Welcome to LucidThought.ca, which the home to many of my personal projects, a blog that's really a sort of journal, and some links to various things. Really this domain is underutilized for what it can really do, but I never seem to be able to find the time away from real work to add to this. I am a software developer (more specifically, recently, a full-stack web developer) but that's not all I do. I live close enough to the Rocky Mountains so I try my best to get out for dayhikes on the weekends that I have time; I love being in nature and away from the bustle of real life from time to time. Apart from that I've been trying my best to master an instrument - I've chosen the Chapman Stick, as I fell in love with it the first time I heard it played. It was either that or the Hammered Dulcimer, but the Chapman Stick was more new (and I'm all about the future).
With the future in mind, I love sci-fi - movies, TV, and books alike. Since I was very young I've been interested in reading sci-fi books, and my first love was the works of Philip K. Dick. His stories are all decidedly science fiction and very much from the time that they were written (~1960s), but he somehow managed to predict, though his stories, many problems that stem from science and technology that we know of today. These problems were seldom the core of the story - they were quirks and trivia of the settings in his stories, but are the things that have grown into terrifying reality; some might say these plague us today. It's really fascinating to me how, through art, these types of problems are being predicted years in advance of them actually happening and yet we still manage to speed toward them with reckless abandon.
It was from my love of sci-fi that I came to a love of programming. Creating software that people can use to do things, in the broad sense, is very satisfying. Working through the logic of a task and writing it into instructions for a computer to decipher is what I feel that I have always been destined to do.
If you want to learn more about me, check out the "About Me" page.