book is published!!

Congratulations on having your book published!

Howdy MattB!! how have you been?  It's been a long, long time since I have posted and hope to become a regular again.  Haven't visited the opensuse forum much, did make the announcement there as well and saw some old faces, but I sure do miss the old community.

  Seems the membership here pretty reflects the usual suspects, I am glad...good source for help, but without the starched collars. HA HA

  So any tasty tidbits, rumors, gossip, flaming, free hans trolling/spamming, I need to be brought up on?

hahahaaahahha

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Congrats on the book publishment.  Had no idea you were an author.

Would love to have you here as a regular, been having some troubles with the irregulars. They always seem to go their own way. 

As for Gossip, this is just between you and I,
did you hear what they...?

Thanks Bdquick,

  My background is in fine arts, my first exhibition was at the age of ten. I dabble in all sorts of things, my main passion now is photography.  But it was through my art that I was able to realize this book.  The subject matter of my paintings over the past twenty years have been the indigenous cultures of Latin America.

 I have always tended to follow my own path. When I was about 17 I had taken a trip to Panama, I ended up spending most of my money in San Jose Costa Rica and hitched my way to Tijuana...this was during the time of the Sandinistas in Nicaragua and the death squads in El Salvador. (I was wearing U.S. surplus jungle boots, you can imagine the crud I had to go through!)  Anyway, I returned to the States, where I was born, and went to college. One day, I looked around at the class and realized no one was there for anything other than job training. Thinking life was far too short, I packed my backpack and headed back into Latin America.  After awhile I started studying contemporary art at the instituto nacional de bellas artes. Well, studying isn't exactly the right word, it was mostly a lot of heated debates about politics over copious amounts of coffee. (The EZLN was beginning their movement in Chiapis at the time and Mexico was just emerging from the "perfect dictatorship" after the assasination of Colosio.)

 I have been getting a lot of feedback from the book, and to my surprise people seem to enjoy it...so hopefully it could lead to something greater, maybe allowing a few bucks to get back to my art.  I am not one who was born for the cubicle, but one who has to be creative in one form or another, unfortunately, being an artist sometimes pays the bills and sometimes doesn't.

 May sound corny, but I think it's this kind of mentality that drew me to Linux, not because I am a geek, though I love useing everything from cinellera to inkscape, but more out of a sense of marching to my own drummer.

Hey keysersuse congrats on the book, if a little late.
It sounds like you could write a fairly interesting book about your travels too.