Hi. I'm Jeff, and I'm a neophile. (Everybody: "Hi, Jeff.")

I'm sitting in Caffe Sole, in Boulder, Colorado, which is on Mountain Time.

I started doing Unix over 30 years ago. My first commercial Unix job was working on the first port of Unix to an Intel box. I have an original set of PC/IX disks and manuals in my office. 5 1/4" floppies. "Why, when I was a boy, ...." etc. You'd think I'd have learned something, wouldn't you?

Wrong.

Still, I keep trying as a sentinel. They say you can't teach an old dog new tricks, so when I finally learn something, I'll know I'm entering my second childhood.

One thing I'm hot to learn is Puppet. I finally talked my boss into letting me take a 3-day course from Puppet Labs, which means I know the basics, but would now like adult supervision. I meet friends to geek out every Thursday, and can probably do 2-4 hours a week, then.

I know some C and Perl, more shell, and a bit of Ruby. I do SCM, so I can get by in git and write Makefiles and stuff. My English is better than you'd expect, even though it *is* my native language.

My IRC handle is "goyishekop".

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