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A friend has sent you a link to the following article: http://teratalks.com/index.php/teratalks/comments/6/ "Tera Jean Patricks." My friends call me ‘Tera.’ My family calls me ‘Tera Jean.’ My very close and irreverent friends call me ‘Divine Missy T.’ Whatever. #10 - What do you look like? This is asked often because of my affiliation with the web site Mac360 (started by a bunch of friends, including me). I thought the tinsel look made me appear more, you know, Hollywood. It also covered up what was left of my hair from two previous bouts with cancer. #9 - Where do you live? I’m in sunny southern California; Los Angeles. I’ve lived in Honolulu, the Midwest, and Florida. The most frequent follow-up question is, "Do you surf?" No, I’m a "sponger". You get to figure out what that means. #8 - Are you single? (tie: Are you married?) Yes and no. I have a relationship, though, for now I’m at home with family and recuperating. No pets. #7 - Did you build TeraTalks yourself? Yes. My friend Barbara Marie (Bambi) Hambi in Las Vegas did the graphic design and layout. I’m crummy at that. I put the pieces together and the site is hosted on an Apple Mac mini using Mac OS X Tiger. #6 - What are your hobbies? I read and write and take pictures, and, for awhile, worked with Bambi in a media business (which she still runs out of Las Vegas). I’m also a long, long time Macintosh user, but my computing career goes back to the very early 80s and an Osborne I with CP/M, dBase II, WordStar and SuperCalc. #5 - Do you have a photo gallery? Yes, but you can’t see it. Yet. The content management system I used to build TeraTalks has a built in photo gallery, so I’ll get to it. California is a great place for photos and I have over 10,000 photos to display. #4 - Do you have children? That question gets asked often, though wouldn’t rank as high if not for porn queen ‘Tera Patrick.’ I could not ask for a better conversation starter; especially with guys. Of course, they tell their friends they met Tera Patrick and I never hear from them again. #3 - What do you do for a living? For now, I’m semi-retired, though my career is broad; media production (radio commercials and TV voice overs), compuer systems integration. Yes, I know my way around Unix systems, Linux, the Mac. Preference? The Mac, because it’s the best of all worlds. #2 - Can I call you up some time? Amazingly, just a few years ago, before Carmen Electra ditched her real name, that question was never in the Top 20, let alone the Top 10. #1 - Is that your real name? Yes. The real story about the family name is in the About section. See? Made you look. Editor’s Note: Before her death, Tera passed along her personal journal. It is filled with hundreds of comments, essays, observations, and perspectives on many different subjects. As time permits, I will edit and publish select journal entries for Tera Talks—Alexis Kayhill