Derek Bodner’s Blog

Location: Philadelphia, PA
School: Drexel University (Graduated June 2006)
Work: Linux Systems Administrator, Insider Guides
Other Sites: Editor for the 76ers blog LibertyBallers, which I’m credentialed with the Sixers for. Contributor for sports website SBNation. College basketball scout and network administrator for the NBA Draft website DraftExpress.

My name is Derek Bodner. I was born in Bethlehem, Pa, and grew up in nearby Emmaus, Pa, graduating from Emmaus High School in 2000. I went to college in Philadelphia (Drexel University, class of 2006), and still live there.

My passions for life are family, animals, sports and computers. I have many other interests, but if I had to say what drives me, those are it.

I work for Insider Guides in New Hope, Pa as a Network Administrator. I’m a GNU/Linux user, with my distro of choice being Gentoo.

I’m an avid sports fan, and am a season ticket holder for both the Phillies and Sixers. I’m an Editor for LibertyBallers, contributor for the sports website SBNation.com, occasional contributor for RealGM.com (Sixers and Phillies) , and also a college basketball scout and Network Administrator for DraftExpress.com.

I’ve recently gotten into amateur photography, some of which is online at my Photo Gallery and also posted at times on my blog.

Musical Tastes:
Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Mother Love Bone, Hendrix, Metallica, Meat Loaf, The Beatles, AC/DC, Audioslave, 2pac, Eminem, Notorious B.I.G., Coldplay, Dave Matthews, Clapton, Guns N’ Roses, Temple of the Dog, just to name a few. My main genre growing up was definitely early 90′s Seattle, but I like a bit of everything.

TV Shows:
Not much. House, Law and Order: SVU and Sports are pretty much the extent of it. Sometimes stuff on the history or discovery channels.

Favorite Movies:
Godfather, Goodfellas, Gladiator, Something About Mary, American History X, Fight Club, The Dark Knight.

Computers:
For my desktops, usually use a combination of Gentoo and Xfce as my desktop environment. Besides my desktop, laptop, and desktop at work (all running Linux), I also have 3 personal servers (all Gentoo), manage the servers for DraftExpress (Gentoo and CentOS), and at my work (Gentoo, CentOS and RHEL).

Photography:
Camera: Canon EOS 40D
Lenses: Canon EF 200mm f/2.8, Tamron AF 28-75mm f/2.8, among others.

Work:
I’m a Linux/Network Administrator there for a company called Insider Guides, and manage a fleet of Gentoo/CentOS/RHEL servers. Insider Guides develops a series of websites, including myYearBook.com. We’re based out of New Hope, PA.