Back to it with the ally

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+This chapter of ally takes place in the <a class="pulse" href="https://github.com/makyo/ally/pull/4" target="_blank">git commit messages</a>, but here are their contents for completion's sake.
+
+> I'm ashamed to know you.
+
+It's a stretch even for me, but hey, here we go.
+
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+
+> Are you having fun with this?
+
+Did you really expect me to not approach the idea of writing about software in any other way? Did you expect me to not be something of a nerd about this?
+
+> I suppose not. Tell me about software, then.
+
+What's to say? Mom decided that, since I was showing an interest in
+computers, it might be a good thing to let me use her copy of
+VisualBasic 4. From there, I just kept on going.
+
+> Well, hold on, you're skipping over a whole bunch of stuff.
+
+I suppose so.
+
+> You're skipping over your dad joking that, since you spent so much
+time on the computer, that he was always worried that the FBI would
+come knocking on the door one day.
+
+Well, he was the one who got me the computers in the first place. He
+bought me a copy of RedHat 6.2 on a CD at Circuit City.
+
+> Oh, my aching bones.
+
+I know. Every single bit of that sentence was ancient.
+
+Still, it's largely his fault. We strung coax throughout the house in a
+simple network. He bought a file server, a copy of Windows NT, and we
+worked on setting up IIS together so that we could have both a file
+share as well as a way of getting those files from work for him, and my
+mom's house for me.
+
+> Very kind of him. Forward thinking.
+
+He wanted me to be an engineer. What better way to get me into the
+mindset? Besides, *stuff* was his game. Our relationship was not yet
+mature enoug that we could be buddies, so instead, he did what he
+thought parents were supposed to do and punished, instructed, and
+showered with gifts. It's just that some of those were computers.
+
+As many gifts bounced off of me as those that stuck and proved useful.
+
+Either way, start a kid on VisualBasic and give her access to AngelFire,
+and you're bound to wound up with at least *some* kind of nerd.