Lawrence McAlpin
Bloominton, IN
i was born. became a true geek, with a love of video games, Doctor Who, and Dungeons and Dragons. decided to grow up to make video games. DJed a death metal radio show in college. wombats are cool.
graduated college, started working for Fortune 50 company, writing COBOL and C++. not making video games. decided i liked making money instead. money is good. joined goth band. guitars boring now. became fond of industrial music instead. goth band broke up.
moved to chicago. new job as J2EE developer for Fortune 50 Wall Street company. joined pop band. met my future wife. pop band broke up. screw that, moving to new york city. (better pizza there.) future wife moves to upstate new york. long distance relationship ensues. no fun.
moved to bloomington indiana. kept Wall Street job: telecommuting is teh future! bought house. future wife no longer the future: got married. homeownership yay. house falling apart boo. new roof, new water heater, when will it end? poor now. helped make two beautiful daughters. wife thinks her contribution more important, but whatever. babies won't let me sleep. i need more sleep. left Wall Street job.
joined a cloud computing company: the Cloud is teh future!
where to from here?