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Adam Wright

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Bio

Anyone that knows me could tell you how open, straightforward, and honest I like to be.  I don’t like “sugar-coating”.  I don’t like beating around the bush.  I don’t like hiding things about me or my past.  I’m far from perfect, I’d never claim I haven’t tried to be something I’m not, and I’m no saint, but that doesn’t mean I can’t feel comfortable about who I am.  I’ve finally realized the most important to me is accepting who I am and what I care about.  I’d rather anyone and everyone around me know everything about me so there’s nothing left to hide.  Only then do I have nothing to fear.  I don’t care if others judge me, as, admittedly, I sometimes do the same.  I don’t think its wrong to judge others, especially given our increasingly superficial social world and what the average person goes through day to day just to live here.  So read on and judge me and my character and decide for yourself who I am.

I’m a 20-something geek with a hard-on for first-person-shooters and D.I.Y. tutorials.  The main interests and passions that drive my life are programming, video games, D.I.Y. projects, spending time with loved ones (including my dog Chance), and watching movies.  I don’t know why, but I’ve always loved watching movies.  For me, spending an evening watching movies is a night well spent.  I don’t know why, but I don’t really have a favorite movie, I like a lot of movies and I like watching new ones I haven’t seen before.  I guess in the area of movie-watching, I’m pretty easily pleased.

Something you might discover about me once you meet me in real life is my interest in chivalry and self-respect.  I don’t know what religion I am, and I’m not interested in finding out at the moment, but I do believe in humanity, and the unity which that entails.  No matter what religion, sex, sexuality, or race we are, we’re all still human, and that’s something that connects us together as one being; we all live here on Earth together.  I believe in respecting others, their beliefs, and their ways of life.  Admittedly, I believe in these ideals mostly because my father beat them into me growing up.  If I would forget to hold the door for an older lady, or order at a restaurant before all the women at the table did, I got smacked in the back of the head.  Hard.

Which brings me to family and growing up.  My mother and father had for from ideal lives growing up, and for that reason they’re stronger in some aspects of life than any other people I know.  They’ve been divorced since I was very young, but in my eyes, they were never really together.  With how much each of them have changed over the years I’ve known them, they’ve both become completely different people than they used to be.  I get my intellectualism and drive from my mother, who went to college to receive her Bachelor’s degree Magna Cum Laude and is now finishing her Master’s by creating a new degree path for Mercyhurst college, where she’ll teach the new degree.  She did all of this after she had us three children, supporting us and herself along the way.  I’ll always look up to her, for her success, for her vigilance, and for her independence, which helped her get to where she is today.  I only hope to be half as successful and intelligent as her one day, and to pass on devoted offerings of help and guidance to everyone else.  From my father I get my selflessness and fearlessness, two things I find invaluable in myself.  I would describe my dad as “the classic hard working father”; manual labor is the only real type of work, if you’re under his roof then you follow his rules, and he’s never wrong.  Just imagine how hard it was for a computer and video game geek growing up in his house, sheesh.  But even though living with him through my adolescence was quite strenuous, I still have him to thank for so many things I’ve learned.  He would give you the shirt off his back in the middle of a snowstorm, as long as it meant you’d be warm.  I have seen and experienced so much honor in my father that I’m proud to call him so, and I  plan to constantly live life in the ideals he taught me; respect, loyalty, and standing up for what you believe in. Until death.

Programming History/Experience

Things like math, calculations and formulas have always come naturally and easily to me, which is most likely a big reason I came to love programming so much.  Although the only programming I’ve been doing lately is scripting in AutoHotKey for work, I’ve studied VB 6 a lot back in school, a little VB.NET in college, a lot of C++ in college (my favorite), and I was really hardcore into TI-BASIC, but I haven’t done anything with a calc since 2004 or 2005.  I really want to get back into calc programming, I used to program fully graphical RPGs that I could play in class, and eventually I had friends asking me if I had any new games I could put on their calculator for them to play in their next class.  I’ll have to make a calc programming page here on my blog to showcase some stuff I’ve learned and some stuff I’ve made.

Online Presence

My main online presences are Twitter and Facebook.  And since my work recently started blocking Facebook.com, I update Facebook less than usual.  If you’d like to contact me directly, you can email me at adam@adamisageek.com, to contact me about my site/blog, please email blog@adamisageek.com.  I can also be contacted via instant messenger using these screennames:

protocol	screenname
AIM	adamisag33k
MSN	msn@adamisageek.com
Gchat	adamisageek

Blog

This blog is meant to be a storage place for my thoughts and ideas, whatever their usefulness or lack thereof.  Most of the time you’ll find things from my everyday life or online adventures that I consider funny, like a good LOLcat pic, or a chat conversation between myself and a friend that I find LOL-enducing.

I also plan to use this blog more and more for some self-created D.I.Y. projects.  I really like D.I.Y. projects and their usefullness in life.  I love the idea of creating something practical and useful in everyday life, such as turning an old seemingly useless P2 computer into a complex and powerful networking solution using free software, or creating an arcade cabinet with literally thousands of working games and only spending around $50 in the process.