Dan
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Museums or Libraries |
| Occupation | Programmer/Analyst/Tech |
| Location | St. Louis, Missouri, United States |
| Introduction | I've been around the computer scene since the early 1980s. My first computer was a TI99/4A, which turned into a C64, then an Amiga 500, Amiga 2000, and ultimately an endless string of mostly nameless, home-built PCs. I've been pretty involved in music for most of my life. I played violin from about second grade through high school. I started playing Bass guitar when I was in high school and was pretty active with that up until a couple of years ago. I've played bass guitar in several local bands over the years. They were all cover bands and ranged from hard rock, to bubblegum top 40, to late 90s modern rock. If I had a claim to fame with music, (and at the risk of being thought to be a BS'er), it would be that I was in a top 40 band with Gretchen Wilson about 14 or 15 years ago. She was blond and almost completely unknown outside of the local bar scene back then. |
| Interests | Family, retro computing retro gaming, emulators, Amiga, C64, Intellivision, GP2X, PS2, Nintendo Wii, computers, networking, FreeBSD, Ubuntu Linux, Podcasts, Battlestar Galactica, Dr. Who, sci-fi, biking, bass guitar |
| Favorite movies | Used Cars, Wargames, Silent Running, Tron, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Conan the Barbarian, Dreamscape, Seabiscuit, Forbidden Planet, Brainstorm, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, The Princess Bride, Best in Show, Ed Wood, Batman Begins, Pirates of the Caribbean-The Curse of the Black Pearl, Superman Returns, Star Trek 2-The Wrath of Khan, This Is Spinal Tap |
| Favorite music | No Doubt, Foo Fighters, Rush, Patty Smyth, Prince, Heart, Van Halen, Tom Petty, Cake, Gin Blossoms, Greenday, Evanescence and LOTs of other stuff. |
| Favorite books | A Barnstormer in Oz, Back to the Astronomy Cafe, To Your Scattered Bodies Go |