My Computer Hobbies

I think I've always been a bit of a computer geek. My parents have a home video where I'm about four years old, sqealing in wild excitement--"look, look!" after having gotten my name typed into some archaic program like wordstar on a monitor that has two colors--green and black.

And lets not forget my first toy computer, the Sears Talking Computron, which in addition to providing many hourse of entertainment playing hangman, also had math games and spelling games, and of course, a robotic male voice doing the talking.

Games included on talking computron: Spelling, Learn&Spell, Say It, Missing Letter, Begins With, Hang Man, 2 Player Hangman, Discipline, 2 Player Discipline, Theme Spelling, Addition, Substraction, Multiplication, Division, Math Quiz, Operation, Deduction, Follow Me, Memory Tone, & Song Lesson.

But there was always something I was doing on the computer it seemed.

Signs of a true programmer: they write programs just "for fun". I Guess that's why I decided to go into Software Engineering. Of course, spending 40 hours a week programming, it kind of nips in the bud that urge to go home and spend more time on the computer, rather than branch out and be more well-rounded, but when I'm not spending any of my time on the computer, I do tend to miss it, at least a little bit.

From time to time I have had *quite* a few online pen-pals, as far away as South Dakota and Sweden. For a while, back in my Juno days I was even running a pen pal group cuz I couldn't keep up with so many people.