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thargor
Real Name: Simon
Age: 24
Resides: Germany
Occupation: student, while jobbing at a local isp
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Favourite website:
http://little-gamers.com, http://www.telepolis.de
Favorite book, movie, or TV show:
LotR, Otherland, Song of Ice and Fire
Favourite application, game, or program of all time:
emacs
What are you playing and working on right now:
WoW, learning from stupid ppt files and searching a funny project for holiday.
What is your current screensaver, background, or wallpaper:
screensaver none, background Debian true freedom.
What's so special about your computer room:
I have an extended desk with a bigtower, a stack of books, and a shelf.
How many computers do you have:
4. thinkpad, athlon, duron, amd k6-2
What was your first computer:
I first used a 286, I first owned a 486 amd, and my thinkpad is the first pentium, damnit ;)
Do you remember the first program you ran on it:
Dune 2
Geekiest moment of your life:
Every time when I drift while i'm coding.
When did you first realize you were a geek:
Sitting on a lan-party, managing server and got no sleep for over 48 hours.
Have you ever said anything geeky that someone else did not understand:
yes, "geek" for example o_O
What is the funniest/most bizarre computer/Internet/geeky experience you have ever had:
I open a dsl-modem, which got really hot, and found a motorola cpu and some hyundai sram-chips.
If you were a computer program, you would be: why:
Some hexadecimal assembler code because only the real geeks understand what I am doing.
What is your favourite quote:
"Theory is when you know something, but it doesn't work. Practice is when something works, but you don't know why. Programmers combine theory and practice: Nothing works and they don't know why .."
What do you do when you are (heaven forbid) not at your computer(s):
Reading, p&p, geocaching or... thinking about programming or technical problems.
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):
2500, a different time machine ...
(*creative liberties may have been taken for the benefit of the reading audience)
Simon, who is trying not to become a full-time geek, thinks that debian on a thinkpad rocks, and is wishing amd has better mobile cpus. Simon says (no pun intended): "If you are geek don't study computer science it's boring most of the time ..."
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