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From the hip.

My name is Mike. I am currently limiting my digital footprint for reasons that I will eventually get into. Suffice to say, I am here because since was 8 years old, and sat at my brand new C64, with the giant "LEARN BASIC" Text book, and somehow, I just knew this stuff.

At 8 I re wrote a simple 10 bouncy ball (sprites) program (simple 10-20 liner) and decided that "If it can do 10, it can do 100...(I was 8 and had no idea about memory and such). But I did understand syntax enough to rewrite 10 lines into close to 100.

The real reason I am here, is because I miss it. The world as it is, I need to do this again. I need that passion. I had taken some time off, while my body still could and went to splice fiber optic cable. Turned out to be a FANTASTIC learning experience. For both how the backbone is constructed and how to identify faults in bad fiber runs.

I tend to ramble, so I will shut up now. I got my first internship at the end of 1998 so I would have been 21 or 22. I was managing my first help desk 6 months later.

Looking forward to some good nerdy non world news stuff to obsess over.

Cheers!

The video is just me forgetting for 30 minutes that OBS was running. I cut it down to a minute. Figured maybe someone could have a laugh at my expense.

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