I've been doing it since I was around 12 or 13, although I think I might have loved it more back then.

I currently work for Asher Computing. I was at Xerox as a contractor for nearly three years, but in 2001 moved back to the office to do more internal project work.

We do many things, but mostly related to Interactive Voice Response (IVR) Systems, although my passion tends to be driver and kernel level programming.

I like Linux and Open Source.

I also like game programming, which I've been actively doing since around 2000. See my Programming Projects page and my downloads area.

I've got Burton boots and bindings, and a Jolt snowboard, specifically a Continental.

I wounded myself at the end of the 1999 season, so missed some primo spring conditions... :( I fell onto the edge of my friends snowboard, after he fell, getting off a lift. Gouged my shins nicely. My first badge of honor, right?

Fortunately just before the end of the season, some friends and I went to Stowe and Sugarbush Vermont for a few days. Mixed conditions, but I had lots of fun, mostly because of the cool people I went with. :)

I haven't gotten out at all in the 2003-2004 season, I've pretty much devoted myself to karate...

During the 1999 season, I started biking to/from work, which is roughly a 60 minute ride. Quite time consuming, but good excersize.

I also started doing some mountain biking, at my friend "Wet Foot"'s prodding. Although, I was kinda scared off of mountain biking after a handful of minor accidents while doing some trails in Letchworth State Park.

I ride a Cannondale bike.

I learn it as much out of interest in the topic itself as for it's ancillary uses to me for Artificial Intelligence, and self development.

I'm also willing to talk at length about the topic, given a willing ear.

I learned a lot in college on the topic, and have tossed around the idea of going back to school to get a degree in philosophy... That probably won't happen, but I might take some more classes in the topic.

Other than extensive applications in day to day affairs, philosophy also has application in AI for me.

My math skills have also rusted due to disuse, although I'm still stronger than most of my peers.

I still enjoy both math and physics. I will probably resurrect both skills in the near future for a number of (computer related) projects I'd like to do.

I spent a lot of time throughout high-school and college, working on simulations of various sorts, which were a lot of fun, and math/physics intensive.

I don't have any pictures I can put on the web yet, perhaps at a later time.

I like certain types of art and architecture, particularly Frank Lloyd Wright, and Francois-Auguste-Rene' Rodin. I'm not well versed on the topics, but that doesn't stop me from having an opinion! :)

I also like sci-fi movies of all sorts.

In my past, I considered myself kind of a loner. Er, actually, I was often alone, and told myself that that was okay, that I didn't really want people around anyway.

I sometimes do really want to be alone, but I also recognize that I often want to connect to people. I guess I've had difficulty in maintaining boundaries between myself and others, where I tended to keep most people at a certain distance, or with particular females, tended to allow them to get closer, but when they got too close, I would push them away.

I'm not always sure where my comfort zone is... how close to allow people to get. I'm attempting to heal some of that, and learn where more appropriate boundaries are. If you send me mail and I blow you off, normally it's laziness, and desire to avoid responsibility, but if you OFTEN send me mail, where I normally am responsive, perhaps I'm trying to back off a bit....

I can sometimes be found on afternet irc, on the #gamedev channel (part of gamedev.net. My nick is "Manax".