What’s your role at TBG?
Seems to be a delightful balance of evaluating new technologies, actual development, providing high level technical coverage for various ideas, and generally getting goodness out the door.

Uh, cool, what does that mean?
Your eyes will just glaze over if I go into detail..

How’d you end up as a Senior Developer?
I blame the Internet for dashing my hopes of being an Intergalactic Conquistador, but mostly I just needed work after an undergrad in Linguistics meant that I was about as employable as underweight Santa Claus in June. Fortunately I’ve really dug it over the years. Getting bored with things quickly, the Internet technologies provide a constant source of change.

How’d you arrive at TBG? (and no, we’re not talking transport)
I had been contracting at various gigs for years and as one gig was nearing its natural end, I applied to TBG having been blown away by their work on the Esquire augmented reality magazine. Much to my surprise, they hired me after a 20 minute phone interview that consisted mostly of specifics regarding the records I had published as the puppet leader of SRM Recordings and my part time prowess as an underground electronic music promoter.

Who’s your main sidekick when it comes to getting the job done?
Depends largely on the project but currently it’s the Asian Girl Massive, Ying Cen and Amy Cheng.

Most exciting project you’ve worked on here?
The NYC Dept of Transportation skeleton speed board campaign capturing the phenomenal degree of Barbarian Excellence in a severely restricted environment – we literally had 2k of memory (about a 1/10 of the size of a small image) to work with on the sign’s hardware.

Best thing about your job?
Definitely the Barbarians themselves, their sincere concern for excellence, the general transparency of our leadership and the joys of working in a legitimate Meritocracy. A wise man once said, It’s not what you’re doing, its who you do it with..

Not-so-best thing about your job?
Menial, repetitive tasks, though ideally these silly computers are trained to bear the worst of it.

First blog you check every morning:
None. All my information comes from various subscription mailing lists throughout the day, though I generally spend a few minutes in the morning looking at the Google news aggregator, Al Jazeera and/or Democracy Now, i.e. doing my part to the sidestep the Big 6 Propaganda System while remaining informed.

Favorite apps?
Vim, baby. What else is there?

All time fave thing you’ve ever found on the Internet?
The first time I ever saw a shockwave movie. It was 1998 and I was working on an ISP help desk in Dublin, Ireland when someone amid the rank and file punched in eye4u.com and it lit up the dungeon of call center cubicles with the transcendent glory of sound, animation, and color.

Which decade produced the best music?
Late 90s, early 2000s, specially Tech Step which is the heavy, techy genre of Drum and Bass music characterized by big clinical, distorted sythns and highly syncopated kits meant to be driven into your soul by a minimum of 6 full stack speaker cabinets and a fistful of subwoofers.

What’s the last furry thing you touched?
I kicked a rat off the Canal St platform for the Brooklyn bound A train about a week ago.

Bowie or Blondie?
That’s easy, Bassnectar.