I'm experiencing internal growth, so I'll provide a more organic #introduction.

I'm moo and I'm a scrub.

My introduction to computers was in second grade learning LOGO before playing Oregon Trail. My interest blossomed at 12. I taught myself HTML and started building pages, eventually graduating to CSS and graphic design tools like Photoshop.

My first tear down was my 386 HP when my mom was at work. By this point, I had already experimented with Visual Basic in the "secret" AOL chat rooms, IRC, and Linux (Mandrake). :)

In my teens, I became a pro aggressive inline skater for a year and was credited as being a top woman to look out for in the sport. I was also the 5th/last woman to skate the infamous Pier 1 bridge in San Francisco.

The first bug I found was a bof that DoS'd my boyfriend's router when I telnetted to it. It apparently affected all of them at the time too. Woops.

After we broke up, I ended up homeless in my 20's, and crashed at an ex-Vietnam veteran's house with six other homeless youth. We had to find creative and unique ways to help each other live/survive/eat.

We would break into local Internet cafes and I'd chat with friends, but outside of IRC, I had no idea a community existed. I learned about 2600 after someone saw me gut dead computers on the street in order to build a Linux based system for everyone to use at the place we were staying.

I went to my first meet and met my old roommates. From there, I started to rebuild the life.

Lots of TLDR: I had my daughter, worked really shit retail jobs and ended up homeless again because I simply didn't make enough.

This time I begged a shelter councilor to pay a $30 college application fee and swore I'd graduate if he gave me a chance, as I finally grabbed an apartment.

I worked 35 hours a week at Burger King while I worked on my degree as a network specialist. I started with 27 classmates and graduated with 5. My daughter was exceptionally proud of me and I was proud for her to see me accomplish something.

I worked in support for a while and really got into capture the flag competitions and started my own blog.

Eventually, I moved onward to my first job as a penetration tester last year and went from homeless to owning my first home.

My daughter and now son are the best things to ever happen to me.

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I'm raw fucking proof anything is possible.