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| This is a page that tells you all about me. Thrilling, huh? |
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| This is where I must write about myself.
Here's something odd. I decided I needed to redesign this website, and make it simple and clean, and oh-so-elegant. So I make a list of things that it needs to include, and one of the things I wrote down was "About Me". Then I went and designed the site and built the pages - including the one that is meant to contain the content "About Me", even though I really hate writing about myself. What was I thinking? So, here I am, trying to think of something to say, and all I can think of is this crap you're reading right now. (And now I'm suddenly feeling guilty for wasting your time. Great.) Ok, so, even though I hate this kind of crap, I'll do it anyway. I'm a product of Long Island. I spent ages 0 - 18 on that Island, hardly even leaving except for a few long painful family trips to the Florida Keys to visit my grandparents. I left Long Island in 1984, when I attended college at RIT - planning to become a successful photographer. I packed up my inflated ego and made the 8-hour drive to Rochester so I could take over the photo world - by force, if neccessary. Two years into my Rochester experience, I ran out of there - and moved my educational experience to Athens, Ohio. Why? I wanted to be a photojournalist, dammit! And, another four years later, I became one. But that didn't last long. I found myself thinking more about computers and CD-ROMs and websites - and eventually bailed out on the newspaper gig and moved to Chicago so I could take over the online world - by force, if neccessary. My time in Chicago brought me back to the newspaper world - where I worked at the Chicago Tribune, building various "revenue producing" products. (aka: Ads.) Within a few years I was lured away by a dot-com venture with tons of temporary cash. I worked on some extremely cool projects which impressed my family so much that they actually ran out and bought stock in the company. When the dot-com crash happened, my family realized that the coolness of my projects didn't translate into cash in their accounts, and I was out of a job. Or was I? Today, I am still "out of a job", because I don't actually work for anyone else. The projects I'm involved with today are, for the most part, ideas that I've had a large part in creating. I have somehow convinced several really talented and dedicated people to work with me on a few of them, and I consider myself to be a very lucky person. I still live in San Francisco, single, not gay, no pets, a few plants which I either water too much, or too little. I have a long list of projects, and a long list of friends, and I'm always looking to bring those lists together - by force, if neccessary. |
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