Benjamin McGraw, Mad Genius

I've got a bit of a thing for the mad science. Goggles and gears!

I'm just this guy, you know?

So, the first place I ever had was cozy. Quaint, really. Cramped. But the heat worked and the rent was cheap.

I hermitted there for a while, got some thinking done. It's easiest when you're left alone, I find. Other people are hell, and the internet is other people cubed.

So, one day I decide to step outside and get some fresh air. I'd been cooped up for a good nine months or so, and I was getting a little stir crazy.

First guy I meet slaps me silly until I cry. True story. I mean, who does that?

From that moment on, I vowed to wreak my vengeance on them. On them all! Mwa ha ha. Mwahaha.

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Okay, now what

I've been told by naughty girls that this picture is hot, and by nice girls that it's creepy. Double-win!

I'm a programmer-guy.

I'm actually platform agnostic: I won't get into holy wars about any platform, but I'll often speak up for the underdog because, you know, who wants to be a yes-man? The only language I've met that I've hated is PERL, although C++ and I are having a trial separation at the moment.

I learned how to program while attempting to make games using VERGE. That didn't go very well for the game-making, but it did well for the learning. Somewhere along the line I became a professional webcoderman. It probably had something to do with all of the hipness and coolness associated with the webcoderman lifestyle. I mean, I get to wear bandanas and hoodies to work while making crazy Donnie Darko-like expressions!

I have a bunch of projects. That's all I gotta say about that for now.

There's a ninja hiding in me

No, really. He's here. Ninjas are very clever. I'm pretty sure that all Benjamins have their own personal ninja, somewhere, deep down inside.

why this, why now

Firstly, because I wanted to learn cakePHP better, and the first way to learn any web framework is, of course, to make a blog.

Nextly, because like everyone else on the interblogosphere, I get a little bit of joy from being listened to. And if you're the fractional person reading this bit, well, you can't un-read it. Ego: satisfied. ...Anyways, unlike most of all you folk, I'm being bald-faced about it in my domain name.

Subsequently, I needed a place with an rss feed to compete in a friendly challenge with a precocious Canadian by the name of Shamus Peveril. He will have his sorry maple-syrup-covered hind handed back to him faster than you can say "Poutine".

Penultimatly, because I've gone through that oh so trendy "just goddamned do it now already" mindset that Merlin Mann and other web2++ personalities like to push about the whole Getting Things Done. My happiest moments have been basking in the glow of a completed project, and frankly that's been rather lacking in recent years.

Lastly, well, getting the site up is in of itself a small pleasure. Can't you let me just enjoy this one goddamned moment? Please? For daddy?