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WVBR (93.5 FM) is a commercial radio station in Ithaca, New York with a focus on student management and broadcast training. (It is not affiliated with Cornell, as some people assume.) I do occasional sportscasting, newscasting, and DJing shifts; I'm the producer of Cornell Big Red Sports event broadcasts on WVBR; and I sometimes participate in Sports Roundup, a weekly talk show from 7-8 pm EST Sunday nights. I'm also the chairman of the Board of Directors, and do a little ad sales. In short, I do a little of everything at WVBR. Want to get into radio? Check out WVBR's training opportunities! 
I'm a Macintosh expert. I'm a Macintosh user. People often ask me whether these two facts are related. They sure are. In my technical support role, I assist people with many different kinds of computers, including Macintosh, Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT, and even Unix machines. I consider myself proficient at supporting Windows 9X, and capable of supporting the other Windows platforms.
But I'd be lying if I didn't say I was a Macintosh user by choice. I'm not a Mac user because I couldn't figure out DOS or Windows. I was a DOS user long before I was an Apple II or Mac user. I was a Windows user early on, and I've developed software for DOS and Windows, as well as Macintosh.
I'm a Mac user. I'm a Mac advocate. I believe in Apple and Macintosh computers. I own two Macintosh computers and one Mac OS clone personally. Unlike many of the people I hear spouting opinions on both sides of the issue, I've made an educated choice. I believe I made the right one for me, and I believe it's the right one for many other computer users.
Find out more. Visit http://www.apple.com/ or click the Pentium Snail picture to explore Apple's web site yourself.
I'm known locally for really enjoying food! In addition to enjoying cooking, I love eating out. I'm the editor of 14850 Dining and have written several restaurant reviews for the Ithaca Times.
Check out my capsule reviews in 14850 Dining and read some of my detailed reviews from the Times!
I'm a Cornell University alumnus (class of 1989) -- one of thousands who attended Cornell and then never left Ithaca. My bachelor's degree in Linguistics doesn't seem to apply to anything I do actively, but you never know what could come around the corner. (No, for the record, I didn't spend months desperately searching for a job in Linguistics before "settling for" computing. I'm here on purpose.)
My employment history includes two years as a programmer assisting a professor of Human Service Studies at Cornell, and almost two years doing technical support for Cornell's Media Services department, followed by six years at Baka Industries, a computer dealership and consulting company in Ithaca, and five years of full-time work as part of Public Communications. In addition to the vast amount of my writing that's distributed without money changing hands, some material has appeared in print and has netted some actual income.
There's no one who'll fire me or deny me tenure if my words of wisdom don't appear in print, on the Internet, or on a television screen, but I find that one of my favorite hobbies is sharing what I know, or what I believe, with varying audiences. That some of the writing provides some extra spending money (or occasionally pays the rent) is "gravy on the cake," as one of my high school teachers used to say.
TidBITS
Created by Adam C. Engst in April 1990, TidBITS is a weekly electronic publication focusing on the Macintosh industry and the Internet, and also providing limited coverage of other (usually related) aspects of the computer industry. I began submitting articles for TidBITS fairly early on, was News Editor for a while, and am currently a Contributing Editor. (I don't contribute as often as I used to, but try to share what info comes my way.
Adam, his wife Tonya, and the rest of the TidBITS gang also began publishing NetBITS this year. It's a weekly look at the Internet in general, not focusing on any specific platform.
Here are links to some of the pieces I've had published in TidBITS.
In August of 1995, I was delighted to learn that one of MacWEEK's editors, who'd read my work in TidBITS over the years, thought I should write for MacWEEK, too. I wrote quite a few product reviews on a freelance basis since then, but MacWEEK became eMediaWeekly after a while, and then shut down entirely.
Here are a couple of pictures of me as a kid. Anyone have some more pictures I should put here? Feel free to let me know!
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Thanks to my brother's example, I have a gift-giving ideas page. Feel free to use it for ideas when shopping for others, too!
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E-mail is always your best bet. Please pick the appropriate e-mail address using the form below for the reason you're contacting me, whether it's Cornell, Public Communications, WVBR, USS Accord, or just personal communications.
During the day, I can usually be reached at my office at Cornell at 607-255-8634.
If you're trying to reach me by e-mail, you may have noticed that I've removed all of the "mailto" links to my e-mail addresses. While these are a wonderful convenience for individuals who wish to send e-mail, they have unfortunately also become a convenience for unscrupulous marketers scanning the Internet for targets for their spam. Use this form, and I'll get your note! If you provide a valid e-mail address for yourself, you'll get automatic confirmation.
Last revised 3 December 2006. Suggestions or comments? Send me mail!
