The following is my extremely long profile page. Leave a comment if you like.
Umm, greetings, i'm user #1690138 and I run a small server farm* hosting websites. I'm also good at fixing and building electronic / mechanical / computer related things, as anyone who's seen me in Shop class would know.
Attention stalkers! I exist on other social networks: 611088622 on Facebook and TRENT310 on Digg
*Server farms do not mean rooms and rooms full of commercial Enterprise closed-source 'highly stable' servers - it could also mean a roomfull of them, sitting in racks, bolted to the walls. Also very few server rooms actually look like the hermetically sealed, dustless, freezing cold room that IT companies use on promotional materials.
Just in case you missed the section at the top due to 'un-friendliness'.
Email / Google Talk / MSN : trent.chernecki@ahtr.net
My blog can be found at http://blog.ahtr.net/ (Back online!)
To avoid getting sent another one of those long random questionnaire-survey things, which I have responded to far too many times already, the following are my personal answers to most of them, in no particular order:
What is on the walls in your room?
A few large bulletin boards with lots of paper on it. Oh and now there's a large map of Alberta, too.
What is your most prized posession?
My HDR-FX1.
Name someone with the same birthday as you.
Ashton Kutcher.
What is your favourite smell?
WD-40
(or vanilla)
What are you listening to right now?
The hum of the computers and the AHU in the server room. All the time.
Do you get scared of the dark?
Not really. Just things that happen due to darkness, such as lack of knowing what's in front of you.
Coffee or energy drink?
Coffee.
Do you believe in God?
No.
If you could eat anything right now, what would it be?
Nothing.
Have you been out of Canada?
Lately? Mmmhmm. Alaska. Pretty boring since we see snow here almost all the time anyway.
How many Canadian Provinces have you been to?
Alberta (duh), British Columbia, possibly Yukon.
How many of the Canadian Provinces have you lived in?
1.
If you could go anywhere in the world where would you go?
Leduc! Or St. Paul. Or Wainwright. Any small town North or East of Edmonton
Favourite clothing brand?
None. Anything that works.
What do you have handy at your bedside?
A Dell C840 for late night/early morning 'aaa I need Wikipedia to live' and a laser printer, a lamp and a radio scanner.
Say a number from one to a hundred.
There, I said it. Oh, 27. (UHF TV channel which has great propagation.)
Slept in until 3?
And later. Very often.
Blondes or Brunettes?
What is that supposed to refer to? Either.
What is your most used nickname?
Trent. I want my real name changed to that, but I don't know if that's possible.
What is the one number you call often?
780-462-7120. Yes, that's Environment Canada.
Do you download music?
Yahuh.
Stuck on a deserted island you would take this one thing:
A 900W HF / Multiband radio so I can yell 'Mayday' every half hour.
What annoys you most?
IE-FFox browser wars
Do you like president Bush?
No. Add Stephen Harper to that as well.
Have you ever fired a gun?
Yes. It was actually an accident.
Favorite T.V. commercial?
1. More4 News
2. It's 'Favourite'.
Why did you fill out this survey?
Because I keep getting sent a copy of it somehow or another.
What do you think about before the go to bed?
'I'm problably going to wake up at 5 in the afternoon' or 'Great, I messed up php.ini and Yuri's going to kill me now'
What do you want for your birthday?
Money. Or videotapes of ancient newscasts from somewhere.
Do you like your handwriting?
Not really. But it works. Well Language Arts teachers don't like it because it's all capital letters. Otherwise no one would be able to read it. But why do I need to write anything anyway?
First thing you'd save from a fire?
In order of importance, even though it said 'First thing':
1. Humans in need.
2. Something expensive and small enough to take.
3. (an action) Close the fire door to the server room and master control.
4. Any propane tanks I happen to have lying around.
Have you ever vandalized someone else's property?
Problably. Likely.
What is your favourite lunch meat?
OK, this is a totally random question. Mortadella.
If you were another person, would you be friends with you?
1. That would be really nice. 2. Yes. 3. Who wouldn't?
Have you ever told a secret you swore not to tell?
Yesh.
How do you release anger?
I destroy broken electronic things with hammers and large axes. It also makes it a lot easier to put it in the trash afterwards.
How is the weather right now?
Clear, Temperature: 18°C, 101.5KPa and rising, Wind West at 8 km/h, Humidity 49%.
Did you get enough sleep last night?
Of course not. Sleep is a waste of time. Sometimes that's good, though.
Thrown strange objects?
Yes.
AIM?
I'm assuming that's AOL Instant Messenger, yes, but no. I loathe America On-Line. Anyone with at least half a brain does.
Broken a CD?
Yep. AOL is usually the target. See above.
What did you want to be when you were little?
An Electrician. No reason why I can't now, either. But I can terminate Cat5e faster than I can do Romex, so i'll just go with 'Network Engineer'.
Grilled or fried?
What the deuce does that refer to? I'm assuming edible materials - 1. Grilled. Unless it refers to fish. In that case, 2.
Do you like to travel by plane?
Not really. It's not the plane, it's the stupid security annoyances where you have to take apart everything you nicely bundled up and then slapdashly wrap your stuff up afterward.
Where is your second home?
A small house around the edge of city limits. There, you get to put up huge antenna towers without needing to consult neighbors because the nearest neighbor is some 10km away.
Do you trust others easily?
Depends on what. Generally, yes.
Laughed until something you were drinking came out your nose?
Yep. I try not to, though, but then I end up breathing what I drink and choke on it. Ugg.
41. What do you usually order from Tim Hortons?
Coffee with 2 cremes. Or peach drink.
What was your favourite toy as a child?
Lego. And Znap, which is another Lego product.
Do you still watch cartoons on Saturday mornings?
The only things you can watch in the early mornings are:
1. Colour bars with a 1050Hz tone. 2. Infomercials for porn phone lines or random exercise machines.
Do you use sarcasm?
Yesh. (I had to resist doing so here. I try not to when conversing in text form, where it's most likely going to get misunderstood literally.)
Forgotten someone's name?
Yes. Who hasn't?
Been to the opposite side of the country?
Not really.
Do you un-tie your shoes when you take them off?
Naw. Waste of time.
Do you have an iPod?
No. Wait, yes. I have a box full of them. Broken screens or dead logic boards. I could take good parts from each and plug them all together and get a working one, but what do I get out of it other than a nice 'blocks' game?
What's your favourite ice cream flavour?
Coffee. See #16.
What are your favourite colours?
Black, purple-blue and yellow-orange.
Glued your hand to something?
Yes, a large tube of cyanoacrylate glue.
What's the last thing you ate?
Apple crumble.
Favourite thing to hate:
Microsoft. Windows™. Internet Explorer. Those are 3 things, but eh, I hate them all.
Do you watch MTV?
No. People go nuts there.
Favourite drinks:
Milk. Iced tea.
Hair colour?
Who, me? Black. Or really dark brown. Depends on lighting conditions.
Eye colour?
Brown. Or something like that.
Do you wear glasses?
Yesh.
Do you know how to pump gas?
Yeah. Not like it takes any knowledge to do that...unless you're doing it from a storage tank and you didn't open up the ventilation hole, and then wondering why it's not working, Even THEN it should still work, just extremely slowly.
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