Top - Geek Stuff - Linux - Taglines - Personal Who Am I? I happen to be Chuck Sharp. I'm 18 years old, I live in Phoenix, Arizona, and, most importantly, I'm a geek. Yup, I was hometaught. It was pretty cool... As of recently I have my GED. I'm also currently in the middle of my fifth semester at Paradise Valley Community College. I also uses to work in the IBM computer lab at PVCC as a lab assistant and tutor Now I work at the Computer Services department at PVCC. Nobody knows what my title is. We think I'm either a Network Technician, or an Assistant System Administrator. I'm a geeky computer nut. I've been using computers since I was about 10 years old. I've gone from Win 3.1 to DOS to Win95 to OS/2 to Linux. I think I'll stay with Linux for a while. Anyway, I do as much different stuff on computers as I can. I do some programming in Perl, C, C++, shell scripting, etc. I experiment with web authoring all the time. I've recently begun to experiment with graphics stuff, and I'm loving it! And of course, I play games. Linux games, mostly. I'm an amateur radio operator. I'm a ham :-). Specifically, I hold a technician class license which I received in January, 1996. I rather enjoy the fact that I don't have rely on phones. It's cool. If I need to get in touch with someone, no matter where I am, I can usually pull out my beutiful little radio and call them. If the other person isn't a ham, I can call them over the phone by connecting to a radio station known as an autopatch. My dad has been a ham for a long time, and he finally convinced my brother Chris and I to get our licenses. I've was a boy scout in troop 226 for about 7 years, and I just received my rank of Eagle Scout on January 14, 1999. I am currently and Assistant Scoutmaster. I'm also a vice-president of Explorer Post 599, which is primarily a ham radio post. My brother began practicing taekwondo around December 95. He earned his black belt about a year ago. Anyway, after a year of watching him learn how to beat me up, I decided to join in the fun. I've been practicing for about two and half years now, and I received my rank of 1st degree decided black belt in October 1998. I also just became a Trainee Instructor. My Life Story So Far (Condensed Form) I was born in Glendale Arizona, and lived there until I was three. Then we all moved up to Washington state for about four years. Not much happened the first seven years of my life... Anywho, after that, we moved back down to Phoenix, AZ. Been livin' here ever since. My parents started teaching me at home right before we moved to Arizona. (about second grade). During the next seven years, nothing happened. For about five months in 1994 the Borg had assimilated me into their collective (see picture) but my geekiness was spreading throughout the collective. Borg were seen taking apart their cybernetic arms just to see how they work. Well, the Borg got tired of having to buy all new limbs for the units just because the "warranty void if seal is broken" sticker was broken, so they returned me to my usual life. There are no side effects, except sometimes I try to jam my finger into my computer's keyboard port. A while after that, I decided I didn't know anything, so I started going to Paradise Valley Community College. I've completed two years there so far. I've been working at the college doing all sorts of different stuff, all computer related. All the other "interesting" stuff is at the top of the page, I think... Still awake? Woah, I'm shocked! Well, sorry about all of that, but I sure do feel better now... Contacting Me I have a page with information on contacting me here. My Resume I have my resume up for the world to see. It may actually give you a deeper insight into my life. I hope it doesn't though, for your sake. :-) My Old Pages I have here the homepage that I once called mine. I keep it to compare with, and also because there's still some interesting stuff there. It's mostly nostalgia though. :-) My Bookmarks This one's mostly for my utility. I have my bookmark file uploaded every time I connect to the Net. This way I can retrieve my bookmarks away from home. Copyright © 1997 Charles W. Sharp. All rights reserved.