I was a pretty hardcore FPS gamer in high school (n.b. I graduated in '97). I continued a bit into college, becoming enamored with racing simulations. It was ki

I was a pretty hardcore FPS gamer in high school (n.b. I graduated in '97). I continued a bit into college, becoming enamored with racing simulations. It was killing my grades and sucking up time I'd rather be hacking. I shook the habit in 1999 or so, and rarely return to gaming. I can play for about an hour or two at a time if I limit myself to one day per week. If I start to play more often than that, I seem to go down the rabbit hole and get obsessed with something again. OpenArena and Portal are pretty good examples of things that almost consumed me again. I am not a developer. I'm a security nerd who occasionally programs tools for myself or my peers. I spend a lot of my time researching, breaking, fixing and streamlining things. As for hobbies that don't involve hacking, I have chosen bicycling, writing, photography and backpacking. I've managed to cram all four into a single adventure quite a few times :D - Load a bunch of cargo on my bike, ride 30-50 miles to a remote area, set up camp, take lots of pictures, come back home, and write about it.