Introducing Myself

The problem: there's too much stuff I can't resist mentioning, only some of it relevant to the Model T Project... but gotta start somewhere. Basic data and links to pretty much everything else are accessible via the VERY Web 1.0 Home Page

http://oook.info

...and the day-to-day stuff of the present is captured in my blog

http://oook.info/mt

My identity as Anthropologist has always been stretched to fit whatever I found to be interesting; my life as a Librarian (1990-2005) was lots of fun, but is now beginning to seem like it happened to somebody else... A decade ago (1998) I did a summary of 30-some previous years, with links to exculpatory texts and images:

33 1/3 Anniversary

Ethan mentioned a couple of multimedia experiments I've done in the not-so-distant past:

the Sin of Pride (FantaMorph and YouTube)
Who Was Joe Wilner? (using a box of snapshots to reconstruct a life)

Such knowledge as I have in multimedia and IT realms is pretty much self-inflicted, and suffers from blind spots and wandering attention (e.g., at one point I did a fair bit with UNIX, at another I was deeply involved in GIS, and so on).

I've thought of myself as a serious photographer at various points in time, but now I don't think I'd answer to that label (though I contemplate the possibility of a digital SLR, and reimmersion). In the last few years I have been scanning and working with thousands of images I collected in Nova Scotia junk stores (mostly in the 1970s), which I think of as the

Nova Scotia Faces Project

and with some of my own trove of negatives from former times, archived at

http://flickr.com/photos/blackmerh/
see for example two subsets: 1965-67 Peace Corps in Sarawak, Malaysia and 1970s Horton Landing, Nova Scotia

I'm an inveterate experimenter in the realm of social software, though there are services I haven't looked into (like Facebook and MySpace). Facets that might be of interest include

my del.icio.us tags (essentially: a record of stuff I've found interesting enough to tag/bookmark for later retrieval)

and some experiments with timelines:

WhereWhen (an overall chronology, still sketchy), At W&L 1992-2005 (summary of my activities as a Librarian) and Logfiles 1998-2006 (my activity logs before blogging was named)

I also have a vastly complicated musical life, some facets of which are accessible via

this page of links.