Any good child loves tall tales, improvised songs, and pop-culture amalgamations of strained connections and questionable taste. Only the very best children love math, too. But all should be able to play.

With a sharp focus on providing powerful, habit-forming tools to allow greater freedom of expression - and more expressible freedom - programming and design are dearest to his heart. As you browse this site, you're using his work to see the work of others, who likewise use it to add, edit, and share. The circle of life, as measured in mbps and GHz.

At a tender young age I got my hands on MSPaint, a copy of Visual Basic, and some rudimentary music-sequencing software. From there on, I've preferred flexing both sides of my brain at once, somehow neatly avoiding aneurysm. 

My first paid work in these fields was for the largest provider of square dance music in the (known) world. There, we pioneered a digital music market - when it was still "the future" - in a niche dismissed as backwards by outsiders. 

Some liked audio drawn from the digital masters, others the nearly-lost bluegrass hashes restored using the last few vinyl copies in existence. mp3 flew off the eternal shelf... right into custom-written software for planning and performance.

There's a good chance a fair number of "callers" were for a time much more hip than you, it happened at the turn of the century. It's largely my fault. I'm not sorry in the least, and continue my crusade in the names of tradition shaped by futurism, and common sense sparked by intuition.