Rob Malda
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Rob Malda (born May 10, 1976), also known as CmdrTaco, is the founder of the website Slashdot. He is a graduate of Hope College.
His moniker originates in the Dave Barry book Claw Your Way to the Top: How to Become the Head of a Major Corporation in Roughly a Week. 'Commander Taco' is the final entry in a list of bad restaurants for business lunches.
Rob Malda also writes a monthly column for Computer Power User. His article is titled "The Department of Stuff" and has titles like adwords.txt and goodblog.txt. According to his magazine bio, "He spends his time fiddling with electronic gizmos, wandering the 'Net, watching anime, and trying to think of clever lies to put in his bio so that he seems cooler than he actually is." (CPU Magazine)
Malda is also infamous for his dismissive description of Apple Computer's newly introduced iPod: "No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame."[1] This quote has often been used to illustrate the gulf between Slashdot's "techno-elite" and ordinary computer users.
On Valentine's Day of 2002, Malda proposed to Kathleen Fent [2] through Slashdot [3].
[edit] External links
- Personal homepage
- "Taco Hell"
- CmdrTaco's Slashdot.org profile page
- Marriage proposal Slashdot story
- Computer Power User Magazine Homepage
- CmdrTaco interview on the FLOSS Podcast
- CmdrTaco@Everything2.com CmdrTaco's Super Node Of Nuttiness
