Interests
My hobbies, interests, things that get me excited...
Computers
This may seem redundant, but I love to play with and tweak my
computers. Yes, this brands me as a geek, but a definition I found for
geek is "a carnival performer often billed as a wild man whose act
usually includes biting the head off a live chicken or snake". How cool
is that? On a side note, for you women looking to better understand
geeks, try this guide.
Heh.
I have garnered the requisite reputation among family and friends as
one who can fix/solve any computer problem, something that can be a bit
of a headache at times.
Favorite OS: Linux. Best built in applications: scp and ssh, so damn
handy....
Games
Like Deniz (site)
I like video games, but I prefer the PC versions, not the console
games. I can't get used to the controllers for the consoles. Give me a
keyboard and mouse any day.
Favorite games include Half-Life, (original and 2), Call of Duty (best
game ever), Halo, Delta Force in all of it incarnations, especially
Black Hawk Down. Doom 3 was pretty interesting but all
those imps popping up got annoying. I generally only play games over
the holidays and summer as I'm too busy during the school year, but I
squeeze in a little frag time now and then.
Movies
Gotta like the moving pictures, I'll watch just about anything except
musicals (WAY too much exposure to Sound of Music when I was young)
and, of course, just plain bad movies. Some
favorites include Black Hawk Down, Saving Private Ryan, Open Range (one
of the best shootouts ever), Band Of Brothers, Collateral, Garden
State, The Bourne Identity, The Village,
Office Space, Man on Fire and many, many more....
Outdoor Sports
Where do I start? Hiking, biking, archery, shooting, fishing, hunting,
all good things. I haven't had much time for any of these activities
lately, but I get
out to the archery range occasionally. I haven't been to the rifle
range in way too long, but I plan to go a lot more once this pesky
school thing is out of
the way.
Here are some pictures from the Community Connections/Computer Science trip I took to Peru last March. Peru Pictures