Hi, I’m Matt.

I apologize for what you’re about to read. The stuff I put here ridiculous, by any reasonable measure and most of my friends and family tell me that my best material stems directly from my family and my own poor choices, which in retrospect would have been a better name for for the blog. Bad Choices.

I grew up in the 60’s and 70’s in a middle class family in Colorado and it didn’t take my parents very long to figure out that if something was science or math related, I was in. I got my first telescope when I was about 10 from my dad and I’ve had a deep love of astronomy (especially computational astronomy) ever since. Growing up my parents could always be counted on to acquire new science stuff when I wanted it, but when they declined the more dangerous stuff I was often forced to resort to other means like building it myself or begging companies for donations. Eventually, with more persistence than intelligence I managed to build a working X-Ray machine in my room using a TV tube and Ford car coil, a Van de Graaff generator to make lightning, and I successfully wrote to Hughes Research and begged for a power supply for a discarded HeNe laser head that I promptly used to make holograms and create laser light shows in the garage. Not long after that my parents cancelled my subscription to Scientific American.

When I first got to college I originally studied and planned to major in astronomy, but I also studied paleontology, archeology, and laser physics, before finally settling down and studying computer science and mathematics. My parents no doubt must have wondered if I was going to become a professional student, but I blame them because they encouraged the science thing even after I took apart the new color TV when they were away from home one afternoon and couldn’t put it back together. I guess not much has really changed in my life since that time.

These days, in a ploy to appear respectable, when I’m not working you can often find me reading books about NASA or other historical biographies, cooking food that my cardiologist assures me I shouldn’t eat, lighting things on fire from a distance with ridiculously high powered lasers, and sorting my son’s LEGOs or designing modular compatible buildings in a LEGO design app. I’m currently working on a Daily Planet, LexCorp, and Wayne Enterprises collection of LEGO modular buildings because, well… we’re DC Comic folk, but we love Marvel too.