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Geek life?

For a long time I have never realized that I have been living a geek life ever since I touched a computer. I run to the computer first thing after I get up in the morning, I run to the computer first thing after I am done with eating (lunch, dinner, I haven't had breakfirst for a long time), I run to the computer when I finally get some mood to watch TV but it's on commercial break, I run to the computer after I come back home from work, I run to the computer when I get to the office, I run to the computer after I get back from the bathroom… I can stay as long as I can sit in front of a computer and never get bored.

As a UNIX zealot, for a long time I have been trying to collect all kinds of UNIX hardware and OS'es: IBM Power/AIX, Sun Sparc/Solaris, HPPA/HP-UX, SGI RISC/Irix, DEC/Compaq/Tru64, FreeBSD/OpenBSD/NetBSD/DragonflyBSD, Linux, GNU Hurd, OpenVMS… Did I miss anything there? I think I forgot mentioning the Apple stuff. I have also been long hoping to buy a PowerBook (now MacPro) but I have never got to a point to buy it. Why?

Hey, life is different when you start your own family. Now you have to have a family meeting to discuss about the budget you can spend on buying new stuff, and life is even more different when you start having little one(s). Time has slowly become a luxury thing to get. Where does the time go? A lot of other places such as changing diapers, feeding food, playing with kids, cleaning house, washing dishes (_NOT_ disks)…

Today my wife sent me some pictures that her co-work (a sysadmin) sent to her. I felt like: isn't this what I have been hoping to get?

This isn't any professional site or the like. It's just somebody's playground, really impressive though. I am sure the power bill will be very impressive too. Other than that, don't you think it may be a good idea to move OpenBSD's server farm to this place? :)

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