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This bulletin board system is built and operated by David Quick, also known as Sundog.
That's me! You can call me Dave, or David, or Sundog, and I use he/him as my pronouns (though
I have nothing against they/them pronouns either if you prefer)

At various points throughout my life, I

- received my first computer, a Timex Sinclair 1000 with Zilog Z80 processor and 2 kilobytes of RAM
- got the 16 kilobyte RAM expansion pack after I proved I could use all 2 kilobytes after a few
    weeks of teaching myself BASIC programming
- learned my first real operating system in the form of CP/M 2.2 running on a Kaypro 2X
- went online the first time with a 300 baud direct connect modem to post messages on Citadel
    bulletin board systems
- was paid for writing code for the first time using BASIC to handle scheduling a newspaper motor
    delivery route's invoices for our paper delivery person

I have

- worked as a professional musician, an FM radio disc jockey, a newspaper layout editor, and a
    short order cook
- built a dial-up ISP using a Sparc 10, an Apple Workgroup Server 6150, a fractional T1 line,
    and a few dozen external modems
- taught myself Solaris, TCP/IP networking, web design, bind, sendmail, and numerous other Unix
    programs and scripts in the process of building the ISP
- registered more than five of the first 25,000 .com domain names
- taught children how to build web sites
- taught grandparents how to build web sites
- taught rooms full of third-party software engineers how to leverage custom APIs on two continents
- written web applications designed to be displayed on televisions before there were any smart
    televisions
- built an online audio streaming radio station with thousands of unique daily listeners for an
    MMORPG community 
- built private chat functionality for a dating web site ranked in the top five worldwide before
    anyone had smartphones
- built a custom video livestreaming infrastructure using commodity hardware and usable by
    completely non-technical end users before YouTube Live
- been paid to write Ada, BASIC, C, C++, C#, COBOL, ColdFusion, ElasticSearch pipelines, HTML,
    Java, Javascript, various NoSQLs, Perl, PHP, Python, various SQLs, and x86 Assembler,
- at least a passing familiarity with a number of lisps, schemes, and forths, including some I
    have ported to various microcontrollers, as well as Go, Lua, Rust, and Haskell,
- a public /28 IPv4 subnet on my home internet connection which hosts most of my personal
    infrastructure, including this raspberry pi 4 server
- two nodes on a distributed federated microblogging network, one just for me and one for anyone
    who wants to have a place online to talk about music called linernotes.club,
- been called Sundog by my friends for a very long time
- been on stage in front of thousands
- been a consultant to more than one Fortune 50 company
- been backstage at a Parliament Funkadelic show
- a long tradition of listening to jazz all day every Sunday

I've had

- a cigar with John McAfee
- drinks with Bruce Sterling
- lunch with Phil Zimmerman
- a single-digit employee number numerous times 
- a double-digit employee number with a company that successfully IPOed
- a triple-digit employee number with a company with offices on five continents
- a four-digit Slashdot UID
- a seven-digit ICQ number
- root on more servers than 99.999% of people who have ever lived

and I want to

- solve problems
- build tools and toolsets
- experiment
- learn and teach
- empower users

- and work with you to do those things

Thanks for reading my bio! -- Sundog


P.S.: as a bonus for reading through all of that, I'll let you know about a command that isn't on the help menu.

Try adventure sometime.