About Me
I know that when I read web pages I always hope for a little bit about the
person who wrote the page. I like learning about people, and what they
believe in and so forth. And because I percieve that this trait of mine is
not unique, I will feed into this and write some about me.
Update
Ok, most of the page is utterly out of date. But keeping with my
philsophy of not throwing anything away, I have merely amended this
page rather than rewriting it. For one, it saves me the time of deleting
stuff I don't want. And for two, you get to see all the awsome crap that
was here before! So, I figured that I'd do everyone a favor and leave
the old material here.
Who I am (part 2)
Well, we are into Ryan 202, since you succesfully graduated from
Ryan 101. Lets see. I live in Gage. Gage is a UBC Residence. For all
the bad things you can say about it, there are 2 redeming factors:
a) Close to classes
This is very important. Maybe not now when its sunny,
but when its raining like you've never seen before...
b) Good view
Excellent View. I can see the ocean! I can see the Sunset from my
bedroom window!
So, here I am again, I survived a work term, learnt some cool things and
now I'm back to haunt professors and generally waste time. I am now
in 3rd year, so I guess theoretically I am busy or something.. whatever.
Who I am
Some elementary Ryan 101. I currently live in or near
nelson. Nelson is a small
town of about 10,000 in the Kootenays. I live about half way between
Nelson and Castlegar. This makes it convenient to go to Castlegar, since
Castlegar has a Canadian Tire and Nelson doesn't! (Am I Canadian or what,
eh?)
I am about 20 or so, and I am attending
University of British Columbia full time.
But then why am I in Nelson? Simply because I am in the co-op program and
somehow I found a job here in nelson. So I am in Nelson for the next 8
months. Then I haul myself back to Vancouver for the school year. Since I
alternate working and studying, I guess I'll be moving alot. Unless I can
get jobs in Vancouver.
School
I think school is very important. This is one reason why I am at school.
But I also have a love of learning... I could not imagine going thru life
without constantly learning. I think maybe I'll take a second degree. Or
even a third one, and get a Masters or even a Doctorate. But for now
I am taking my initial undergrad degree in Computer Science at UBC. I
like the professors there, we have some very good faculty.
One of the things I like about university is the broad range of experiences
and knowledge you are exposed to. Every program in science has arts
electives. And arts courses have similar electives. The point being that
when you graduate from university you know more than just what your
program is. This is one distinguishing factor from College. And one reason
why I prefer University.
Work
People can't handle spare time well. As a species we need something to do.
If we do not have anything to do, we create things for us to do. Often
this is not a good thing. I'm sure most wars were started because someone
was bored. In that spirit I am preventing wars by working. Every day, 8
hours a day. I work as a system administrator for
The Net Idea. What do I do? Well
we have a bunch of Unix machines that need to be taken care of. That is
what I do. I do other things of course, but my most important task is to
make sure that our servers are running all the time. Of course this task
does not occupy 8 hours a day, thus I do other stuff. Like: technical
support, service development, and other support tasks. Recently I adjusted
our account information page and added a password change form, and a
detailed logs form.
Other activities
Naturally there are other interests in my life. I love music of most
forms. To this end I am building a vacuum tube amplifier with the
help of a friend. I also like riding my bike. However it is winter, so
unless I remove my toe clips its kind of hard to ride it with my boots on.
Skiing is another favorite activity. Nothing like hurtling down the
side of a steep mountain with nothing but the laws of physics keeping
you alive. Next to sky diving the most speed and fun you can have with a
minimum of energy expenditure.
Last modified: Thu Oct 8 19:59:03 PDT 1998