MOTM

I am one of the first adopters of MOTM.  I was excited to get the damn 
power supply!  I am the first member of this mailing list.  I started it 
because I was tired of bugging Paul all of the time.  I was looking for 
someone to share my excitement / amazement over MOTM with.

I have met Paul Schreiber once.  He even bought me lunch.

I am an E-6 submarine nuclear power plant electrician.  That sounds a 
million times cooler than it actually is.  I currently work as a systems 
administrator and network security officer for a shore based training 
activity.  I have a BSCS in Computer Science from Hawaii Pacific University 
(just graduated!).  I am also self employed as a consultant (dirty, nasty 
word) specializing in database driven web design.

I am married (to another CS person) and we have a cat.

We live in Hawaii.  It is not as great as everyone who doesn't live here 
keeps telling me.

About the time I got my first MOTM module I went to the Navy's series of 
"2M" courses. This is miniature and then micro electronic repair.  I am now 
certified as an inspector as well.  What this means is I no longer do the 
"bigger the blob, better the job".  It also allows me to make some very 
clean modifications to PCB's that are very hard to tell. (create your own 
traces and lay them on the board, etc)  However, I never said that was easy 
or fun!

Music, I like .mp3's of all kinds of stuff.  I drive to "dark" (whatever 
that is) drum and bass.  I also listen to the  radio some.  Musical 
influences?  Ozzy Osbourne and Randy Rhoades, Steve Miller band, Eno, Vince 
Clark and some other stuff.  What do I make?  Not much.

Gear.  A HUGE PC with a few audio cards, DSP Factory, Event Layla, Creative 
Labs something.  Few little analog circuits I have hacked together.

I unfortunately sold my MOTM system early last year.  At that point I had 
the largest system.  I had 19 modules before the VCO's ever came 
out.  Ultimately I will have enough time to start making modules again.  I 
will probably only use the MOTM and my PC based things to write my sort of 
music (not sure how to describe that - sort of noisy / kid-606 sort of 
stuff).  I intend to have a very large motm system, someday - maybe soon.

Other interests.  Helping people understand why *nix is a good 
OS.  Programming little audio apps that do weird things to 
.wavs.  Attempting to keep my big block Chevy powered Chevelle drive able 
on the street vice the quarter mile.