[Droid Incredible General] LoraxEleven:
My name's Dave, from the beautiful mountains of Big Stone Gap, Virginia. I've got five children and a five day old first grandchild. Not bad for a thirty-five year old with a thirty-four year old wife! We spend our free time outdoors as much as possible, camping, hiking, et cetera. My wife decided to do some research in the phone carrier business back in February and so it came to be that we we're introduced to Android and the pair of Droid Incredible's that she landed us for a grooovy $100, yeah, for the both of them, and vicariously to Linux in general. It's been a fast moving relationship ever since. We've now got five, soon to be six Android phones in the family and I've done the root jobs on all but the Droid Pro of one of our oldest boys, soon to tackle it as well, if he can find some time away from it! Our family computers now all sport different flavors of Linux, Ubuntu and Fedora, namely, and what a beautiful world we've found in the whole open-source experience! We're just biding our time now until our contact allows us to upgrade, so far the Incredible 2 has our eye, but this Incredible in my hands right now will forever have a sweet spot in my heart, it's truly lived up to it's name, (at least since the plunge into the su ocean.

For a bit of background, I did my Army time, too. Four years, from mid to late 90's, seeing my sand in and around Kuwait for Operation Intrinsic Action in 96 & 97. I was a Heavy Tracked Vehicle (tank, that is...) Mechanic, specializing in recovery, I operated the classic and oh, so useful M88, which is basically a wrecker for other tanks. I mostly worked on Bridge-layers and other engineering-type vehicles, even got to crank a few bolts on the old CEV tank, then saw it phased out in lieu of the group of faster and more computerized vehicles, like the Abrams and the Bradly, all the new fancy stuff you get to see in the news and movies. And on a more blue note, I also got to see what the real behind-the-scenes world of our government really was all about. Came home from Kuwait, got out of the Army, married, divorced, then while working as night-shift supervisor/mechanic for Petro Truck Stop, I met the love of my life and eight years later we're happier than ever, smarter than ever, and more in love with one another and with our life together as a big smiling family than we ever have been. I look forward to our later years, when the chicks have all gone on to their own nests, at which time we plan to leave society behind altogether and start a long journey together to discover everything she's missed out on in life, mostly due to having twin boys at the she of fifteen, she's done it quite honorably, though, giving every breath for their, and our other three kids's happiness.	I'm slowly learning more and more all the time about the guts of Linux and Android, trying to learn the C programming language at present, using the online K&R book and some other resources from the bookstore and online, too. Things don't sink in quite as fast, or latch on quite as tight as they once did, but I'm loving every minute of it, and I'm lucky to have a woman as understanding and good-natured as my lovely Melli, to allow a house already full of projects room for a new one. I've used XDA countless times since we've had these Incredibles, and gained much of the knowledge I now possess about the Android platform from it's many members. I've wanted to join for a long time, but the Mod's won't allow registration from a Verizon ip address, so I finally borrowed the sister-in-law's Windough$ box long enough to sign up recently. I'm glad that I did.

And thanks to wildstang for the place to introduce us newbies.