My name is Scotty and I am a linux enthusiast. Not a developer, soysadmin, or IT professional.

I have many interests and my site is a way of documenting them - linux and tech of course, but also Catholicism, personal finance, credit cards, bank account churning, bicycling, ball and disc golf, home improvement, and many more. Computers in general and linux specifically are one of many (e pluribus unum?) interests, but one I consistently keep busy with and will be able to as long as I am alive and not a vegetable or a nugget.

By education I am a mechanical engineer. Initially I was a CS minor until it became more trouble (read: $) than it was worth. My biggest education regert is not sticking with the CS minor or even majoring in CS instead, but it still gave me an exposure to programming (java) and other topics. By trade I am [mostly] an electrical engineer for the electrical utilities. Previously I was a submarine officer and spent one year as a Catholic seminarian.

My first introduction to linux was through my late father when I was a kid in the 90s. He was a mechanical engineer, career military, not in IT, and was a hobbyist linux user. Sometimes the apple really does not fall far from the tree. He passed away when I was 11 (cancer), and it wasn’t until university that I became re-aquanted with linux via Ubuntu (08.04) at the CS lab. I dual booted Ubuntu and Windowns Vista via wubi (RIP in peace) and haven’t looked back - other than now running neither Ubuntu nor Windowns.