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.