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Skip Real Name: Palmer
Age: Old enough to remember when MTV actually played music videos.
Resides: Madison, Wisconsin
Occupation: computer fix-it guy
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Favorite website(s):
www.dprp.vuurwerk.nl, hnn.us, goodshit.phlap.net
Favorite book, movie, or TV show:
any Philip K. Dick story, (2001?); any Kubrick film, Twin Peaks, Monty Python.
Favorite game, application, or program of all time:
The Last Express. One word: rotoscoping!
What are you playing and working on right now:
Whether or not the Business Objects NAL is responsible for creating a particular network directory which is AWOL.
What is your current screensaver, background, or wallpaper:
A promo pic of Rose. Oh, and David Tennant is in it too as the new Doctor Who. Mmmm...Rose...
What's so special about your computer (room):
My PC rests upon a large wonderful oaken table made by your favorite Luddites and mine, the Amish. To the right is a wall upon which hangs a map of Middle Earth - framed. To the left is the root cellar where I store all the foodstuffs I've canned myself. In about 5 weeks I'll be able to take a break from trying to learn Baldur's Gate and bust open a jar of brandied cherries to snack upon! Plus I have a wineskin hanging behind me with homemade raspberry vino. I've got this techno thing crossed with Henry David Thoreau that makes for a great post-modern gestalt.
How many computers do you have:
Just 2. Desktop & laptop. But 4 if you count my roommates' PCs which I maintain. Even more if you count all the friends' and family members' computer that I fix on a regular basis.
What was your first computer:
Commodore 64
Do you remember the first program you ran on it (or the first game you played):
Jumpman, perhaps. I can't recall. I have a C-64 emulator and need to find a copy of Portal. Someone hook a brutha up!
Geekiest moment of your life:
Ooh. That's a toughie. Perhaps discussing the source of a particular analogy with philosopher Peter Singer. He got it from one author while I'd heard it from another.
When did you first realize you were a geek:
Probably when I had my first day of Latin class in the 4th grade. (I attended a school for the "gifted & talented".)
Have you ever said anything geeky that someone else did not understand:
Like when I accidentally introduced the concept of thunking in an explanation to an end user?
What is the funniest/most bizarre computer/Internet/geeky experience you have ever had:
Another toughie. How about the multi-day argument I had with a co-worker in a public Exchange folder about the proper use of terminal serial commas. I'm an Oxford comma man, myself.
What is your favourite quote:
"Hell is other people." Does this make me an Existentialist?
If you were a computer program, you would be: why:
Winamp. I need to listen to tunes/audio dramas all the bloody time!
What do you do when you are (heaven forbid) not at your computer(s):
Let's take it as read that I spend a lot of time in front of other people's computers. And play D&D. OK - I cook, go camping, experience live music, read, write for an online magazine, listen to audio dramas, et al.
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'd go back to 1784 to meet Thomas Jefferson before he bolted for France. He sounds like one hoopy frood. I'd bring a book like What's the Matter with Kansas? in an attempt to get him to exert some influence on the drafters of the Constitution so they'd be a little more clear on that Establishment Clause. I'd go to the Constitutional Convention but Tom's da bomb!
(*creative liberties may have been taken for the benefit of the reading audience)
Palmer, whose blog (http://powervoyeur.blogspot.com) is proof-positive of his geek credentials, is often heard saying "Genesis is dead! Long live Genesis!" Palmer, who can read Latin (and this makes the scene in Monty Python's Life of Brian where Brian is chastized by the centurion for his Latin grammar/syntax one of the funniest things in all of Christendom),.can understand the references in The Simpsons to Akira Kurosawa & Werner Herzog films. Palmer claims to have the largest collection of Geneis bootlegs in all of Wisconsin and once wrote a lengthy tract on the themes of Jethro Tull's lyrics and can play air flute when listening to Tull!
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