 Nickname:
"Es02
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Real Name: Tim
Age: 18
Resides: Queensland, Australia
Occupation: Retail Drone
Favourite websites: AtomicPC Slashdot, Teamflap
Favourite application, game, and program of all time: I used to play Pong during primary school on an origional console.
What are you playing and working on right now: My assignment for Uni in PLT Scheme, a registry editor in VB6 and something 3dish in x86ASM.
What is your current Wallpaper/Screensaver: MWinXP: we suck more!
What does your mousepad look like: Smartpad - the one with the water drops, I also have a home made one I got for christmas from a Belgian friend.
What's so special about your computer: It was a gift--when I got cancer from a LAN group.
How many computers do you have: 210ish. a bunch of custom jobs, AMD Sempron for my main boxen. A HP server, an old IBM...
What was your first computer: 486 DX2 66 - 4 years ago.
Do you remember the first program you ran on it: DOS so it was probably edit or edlin.
Geekiest moment of your life: Getting my photo in a hardware mag.
When did you first realize you were a geek: When I was EIGHT!
If I was a program I'd be: NASM
What is your favourite quote: Its an IBM, its got an excuse."
What do you do when you're not at your computer(s): Sleep.
What is the funniest/most bizarre computer/Internet experience you have ever had: 1.In 1972 when 747 aircraft first started landing at O'Hare in Chicago, I drove 70 miles from my Air Force station to photograph one at O'Hare. Bob Crane of Hogans Heros got off the plane and I asked him to stand aside so I could take the plane's picture. 2. Hand punching paper tape to get a CNC mill to cut a part correctly.
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 1959 [MIT] and I would take a soldering iron or a graphics calculator.
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The Truth Behind The Geek (*creative liberties taken for the benefit of the reading audience)
Tim loves to spend his time playing Sluggy Freelance, and is not afraid to admit it. Tim, who once spent an entire summer playing Ghosts 'N Goblins, rues the day when game programmers created "save game", as it basically invalidated all of his entire teenage years.
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