I'm 54. Got my first look at a computer at about age 12, at an engineering company. In 1977 I helped build the light panels for a discoteque; the lights were being operated by an Altair 8080, programmed by the guy who built it. In 1983 I got my own computer, an Osborne 1, and I've had Email since then.
Although I've done some programming it's not my "thing." I wrote a dice-simulation program for the Advanced Dungeons and Dragons group I played with.
When I bought a Macintosh in 1989 I got interested in graphics, but eventually learned that I'm more of a writer than a painter. Hundreds of stories later, that's still the case. Along the way I became a
sand sculptor. In early 1996 a friend of mine put up a quickie Web page about my sculptures, and later on I found out that HTML was simple enough to work with that I replaced his site with my own. What you see is old, because I learned that I'd rather do sand sculpture than HTML. In the last couple of years I've used Blogs for my sand sculpture because page development is much quicker. You can see examples at
Year In Sand 2005 and the other links on that page.
I've never built a computer, although I've done some repair work. I may re-engine my current PC to replace its hot P4 with a more efficient Conroe. Mainly, though, I'm a user. I play games, do lots of image editing, writing. I'm also an on-line DJ thorugh Teamspeak.
I live in Los Angeles, working for the City in their, of course, computerized traffic control center. Database and maintenance work, fixing things, solving problems. I ended up at Tom's because I wanted to learn more about PCs. The next buying decision should be better informed than the last..
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