“Marius Aamodt Eriksen started the Open Source project Snoopy,
participates in several others and volunteers at Linux.com. He
currently runs OpenBSD on his ThinkPad 560 and Debian “woody” on
his desktop.”
“When I first phoned Eriksen, his roommate answered. He handed
the phone to Aamodt who, considering his international upbringing,
I was surprised to hear had barely an accent. He greeted me
pleasantly and then took his mouth away from the phone to ask his
roommate how much longer he anticipated being on the line. I could
hear them speaking. The exchange sounded sort of paused and
awkward, like they had just quarreled or more likely, were simply
two kids brought together from different worlds to share a tiny
dorm room for their first year of college. When his roommate failed
to offer an estimate Eriksen added, “’cause they’re calling me for
like an interview or something.” I was certain I had a bona fide
teenager on my hands, but by the end of the conversation that one
sample of graceless grammar would prove, besides his actual birth
date, to be all that tethers him to his years….”
“He says he’d like a girl who shares, if not simply understands,
his love of programming. He is fetching, well-spoken, armed with a
charming accent, and even *sigh* plays a little guitar. It seems
that his only obstacle is the guy-heavy ratio of male to female
techies. That means there’s a good chance he’ll break a number of
unsympathetic hearts before he finds the right one, so I tell him
not to follow the book’s procedures too closely.”