Me, at present
I'm presently back at SPSU trying to complete a Computer Science degree by December 2010. I'm coming back after spending 2008 working full time doing IT at a company called TVS and self-studying lisp.
Some of the reasoning behind that decision is here.
Prior to 2008, my academic history includes a semester as a transfer student at Southern Polytechnic State University in Fall 07 studying CS and three years at Oglethorpe University studying Literature and Economics.
I’m an Oglethorpe Kid at heart.
Other Things I Do
I write a blog, discussing a curiously strong blend of poetry, music, software, and my personal life.
I write code with the hopes of really understanding programming one day. Consequently, what's in there mostly pertains to my course of study at the moment.
I also contribute to projects on github and gitorious.
I like to listen to music and work on crazy playlists.
I maintain a Facebook account that I check pretty frequently.
I've started a LinkedIn account that I’m awful at keeping up with.
I used to run a little jukebox called ampache but that's offline for the time being. It may return later.
I enjoy playing blues guitar and occasionally even doodle a little in my "studio".
I also skateboard, play a wicked game of smash brothers and covet books obsessively.
What about this moth-eaten stuff?
I left SPSU to pursue my own educational agenda which no university I’m aware of currently jibes with. There are fragments of my emerging philosophy about the decision to leave school littered throughout my blog.
Before leaving for SPSU, I was causing trouble at Oglethorpe reading all the books in the library that weren't assigned reading and generally using up huge amounts of bandwidth. I maintain that OU is a really good place to be and I frequent the campus a lot.
I was working for Leading the Way for a good while and then was unemployed before settling in May of 2007 with the delightful TVS where I worked on everything from Linux Servers to VMware ESX systems and so on. I was an intern through 2007 and went full time in January 2008. In September 2008, I was let go and I am presently completing my CS degree at SPSU but I'm still an autodidact.
I’m a very diligent worker and I get really excited about computers.
I grew up in Atlanta, Georgia, and attended North Atlanta High where I was generally miserable and causing trouble.
If you want to know about anything before that, you're definitely going to have to take me out for coffee to get it out of me.
