| Geek Of The Day: the PROgrammer |
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Age: 0011 0011 (gotta love the symmetry!) Resides: Mesa, AZ Occupation: Unemployed programmer/consultant, slumming as a temp school bus driver. Favourite websites: Think Geek, Shelldorado, First Monday Favourite programs of all time: LBreakout2, nedit, bc, cal What are you playing and working on right now: Keeping the alt.os.linux.suse FAQ updated, APT HOWTO for SUSE, converting home/SOHO users to Linux desktop, many hours of LBreakout2 and PySol; and getting really serious about C++ programming (have concentrated on C for the last 10+ years). What is your current Wallpaper/Screensaver: The Matrix screensaver, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy wallpaper. What does your mousepad look like: Logitech trackballs are all I've used since they've become available. What's so special about your computer room: It would be a capable entry for 'Redneck Yard of the Week' on _Blue Collar TV_. How many computers do you have: Five mostly working, parts for at least three more. Two in full time use, two being built (for SWMBO and Mom). What was your first computer: aside from 4004/8008 and 8085 experimenter motherboards? That would have to be the OSI C1/P and two OSI C4/P's -- all three purchased within a few months of each other. Do you remember the first program you ran on it: a Mastermind game I wrote in BASIC (with two friends), using digits 1-5 instead of colors. Geekiest moment of your life: Fixed an old Singer B&W 4" television with only a multimeter (shorted capacitor in the flyback circuit). Or building an RF modulator so I could hook up a B&W TV to my first OSI C1/P computer -- 25 lines of 25 characters. When did you first realize you were a geek: Probably in third grade, when I was known as 'Tinker Toy Kevin'. If I was a program I'd be: a virtual machine emulator. Favourite quote: "I would rather gnaw my leg off, pack the bleeding stump with salt, and run in a circle on broken glass than have to deal with any Microsoft product on a regular basis." -- Dan Zimmerman, Vanderbilt University, when asked about Windows NT. What do you do when you're not at your computer(s): Wish I was *at* my computer, unless I'm high-altitude camping. You have a time machine that can only be used once. If you use it you won't come back. What date would you set it to, and what ONE thing would you take with you (not a computer): 1804 to be part of the Lewis & Clark Expedition; a copy of 'How Things Work, the Physics of Everyday Life'. ----- The Truth Behind The Geek (*creative liberties taken for the benefit of the reading audience) Kevin, who claims to have programmed in almost every language for microcomputers, first started programming on TI programmable calculators (TI-98 and TI-99). Kevin hated the paper tape readers that always shredded the tape, and once wrote an assembler for a Navy minicomputer so he could enter programs via a Model 33 Teletype instead of the tedious binary front panel input switches. |
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