Le Marsu Real Name:  Jann Age:  31.415926 Resides:  Haute-Savoie, France Occupation:  Wikipedia: Wikipediholic

Favourite website:
Wikipedia

Favorite book, movie, or TV show:
Stargate: SG-1

Favourite application, game, or program of all time:
Perl
 
What are you playing and working on right now:
Wikipedia.

What is your current screensaver, background, or wallpaper:
Andromeda Galaxy (something like http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap950724.html)

What's so special about your computers:
They are named R2D2, Cray and Hal.

How many computers do you have:
Three: Celeron 300A (overclocked), HP workstation XAs, home made bi-Opteron.

What was your first computer:
TI-57, then ZX81, PET Commodore...

Do you remember the first program you ran on it:
A clock on my TI-57.

Geekiest moment of your life:
When I made a disassembler in BASIC on my PET Commodore (to extract and extend the ROM).

When did you first realize you were a geek:
When I read Linus' autobiography and I remembered that, like him, my mother always worried that I spend all my time on computers.

Have you ever said anything geeky that someone else did not understand:
You should rather ask: "How often do people say : « Never mind, I don't understand computers anyway. » ?"

What is the funniest/most bizarre computer/Internet/geeky experience you have ever had:
When I discovered Wikipedia. (queue parting clouds and angel chorus from above).

If you were a computer program,  you would be: why:
Something in Perl because: There Is More Than One Way Of Doing It.

What is your favourite quote:
"And so, we don't need a business model, we're just doing it."  -Jimmy Wales, early 21st century.

What do you do when you are (heaven forbid) not at your computer(s):
Parties with family and friends, reading science-fiction, mountaineering.

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):
September 1991 with a manual on C programming, to hack on Linux 0.01.

Jann, a big fan of http://www.forget-me.net/pro/, loves VIM, Perl regex, and LaTeX. Jann thinks Wikipedia is a great information resource, and that it is more than just another Star Trek database. Although...it is a pretty good Star Trek database.