A Little Bit About Me
A Little Bit About Me
It’s possible you might know me, but if you don’t: hi. I’m Professional Internet Wizard Contrariwise.
I was born in the late 20th century on the West coast of America, but currently live in the sparkling southern-flavored Midwest[^Texas.].
Over the years I’ve done lots of things. I started my career in video games, worked on an MMO, burned out, did spreadsheets for nonprofits, got back in like with computers. But like. Not in like like with them. Y’know?
I have a day job making the world a little bit better in small and non-obvious ways for people who will never know my name. Many people would be happy with that.
But I was meant to be an artist. An artiste, if you will. A visual philosopher if you’re nasty.
Which means that I’ve never actually been very satisfied with the entire concept of a day job. I’m not even convinced that it’s possible for me to be. Which gets us to this blog. And why I started another one.
I think. Maybe. I should have stayed in video games? It was deeply abusive. To many people it still is. Video games aren’t a field you work in because they pay well, or because you want to have a work-life balance.
You do it because you feel COMPELLED by the DEMON in your SPLEEN to make ART for PEOPLE.
Weird art. Where the people are also books somehow? Like books are alive and they have names and it’s colonial America and you need to do some resource management about it?
Or like. An RPG setting where the whole city is also kind of a clock but nobody knows how to wind it until one day it TICKS and everything changes?
But also maybe every website is secretly a monster you can collect and battle and none of them are Pikachu. Not even one.
And here’s the thing. Nobody else is going to make any of these. So if I don’t, the only version of them that ever gets to exist is the one that lives in my head. And also maybe now your head. Because if I’ve done my job maybe you’re infected by a tiny little crumb of my SPLEEN DEMON and you, too, need to know what it would be like if the Industrial Revolution had happened to ancient Egypt and now you have to build a space train to catch the sun.
So I made this blog to document the process. Of maybe putting down a very successful, very reasonable career, that lots of people I know would be much happier than I am to have, and instead trying to appease the SPLEEN DEMON.
Best case scenario, it becomes a living log of the process of becoming something new. Worst case scenario future archaeologists get to study it to try to figure out where my life went so, so wrong.
Either way, it’s probably going to be interesting. Why don’t you come along?