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hello, world! and welcome to my page, terminallytessa.
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I've been using computers almost my whole life and after being interested in *NIX and hacking (in the original sense) for about two thirds of it, I am finally buckling down and diving in! I've opted to go with the puffer fish for the design of this page, the logo/mascot of Theo de Raadt's OpenBSD. This is also why my computer's hostname is fugu000. Last but not least, the sashimi of this rare delicacy is sometimes known as "tessa", and since that is both a woman's name and another name for this operating system's piscine mascot, it seemed the perfect alias. This page is going to chronicle my journey as it were learning more and more about *NIX, hacking, computing, etc. I grew up in the 1990s and 2000s when we used such corny/prosaic metaphors as "journey" for the process of something like ongoing learning.

Occasionally, (in a segment called technicallytessa) I will also write a little paragraph or two about techno, an artform very close to my heart for its being

• a style of music where themes/motifs of machines, computers, robots, extraterrestrials, and other science fictional elements are far from unheard of,
• at times feeling like almost the bare necessities to groove, namely a bass line (sometimes only two or three notes!), a catchy but often deceptively simplistic and insistent drum groove,
• synthesized sounds, often the more alien the better.



               O tessa o
          _\_   o
       \\/  o\ .
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