Ok, been putting this off, mostly as I really don't have much interesting to put down here 
Here goes:
I am 45, born in Anchorage Alaska, actually at Elmendorf Air Force Base. Being a military brat I traveled around a lot, including 18 months on the island of Menorca in the Mediterranean around the time I was 14.
I went to a total of 11 different schools, not counting home-study when I was overseas, and including short-term stints while waiting for military housing to become available.
I moved to Maine in 1983, my mother having moved back home after my parents divorced.
Having grown up on the road, I decided to stay put
. Over a 29 year span I graduated high school, eventually went to tech school, got married, settled on a bad career choice, had some good times and bad, culminating on my wife ditching me after almost 22 years. I have no kids but have had many dogs and a few cats along the way.
I live in another state now, having no real family left up north. I have almost literally started over. I have at the moment a near-minimum wage job and am usually broke, but I do have a job that I do not hate
Now as to what I like, beliefs, etc:
I got into F/OSS the back way. I used to be warez hound, running the occasional FTP server announced over usenet, got into a group of people there who liked to give back the things they learned to newbies. Free (as in beer) stuff was obviously rampant, so the news about BeOS having a free version of that operating system did stir a buzz. I found I loved the stability and speed of it, almost took that OS as my main one until I discovered a "free" Mandrake cd in a magazine. Better hardware support and more applications despite the hard work sometimes won out over BeOS.
After mandrake 7.1 or maybe 7.2 was such a disaster for me, I discovered a few easy-to-use distros, and fell in love with Lycoris. It became my mian OS, and I went windows-free in February of 2002. I stayed there (with many dual/triple/quad boot setups) until Lycoris folded into Mandriva and melted away. I heard about this new Ubuntu thing, and was concerned about the Borg-ness of it all. Being very KDE centic early on, I could not use Gnome for very long before giving up on it anyway, so hearing about this new spin on Ubuntu with a goofy and silly name did perk my interest. I was sold on it after my first livecd, been here ever since
As to me personally, I like pizza, who doesn't. But I will eat anything on one, even anchovies, I have no preference on toppings
I am a hardcore agnostic, which basically means I am about 90% atheist, while the other 10% doesn't believe in worshiping a deity.
Politics are harder to quantify, especially in an international sense. I am neither US-conservative nor US-liberal, and I do hate the black/white yes/no this/that coin things are. Theoretically, I can be considered a Libertarian, but in the real world things can't work that way, at least not on a large scale in large-ish population. I often get peeved when international stats compare things in the US to other individual countries that are far far smaller in population than ours. Not necessarily that there is a better way to compare, but to me it is like comparing California to Maine or Alabama in a lot of ways.
Things I want to do:
Here goes:
I am 45, born in Anchorage Alaska, actually at Elmendorf Air Force Base. Being a military brat I traveled around a lot, including 18 months on the island of Menorca in the Mediterranean around the time I was 14.
I went to a total of 11 different schools, not counting home-study when I was overseas, and including short-term stints while waiting for military housing to become available.
I moved to Maine in 1983, my mother having moved back home after my parents divorced.
Having grown up on the road, I decided to stay put
. Over a 29 year span I graduated high school, eventually went to tech school, got married, settled on a bad career choice, had some good times and bad, culminating on my wife ditching me after almost 22 years. I have no kids but have had many dogs and a few cats along the way.I live in another state now, having no real family left up north. I have almost literally started over. I have at the moment a near-minimum wage job and am usually broke, but I do have a job that I do not hate
Now as to what I like, beliefs, etc:
I got into F/OSS the back way. I used to be warez hound, running the occasional FTP server announced over usenet, got into a group of people there who liked to give back the things they learned to newbies. Free (as in beer) stuff was obviously rampant, so the news about BeOS having a free version of that operating system did stir a buzz. I found I loved the stability and speed of it, almost took that OS as my main one until I discovered a "free" Mandrake cd in a magazine. Better hardware support and more applications despite the hard work sometimes won out over BeOS.
After mandrake 7.1 or maybe 7.2 was such a disaster for me, I discovered a few easy-to-use distros, and fell in love with Lycoris. It became my mian OS, and I went windows-free in February of 2002. I stayed there (with many dual/triple/quad boot setups) until Lycoris folded into Mandriva and melted away. I heard about this new Ubuntu thing, and was concerned about the Borg-ness of it all. Being very KDE centic early on, I could not use Gnome for very long before giving up on it anyway, so hearing about this new spin on Ubuntu with a goofy and silly name did perk my interest. I was sold on it after my first livecd, been here ever since
As to me personally, I like pizza, who doesn't. But I will eat anything on one, even anchovies, I have no preference on toppings
I am a hardcore agnostic, which basically means I am about 90% atheist, while the other 10% doesn't believe in worshiping a deity.
Politics are harder to quantify, especially in an international sense. I am neither US-conservative nor US-liberal, and I do hate the black/white yes/no this/that coin things are. Theoretically, I can be considered a Libertarian, but in the real world things can't work that way, at least not on a large scale in large-ish population. I often get peeved when international stats compare things in the US to other individual countries that are far far smaller in population than ours. Not necessarily that there is a better way to compare, but to me it is like comparing California to Maine or Alabama in a lot of ways.
Things I want to do:
- Go back to school to learn something useful (and hopefully enjoyable).
- Get divorced, so that I can eventually....
- Move to a small town relatively near Canberra, Australia
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