User Profile

Since 2004 I've been a programmer for a small web development/IT consulting company. I do mostly web design and back-end/database work for them.

I live on the shoreline of Connecticut, USA.

I've been programming in various languages since I was about 6 years old. I mostly work with PHP, SQL, C, and C++.

From 2002 to the first quarter of 2004 I was a 411 directory assistance operator for SBC (now AT&T, formerly SNET).

Before that, in 1995, I had a short stint as a trainman for the Essex Valley Railroad. That basically meant I assisted the Conductor with whatever needed to be done, including greeting passengers, punching tickets, draining toilets, and acting as a crossing guard when the train came to a road intersection.

Once upon a time back in BBS days (1989-1998), I used to go by the nick 'Hac'. Or 'The Hac' if you go back far enough. Luckily I wizened up and took off the somehow embarrassing definite article...

I'm very self-depreciating. I joke around a lot and have a very sarcastic and often dark sense of humor, but I do know when to be serious. I tend to find humor in even the worst of tragedies -- basically I've chalked it up to it being a self-defense mechanism that lets me cope instead of exploding and punching things. Do not let the tastelessness I'm capable of convince you I'm a heartless jerk. That couldn't be further from the truth. I also make often-obscure pop culture references like they're going out of style.

I tend to get angry and passionate about things, especially injustice and corruption. Likewise I love to talk about politics in a...I'm not sure how to describe it...an anti-political-party sort of way. I don't give a shit about red, blue, pink, green, yellow, fuckin' polka dots or left, right, center, diagonal, etc. All I care about is cutting through the games and the bullshit and doing what's right and punishing what is wrong, where applicable.

My favorite tool, besides a compiler, is Photoshop. Whether I'm cleaning up an old photograph, or turning someone into a zombie -- it's what I find myself doing more often than not.

When nobody is around, I often play with my Transformers and pretend pens are exotic spaceships, and fly them around in the air with my hand while make wooshing and laser noises, sometimes coming up with a complex story to go with it. (I often pray there isn't a microphone or camera hidden someplace.)

One of my faults is that I tend to start working on something and then get distracted and move onto something else. I have a bloody and disgraceful trail of coding projects behind me that I never finished. I tend to need help staying focused, since I get bored easily. (You might imagine how chaotic my job must be with such tendencies...)

Links

IRC:	irc://irc.slashnet.org/evilavatar
Homepage:	http://td76.com/
YouTube:	http://youtube.com/profile?user=fortysevenbteg

Social Networks

Twitter:	http://twitter.com/fortyseven
Facebook:	http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=501380712
Linked In:	http://www.linkedin.com/in/fortyseven
MySpace:	http://myspace.com/fortysevenbteg (Deprecated.)
Sochl.com:	http://sochl.com/Fortyseven
43 Things:	http://www.43things.com/person/Fortyseven203 (Incomplete.)
GamerDNA:	http://fortyseven.gamerdna.com/

Gamer Stuff

Wii Code:	7595-9872-6770-1708
Steam Community:	http://steamcommunity.com/id/fortyseven203/

XBOX:

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Angsty Quote Corner

"I never knew how empty my soul was until it was refilled."

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"Of course the people don't want war...But after all, it's the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it's always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it's a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship...Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to greater danger." — Hermann Goering