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Geek Of The Day: Kickstart E-mail

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Greg has never mixed Coke & Pepsi.
Nickname: Kickstart

Real Name: Greg
Age: Old enough to remember the newspaper cover when Elvis died.
Resides: Bouncing between Steveston  & Quesnel BC, Canada
Occupation: Sysadmin for both paying and volunteer sites

Favourite Website: User Friendly (head moderator & community coordinator)

Favourite Game Of All Time: Diablo II: Lord of Destruction

What are you playing or working on right now: Playing Diablo and working on a new, veddy cool,  top-secret, hush-hush, probably-legal, website that I'm not at liberty to discuss quite yet.

Current Wallpaper: Self-Created Marilyn Monroe Calendar

What's so special about your computer room: My lovely wife and I have side-by-side computers in a single unit, in the living room. It's oh-so-geeky-romantic.
 
Geekiest Moment: Having an idea so good that a certain website (that rhymes with Splashdot) took it and used it to form their "Your Rights Online" section.

Favourite Quote: "Happiness isn't a static thing; it's the quest for happiness that allows us to think we're happy, while we continue to search for more."

When Did You First Realize You Were A Geek: I got my first computer in 1981, a TI-99/4a, and I started coding on it almost immediately. At the same time, a friend of mine got the same model. He became a famous programmer, and I became a lowly sysadmin.

If I Was A Program I'd Be: A perl script. Probably one that processes Apache log files, because that's 90% of my working life.

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The Truth Behind The Geek (*creative liberties taken for the benefit of the reading audience)

Greg, who claims that he was the one who invented Hunt The Wumpus, came from a poor family. Greg's first job, formatting 5 1/4" single-sided single-density floppy disks for a local Radio Shack, barely paid enough to cover his family's FidoNet long distance charges. Eventually, Greg got a paying job as a sysadmin, and was able to send his sister to rehab to help her overcome her addiction to isopropyl alcohol, the very same fluid that Greg always left lying around his computer.
 
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