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My name is LaeMing. It roughly means "loud storm". I guess I was a noisy newborn!
I am a computer/network-technician with primary-school teacher qualifications as well.
Here is a picture of me:
OK, it is actually my Virtual Reality avatar. Age it 15 years and put on a dozen kilos if you want a slightly better idea of what I really look like. Maybe I will put a real picture up one day..... YEAH, RIGHT! ;-)
My avatar is short and not over-endowed in the chest department (much like me in RL, though she is a lot thinner than I really am these days). She is in her mid-20s so is not a child-AV and I do get rather sick of people assuming because I don't have a Napoleon complex that I am an AgePlayer. In fact, as a registered school teacher I am legally required to report potential child abuse to relevant authorities, which in my book includes Age-play sex (NOT AgePlay in general though - most AgePlayers are not sex-players, but they get tarred with the same brush as the perverts, sadly).
Weekends, I usually mess around in Virtual Reality in the morning (East Australian time) as I get off-peak Internet then. Monday to Friday, I am a full-time computer technician for a large local company. I walk to and from work (50 min each way) to try and control my weight (with moderate success). I don't own (or want to own) a car, and walk everywhere I can. I take a taxi if I am really in a hurry, which is seldom.
Presently, my VR environment of choice is OpenSim which is still under heavy development, however has a VERY usable front-end from a content-creation perspective. I have looked into other VR environments such as Cobalt and while they are technically impressive, until they provide - in their mainline environment - a content creation user interface that doesn't require you to be half-way through a Comp.Sci. degree to build anything of substance, I am unlikely to use them.
I am Australian-born and speak only English, so don't ask me if I can read your tattoo (if you can't read Chinese/Japanese/Korean, what a fool you are getting characters tattooed anyway).
I like licorice, Mexican food, Cheesecake (though I usually have to settle for cheesecake-flavoured low-fat yogurt), jellyfish (to look at, not to eat -- yich!! Jellyfish have 4 brains - which is 3½ more than many humans!!), the colours red and blue and feminist SF/F writer Sherri. S. Tepper.
My role-models are Ellen Ripley (Ridley Scott's Alien), Jinnian Footseer (Sherri S. Tepper's True Game series) and Daria Morgendorffer.
I use Debian Linux on my home computer.
I run out of things to say about myself easily.