> About Me

I'm in my 40's and 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 that since before the Internet had pictures. I was one of those little hacker punks from the 90s but put on a white hat a long time ago. When I'm not coding, I love watching movies with my friends in Bigscreen VR, scrolling through YouTube slop with my wife, writing, and making music.

Random Facts

• I have been married to my wife for nearly 20 years!
• I have two pets. An American Pitbull Terrier mix named Baloo, who is the smartest dog I've ever had, and a calico cat named Jester, who is the dumbest animal I've ever met. She is sweet, though... An incredibly annoying menace but also sweet.
• I've been on the Internet since 1995. I started out with a BSD/OS dialup shell using a free account that my brother "borrowed" from an ISP he worked at 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'll share my new project on the /music page whenever I release it.
• 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 using generative AI effectively.
• 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. On the other hand, it allows me to truly appreciate how skilled a good writer can be.
• 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.