This page is for people who search my name Lemnwezl because they want to know what I am like. It’s a fairly distinct name I’ve been using since the dawn of the commercial Internet.

Work

Computer Stuff

  • I like working on UNIX and Linux, typically a mix of ops, admin, and software

  • Probably better at reaction/troubleshooting jobs rather than day in/day out programming.

  • Working as a generic "software developer" in the 2020s is essentially torture. It used to be quite fun, and I still program as a hobby, and to design mechanical things.

  • Haven’t ruled out information technology jobs, but they tend to not be common in any place I want to live, and working remotely is not my thing.

Thus, Non Computer Stuff

  • Basically going to trade school so I can work on actual hardware again, and not just some collossal woven mesh of a thousand different layers of abstraction and automation running on thousands of servers, which have become commodities like sand or gravel, that no one will ever even log in to.

  • Interested in things like process controllers, PLCs, hydraulic valves/logic, electromechanical devices, industrial transmissions and power plants, engines, generators, pumps, motors, and stuff like that.

Likes

  • machinery, as long as it isn’t too smart.

  • The Valdemar series of novels by Mercedes Lackey

  • law enforcement and corrections officers

  • Running

  • US Senator from Oklahoma James Lankford

  • Japanese manga and anime(CGDCT)

  • PC games

    • Derail Valley

    • Railgrade

    • Snowrunner

    • Factorio

    • Serious Sam

    • Deus Ex(the original)

    • Half Life 1 and 2

  • Console Games

    • Castlevania: Symphony of the Night

    • Metroid series

  • Industrial and military vehicles and machines

  • underground buildings and passageways

  • Japanese and German engineering

  • Eastern Philosophies

  • Western codes of Honor

  • Japan, Taiwan, and Singapore

  • Debian Linux

  • programmable logic controllers

  • high-quality hand tools

  • metal, industrial, electronic, and country music

  • Everything about Japan

Dislikes

  • sitting still

  • barking dogs

  • zealots and extremists

  • boring weather

  • globalization

  • "Urban" music

  • liberal governments

Favorite Books I Have Laying Around

I’ve moved a lot, so the paper books I still have, have survived many culls. These are the books I really love.

  • The TeXbook, by Don Knuth

  • Xlib Programming, by Adrian Nye

  • The Symbol Sourcebook, by Henry Dreyfuss

  • Snake 'n' Bacon’s Cartoon Cabaret, by Michael Kupperman

  • lex and yacc, by Levine, Mason, and Brown

  • Best Storybook Ever, by Richard Scarry

  • The Book of the Subgenius, by The Subgenius Foundation

  • The Frank Book, by Jim Woodring

  • Rifts Ultimate Edition, by Kevin Siembieda