About the Author

This site is operated by Corwin Brust. Corwin is a life-long computer (and electronics and A/V and Science Fiction/Fantasy and Stationary Supply, and…) nerd. Or geek, at least. Corwin works on business and technical architecture problems for a mid-sized privately held US business in the benefits administration industry. Corwin is a core Organizer for EmacsConf, the annual user convention for GNU Emacs (to which Corwin is an infrequent contributer and constant user). Corwin also volunteers and/or otherwise supports other (especially) Free Software (but also Open Source, FOSS, SF, game, etc. related) projects –often tending to mailing lists or web-sites or performance graphs– and as part of the FSF System Operations and Savannah Hackers teams, and maintains websites, fan-presence, digital and physical records/product, and post-postmortem archives for some slightly well known persons whom he personally knows/knew.

• A/V, Audio and Video; making and capturing sound, pictures, or both
• FSF, the free software foundation; charity started by Richard Stallman in 1985 predicating Open Source
• FSF System Operations, mixed volunteers and foundation staff, working on infrastructure projects
• Savannah, software forge dedicated to Free Software; "GitHub for GNU and wannabes"
• GNU, GNU is Not Unix; a project supported by FSF to make an entirely Free Software Operating System
• FOSS, Free and Open Source Software; attempts to make nice between often disparate camps of volunteers

This site is about Corwin's office, located in the attached garage mostly under his suburban home North-East of Minneapolis Minnesota where he lives with his two amazing life partners, four of their five children, five cats, and a turtle. Corwin's office, specifically, is also home to a number of house-plants, the present health of which is generally reflected on this site (every 12 hours or so.. hopefully).

Back In the Day™ Corwin did some picking-and-packing and shipping work, influencing his thinking on organizing (e.g.) the mountains of possessions constantly drifting and cycling though his home, especially the office. Other psyche dominating influences include his partners and senior staff (e.g. novelist father, folk-star wife, our kids, etc. Ya, we call our kids "the staff". "I'm staffing that out.." and so on.), as well as Bob, Amin, Andrew, Michael, and Ian (who are Corwin's mentor and peers on much of the free software stuff). Notwithstanding as may be otherwise stated, none of these people told him this website -nor what you find herein- was a "good idea". Yet here we are.

Aside plant (and systems/build) health, family, and life experience related quirks, general themes reflected likely include:

• Dear Me, What Are You Building Over There?
• Still Looking Pretty Tidy Over There, Is it?
• Tell Me Again How You Are Going To Find That Later…
• Where Have You Gotten Off To Now ("and What Is That Racket")?
• And other stories of progress and projects real and imagined