You want to know about me. My guess is severe clinical depression, but you should probably consult your local friendly neighborhood head shrinker. I read what I used to have up here about me, and just about threw up, it was so corny and, well, it sounded a lot like me I guess.

Computers

I'm a real big geek. It doesn't really take a whole lot of brain power to figure that one out. I've been doing stuff computer related for most of the past 26 years. I've been saying I would post pictures of me as a 2 1/2-year-old on an early PC, but I can't find them. You'll have to live with seeing me as I look now. Sorry.

I got introduced to Linux a couple years ago, and got hooked pretty quickly. I've written some software that runs on it. It probably runs on most any other flavor of UNIX but I'm far too lazy to find out. I don't hate Microsoft. I have a distaste for their operating systems, most of their software, and their business practices. But I don't hate them. I could write a lot about why Linux is good, and windows is bad, but there's a few million pages out on the net that do that already, so I won't waste my time or yours with another one.

School

OK, lets continue with the typical about-me page crap. I attend Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, VA. That's a spot up in the mountains where they seem to have enough flat land to have more cows than there should be in one place. We have a great football team that doesn't get any respect. Our basketball team doesn't get any respect either, but until recently, it hasn't really deserved any.

I'm a Computer Science major. Most people who know me never even had to ask what I was majoring in. It has been pretty obvious for a long time. I get pretty crappy grades right now, because I value my sleep a lot more than I should. Whatever psycopath decided that a 9am data structures class was a good idea should be severely hurt, by a large mob of drowsy, almost zombie-like CS majors.

I've met some really cool people at school. If I name one, I have to name them all, and then I'll leave someone out, and I'll be yelled at, and I hate being yelled at. I had a point when I started writing this, I think...

Work

Geeking (is that a word? it is now) is not just a hobby for me. I'm a well paid geek. Hell, if I wasn't, i'd probably be too broke to have it as a hobby. I've had actual employment doing computer stuff since I was 14. Up through high school, I was employed by family one way or another. I broke out of the boss' son/grandson/nephew thing the summer after high school. Stickdog decided to hire me. I don't think I did much that I would call useful that first summer, but according to my boss, I learned almost everything about the company that I needed to know. This is a good thing, since the following summer, I re-wrote all the software used to run the company. My good friend Jon, who also happened to be the other half of the development team, described the project as the equivalent of "...making a bowling ball walk a tightrope." And he said that before we even found out about the hard parts. As of now, the software is doing stuff that I never thought it would. It's making ordering phone service online about as easy as ordering a pizza online. Damn I'm good.

Hobbies

I play a couple instruments. I can play "Mary Had a Little Lamb" and "When the Saints Go Marching In" on the harmonica, so I won't count that. I have my dad's old acoustic guitar (that I don't think he ever learned to play), and a Fender Squire Strat that I bought from a friend of mine. He decided to get a real guitar, and I decided to learn how to play. I've gotten pretty good at annoying my sister with it. My mom thinks I have some sort of natural ear for music, but I'm her son, and she has to think nice things about me. Some other people think I can play, and I think they're full of it. But I will say this, aside from writing code, playing guitar is one of my few releases. Stress melts away, and I'm happy in a matter of minutes. OK, I don't know how I started getting this mushy, but I'll stop.

I try to take pictures. I figured out a long time ago that no picture with me in it turns out well, so behind the camera is a much better spot for me. I've got an old Minolta that belonged to my late grandfather. I've taken some pretty good shots with that, but it's currently jammed, awaiting a trip to the camera shop. I also have an Olympus digital camera (the D-510Z) and I really like it. It's probably paid for itself in the amount of film I haven't wasted. Also, I don't have to find time to scan stuff if I want to post it. Gotta love any advance in technology that lets me be even lazier.

According to the laws of sanity, if you've read this far, then black is white, night is day, up is down, and the universe has imploded. Thanks a lot. We now return you to your previously scheduled aimless wandering of the web.