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asidewalk

… a 24 year old girl from the United States

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    About asidewalk

    Website: strangeronyourtrain.wo...
    Bio: Free and open source software makes me excited, perhaps pathologically so. I devote huge chunks of time to downloading free and open source alternatives to perfectly functional commercial products I already own, e.g., Photoshop and iMovie. The more obscure an application is, the more it excites me. Sometimes I avoid using the obvious application for a task simply because everyone else uses it or because its user interface is not retro enough for my taste. On my MacBook I have mostly replaced Finder with muCommander; this choice has less to do with functionality than with how out-of-place (and thus interesting [and thus appealing to me]) a two-panel orthodox file manager appears in Mac OS X. Text-based Unix applications occupy several GB of my heart, especially the ones I know how to use for things other than seeing what happens when I press random keys. My all-time faves are raggle (RSS), slrn (news), mp3blaster and music on console (music), hnb (note-taking), mplayer with aalib and cacalib (ASCII video), elinks/lynx/w3m (web browsers), mutt (e-mail), centerim (instant messaging), and dict (dictionary). The ones that sound super-cool but are too confusing for everyday use (e.g., emacs) wait patiently in /usr/local/bin or /opt/local/bin for me to remember that they exist. My most dedicated love (<3) server is for all things DOS: Deluxe Paint II. Deluxe Paint Animation. Microsoft Word 5.1. Pedit. LMuse. Impulse Tracker. EnVision Publisher. Quick-fucking-BASIC, in yo face. Bmp2txt, eff-tee-mother-fucking-double-yew to the bmp2-fucking-max (boo yah). So... I'm pretty sure I have a software addiction. I do mean the serious kind that leads people to 12-step programs and rehab camps, the kind that sets friends', family members', and total strangers' DSM-IV alarm bells a-ringing to the tunes of startup chimes. I mean the capital-'A' kind of Addiction that would make David Foster Wallace not merely roll but convulse in his grave while secreting pools of molten oral foam, wishing to hell that he'd just stayed alive long enough to write a book about the pathetic losers who suffer from such an Addiction. If you're a software addict yourself, then maybe we'll run into each other someday in an online rehab facility.
    Member since: 31 August 2009
    Software: 395 different applications used
    Usage: 2 weeks, 1 day, 7 hours, 24 minutes and 53 seconds
    Platform Usage:
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    (87%)

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