About

The token, narcissistic About page in which I monologue about my accolades and pat myself on the back for my numerous accomplishments. Which I’ll do as soon as I have some. In the meantime here’s some random information about me.

I want to make money doing what I want to do, not what I’m willing to do or even good at.

Things I Am

• Married since Christmas Day, 2004
• A daddy, two kids and one on the way.
• A programmer: PHP, C#/.NET/XNA, JavaScript, ActionScript, Perl and a smattering of other languages*
• A graphic designer and, to some extent, an artist*
• A guitarist, especially a blues guitarist.
• A writer.*
• Currently a rapid-prototyping developer for SierraTradingPost.com working on things like social integration and mobile apps.

* I have done these things professionally.

Things I Like

• KJV Bible
• My family: my kids, Nora, Coen and Nico, and my wife Kristy
• Writing Code or Hacking/Modding for good and for fun
• Efficiency and automation (see “busy work” under dislikes)
• Open Source projects
• Robots
• Video games
• Regular Expression
• Good graphic design, especially web
• Playing guitar
• Mitch Hedberg (RIP)
• Old T-shirts, well-worn jeans and skate shoes
• Pranks (but not hurtful ones)
• Grammar and obscure words
• Reading
• Guns/shooting
• Flight
• Sweedish Fish, Starbursts and Skittles
• Reuse and low-impact living (Freecycle, craigslist, thrift stores)
• Good coffee
• Sushi
• Pizza
• Rockstar’s sugar-free (blue can) energy drink
• Cholula hot sauce
• My music tastes change but I always like: Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Nora Jones, Leo Kottke, B.B. King and Stevie Ray Vaughn
• Quiet
• Skateboarding
• Mountain Biking
• Powerful computers and beautiful monitors
• The following art styles
  • Pulp
  • Googie Architecture
  • WWII Propaganda, especially Russian
  • Minimalism
  • Art Deco Architecture

Things I Dislike

• Rett Syndrome. My daughter has it.
• DRM, harsh EULAs, etc
• Software piracy
• Dressing up and, especially, shaving
• Messes, sticky stuff and dirty diapers
• Busy work
• Bowling, Baseball and discussing sports
• Most party politicians, lobbyists and lawyers
• Overhyped, governmentally-subsidized environmental stopgaps
• Apple’s business model, dev policies and corporate philosophy
• Java and Python (I could be persuaded…)
• Alarms of any type: car, ringtone, alarm clocks, etc
• Television in general
• Cardio: specifically running and jogging
• Potato chips
• Hollywood lifestyle and tabloid coverage
• New age jazz
• Burnt Popcorn
• Allergies and my contacts