> About Me

I am a professional programmer with creative aspirations. I love writing and making music, but I really love tinkering with code. I'm far too lazy to perform any kind of manual labor, so I make computers do stuff for me instead, and I've been doing it since before the Internet had pictures.

Random Facts

• I have been married to my wife for nearly 20 years!
• I have three pets! An American Pitbull Terrier mix named Baloo and 2 domestic short-haired cats named Leeloo and Jester.
• I’ve been on the Internet since the early nineties. I started out with a BSDi 1.0 dialup shell using a test account that my brother “borrowed” from one of the Internet's backbones, where he worked as a Network Engineer.
• I’ve been writing and producing music for over two decades and miraculously, it’s still not great... Getting a lot better recently, though!
• I used to do graphic design professionally and I viscerally hated it. In fact, that experience is why I'm not too concerned about AI taking jobs away from artists. A disproportionate number of clients have no idea what they want, which is a prerequisite for generative AI.
• I love to study storytelling and I read screenplays for fun. It makes me kind of insufferable to watch poorly written movies and television with sometimes.
• I know how to read weather radar data and I can spot the conditions for tornadoes before the National Weather Service issues warnings for them. In other words... I'm a party animal!
• I put an entertainment center together backwards one time and now I'm not allowed to assemble furniture anymore.