Geekly interests was RE: [geeks] It's a small f'ing world after all!

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david at cantrell.org.uk writes:

>On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 12:07:04PM -0800, Chris Byrne wrote:

>> In the spirit of sharing common interests here's my list

>Ah, what the hell, here's mine too, in the same order.

Games: Tetris. I haven't really played many games more recent than that.

Computers: I have a 3B2, VAXstation, RS/6000, and wide assortment of
	Suns, but I'm moving all of my "production" systems over to
	SPARCs running OpenBSD. At home I sit in front of a NCD x-terminal. 
	At work I sit in front of a vt320. I will get my PDP-11/23 running
	soon!

Old Computers: I'm part of the RCS, where we collect minis & mainframes.
	At home I collect tek vector displays and older suns. I *will*
	aquire a PDP-11/45 or 11/70, but I'm going to have to move to
	a new home first.

Comics: Squee, Cerebus, and my friend's comix.  (A couple of my friends
	have books coming out from Highwater Books (www.highwaterbooks.com)
	later this year.)

IRC: Nyet. Dont like realtime.

Stubborn Idiocy: Still using UUCP for my home connection. Updating my
	web site[s] involves tar on an 8mm DAT and a walk to work, where
	we've got DSL.

Firearms: I voted Libertarian last fall, so I'm obviously all for
	gun ownership, but I've never actually used one myself.

Cars: No. Don't like 'em, don't have a license. Walk a mile to work
	every day, in all weather. (Used to be a three mile trek.)
	(Rain sucks for that, but I *LOVE* blizzards!)

Sci-Fi: Hate sci-fi with the exception of PKD, Lem, Wells, & Bradbury.

Music: MoTown, 70s rock (Sabbath, Stooges, Dolls, Cooper), early
	punk (Germs, X-Ray Spex, Voidoids, Jerry's Kids, etc), new punk
	(Arab on Radar, Locust, Le Shok, Lightning Bolt, Black Dice, etc).
	I used to listen to jazz, but now I'll just occasionally listen
	to Coleman's "The Shape of Jazz to Come" and that's about it.
	I go to punk shows just about every weekend. I used to play
	guitar. I had a 1/4 tone guitar custom built for me.

Other: Art. I do computer graphics art (raw postscript hacking) and
	I paint. In fact, I have a gallery show opening tonight.
	Woo-hoo! :-)

Dumb-Claim-To-Fame: Quoted in alt.culture.usenet FAQ. Used to be the
	maintainer of the alt.discordia FAQ.

>Politics (another thing I have no intention of debating here): a fucked
>up mixture of socialist and libertarian.  Generally socialist on
>economic issues, and libertarian on anything else, although there is
>obviously a cross-over between economic and non-economic areas.

Oooh - dead on. I vote libertarian here in the US because I think
the erosion of civil rights is the most important issue at the moment,
but I'm not that optimistic about free-market capitalism. I think that
twist of libertarian & socialism is more common than you think.

In Europe there's probably even a name for it, but there isn't in the US.
Ha ha.

>Education: I dropped out half way through a degree in Manufacturing
>Engineering cos it was boring.  I consider myself to be educated to
>degree standard.  I recently signed up for a distance-learning MMath
>course.

I dropped out half-way through a CS-oh-wait-maybe-music-theory degree
and now I study ancient history in my free time. :-)

-- david fischer -- dave at cca.org -- www.cca.org -- Cthulhu told me to. --