My name is Tim Smith, Timothy Alan Smith to be exact. I decided to create this page after a long time period in which I had no website. I needed a way to communicate with friends and family and store mass quantities of pictures. Having the most generic name ever, I couldn't register timsmith.com. Some crazy mayoral candidate in Fort Lauderdale registered that one a long time ago. So here we are at TheRealTimSmith.com. I consider myself the real Tim Smith since the other guy's pictures looks too funny to possibly be real.
A Little Background
I'm a 25 year old (as of 2009) network operations center admin from Napa, California. I was technically born in Vallejo, CA, but I try not to think about that. I currently call Portland, OR home, having moved there after graduating from Humboldt State University with a BS in Computer Information Systems. I'm currently engaged to a wonderful woman by the name of Brittany that you can see in the picture to the right. Note the giant smile on her face as she shows off her new ring.
My Hobbies
I'm an all around geek and anyone that has ever been around a geek for more than week can attest to the fact that we eat sleep and breath this stuff. I've done networking (Cisco / HP), systems administration (Linux / Windows), and desktop support (Linux, Mac OS, and Windows). Recently I've tended to stray away from Windows on the server side in favor of Linux and my personal choice of desktop OS is Mac OS X.
Other than computers I enjoy working on cars. I started with my first car, a 1994 Acura Integra GSR. That car was a horrible learning lesson and hopefully sometime soon it will be parted out. I jumped in head first when the original B18C1 engine started to show its age. I bought a B20b and had a B20VTEC built. The only problem was I wanted to do all the work myself and often ended up doing the same thing 5 times before I got it just right. That painfully expensive life lesson taught me to know my own limits and hire out what I can't handle. My current project started out of the need to get Brittany a car to drive to grad school. I purchased a Datsun 510 and it soon became a giant project. This project however is being handled by the professionals. More information on the progress of my 510 is on the 510 page.
