Hoopla! That word seems to have become a part of my personal brand. Started out as me just being goofy one day at school after watching Shock Treatment but now has become my stock greeting when I see people I know. In fact it’s gotten to the point where the hoopla precedes me. Once I met my bosses wife for the first time and after I said “Hi, nice to meet you” she was like “and…. don’t I get a hoopla?”

In October 2008 I relocated to San Mateo, CA for a job with PBworks. It was a lot of fun, but I missed Madison. So in August 2009 I moved back and I now work for the Gen Y career focused social network Brazen Careerist.

I’m a programmer (specifically PHP if you care to know). I wish I could say I’m a person who happens to do computer programming for a living, but who am I kidding? Programming is a part of who I am and even if I had a billion dollars and didn’t have to work another day in my life I’d still be programming.

I like a lot of music and have been enjoying my Rhapsody account. It’s sort of like a drug for me. The fact that I can listen to just about anything I want whenever I want to is great. I just bounce around from artist to artist listening to whatever I can get my hands on. I love it.

I want to be good at music. I tried to learn the guitar but I wasn’t enjoying it. I like playing around with synth stuff on my computer. I used to do stuff on my MC-505 Groovebox and now I’ve been playing around with the program Reason. It’s fun although I wouldn’t say I’ve gotten anything playable out of it (ok, just one song). Sometimes I get these great ideas in my head but I have trouble getting it into the computer since I don’t know how to play anything well.

I’m big on community. I was the organizer of the Madison PHP Meetup Group (group for web nerds like me) for close to 4 years. I’m also involved in other groups and events in town which all relate to the internet.