My first computer was an Apple IIe which ran on Beagle Brothers DOS. Taught BASIC and Fortran. Then I went onto more interesting things in the humanities, where I got my PhD in religious history, rhetoric and ideology. After finishing my post-doc in Germany analyzing the patient-parent-physician relationship and the rhetoric of constraint in cases of newborn hermaphroditic (intersex) children, I returned to the US to return to IT. Been at the National Institutes of Health for 14 years where I've helped a number of ICs integrate Macs and support iOS devices.
I also play the bagpipes, and you can hear me practice out back of the Conferencer on most evenings, since competitions are usually within a week of PSU Mac Admins.