Tom Real Name:  Thomas Age:  Old enough to drink wine and code, legally Resides:  Quebec, Canada Occupation:  University Student

Favourite websites:
Slashdot and any other site with a dot or a slash in it. Especially the ones with hot girls.

Favourite application, game, or program of all time:
Jet Fighter II
 
What are you playing and working on  right now:
I'm developing an online poker server for a bot programming competition this fall.

What is your current screensaver, background, or wallpaper:
The default ones that came with gnome.

What's so special about your computer:
It has two processors and runs Linux!

How many computers do you have:
10+ . 5 or 6 Sun Sparc Stations, an SGI Indigo, two Dual PIII systems, a couple 68k macs, and a 2.7GHz Celeron.

What was your first computer:
Apple IIGS.

Do you remember the first program you ran on it:
Finder.

Geekiest moment of your life:
When my two patches were accepted into the Linux kernel.
 
When did you first realize you were a geek:
When I taught my high school class about Linux.

Have you ever said anything geeky that someone else did not understand:
It happens all the time when I try to explain Linux to a family member.

What is the funniest/most bizarre computer/Internet/geeky experience you have ever had:
During a computer networking lecture I was sitting next to a tool kit for the A+ computer repair certification. The teacher was talking about macs and I was very bored, so I started playing with the tweezers. I wasn't paying attention and they ended up in an electrical outlet. I got a shock and the sparks from the tweezers jumped and caught my sweater on fire. I patted down my arms and thought it was out, but it had spread to my back, so I had to take my shirt off and stomp it out. Luckily I wasn't injured. I was really surprised because no one went for the fire blanket or the fire extinguisher. They all just sat and stared at me while it was happening.

If I was a program I'd be:
A virus, because I'd give people one more reason to stop using Windows.

What is your favourite quote:
"It is better to be silent and thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." -- Mark Twain

What do you do when you are (heaven forbid) not at your computer(s):
I usually unicycle, watch TV, get drunk, and eat chicken fingers (in that order).

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):
1965; My fully stocked up ipod and a charger to score big on record contracts.
 

Tom, who runs a blog over at http://mediumbagel.org, has run Linux on x86, sparc, sparc64, mips, arm, ppc. I can program in C/C++, Java, perl, python, php, scheme, prolog  (he also know a lot about databases). Tom has been known to spend more time chatting on-line in one day then in a week's worth of actual conversation with people face-to-face.