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<p>Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.</p>
-- <a href="https://archive.md/7AC79"><em>I thought Oscar Wilde, but
apparently no one</em></a>
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<p><em>TL;DR Above everything, I'm a lurker. And I mean that in the
traditional forum/mailing list sense. You could put it a few ways and
still be right: a reader, a people watcher, a listener, maybe a coward
if you're cynical. But all in all, not anyone in particular
really.</em></p>
<p>When I first came up with a writing a page with this title, it
devolved into a kind of personal essay. The kind of unwelcome nonsense
you no doubt encounter (and I no doubt supplied) in comment sections on
the Internet or the paginated newsfeeds written by faceless names or in
the rambling profiles that start with birth and forget where they're
going around college. It seems to come easy to a lot of us.</p>
<p>But lately, I'm not so sure I've earned the right yet.</p>
<p>I'd rather just let my work (and my play) stand for itself, for
whatever it's worth. You'll get it as you go I'm sure. That said, there
are some things that probably help for context's sake:</p>
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<li><p>I'm born, raised, and hosted on the US East Coast. By most
countries' standards: that means I have no sense of the world outside of
my own country, which despite my best efforts, is probably true</p></li>
<li><p>I'm raised and hosted (not born) on free software (unless you
count whatever my VPS is running). This server is running OpenBSD with
nginx and httpd working together to host a small git repo and this flask
app I threw together</p></li>
<li><p>I'm born and raised (not hosted) by Luddites, for the most part.
And I don't mean that in entirely bad way. What I mean is I grew up
around mostly people who didn't know and didn't care to know about
advances in technology or the merging of that technology with culture.
In fact, that might be the appropriate view to have in light of recent
circumstances.</p></li>
<li><p>By trade, I'm best at data recovery and writing good
documentation. I'm self-taught at programming software design so by most
metrics, I'm probably not great at that, but I'm getting there. I love a
good math problem, and though I only got a B in my college circuits
class, I still find time to make some lights blink.</p></li>
<li><p>I spend a lot of time on the Internet lost. And in the process,
sometimes find useful things; though I largely find nonsense, which has
it's own value, but it's separate.</p></li>
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<p>Here is as close to home as I'll get for now.</p>
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