ToFeR the Goodest Real Name:  Chris Age:  2 decades plus 8/2 Resides:  Warwick, RI  (that’s Rhode Island) Occupation:  Art Department Manager (sounds more important than it actually is)

Favorite website(s):
Applegeeks, Megatokyo, Kuro5hin, Hawkinsrise,  http://www.fullmoon.nu/book/

Favorite book, movie, or TV show:
Lord of the Rings (Book Series)

Favorite game, application, or program of all time:
Adobe Illustrator

What are you playing and working on right now:
A product catalog for my work and CD album art for my band along with various other web & print projects

What is your current screensaver, background, or wallpaper:
Random 3D generated, weird looking landscapes .

What's so special about your computer (room):
Its also my living room/kitchen.  I could go weeks without leaving the house if I wanted to!

How many computers do you have:
AMD K6-2 400, Mac G3 450, Mac G4 400, iMac G3 450

What was your first computer:
Monochrome Apple IIe

Do you remember the first program you ran on it (or the first game you played):
Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy (text based).

Geekiest moment of your life:
Someone was having printer issues at work (who doesn't right?) so I got called up to fix it.  I looked at it, pulled out the jammed paper, unplugged it, plugged it back in and it worked. My co-workers were totally amazed at my 133t computer abilities.  It was kinda sad.
 
When did you first realize you were a geek:
When I found myself literally  drooling over the new (then) Graphite Macintosh G4 towers in college.

Have you ever said anything geeky that someone else did not understand:
Almost everything I say the average non-computer understanding person would be confounding to them.

What is the funniest/most bizarre computer/Internet/geeky experience you have ever had:
I did a hello emote to a friend of mine while playing Final Fantasy XI once and I got a message back saying "STFU! You just gained 5 levels on the scale of suck"  That'll teach me for saying hello -.-

What is your favourite quote:
"Dude, you just got owned!" (pwnd)

If you were a computer program, you would be: why:
Definitely a open source OS.  I try and be adaptable with life's little challenges.

What do you do when you are (heaven forbid) not at your computer(s):
I drive around aimlessly a lot and work on my car (I'm a closet tuner).

You have a time machine that can only be used once. If you use it you will not come back. What date would you set it to, and what ONE thing would you take with you (not a computer):
Sometime during the middle ages and I would definitely take my sword. (yes I own a REAL sword).

Chris, who is addicted to FFXI, prefers playing a good video game or working on his computer to most kinds of social gatherings. Chris blurts: If your tired of the usual mainstream music, check out Hawkins Rise. (www.hawkinsrise.com) They're an up and coming Rock'n Roll band that can't be compared!

	Sir Real Name:  Donal Age:  44 Resides:  Far Away Occupation:  J of All Ts

Favorite website(s):
Mine!

Favorite book, movie, or TV show:
Awareness by Anthony De Mello.

Favorite game, application, or program of all time:
Age of Empires.

What are you playing and working on right now:
My breakfast.

What is your current screensaver, background, or wallpaper:
A scanned hand.

What's so special about your computer (room):
YOU can lock it.

How many computers do you have:
Two grey ones.

What was your first computer:
ZX81

Do you remember the first program you ran on it (or the first game you played):
One of those tennis thingies.

Geekiest moment of your life:
Understandinhg text boxes in Flash.
 
When did you first realize you were a geek:
When I got this questionnaire.

Have you ever said anything geeky that someone else did not understand:
Oh yes.

What is the funniest/most bizarre computer/Internet/geeky experience you have ever had:
It hasn't happenned yet.

What is your favourite quote:
"All will be well and all will be well and all will be well in the end"  --Julian of Norwich

If you were a computer program, you would be: why:
Flash. Because it's animated.

What do you do when you are (heaven forbid) not at your computer(s):
I play my guitar.

You have a time machine that can only be used once. If you use it you will not come back. What date would you set it to, and what ONE thing would you take with you (not a computer):
I'd set it to 999 ad and see if sundials had a year 1000 problem. I'd take a sandwich.

Donal, who has a knack for wed design (and Flash of course), has gutted and rebuilt his computer 5 times since he last changed the oil in his car. Donal claims to know what a router is, and he knows what a bit is, but he's never used a router bit.

	Dennis Real Name:  Dennis Age:  54 Resides:  Dallas, Texas Occupation:  writer, lecturer, consultant, trainer, database specialist, graphic designer

Favorite website(s):
spamarrest.com

Favorite book, movie, or TV show:
Critical Path, by Buckminster Fuller.   movie:  Tootsie   TV show:  This Week.

Favorite game, application, or program of all time:
Quark Xpress 3.22

What are you playing and working on right now:
A new database application.

What is your current screensaver, background, or wallpaper:
Saturn Sky.

What's so special about your computer (room):
Everything plugged in is working properly.

How many computers do you have:
2 Windows laptops, 5 Mac laptops, 1 Mac Mini, 4 G3 iMac servers, 1 PowerMac G4 server,  8 Windows servers, various brands, a bunch of other legacy equipment.

What was your first computer:
Sony SMC-70, a CP/M machine.

Do you remember the first program you ran on it (or the first game you played):
MicroPro Infostar.

Geekiest moment of your life:
When I got a stuck Radio Shack hard drive going again by spinning it on the axle of a bicycle wheel and hitting the brake.
 
When did you first realize you were a geek:
I am not a geek; this is your survey, not mine.

Have you ever said anything geeky that someone else did not understand:
Never!

What is the funniest/most bizarre computer/Internet/geeky experience you have ever had:
Making computers respond by talking to them.

What is your favourite quote:
“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” --Helen Keller

If you were a computer program, you would be: why:
A screen saver because sleep is a good thing.

What do you do when you are (heaven forbid) not at your computer(s):
Sleep, read, watch TV, tinker, putter, meddle.

You have a time machine that can only be used once. If you use it you will not come back. What date would you set it to, and what ONE thing would you take with you (not a computer):
Los Angeles, CA  June 4, 1968.  I would take with me whatever would have prevented Robert Kennedy’s shooting.

Dennis, who knows a bit more than the people who think he's a geek, would like to take this opportunity to promote his book "YOUR IMPRINT HERE: A Graphic Arts Handbook for the Promotional Products Industry." Dennis will also make the book available in binary, after the copy editor finishes proofreading all the 1's and 0's.

	Godber Real Name:  Chris Age:  Forty-ten Resides:  Stamford, England Occupation:  Pilot

Favorite website(s):
versiontracker.com, macnn.com

Favorite book, movie, or TV show:
The Sopranos, The Simpsons, books: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams), Fate Is The Hunter (Ernest Gann).

Favorite game, application, or program of all time:
Filemaker Pro.

What are you playing and working on right now:
Editing family videos and photographs onto DVD, creating a pilots' logbook db in FM Pro 7.

What is your current screensaver, background, or wallpaper:
Mac OS X background with "DON'T PANIC" photoshopped on in large friendly letters.

What's so special about your computer (room):
Dunno. Probably no geekier than others.

How many computers do you have:
4.5. Apple Dual 2.0 GHz PowerMac5 (6GB RAM!), Powerbook G4/1.67, PowerMac G4 Digital Audio (photo/music/web server), Cube (and PC, but don't tell anyone).

What was your first computer:
Commodore 64

Do you remember the first program you ran on it (or the first game you played):
No, but first wrote a Hangman game then a ballistics program (!)

Geekiest moment of your life:
Getting broadband on my Palm via Bluetooth to G5...
 
When did you first realize you were a geek:
When I found the book "30 Hour Basic" compelling reading (1982)

Have you ever said anything geeky that someone else did not understand:
"Just go into the Terminal and fix it there"

What is the funniest/most bizarre computer/Internet/geeky experience you have ever had:
Trialling on-board internet access on a prototype Airbus A340-600 in 2002, six months before it entered service and years before on-board internet access became commercially available.

What is your favourite quote:
"Don't panic" --Douglas Adams 

If you were a computer program, you would be: why:
The best open source flight planning and navigation software 'cos the commercial programs are expensive and proprietary.

What do you do when you are (heaven forbid) not at your computer(s):
Fly aeroplanes (Airbus A340, Cessna 120, Pitts S-2A Special).

You have a time machine that can only be used once. If you use it you will not come back. What date would you set it to, and what ONE thing would you take with you (not a computer):
1950 - all those great piston engine and early jet fighters to fly (I'd take a modern parachute!)

Chris, who has never admitted if he is part of the 1.6 kilometre-high club, would kindly direct you to this "plane-spotterish"  website. Chris claims to have a little knowledge of everything (Final Cut Pro, DVD Studio Pro, PhotoShop, FileMaker Pro), but to be an expert in nothing.

	Skip Real Name:  Palmer Age:  Old enough to remember when MTV actually played music videos. Resides:  Madison, Wisconsin Occupation:  computer fix-it guy

Favorite website(s):
www.dprp.vuurwerk.nl, hnn.us, goodshit.phlap.net

Favorite book, movie, or TV show:
any Philip K. Dick story, (2001?); any Kubrick film, Twin Peaks, Monty Python.

Favorite game, application, or program of all time:
The Last Express. One word: rotoscoping!

What are you playing and working on right now:
Whether or not the Business Objects NAL is responsible for creating a particular network directory which is AWOL.

What is your current screensaver, background, or wallpaper:
A promo pic of Rose. Oh, and David Tennant is in it too as the new Doctor Who. Mmmm...Rose...

What's so special about your computer (room):
My PC rests upon a large wonderful oaken table made by your favorite Luddites and mine, the Amish. To the right is a wall upon which hangs a map of Middle Earth - framed. To the left is the root cellar where I store all the foodstuffs I've canned myself. In about 5 weeks I'll be able to take a break from trying to learn Baldur's Gate and bust open a jar of brandied cherries to snack upon! Plus I have a wineskin hanging behind me with homemade raspberry vino. I've got this techno thing crossed with Henry David Thoreau that makes for a great post-modern gestalt.

How many computers do you have:
Just 2. Desktop & laptop. But 4 if you count my roommates' PCs which I maintain. Even more if you count all the friends' and family members' computer that I fix on a regular basis.

What was your first computer:
Commodore 64

Do you remember the first program you ran on it (or the first game you played):
Jumpman, perhaps. I can't recall. I have a C-64 emulator and need to find a copy of Portal. Someone hook a brutha up!

Geekiest moment of your life:
Ooh. That's a toughie. Perhaps discussing the source of a particular analogy with philosopher Peter Singer. He got it from one author while I'd heard it from another.
 
When did you first realize you were a geek:
Probably when I had my first day of Latin class in the 4th grade. (I attended a school for the "gifted & talented".)

Have you ever said anything geeky that someone else did not understand:
Like when I accidentally introduced the concept of thunking in an explanation to an end user?

What is the funniest/most bizarre computer/Internet/geeky experience you have ever had:
Another toughie. How about the multi-day argument I had with a co-worker in a public Exchange folder about the proper use of terminal serial commas. I'm an Oxford comma man, myself.

What is your favourite quote:
"Hell is other people." Does this make me an Existentialist? 

If you were a computer program, you would be: why:
Winamp. I need to listen to tunes/audio dramas all the bloody time!

What do you do when you are (heaven forbid) not at your computer(s):
Let's take it as read that I spend a lot of time in front of other people's computers. And play D&D. OK - I cook, go camping, experience live music, read, write for an online magazine, listen to audio dramas, et al.

You have a time machine that can only be used once. If you use it you will not come back. What date would you set it to, and what ONE thing would you take with you (not a computer):
I'd go back to 1784 to meet Thomas Jefferson before he bolted for France. He sounds like one hoopy frood. I'd bring a book like What's the Matter with Kansas? in an attempt to get him to exert some influence on the drafters of the Constitution so they'd be a little more clear on that Establishment Clause. I'd go to the Constitutional Convention but Tom's da bomb!

Palmer, whose blog (http://powervoyeur.blogspot.com) is proof-positive of his geek credentials, is often heard saying "Genesis is dead! Long live Genesis!"

Palmer, who can read Latin (and this makes the scene in Monty Python's Life of Brian where Brian is chastized by the centurion for his Latin grammar/syntax one of the funniest things in all of Christendom),.can understand the references in The Simpsons to Akira Kurosawa & Werner Herzog films. Palmer claims to have the largest collection of Geneis bootlegs in all of Wisconsin and once wrote a lengthy tract on the themes of Jethro Tull's lyrics and can play air flute when listening to Tull!

	Chip Real Name:  Chris Age:  18 Resides:  Indiana Occupation:  Web / Database Technician

Favorite website(s):
christophermartz.com, gmail.com, forums.webdeveloper.com

Favorite book, movie, or TV show:
The SQL Bible

Favorite game, application, or program of all time:
Halo!

What are you playing and working on right now:
A program called Blogsphemy. http://www.christophermartz.com/blogsphemy

What is your current screensaver, background, or wallpaper:
A background of a flower from the hicksdesign website

What's so special about your computer (room):
It's a laptop, no room needed!

How many computers do you have:
3 dells, old windows 3.1 machine, compaq with suse on it, and an old mac

What was your first computer:
windows 3.1 box

Do you remember the first program you ran on it (or the first game you played):
An old haunted house game that I can't remember the title to

Geekiest moment of your life:
When I stayed at home programming instead of going out to eat!
 
When did you first realize you were a geek:
When someone told me and I knew what "Hello World" was

Have you ever said anything geeky that someone else did not understand:
SQL, ASP, "Hello World"

What is the funniest/most bizarre computer/Internet/geeky experience you have ever had:
Chris is still waiting patiently for this to happen.

What is your favourite quote:
"When one burns anothers bridge, what a very nice fire it makes." 

If you were a computer program, you would be: why:
HTML-Kit because it has many plugins and tools to help the fellow programmer of HTML and the like.

What do you do when you are (heaven forbid) not at your computer(s):
Hardly ever happens! So watch tv?!

You have a time machine that can only be used once. If you use it you will not come back. What date would you set it to, and what ONE thing would you take with you (not a computer):
I would go back to when they created the first computer

Chris, an ASP programmer who loves Halo, reads SQL and programming books, remembers watching TSS on Tech TV when it was on! Chris, an avid gamer, denies the rumors that  Leo Laporte issued a restraining order against him for sending 7,000 emails to The Screensavers asking for free tickets to Comdex.