iEverett.com

Well, I’ve been on the planet for a while. I’ve been around open source software for about a decade. I started learning about computers with a Timex Sinclair, a Commodore Pet and Radio Shack parts. I worked for a while for a company called Sirius Systems–they bought Victor Technologies (Victor Adding Machines) and then they tanked. Then I went to work for Xerox as a Field Service Tech during the era of the Memorywriter.

I’ve worked as a pizza cook, a barrister and a jet airplane mechanic. A hydraulics mechanic and as an assistant to a bunch of different artists.

I was in the Air Force. Had my own RF4C. I was it’s crew chief. The beginning of the movie, Top Gun shows you what my job was like. I was stationed in Zweibrucken, Germany and I’m ashamed to say I never learned to speak German. I did thoroughly enjoy the countryside, went on many, many volksmarches and loved, loved the swinging bar-b-ques over open fire pits. Oh, and of course drinking in the pubs, shots of apple schnapps, proasting and polka music.

I built my first website using Frontpage but quickly realized my error and switched to table-based design in Dreamweaver. Somewhere around the dot com crash I got tired of the hassle of web re-building and wandered away from web work and have recently (the last year or so) begun to come back in to see how much has really changed. (I’m not yet convinced much really has).

My formal education is extensive and eclectic but not hoity-toity. I’ve studied big A art, created some sculpture and assemblages, taught college level freshman composition and have worked in or around all three levels of government a lot of my life.

I am not a professional computer anything. I am not a professional anything though I do have a professional’s attitude in that you should always study your craft and do your best. I prefer to remain human rather than to become something, a name, a tag, a job and as a result I therefore don’t make very much money. I have too many interests and I’m just too curious to settle down into that “just one thing”.

I read like a carnivore eats.

I live in a county ghetto within the city limits of one of the US’s 100 most populated cities.

I can be a pain, usually not on purpose but as a result of having a plethora of ideas that I want to try to see if they work.

I used to believe in right and wrong but not in the same way as anyone else. And not in any way close to how my government currently frames those sorts of binaries.

I think that people should be nicer to each other but I realize we don’t very well know how, often don’t want to and sometimes don’t even understand why that might be a a good idea. Therefore I don’t believe we ever will be nice to each other but that every now and again we get tired of being mean.

I love the web. It’s an incredible and amazing new frontier. I think that the best people on the planet live on it. I wish that it did not disappear when I turn off my computer. I dream of the day when the web in built into my house, when there are screens all around my house and I can live inside of it.

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