Who Am I?
I like to create interesting things, meet interesting people, and discuss interesting concepts. My main interests are:
- Video Games & Game Development
- Computers & Electronics
- Music Composition
- Making old and new technologies work together
As an introvert, it is critical for me to keep a balanced ratio of alone time to social time. For that reason among others, I have created this site to be my alternative to social media. With it I am able to:
- Post long articles as well as shorter updates
- Make myself searchable
- Show my creations
- Make social media (hopefully) unnecessary
I believe social media to be a destructive influence for most people. History has now demonstrated this belief to be true, with numerous scientific studies confirming the damage it does to young people. (While I don’t know that any studies have focused on its effects on older people, I believe it is equally harmful to people of all ages, but that the harmful effects differ per age group.) I’ve decided to stop supporting it as much as possible.
Maybe you’d like to see some photos of various things I’ve built.
University Degree
I majored in music and graduated from the University of Minnesota. To be clear, I place much more value on a person’s actual capabilities than on paper qualifications. I’m mostly showing this degree to prove that I actually did something during those college years and to convince myself that I didn’t waste them.
About This Web Site
I chose a minimal, straightforward site design for mostly practical reasons as it keeps your loading times down and my bandwidth costs low, not to mention it allows me to have a web presence without requiring me to be good at web design. It also meets my vision for what the web should be like: Simple, elegant, straightforward, and accessible, leading you to the information you’re looking for in as few steps as possible. These characteristics also make the site easy to migrate to alternate hosts/providers in case that ever becomes necessary to do.