I`m your typical UNIX SA turned engineer turned architect turned... So, I`m a cranky jack of all trades. I`ve been a computer hobbyist since I was 7 (so, a long time, now) and have been getting paid to do my hobby for over two decades, now. The most common remarks I hear from other people in my field are: Wait, you were a psychology major in college Huh... Didn`t know you could actually do that How did you end up doing `X` for `Y` (see first common remark) You`re the first person I`ve seen bring our stuff to its knees (benchmarking is fun) Mostly, I like seeing how far I can push technology until I break it ...and then write up how to push things that far, how to recover from the breakage and then file bug-reports and or patches with the maintainer of whatever it was I found a corner-case for. I do the writeups because it`s usually the only place I`m going to be able to Google if I ever run into the problem again. ©