In an attempt to procrastinate homework (and to pass the time while compiling apache and php most recently) I have been posting a bit around here, so I figured it was time for me to properly introduce myself:
Oh, and for fun I added a couple extra items to the list: Pets, Mode of Transportation, and Favorite Article of Clothing.
Name: Michael
Hair/Eyes: Brown
Age: 26
Location: Southern Vermont
Job: Academic Technical Support at
The School for International Training
Education: BA in CS at
Marlboro College, will finish my MS in Internet Engineering at
The Marlboro Graduate Center in . . . two weeks!!!!
Relationship Status: Recently Married (June 5th)
Fav. Music: Classic Rock, Country, Hip Hop, Folk, Techno/Electronic/Ambient . . . pretty much everything.
Fav. Movies: The Princess Bride, Ice Age, PCU, Office Space ("PC Load Letter?!?!")
Fav. TV Shows: Scrubs, Survivor, I love the 70/80/90's.
Hobbies: backpacking, hiking trail construction, horseback riding, vid-games, all things linux, stone-wall construction.
Pets: 1 dog: Jake 1/2 Newfoundland, 1/2 German Sheppard. 2 Cats: Pippin (always in trouble), and Carabiner (he climbs everything).
Mode of Transportation: Toyota Tacoma 4x4 -- when you live on a dirt road (mud road in the spring), and can have lots of snow 4x4 is kinda required.
Favorite Article of Clothing: A nice pair of worn-in, reinforced knee
Carhartt Work Pants.
DisLikes: black-fly season (those little buggers hurt!), Really hot and muggy days (give me 65 degress and breezy please!), the Garden State Parkway -- I didn't know the meaning of Toll until I had been there!
Why I hang out here: I spend a great deal of my time during the day disinfecting viruses and spyware from people's computers. The stuff is really nasty, and a total pain to get rid of. If half the home users in the world went out and got
Antivirus Software (AVG), and
protected themselves (Windows Update), virus outbreaks would not be as serious, and computing would be safer. My goal is to help users towards that vision.
. . . Besides, a few people helped me out a whole lot when I first got into computers, and the best way I can thank them is by helping others.
