About Dave
As I write this (8 a.m. on a Sunday morning), Dave is in his pyjamas (by "pyjamas" I mean "the clothes he wore yesterday and fell asleep in") and fleecy slippers, compiling Gentoo Linux on our new server (which is, by the way, a mini-ITX with a table lamp for a case. I'll post pictures when it's done. It's surreal) and quoting from that funny Mac Switch Ad parody. "I have more friends now." "Linux gives us the power to crush those who oppose us."
In real life, Dave Kleinschmidt is a Macintosh software engineer. He works for a company in the telecommunications industry, and writes programs that analyze telephone-switch traffic and the such. Sometimes he uses his supernatural ability to dissolve binary code with his eye-lasers to reverse-engineer switches and things, which is why his company loves him so much. He has most of a B.S. in Computer Science from Rochester Institute of Technology, and plans on going and getting the rest as soon as he can raise the ransom.
On the topic of supernatural powers, he also has a supernatural ability to reach things. Which makes him the ultimate house companion-- he can write me an RDF database, build me a server, make breakfast, bring me tea when I'm feeling oogy, and reach things on high shelves! I really don't know what more any woman could want. He's cute, too.
It's now 9 a.m. and he's gone back to bed. He's asleep on the couch now. One thing Dave is not, is a bundle of energy. The promise of food will awaken him, though, so I go to the bagel shop now in search of a tidbit with which to entice him back to consciousness. So I can get my server up and running...
His deep sunday morning thought: The HTCPCP protocol.