Bio
About Me
I have lived my entire life in the state of West Virginia. I grew up in
Fairmont, WV (home
of the pepperoni roll).
When it came time to go to college, I chose to attend
Marshall University, mainly because it was nearly free after receiving numerous
scholarships. I graduated in May 2007 with my BS in Computer & Information Technology
(the equivalent of Computer Science at Marshall when I first enrolled). I am currently attending
West Virginia University to pursue my
MS in Computer Science
In 1998 I first started creating webpages with plain HTML. I learned HTML by mainly
using web page editors and seeing what visual changes did what to the underlying
HTML. In 1999 I started learning and programming Perl. In 2002 I launched
NPScripts.com while I was still in high school.
Interests
Aside from my obvious interest in computer programming, I am also obsessed with
video games and electronic music. On my computer, I am usually tuned to a station
on Digitally Imported. In the past couple years I
have started collecting and mixing happy hardcore (on both vinyl records and CDs).
It is one of my most enjoyable hobbies and a real outlet when I am getting inexplicable
errors on a program I am writing.
I am also a big auto racing fan. I religiously follow NASCAR and F1. I've also been
known to be quite the professional wrestling fan...
Movies? Well I'm a pretty big fan of Stanley Kubrick's films, and generally anything
that is rather thought-provoking and/or features numerous twists in a complicated
story. I am also in to comedies in the style of Dumb & Dumber and Naked Gun/Airplane.
Oh... I like cheesy horror movies, too... Basically, I don't like generic action
that lacks any form of story (except cheesy horror).