Doing lists of 7 seems to be the newest thing so I am just being a Lemming :-)
7 Facts About Me:
- I was born in a small town on the Idaho/Oregon border in 1971
- I went to the same school from Kindergarden through graduation - Payette High School
- My first car was a 1964 AMC Rambler station wagon that I bought for $89
- I am married to a wonderful woman (Angela) and have 3 great step-kids
- I love to travel. I have been to 49 states, 21 countries and 4 continents
- I was a math major in college and think a math education is PERFECT for a programmer
- My biggest goal for 2009/2010 is to get involved with the PHP/Zend community
7 Reasons Why I Like Programming:
- New technology is introduced daily
- The programming community is full of very smart people
- I have an excuse to buy new computers regularly
- Conferences with an open bar - w00t!
- I get to use the title "Engineer" even though I didn't go to an Engineering school
- I know hundreds of acronyms that I NEVER use
- I get to wear the title "GEEK" with pride
7 Little Known Facts About Me:
- I am a combat Veteran of the United States Army and very proud of it
- I helped my step-daughter study for her SAT in 2008 so I took the test with her. I scored 1460 out of 1600 - exact same score I got in High School
- I have two bones fused together in my right ankle that make me limp now and then
- I drive a car with over 200K miles on it every day
- I love Italian food. Well, Americanized Italian food - meaty lasagna and such
- Florence, Italy is my absolute favorite city to visit. The art work, the architecture, the statues!
- I didn't get married until I was 37 years old! Not that I am a great catch, I am just saying
7 Quotes That I Really Like:
- Half a truth is often a great lie - Benjamin Franklin
- Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener - Pauline Thomason
- If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done - Scott Adams
- Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter - Eric Raymond
- There are only two kinds of programming languages: those people always bitch about and those nobody uses - Bjarne Stroustrup
- Java is, in many ways, C++– - Michael Feldman
- If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution - Robert Sewell
*BONUS QUOTE* Software is like sex: It’s better when it’s free - Linus Torvalds
