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What is Terminally Incoherent?

Terminally Incoherent is a blog. Terminally Incoherent is a way of life. Terminally Incoherent is what you will be if you read it regularly. You could call it a technology blog, but technology is not the only thing you will find here. Essentially, there is no logic, there is no theme, there is no spoon. Terminally Incoherent is whatever the hell I want it to be at any given time.

Most of the posts are credited to Luke. Who is that dude?

Who? No clue. I never heard of him. Go away.

By the way, Luke’s last name is not Skywalker, and if you tell him you are his father, he will kick you in the nuts.

The full name is Łukasz Grzegorz Maciak. If you can pronounce that you get a cookie! Anyway, if you want to quote me or formally address me you can use any combination of the following:

  • Luke
  • Luke Maciak
  • Luke G. Maciak
  • Łukasz Maciak
  • Łukasz G. Maciak

And etc.. You get the drift. I really don’t care if you skip my middle name, put it in as an initial or whatever. :)

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So your posts are signed Luke, your flickr pics are under Tuxmentat and your AIM is all kinds of crazy -WTF?

It’s called nicknames. I have many of them. Depending on the time of the day, mood, alignment of the stars, and the phase of the moon I may be known under the following names:

  1. Łukasz
  2. tuxmentat
  3. Szaman
  4. Szaman2
  5. Ligrim
  6. lgm

If you see any of these popping up on various places, it’s a good chance that it’s me.

So what does Luke know about technology?

I do not claim to know anything about anything. If you take my advice or treat my ramblings seriously you do it at your own risk. That said, I do have an MS degree in Computer Science.

I have been a Java developer for over 9,000 years, a PHP programmer for at least half of that. I also have notable experience with Perl, Python, .NET (C#), and LISP. I currently work as a sysadmin and a PHP developer for a small financial company.

So, what have you done?

Absolutely nothing. Check out my projects and publications for more info.

Where do you work again?

I purposefully choose not to disclose some of my current and past employers for privacy reasons. So don’t ask.

Um… Does your job really suck that much?

Nope. I do tend to embellish my “work related” stories a bit to make them funnier and more entertaining to read. Especially the ones in which I talk about clueless lusers, and doing thankless IT work. You will notice the trend – I’m always a cool, collected arrogant smart-ass and the users are dumber than bricks. Things do not always play out this way though. But this is my blog, and this is the way I choose to tell my stories.

Some of them are true. Some of them are half true. Some are completely made up, or only vaguely based on disconnected events and conversations that happened to me over a longer period of time. So take them with a grain of salt. Any time you read an story that sounds real, chances are I made it all up. And no, I won’t tell you which stories are real and which are “embellished” or outright fake because it would spoil the fun.

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