Friday, March 21, 2008

Hello everyone...I am a new author here, so bear with me.

To give you a quick description of myself, I will say that I'm a quirky little geek who sits in front of his computer at any possible time. I have an extremely depressing and dark outlook on the world in general. I enjoy spending time with my cats, as long as they hang around by my computer. I pretty much never go offline on AIM, and when I do, it's usually just to avoid someone. I know several different programming languages, from Javascript to HTML, to Applescript, to Cocoa. I program a bit for the web, and plenty for Macintosh. Quite frankly, I despise PCs in every way possible. As far as Linux goes...meh. I mean come on, it's a cheesy operating system created by a bunch of bored teenagers in their spare time. But I won't get into my own opinions here or anything...

In MY spare time, I either am programming or photoshopping someone/something. I have to say, the more I realize the power of Photoshop, the more I realize that pretty much all the pictures in magazines are totally photoshopped. By the by, if you need to make yourself look better, send me a picture!

As far as programming goes, I have a fairly popular Mac application out right now (roughly 33,000 downloads from macupdate.com, and an un-countable amount from Apple.com) called xMod. It modifies hidden preferences in Apple's new Operating System, Leopard, and does all sorts of other crap like that. I find it fairly useless, but others don't, so who am I to complain? I run a software company called Geek Peak Software, ( geekpeaksoftware.com ) which currently only supplies xMod. I am working on a few other programs, such as an iTunes companion and automation application.

Well, now that I've successfully bored the hell out of everyone, I think I'll sign off for the night. Catch me on IM any time (pretty much), and I will be around to post more random crap! I promise!

5 comments:

Catman03 said...

microsoft sucking: maybe, but linux pwns. and aside from that you sound pretty much like a clone of me. anyways, welcome to the last free country for the next eternity. we've got free towels.

Techie57 said...

Free towels pwn.
Yeah, Catman, that's Carter. He lives on his computer, but unlike the rest of us, he spends time programming instead of websurfing or blogging. Hopefully now that he's joined, he'll start doing more of those two a bit.
Welcome to our pathetic little Internet society, Carter!

Jacob WR said...

Pathetic? I'd say we hold a great deal more power than the huddled masses of, say, 4chan? Something Awful?
We hold a great deal of the Internet's little sanity. Do not be ashamed of it, Hannah. This series of tubes is nothing we should fear.

Jacob WR said...

and Ubuntu isn't cheesy.

Techie57 said...

I guess you're right. That is, if it ever works out to be famous or even remotely well-known. Right now it's a pretty esoteric little site, but maybe things will change...

On the topic of change, I think I found a possible contender for another member, though. I'm going to ask her if she wants to join. She's written her own novel and had it published already, at the age of 13; hopefully she'll think this is a good enough idea to bounce ideas off of us and post some excerpts from her book on here, but we'll see.