About Me

I’m married to the wonderful Laura.

We have an amazing kid, Grace, who is about to enter the pre-nursing program at the University of Texas at Arlington. Where she ends up, who knows.

I’m a huge fans of the St. Louis Cardinals and baseball.

I love nearly all forms of music. Miles Davis, Neil Young, Tool, Medeski Martin and Wood, and Radiohead are some of my favorites.

I read. Neal Stephenson. Kevin Kelly. Carl Hiassen.

A guilty pleasure is Buffy the Vampire Slayer and well-written TV shows like Luther, Homeland, The Wire. And I must say, I have a man-crush on Hugh Laurie, musician, actor (House), author.

I admit I am an early Apple fan boy, having owned original iPods, iPhones, iPads and so many more products I’m embarrassed to say. Yes, I waited in line eight hours in the rain for . . .

I’m a micro beer snob.

I began my career as a journalist and investigative reporter for The Dallas Times Herald.

I fell in love with industrial design and product development and worked as a design researcher for Ignition, Inc. I see myself as an advocate between users and design, whatever that means.

I am a very early adopter.  Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, been there, done those. Blogging? Started as many of those as Dave Winer posts to his. For the most part, I’m past these and like taking vacations from social networks and social media. It’s a bit overwhelming now, many years later.

So it’s time to turn on the Cardinals game (using the fantastic app MLB AtBat), fire up the grill, and pop the top on a cold one.