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About the author...Hail and well met! I'm GT, the author of this website and most of the programs and writings on it. If you're at this page, you must have clicked on the link for my biographical information, so I suppose I should say a little about myself.
For those craving more detail: I currently live in Saint Cloud, Minnesota, where I attend Saint Cloud State University. I have a double major in philosophy and computer science. I'm vaguely considering adding a creative writing minor, but being a senior with enough credits to graduate already, I probably won't. I'm a former member of the IDEA club and am currently the Secretary, Constitutional Chair, and Official Bard for the SCSU Pagan Alliance. I was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and lived in the Como Park area for most of my childhood, although there was a period of about five and a half years that I lived on the Iron Range (in Hibbing for a short time, Calumet for a couple of years, and outside of Grand Rapids for a couple of years). I've been a computer programmer my whole life, although I didn't make a daily habit out of it until I got a TI-99/4A in 1982. I bought it with my own money in order to write programs, started programming it as soon as I had it all plugged in, and haven't stopped programming since. In the years following, I shifted platforms several times (Apple IIc in 1984, Apple IIgs in 1986, Macintosh SE/30 in 1989, with dubious flirtations with various other platforms (Amiga, 286, 386) along the way) before finding my true love, when a friend of mine loaned me a Sun SPARCstation IPC (the very one this website runs on). I had played with Unix at the U of M, and liked it very much, but until the 90's you just couldn't get a good Unix machine on your desktop. Since then, I've been a pure Unix head, running at various times Solaris (what this machine ran on originally), Linux (used on my Pentium today), and NetBSD (what this machine runs on now). I'm not too picky about what operating system I run as long as it's some flavor of Unix. [Correction: since writing that, I had the misfortune of working on a client's machine running SCO Unix -- it really, really, really sucks. I should have known when I saw all the "Copyright Microsoft" messages that came up during bootup...] Because a client wanted software developed for it, I ran Windows 95 for the first time in 1997, and have successfully avoided doing much with it ever since. It's simply too user-unfriendly: I find myself wanting to do things that I could bang out a simple script to do easily in Unix that I simply can't do in Windows. I fail to see how anyone can consider such a crippled and hostile operating system user friendly. But I digress... I've also been a pagan my whole life, although I denied it for quite a few years. It all started in Sunday School when the teachers would say things I knew were wrong, such as nonsense about there being only one god and such. I virtually threw myself into the church life during one period of my life because I felt guilty for believing what I did; felt there was something wrong with me, but that just made me feel even more guilty. Eventually, after a harmless visit from a spirit that my relatives later insisted must have been the Devil, I gave up on religion entirely. I declared myself to be an atheist and refused to admit believing in anything that wasn't "scientific". But having lived a somewhat magickal childhood with the occasional spiritual visitor and a certain amount of past-life knowledge, I had some trouble sticking to my guns on this one. Then one day I found out about paganism, found out that there are people in the world who think like I do, who believe the same things I do. And very recently (since the SCSU Pagan Alliance was formed) I've found we're much more numerous than I imagined. Lately, I've been working my ass off for the new company I helped to found. Between my new job, my new friends, and my new positive attitude towards school (since I stopped worrying about grades and graduating and started taking more classes I simply enjoy taking, like creative writing), I'm happier now than I've been in a long time. I hated Saint Cloud when I first moved here from the Twin Cities, but since it's been my home for the happiest years of my life, it's starting to grow on me. I may be here for a while yet. I hope you enjoy my website as much as I've enjoyed creating it. Have fun! |
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