Background Info

Rollover pics above are me. This is also me. This was me. Contact me here. Here is a list of some favorite music.

WARNING: The following is self-report.

Ok, I'm going to keep this somewhat short, because I find that every time I put some text down here, within a few months I end up hating it. Last time I basically went on for a page and a half about how I was uncool in high school.

Writing an "about me" page, or biography, or personal statement of any kind, is something a lot of people aren't comfortable doing. On the other hand, there are some web-egos who like nothing more than to get up on their eSoapboxes and go "ME ME ME ME ME" for a few hundred words.

But the fact of the matter is that I rather enjoy reading other people's "about me" pages.

If some MIT graduate student has put up a page abstracting his groundbreaking research, I'll ignore it, go right to his "About Me" section, and read about his dog and fiancee.

But I think that's what surfers would like the web to be about, in a way -- people. It might be refreshing to reach out electronically across the barren void and find another human being, or at least his footprint. However, I can still see "about me" pages as distasteful afronts to proper information. I guess it depends on what you're looking for.

"About me" pages feel like throwbacks to the 1990s, when we saw "WELCOME TO MY WEBPAGE" and "UNDER CONSTRUCTION" all over the web. They harken to an era when there were "webmasters", and more amateurs and volunteers. Now there are only exponentially-multiplying blogs trying to make money with Google ads and "Digg this!" buttons.

I'm just some guy living in Maryland.

Things I enjoy

Work.

Things that bother and upset me

Nothing :]

I am Perfect and Zen :]

>:O