About This Person
What do I want to tell you about myself?
First, my name is David Ohlson and I live near San Jose, California in the United States. If you don’t know where San Jose is, it’s about 60 miles south of San Francisco.
Like a lot of people in Silicon Valley, I’m an engineer, but unlike most of them, I don’t work for a high tech company.
I’ve been blogging since October 2002, which I would say is an average amount of time as far as online journaling is concerned (or roughly a quarter of my life as far as my life is concerned).
Unlike professional or more recent blogs, mine doesn’t focus on any particular topic. I write about whatever interests me or comes to mind. Nine out of ten blogging gurus believe I’m doing it wrong.
What else? I’m in my mid-thirties. I’m married (happily) to a woman I affectionately refer to as M on this blog. I recently become a father to girl I will be referring to as V from here on out. I’m multiracial – an American of Chinese and Swedish descent (roughly). Most importantly, though, I’m someone who loves to laugh, but loves to make other people laugh more.
To preserve a small portion of the previous About Me page, here is an incomplete list of things I can’t get enough of…
automating processes, baseball, book and music stores, Boston, Brandi Carlile, camping, Capitola, Carmel, chinese broccoli, Cinequest, clever parodies/satires, clever quotes or sayings, coffee, coffeehouse performances, George Gershwin, Edward Grieg, Firefly, Hawaiian music, hiking, history, Jane Austen, Joseph Haydn, Ken Burns documentaries, libraries, lighthouses, Los Gatos, M, Matchbox Twenty, minimalism, most things Disney, musicals, mythology, national parks, overcast days, P.G. Wodehouse, Peanuts, piano, Pixar, Point Reyes, proper punctuation, Pushing Daisies, reading, sabermetrics, Salzburg, silence, simple living, simulations, Skittles, Snow Patrol, statistics, sunny days, Terry Pratchett, The All-American Rejects, the beach, The Beach Boys, The Lord of the Rings, the truth, V (not the show), web design, Weezer, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, writing, Yosemite.
That’s pretty much it. Should anybody ask, this page was last updated on 21 August 2010.
You can contact me at hi at randomcuriosity dot com.
Thank you for reading and come back soon.
Oh, and I look like this, approximately…
About This Site
Random Curiosity is hosted by Dreamhost and managed using WordPress It was built using an assortment of tools, but primarily WriteRoom and TextEdit. Photographs and doodles (a.k.a. aspiring illustrations) found on this site are by me (I take full blame).
Sites that inspired the latest incarnation of my own include Blogography, Calipidder, Mnmlist, and Readability.
