About Me

I'm a conundrum wrapped in a mystery surrounded by a riddle.  Not really, but that sounds cool to say.

Why the website?

Mainly the original idea for the website was to have a place to post photos.  Also to create a kind of repository for Cornholio images and sounds.  I'm a little surprised that even today, I still get 2000 hits a week to the Cornholio section of the site. It goes to show the lasting popularity of Mike Judge's demented cartoon personas.

Just who am I?

I'm a computer consultant, or at least I have been since 1997.  Before that I got paid to go camping during the summer, with the Boy Scouts at Philmont Scout Ranch in Cimarron, NM.  After I got kicked out of the University of Texas at Austin, I tried my hand in the airline business, helping to start Dallas Express Airlines.  After it shutdown the first time, I stayed with three others to try and restart the airline after running out of money.  We did, but eventually the airline had to shut its doors for good.

I then started the computer phase of my career.   I went to work as a LAN admin for a student loan debt collection company in Dallas called Unger and Associates.  I worked there for a couple of years before moving to the Bay Area.  I figured if I can make it in Silicon Valley, then I can make it anywhere!  I arrived in '97, just before the start of the dotcom boom.  And I rode the wave, along with everyone else.  I did quite well, but never managed to find one of the IPOs that created overnight millionaires.  But I also got caught in the dotgone boom, and the company I was with, NewChannel, had a mass layoff right after the tragic events of Sept. 11th.   I was out of work for almost six months before getting on with my new company, MetiLinx.