[ubuntu-us-mn] General Introduction

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condolences re your cat.  and welcome.  and of course there are uncountable
resources, eg the tclug mailing list is quite a bit more active, if more
activity is something you'd like.  on these and other lists you'll find
professionals and amateurs, young and old, geeks and goons, all jumbled
together.  i started out shuffling 1mb jumbo pizza boxes and writing and
switching memory tests into that row of 16 switches on the front of DG
novas.  i haven't expunged my XP partition for no accountable reason, it
won't boot and i don't care.  i installed windows in virtualbox several
months ago for the sole purpose of retrieving my contacts from my
blackberry, and haven't used it since.  so ask away, please excuse any
impropriety that is ever part of the mix, laugh heartily, and remember
you're welcome!
-g

On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 05:38, Scott Blackwell <amjur2d at gmail.com> wrote:

> *Greetings,
>
> My name is Scott - hailing from Oakdale, Minnesota (a suburb east of Saint
> Paul).
>
> I am an unemployed legal professional squeaking-by as a freelance,
> creative writer and aspiring novelist (truly, necessity is the mother of
> invention!). I am 46 and have found myself to be an amateur PC enthusiast
> since the early 1980's (my first PC's were a Timex Sinclair 1016 and Apple
> IIe). Make no mistake, however, I am by no means a geek; I fumble around in
> the dark until familiarity develops. I haven't done any programming since
> high-school (BASIC) and even then I was mediocre at best.
>
> Last week I had to put my cat to sleep - seizures due to terminal cancer.
> Having survived that traumatic life-changing event, I decided to keep the
> ball rolling by finally taking a leap of faith to permanently emancipate
> myself from the evil clutches of Microsoft. I downloaded, burned and
> installed Ubuntu 11.10 on top of my XP - crushing the life out of all that
> was familiar and finding myself again fumbling around in the dark (only
> there exists herein some semblance of illumination).
>
> In a nutshell, this is basically me and where I'm at in the scheme of
> things.*
>
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