Portentous Arrival

Well. I'm here. It's the year two-thousand six, and I have finally arrived on the internet. It's pretty much the equivalent of a new year's resolution, for me: I've gone years thinking "Man! I really need to start a blog." Now I'm not thinking that, anymore. Instead I'm thinking "Man! I got myself a blog and I don't know what to say!" C'est la vie.

It seems like an introduction is in order. I'm Max Guernsey, III, son of Max Guernsey, Jr., who is, in turn, the son of Max Guernsey, Sr. That's where the "III" part of my name comes from. I'm a software architect who's been in the business (or, as the kids say, "the biz") for about seven years, now. That's the official amount of time. Like everyone who fancies himself a programmer, I've been doing what I do since I was a twinkle in my father's eye.

My interests include the following:

• Cats
• Acquiring money
• Software development
• Books (writing, not reading... I don't read)
• Music (reading/writing)
• Movies (consumption only)
• Avoiding injury
• Cartoons (funny)
• Happy endings

My disinterests include the following:

• Embracing my mortality
• Tap-dancing
• Musicals
• Elephants
• Japanimation and other stupid forms of cartoon*
• Comic movies other than "X-Men"
• Gym socks
• Gyms

The following are things that I despise**:

• Professional sports
• Government
• Root canals

* "Japanimation" is often referred to as "Anime" by a certain, smooth-brained segment of U.S. citizens.

** "Despise" is not an appropriate word. It was a toss up between "loathe" and "despise," but neither are strong enough. There is no word for how I feel about these things, so I will express it mathematically: how I feel about professional sports, government, and root canals is equal to the limit of how I feel about getting my toe smashed with a hammer divided by the absolute value of x as x approaches zero.