Wow, I Love the 'Puter!

I have been a computer nerd my entire life. I think if you spend a few minutes on this website, that becomes obvious. I remember when my family first got a HP Pavilion Media Center TV PC, bundled with a copy of Windows XP Home Edition. Playing flash games on AddictingGames.com, and chatting with my friends on MSN Messenger, and unwisely downloading virus-addled MP3s on Limewire. Even before we got our own computer, before I was even in Kindergarten, my Mom would take me to the West Kildonan Library in Winnipeg where I'd play games on PBSkids.org, barely understanding what was going on. But when I pause and meditate on the computer, I realize I never had a positive association with it, despite how much I've used it. My parents would tell me I was spending too much time on it (I was), and of course the misery spread by corporate social media has made any digital screen malicious in nature. It took until this year, when I started making friends with people like Melo and many others on…