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About Me

I am the Head Writer at Erie Looking Productions and present The Burning Circle, the podcast of the Ohio LoCo Team. The podcast now has over sixty episodes and has been active for over a calendar year. Outside the Ubuntu realm I have presented since December 2007 LISTen: An LISNews.org Podcast which deals with more general issues in the realm of library and information science.

I have currently bricked a SheevaPlug and have hurriedly repurposed my BeagleBoard-xM to bridge the gap. My my old-timey Nokia smartphone is dead and an old flip phone is being utilized with Twitter SMS and my e-mail being bounced on occasion to the phone via the magic of an MMS gateway. The hand-me-down desktop that previously was in use running VectorLinux Light 7.0 has been put into storage due to power budget issues involving a month-on-month tripling of kilowatt-hour usage. No, I cannot really say I have a ton of working equipment at the moment.

Right now my netbook serves up what it can and travels with me. The BeagleBoard-xM is functioning as a server. Currently I am looking to acquire another low-power ARM board to act as a desktop due to current power budget restrictions in force. An Arudino has been purchased by a benefactor which will allow some work in experimentation along the lines of building perhaps a timebase focusing on WWV/WWVH or some other project that comes to mind with what junkbox parts I do have on-hand.

Equipment donations via this configured Amazon wishlist are graciously accepted in this time of cutbacks and continuing equipment failures. As I am not currently gainfully employed, anything received is gratefully apreciated with a cheerful heart.

I have been an Ubuntu Member since March 15, 2012.

Activities

• presenter of The Burning Circle

  member of Ubuntu Ohio

  member of Ubuntu Members since March 15, 2012

  member of Ubuntu in NGOs team

  member of the Not Canonical group on Launchpad where I note I am not employed by Canonical

  member of openbox-desktop team

  transitioning into serving as listowner for PNLA-L

Pending Matters

• Learn Perl

  Learn Python

  Evangelize Ubuntu and its many flavors further <-- BLOCKED as per discussion of local deficiencies in Ashtabula County relative to Maslow and his Hierachy of Needs

  Concluding preliminaries so as to run for office of Township Trustee at the November 2013 general election to help govern the township I live in

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