Get a totally different and somewhat unrestrained perspective from an autistic home economist, an adogmatic asocial yet ascetically devoted Mormon, a black-listed developmental specialist, and an overly-philosophical compu-nerd, all living in one mind and obsessed with finding truth and meaning in a sometimes shallow, hostile and increasingly senseless world.
I am the Quasi-Indefatigable Xenolith (QuIX), a founder of the Xenos concept, and live a somewhat sheltered life with my determined wife and our semi-odd children in an obscure location for the sociological safety of others. I am also the sole steward of both this website and the hardware it runs upon.
My birthday is also Towel Day. Lucky me!
In understanding me, it may be helpful to read some things about autistics.
I go camping and hiking with my family and I have taken some pictures of our trips.
Over the years, I have kept a list of people I want to meet.
I am an amateur radio operator and my callsign is KE5YGT.
People ask me regularly what I give as a recommendation for computer purchases.
This is my one and only organizational affiliation. I am a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and I try (with varying degrees of success) to live my life after the example of Jesus Christ.
Though I did attend public schooling, ultimately earning a bachelor's degree as a Home Economist, anyone can tell you that I am a very independent learner and have been mostly self-taught in the subjects of electronics, computers, and practically everything else I know. "Self-taught" is another way of saying "autodidact".
I am a degreed Home Economist, though I actually make a living as a computer technician. Many people ask me why I spent four years and some thousands of taxpayer's money doing this and I will happily explain that the principles of Home Economics most closely mirror my own personal principles. Besides, young college students on the government dole are in a perfect position to pursue personal principles rather than practical income generation!
I tear apart and rebuild old junk computers for what passes as fun for me. In fact, the server that brings you this web page is one such computer. Sometimes, I actually stop disassembling and reassembling long enough to keep the server running and actually try to do something useful with these computers, but not very often. I have a personal computer collection (every nerdish type does) that I often add to and that welcomes donations.
As a computer hobbyist, I had a long-term longing to create a satisfying Computerized Bulletin Board System (BBS), which I finally realized in December 2007, many years after BBSs had been overtaken by the Internet.
I am actually employed as a systems analyst associate, which means I am a computer hobbyist that gets paid to pursue my hobby!
I have written a number of short stories that are available as Kindle books on Amazon.com. I am also still working on my great philosophical anti-novels in the Navigiary allegory.
I had long ago given up on programming computers, having lost any particular need to do it since teaching school. In 2005, an old employer let me know that she was still using a program that I wrote in 1988 -- a little ditty that helped a child care center figure work time. I know of few programs that have the ability to remain useful and used for nearly twenty years, so I have decided that I really am a computer programmer in the truest sense.
I wouldn't include this, but I am a certified vo-tech teacher. I got my certificate while working at a prison so I could teach there, but I was only there long enough to get the provisional cert. I was tired of driving to a job I had in Portales, so I got a job as a school teacher in San Jon, which lasted one year and proved a total fiasco, except for the fact that I now have a professional license. It would probably take a lot of torture to get me to teach at a public school again.
For a long time, I wondered why I had such peculiar interests, but now I understand that I am a rabid isolationist. My great desire is to essentially be left alone, which is called "asocial" (as opposed to being anti-social). For those of you that are also rabid isolationists, you may find some information on this web site to help you cope.
For a guy who wants to be left alone, I also have a sometimes confusing need to share what I know. It is important to understand that there is no conflict between being asocial and being willing to share things - they is two very different things. Now, there may be questions as to the usefulness of such sharing, but I am not here to quibble. I am the maniacal one here!