[TriLUG] MichaelC introduction

[Michael Coburn]

Salut Francois!

Not sure how I ended up with the domain -- I went to school in Toronto
(Ryerson University) for some business program but kept getting drawn into
the room with the flashing monitors and got sucked into MUDs (Last Outpost
- www.last-outpost.com) through the AIX terminals.. tintin++ was my first
exposure to scripting and I never looked back after that.  Gravis was my
main character name, on a whim I bought the domain and it just stuck with
me.  Now I'm grandfathered into hosting with Gmail on gravis.ca (for free)
so I have a hard time justifying switching to anything else..

I used to own a Gravis controller.  That's cool, right? I just wish I had a
more rad story to tell you all about the domain :(

michael


On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 11:05 PM, Francois Dion <francois.dion at gmail.com>wrote:

> Wow, a blast from the past. gravis.ca. Anybody remember the Gravis company
> from Canada? Gravis joysticks of course, but more than that, the famous
> Gravis Ultrasound soundcard. Did all the mixing in hardware, great card for
> modtrackers and stuff like that. Wow, that was about 22 years ago... So,
> what is the story there, how did you end up with that domain?
>
> Francois
> (also a Canadian).
>
> --
> www.pyptug.org  -  raspberry-python.blogspot.com  -  @f_dion
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 10:50 PM, Michael Coburn <michael at gravis.ca>
> wrote:
>
> > Hello, I'm not sure if TriLUG does intro emails or not, but anyway here
> > goes :)
> >
> > My name is Michael Coburn and I signed up for TriLUG yesterday -- I can't
> > believe it took me this long!  I moved to the Triangle area in 2011 and
> now
> > live in Holly Springs after having moved from Calgary, Alberta.  Yep I'm
> a
> > Canadian (hometown is actually Toronto).  I have been a
> > SysAdmin/Networks/DBA for almost 15 years and worked at sites such as
> > iStockphoto, Getty Images, and iContact (now Vocus, based in Morrisville)
> > and in the last 8 years have specialized in MySQL.  I currently work from
> > home for Percona <http://www.percona.com/> as a Consultant where I
> provide
> > MySQL and LAMP advice to all sorts of customers, large and small.
> >
> > I have been a member of the Toronto Linux Users Group and am a big Open
> > Source proponent -- beyond Linux on the laptop, Android on the cell
> phone,
> > Asterisk as the home PBX provider, and MythTV for home videos for the
> kids,
> > at home I've displaced as much proprietary software as possible!
> >
> > So, I'm glad to be a member of TriLUG and I look forward to contributing
> to
> > the quality of the discussions both on and off the list. I hope to meet
> > many of you at the November 14th meeting regarding Cryptography and GPG.
> > I'll be bringing my fingerprint so that we can continue to expand the web
> > of trust -- can I count on meeting others who are willing to sign?
> > --
> > Michael Coburn
> > http://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelacoburn
> > --
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