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Fixer
Real Name: Mattias
Age: 29
Resides: Tampa Bay, Florida
Occupation: Gainfully unemployed
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Favourite websites:
www.slashdot.org
Favourite application, game, or program of all time:
StarControl II, Nethack, Omega
What are you playing and working on right now:
Omega
What is your current screensaver, background, or wallpaper:
Grey screen linux terminal, and whenever I fire up Xwindows it's the default background.
What's so special about your computer room:
I've got about twenty machines in various states of repair and operational status surrounding me.
How many computers do you have:
18 Linux machines and two Win98 boxen. What was your first computer:
An Atari 800 with the 64k upgrade.
Do you remember the first program you ran on it:
Yes, and that would be Jumpman.
Geekiest moment of your life:
Oh, I'd guess that'd be an argument I got into involving some miscellaneous piece of StarWars trivia.
When did you first realize you were a geek:
Oh, that'd be age eight, when I started reading full length novels. Have you ever said anything geeky that someone else did not understand:
Yes: "Hit the any key.." "What key?.." "ANY KEY.."
If I was a program I'd be:
I'd be the world's best first-person shooter, because it would be fun to be a real challenge for others to tackle and lose.
What is your favourite quote:
"Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.."
What do you do when you are (heaven forbid) not at your computer(s):
Hanging out with friends, going to goth/industrial clubs, getting busy with my significant other.
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 might take an entire set of applied chemistry textbooks back to 900AD or so.
(*creative liberties may have been taken for the benefit of the reading audience)
Mattias, who once met Terry Hogan on a chat line (Hulk Hogan to the rest of the world), is a hard-core pencil and paper gamer. Mattias states: "Name the game and I've either played it or owned it at one time or another."
Like many others, Mattias has spent so much time in his computer chair has the permanent and stiff indentation of his butt in it, otherwise known as an "ass groove."
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