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Geek Of The Day: Dud E-mail
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Dud

Real Name:  Bill
Age:  54
Resides:  central New Jersey (exit 90, har-dee har har)

Occupation:  Programmer for a small telco and ISP


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Favorite website(s):
slashdot.org,hackaday.com,dilbert.com,woot.com

Favorite book, movie, or TV show:
The Further Adventures of Buckaroo Bonzai

Favorite game, application, or program of all time:
teco text editor for DEC PDP-8 (then); vi (now)

What are you playing and working on right now:
playing with http://openfi.sourceforge.net/index.html car MP3 player software.

What is your current screensaver, background, or wallpaper:
daily image from http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/ 

What's so special about your computer (room):
Every room is a computer room.

How many computers do you have:
20? What types: various X-86 boxes running Linux, FreeBSD, and (ugh) Windoze for my wife's work.

What was your first computer:
home-brew Intersil 6100 (a CMOS PDP-8 clone).

Do you remember the first program you ran on it (or the first game you played):
the bootstrap loader, of course, prior to booting up OS-8. (Unless you want to count the IBM 360 running APL that I was introduced to in 1965.  But that one wasn't "mine", so I don't think it should count.)

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Geekiest moment of your life:
Hacking an APL character set into the ROMS for a 6502 based terminal so I could run a tiny APL-clone running on a Z80-based CPM system and work in native APL characters. I probably spent more time on the hack than I did programming APL on this teeny tiny little computer.
 
When did you first realize you were a geek:
In high school, when the bullies took my slide rule.

Have you ever said anything geeky that someone else did not understand:
Yes. Usually involving acronyms. It alwasys scares my wife when I start blathering on about various MLs.

What is the funniest/most bizarre computer/Internet/geeky experience you have ever had:
Getting your email invite to GOTD.

What is your favourite quote:
"Time is nature's way of making sure everything doesn't happen all at once"

If you were a computer program, you would be: why:
Takin' it one line at a time.

What do you do when you are (heaven forbid) not at your computer(s):
Ride or fix my motorcycles, bicycle, go out and hear some jazz, fumble with my guitar, record live music, build/hack small electronic projects.

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 forward to 50 years from now, so medicine will be sufficiently advanced to fix bad eyes, bad joints, so I can be a vigorous eighty-year-old 25 years later.  I'd bring my wife so we could both benefit.

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(*creative liberties may have been taken for the benefit of the reading audience)

Bill, whose 5 minutes of fame include an article he wrote that was published in Dr Dobbs magazine in August 1990, has also been published here: "Preparing an International C Application," Windows/DOS Developer's Journal, July 1993; and here: "A MIDI Sustain Pedal," Circuit Cellar Magazine, November, 1999.

Bill also runs www.jazzbands.org and www.bluesbands.org to supply free web sites to jazz and blues bands, and says that you can find more interesting stuff by poking around www.casano.com.
 
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