Off the Beaten Path

I’m fortunate to have a number of friends who are in creative lines of work. Click on each mug below to get a glimpse into their world.

Tor’s creative business is getting me to do things, like travel to most of the places I’ve logged on this site. Right hand man extraordinaire.

He’s a world-traveling jack of all trades. He’s beheaded goats, accidentally took a bus to the wrong country, and remains the only person on the planet I have ever loaned my car to. I’m sure a series of quasi-autobiographical mercenary paperbacks are in his future.

Click on his pics for the travelogue of our invasion of Argentina.

Ryan became quite unhinged in 2004 (see left photo) and gave up his career in biomedical engineering to study creative writing. You can’t make this up, folks.

In the true spirit of Tenacious D’s Cosmic Shame, he is focusing on his craft. He’s somewhere in Cali refining his big funny. It’s pretty big. And it’s pretty funny.

Click on his pics for his funny pages.

Jonny is in the computer game business. His job as a game designer is to come up with cool ideas, which is something he’s been doing his whole life.

Like most of my friends, he possesses an improbable factoid: he’s the only 5’10” person I’ve ever seen dunk in hoops.

Click on his pics to see his latest game, or check out all the games he’s worked on.

Brian is one of those people that just figures things out. Be it an engineering problem, an impossible video game, or how to set up my confounded computer network, Brian’s the most resourceful guy I know.

Click on his pic to check out his blog.

Nathan is the smartest human being I’ve ever met. He just understands how things work, and by things, I mean everything.

Like Jonny, Nate is in the computer game business, but as a programmer, his job is quite different. He makes possible the zany ideas that people like Jonny come up with. In layman’s terms, if Jonny were Kirk, Nate would be Scotty.

He also may be the only computer programmer on the planet that can rip your arms off. Let me give you a piece of advice. Let the Nathan win.

Click on his pics to see the games he’s worked on.