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Exegetic.net is a resource/homepage/portfolio site thrown together by Nā·thən Wī·nənt. Honestly, I just set it up so that the first hit in my permanent record wouldn't be a Cc: in a speculative thread from 1999 on Mac OS X, a futile but perfunctory attempt to reason with post-9/11 insanity, or my brief but illustrious career as a deadbeat dad. But, since you're here, I'll attempt to provide a refreshingly effervescent summary of my recent circumstance:

Life

I live in Austin, TX, USA, where life is generally awesome. Sometimes I even get to help with that.

I have an amazing girlfriend. We have two cats that are perpetually locked in an epic, almost Tolkenian struggle. In my spare time I roam the northern wilderness, waging a one-man war to liberate imprisoned children's bicycles. I can make fairly tasty food. I tend to think about things more than is probably healthy, but I'm getting better about that. I generally like weather and people and washing my hands in warm water. I can touch the tip of my nose with my tongue. I can see into at least the fourth dimension sometimes. I am innocent of all charges.

Work

Professionally speaking, I'm a software engineer doing stuff with Java and Linux and XML. I've done some cool stuff with ontologies and semantic technologies, and I've developed material for and conducted a couple of professional training sessions. I'm also capable of basic graphic design. (Sure, nothing I've done is going to win any awards, but it's all clean, standards-based web design that probably won't make you want to claw your eyes out.)

I've recently been working on the following open source software projects, if you're into that sort of thing:

• The Peruser Knowledge Framework, a ridiculously awesome way to build semantic applications.
• Markout, a pure-Java lightweight wiki parser based on Markdown.
• Boomstick, a flexible content management system thingy built on Cocoon, Subversion, and a bunch of XML and stuff.

Art

Lately I've been working on an episodic animated tale of southwestern horror called Sin La Luna that premiered at Austin's First Night 2008. Recent tomfoolery with the Flavor Ferret Collective netted us a cool second place in an Alamo Drafthouse filmmaking competition. I'm also working with some really cool, smart, funny people to write and stage a series of Neo-Futurist plays.

Beyond that, I wrote a novel a few years back for NaNoWriMo called Apogee Meadows, which has the literary virtue of being just around 50,262 words long, 88% of which were cranked out in the last nine days before the deadline. I also have some assorted writings floating around that are marginally coherent.

There is absolutely no aspect of my life that has not been adequately captured in its entirety by the preceding paragraphs.