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Likes, Dislikes, Preferences, Hobbies, Etc...
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Welcome to the "About PB"
section. There's many facets that make up who/what I am, and this page
is here to share those with whomever seems to be interested. A lot of
people don't fully understand me, and I'd by lying if I said I fully
understood myself, but this is an attempt, none the less, to try to
explain various things to people who might be interested. There's 4
sub-sections that are relevant. Click the appropriate link to go
straight to that section:
You may wonder what the difference is (or argue there isn't one) between
on-line and on IRC. This is where most people seem to misunderstand me
the most...
Professional Life
I can't really talk about my job much
these days... Between this one, and the last one, I've gotten more and
more involved in jobs where security is tight to the point it extends to
disclosing what I do exactly, and in the case right now, even who I work
for. The US Govt is involved, this time, more directly. So, um, yea.
On IRC
IRC is "my domain". I consider myself
raised by 2 things, growing up, and IRC is one of them. Since I first
got on-line in 1992, I've been on IRC on a regular basis. I've been an
IRC Operator since 1996, and have run IRC servers and networks before.
Currently I'm a Network Admin, and the Security Director for GameSurge.
I ran a leaf server for them a while ago, and stillparticipate in
several committees. For more information about my duties on GameSurge,
check out my staff
profile.
You can find me mostly in linux related
channels, though I also idle in staff channels should somebody need
help. I'm mostly pretty easy going, but have a thing for stupid people
and CS players (really, they're the same thing) and have a certain
"edge" that comes with being a network admin/irc operator on a large
network. I'm fully approchable to any problem, but I require people to
be specific, not whine, not threaton, and try to/be willing to help
themself. If they don't care, why should I? Over all, I'm not too
different on IRC than I am in person. I know what my boundaries are, I
expect people to respect them, and in turn I respect theirs. While I may
be slightly arrogant and protective of the network, I'm there mostly for
the users - we wouldn't have a network for me to protect with out them.
I also share the same principles with my professional life though: I
don't let 4 or 5 bad eggs spoil the whole lot. I will sacrafice 5 pain
in the ass users to keep 50,000 from their asshattery.
On-Line
Contrary to IRC, most things in my on-line
life I take with a grain of salt. I don't take threats very seriously
unless I have reason to. I chat with my friends on AIM and ICQ, I code
websites, I admin my server to keep my sites on-line, I play games, and
I'm basically just like anybody else on-line. I don't run at the mouth,
and I don't say anything I can't back up. I'm not a troll, and I don't
feed those that are. Over all, I'm just a normal on-line netizen who
reads websites, posts comments on forums, maintains their own site, and
from time to time, publishes things in a few places that I want to share
with the world. Unlike IRC, on-line I have an opinion and I don't care
what others think about it. I also don't answer to anybody, which means
that I don't deal too well with things/people I don't want to deal with.
Unlike IRC, I'll speak my complete mind, and come off as a bit more of a
jerk in my replies, should it be warrented. You'd have to know me on-line
to understand what I mean by this. The biggest difference between my IRC
life and my on-line life, is on IRC I have power, and responsability that
I take very seriously. Everywhere else, I don't have the image of the
network to uphold, nor the responsability to be helpful if I don't think
the person requesting it is worth my time, or if I don't agree with what
they're doing.
Off-Line
Off-line I'm pretty much the same as I am
on-line, with a few small differences. Off-line, I play paintball, go
climbing, or snowboarding (none of them very well), and I do know how to
live. I just choose not to most of the time, and spend it in front of the
computer.
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