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  1. About
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  4. I'm Mark McGuire (aka TronPaul). I'm a software developer who's day job
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  5. currently involves clojure, java, puppet, and other languages from time
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  6. to time. In my spare time I work on my own projects, play videogames on
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  7. my PC, read science fiction and fantasy, and listen to music.
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  9. Personal Projects
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  12. unpro-salt_
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  13.   Configuration management for my servers both physical and cloud based.
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  14.   It's written with salt_ which is run in masterless mode. Also contains
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  15.   the Cloudformation template for my servers in AWS.
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  17. .. _unpro-salt: https://github.com/TronPaul/unpro-salt/
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  19. .. _salt: http://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/
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  21. Favorite Games
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  24. Team Fortress 2
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  25.   My number one FPS. I play this competitively in UGC_'s Highlander
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  26.   league. I've played in the Steel, Silver, and Gold division as Scout
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  27.   and Sniper and I hope to play in Platinum some day.
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  29. .. _UGC: http://www.ugcleague.com
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  31. Counter Strike: Global Offensive
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  32.   The FPS I wish I was good at. I call this game the "thinking man's
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  33.   shooter". DM (deathmatch skill) will only get you so far. You need
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  34.   to know when to play aggressively and passively, grenade locations,
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  35.   rotations and many other things. The pace of matches is very tight
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  36.   and a close game is very easy to be caught up in.
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  38. Favorite Books
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  41. Cryptonomicon [Neal Stephenson]
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  42.   Stephenson's writing style is my favorite to read. It was confusing
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  43.   at first, but I feel that he captures the thought patterns of his
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  44.   characters well. The three threads of the story come together in an
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  45.   almost crack-fic like manner.
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  47. Pandora's Star, Judas Unchained [Peter F Hamilton]
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  48.   The number of characters is daunting, but the way the story comes
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  49.   together in the end is wonderful. The world Hamilton envisions in
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  50.   this series contains very interesting takes on a distant future
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  51.   including immortality, criminal sentences, and other things that
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  52.   flesh out his universe.
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