When required to tell a little about yourself, it's difficult to formulate the right amount of "about".  How much do you tell about your self?  How in-depth do you go about the history of who you are?  Well, if you haven't figured it out by now, I love to talk (type in this case) and that apparently runs in the family.  My father could talk the ears off a door-to-door salesman.  And likewise, his father was impressively long-winded.  So who am I?  I'm a technology nerd who loves to write (code that is).  I grew up in the Southern-most tip of Alabama near the Gulf of Mexico.  I feel that I was born just at the right time to climb aboard the technology train that is/was personal computing.

Not to tell my age, but I was in middle school when the PC became popular.  I attended Phillips Preparatory Middle School and I credit my insane obsession with computers with my teacher, Stephen A. Malloy.  An absolute brilliant man with a life cut short due to a brain tumor, Mr. Malloy would prove to be the catalyst that began my deep-dive into the programming world.  He taught us BASIC and QBASIC.  We worked together on a typing tutor project in the 7th grade (along with one of my very best friends J.M. Eslava).  The project proved to be successful and it was used throughout my tenure at Phillips to teach computer students how to type and tests their accuracy and speed.  I attended The University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa and studied Electrical Engineering with Computer Engineering Option (a degree path funded by the National Science Foundation).  Most of my days were filled with pondering a way out of school and into the real world.    So as soon as the opportunity presented itself, I entered the workforce as a support technician for a software company. 

But enough about me.  Why does this site exist?  That's a complicated question. In the 1980's, my grandfather, J R Culpepper, wrote articles in the local newspaper (Mobile Press-Register) called "Things I Have Thought". 

Back in 2007, I registered the domain in hopes that I could scan all of the pages of my grandfather