Born: 1971-- Denver, Colorado
Heritage: Irish &
German
FAVORITES 
Movies:
"American Beauty," "Heavenly
Creatures," "Fellowship of the Ring," "Secretary,"
anything by David Fincher or the Coen brothers
Music:
The Tea Party, Nine Inch Nails, Peter Gabriel,
Tori Amos, Radiohead, Nickel Creek
Books:
Taltos series, Foundation Chronicles,
Dark Rivers of the Heart, The Shining, Amber Chronicles (1st five),
Authors/Playwrites:
Ray Bradbury (best living author, period,) Dean
Koontz, Issac Asimov, Steven Brust, Stephen King, Neil Gaiman, David
Mamet, David Mamet, did I mention David Mamet? Arthur Miller, Bill
Shakespeare (we're real close, Bill and I.)
Food & Drink:
My gumbo, my stir-fry, Olive Garden, Red Lobster,
bourbon & Coke, White Russians, Bloody Marys, nothing that's
even been in close proximity to tequila =Þ
PCGames:
Battlefield:1942, Uplink, The Sims, Neverwinter
Nights, Icewind Dale
RPGames:
Spycraft, Fading Suns, D&D, StarWars, Paranoia
States:
Colorado!! Iowa, Washington, Minnesota, Missouri
NPR Programs:
Car Talk, Whaddyaknow, Prairie Home Companion,
The Splendid Table, All Things Considered, Morning Edition
TV:
West Wing (best darn show on TV, period), Alias,
Invader Zim, 1st 5 seasons of The X-Files, SpongeBob SquarePants,
Food Channel, TLC, The History Channel
Director:
Coen brothers, David Fincher, David Lynch
Actor/Actress:
Kate Winslet, Gillian Anderson, Melanie Lynskey,
Bobby DeNiro (Bobby and I, we're real close,) Matt Damon, Harrison
Ford, Kenneth Branaugh, Keven Spacey, Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise (those
last two much to my chagrin, as I don't WANT to like them, but dang,
they're actually very good actors!)
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Photograph
of me
The ultimate in self-grandizing
propaganda!
The "personal web page."
I've had a few different versions over the past couple
of years. "Liam's Home" was my 1st version,
and to be honest I still like it. Simple and clean.
I hate those websites where people put pages of stuff
scrolling down one long page cluttered with animated
gif's and cutsey graphics. But at the same time, I want
to show a little more visual creativity in my page.
So, hope you like this version.
Back to the topic....
Me name is Liam, and I fancy meself something of a web designer.
I guess since I'm being paid by Kinetics
to develop Web sites, it's more than just a hobby now.
I'm a husband and a father, and in addition to doing
LAN Admin and Web Development work, I also write fiction
(fantasy, sci-fi, gothic horror,) but have yet to
submit anything for publishing. Don't ask me why that
it; perhaps it has to do with fear or rejection. "You
miss 100% of the shots you don't take." =Þ
I currently live in Missouri, but was mostly raised
in Colorado, and if I don't go back there at least
to visit soon, I'm going to go nucking futz! When
you're born and raised with REAL mountains in your
view and heart, they will always pull on you. I lived
for a brief instance in Washington (back when St.
Helen's blew, actually,) and Iowa for a couple of
years. Great state! Iowa City and Des Moines are great
towns! But the land itself has no...spirit. Even the
Ozarks have more spirit in the land than Iowa. It's
hard to describe. But I do miss the political and
intellectual openness and acceptance of IA/MN, not
to mention the copious amount of NPR stations! =)
Back to what I do, it's VERY different than what I'm educated
in. I have BA's in Theatre (focus in directing) and English. Haven't
done a thing with them. Meant to go to grad school, in fact was
briefly enrolled at U of I, was even set to teach an Acting I class,
but oh well. Life happens. So now designing web pages and coding
in PHP and ASP.Net and toying with Linux servers. Funny how things
work out. But it's OK. I'm certainly interested, and not too bad
in those areas. Especially for being mainly self-taught. Actually,
I've taken a couple of MCSE classes in TCP/IP and WinNT Administration,
but I taught myself HTML and what I know of Javascript, ASP, and
PHP from looking at sourcecode and the odd book or web site. At
one time I thought this area of study/employment was a good idea
as it's well paying...but well, people who can whip up web pages
with FrontPage (shudder) or Dreamweaver is becoming like locust.
The fact I can make a site using Notepad is really no longer that
impressive.
If I stay in the tech field, my goal is to eventually
run my own ISP built with me own widdle hands. I'm
getting pretty good with Linux (it's free!) as well
as IIS. 1st step is to design pages, then host pages
on my own servers, then expand to allow net access,
then house my own servers and routers etc, then get
bought out by Earthlink.... *eg*
I still fantasize about having a career writing,
I still try to find time in my odd free hour a week
to write for fun. Who knows.
As for hobbies, well, yeah, Linux and web development is way up
there. But I'm also a fanatic about role-playing gaming. You know,
Dungeons&Dragons and those other evil tools of Satan. (People
don't still believe that, do they? That was a pretty big issue back
when I was playing as a kid, 8 to 12 or 13 years old.) Now I'm actually
a member of a local gaming group, SAGA, and occasionally finagle
a couple of hours a week or so to actually play with other people
now! Before graduating undergrad, I played tons of D&D, Shadowrun,
Twilight2000, Top Secret, etc. The last 6 years since graduating
I haven't played a whit. Now, with this group, it's a little gaming
heaven! Anyway, enough of geekdom.
That's a general overview. More than any anonymous
person would ever really want to know. But if you
DO want to know more, why? I mean, check out my Thoughts
page for more details about my philosophies and
opinions and beliefs.
If you want to discuss anything from the above, feel
free to send a message. I'll answer anything that's
not an overt flame. (And if you have nothing better
to do but flame someone you don't know based on some
superficial surface info on them, shame on you. Get
a hobby. May I suggest Linux administration....)
