So... #introductions time!
Spanish dude here, doing things with computers for a living (pressing buttons to obtain the correct pattern of pixels). Linux and OSS lover for about 15 years. Trying to find simplicity in the current madness.
Unfortunately, currently addicted to the chemical reactions produced by high speeds over two wheel devices.
Trying to be less dumb (or at least, keeping dumbness at bay), but damn it's hard 😂
#programming #devops #foss #motorcycles #science #videogames
Welcome, gramos! I, too, am new here. Aside from the facts that I'm not Spanish and that I don't much care about motorcycles, I think just about everything else in your introductory post applies to me as well... more or less. (For example, it's closer to twenty years than fifteen since I was first introduced to Linux, but eh, that's close enough...)
@ccc I share it, but only as a reader, and quite a casual one I fear. I think my favourite is The Gods Themselves by Asimov, with The Three Body Problem by Liu Cixin the close second. Both of them blew my mind.
What are your favourite stories? Do you have any published work?
If you've enjoyed Asimov's work (I admit I don't remember The Gods Themselves in particular, but I've enjoyed a whole lot of his other works), then you may very well enjoy the Chanur series (by C.J. Cherryh).
I'm also a big fan of just about anything written by Pratchett or Douglas Adams. John Christopher also wrote some good stuff, as did Joan Aiken (though she tends to get a little absurd); Jasper Fforde gets even more absurd, but again, writes some very good stuff.
Myself? Nothing significant published. But I have completed Nanowrimo before, and am giving it another try this year!
@gramos
Hmmmm... possibly. I also have a healthy interest in fiction, both as a reader and a writer - do you share that interest as well?