Places Sam Banya Has Lived
This city in Northeastern Pennsylvania (NEPA) is 40 mins west of where Sam originally grew up (Gouldsboro, PA), and is nicknamed 'The Electric City'. Most people know this city due to a fictional paper company ran by Michael Scott.
Scranton, PA
This Finnish Software Engineer student created Linux while studying at the University of Helsinki, and later was responsible for creating the versioning control system known as Git.
Linus Torvalds
Originating from the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s, this genre would later define the careers of Robert Johnson, B.B. King, and Howlin' Wolf.
Blues
These are short sequences of keystrokes and mouse actions that help save time in editing text and code, These also come handy for RTS games like Starcraft.
Macros
This country is responsible for the first organized ice hockey game, which was played on March 3, 1875, between two teams of nine men each from Montreal’s Victoria Skating Club.
Canada
This city is located along the Cumberland River, and is known by many as "Music City".
Nashville, TN
This adorable paperclip mascot was first featured in Microsoft Word back in 1997 as a home office assistant, and was derived from their previous project named Microsoft Bob.
"Clippy" (Actual original name: "Clippit")
This genre, known for its heavy use of improvisation and solos, was widely popularized by the likes of Miles David, John Coltrane, Thelonius Monk. Sam also played guitar in this type of band in college.
Jazz
This source-code editor was originally created by Microsoft in 2015 with the Electron Framework. Its development has led to the use of 'LSP' (Language Server Protocol) which allows its internals to be easily gutted and used in other text editors for web development.
Visual Studio Code
Also known as "The Great One", this NHL hockey player is the only NHL player to total over 200 points in one season, a feat he accomplished four times.
Wayne Gretzky
This southern city is home to the two of the largest international tourist attractions which include Disney World and Universal.
Orlando, FL
Famous after the release of Doom in 1993, these two programmers named John became legends in the gaming industry for helping popularizing the FPS genre for years to come. One of which later created the awful game, Daikatana, while the other later worked on Doom 3, and the Oculus Rift VR headset.
John Romero and John Carmack
This form of rock is also known as 'Dad Rock' and is commonly played on radio stations throughout the US, and consists of 60s and 70s rock hits.
Classic Rock
This source code editor labels itself as a replacement for "Notepad" on Microsoft Windows, and features a cute chameleon as its mascot.
Notepad++
Originally founded in June 25, 1997, this NHL team was the first NHL team in this northern midwest state since the North Stars moved to Dallas, Texas in 1993.
Minnesota Wild
This Omaha neighborhood's original founder's first name was Ezra, and was first established in 1870. It was later annexed by the city of Omaha in 1971.
Millard
This legendary co-inventor of the Apple computer originally got his start selling 'blue boxes' out of his dorm alongside Steve Jobs to college kids looking to make long distance phone calls for free.
Steve Wozniak
This genre of rock has roots in progressive rock bands such as King Crimson and Rush. It is characterized by complex, atypical rhythmic structures (including irregular stopping and starting), counterpoint, odd time signatures, and extended chords, and features the likes of bands such as Tera Melos, Hella, Don Caballero, and This Town Needs Guns to name a few.
Math Rock
First derived from the "Stevie" editor, this text editor was created by the recently deceased Bram Moolenaar,, and was the fifth most popular development environment in 2019.
This is also the text editor that Thadd never knew how to quit out of.
Vim (Hint, use ":q" to quit)
This college hockey team is home to the college of UNO in Omaha, NE.
UNO Mavericks
This New York City borough is home to over 138 spoken languages, and is north of Brooklyn. It also contains many of the neighborhoods Sam resided which includes Astoria, Sunnyside, and Rego Park. It is also home to both major NYC airports.
Queens
This computer manufacturer was responsible for creating the same computer that powered 3D graphics for famous movies like Terminator II, and Jurassic Park. This also was used in the development of Rareware's Donkey Kong Country, and its flagship computer's menu is the same used in Super Mario 64 for N64.
Silicon Graphics, Inc.
This genre contains a mix of ethereal mixture of obscured vocals, guitar distortion and effects, feedback, and overwhelming volume, and is named for guitarists 'gazing at their shoes' to use guitar pedals. Popular bands include My Bloody Valentine, Slowdive, and Ride to name a few.
Note: The loudest concert Sam has ever been to was for this genre, specifically My Bloody Valentine.
Shoegaze
This Harvard and MIT graduate whose initials are "RMS" was responsible for creating the GNU project in 1983, and later Emacs in 1985. Without his contributions, you would not have be able to use any of the amazing terminal GNU applications you see today.
Richard Stallman
This minor league Tier I junior ice hockey team is home to Omaha, NE, and are members of the Western Conference of the United States Hockey League (USHL).
Founded in 1986, this team plays at the Liberty First Credit Union Arena in Ralston, Nebraska.
Omaha Lancers