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And now for something completely different...
Greetings, TUAW readers. Allow myself to introduce...myself. My name is Kent Pribbernow - a freelance web designer and tech writer hailing from Fort Wayne Indiana - a land of corn fields, lake resorts, Amish buggies, and deadly turnip bombs. As a long time blogger, I have written about all things Apple with passion and enthusiasm, minus the Kool-Aid and mock turtleneck. Now I join the TUAW team in delivering you the best Apple coverage anywhere. I look forward to your comments, and most of all filling your RSS reader with lots of great content. Keep reading.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Jeff said 10:49AM on 7-18-2008
Heya Kent,
Welcome!!
Looking forward to your contribution to the awesome TUAW lineup.
Cheers
Jeff
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casualsurfer said 10:49AM on 7-18-2008
big welcome to a fellow Hoosier!
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Doug said 10:58AM on 7-18-2008
LOL!!!!
Greatest. Welcome. Ever.
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Austin said 8:34PM on 7-18-2008
A man with three buttocks!?
Ryan Trevisol said 11:02AM on 7-18-2008
Welcome! Maybe you can explain to the TUAW designers that users shouldn't have to block the gigantor background image in order to scroll smoothly.
(My iMac Aluminum with the 256MB Graphics card and 4GB of Ram stutters like hell when I unblock the background image.)
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Will said 1:44PM on 7-18-2008
What browser are you using? My presumably slower (unless yours is the low end of the initial release) 2.33 GHz MBP has no trouble with it. My experience has been that Firefox chokes up on smooth scrolling, so that may be why you're having trouble. Do you get the same thing in WebKit based browsers?
Simon Arch said 4:37PM on 7-18-2008
I have no problem scrolling. I'm using Firefox 2.0.something, whatever the last version was. I do use adblock, but I haven't had to block the background image. Original MacBook, 1.83ghz/2gb/Intel GMA950 graphics.
Geekpulp said 1:54PM on 7-18-2008
No Kool-Aid, you'll never make it ;)
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Jerry-the-Miah said 11:10AM on 7-18-2008
Proving once again there's is more than corn in Indiana.
I live in Indianapolis and go to college in Marion. Yay for Hoosiers.
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Simon Arch said 4:38PM on 7-18-2008
You going to IWU? I went there ages and ages ago, when it was just Marion College, before we got a president with an ego problem and they got all uppity. :)
Jerry-the-Miah said 8:10PM on 7-18-2008
Yeah, I'm majoring in Computer Graphics.
The new President there isn't so bad. Everyone says he's better than the previous. heh
known as: ylnick413 said 11:10AM on 7-18-2008
I'm an Apple user and an avid TUAW reader from Fort Wayne, Indiana! It's great to see someone onboard with TUAW from the lovely Three Rivers city of Fort Wayne!
By the way, I knew this article was posted from my RSS feed reader within the Mail app. I can't wait to read articles from a Fort Wayne native!
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DonQuixote said 7:35AM on 7-19-2008
I'm just excited that there are more people in Fort Wayne who use macs (oh, and the reading of TUAW of course)
patrick said 11:13AM on 7-18-2008
Welcome! Always enjoyed your writing and graphics at your iPhone blog - look forward to enjoying more great stuff here!
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Gianni said 11:22AM on 7-18-2008
Welcome! I like the Monty Python reference, I actually watched that one the other day!
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SirCrumpet said 11:24AM on 7-18-2008
Welcome! If your writing style from your blog carries over it looks like great things are in store for TUAW.
And technically you HAVE written about the Kool-Aid, but that's just being me being picky. :)
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Tommy Day said 12:32PM on 7-18-2008
Hey Kent! Great to see you writing here. I'm a web designer in Indy, and I've loved your design work for a while now!
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Jeff said 1:23PM on 7-18-2008
Apparently Fort Wayne, Indiana, is also a land where Austin Powers references are still in vogue.
i'm just kidding. :)
looking forward to reading ya!
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Rick said 4:46PM on 7-18-2008
Welcome from Aboite Township, Fort Wayne!
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fahlman said 12:05AM on 7-19-2008
Newly-Annexed Aboite township.