About


The site
A personal site, a place to hang my resume on the Web. In time, I will be uploading diy and how-to posts on computer security, digital privacy, and SABREmetrics (obsessive baseball statistics).

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The author
My name is Scott. I have been working in the tech industry as a Linux systems administrator and database administrator for over 25 years. I am a lifelong computer and technology enthusiast, tinkerer, maker, and nerd.

I am a budding songwriter, or at least it is a fun hobby. I call my approach to playing the guitar, "guitar brût". I take the term from art brût, or "outsider art". Of course I took lessons... but was I paying attentioni? Did I practice? When I discovered Open D tuning, the guitar started to make sense. All the theory my teacher poured into me started to bubble up and i was (slowly) able to find chords on the fretboard. One would think I could do the same thing in standard tuning, yet I cannot... yet.

I once sat zazen at a Zen Center in upstate New York for a couple of years. I'd meditate and help out in the building of a new zendo at their country property. I have fond memories of listening to New York Yankee's games with the roshi and of a delicious gespacho the head cook made.

Zen Buddhism has a lineage one can follow. It is strict, in many ways. It requires discipline... something I don't always have in abundance. But I remain a Seeker and I try not to wander too awful far from The (Noble 8-Fold) Path.

If you find any of the information on the site valuable, please consider buying me a coffee. Or not. Times are hard.