Hello Penguins!

For many years, I thought about learning to program. However, growing up I absorbed the message that a programmer is a particular kind of person - and I wasn’t that kind of person.

I want to make lots of awesome things, and be an enthusiastic fan of others when they make awesome things

Making things takes labor, (and time, materials, knowledge, and safety); I want to value that labor. That means talking about labor to make it visible, and not allowing it to be dismissed or devalued. Some people see creative work as mysterious and the result of natural gifts. However, made things are made by people in a particular time and place.

I’ve done a lot of school. A lot. When I left my phd program, I told my friends to intervene if I ever wanted to run off to cartoon school.

I did not run off to cartoon school. Instead, I ended up back in school to study Computer Programming and Web Design.

If you know a place where my eclectic mix of higher education experience, small business nerdery, passion for coding, and literal cartooning would be celebrated - let me know. In fact, you should contact me.