[techtalk] [OT] an intro

[Stephanie Alarcon]

hehe, i can relate to this. =)

i suppose i should introduce myself...

hi. i'm stephanie, i joined aobut 2 weeks ago, after popping over to the
linuxchix site a few times and loving what i found there.  i think it's
great that such a community exists, and i'm tickled pink about the variety
of discussion, from techie to chatty, and at the elegance, classiness and
brains of the people behind it (ackowledging and accepting more than 2
genders!!!! yay!!!! we really *are* in the 21st century, toto!), and the
helpfulness and friendliness that i've seen on this list and the various
archives.  i havent' jjoined the issues or chitchat list, not because i
don't want to, i jsut don't have the time.  

anecdote: aobut a year ago, I did a search for "unix system
administrator"+"women" or something, on altavista i think, and i think i
tried it on a few others. I got tons and tons of porn back.  I took off
"women" and got all computer/corporate mumbo jumbo. I was furious.  but
then a friend told me about linuxchix, and i am a very happy girl. =)

I've been geekin' around for about 3 years, went to school for writing and
got hooked on html in an electronic media class, and inconspicuoulsy
slipped into the computer world after college.  about 2 years ago i
started consulting, as a very very junior unix admin, and was in a solaris
shop for like almost a year and a half.  now i'm in a mixed environment,
heavy on the linux (we do mostly mandrake and i love it) and again, i'm a
happy girl.  i, too, am starting to feel like a legitimate geek, even
though i have lots and lots to learn.  i'm still kinda stupid, but i know
a couple useful things that hopefully can make somebody else's life
easier.

glad to be here, sorry i put off introducing myself.  oh also, i live in
philadelphia and work in south jersey, and when i'm not banging on a
keyboard or lying around being lazy, i'm a big music freak and I dj a
little, future jazz kinda stuff, blah blah blah, write privately for
details. I'll gladly babble for hours about music upon request. =)


On Thu, 11 May 2000, Deepa Karnad wrote:

> Hi 
> I have been in techtalk for a while now (not more that 15 days though). I just discovered I was a big time lurker. Are such folks disliked from the gut or something? I sure hope not cuz when I first joined techtalk I knew not much of linux. Reading the questions and answers that fly across, I can now confidently say I'm familiar with this OS. That is a roundabout way of saying that I've learned a lot just by reading the mails here. 
> In fact, I'm turning every so steadily into a linux geek. It is growing on me if you guys know what I mean.
> So do I get license to continue lurking? =]
> Deepa 
>