So, I've made it one of my PERSONAL GOALS to learn a little bit about HTML/XTML/XML, and I decided I'd just take the plunge, and dive in. Because it’s intended as a learning tool as well as anything else, you may notice a lack of cohesive "look and feel”. This is deliberate, for it gives me a broad and clean canvas upon which to study.

I make no apologies: this site is being developed and tested using IE6 and SlimBrowser 3.96 / 002. If you have another browser (Netscape, Opera, etc.) and the site doesn’t perform for you, I’d welcome your E-MAIL with an explanation as to what I’ve done wrong in Dream Weaver. If you can’t help me learn from the non-functionality, shut up and deal with it.

Enjoy!

I was born a poor black female in Mississippi – no, waitaminnit, that was Oprah.

Actually, I was born in Washington DC, in a test tube from undocumented genealogical sources, and have pretty much been a resident of the area ever since. My birth name was Thomas James; this was contracted to “TJ” and then later expanded to “Teejay” when I needed some market differentiation. So much for loss-less compression, eh?

You may have surmised by now that I’m a Geek. I say this without shame or embarrassment. In my opinion, the Bible was mistranslated, and should read "the Geeks shall inherit the Earth”.

Such is the beauty of a democracy, in that you are not constrained to like me; I only hope you will.

Since then, I’ve graduated from different schools, interspersed with work as a professional photographer, graphic artist, nightclub manager, and Internet Sales Engineer. While my studies were primarily aimed at Cosmology and Particle Physics, I came to the conclusion that life within the constraints of academia was simply too regimented and hierarchical… thus I lost any motivation I might have had to pursue a Doctorate, which would have locked me into that world. Instead, I stumbled into Communications almost as a fluke, and have worked in that industry for the past 10 years or so. I’ve seen my ups and downs, but it’s a great deal of fun. I’m fortunate in that I actually like going to work.

Me and my bike and Monterey the Travel Bear, at the jolly overlook on the GW Parkway headed north out of Washington DC.

Yes, I wear a helmet; it's behind the bear - look hard and you'll see it. My daddy didn't raise no fool.

My other hobbies, aside from these, include skydiving, electronics, the ongoing study of Physics across multiple different disciplines, (now branching into Chemistry, Graph Theory, and Chaos Theory as well), watching Cops on Cable, and slugging frosty cold Martinis / Manhattans (depends on the mood) with friends.

I still keep an ear attuned to the pulse of Physics, and Electronics, out of not only an intellectual but also a spiritual calling. Boiled down to it’s aspic, Cosmological and Particle Physics is "the science of searching for God". The cancellation of the Supercollider project set science, and religion, back at least 50 years.

It’s difficult to define concrete, attainable goals in this Modern Age we live in. Without digressing into a RANT, it simply seems as if everything I was brought up to believe was a lie. There is no stability in life, work, love, health. The concept of America doing “the right thing” by the rest of the world has been shown to be a farcical lie by the actions of our Commander in Chief (I refer to the Weasel) and the military and sub-rosa forces he commands.

Put simply, in a lot of ways it’s a miserable time to be alive.

So, with that as a baseline, and using tome tactical “renormalization”, I set out some Mission Goals for myself – with the tacit axiom that “things can change. These goals are necessarily a bit amorphous, as they are continually-modified by the World Order, the rise of Extremist Islam, and our Commander in Chief's stewardship of our nation into a decline, decay, and ultimate collapse that will match the fall of the Roman Empire in scope and despair.

I’ve considered that Evil is more powerful than Good, but there is far more Good in the world than there is Evil. It’s kind of like the search for “missing matter” – the two are so close to balancing each other out, it’s impossible to see which way the chips will fall.

My primary aegis, I thus feel, is to live my life as true to my own goals and desires, and sense of happiness, as I can, and do my best to use whatever talents or blessings I’ve been given to try to make other people happy, too.

A happy consequence of this mindset is that it precludes me from stepping on other people. That means I haven’t come as far in life as I might have… but it also means I don’t carry a lot of guilt and self-recrimination, either.

So, what are you gonna find here? Well, you’ll find out more than a little something about me, what I’ve done, what I do, what I hope to do, and the way I view the world. The Internet is the ultimate vector for applied egocentrism.

The flip side – and I must make this abundantly clear – is that you’ll only find out those details which fall into the following Venn set AB:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

As you can see, the corollary is that if you read something here that really inspires or cheeses you, you may or may not have sufficient insight as to my thinking on the subject – which is one of the dangers of anyone trying to define themselves in a website in the first place!

So, if you have questions, please feel free to contact me.