If you are new drop in say hello and introduce yourself please!
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@jasgot said in If you are new drop in say hello and introduce yourself please!:
Hi!
My name is Jason. I've been in IT for 30 years and usually just lurk around. I had grown tired of the drama on many of the other boards, so after a hiatus, I went looking for a new place to hang out. Found this. I like it.I run an all purpose IT shop for companies with between 25 and 250 employees/workstations. I am addicted to television, and I get the biggest kick from watching my kids grow up. Good food and international travel is also high on our list. I hope to have a chance to participate in some of your topics here.
Jason
Welcome!
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Welcome @tdelchiaro
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@dyasny said in If you are new drop in say hello and introduce yourself please!:
A Canadian(ish) here. Many years of experience with KVM and Linux, RHV/oVirt and more recently Openstack and k8s/Openshift. Moved to the big data domain a few months ago as a part of my midlife crisis routine.
What part of "nearly" Canada?
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@scottalanmiller the "ish" was in relation to my Canadian-ship (Canadianness? Canadianity? oh well) - I'm still waiting for my citizenship to come through. I'm based in Montreal right now, but might move to a more English-speaking province in a few years.
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@dyasny said in If you are new drop in say hello and introduce yourself please!:
@scottalanmiller the "ish" was in relation to my Canadian-ship (Canadianness? Canadianity? oh well) - I'm still waiting for my citizenship to come through. I'm based in Montreal right now, but might move to a more English-speaking province in a few years.
Oh okay, now I get it. I grew up on the border near Niagara where US and Canada start to blend together. I though maybe you were near there.
Montreal is lovely, I absolute love the city.
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@dashrender Well......I'm Jason too
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They are taking over!!
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@scottalanmiller might end up there one day, who knows? I'm definitely not moving to the US (despite several of my previous employers pushing for that) but Canada is wonderful from ocean to ocean
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@dyasny What is your original nationality?
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@dyasny said in If you are new drop in say hello and introduce yourself please!:
@scottalanmiller might end up there one day, who knows? I'm definitely not moving to the US (despite several of my previous employers pushing for that) but Canada is wonderful from ocean to ocean
If I had to be in English speaking Canada that I've been exposed to, Halifax would be my city of choice, and PEI my location of choice.
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But if I was moving to Canada, it would be Montreal, for sure.
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@nerdydad hard to tell. I was born in Georgia (the real one, in the USSR, not the state
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@scottalanmiller Montreal has a lot going for it, especially lately, when we got an Amazon DC, and Google, Facebook and MS opened up shop, as well as Red Hat bought a startup that had an office here. Unfortunately, my French is still pretty weak, and my main concern is losing touch with the kids' education as they advance through a French school system
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@dyasny said in If you are new drop in say hello and introduce yourself please!:
@scottalanmiller Montreal has a lot going for it, especially lately, when we got an Amazon DC, and Google, Facebook and MS opened up shop, as well as Red Hat bought a startup that had an office here. Unfortunately, my French is still pretty weak, and my main concern is losing touch with the kids' education as they advance through a French school system
My French is terrible, but I'd gladly struggle for croissant and cafe every morning.
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@dyasny said in If you are new drop in say hello and introduce yourself please!:
@nerdydad hard to tell. I was born in Georgia (the real one, in the USSR, not the state
), but lived most of my life in Israel, with a few years in the UK and Ireland.Oh man, I bet you miss the food!
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@scottalanmiller I'm sure you can get a croissant and coffee anywhere in the world these days
Actually, I find the coffee in Israel much better than in NA, I bring a few pounds of the stuff with me every time I travel there -
@scottalanmiller that I do, Georgian cuisine is amazing, and the street food in Israel is anything but hamburgers, all of it really good. But those places have their own problems, I'd rather leave the fine food behind and have a place to raise my children in safety
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@dyasny said in If you are new drop in say hello and introduce yourself please!:
@scottalanmiller I'm sure you can get a croissant and coffee anywhere in the world these days
Actually, I find the coffee in Israel much better than in NA, I bring a few pounds of the stuff with me every time I travel thereApparently you haven't spent enough time in the US. No, you cannot easily get good breakfast pastries or coffee in the US in most places.
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@scottalanmiller said in If you are new drop in say hello and introduce yourself please!:
@dyasny said in If you are new drop in say hello and introduce yourself please!:
@scottalanmiller I'm sure you can get a croissant and coffee anywhere in the world these days
Actually, I find the coffee in Israel much better than in NA, I bring a few pounds of the stuff with me every time I travel thereApparently you haven't spent enough time in the US. No, you cannot easily get good breakfast pastries or coffee in the US in most places.
Ugh I wish.
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@scottalanmiller yeah, my visits were to Detroit (ugh, just ugh.) and Boston, which was actually pretty good, including pastries. I'll be in San Francisco next month, will see what I find there. Here in Canada, coffee and pastries aren't anything to write home about, but you need to know the right places - chains are notably bad, but some mom-and-pop shops can turn out to be very decent, and I'm pretty sure it's the same in the US (at least that was the case in Boston)
