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[edit] About me
Hi there! I used to work in broadcast news but grew disillusioned with sensationalism. Now I work for the government, taking dictation while sitting on a $1,500 Herman Miller Aeron chair, even though I believe the en masse purchase of expensive status symbol chairs is counterproductive to taxpayer interests. I am disorganized on both my physical and virtual desktops. I fix computers for a living also, for the government, but this was mostly in the cards: in first grade, I was making my elementary school's sysadmin look bad by fixing things he didn't know how to fix on other students' and teachers' computers.
[edit] My family
My family comes from a long branch of geeks, and I use this term with love, on both sides. Both my grandfathers were engineers for the aerospace industries, and one still has boxes full of punch cards in his garage. One holds 12 U.S. patents. This means that my parents expected "nothing less than the best" when I was a child, for better or worse.
[edit] Pasttimes
I am an avid photographer and videographer, and take photographs of the oddest things. I don't believe photography of anything should be illegal, nor should photographers be hassled for taking pictures of any public infrastructure. Cameras seem to scare some police in the heightened post-September 11th, 2001 atmosphere, but their use is clearly protected by the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.
I also like to write. I hate talking about my writing, though. Not to brag, but my research papers have been determined to be "too good to be true" by many teachers and professors, falsely accusing me of plagarism. Though a headache at first, in retrospect, these were really backhanded compliments.
Though 98.6296% of television is pure crap, I do enjoy what I like to consider more "cerebral programming," namely, Homicide: Life on the Street, Futurama, and Arrested Development. But, make no mistake, TV is an opiate by and large, and I try to limit my doses to small ones.
[edit] Beliefs
Because television and radio broadcasters use the public airwaves for private gain (commercial revenues), I believe they should contribute significantly to the government in terms of money. I believe public colleges, like public K-12 schools, should be free. I believe academic degrees' importance in the world is exaggerated by universities to their benefit, however, I believe college is really the best time of your life. I do not carry identification on my person at most times because I believe it is an illegal internal passport, plus I tend to lose a lot of stuff that I put in my pockets. It's more practical and less ideological.
[edit] The future
Who can tell? It probably involves computers and possibly lasers to some extent. I will probably be stuck in a dead-end government IT job. Or maybe, just maybe, I'll come up with some good technological idea, start a business, and retire with all the movie channels and a T3 line to my house.
[edit] Who's reading this?
I'm not really sure, but say something on my talk page! Come on; don't be shy.
[edit] Legal disclaimer
Some information on this page has been embellished for dramatic license or to maintain privacy.
NBINVDR1 00:48, 9 August 2007 (UTC)
