About

I’m a web devel­oper liv­ing in Williams­burg, VA. In addi­tion to my day job work­ing for Affinity4, I also own a small busi­ness that oper­ates sev­eral sites, includ­ing the pop­u­lar Fake Name Gen­er­a­tor and Stan­dard Works (see my com­pany site for a full list­ing).

To give you a lit­tle back­ground, I was born in 1985 in Belle­vue, Michi­gan. After that I moved to Sheffield, Alabama, and then to Flan­ders, New Jer­sey, and then to Penn Val­ley, Cal­i­for­nia, and then to Fol­som, Cal­i­for­nia, and then to Flo­rence, South Car­olina, and then to the Salt Lake val­ley in Utah, and then back to Flo­rence, South Car­olina, and then to Colum­bia, South Car­olina, and then to New­port News, Vir­ginia, and then to Suf­folk, Vir­ginia, and now here I am in Williams­burg, Vir­ginia.

These moves gave me quite a bit of per­spec­tive on the many dif­fer­ent ways of life in which peo­ple of this coun­try live. It has also helped me to see that no mat­ter where you go, you run into crazy stu­pid people.

In addi­tion to the above named places, I also spent two years (April 2004 to March 2006) serv­ing a full-time reli­gious mis­sion for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Utah Salt Lake City South Mis­sion. Dur­ing this time I spent every hour of every day serv­ing Jesus Christ by preach­ing His restored Gospel (ok, I had to stop every now and then to do laun­dry, but pretty much every hour of every day…). It was one of the best and most reward­ing times of my life.

I’ve spent the major­ity of my life work­ing with com­put­ers. I started out play­ing door games on dial-in bul­letin board sys­tems (I love Usurper and Trade­Wars 2002), later got involved with web devel­op­ment and pro­gram­ming, and cur­rently spend most of my free time work­ing on web­pages (like the Fake Name Gen­er­a­tor).

Some of my inter­ests include web devel­op­ment, ama­teur elec­tron­ics, sci­ence fic­tion books, my wife, Choose Your Own Adven­ture books, and do-it-yourself projects.

So, now that you know a lit­tle bit more about me, go read some stuff!