Colors & mathematics.
Colors: Maybe I didn’t doodle enough as a child, my free fingers more often drawn to writing or playing the piano. Maybe I just wasn’t interested enough, the calculated steps required to draw a simple smiling face which were taught to me in drawing class somehow left me feeling empty, like it was all dispelling the mystery & the magic of pen & pencil on paper. Whatever it was, my ability to draw is now lacking tremendously. Sure, sure, I doodle, but most of my works of art are best left in the margins of the notebooks they were born into. Still, sometimes good things come from mediocre attempts, & so I give to you a small gallery of banners which I designed for my blog. Enjoy. (Also, a picture of a dinosaur looking intently at some genitalia.)
Mathematics: Early on I realized that my mind was wired for all things mathematical. Though math as a school subject proved to always be a frustration (“you work too fast”, my father would chide me over & again), other logical constructs came very naturally. First it was music, but it didn’t take long before computers & computational languages had climbed to the top of the hill. My first taste of programming came in the form of Market Research & a call-center where I, at the age of nineteen, worked as a manager. Watching employees deal daily with poorly programmed surveys made me think: ‘I could do this, & I could do it better.’ & so I got some books from the library & I did. Now I do little but think, work, dream & eat code. I love it, I believe in it & I hope that my obituary will somewhere contain a backslash.