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Dec. 28th, 2015
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Dec. 28th, 2015 07:13 pmI am planning to reflect over the year utilizing google calendar - but it made me think back on my job too
I was interested in computers, and was lucky enough to have a neighbor who was too and parents who bought me parts
I learned to build and work with a DOS box and was happy
Windows 3.11 was the shit when it came out
I had a grandmother who was a secretary and taught me word processing, and who had a printer (the kind you had to tear off the perforated sides)
In there I coerced mom to give me my own phone line, I was a girl and all!
I secured an ISP - my second or third I have kept to this day (http://www.bee.net) and learned from friends, books, classes (AOL in there with all the free diskettes!) I was fortunate my grade school and summer schools taught fetch, typing, etc.
I couldn't talk to the other neighborhood geek girl with prodigy, which was sad. Luckily there were BBSes.
Many times I called Bee dot net support - and one time Rich taught me to FTP and I learned HTML by picking apart others pages. We got a free web page with the ISP monthly fee. I had a (horrible) Xena fan site - and hung out on IRC and the official web chat boards for Xena. That's where my handle came from.
What if Rich at bee dot net hadn't been kind to a small girl who was confused? Would I work at Rackspace now?
So that's why I think I am so passionate about youth STEM education. One person influenced my life, a ISP support person on night shift.
After that I learned all I could, I went to Clarkson University as part of the schoolie program (skipped some high school) to become a BS-Comp Sci
I ended up BS-MIS instead due to Calc3 (don't even start) and one programming professor. Then I got a Masters of Science in Information Systems.
I worked as a QA/BA/PM at one company and progressed up to Sys Admin and Sr Sys Admin who did deploys and builds
All that progress was deciding it needed to be done, and I would figure it out, and I did.
I learned how to use TFS, VSS, asp.net, javascript, asp, admin multiple versions of windows and more.
I have deviated from my roots - I have developers now, amazing ones I really appreciate, and I am on the business side. But still in tech.
So that's a bit more than 2015 spoilers, but, I have emailed Rich before and thanked him. Have you thanked who showed you your life's work?
I was interested in computers, and was lucky enough to have a neighbor who was too and parents who bought me parts
I learned to build and work with a DOS box and was happy
Windows 3.11 was the shit when it came out
I had a grandmother who was a secretary and taught me word processing, and who had a printer (the kind you had to tear off the perforated sides)
In there I coerced mom to give me my own phone line, I was a girl and all!
I secured an ISP - my second or third I have kept to this day (http://www.bee.net) and learned from friends, books, classes (AOL in there with all the free diskettes!) I was fortunate my grade school and summer schools taught fetch, typing, etc.
I couldn't talk to the other neighborhood geek girl with prodigy, which was sad. Luckily there were BBSes.
Many times I called Bee dot net support - and one time Rich taught me to FTP and I learned HTML by picking apart others pages. We got a free web page with the ISP monthly fee. I had a (horrible) Xena fan site - and hung out on IRC and the official web chat boards for Xena. That's where my handle came from.
What if Rich at bee dot net hadn't been kind to a small girl who was confused? Would I work at Rackspace now?
So that's why I think I am so passionate about youth STEM education. One person influenced my life, a ISP support person on night shift.
After that I learned all I could, I went to Clarkson University as part of the schoolie program (skipped some high school) to become a BS-Comp Sci
I ended up BS-MIS instead due to Calc3 (don't even start) and one programming professor. Then I got a Masters of Science in Information Systems.
I worked as a QA/BA/PM at one company and progressed up to Sys Admin and Sr Sys Admin who did deploys and builds
All that progress was deciding it needed to be done, and I would figure it out, and I did.
I learned how to use TFS, VSS, asp.net, javascript, asp, admin multiple versions of windows and more.
I have deviated from my roots - I have developers now, amazing ones I really appreciate, and I am on the business side. But still in tech.
So that's a bit more than 2015 spoilers, but, I have emailed Rich before and thanked him. Have you thanked who showed you your life's work?
Things I did in 2015
- Became a board member of http://hacksburg.org/
- Prepped and taught a BDSM 101 class and freaked out the locals (got in the newspaper to boot) http://www.collegiatetimes.com/lifestyle/article_0a555b02-bc82-11e4-a874-6b54b649c890.html
- Participated in a pathfinder game and brought it to an end.
- Participated in reading hour http://www.smartbeginningsnrv.org/content/reading-hour literacy program
- Finally got a tubal ligation and oblation, best thing ever
- Taught a tea paring class at a company instead of for the community
- Tried dating, /r4r worked best but not well
- Participated in / ran the tech side of the Rackspace KTU booth http://kidstechuniversity.vbi.vt.edu/
- Got Slacks the cat?
- Reviewed and tried much soylent https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1c_ceOFR7S_4qUiVcEG3ykQiSRpuc13PnmcraBwklDWg/edit#gid=0
- I somehow ended up running the local munches
- The Pathfinder group started playing WOD vampire
- I went to World tea expo http://www.worldteaexpo.com
- I played some (new) D&D until people moved
- I vended at summer solstice http://www.downtownblacksburg.com/summer_solstice_fest.aspx
- I organized and ran a hacker unconference https://sites.google.com/site/blacksburghackercon2015/
- I got two new partners, ended one relationship
- I learned to homebrew and made tea beer and tea mead and tea hard cider https://github.com/NicoleSchwartz/HomeBrewing/wiki and then helped teach a class on it http://hacksburg.org/2015/09/01/1830-homebrew.html
- built bookshelves and used all sorts of power tools I never had before in the process! http://hacksburg.org/2015/07/27/1800-ShelfFest.html
- I vended at steppin out http://www.blacksburgsteppinout.com/
- I vended at winter lights http://www.downtownblacksburg.com/winter_lights.aspx
- I organized and vended at the Rackspace 3rd annual bazaar https://sites.google.com/site/rackspaceholidaybazaar2015/
- I visited SF with partners
- I visited, alone, first time out of the country (Canada not counting) london, wales, ireland
- I went to derbycon http://derbycon.com/
- I stopped by BSidesDC http://www.bsidesdc.org/
- I went to the MD ren faire for the first time https://www.rennfest.com/
- planned work team holiday outing
- went to the range a few times, need to go more
- participated in a meat csa http://gladeroadgrowing.com/new-winter-meats-share/
- participated in a veg csa http://gladeroadgrowing.com/2015-farm-share-options/
- ran a soft circuits class http://hacksburg.org/2015/08/03/Soft-Circuit-Class.html
- ran a hackathon http://hacksburg.org/2015/09/05/1500-advertising.html
- I ran a tea class hacksburg.org/2015/10/08/0950-tea-class-and-brewing.html
- Participated in the Barnes & Noble Mini Maker Faire
- Organized some hacker-ish pumpkin carving http://hacksburg.org/2015/10/27/2315-making_jack-o-lanterns.html
- failed at a beverage cooling competition https://wiki.hacksburg.org/beverage_cooling_competition