About Myself
The "About" page is always confusing because I think about it too much.
I'm about 23 years old. I have a strong education in science, and the Spanish and Chinese languages. You can ask me tough questions about those. My hobbies are table tennis, Chinese history, and computers, specifically web design. I can carry a light but somewhat meaningful conversation about any of those. I enjoy listening to music (exotica, jazz, j-pop) but don't ask me who the jazz greats are or what was on the cover of of Les Baxter's third album because I don't know.
I've been on the internet since Stu (a super nice guy from my parents' church) donated a computer to our family when we came back from Spain, which would be back in 1993. Originally we used AOL (houxle@aol.com). I also have fond memories of using Archie and Veronica in the high school library. I created my web site when I was a freshman in college, lonely and looking for distraction. Having a unique username and being an early adopter, my webpage would appear on the first page of a Google search for "takoyaki" for a year or so after it debuted. That was until my school account was deactivated the summer after I graduated in 2001. I learned perl my senior year, which I used to create small but useful web-based tools like a bookmark page, a message board and a scheduler. Attempting to stay on the edge of things, I started coding with style sheets early on. It wasn't until after I graduated that I actually started to understand the theory behind style sheets (the document object model) and lately I've been experimenting with Javascript.
Shirley would probably want me to say that I'm taken. And that I have a large ego, but low self-esteem.
That's about all I have to say. If you want to know more, either e-mail me or follow the links below:
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