I originally played System Shock in 1994, and I remember being rather frightened by it, but I didn't complete it. I decided to give it another go, and it still creeps me the hell out, but I didn't make a mistake by reinstalling it; I quite enjoy it -- it's up there with Quarantine. Deus Ex is still my favourite, though.

People have described me as being paranoid. I prefer “sufficiently cautious”.

I continue to firmly believe that psychological abuse can in the long run create incredibly strong and confident people, that those who become depressed as a result of being abused simply haven't developed the ability to use everything for the better, and that bullying can encourage the psychologically-abused to use everything for the better.

Oh, dang. I've been described as being a boomer.

What types of music do you guys like? I'm a country and rock-and-roll person. Ha.

Thank God for electronic calendars and organisers.

I loathe Google because of its censorship practices and general bias.

Jesus God. This feels kind of tacky!
(Yes, I use "thee" and "thou", as well as the "-st" suffix. They maximise the clarity of statements.)

People who resemble me are rare, but I intend to form with someone who is extraordinarily similar to me an alliance. Because I have failed to locate anyone who meets my criteria by simply performing on-line searches for people who bear a resemblance to me, I am publicising this document.
I have an unusually dry sense of humour, one which is dry to the extent of often being interpreted as being extremely malevolent. I am a polymath who studies ornithology, various fields of computer science, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, general biology, neurology, physics, mathematics, and various other things. I am more than capable of withholding from others information, i.e., I am capable of keeping a secret. Being politically correct is hardly an act of which I am guilty, and, in order to provide an example of my politically-incorrect nature, I cite in this sentence my being a eugenicist. I am the servant of the birds. I greatly appreciate the breed of philosophy which concerns interactions and general wisdom, as opposed to questioning the purpose of existence and otherwise ultimately unimportant things. I have been described as being paranoid about security. I do not in the slightest like meaningless crap, e.g., art. I often venture in an attempt to shoot tiny birds, because I adore them and wish to develop a greater understanding of them. I am proficient with most computer systems when a manual is available to me. This was a small assortment of pieces of information concerning me which could be used as a method of judging whether or not thou art similar to me.
Thou art, however, required to possess some specific qualities, which include being able to maintain confidentiality, i.e., not being a whistle-blower or anything similar. In addition to this, consciously believing that logical reasoning is better than emotionally-based thinking, and thou needest to be capable of properly utilizing resources which are available on-line, e.g., Encyclopedia Britannica. I also demand that thou writest coherent English sentences.
If thou believest that thou bearest some resemblances to me, please send to me an e-mail which describes thee and is encrypted with the PGP public key which is available at the following URL: http://raw.github.com/varikvalefor/.... I can be reached at varikvalefor@aol.com.

Even when I close my eyes in a dark room, it's still too bright.

Happiness hit me on the first day that we met; he was standing in my feeder with a face I can't forget!

I'm the creator of cheesy references, but I'm also currently waiting for a process to finish, and, before writing this, I tuned into one of my feeder 'cams, and I saw a little male downy woodpecker. This pleases me because I hadn't seen much activity at the feeders since these ones had been hanged, so his presence is very welcome! Thank God for Mr. Downy!

Always triple-check the file before you shred it.

The degree to which I take security seriously would probably make Ed Snowden shit his pants.

Windows 10 is still nothing better than hot garbage.

I despise services like WhoisGuard; I search for the information of a domain because I wish to inquire about something, not because I wish to spam the bloke.

In case anyone was curious about my appearance, here's a photograph of me.

I recommend the writing of e-mail templates as an alternative to frequently writing similar e-mails; I have found that this is a good method of saving time.

The keyboards of original ThinkPad computers are easily the best which I have ever used.

alias please=sudo

Users of this Web site have been posting photographs of their desks, and I thought that I should join by submitting a photograph of one of my workspaces. This specific one resides in my bedroom.

My DNS server blew up, so I had to rejigger everything, and that's always nice.

I'm thirty-three, so I'm of age, but I've never had booze. Ha.

“No, Google Translate, my name is not VARIKA.”

“Password length mustn't exceed seventeen characters.”
Why? Why do some Web sites still have this rule? It's 2018. We should be using passwords of at least twenty-four characters. This is crap.

“No, mang, that's not a bug! You need to look at things more positively! It's a feature, mang!”

[EXPLODING BRAIN]

[1]
cout << a << b << endl;

[3]
cout << a + b << endl;

[3]
c = a + b;
cout << c << endl;

[4]
d = b + "";
c = a + "";
cout << c << d << endl;

[5]
d = b + "";
c = a + "";
e = c + d;
cout << e << endl;

[6]
a = "a";
b = "b";
c = pl;
d = pl;
c = a;
d = b;
e = c + d;
cout << a << b << endl;

One of my lenses is apparently a 420mm f/0. That's some fine software.

I'm currently working on a project in my spare time for which I haven't yet written much “real” code; it primarily consists of nothing other than extremely bare-bones pseudocode (hell, one of the lines literally reads “DO SOMETHING WITH THE API”), and it's already at a length of over 6KB. This is going to be a long-ass project.

view-source:https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl

“Oh my GOD! I've heard of obfuscation, but this is just hell in text format!”

Linux's differentiation between capital and lowercase letters upsets me and is one of my reasons for continuing to use MS-DOS or Microsoft Windows. “POOP.XXX” and “PooP.XxX” should be the same entity, damn it!

I recently switched back from Android to using a BlackBerry Bold – a 9700, specifically. This transition was made because I have been growing increasingly impatient with the many, many flaws of Android, and iOS wouldn't work for me, even though it does work well for many people. There are many features of which I was unaware when I was using BlackBerry back in the day, such as general tinkering abilities; while I may not understand everything, I am smart enough to be able to use technical references to figure out most of that which I do not understand. I won't go into detail about this so I don't sound like an advertisement for a product which was abandoned by its own creator, but I thought that the people here might find the ability to fiddle with the device to be interesting.
Having an actual keyboard is pretty nice, too.

I generally just do something else until I can think clearly – that might be birding, playing computer games, or one of a number of other things.