Big Daddy Kane
Etymology
Homebrewing
Spanish
J. R. R. Tolkien
Plato's Republic
Ruby
Ilha Grande
German Beer
Pipa
Norman Clarke's Website
It is morning, Senlin says, and in the morning
When the light drips through the shutters like the dew,
I arise, I face the sunrise,
And do the things my fathers learned to do.
Stars in the purple dusk above the rooftops
Pale in a saffron mist and seem to die,
And I myself on swiftly tilting planet
Stand before a glass and tie my tie.Conrad Aiken, Song of Senlin
About Me
Work
I'm a programmer and web developer based out of Buenos Aires, Argentina. At the moment I work primarily with Ruby but also hack with Java, PHP and more recently, Lua. I'm a fan of programming in general and like well-made things, regardless of what technology they use. My focus is on back-end systems and web application architecture. I also do front-end work but only as an implementor and (perhaps obviously) not as a designer.
Open Source
Most of my open source work can be found on my Github profile.
I am one of the organizers of Locos X Rails, a Ruby on Rails conference in Buenos Aires.
I occasionally write about programming on my programming blog.
Commercial
Along with my two partners I run a small Internet advertising business based out of Seattle, WA and San Jose, CA.
In the past I've worked in the biotechnology, nanotechnology, and dot-com worlds.
When they're interesting enough, I occasionally do some freelance projects. My most recent gig was Ciudad.com's FotoBlog, one of the highest-traffic sites in Argentina.
Personal Life
I grew up in Gardiner, NY and went to school at UMass Boston and UConn. I lived for many years in Seattle and, for better or worse, consider it my home city in the USA. In college I majored in Hispanic Studies but did most of my actual work as independent studies in theoretical linguistics, including a 5-student undergraduate course in early Minimalist Syntax taught by Noam Chomsky. I've always been instested in things that blur the lines between the literary and the mathematical.
I currently reside with my wife and son in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
I used to have a personal blog but it grew many weeds, and so I mowed it down. Instead I now have this amazing site.