torpor Real Name:  Jay Age:  35 Resides:  Germany Occupation:  I work for access music electronics, the worlds greatest synth makers!

Favorite website(s):
http://virus.info, http://ampefa.org, http://slashdot.org

Favorite book, movie, or TV show:
favourite book right now: Goedel, Escher and Bach "Eternal Golden Braid".  I just can't stop reading it. Favourite movie: "Cleo from 5 to 7", and anything Bunuell. Favourite TV show: don't know, i don't watch TV.

Favorite game, application, or program of all time:
the Virus DSP code.

What are you playing and working on right now:
A new synthesizer platform to take over where the Virus leaves off.

What is your current screensaver, background, or wallpaper:
Current wallpaper is a custom pixelart of a green alien who needs a haircut, in his undies with a Space Invader t-shirt on, and his trusty bulldog Lenny on leash.  It reminds me who I am on a daily login basis. I don't have a screensaver; my computer is in constant use, and when i'm not using it I close the lid.

What's so special about your computer room:
I don't have a computer room, I have a 'jam session' room which has its own 19" rack floating in the middle, and about 25 different synthesizers and audio modules for hacking around on.  believe it or not, but these are computers I write code for.  ;)

How many computers do you have:
Tons.  Let's list them:

Powerbook 17"
i-opener running my self-rolled linux distro BeBox running BeOS dell dual-booting WinXP (ack, spit!) and linux (MEPIS on Dell rocks!) sl5500 running the web server in my bookshelf.
Shuttle PC running Gentoo (file/distcc server) countless embedded systems based on Coldfire and ARM processors.

What was your first computer:
An ORIC-1, and yes, I still have it.  I occasionally use it for PING/ZAP/EXPLODE goto loops in the middle of the night when I can't sleep and need something comforting.

Do you remember the first program you ran on it:
10 print "hello my new friend"
20 goto 10

Harrier Attack was the first game I ran on it.  a QIX clone was the first game I wrote for it.

Geekiest moment of your life:
1990: opening my brand new MIPS R3000-based pizzabox, unpacking it, turning it on, and rcp'ing my code off the server I'd been using for programming that lived in Florida, to my pizzabox in Dalifornia. That was when I realized I was fully in control.

When did you first realize you were a geek:
1990, see above.

Have you ever said anything geeky that someone else did not understand:
all the time: http://www.ampfea.org/pipermail/music-bar/

What is the funniest/most bizarre computer/Internet/geeky experience you have ever had:
synth-diy 2003: http://www.modulus-music.com/synthdiyuk/2003/

What is your favourite quote:
"hey, don't put it in there!"

If you were a computer program, you would be: why:
I'd be gcc, duh.

What do you do when you are (heaven forbid) not at your computer(s):
Sleep, eat, make love to my girl, look at the pretty clouds.

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):
Date: the day and time that time machines were made to work. Bring with me: all time machine documentation, so we could make one that works more than once.

Jay, who says: "Give me a new eval board, and I'll have my code running on it in a week," enjoys writing useless programs just for the fun of it. Jay, who can type equally well in QWERTY and Dvorak, believes he has created a perfect keyboard that would revolutionize typing, but unfortunately it requires that humans have eight fingers on their left hand.