Way back in 1997, a then 13-year-old girl stumbled onto the Internet. She called herself “Pikestaff” after a character she’d invented based on the “Redwall” series of books; a hare with a penchant for causing mayhem.

Over ten years later, Pike still lives…

“Pike” has been the longtime Internet moniker (heck, offline moniker too sometimes) of the author of this blog. She is in her mid-twenties and she lives in the town where humans and Vulcans will make first contact according to Star Trek lore, and she is very proud of this fact. she has recently moved away from the town where humans and Vulcans will make first contact according to Star Trek lore. She misses the mountains but the ocean is pretty spiffy.

Pike likes robots and bunnies and robotic bunnies. She also likes ice cream.

She has a tendency to fangirl obsessively over GNU/Linux, her operating system of choice. In fact, she has a tendency to fangirl over the Open Source/Free Software movement in general. Be warned.

She wears a trenchcoat and either a fedora or bowler hat most everywhere she goes. Goggles are another frequent accessory. She listens to The Safety Dance on loop on her way to work every day. The works of Fyodor Dostoyevsky and her binder of Pokemon Cards bump elbows on her bookshelf, oh, and she’s completely serious with everything she’s said so far and not afraid to admit any of it.

She likes tiny mechanical things. In a perfect world, she’d be a watchmaker, but she figures she’s not talented enough for that so instead she fangirls over and writes about 19th century technonerds. Gotta love a geek in a waistcoat.

She is probably best known as the author of the World of Warcraft blog Aspect of the Hare. These days she no longer plays, so she mostly rambles here (and here!) instead. Exciting? …maybe?

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Anyways, if you are anywhere in the vicinity and happen to have peanut butter cookies with you, Pike would appreciate a donation. Of cookies. /cough