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About Lorry

Who are you, anyway?

My name is Lorry. I'm named after my father, Larry, and not the vehicle, and it is not short for Lorraine, Lorretta, Lorrelei or anything else. I was born March 7, 1978 on Tyndall AFB near Panama City, Florida. I now live in Herlev, Denmark (in the Greater Copenhagen Area) with my wonderful husband Thomas and our wonderful cats. I'm a former Mac Genius and current happy housewife.
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I'm the Organizer for the some Meetup Groups and I shamelessly promote them here.
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Why is your last name so long? Why isn't your maiden name part of it? How do you say it? etc.

My husband's name came pre-hyphenated, so it would have been pretty silly to add my maiden name, Strother, to it. The Fach part is Dutch, and they way we say it, it rhymes with sock. Whether the Dutch say it that way, I'm not sure. The Pedersen part is Danish. When we're in the US, we don't expect people to say it in Danish, so we say it exactly like the common last name Peterson. In Denmark, people don't have a problem saying it properly. The d is what is known as a "soft d," which we use in English as a th in words like the. The r is more like a British or German person would say it than how an American would. Additionally, there is a glottal stop in the middle, just to make it more complicated Danish. Please note that, like every other hyphenated name I've heard of, both the part before the hyphen and after it are in my last name. Neither part is optional. I'm not Lorry Fach. I'm not Lorry Pedersen. I'm Lorry Fach-Pedersen. The way people get this confused, you'd think I was the first person to have a hyphenated name.

How did you meet Thomas?

We met online in an IRC channel for users and developers of Mozilla software, such as Seamonkey and Firefox. It's not one of the support channels, but just a general hangout channel. I'm actually an Opera user, but they let me stick around anyway. After years of commuting back and forth, we are finally together! I paid to offset the carbon emissions from our flights.

You're married? Tell me all about the wedding!

All wedding-related plans and details were provided on a separate site, but aren't anymore. There are some pictures and a video in the Photos section, though.DaisypathAnniversary Years Ticker

You sound really cool, or I used to know you a long time ago! I want to get in touch with you!

I have a gmail/gtalk account under the name alcyone56, and an AIM account with the same name. You can also find me on social networking sites such as Facebook and Care2.

About Lorry's Technology

Fellow geek, share the specs of your b0xen!

I currently use two computers regularly. One is Kurhah. She is a white 2.4 GHz MacBook with 2 GB RAM and a 250 GB hard drive. Alderamin is my 1.9GHz iMac G5 iSight with wireless keyboard. With him, I use a third-party pointing device, namely a Logitech wireless optical trackball. Both computers run MacOS 10.5 "Leopard." Frequently used applications include Opera, Colloquy, and standard OS and iLife/iWork 06 apps. I am also a fan of Freeverse's Burning Monkey games, and the only Microsoft-related product I own or use is Zoo Tycoon. I used Linux exclusively at home for years before switching to Apple. My favorite distribution was gentoo, however I do not foresee installing Linux for home use again in the near future because I love my Macs too much.

What other geeky wares do you possess?

We have two AirPort Expresses in our home, and we love AirTunes. I have an orange iPod Shuffle, with the following personalization: RedBroughtCloserToHumanityByYellow. (It didn't fit with spaces. It's part of a quote from Wassily Kandinsky.) With my Shuffle, I use either JBL Reference 220 headphones in white, or, when flying, Bose QC2s.