I have a terrible habit of taking in machines that are too old for their own good.

My first experiment with a unix-like OS involved running NetBSD on a discarded compaq with a physical short somewhere in the display chain. Many rounds of rogue were played in a permanently red and black terminal before I finally branched out to more fulfilling pursuits. I eventually distro-hopped my way to Debian and have stuck with it ever since.

Current projects involve attempting to avoid burning my house down with a space heater and an x10 module controlled by a decrepit Debian server and “formalizing” my patchy knowledge of Python with video lectures from MIT OpenCourseWare.

I find myself nauseated by the information lockdown surrounding proprietary software, patents and copyright. Still, I have a hard time feeling sympathetic for consumers that continue to reward companies obsessed with control and litigation. More than one iWhatever owner has had trouble getting me jazzed about their toys. Nobody like a killjoy, I guess.

I'm a bench tech by trade, I play the drums and I'm up for discussion, debate, projects, chess or general geekery anytime.