TLDR, this site is created mostly for fun by me, and as a way to share my knowledge on stuff, and have a little fun. That's pretty much it. I don't take it too terribly seriously. I'm not really looking for friends or attention, I'm just enjoying the creative process. I think people really mistake this as some kind of massive, serious effort to impress someone or some pointless ego-trip - it's not. I just like to have a place where I can talk about the things I want to, and you can take it or leave it.

So there I've been toiling away at programming this site since 2019, coding, learning how to use new code, learning CSS Stylesheets, and tables till I can do it blindfolded! Editing my own photos, screenshots, and artwork. Making new pixel art. And I don't do this for anyone, but myself, because who else do I need? I always liked these huge, crazy websites from the late 1990's that had a variety of subjects with a personal slant to them. Be the change I wanted to see, so that's what I became. That's why this place looks retro, but new, works on old computers well enough to be easy-ish to use, but works on new computers and cell phones as expected! It's a balance of old and new - like me.

Be mindful, I'm not your stereotypical nerd-geek, I don't really care about STar Wars/Star Trek/Naruto that much. I just happen to like certain things that are Anime, but I'm not focused on it because it is. I'm not very Politically Correct - sometimes pages on my website can be filled with the same kind of nasty profanity and anger seen on an average video by Bithead1000 (a favorite YouTube show of mine BTW). I like Japanese culture, but I'm not so obsessed with it that that's all I talk about. I play music, but I mostly live in the 1980's musically because I'm happy there. I like messing with old technology because it's too old and slow for anyone to make it do things you don't want it to do because $$$$! I like old stuff in general because it's fixable with off-the-shelf parts by someone skilled enough to read a Schematic or Sams Photofacts.

Well, first and obviously is the music. Which I don't advertise much. I'd rather it speak for itself. That's what most people would know me for, as I've been a "guitar Youtuber" since 2006. So I'm one of the last old guys still there. I play mostly original music now, as I've gotten kind of bored of playing Covers. 99.9% of what I write and record is on Bandlab and then posted with some interesting abstract video on my YouTube channel. Before you think this screw-loose maniac is a future Charles Manson....the truth is I just post my music out there for the same reason I post things on this webpage, it's a "Take it or leave it" thing. I have no lifestyle to sell, I have no "vision" I"m going to tell you to have, or explain what my music is about. What it means to you, it means to you, and that works. All the best guys thought that way. I'm not pretentious....I don't really care. I'm just doing what I like doing - take it or leave it.

Secondly would be the music gear thing. For a period of 15-20 years I was on Jag-stang.com, Shortscale.org, and OSG posting mostly about offset gutiars. In the time since, I've learned to make my own pedals and expanded in my scope of favorite instruments to work on since then, as well as kind of started becoming a self-proclaimed student of whammy design. I talk about tech like a Neal Degrasse Tyson interview - my views are steeped in SCIENCE, not in emotion or "Tradition" god forbid. I'm not a gear snob, I hate gear snobs, I also can't stand Dad Rockers (who usually are Gear Snobs). I like Offsets and weird esoteric guitars, but I'm not a hipster, I'm a hipster's worst nightmare: a long haired, avacado hatin', Jaguar shredding, depression-inspired music making, perpetually chorused son of a bitch! So yeah, not a fan of hipsters either.

Next, computers. This is both my day-job trade and my night-time retro-hobby. During the day, I work on modern machines, and during the nights, I sometimes like to mess around with legacy hardware. I'm equally skilled at both. I also run a home LAN with a server and a bunch of other shit on it. Most Network Admins hate me, most geeks/nerds ask "why" - I don't care, I'm not doing it to be social, I'm doing it to be educational, and make sure at least some of the knowledge of workign with the old stuff continues to exist, at least until these machines are all in museums or recycled. 99.9% of my I.T. Stuff I had to figure out on my own. I did not have (much) help, I had snarky trolls in my midst learning this stuff, and taught myself through trial and error, and ignoring a lot of FUD and bullshit spread by the industry and so-callled "professionals" - some of which think an IP Address is an excuse for pee jokes.

Then there's a extensive video-games page-mess that is steeped in my interest in playing video games mostly. Though I dont' do that as much now because I don't really have the frickin' time. It includes the most extensive page ever done on a 400-in-1 Famiclone - so big it's over 800 Table Cells of screenshots and descriptions! NOBODY is insane enough to do that but me methinks - and I'm writing about EVERY Game on the console! And then I'm cross-linking all this stuff so that I can condense it down to the minimum number of pages needed. How about that - most people need a bloody SQL Database to pull this off - and I'm doing this on my own, using my BRAIN!

And lastly, some out of scope projects on the About Me page, usually done on a embarassing budget that makes shoestrings look like a brand new Caddilac. Again, put together using science, skill, logic, and often, taught to myself because sure as hell nobody else is going to teach me, or when they do, they're going to tell me I'm doing it wrong no matter what I do.