I was born and have lived my entire life in north Mississippi ..... and yes I'm a redneck. I tell people that I live so far out in the sticks that we have to have sunshine pumped in. I fit all the descriptions of a redneck. I drive a jacked-up four wheel drive pickup with a shotgun
behind the seat, wear a baseball cap every day, dip snuff, and they call me "Bubba". Now if that ain't redneck I don't know what is. I did however graduate high school and then got my BBA from the University of Mississippi (I had to use an alias to get in at Ole Miss.....they don't like Bubba's too much). But that wasn't enough education so I went two more years at Ole Miss
in the School of Accounting.
After college, I spent a year working with my family in our family owned business and then got a wild hair and moved to Oxford and sold clothing first and then jewelry in retail stores. I sold "rags" and "rocks" until 1990, got married, came to my senses and went home to work with my family again...... funny how marriage puts a new perspective on reality.
I bought my first computer in 1980 (yes some of us Bubba's do have some computer skills). It was a power-packed Tandy TRS 16K Color Computer affectionately know as a "COCO". Not long after that I upgraded to a 64K model......a big step in those days. These were the days of punch-card computing at Ole Miss. I found other hobbies and I put my computer aside for about 10 years. Then I decided to get back into them. WOW!.....had things changed in 10 years. Gigabytes, Fax/Modems, BBSs, Sound Cards, CD-ROM's, the Internet......what the heck is going on here. Boy, was I behind the times.
Well, obviously, I'm not using my 64K Color computer to access the Internet although......hmmmm.......maybe.....if I tweaked it a bit......Naaah.
If you've gotten this far, either my home page is entertaining or you check out home pages thoroughly. Anyway all that stuff above about me is how I'm seen outside my home town. In my home town I'm considered a computer geek. I'd like to think I'm a little of both.