Chris Real Name:  Christopher Age:  36 Resides:  Northridge, California Occupation:  Programmer/analyst for Fortune 500, consultant, personal project...

Favorite website(s):
Slashdot, Google News

Favorite book, movie, or TV show:
Dune, the original by Frank Herbert. Movie? Ah, changes all the time but Indiana Jones was on the list for a while. Rambo: First Blood, The Outlaw Josey Wales. LOTR extended versions.

Favorite game, application, or program of all time:
jEdit.

What are you playing and working on right now:
xml-rpc services for remote server admin.

What is your current screensaver, background, or wallpaper:
My son Viggo at 3 weeks old, yawning.

What's so special about your computer room:
My computer room no longer exists. I have a laptop, and my pc became my wife's. Thank God for WIFI.

How many computers do you have:
3, 2 laptops, old, one e-machine, amd 2400 Nothing to write home about.

What was your first computer:
Casio PB-700

Do you remember the first program you ran on it:
A text adventure game I wrote, like Hammurabi, but crossing the desert with horse drawn wagons. Don't let the bear get you and get water for your horse.

Geekiest moment of your life:
Chris is still waiting for his geekiest moment to occur...which is why he has hired a video crew to follow him around every moment of his waking life, ready to capture that moment like nerd paparazzi at a Linux convention.

When did you first realize you were a geek:
I was reading esr's jargon file description of geeks, and, well, there was a 99.44% match.

Have you ever said anything geeky that someone else did not understand:
42.

What is the funniest/most bizarre computer/Internet/geeky experience you have ever had:
When I realized that I would never have to pay for prOn ever again.

What is your favourite quote:
"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?" --Einstein.

If you were a computer program, you would be: why:
An on-board flight control system. Because that's the closest I could get to actually flying a plane.

What do you do when you are (heaven forbid) not at your computer(s):
Drive the car, eat food, talk to the wife, change diapers, play with the kid, read computer books and fiction, and, most importantly, sleep.

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):
This is a trick question.

Chris, who would rather program in python than go to parties, says: "If you can't find my website you can't use google". Chris encourages you to use Python, wikipedia, debian linux. Oh, and read Sun Tsu. And Mushashi.

	Rinkjustice Real Name:  Jason Age:  A spry and youngish 34 Resides:  In the sprwling metropolis of Brantford, Ontario Occupation:  I work in the automotive industry

Favorite website(s):
Slashdot, allofmp3.com, scholar.google.com

Favorite book, movie, or TV show:
I abhore television, my favorite book off all-time is actually a tie between Underground Bodyopus (Militant Weight Loss & Recomposition) by Dan Duchaine and Miracle of Forgiveness by Spencer W. Kimball, and my fave movie is likely Gladiator of Rocky (the first one).

Favorite game, application, or program of all time:
Man, tough question! Off the top of my head I'd say either WordWeb or Open Office.

What are you playing and working on right now:
A book (that's actually what I'm supposed to be doing right now)! It's burning up pretty well all the time I have trying to get the sucker done.

What is your current screensaver, background, or wallpaper:
http://www3.sympatico.ca/jcomely/great-white-shark-picture-014.jpg
(I get such a rush just looking at this picture)!

What's so special about your computer room:
Nothing. It's what's on the hardrive and in my brain that matters. 

How many computers do you have:
A very cheap 1.3 Ghz system i cobbled together after I overclocked to oblivion my previous one. I also have a PII 350 which my daughter owns.

What was your first computer:
Pentium I with a very cheap cpu whose name I can't recall at this early hour ;)

Do you remember the first program you ran on it:
Yeah, Quake. And it looked like crap but I loved it.

Geekiest moment of your life:
I think it was posting on Slashdot during a New Years Eve social. Pathetic when I think about it now.

When did you first realize you were a geek:
I guess when people started calling me one.

Have you ever said anything geeky that someone else did not understand:
Yup, but it's a failing on my part to communicate effectively to this person.

What is the funniest/most bizarre computer/Internet/geeky experience you have ever had:
I used to have an at-home pc repair service I ran at the side. I often went into the homes of some pretty weird people. Once I went to the home of a family of bikers. The daughter was into Marilyn Manson and the son was a punk rocker. They were all a rather stoic lot. But I ended up getting to know them and they always called me when they had a problem.

What is your favourite quote:
"Wisdom is intensely practical, not theoretical... wisdom is the art of being successful, of forming the correct plan to gain the desired results" -- J.D. Douglas

If you were a computer program, you would be: why:
A linux distribution, because I would evolve and improve rapidly because of the good will and collaboration of many good people.

What do you do when you are (heaven forbid) not at your computer(s):
Work out, eat, read, pray.

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 take the Bible with me, and I would go to a time Jesus walked the earth.

Jason, who still uses "Ye Olde HTML", loves tweaking operating systems. Although not what you would call an Update-aholic, Jason enjoys squeezing out a much speed and power as he can via kernel compiling, file configuring, registry hacks, bios modifications.

	Great Teacher Largo Real Name:  Carl Age:  Not yet old enough to start weeping when I see a statue of Alexander the Great. Resides:  Gainesville, Florida Occupation:  Second Emperor of the United States of America and  Discordian Zen-Buddhist.

Favorite website(s):
bobandgeorge.com, nuklearpower.com, penny-arcade.com, megatokyo.com, somethingpositive.net, slashdot.org, and my own sites.

Favorite book, movie, or TV show:
Favorite Book is Currently 'A Short History of Nearly Everything' by Bill Bryson.  Movie is The Last Samurai, and TV Show is .hack//SIGN.

Favorite game, application, or program of all time:
Zork -- The Frobozz Magic Co., Ltd. totally owns me and puts me to work in the Granola Mines every day.

What are you playing and working on right now:
Currently working on design for a 2D Graphical MUD.

What is your current screensaver, background, or wallpaper:
This one -- http://cevk.com/images/perverse.jpg

What's so special about your computer room:
When we turn all the computers on, we don't have to use central heating! 

How many computers do you have:
I have an AMD box running Windows XP, another AMD box running NetBSD.  I also have an Apple IIci somewhere in here.  Without it being hooked up to the Home Network it's so hard to locate.

What was your first computer:
Tandy 1000 with a 300 Baud Modem. 

Do you remember the first program you ran on it:
Zork.  I was eaten by a Grue, and since then I have always carried a large supply of Illuminite with me wherever I go.

Geekiest moment of your life:
At GenCon Indy one year, while playing a game of Capture the Flag across several blocks of downtown Indianapolis, while I was sitting in the other team's jail, the guy who owns GenCon, Peter Adkison, and said, "I've got a blank spot on my character record sheet for my diety, and I was wondering if you were accepting worshippers?"  He laughed and said he was just a gamer who rolled a few 20s.

When did you first realize you were a geek:
When I wore a Star Trek Deep Space Nine Uniform with Captain's Pips to school in the 6th Grade.

Have you ever said anything geeky that someone else did not understand:
I remember one time when I was about 15 or so I tried to explain what I understood of Super String theory to my mother after she noticed me reading a book on it and asked what it was about.  She stood there, smiling and nodding, and after five minutes said, "That's nice, dear.  Now go wash your hands for dinner."

What is the funniest/most bizarre computer/Internet/geeky experience you have ever had:
My roommate and a former co-worker once got me insanely drunk and I thought I was Link from Legend of Zelda,  I went so far as to run upstairs and grab a fiberglass-cored foam boffer sword to attack a tree because it was taunting me.

What is your favourite quote:
"Nothing is True -- Everything is Permissible"

If you were a computer program, you would be: why:
Apache why: Bringing Knowledge to the Masses is one of the Greatest Things one can Do.

What do you do when you are (heaven forbid) not at your computer(s):
Read, Play DDR, watch Futurama or various Animes.

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):
The time when the Pre-Socratic greek philosophers were around, namely Parmenides of Elea and Pythagoras, though to which particular century, 5th or 6th BC, I'd go to... well, I'd have to toss a coin.

Carl, who has an odd urge to shout, "IA!  IA!  CTHULHU FHTAGN!" at random strangers, is a passable C programmer learning C++ and Java (he's half written a few MUDs). Carl has about three years of experience fighting with various Medieval Weapons (Sword and Shield, Mace, Axe, Spear, Halberd, Long Sword/Short Sword, Shortsword/Shortsword), and he spends far too much time investigating and learning about Religion and Insanity (and Liminality, his favourite obsession) than is good for a normal human.

Carl has a website, cevk.com, which is his virtual home.  He also runs principiadiscordia.org, a site on Discordianism, the Religion based around the worship of Eris, Greek Goddess of Chaos and Confusion.

	Cyph3r Real Name:  Mikelia Age:  -1*(2log16)+2^5-9 Resides:  Holland Occupation:  Student

Favorite website(s):
http://sourceforge.net/, http://google.com 

Favorite book, movie, or TV show:
Anything by Tim Burton.

Favorite game, application, or program of all time:
Vim and FlashMX.

What are you playing and working on right now:
I'm playing a kickass cover song Brian Setzer did of the Clash's Brand New Cadillac and I'm working on a short Flash movie.

What is your current screensaver, background, or wallpaper:
VNV Nation Wallpaper.

What's so special about your computer room:
I can't think of anything. 

How many computers do you have:
AMD K6-1 200MHz, laptop Celeron 800MHz, Pentium 4 3GHz, AMD Athlon 64 3000+

What was your first computer:
The AMD K6-1 was the first computer I actually owned. 

Do you remember the first program you ran on it:
DOOM probably.

Geekiest moment of your life:
When I taught my maths teacher some QBasic.

When did you first realize you were a geek:
When I was 8, copying SNES games using the copybox and trying to sell them to my friends.

Have you ever said anything geeky that someone else did not understand:
Countless times

What is the funniest/most bizarre computer/Internet/geeky experience you have ever had:
When I was about 11 I used this CD-Rom that said 50hrs of FREE internet to go online at home. I spent 3 days on the internet having a great time.. until the phone bill came and my ma kicked my ass for claiming the internet was totally FREE.

What is your favourite quote:
"Work is the curse of the drinking class."

If you were a computer program, you would be: why:
A virus. I'm mean and evil like that.

What do you do when you are (heaven forbid) not at your computer(s):
Spreading chaos, playing my guitars, hanging out with friends, reading, going to gigs, drinking, listening to music, etc.

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):
That ain't possible dude.

Mikelia, who knows a little bit of everything, knew she was  obsessed with computer graphics when she outside and thought: "Wow! That's spectacular resolution!" Mikelia of course realizes there are 10 kinds of people in the world: Those who understand binary and those who don't...

	Raccoon Boy Real Name:  Rick Age:  Old enough to know classic gaming, young enough to appriciate new gaming ;) Resides:  Seattle, city of computers, coffee, and nerds! Occupation:  Graphic Designer / Photoshop God

Favorite website(s):
http://nifty.org, http://livejournal.com, http://www.ocremix.org

Favorite book, movie, or TV show:
DeadLikeMe, Wonderfalls, Read or Die [the TV series]

Favorite game, application, or program of all time:
Final Fantasy VI [us version 3.0.]

What are you playing and working on right now:
More horror-based artwork in Photoshop.

What is your current screensaver, background, or wallpaper:
Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne [PS2].

What's so special about your computer room:
Everything is actually organized! 

How many computers do you have:
Several, plus all of my console games and my LAN.

What was your first computer:
Commodore 64, ... you're in the dark, you may be eaten by an orge.. (Top Geek: not a grue?)

Do you remember the first program you ran on it:
Quark and Archon.

Geekiest moment of your life:
Having coffee with Whoopi Goldberg and explaining graphic design, or eating green jello with Fiona Apple and explaining dungeons and dragons.

When did you first realize you were a geek:
When everyone was to bring a book to class, in second grade and I brought Beowulf.

Have you ever said anything geeky that someone else did not understand:
Half the time I open my mouth.

What is the funniest/most bizarre computer/Internet/geeky experience you have ever had:
Internet dating, you meat some REAL WINNERS on here.. LOL, I met this guy who said he ran a computer company and was all speaking linux and geekspeak to me, then it turns out he runs an internet cafe, and doesn't even know how to make a spreadsheet!

What is your favourite quote:
"It's really.. hard for me.. to play with myself in this thing." [straightjacket] - Tank Girl 

If you were a computer program, you would be: why:
An MMORPG, because boys say I'm addictive ;)

What do you do when you are (heaven forbid) not at your computer(s):
Try new restaurants, and I cook [a lot!] I love to cook, it's just.. it's a passion for me ;)

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 1990, I'd take my entire bank account in cash, and I'd invest ALL of it in Microsoft.

Rick, who is but a man, invites everyone to go to his livejournal [http://livejournal.com/~electronicoffee], has been a D&D Dungeonmaster for over 12 years, played RPGs [tabletop and LARPing] for over fifteen years, and console games  / pc for about 18-19 years.

Rick currently runs a D&D campaign, a Call Of Cthulhu campaign, and a World of Darkness campaign [wraith]. He love ghosts and zombies and is a ghost hunter himself.  He also has his degree in graphic design, which includes studies in color theory, spacial relations, 2-d design and layouts, and digital photography.

Erik Real Name:  Erik Age:  23 Resides:  Where you live is entirely dependent on how the quantum state collapses. However, upon observing myself, I seem to live in western North Carolina, in the USA. Occupation:  I'm enrolled in the University of North Carolina as a psychology student, am actively involved in cognitive research, and I'm the head of R&D at a small web development firm...but what I really want to do it act.

Favorite website(s):
Hah! The web is for n00bs. Usenet is where it is at, my friend. But when I slum with the great unwashed (surf, as they call it), I can be often found with my "web browser" pointed to homestarrunner.com.

Favorite book, movie, or TV show:
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle maintainance. Don't laugh. I wasn't being funny for this question.

Favorite game, application, or program of all time:
Honestly, ChronoTrigger may be the best videogame ever made.

What are you playing and working on right now:
I do some work with the Xfce desktop environment. http://xfce.org

What is your current screensaver, background, or wallpaper:
The GUI is a fad.

What's so special about your computer:
That my computer continues to run is something of a miracle. 

How many computers do you have:
I am a poor geek. Other than my homebrew Athlon XP 2400 (ASUS A7-N8X mobo), the only machine I have is an antique Tandy laptop.

What was your first computer:
Grandad gave us a Commodore 64. It melted.

Do you remember the first program you ran on it:
Some dungeon crawler, with no manual. I was nine.

Geekiest moment of your life:
It is three in the morning and I am filling out an unsolicited Geek Of The Day questionaire, on a work night, with my wife in bed.

When did you first realize you were a geek:
Kindergarten, which was when I first realized that everyone else was not a geek.

Have you ever said anything geeky that someone else did not understand:
Dear lord. When have I not?

What is the funniest/most bizarre computer/Internet/geeky experience
 you have ever had:
Several years ago, when I worked tech support for a Large Unnamed Telco and ISP, I found myself describing, over the phone, in front of 15 other technicians, the shape  of a naked african american porn models ass to an illiterate man in Georgia, in order to assure him beyond a shadow of a doubt that I had fixed the mans computer, and that he was now able to see the exact same porn as "any other healthy man".

What is your favourite quote:
"You just get yerself a screwdriver, and we'll pop that sumbitch right outta der" --heard in tech support, by a rather southern computer tech (Namely, myself): 

If you were a computer program, you would be: why:
One of those power user applications with too many buttons crammed into too small a space, no manual, and error messages written in haiku.

What do you do when you are (heaven forbid) not at your computer(s):
I love movies, and gobble them up whenever possible. Sometimes I talk to my wife.

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 20 minutes, in order to regain sleep lost from filling this questionaire out. (On a workday! With my wife in bed!). I would take flowers, because I always bring my wife gifts when I travel.

Erik, who was never cool enough in school to acheive any form of dimunuitive, has some minimal C and PHP programming skill, a rather excessive Perl ability, and can still remember what some of the memory addresses on a ZX-81 do, should ZX-81 and it's commenserate BASIC interpretor ever come back into style. Erik is also an amateur scholar, with some small physics, chemistry, and biology minutia running about his brain.