I thought it might be a nice idea to start a thread where we can tell each other a little bit more about ourselves outside of our shared interest in *BSD. I've participated in these types of threads on other forums before and they have generally been fun and interesting, so here it goes... Tell us something (anything) about you. What are some of your hobbies outside of your *BSD/ *NIX life? I'll go first. P.S. This is not prescriptive, feel free to share as much or as little as you feel comfortable - Where are you from: Melbourne, Australia - What do you do for a living: I'm Social Worker working for an Australia wide mental health service. I work with a team of multi-disciplinary staff to support our indigenous communities affected by complex trauma, alcohol and drug addiction, and homelessness. - What are your hobbies: Other than tech, I really enjoy cycling. Melbourne is a great city for riding because it's mostly flat. I recently started brewing my own beer and it wasn't bad. I like Stout in the winter and IPA in the summer. - What are you listening to lately: Lately I've been getting into Polyphia cos I'm also a bit of a guitar nerd. But on regular rotation is Dance Gavin Dance . That said, my all time favourite band is NOFX and by extension I'm really digging this album by Chabad Religion . Anyway, here is a picture of my dog, his name is Ray. Feel free to share pet photos if you have furry friends! 😄

- Where are you from: Luxembourg - What do you do for a living: I'm a trainer, teaching software development (Java, SQL, HTML/CSS, React, etc) and related topics (Linux, design patterns, Scrum), and also a bit of soft skills (for IT teams). - What are your hobbies: writing (mainly poetry). I also have a special interest in flowers and trees; this can't really be called a hobby, but they are essential to my well being - maybe because poetry is all about beauty, and plants are easily observable incarnations of purity and perfection. - What are you listening lately: My preferred music style is sacred music, especially from the baroque period (e.g. Vivaldi, Bach). For me, the human voice is the most beautiful instrument. However, I also enjoy varied music styles - Pink Floyd, Phaxe, Adele, Agnes Obel, AC/DC, Deep Purple, Garbage, Iron Maiden, Jean-Michel Jarre, Kiss, Madness, Mike Oldfield, Moby, Nirvana, Sade, Scorpions, ZZ Top, Gotan Project, The Cranberries...

20-100 plants are easily observable incarnations of purity and perfection This sentence itself sounds poetic! 20-100 AC/DC Say no more! 🎸 🤘

I'm a raccoon, allegedly. I disaster around Europe and hack NetBSD. Instead of spending a lot of time studying I spent a lot of time mixing drum and bass.

Here you go... Where are you from: Europe. What do you do for a living: Process chemist. What are your hobbies: Beer brewing, hiking and ice-skating. Oh, btw, a beer should be black! Unless, it's a Barley wine. What are you listening lately: A lot of different stuff.

Where are you from: Gujarat, India What do you do for a living: I'm a Pharmacist by proffesion. I do help in family business. What are your hobbies: I used to cycle and play cricket.Then hooked to games. Mostly DOTA and AOE. Now play chess and ludo on mobile lol. Does BSD count ? What are you listening lately: Lately I am listening Dark series OST, TooL band, Matchbox20, WestWorld OST.

Where are you from: I’m from Lecce but I live in Bergamo (Italy). What do you do for a living: I’m a Solutions Architect. What are your hobbies: Reading, mostly. What are you listening lately: Classical (Strauss and Handel are my favourites) and Opera (Puccini’s La Bohème and Rossini’s The Barber of Seville are my favourites, followed by Verdi’s Aida). That said I’m also into electronic music, so I enjoy listening hardtek, dubstep, deep house and so on.

Share something about yourself

pfr 🤣 of course, you're from Australia 🤣

Promisse to write something soon.

Here you go...

Where are you from: Europe.
What do you do for a living: Process chemist.
What are your hobbies: Beer brewing, hiking and ice-skating. Oh, btw, a beer should be black! Unless, it's a Barley wine.
What are you listening lately: A lot of different stuff.

pfr

pin Where are you from: Why does it matter?

It doesn't. I wasn't specifically setting the formula for the comments.. give as much or as little detail as you wish 👍

pin Oh, btw, a beer should be black!

Hmmm, we'll see how I feel about that after I drink my first CBS 😂

+1 for Tim Burton 👌

Jay

Where are you from: Gujarat, India
What do you do for a living: I'm a Pharmacist by proffesion. I do help in family business.
What are your hobbies: I used to cycle and play cricket.Then hooked to games. Mostly DOTA and AOE. Now play chess and ludo on mobile lol. Does BSD count ?
What are you listening lately: Lately I am listening Dark series OST, TooL band, Matchbox20, WestWorld OST.

Sam

Where are you from: I’m from Lecce but I live in Bergamo (Italy).
What do you do for a living: I’m a Solutions Architect.
What are your hobbies: Reading, mostly.
What are you listening lately: Classical (Strauss and Handel are my favourites) and Opera (Puccini’s La Bohème and Rossini’s The Barber of Seville are my favourites, followed by Verdi’s Aida). That said I’m also into electronic music, so I enjoy listening hardtek, dubstep, deep house and so on.

JuvenalUrbino

Sam Opera (Puccini’s La Bohème and Rossini’s The Barber of Seville are my favourites, followed by Verdi’s Aida)

What a curious coincidence, La Bohème and the Barber of Seville are my favourite 2 too. I went watching Te Barber of Seville at Circo Massimo last summer They moved the outdoor opera summer season from the Baths of Caracalla to Circo Massimo due to covid and space restraints. I discovered myself actually preferring the latter solution.

oui

I'm a guy from Sweden living in Japan. Interested in minimalism. Hobbies and activities outside of tinkering with NetBSD and single board computers mostly includes interaction design, reading and taking walks. I'm an all eater when it comes to music, one song I often listen to recently is Decades by Skjalg A. Skagen.

oui ha, ha, ...namnet var nog ganska misstänktsamt 😉

oui

pin Nämen hallå där. Jodu, inte kunde jag gissa att du var svensk baserat på ditt användarnamn.. Skål! 😁

oui inte kunde jag gissa att du var svensk

Och det är jag inte, men jag har bott i Stockholm sen 2004 😉
Mitt användarnamn är en lek med bokstäver från mitt riktiga namn.

Skål på dig med.

cleberalves

Where are you from: Paraiba, Brazil
What do you do for a living: I am a Network Admin and have a small business tech to consulting to ISPs (Since FreeBSD 4 Series).
What are your hobbies: I use to play my guitar and drawing some stuffs. I practice Krav Maga, to maintain fitness, some walking on the beach with my Feroz (Cabo Branco Beach, Joao Pessoa, the most east point of Americas).
What are you listening lately: Some stuff of Yoko Kanno (Ghost in The Shell - Soundtrack), Apocalyptica, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, etc.

pfr

Updated

Seeing as we have gained a few new members since this thread began I thought it might be worth an update and a bump. Perhaps it can be pinned as a place for Introduction posts for newcomers?

Jay

pfr have you heard Tool?

pfr

Jay I guess you could say that TOOL got me into Math Rock. Their drummer is amzing! It's such hard music to tap along to because the time signatures are so complex. A Perect Circle was also a favourite of mine.

You've inspired me to listen to them. Putting on Lateralus now 😁

tcmart14

Where are you from: Oregon, USA
What do you do for a living: Im a husband, father, work full time in chemical manufacturing as a chemical systems technicians and go to school full time for software engineering.
What are your hobbies: Fantasize about the day when I can finally get more than 4 hours of sleep, lol. I like tinkering around on computers (big shocker). I still pick up my guitar or bass occasionally. However, on my free time I am usually either busy taking care of the kids or doing homework.

nortonham

Where are you from: California, USA

What do you do for a living: I'm a parent, I'm a cook, I'm also slowly starting doing some coursework for entering IT.

Hobbies: BSD/Linux, sports, music (old punk, old hip hop, reggae, among many many other kinds), cooking, good beer,

pfr

nortonham old punk

Same here. What bands are you into?

nortonham good beer

Do you like the black kind?

nortonham

Thanks for making this a sticky, or else I would never have seen it