User:SamShovel

While I am just coming over to the Right-Side of things: GNU/LINUX,VIM,etc.; I have long been an admirer of Richard Stallman and the FSF, et.al, I've never really made the plunge. I'm kind of an old guy by early 20's somethings feed lot mentality. They don't realize that they have been warped by being pandered to and twelve to sixteen or more years inculcation, in what is known as the conventional education system. But I digress. As for relevant personal bio let's see...I Can't really think of any. But I dual-majored in Philosophy/Political Science at SUNY as a non-traditional student. Earlier on I majored in International Studies at a community college. I actually had just as fine and credentialed teachers there as at SUNY. I had an crazy interest in Amateur Radio and was licensed in the late sixties;However, guitar and bass soon won out over electronics. What can I say? I was a Dead Head and Little Feat fan during Lowell George's time. Actually, I more or less liked it all. Miles,Parker,Pass,Monk,Clark,Mingus,Mozart,Bach,Beethoven,Cage,Segovia,Williams,Tyner,Jerret,Brubeck,Reggae,African,Classical Japanese and Chinese;American Blues,Ragtime,old music from Nashville,California Desert and Texas outlaw stuff. I suppose you have the idea. Just know that I've left the majority out of the list. I did three years in the USN so as to stay out of the Army who were at that time bestowing their twisted kind of love in Southeast Asia. Of course, we had philosophical differences but every male then living, in my family had been in the navy, and in horrible war time conditions,Europe,the Pacific,WWII and Korea. So I felt a bit of pressure. My brother was a marine and my cousins in the navy. I was getting drafted anyway so ya ta hey? I came out radicalized (I began about age 5)spent years doing things I don't care to talk about. I was in the hospitality industry for a number of years, and also in show-biz for over ten years. If you can believe it I have made some dumb mistakes regarding technology over the years. I started learning BASIC and computer graphics in the mid eighties but felt that all my flat artist friends would be put out of work by secretaries pressing buttons. Many of my friends had years in markers and airbrushing to produce illustration quality work and I didn't want to help put them out of work. Oh yeah, I also went through Art School, and pre-press/printing programs. Ad vocationally I was into woodworking as well as anything 3d. I built sets and exhibits for money as well. I'm getting tired or this for now. I have some onions to finely dice. Perhaps I will continue at another time.