Welcome to Joe's Synthetic Reality
What is this, and who is this person? My name is Joe Mayer, and this is my web page. It was supposed to be the page for my new band, but that band has thus far not materialized. Since I already owned the domain name, I figured why not use it for my own nefarious deeds. And what sort of deeds are those?
- I'm a musician, although, as mentioned above, I haven't played in a band for a while. My old band's web page is still out there. You can also get to our page on GarageBand, which has a couple of complete songs. If anyone knows of a band in Oregon's Rogue Valley that is looking for a bass player/utility infielder, hook me up with them, will you? Some of my MIDI stuff is now available here, and I hope to have some new MP3s posted in the next few months.
- I program, mostly in Visual Basic and VBA, but I'm trying to get better at Java. Again, I hope to post some of my work around here. Especially the stuff that I think someone might find a little bit useful.
- I take some pictures with my slick new Canon S500 digital camera, but I hesitate to really call myself a photographer. You can judge for yourself, if you'd like. I seem to particularly like taking pictures of cats, clouds, birds, water features (like rivers and oceans), and flowers. A random sampling is off to the right, and there's plenty more where that came from...
- I write some bad poetry, although I haven't written much lately. And, yes, again, I hope to post some more of it up here over the course of the next few months.
- I geek around the web quite a bit. I have the page at Flickr.com that I listed in the photography note above, plus a page at StumbleUpon.com, another at 43Things.com, and a blog on LiveJournal.com. I also have a Blogger blog here on this site, which is currently documenting my efforts as a musician.
- I enjoy studying history, geography, science, mathematics, and almost anything else I can get my brain on. Someday, if I feel real ambitious, I may start writing book reviews and posting them up here. I'm not really sure when that might happen, though.
When I'm not involved in doing my own stuff, I work as a computer support type person (übergeek) for a company here in southern Oregon. As part of my duties, I write a column for the semi-annual-ish company newsletter. Usually, it's something on a security related computer issue. You can see my columns in all of their black-and-white glory here.
New stuff! I've decided to renew my efforts to create a page about Roman history.
If you really feel like you want to bug me, you can e-mail me.
Created on ... January 3, 2004
Last Updated March 2, 2006
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