBook, a Performa 6400 that will eventually get built into my smart car and a G3/266 desktop box that my wife uses.
Oh yeah, I also go to church, but that's a whole other post.
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Hi. My name is KristyAnna, and I am a geek chick. ("Hi kristy") Most people call me Kristy.
On sunday, I'll be 22 (Happy birthday to me!)
I was born and raised in Wapakoneta, Ohio (the birthplace and childhood home of Neil Armstrong, first man on the moon) an only child, and now am living and attending university at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio. I've also lived in New Orleans and out in the boonies in Alberta Canada, but Ohio is my home. I am a psychology and computer science double major, and no, I don't psychoanalyze computers. I came to college as a psychology major, instrumental music minor.
Currently, I work for Marathon Oil Company in Findlay Ohio as an IT intern. I will also be taking classes in the fall and am hoping to graduate in the spring of 2002. My current projects at MOC are automated testing (using winrunner, test director, and possibly visualtest) as well as win2k admin stuff. Im also knowledgable about C/C++, Visual Basic, HTML, SQL, Oracle, Unix, and some other stuff. I will probably be looking for employment in May (*hint hint*) and I would like to relocate to Columbus or Cleveland.
I've recently setup my own home network, penny.lan with an obvious "beatles" theme. I have a Redhat 7.0 router (Ringo, the router). My roomate has a high end HP running ME (Paul, because its so pretty, but good for nothing). I also have my computer, and old AMD k6 200 running 98 w/ litestep (George, it's old, kinda psychadellic and does its own thing) and a company provided laptop running win2k (DayTripper, an IBM thinkpad). I plan on adding a multimedia box to hook up to my tv (Tik2Ride)
I enjoy music and film, travel, guitar(I have a danelectro innuendo, the blue one), interior design(I have an alpha motherboard hanging on my wall), pop culture, anime, hardware(will look cute for hardware!), networking, programming, imported/ microbrew beer and hard liquor, cooking, reading, and any sort of new experience. I was baptized a methodist, raised a jehovahs witness, but right now I'm agnostic. I am extremely indecisive, but have strong opinions on important subjects. I like both linux and Microsoft. However, I'm interested in getting my MCSD soon :)
Sorry fellas, I'm not single :)
Do you chat to your mother with those fingers?
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I'm Mike Kelley and I am a Web/Technology Specialist for my 9-5 job, Web Developer for my 6-9 job, and a musician to boot.
I'm 27 years old, engaged, and completely stressed.
I've develope/designed sites since 1995
I've developed :
www.hutcheson.org
www.mkelley.net
www.vixol.com
www.rivaweb.com
I've put pen to paper for as long as I can remember.
I write for:
www.geekreader.com
www.vixol.com
www.mkelley.net
I read and post on kuro5hin, Plastic, /., Daynotes.com, and drudge.
I am 99x :)
m.kelley
life is like a freeway, if you don't look you could miss it.
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... a meat popsicle.
Who are you?
Randolph R. Rackovitz.
Where do you come from?
Born May 22, 1971 in Chattanooga Tennessee. I currently reside on top of a mountain just north of Chattanooga.
What do you do for a living?
I admin an advertising agency with about 70 seats. Mostly Macs but a few PCs and Unix boxes as well.
I fail to see how any of this explains why I'm a dope-smoking leftist hillbilly punk, but there ya are.
"Question with boldness even the existence of God; because if there be one, He must approve the homage of Reason rather than that of blindfolded Fear." - Thomas Jefferson
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I'm a 19 year old sophomore in college in NJ (cs major w/ a minor in ee). I got into computers and programming in junior high (primitively locking up computers w/ qbasic) and networking (hiding warez in upper ascii character directories on netware) at around the same time. I first heard about Kuro5hin when it was DoS'd to death from /. I live in a small closet room in a pseudo-squat outside of campus. I like listening to modern hardcore, grindcore, and elephant6 recordings. When I'm not at school I live in NY. And I'm trying to build a mosix cluster with my friend using celeron and PII boxes people threw out this spring in his overly-afluent neighborhood. I've been reading kuro5hin for only a few months but am refreshed by the lack of 'linux-distro for nokia phones' /. -type stories.
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I wake up,
eat,
drive,
fix/run/code unix,
drive,
eat,
drink massive amounts of whiskey,
short circuit brain,
sleep,
I do this because ....,
it happens and I have to,
so I continue living,
so I can get to work,
so I can pay for the place to sleep and the car and the whiskey,
so I can get home,
so i can slow my mind down to sleep,
so i can rest to do it all again.
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I am a software engineer for a large electronics company near Seattle. I write data analysis and simulation applications in languages from Fortran to Java, and the next language I plan on playing with is Ruby. I've been a code wrangler and software mangler for over half of my life, although I've been doing it for pay since junior year of university.
Right now I am getting ready to leave the exciting, well-documented, and periodically Dilbertesque, world of corporate culture for the much different, challenging, and hopefully more enthralling, world of academia. I am ditching the suits, pantyhose, and briefcase and going back to school. The short-term goal is to survive, learn lots of new things, and become a student again. The long-term goal is a PhD in the sciences, with an eye towards a research position in a lab.
This major shift will probably entail massive changes, many of which I haven't thought of yet.
"Plenty of hamsters but no wheel." - Hektor
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4th Year BSc Honours Co-op Physics.
Currently working as an antenna engineer on co-op to make money for school.
I like to read about a wide variety of things, mostly science and philosophy though. Born and currently residing in Canada, but I'm also a USian born abroad. (dual citizen)
I'm planning on continuing my post-secondary education in quantum gravity. I'm also interested in the neurosciences.
I like to DJ (drum and bass + techno), skateboard, create music and art, use my computer (programming, art, games, music, etc), and generally run my mouth off whenever I get a chance.
Social Libertarian, Universalist, Humanitarian, Punk, Raver, Geek, Freak, Monk, Madman..... take your pick.
HUGHAGI INDUSTRIES
We don't make the products you like, we make you like the products we make.
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Like everyone else, I'm special (3.00 / 1) (#336)
by jugglhed on Fri Aug 24, 2001 at 01:55:16 PM EST
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Hi!
I do computer programming for a living. Java, Perl, etc. This is mostly when I'm not in meetings or freaking out over Soul Corrosion (an occupation hazard). But really, I'm a MULTIFACETED PERSON with many DIVERSE INTERESTS. For example, I know how to sing 'The Yellow Rose of Texas' in Cantonese while juggling basketballs.
I am not female, but probably wouldn't have sex with you if I were, seeing as chances of our ever meeting in real life are vanishingly small. Actually I might have sex with you if I were on E or something. But really, you're a GREAT GUY and you'll make somebody a wonderful boyfriend some
day. Cheer up!
I hope this fascinating information about me is permanently etched in your mind now.
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- Me too! by xj479, 08/24/2001 07:02:42 PM EST (none / 0)
There are more things in heaven and earth... (4.00 / 1) (#338)
by DoctorDoom on Fri Aug 24, 2001 at 01:59:44 PM EST
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I am Delwin Richard Chafe III.
I live in Seattle, WA where I work as a network support specialist, which at my current place of employment means I do equal parts of support and system administration for win2k and linux. It's rather unsatisfying but it pays the bills.
I graduated from the University of Washington with a degree in Biology focusing on cellular and molecular biology. I have a great disdain for the modern academic and private research hierarchies and prefer to do my research on my own, although this has taken a back seat lately to other projects.
I fancy myself an artist sometimes. I enjoy reading comic books, watching movies, watching anime, hiking and camping, roleplaying, and trying to create independent computer games.
DoctorDoom
"Pain? Pain is like love, like compassion! It is a thing for lesser men. What is pain to Doom?"
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I'm going to be a freshman at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities campus in about a week, with a hopeful double major in Computer Science and Linguistics.
I spend most of my time writing small Perl/C stuff, and discussing the merits of free sofware (and usually other freedoms, as well). I'm a libertarian socialist (more commonly known as an anarchist).
Lately I've been doing some free RPG designing with some friends. Despite the fact it doesn't involve either of my majors, game design is my ideal job right now.
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Right now I attend a local community college, Owens Community College in the Toledo, Ohio area. My major is Network Electronics. I'm about 2/3 of the way done with the program.
Right now I work at a crappy air freight company for pretty good money (for a college job). Some of my boring tasks include stretching cargo nets, driving forklift, loadplanning flights, tracking and loading hazmat, and hell, I don't know. Lifting boxes. Yay.
I ran into Kuro5hin via Slashdot, like most others, I expect. Not that anybody asked. I pretty much stopped trying to keep up over there when it seemed more likely every day that I would see a story posted by Malda saying "Grape Kool-Aid running Linux, come to Guyana and check it out. Drink and see." from the "shoot-a-congressman-and-kill-self-and-followers department."
I look forward to my future where I see myself becoming a citizen in a nation of two, acquiring lots of stuff, and knowing lots of stuff. After I retire, I plan on figuring out how to take it all with me.
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I'm a software engineer in the beautiful central coast of California. I currently work on a MFC-based GUI framework for manufacturing applications (complies with the SEMI e95-0200 UI spec). I also work on improving our software engineering process. I have previously spent almost all of my professional time in application programming and configuration management. I also currently consult on configuration and build management. I program in C++, Perl, and Java. I'm the manager of VSSTools. My degree is in Applied Social Psychology (organizational and environmental).
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I'm from Singapore. 25, male, programmer, agnostic, chinese.
Life: Born. Kindergarten, Primary School, Secondary School then Junior College. Conscripted, army. University, just graduated. Working next month.
It's great to see from the comments that there is quite a bit of diversity - in gender, country, job, etc.
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Hi. Since it seems to be the trend here I'll give you my real name: Anne K.G. Murphy. That just changed as I got married in June. Changing your name is weird. It isn't instantaneous. You get sent into this amorphous land where half the world knows you as one thing and the other half knows you as someone else.
I am from Ann Arbor Michigan. I was born there in 1974 and raised there and though I've lived in Grinnell Iowa, Deerfield Illinois (Chicagoland North) and Waterloo Ontario, I've always said that I'm from Ann Arbor. We just bought a house there so soon the fundamental and the current will be one and the same.
In Ann Arbor I skipped Kindergarten and guess I never learned all those things I was supposed to, but I learned other things. I spent most of my years in alternative schools and graduated in '92 from Community High - If you went there, head's up, next year is our 30th anniversary and we'll be having a shindig or two.
I moved to Chicago to live with the man I just married and to work as a web designer. The other two locations had to do with school. I have a history degree from Grinnell which had mostly to do with technology and Asia though I also studied technical theatre, physics and computer science. I am working on a Master's in Applied Science at the University of Waterloo which will be in Systems Design Engineering. Even in this crowd the reaction to that department title is probalby "That's about computers, right?". I wanted to learn more about design and solving complex problems and I did the first by TA-ing design courses and the second by studying Systems Thinking and Post-Normal Science under James Kay. I also found out about whole fields I hadn't heard of before, namely usability and human factors, and human computer interaction (HCI).
I don't know what I'll do next. I'm very interested in politics but I know I don't know much about it. I like writing and editing and I help run science fiction conventions, which is slowly giving me management experience and training. I read a lot, and have a really cool bike (a Trek 5500) and don't own my own computer which is probably odd in this crowd.
I landed here because a friend recommended it. I'm very glad to meet you all.
I am a hoper, a wisher, a dreamer.
I am a lover, a poet, a reader.
join me as I strive to be true.
--netmouse
In the scheme of things, son, no one of us is any more than a momentary flicker of light in the infinite blackness of space and time.
Meaning, then, is a matter not of shouting one's name into the void, but of creating, and making the most of, one's own context.
-Ozy's dad, Ozy and Millie
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Me. Oh how not interesting. (2.00 / 1) (#354)
by sien on Fri Aug 24, 2001 at 04:35:04 PM EST
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I'm 26, live in Norfolk VA, home of the Atlantic fleet and of the largest concentration of military on the planet.
I'm a graphics programmer at ODU. I program in C++, I've used Java, Perl and Python quite a bit before, but not for a year or so, so I'm quite out of touch. I'm still learning my craft and would like to program games at some stage (pathetic I know).
I'm Australian and have lived in 4 countries, the US, Germany, Sweden and Australia. I can speak German and have some understanding of Swedish.
In my spare time I'll do most things outdoorsy and this summer have learnt to Windsurf. I also read too much, both on and off the web.
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- Where? by Muzzafarath, 08/24/2001 05:19:16 PM EST (none / 0)
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Vancouver, BC, Canada
Network Admin / systems Programmer
Was a Game programmer for a couple of years
37 years, male, divorced
3 kids, full custody
Hobbies:
Art, drawing, writing, programming, RPG's
Soccer, Ball hockey, inline skating, swimming.
Anarchists never rule.
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I was actually looking at Who Are You, and Who Are You part 2 last week, and thinking of putting a link in them to my diary to persuade everyone to update them. I failed because I didn't have the energy to actually write my own bio. But I had to do one today at work, to show what great employees they have, so I'm in the mood now. Here follows some useless puff. In my best tabloid form, I'm brown haired, blue-eyed, Ambrose Nankivell, 24. Up until last December I was number one Nankivell on the web, but I'm way down the list since leaving studies towards a PhD at the Institute for Communicating and Collaborative Systems at Edinburgh University (or CogSci for short). I was looking to do some Statistical Natural Language Processing and push the envelope a bit on learning of structure, or maybe do some nice research into the structure of noun phrases, but now I'm just a plain old Java developer at a startup who are into mobile connectivity. Which is interesting, but I don't think I'm cut out to spend the rest of my life as a developer, so we'll see what happens. And I hope there's a lot more to me than that, but I'm not sure. I am an Orthodox Christian, and used to be a reliable enough member of this parish that they saw fit to ordain me a reader when there was a bishop handy. Now my friends tease me that next time, they'll make me a deacon and I'll have to be a monk, like my namesake Ambrose of Milan. Now it seems to be all I can do to make Saturday evening vespers and the liturgy on Sunday. Mind you, I did just spend 2 weeks helping run a church camp. I think the people I know from that are a pretty significant part of my life. It kind of seems to me that the things that are most important to you aren't necessarily the ones that you spend the most time doing. I'm also pretty often found in the Pentland Hills (not to be confused with the Pentland Firth mentioned in the thread beginning comment 246 below, although I like that, too), circling round the trails on my mountain bike. Or indeed on my roadified mountain bike, going over to the Forth bridge or out along the coast. But I like it best off-road, when I get in flow with the path, and it's all just natural interaction, and, urm, anyway... You can see a bit of that side of me in uk.rec.cycling, if you want. So that's just about everything that's important about me. I get ill with a stupid stomach illness (Crohn's disease) occasionally, and everyone likes to ask me about it, but that wraps it up. So there you go, all the people whose diaries I rudely interrupt, a bit about me. Ambrose
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Procrastination does not make you cool. Being cool makes you procrastinate. DesiredUsername.
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Professionally I develop database-driven websites and the occasional multimedia project.
I am also a performance artist and AI researcher.
I enjoy difficult music and difficult literature.
Destroy all trusted users!
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My name is Manuel Aristarán and I live in Bahía Blanca, Argentina (QRA Locator FF81 for the hams out there :)
Since i had access to a computer (a Czerweny 1500, a clone of the Timex Sinclair 1500 assembled in Brazil i think) i become obsessed by them. So when I finished high school i entered University to get a CompSci BS. (my diploma will read: Licienciado en Ciencias de la Computación). I'm 20 right now, and if things don't get worse, i'll graduate in 3 years or so.
I also work as a programmer/sysadmin for paying my studies (Uni is FREE in argentina, but i won't be if the IMF/WTO fellas continue to put constraints to us, in exchange for the money they give to the government. Yes, not to argentinians, to the government). I call my self a programmer :), and my languages of choice are
I also play bass, in a Jazz band called "Lila".
I'm actively looking for an opportunity, as many argentinians, to get the hell out of here. So, dear k5 reader, if you feel a desire to hire a competent programmer for working outside Latin America, email me for details :-)
I'd like to write more, but net access is FUCKING EXPENSIVE here.
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"Patriotism is the last resource of scoundrels" (Samuel Johnson)
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I am programmer for a Blue Sky Studios, a computer animation studio in White Plains, New York. I write systems utilities and graphics manipulations applications. I am the lead developer and mainter of the render queue (600+ hosts and growing).
Prior to this I was a student at the College of Forestry at Stephen F. Austin State University. Programming was just a better job.
-danimal
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Brendan over here. (4.00 / 2) (#368)
by Zeio on Fri Aug 24, 2001 at 09:25:07 PM EST
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B.S. Chemistry, 1998/1999, Trenton State College, NJ (Chosen over Rutgers because it was supposed to be better).
Lived in MA, MN, TX (gross), MO, WI, NJ, CA.
Been to Finland, Russia, Canada, Mexico, Dominican Republic. I was going to go to Amsterdam and Romania (where my fiancée is from & and she already has a perm. green card so its not an internet bride =) but California economy is bad now.
Job: Systems Administrator for lots of things. Started out with Novell (Still love it). Windows NT 3.51 and 4.0. Reluctantly NT 5.0/2k. The advent of 2000 made me switch from my Linux hobby to a Linux/Solaris/Cobalt/Cisco administrator job. (DNS, Sendmail, IMAP,POP, ipchains and tables, 'user' machines (90% UNIX here =)!. Pay is good right now, but with the economy in a downturn, I may go for the CCNP and finish up my CNE 5 before going back to the workforce. Wish me luck as I try to hone in on my skills there!
I just got a Nissan Maxima 2001 SE 20th Anniv. Edition. I got it for cheap and paid it off fast. I hate it because its an automatic. My next car has to be something small and fast with a stick.
I love wine, and Napa and Sonoma here in the Bay area are wonderful places to feel love in that liquid we call wine.
Hoping to get a masters in computer science or something, I hate being in school and being poor, and I hate being in "business" and getting mind atrophy.
- I hate the RIAA (I will never NOT pirate music again and I will go to concerts to those artists I like), MPAA, RAMBUS (Make a product not a patent you whiners), Lawyers who litigate things that are wrong because they make money, DMCA, things that violate fair use, Macrovision, Microsoft, the way the United States pisses off everyone else in the world, politicians horrible ignorance, big companies, polluters, Religion - yes - fuck religion. I think its great, but keep it YOURSELF. 99% of human history is political, cultural and religious disagreements. Bloodshed ensues. I don't care what you do, I expect the same. Drugs should be legal. Welfare should not exist, and if you do receive workfare, you have to die your hair purple - then the humiliation would stop most of that shit. I hate George Bush, I hate polluters, I hate people who don't know or care about science. (I think if you get a car license you should know how a car works, basic physics and chemistry, etc. Pilots have to know a lot about planes.) I wish greed would succumb to science and Star Trek (TNG) was a reality, humanity united in the search for cool shit to look at and do. I also hate Steve Jobs, Steve Ballmer, Bill Gates. I love Paul Allen and Steve Wozniak (people who did something vs. 'the suits' and their stupid BMW 750iL egos). I love Linus Torvalds and Alan Cox. I like IBM, except when they act like babies, which isn't often. I hate Verizon, PacBell (and they thought Microsoft was the poster child for monopolies), Nortel(Thanks for the T-1 not the E-1 you bastards), I hate the FCC, I hate everyone on George Bush's cabinet at the moment and just about all politicians. I though BeOS was cool (Multithreaded programming is really hard though - so dev. for it would be hard). I think OS X is bad, IMHO, sorry. I HATE CARLY Fiorina of HP (Formerly Lucent). I hope she dies. I think www.somethingawful.com is VERY funny. I hate the death penalty and the US government for doing it. I love Thomas Jefferson. I believe in hanging juries when the law sucks. I hate insurance companies for fucking all of us (In the words of Chris Rock, who like George Carlin is hilarious, "Insurance should be IN CASE SHIT. Now if SHIT doesn't happen, shouldn't I get my money back?" I hate that they can build a spaceship to go to the moon and back 30 years ago, withstand 20,000 degrees of temperature on reentry, but Cadillac cant make a car where the bumper doesn't fall off. I hate energy companies for fucking the people of the world. Gasoline burning is deprecated. I hate Chandra Levy and Gary Condit. Chandra fucked someone else's husband, Gary cheated on his wife. I don't care about that really, in fact, the more fucking that goes on the better; why I hate them is because they gave the media I really, really hate something stupid to talk about instead of science. I hate that prostitution isn't legal, selling is legal, fucking is legal, why isn't selling fucking legal. Not that I need a whore. I hate the police for the most part because they are dumb, don't know who Thomas Jefferson is or was, and don't know the constitution by heart. I hate SPAM, I hate marketing because its lies, I hate that every car doesn't have a compressed natural gas engine (or some other clean, high efficiency source of power) and a V-8 option. I like nuclear weapons - especially on submarines because they prevent war. (Would you go to war with a country with 18+ submarines underwater with 18+ MIRV ICBM's?). I hate terrorists. I hate the FBI for being stupid. I hate the CIA for not doing its job. I hate that our government misappropriates taxes. I hate government employees because they are usually moron retards who get off on harassing me. I hate Nader for being an idiot about airplane air not being clean (when it is.) I hate Gore for taking oil money (and being a scum bag). I hate Bush for cheating (amongst a litany of things, and for being a scum bag too). I think its funny Clinton got a blow job, every president should get on the house. I think Clinton was a bitch for the Telecommunications Act, for invading my privacy. I think half the shit George is getting blamed for is Clinton's shit, and the other half of the shit Bush gets blamed for is his own. I like the 2nd amendment, and the NRA, and armed society is a polite society. I hate high speed police chases (use the GOD DAMN detectives morons.) I hate kiddie porn but I also hate all the laws that are supposed to fight it (No, the don't stop kiddie porn, yes they spend a lot of your money trying to and they fuck you out of rights doing it, and it occurs in this country LOT less than in some of the nastier places, e.g., Thailand and China.) I hate Disney and cartoons and anything that is "safe for children" and all this other shit. I grew up unsheltered. When I was young I found a porno magazine and I liked it. I'm glad I found it. When I was growing up, I though fuck was a funny word and I knew when not to use it. And I saw violence on T.V. and never committed any. I think trying to make a fake reality for your children and shelter them from anything and everything your fascist ass doesn't like and then this being the responsibility OF EVERYONE ELSE AROUND you is pure bullshit. I hate people who levy punishment and rules all day long. Can't they think of more fun stuff to be doing. I hate most movies because they are moronic and the books are always better. I hated that Keanu Reeves acted poorly in the matrix which was a cool concept. Jay and Silent Bob RULE. Howard Stern before his divorce ruled, now he is still funny but not as much. I hate you by default. You have to prove not to be an ass before I'll like you =).
Peace and Love and Good Happiness Stuff.
Zeio
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Hi people, I'm a hack writer currently in the middle of my first novel. It forms the major component of my PhD in creative writing, which I'm completing in a small but very windy place called Port Fairy, Australia. The novel's about a self-destructive, bi-sexual young male and his relationship to his mother and a wider rural community. It kind of treads along some well worn themes about differences between generations and the problems facing youth in regional areas of Australia. Not terribly original, I know, but it's a start. I also write non-fiction articles and scripts. I've written feature works for The Big Issue in Melbourne and am currently writing film reviews for the soon to be launched VibeWire website. I've worked as an editor/proofreader/general lackey for a few publishing companies, and when I get the chance play guitar in a folk band. Unfortunately I'm fairly computer illiterate, although I do love my games and really enjoy K5 - except sometimes it's hard to keep up and my brain goes all gooey...
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...someone actually reads through all these postings, I'm a Romanian web designer/programmer/3D artist/print designer/video artist (still?) living in Romania and working for an Austrian company. I graduated a mechanical engineering university here, in Bucharest. I'm 26 and a half, happily married for a year. Oh, and I'm a male.
But then again, I don't think anybody's reading all of these.
Who's your vendor, who's your vendor? — Scott Adams
time is K5
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the short version
live: yes... oh, Cincinnati
job: yes, finally..
AKA: 'Mommy', 'Hon', 'Hey, you..', 'Tech support', 'geek', Queen Bitch...
running: XP, 2k, 98, Mandrake 8
student: maybe again someday
Affiliations: There is no k5 cabal....
All your webcam pics are belong to the k5 cabal!
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- Work: Web Designer/Programmer
- Study: BS (what an appropriate name for it) in Biology, concentration in Marine Biology, minor in Computer Science
- Origins: unkown... Errr, I mean French male born in Africa, permanent resident of the US, and studying in Canada
Tout le malheur des hommes vient de l'espérance.
-- Albert Camus
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Who am I? What do I do?
My name is Petrus Lundqvist but everyone calls me Peppe. My email address is peppe@peppe.net - my homepage is www.peppe.net (though most pages there are hidden unless you know the direct links). I'm from Helsinki, Finland and I write software for a living. Currently, I'm employed as a lead programmer by a company called Fathammer (www.fathammer.com), working on a 3D game engine for handheld / mobile devices (PDA's, cellular phones etc.).
I've been on the net since 1992 or so, and before that, on BBS's for several years. Computers have always been an important part of my life. Not so much because of the technology itself but because what you can do with the technology. I'm fascinated by how computers bring people closer together and enables communication between people in a way which is truly revolutionary. I have several friends in Canada and the USA that I first met on the net but have since met several times in real life.
Outside of computers too, people and communication between people is something that is close to my heart. I travel a lot (I've been to over 25 countries) and I enjoy feeling overwhelmed by how big this planet is and how many different kinds of people and cultures there are here. It puts things into perspective more than anything else.
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Hi!
Let me introduce myself, gladly I am about having been asked to. I just subscribed and bookmarked the site because I felt 'right home' here.
I'm the chaotic guy next door, never cleaning the stairhouse before 1 am, having supper at 2.30 am and getting up for work at 5.45 am. Arriving and being asked if I were still in bed and only had sent my very shadow.
Why I do is because of what I do.
Imagine a company of approx. 500 employees in the middle of Bavaria, Germany. I wander around, having switched off my braing ages ago, just having ordered my 'adminspotting' t-shirt ( http://www.geekstyle.co.uk ) and provide user support to Masters of Information Science and alike. Sometimes I feel like running amok when I just look at my colleagues faces. They're administering the VPN's and ask my for the difference between Triple DES and DES. I explain it to them and notice how I lose their attention after I initially said 'less weak' and 'weak'.
It's giving me the creeps when I point out where they made straight configuration errors, and they don't even understand. Or if the ERP servers go down for a _fscking stupid_ (power supplys 1-3) -> usv -> ups chaining and noone has to say sorry apart from the poor electrian that short-ciruited the UPS unknowingly.
Why bother with knowledge? Why use brais?
To make it clearer.
[ ] They have practical knowledge.
[ ] They have conceptual knowledge.
[x] They are annoying me.
As I said I'm the chaotic guy next door. I'm the CCNA (and yes, I feel like that's almost nothing) in there, but I don't even get to touch the cisco's not because they were CCIE or so, but because they don't even know what a CCNA is.
:)
So in the end, I just don't use my brains at work, it'd be a waste of energy to - nothing and feel happy the very second I get home to further securing my almost-all-Unix-Gigabit-network, having sex, or maybe just falling asleep.
And, that's probably all I do...
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Briefly ...
- Mark
- 35
- Male
- Software Engineer
- Single (see above)!
- Cyclist
- Vegetarian
- London, UK
- Welsh
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I'm razzmataz. I won't tell you my real name, because any normal person could figure out that on their own. I originally trained as an electrical engineer at Michigan State. Eventually, I found myself in Houston, Texas for almost 2 years, having to move to St. Louis, MO due to my wife finding a job that paid twice the pittance she was being paid in Texas.
I miss Houston, because of James Coney Island, whose chilli cheese fries were the best. And also, due to Fajita Willy's, which had the absolute best Fajitas.
Since most of us are a bunch of computer geeks, I'll describe my toys. I have five computers (including the laptop my wife thinks is hers :) ).
- A Compaq Presario 433. My first peecee clone. A 486 that I still use, but with a boot floppy that boot linux and mounts the root filesystem over NFS. Basically an Xterminal (which is it's hostname!).
- Next is my first attempt at putting together a bunch of parts so I could run Slackware96 in 1996. An AMD k5-75 with 32MB of ram, a 3GB SCSI disk connected to some crappy Adaptec SCSI controller, and a really old 3COM nic. I call it fulcrum. It runs Debian GNU/Linux.
- Next is a crappy P133 whose motherboard is fscked up. For some reason the CMOS checksum fails. Not that the bios doesn't save the config, just the CMOS checksum fucks up somehow. This beast comes equiped with a 1.6GB IDE disk. Plus an ATAPI Zip drive. It has Slackware 7.1 right now. FreeBSD or OpenBSD may go back on it.
- Then there is flanker, the laptop. Dual booting Win95 and FreeBSD 3.2, this Compaq Presario 1210 is the final thing that destroyed my faith in Compaq's presario line of peecee's.
- Last and not least is the Celeron-533, with 9GB SCSI disk, fast ethernet, 256MB of ram, for now dual booting RedHat 7.1 and FreeBSD 4.3.
I have a huge assortment of electronic junk, from my pre-cellular ban scanner, to my shortwave reciever to the bin of parts, to the SCSI tape drive I haven't started to use yet, to the 200 or so floppy disks in the shoebox next to my foot, as well as two ethernet hubs, and my assortment of books laying all over.
I am 26. I remember when Carter was president. I remember when the Soviets invaded Afganistan. I remember when we boycotted the '80 Olympics because of it. My first computer was an Amige 500 (and yes, it was the best computer ever). I feel like such a geezer. I am also surprised that trhurler
is younger than me, because he always sounds so bitter that it makes him sound old (and I mean that in the best way, since we live in the same town).
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I love the smell of fdisk in the morning...
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this is easy: geek who likes outdoors excercise.
started off as a civil engineer. didn't have the guts to switch courses at Uni. So i drank instead, So i disliked humanity pretty much. So i begain writing two novels. So i got the degree i deserved. So I bummed around for a few years. Then took a job doing 3d simlation modelling work. poor pay. not enough to get drunk on. So learnt basic C and Vb and ended up programming delphi for the agreat firm(GES). Great guys(trev/jon/taz/paul). Moved on. Programmed in Java/EJB at the next one, helped evangelize python and won in QA dept, yeah. And then the technical director reckoned Java was not an enterprise solution and we should code the project in C++. Fine, i know mad people. So i learnt C++ is cool. If u use the STL, templates and stick to Stroustrups guidelines. For the 3rd time in 4 years made redundant. So back to delphi(financial s/w that was written by a mad genuis and mantained by nutters), coding wrappers for kylix and ruby in the spare time and relearning EJB. Oh and finishing the book which i never finished even though i wasted far too many hours on it while doing my degree. Oh, i like the countryside a lot(i am English), so will have to flee the UK at some point b4 we suburbia all over it. Who wants a spread bet of 2050 with a tick of £10 over 1 year(say 50% suburbia on in England). Like sports don't mind sane bets. Like databases and distributed programs.
oh,
male 27 1/2 , single, english(what is this 'UKian', the united kingdom will not exist soon) , live 5 mins from work in hook(sad but cheap:D), Run OpenBSD, Win2k, mandrake 8 and FreeBSD. have far too much music. will do VSO soon.
Lastly thanks for over a years of K5, thanks to all contributions.
vive Opera.
I love my gramatical errors -;
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I'm Aaron, from southeatern Michigan, USA. I found Kuro5hin by chance, really...I have no idea how I found it, but I did, so here I am. I'm a high school student, in my Sr. year thank God. To others, I do computers, my life is boring, I sleep all day, my life is still boring. To unpeople, I do tonnes of stuff; I program in PHP, Java (apps, not applets; applets are evil), shell, C/C++, and other unmentionable languages (like BASIC).
I've moved about 7 times, and went to about 5 schools + homeschooled for a year. By about the the 5th move, which was to northern Michigan in Kalkaska (actually, an even smaller place, Lodi, which is on the map though it's not a city technically or something like that), I started getting into computers. Back then, it was AOL and Prodigy, and I was actually quite fond of Prodigy, esp. the maze game, which vanished one day.
Yes, I sleep all day. Usually, I'm active at night, that is when other certain things that are socially "required" (bleh) don't get in the way. 12hrs of sleep is usually a minimum, with 24+ waking hours the usual (again, when crap isn't involved).
I've used Linux, and liked it then, but now I've seen the error of my ways and despise it. FreeBSD is my OS of choice, though presently I'm using 2k (one of the first Microsoft products that comes close to being an operating system).
I'm a fan of Novell; Novell kicks ass. It's a cool company, with cool products; no I don't work for them. In fact, I don't work for anyone; at the moment I have no job, which means I survive in the $40/mo allowance from my parents (yes, at age 17 I'm still spoiled and it's fun).
I've been to half the US, if not more, in addition to Canada and Mexico when I was little, but overall I don't go anywhere, and I stay inside (it sucks; small towns suck; nothing to do sucks; boring sucks). Anything I've wanted to do somehow flopped and when to shit (MEKKA comes to mind).
Speaking of MEKKA, I love BT (who was coming to Detroit with MEKKA, until MEKKA screwed Detroit, home of Detroit Techno, who appreciates such things as MEKKA, and then MEKKA went to shit and was cancelled. Anyway, that's not the point. BT is. He kicks ass; best artist (not DJ) in the world. Delerium is cool, too, as is Underworld which comes in second in my book, compeating with Delerium. Perhaps they're tied, can't really tell.
Okay, so to others I do music and computers. Boring, yes, but not to you I suppose. Music and computers are fascinating, else you wouldn't be hear right? Right. Music is precious. Technology is precious. At least, while we're still here. Life, freedom is precious...yatta yatta yatta, privacy, the works you all know it so I would repeat it.
And reading over this, I realize I like writing. Writing is fun, poetry is fun. Reading is fun too...composing would be fun if I had equipment (maybe someday, when I get a job), it already is as I've done some small time stuff, which for me is cool. So yeah, that's me. Bye.
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My name is Kyle. I'm a 19 year-old college student currently attending Cascadia Community College. I have yet to choose my major as of right now I'm just taking generic all-around classes. I am 6'5" and weigh somewhere around 250lbs. I am half Czech and half German for those of you who care to know. I've seen the worst side of life as very large family problems and abuse drove me to the edge of attempted suicide. I've won against my struggle with depression and have gone from a pessimist to an optimist with a "life is great!" view.
As for a "living", I currently work at my old high school doing computer maintenance and administration for a Windows 2000 network.
Hobbies... I've got a few. I like the outdoors, photography, driving/racing ('87 VW Jetta 2-door Wolfsburg or a '87 VW Cabrioloet Wolfsburg), writing, poetry, Dance Dance Revolution, and of course computers (SqueakyWeasel.net is my little "burrow on the net" or more widely known as an internet-journal).
Religion, I have none. I have attended a Christian school and have Christian friends so I have their values and some beliefs imprinted on me. I believe I was put here to try to make other people's lives better so, that's what I try to do.
Uhm, yeah, there's a lot more jank I could write about (this topic's really, really broad) but that's a generic run down.
--Weasel
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Calling from Worcester and no it's not pronounced
"Worchester" ;-). My name Panagiotes M. Petrakis
though everone except my parents calls me Peter.
I'm 22 years old, 6'4", and 220lbs. A little background. I liked the 10th grade in H.S so much I decided to do it over again resulting in a 5 year high school career. You would NEVER believe stories of my former self if you ever met me. Sufice to say I did all my party'g in H.S when I didnt have to pay for it :-). I didn't get into computers until my senior year of high school. Went to college in 97' (or was it 96?) as a double major EE/CS student. My spotty education in math during H.S made me stagger my course sheduale so I had more free time than most folks of which I used to concentrate more on computers.
I stumbled over articles about the Alpha CPU architecture and fell in love with it. Bought one and began to learn Linux & NT. I've learned few programming languages but of the ones I do I knnow them well. I become so involved with Linux on Alpha that it was noticed by few folks. First by the guys at www.alphalinux.org for which I have been a part of for over 3 years and later API NetWorks who hired me before I finished my degree.
I've been working with Alphas for about 4 years now and the last year or so in a professional capacity at API. That was until I was laid off earlier this month. I was pretty much a dream come true being hired by API. The only thing I wish was different is that if Digital had hired before they got bought by Compaq. Then I could call myself a "Decee", but oh well. :-) No regrets here.
Gee... What are my geek skills... C, C++, Java, &
Alpha Assembly. Not much, I know. My expertise :-)
, quality assurance, matinence engineer, software/hardware debug, kernel hacker, support engineer, & hardware qual. So any prospective employers out there... ;-)
I live in Worcester like I said in the beginning only moved here a year or so ago from springfield where I grew up and went to school. Things I enjoy are weight lifting, running (when my knee isnt bothering me), & reading/hacking. I don't get out too much latley being in this new city though that will change soon enough when I return to school and met some more people.
I think thats the short version :-). Oh, there is never any shortage of emails about the "origins of the sig" which has evolved over the last 4 years. needs updating, Xena's not dead anymore.
Peter
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www.alphalinux.org
Peter Petrakis Warrior/Engineer ppetrakis@alphalinux.org
"Oh my God! They killed Xena! You bastards!!"
"<BLAM!!> Who the hell are you!? Name's Ash <click clock> Housewares..."
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I just wandered in here yesterday off a link on a page found in a search for something else entirely. I have, however been familiar with the Tacoma Narrows Bridge for a long time, and am sufficiently knowledgeable about corrosion that I wrote the Engineering Change Proposal which led the US Navy to change the specification for fittings for minesweeper fittings to the metal from which I made the ring which has been in my ear for the past ten years (the peircing itself was done 30 years ago). I've been online, via RCP/Ms and then BBSs since '85, on the net since '95, and appearing as triticale on Slashdot and In Passing for a few months now.
I'm 50 years old, and have a ponytail and beard which have not turned grey like Sid on Userfriendly's has. Also unlike Sid, I have not worked in the computer field all this time. After I dropped out of college for the usual reasons of my generation, I got married (28 yrs 7 mos last Tuesday) and began doing whatever factory work I could find. At one place where I worked for a few months, I got to do some welding and decided it suited me, so I went to welding school and got a lot better at it. Straight out of welding school I got hired at a small fabricating firm where I wound up doing every job in the place for 22 years, including product design, computer support and even some welding.
Toward the end of my time there, four years ago, I was doing mostly sales, and one day I drove from Chicago to Milwaukee to make a couple of technical calls. I brought the local homes for sale magazines back for a laugh, but my wife took one look and decided we were househunting in the wrong city. We plugged our parameters into homescout.com searching Milwaukee, and found our dream home listed at half what we could get for our dump. We couldn't pass it up and have never regretted the move.
My 20 years of computer background (starting with a much modified MicroAce Sinclair clone) proved to be more valuable than my work experience. I have held several jobs since I moved, all contract and all computer-related. When I found out the job I had selling and supporting industrial controllers was not going to turn permanent, I decided that certification in combination with my computer background would be the next best thing to computer experience, so I got the A+ and 3 MCPs. I'm now working as a data technician contracted to a cellular provider, collecting and analysing data on the performance of their new network. Its not challenging, but its fun (I've driven almost every road in the 6 county area) and apparently it will look real good on my resume.
Altho I have the hub and the cabling, the house isn't networked yet. We have three computers running right now (all Win98; my main 400, the 233 I burn CDs on and my wife's 200) but I also have Linux and NT boxen awaiting setup. Since others have mentioned music preferences, I will report that the current CD stack includes Jean-Pierre Rampal playing Gershwin, Mark Ermler conducting the _complete_ Nutcracker, and Doc Watson playing rockabilly.
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I am a 40 year old male of mixed Irish/Scots/English (dad) and Lebanese (mom) descent from Massachusetts (age 0-22), Washington DC (age 22-24), Mass. again (age 24-28), Texas (age 28-31), Kansas (age 31-38), now living in Wisconsin for the most unlikely of reasons: I more or less went with the flow, and the flow washed me up here into this backwater, where I sit now and search out some meaning for my existence. I am married to a woman whom I met when I was in the Army in Kansas. She is my best friend and my family too. She and I like to garden together and sometimes cook too. She is an obligate vegetarian, while I am a facultative vegetarian. I will put dead animal in my mouth in a restaurant, since it's easier to go along than fight reality. She will eat pasta salad at just about every kind of restaurant there is, as we live in a very meat and potatoes part of the country. She and I each have a computer, connected via a hub and to the internet by cable modem. Mine is a Pentium 4 running Win ME and hers is an Athlon AMD running Win 98. We have an old 486 on which I am trying now to figure out how to put SuSE Linux on, whatever for I don't know. I would like to be able to continue to run Windows, or at least DOS, and dual boot. My name is Paul Walters and I am involved in the medical field, not directly related to computers, though I use one every day. I like music and have about 500 mp3's and a few dozen CD's, about 200 cassettes and perhaps 10 or 12 albums stuck somewhere in my parents' house, where I haven't been for over five years because of the usual wife/mother-in-law thing. I suppose five years is unsusal, but you haven't met my mother...or my wife. She is a beautiful woman of mixed central European and Louisiana Redbone ancestry (If you don't know what that means, read Cane River by Lalita Tademy). Anyway, I also have a Technics KN1000 keyboard with sequencer and MIDI hookup but am only now, after ten years of wanting to, learning to create music in a MIDI environment, using Cakewalk software that my wife brought home when I asked her to pick up a MIDI cable at the store. I have long ago forgotten the link that brought me to Kuro5shin but immediately signed up and keep it handy on my desktop. I have no children, and none in sight. My wife and I are that middle-aged couple on the corner you remember from childhood as being kind of standoffish and creepy. We're really not creepy. We like children. We were children once ourselves and like to believe that we remember perfectly well how that felt. We just don't fit in at the baby showers and the neighborhood barbecues where everyone sits around and gabs about their kids. Maybe we should live in a bigger city, rather than a medium size midwestern factory-cum-university town. But you really can't beat the price of a home here, and I get paid maybe twice what I'd make on the coasts. It just gets tiring having to choose between Sizzler and Applebee's all the time. Actually we generally eat at home because even my own cooking is better than what you can buy around here. My first computer memory is from the ninth grade (1975) when a student from the local state college taught us a few commands in BASIC--no idea what kind of a system it was I'd practice on in study hall, but I liked it. In college I had a series of summer/Xmas jobs in which I used a Tandy computer from Radio Shack, the venerable TRS-80 Model II with 64K of RAM and dual 8" floppy drives. I learned a bit there. After college, the medical schools weren't exactly trampling each other's toes in an effort to sign me up, so I hung out in Washington DC, where so many of my college classmates grew up, and took a job in a quasi-Federal agency basically preparing "control cards" on a Wang system, in which I entered the appropriate commands onto a screen, mimicking what they had been doing just a year or two earlier on real punch cards. It was quite scandalous when I asked the programmers to keep data files on the disk to allow me to run my own jobs and even more scandalous when I inserted compiler code into them. Fortunately (or unfortunately I sometimes wonder), the medical schools got their act together and decided (amongst themselves in their own version of the K5 cabal, I'm sure) which one of them would endure my presence for four years. I will not name it except that it does possess a reasonably well-known dental school as well. I will spare all of you the rest...but I'm thankful that I have lived long enough to see this many generations of Moore's law, and I would like to live long enough to see androids, the Mars landing, the 100th anniversary of Pearl Harbor, of Elvis on Ed Sullivan, and even (at 100) of John Glenn orbiting the earth. I also hope to live long enough to see it again become legal to visit Cuba, a beautiful land which was closed off to us, just after the Ricky Ricardo days, which is to say just before I was born. As to religion, I'll keep it brief: highly lapsed Roman (actually Maronite) Catholic (my last confession was more than half my life ago) with general affinities towards Buddhism, Zen, Taoism, deism, Transcendentalism and a good healthy dose of Chaos theory, Buckminster Fuller, and Meister Eckhart. But I equally well enjoy a good Baptist sermon, as it helps keep things real. And, as I age, the more mystical aspects of Catholicism begin to exert their sway, proving once again how hard it is to pull up all one's roots for good.
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I really don't know who I am right now, as far as the what do I do part, some of the jobs I have had:
Cook, Dishwasher, Machinist, Hard drive assembler, Toolmaker, Equipment maint., Auto mechanic, Stock broker, Manufacturing Engineer, Apartment maint. / groundskeeping, Electrician, Mechanical designer, Owner of 2 Tool and die shops, motorcycle mechanic, Retail manager, .....
I have used and dabbled in repair/ programming of computers for 20+ years, hobbies when I have time / money include: motorcycling, travel, reading, fixing and making things.
BTW I am 33 years old, married with one great 16 month old son.
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Ok, lets see. I am 20 years old and work as a programmer for a small company in Austria. I study philosphy and computer science in Vienna.
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I'm Greg.
I'm 22 years old, just graduating college now (I have 4 credits left to earn from an independent study). Majoring in Linguistics, minor Spanish (but I wanted it to be CS. UNH doesn't offer that as a minor).
I'm 6'1", 215 lbs. Brown hair with a natural blond streak, blue eyes. I've been called good-looking by females :-). Fairly athletic; I played football and wrestled in high school (215 and Heavy), also in college (197, boy did sucking weight for *that* bite).
I'm also a full-fledged geek. I stay up late just so I can be alone but not feel anti-social. This is because if I seclude myself when everyone else is around I feel like I'm neglecting them, but if no one is awake then it's fine. I love computers, Linux, OpenBSD. I program some, my favorite language is Perl (it just does evrything the way I always wished the other languages would do it). I've recently restarted my deadly NetHack habit. The only reason I boot windows is to play Counter-Strike. Man what a good game. But I hear that it's possible to emulate under WINE, with OpenGL support, so I think I'm going to try that sometime soon.
Umm, my job is cool. I'm working Customer Support for XyEnterprise and I like my job a lot. The management has all been there before, they know what they're talking about. There isn't any (apparent) political B.S., and people just concentrate on putting out a good product (which is a large-scale publishing program called XPP). Our customers like us.
I have a girlfriend, as well. She's beautiful, intelligent, and she started learning to play NetHack two days ago (!!). She's going to be a broadcast journalist, which is really funny given the problems I have with the media.
Politically, I have no clue where I'd fall. On many things I'm Libertarian, but on many others I'm very leftist. I believe your right to do whatever you want stops at my nose, but I also dislike large multi-national predatory coporations. Who knows where I stand. My voting is based on what I call the "Fuck-up factor". I try to judge who has the best chance of not fucking things up and vote for him. I didn't vote for Bush.
Religiously, I've been basically hard-line Agnostic (I don't know if there's a god, and if you claim you do, you're a fool), but I'm considering Buddhism. There are a couple hang-ups I have, one of which is the flat-out assumption of reincarnation. I believe that view is a hold-over from Hinduism, which itself was created as a way for the conquering Aryans to keep the sub-continent under control. I'm not saying there isn't any reincarnation, just that I consider it foolish to dogmatically assume it. I think Zen fits the closest to my leanings.
That's all I can think of for now.
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He's more machine now than man, twisted and evil.
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That's the Swahili word for "Self-Determination". I've spent the past 9 or so months doing just that...defining and re-defining myself, so that I could start doing what I really want to do.
NOW: I'm 31 years old, born in and raised in and around Washington, DC. I just started working on a BS in CS and an MBA concurrently at two different schools in Houston, Texas (Texas Southern and U of Houston). I recently(2 weeks ago) started working at GameStop (formerly Babbage's/FunCoLand/Software Etc./Super Software). I've been teaching myself about Linux (slowly...other things have been getting in the way) over the past 3 years.
I recently (Spring 2001) left a PhD program in Accounting, as I realized that I didn't really want to be an Accounting professor and I was trying to make the degree be a Computer Science degree. There's a lot more detail about the hows and whys of my leaving the doctoral program on my web site under the "What?!?" link. I won't bore you with it here. There's plenty of other stuff to bore you with.
:-)
THEN: Growing up I wanted to be an engineer. I've always wanted to create things...to be able to turn my thoughts into reality of some sort. It just took me awhile to realize that that was what I really wanted to do, and to find the best method to do that. When I was 14, my brother and I decided (I think I may have decided, and he just went along with it...) to start a R&D firm of some sort. I just wanted a situation where I could come up with new things and find solutions to problems.
I've always been very creative, but I've chosen technology as my working medium. Unfortunately, the technical emphasis sort of drowned out the creative side, and I found myself pursing techincal things without a real purpose. This (among other things) caused me to be a dismal failure as an Engineering major. I just never quite knew why I was doing what I was doing, and I don't do well at things I don't really want to do. It wasn't until recently that I figured out the following two things:
- I am a very creative, artistic person. That's one of my biggest strengths, so I should embrace it. Art and technology(my traditional love) are not mutually exclusive.
- Computer Science is probably the best medium for me to work in, as it frees me from most constraints of the physical world
To that end, I decided to work on a CS degree. I would still like to be a professor over the long run, but I'm not sure of the area. Probably CS or Math/Applied Math.
At on point, after I 'decided' that engineering wasn't for me, I decided to approach the "R&D firm" idea from the business side. The logic behind this was as follows: To start a successful business, it would help to know how businesses operate. The fastest way to do that would be to examine various businesses to see how they did things. I could do this as an Auditor with a Big 5 (then Big 6) accounting firm. After a few years there, I'd be ready to go out on my own and take over the world!! (This is a highly condesed version.) The plan to do this was:
- Get an Accounting degree, while learning everything you can about accounting and getting a high GPA. This would increase the chances of getting hired by a Big 5 firm
- Work for Big 5 firm for X number of years, preferable on high-tech clients. Absorb their best practices
- Start business. Take over world
As Step 1, I earned a BBA in Accounting from Texas Southern in 1998. The problem came when I lost sight of the overall goal. Accounting, which was supposed to be a means to a means to an end, became the end. Once I realized I didn't want to be an accountant, the "What do I do now?" question got answered with, "Be a professor.", something I'd considered in the past. It just turned out I didn't want to be an Accounting professor. So, now I'm back to being a CS guy...closer to my original pursuits. The MBA is something I started before I went to work on the PhD, so I decided to work on finishing it part-time.
Ok, this is beyond too long, even on my 17" monitor, so I'll stop now. That's me, and where I'm coming from.
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I go by MattOly, because much like the more veteran K5er Captain Tenille, I live in Olympia and have huge amounts of Oly pride. I'm 25, very single, and hella hot. No real tattoos, but I have a fake one on my left arm right now. It's a mermaid. Also with the Captain, I co-run Satanosphere on the most punk-rock setup you can run a Scoop site on. I drink till I'm drunk every night, usually pass out by 12, play with my chihuahua's and then wake up to go to work. I'm a SysAdmin for a public records search website called Unisearch, where I try to keep a dreadful Windows network from falling apart. Ladies, come and get me!
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A final note to...the Republican party. You do not want to get into a fight with David Letterman. ...He's simply more believable than you are.
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- I´m 33 years old.
- English, living in Sweden (7 years), soon to return to England (home sweet home).
- Female. Married. No children.
- I´m a lecturer and director of studies in mathematics.
- My PhD is in discrete mathematics and is from the University of London.
Angelwings
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I'm a 21 year old female, born and raised in Connecticut.
I'm a student at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. I designed my own major because there was no major that I felt gave justice to all my interests. My major is titled "Art and Mathematics in Computers". Basically I am taking a variety of math, programming, and computer art classes. I'm still not sure what I'm going to do with it all. I guess I'll figure it out when I graduate in a year and half.
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32 years old, male, recently married, Oracle Database Administrator. Living in the heart of enemy territory: Seattle, WA. Unemployed right now (by choice), starting to look again for work, but it's not 1999 again, where I would get calls 10 minutes after submitting a resume. But I'm sure someone out there needs a good babysitter for their important data.
I study database theory, do some programming (perl, c, PL/SQL <-- yuck) and mess around with Linux. I recently upgraded to Slackware 8.0 and it's really nice. I use KDE 2.1 which is really stable with XFree4 now. I really like the do-it-yourself approach of Slackware.
I also might have the distinction of being a fan of the 2 least popular sports in the USA: hockey and road cycling. Transition time for me now: the road cycling season is about to end and hockey (and cyclocross) season is about to start. yay. and oh yeah, it's nice to see the Mariners are doing pretty well also.
. . .And if you want to know about the name, watch Kentucky Fried Movie.
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I'm a troll and I just couldnt help but notice how much people (americans it seems in particular) love to talk about themselves.
Too many narcistic egoist pursuing their overrated (and in a lot of cases pretended)happiness it seems.
I hope I wont hurt your delicate feelings but I'm pretty damn sure the only one who actually read the lenghty essay about yourself was you, just before you hit the POST button.
Thats because we are all so self-absorbed with our own petty little lifes.
The absolute amount of happiness in the universe is constant and I already feel a lot better now as I can image having pissed off a lot of people with this rant.
Have a nice day:-)
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I'm a recent university graduate, currently working as a full-time software engineer. I've always been passionate about programming ... started with Apple II BASIC way back then, 6502 assembly language not long after, and during the "IBM empire" I got into 80x86 assembly language, and soon, C and C++ in college. Touched a bit of Haskell and Concurrent Clean. Later in college, picked up Java and Perl. And now, Tcl (needed to do my work).
As far as casual interest is concerned, I love physics/chemistry/astronomy, and very much into classical music.
But above all, I'm a born-again Christian, and have dedicated my life to Jesus Christ. I know this is very dimly looked upon in this day and age, but nevertheless, I believe that I have found something real and nothing can change that. I do not agree with many non-Biblical traditions that have come to be part of Christianity; nevertheless, I believe that the Bible is true, and as far as I can tell, there is no contradiction between scientific discoveries and what is stated in the Bible. (I know many disagree with this, but I won't get into that now :-P)
Beh Tong Kah Beh Si!
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I'm 26 years old as of this posting. I'm married, and about to have my first child. I'm currently a Senior Network Security engineer, although while I used to manipulate firewalls and do consulting, I now code tools for others to do that. I'm still feeling as though I'm at a crossroads, and am considering going back to school to finish an aborted bachelor's so I can attend law school; I want to write (and I'm rather proud of the quality of my work in the articles I submitted so far (2 as of this posting)); I'm considering taking up professional gambling (poker, anyone)?
I have a bias towards being fiscally conservative, socially liberal, and consider my views most closely aligned with the Libertarian party, but am considering trying to appropriate a term -- perhaps "pragmatism" -- to describe my actual views. One of my goals is to keep an open mind -- which is really a committment to constantly re-evaluate my own positions, and I've changed my mind a number of times in the past. I don't believe in applying labels, and don't take people seriously in the discussion of ideas if they can't bypass labels and look at the ideas directly. I do believe that technology and philosophy can eventually rid the world of nearly all its ills.
I'm approaching pro-level of skill at Quake 3, which I play far too much. I code C and php well, along with passable perl (which is about all perl requires ;)). I've lately been mastering SQL. I enjoy RPGs from Bioware/Interplay.
I was raised Christian, but don't truly consider myself to be one any more; I don't necessarily disbelieve Christianity, but I'd need to research it a great deal to prove it to myself again. I do believe that it, like all religions, should have strong empirical evidence to back up its claims. However, despite attending a high school promoting a fundamentalist christian agenda, I frequently see Christians and Christianity misportrayed, and it annoys me. They've become the new persecuted class of citizens (by lefties, anyhow).
My favorite band: Dave Matthews Band. The fruits of my evil capitalist labor bought me 11th row tickets recently to their Everyday tour. Awesome.
My favorite movie: Good Will Hunting. Probably just become I identify with a smart person, somewhat maladjusted, having trouble finding their true path. That, and I probably wish I was that smart, since I generally admire intelligence. (Which, on one level, is probably because my own self-image finds a large basis in my own brainpower)
I was born in Vermont, spent most of my life (4-24) in California, and finally relocated to near Austin, TX.
My quote of choice:
If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of
servitude better than the animating contest of freedom,
depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your
arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May
your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget
that you were our countrymen.
-- Samuel Adams
[Scrapbooking Supplies]
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I am Mr. Penguin.
But I'm also Dr. J.
My friends know me as drj.
Some know me as Boo Radley
And some as B-Rad.
My name is Brad Johnson. I do not play football or make bad movies.
I work as a UNIX Systems Engineer for an ISP/CLEC. We're not that big right now, but we're growing.
I've written one novel, and I'm working hard on my second. Maybe one day you'll read them.
I hang out on a few different mailing lists, most notably, UFList and UMLUG. I lurk on a few others, most notably LKML. Mailing lists are much better than IRC.
I like K5. I was around before Rusty shut it down. I don't post that much anymore, though. I just don't have the time.
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Vital Stats:
23 years old
Born, raised, living 1 hour out of Vancouver BC, Canada
White Male, 1/2 2nd generation german, 1/2 4th generation english
6 ft tall (really) 185 lbs. No, I don't know how many meters that is or how many kgs either.
Brown hair (usually), brown eyes, no glasses (laser-eye surgery)
What do I do:
Graduate from the University of BC in the field of Business and Commerce... in Information Systems Design.
Been working for the same company for 5 years. Big multinational construction matericals firm... I work for a small cog in the wheel of the company.
I'm a programmer/designer/analyst. Basically I do everything that's not network related, or MSOffice related.
I use visual c++ and visual basic and mssql server. Don't flame, it works. better than you'd think.
What I am:
A nice guy. we'd get along IRL...
A strong civil libertarian. I should belong to the BCCLA but I'm lazy and it's downtown.
A moderate libertarian in most other things. With caveats, I understand the positive role of the government in many situations, enough for real libertarians to lynch me.
An athiest, or an agnostic, depending on my mood. actually... I'm an agnostic until provoked by a religious person.
Strong willed and opinionated, but willing to back down if I'm wrong. I will say sorry and admit fault in a public forum.
I'm a cynical, realistic, optimist.
Miscellanous Extras:
I've got a great girlfriend, and a great family, and great friends. It's all great. great great great. =)
I've been on K5 since the middle of 2001
I like antique maps and globes.
I have 6 computers.
I used to be a pseudo-objectivist, and a libertarian. Then I learned to think.
I love to travel.
I love to paint. I'm not very good though.
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You sir, are worse than Hitler!
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im a tall sexualy frustrat nihilist highschoul student
um and i have a beard
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Most people don't realise just how funny cannibalism can actually be.
-Tatarigami
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my name is sy and i am one of the three remaining ancient ones. I inhabit a space in the sea just a way east of liverpool, england.
In the summer i travel upwards away from my earthly ties to a location called 'ibiza'. Here i stay and sometimes encounter the other ancient beings that inhabit my world.
Sometimes i am called by my followers to produce certain artifacts, known to my kin as 'drivers' or 'applications'. these are generally scribed by myself in ancient tongues such as C or java, sometimes they are written in the ancientest tongue SMALLTALK.
Whilst i am not engaged in the satisfaction of others, i may be found drowning small rodents or cats, maybe sucking the blood of virgins or even hanging upside down, from a tree defiling dogs or other reasonably large sentient beasts.
That is my lot, what is your own?
I dreamt of it once, now I fear it dreams of me
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...in university and I am a geek.
Physical
22 yrs, 5'8", 45kgs, Male. Yeah I'm underweight :p.
Indian, specifically mother-tongue = Telegu, stayed and brought-up in Madras, so I consider myself Tamil.
Really thick glasses (-8 diopters).
What I do
Doing my Masters in Telecom Engg. at Univ Texas at Dallas. Small place. Came here cos I didnt get admitted any where else.
Doing work in Optical Networking, and yeah the field crashed like nobodys business :-(....
Hoping to do my PhD in optical networks from Aug 2002 and hoping the industry will pick-up.
I really, really like networking TCP/IP etc. :-), I think Stevens books are Gods gift to human-kind.
What I am
Quiet and introverted. People say I teach well, I guess I'd better as I am a TA :-)...
A confirmed atheist, and I argue compulsively on the least provocation. In real life I troll quite a lot, although strangely I dont do that on K5, where I guess I am a lurker.
I have very strong opinions, and I will not back off unless rigorously proven wrong, at which point I will admit my fault and accept the other side.
Did I say I love to argue?
Misc.
I read a hell of a lot. I've read almost all of Isaac Asimovs novels/stories. Hard SF is my fav. I do not particularly like Star Trek Voyager etc. Although given a chance I would prefer it to something else.
I also read Archer, Forsyth, Crichton (I hated Timeline tho) etc.
Each of my books are read many times. I have read some books 10-15 times. I dont even know how many times Ive read HHGTG.
As a TA I have a very low salary but I must have bought books (fiction) worth at least a few hundred dollars :-D.
I read my subject books with pretty much the same enthusiasm, and I have at least a little knowledge of a vast number of Electronics/Communication/Comp Sci topics. And I know that I know only a little, so dont say 'a little knowledge is dangerous'.
Coding
I code in a mix of C, C++. I havent had any projs yet, where I had to use serious oops concepts, though in all my projs so far, I have tried to stick to at least the basics, and keep the code clean, w/o too many public/global etc.
On K5
Im a lurker, I read more than I post, mostly cos I dont like to commit even an opinion on something I am not absolutely sure about. I dont knwo if that is a good thing or not.
Oh yeah k5 really sucks my time ;-))...
Thats it from here guys....
P.S. With apologies to theAntix for the blatant copying of his format.....
Arguing with an Electrical Engineer is liking wrestling with a pig in mud, after a while you realise the pig is enjoying it!
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For what the title means, see this.
Name: James
Age: 31
Race: Caucasian
Nationality: American
Religion: Unitarian-Universalist
Weight: 220
Height: 6'1"
Marital status: Married
No of children: 2 1/2
Occupation: Java Programmer
Political Party Affiliation: Democrat
Heroes: Bill Hicks, Frank Lloyd Wright, Gandhi, Jesus, Buddha, Einstein, Hugh Hefner, Berkeley Breathed, Leonardo da Vinci, the American Founding Fathers (esp. Jefferson and Franklin)
Enemies: Antonin Scalia, Ayn Rand, conspiracy theorists, Pat Robertson/Jerry Falwell
Favorite Authors: Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Albert Camus, Mark Twain, J.R.R. Tolkien
Favorite Drugs: LSD, mushrooms, marijuana, Jack Daniels & Coca-Cola, cigarettes [sigh]
Music: Tool, Radiohead, U2, Miles Davis, Pink Floyd
Favorite quote: "All human psychology is motivated by a denial of death." - Ernest Becker
- Rev.
Libertarianism is like communism: both look great on paper.
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