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I was born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts and made my debut as a scary clown when I was four years old. I went to Space Academy ten years later, and I was a founding member of one of the first high-school TV news shows that same year. In my copious spare time, I enjoyed horseback riding, Duck Hunt, and parasailing. It was my great fortune to have two key roles in separate theatre productions of The Wizard of Oz; first as Toto and then as the Wicked Witch of the West.In 1995, I left high school early to work in the voice over internet industry (VoIP) for six years. I co-developed one of the first SS7 VoIP switches in 1996, and implemented one of the largest fiber-optic monitoring networks in the world. I was the CTO of Free World Dialup, and organized SIP interoperability events around the world. In my troubled youth, I was also known to help with Phrack articles and even troll NANOG on occasion.
In late 2001 I began a four year college vacation; I studied Cognitive Neuroscience and Linguistics, as well as underwater basket weaving. I also designed and lead a research experiment called the Original Imitation Game (aka a Turing Test) which got a smidge of press. During my summer and winter breaks, I enjoyed several internships: I did user research at Six Apart, edited Bittorrent for Dummies, wrote a portion of "A Report of Research on Privacy for Electronic Government" with Lawrence Lessig and other privacy experts, and studied swarms and complexity at the Neurosciences Institute. There was a brief artistic period where I painted on canvas and did some singing/songwriting for a band that was big in Japan. I was also involved with an alternate reality gaming contest. After college, I briefly worked in VoIP and social media until I left technology again.
I currently own a beekeeping supply & honey shop in the Mission district of San Francisco, California called Her Majesty's Secret Beekeeper. I enjoy this a great deal, as I'm helping to create food, pollinate flowers and fruit trees in my city, and I am contributing to making the world a little better.
I enjoy zeppelins, playing cello, and fine dining. I maintain the newsletter and website for the San Francisco Beekeeper's Association. I have dogsledded to the true north pole, lived in Tokyo, owned a Silver Cloud III, and I've "won" Nanowrimo tree times. I regularly donate money to Kiva, Médecins Sans Frontières, The Long Now, and the EFF.
I'm also an INTJ if you are interested in things like that.