User:Celtikill

Hi, I'm Eoin

In The Beginning

In my youth, I had a 101 electronics kit. My buddy Patrick and I wired it up to all sorts of interesting things, most of which exploded in one fashion or another.

I was in 4H, and won several model rocketry competitions in Maryland divisions. Meanwhile, I moonlighted on an elite "unorthodox payloads" rocketry team. We called ourselves "Cobra's Revenge" because everyone knows Cobra is way cooler than GI Joe.

Things Get Rolling

I won the Baltimore Museum of Industry's Mag Lev Challenge [1] at some point. This was with Patrick and some guy from my Fencing class. The track had a pinch at about the half way point. My team won because our train didn't stop dead in the pinch. Also, the Fencing dude was an artist, so our train was wicked-tight.

I won the Junior Olympic Fencing Qualifiers in an epic overtime match against the Mag Lev Artist. We never spoke again.

The Computing Stone Age

I got an Apple II when I was 8.

Why it stank

I couldn't play Wolfenstein, and The Oregon Trail stank.

The Enlightenment

I got a 486SX with 4 Megs of RAM when I was 10. My dad was working his PhD at UMCP, so I had a dial-up to the University. PuTTY sessions at 9600 baud; BBS flame wars; Doom and Hexen h4x0ring.... It was a golden age!

The Turning Point

My dad was consumed with the fear of his computer breaking. For some reason, it broke daily.

He did his best to limit my computer use. This single fact explains why I'm here on this wiki.

I'm quite grateful.

Résumé

LinkedIn

On the Web

Twitter (often drunk tweets!)

Celtikill 17:59, 3 December 2008 (UTC)