Oh well, I divorced the stereotypical nerd image a long time ago... after all, taste is a sensation I would not dare ignore :-)
Aside from the weight, I am 5'10" dark brown (almost
black) hair, a reddish-brown mustache and bluish-grey
eyes (with a maroon ring immediately around the pupils...
What can I say? Genetics. :-)
Current projects:
Learning C++, Perl, Elisp, and shell scripting.
Wordmake
A program that generates speakable words.
(Hopefully this will be expanded into a toolkit
for story writers with writer's block.
A Final Fantasy 7-like game
(I can say no more for now.)
Nostalgic ReCreation:
An attempt to remake the classic arcade games
under the GPL. (Currently defunct until I can
find time... and learn to program in C++
effectively to handle such things correctly.)
Various Web-design tools, centered around the
Website META-Language, a special language
designed to be as extensible as C, which
"Compiles" into Web-page-compatible HTML
and JavaScript.
If you're interested, check out the web page at http://www.engelschall.com/sw/wml
Finally, writing something useful or entertaining
(The reason behind the aforementioned utilities
for combating writer's block... I at this point
am too likely to plagiarize)
Education:
Self-taught. (What can I say? The high school
staff politics were beyond me, and college
kept asking me to feed it money I didn't have...
Cheaper and easier to buy a computer and a few
books... which in retrospect, I realize the books
were worth the price... cheap. :-)