Jimmy Real Name:  James Age:  Alive for 5 years before Windows got a GUI Resides:  My very own room (in my parents' house in a New York suburb) Occupation:  Mild-Mannered Software Developer by day, Friends and Family's Tech Wonder-Boy by night.

Favorite website(s):
anandtech.com, mediamatters.org, sweetjesusihatebilloreilly.com

Favorite book, movie, or TV show:
Battlestar Galactica (the new sci-fi channel series). Also that MTV series where the fat kid does stuff.

Favorite game, application, or program of all time:
Logo. To this day there is no better tool for introducing kids to programming concepts.

What are you playing and working on right now:
World of Warcraft (as Ghoste, a 60 Troll Rogue on Feathermoon), a free auto-rotating South Park episode downloads site, a tuna sandwich.

What is your current screensaver, background, or wallpaper:
The purple-tinted female night elf druid wallpaper from worldofwarcraft.com. Meow!

What's so special about your computer room:
I "borrowed" my parents' large wooden carving board to raise my computer off the carpet.

How many computers do you have:
3.75 What types: Dell 420SC Fedora Linux server, Custom Antec P180 4400+ 6800GT, Acer Extensa 386d Pentium 233 mhz laptop (with MMX!!!), and about 75% of the parts I'd need to make another computer or two.

What was your first computer:
Apple IIe ($2000!)

Do you remember the first program you ran on it (or the first game you played):
Loderunner, baby.

Geekiest moment of your life:
When I was 14, I spent many hours being fascinated at how if I held down the receiver latch on an old phone just the right way, I could hear some random radio broadcast.

When did you first realize you were a geek:
When in fifth grade my friends and I hacked into our teacher's OS/2 account just to enable better edutainment software on our own accounts. Or maybe before then when I couldn't read and thus couldn't play King's Quest I, so I would turn the game on and leave it running, then hide in the bathroom and hope someone else would walk by and start playing so I could watch.

Have you ever said anything geeky that someone else did not understand:
I often risk my usual image as a sane, insightful person by making obscure prime-time cartoon show references among people whom I know don't even watch those shows. 

What is the funniest/most bizarre computer/Internet/geeky experience you have ever had:
While working at my college's computer help desk, I fixed a seemingly unfixable problem for a cute girl who had come to the desk.  She said, "Thank you so much! You saved my thesis! If I knew you better I'd kiss you!"  I guess she wouldn't have enjoyed it much, though, since she even didn't remember that we HAD kissed a quite a bit one night two years ago when I was a freshman. 

What is your favourite quote:
"May we strive to be the people our dogs think we are."

If you were a computer program, you would be: why:
Minimizable to the system tray. why: I hate those programs that aren't.

What do you do when you are (heaven forbid) not at your computer(s):
Walk the mall with my (science geek) girlfriend, toss a frisbee, repair other people's computers, play tug with my sister's dog.

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):
Larry Page's and Sergey Brin's grad school housing in 1995; I'd bring a pizza to break the ice.

James, who points you in the direciton of http://dailybuzz.net, once wrote an entire web application to read Star Wars Galaxies resource spawn data, calculate the best available combinations for making Doctor buffs, and display them with an intuitive color-coded customizable user interface, and he even kept it up after they changed the game mechanics to make buffs worthless.

James, as a kid, used to bring in his tiny Casio keyboard to kindergarten, set it to "loud", and press the Tiger / Lasergun sound effects buttons while chasing girls around the playground.