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Eh, I hate doing these.  If you got here from another site, its because I hate filling in the same bio crap on 10 zillion different sites.

• Born, raised, and currently live in Stockton, California.
• Grew up in a farming family, attended public elementary and public high school
• Graduated high school in 1996 and attended the University of the Pacific pursuing a doctorate in pharmacy.
• While in school, worked for an ISP doing first postmaster email, then some Solaris system administration, then running the Linux backend for the whole operation.
• Obtained a PharmD (doctorate in pharmacy) in 2002
• Married my wife Tiffany in 2008

I some of my (many) hobbies include scuba diving, guns, hunting, photography, computers, cooking, playing tabletop rpg games, and anything that involves lots of gadgets

Other than that, I’m pretty damn boring as you will find out.

People have asked me where I got my online nicknames.  Heres are the stories.

Weekie The Dazzler: Back in the early 1990′s, when I was in 7th or 8th grade, a bunch of my friends wanted me to come over to play Dungeons and Dragons. This is when Final Fantasy II was out for the SNES, so I was interested since I liked those magic/sword/chop-chop sorta things.  Turned out to be my friend John’s birthday party (which I was invited to anyways).  My really good friend (to this day) Dax made me my first character.  I’ve always had a hard time thinking up names, so we decided to steal the name of John’s hamster, Weekie, and add on ‘The Dazzler’ to make it better.  I still have the original character sheet in Dax’s handwriting on that waxy-green D&D character sheet paper.  That name stuck until the BBS days

Corvus: In 1994-5 I got into BBS’s.  Since the “Internet” was still a really shiny-new thing, and dialup access cost an arm and a leg I dialed up into the local BBS’s around the area.  In 1995 my friend John (different John) and I decided to start our own BBS.  It was called “Zone 7 BBS” and it was going to be affiliated with the Stockton Astronomical Society.  Obviously Weekie isn’t very astronomical, so John suggested that I use the name corvus, which is a constallation shaped like a box (much like my personality at the time).  I only really used ‘corvus’ on Zone-7 as I had Weekie on every other BBS system.  In 1997 when I got hired at InReach, corvus became my email address (because weekie sounded, uh, lame) and the email has stuck ever since.

SCSi: Short of AIM, everyone knows me (online) as SCSi.  The name comes from back in 1997 when we were playing the ‘Werewolf the Apocolypse’ RPG game made by White Wolf.  In short, you play a human who can turn him/herself at will into a werewolf.  I was playing a certain class of werewolf known as the Glass Walkers who have embraced human technology and disregarded the foresty nature of other werewolf classes.  I needed a computer’ish name and really the best I could come up with was SCSI.  I started using that everywhere, and thanks to LiveJournal, everyone has known me by that name.