About Me
Today
circa 1985, can’t remember where it was taken
My wife Cindy and dear friend John Fetters
My two sons, Christopher (L), and Jonathan (R)
My name is Frank Stroupe and I’m known all over the ‘net as “fstroupe”. I’m 50 years old, and have lived most of my life in northern Mississippi, though I have traveled throughout most of the US, and lived in New England and the Atlantic Southeast. I work for the transportation division of a huge American retailer. I’m married, have four kids and seven grandkids. (so far)
I spent seven years as a paratrooper in the US Army, 1984-1991. Most of that time was spent in the 313th Military Intelligence Battalion (CEWI), 82nd Airborne Division, but I also worked at Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), and the 525th Military Intelligence Brigade, XVIII Airborne Corps.
My older son Jonathan is a student at Mississippi State University and is in the US Army Reserves. My younger son Christopher is in the US Army, 4th Infantry Division, and just completed his second tour in Iraq. He is supposed to PCS to Ft. Campbell, KY this summer. My daughters, Carrie and Crystal, are both housewives.
I am a PC website hardware reviewer, writing technical articles about high-performance computer hardware for two websites, The Overclock Intelligence Agency, and ThinkComputers.org. I have also written for Hardware Logic. I have been into computers for a long time, the first one I operated was an IBM that used IBM Punch Cards back in the 1970s. I purchased my first PC in 1985 not long after the term “IBM Compatible” was coined. I started building, modding, and overclocking computers in 2001.
My main interests besides computers are history, genealogy, and music, both listening and creating. I am the song leader and a choir member in my church. Though I listen to most forms of music prior to about 1980, my true love is blues, 1900-present. I also love guns, though I don’t currently own a lot of them, I have owned many in the past.
I am very interested in national politics, and have been since the late 1970s. I consider myself a conservative republican, and I have been very disappointed at the direction my party has been moving in for the last several years. The conservatives have been crying out for a conservative leader for a long time, the party leadership have generally been more interested in trying to get reelected than doing the things that got them elected in the first place. More about that on the “Politics” page.
