About Me

Here's my picture to the left. I look like your typical SF Bay Area type guy in a kilt..heheh. This is what I look like nowadays. If you'd like to see how I looked years ago with long hair and a full beard, click on the pic. While I probably look better with my hair shorter, I do miss my long-hair days! (sigh)

My real name is Todd. I was born in Encino, California back in the mid 1950s and grew up there. Encino is a town in the middle of the San Fernando Valley in Southern California, and of course was immortalized by Frank Zappa's hit Valley Girl and the movie Encino Man. While I was in high school I listened to a radio station called KROQ, which over the years has had a truly bizarre history, one that I talk about along with a couple other folk at The Unoffical History of KROQ.

When I was about 20 or so, I came to my senses and moved out of "The Valley" and to San Diego, where I attended San Diego State University, getting a BA in Journalism. And while I was there, I was a DJ on SDSU's radio station. Doing that probably was one of the reasons I stayed in college! :)) One of my former classmates organized a reunion in October, 2004 that I attended. Click on the KCR reunion link at the bottom of the page to find out more.

After I got my BA degree I moved to Oregon, where I was a DJ for a Top40 station in Lebanon, Oregon. That's a town about 50 miles north of Eugene and about 1 3/4 hours south of Portland. I visited there in the summer of 1995 for the first time since I left in 1981, the place had barely changed at all. Sadly, I hear the town has changed quite a bit now. And that Top40 station I worked for for is now playing country music.

I loved it up there; in fact even though I've lived in Northern California for over 25 years, I still miss Oregon. Part of me will always be up there, I think. I've managed to visit the area several times in the last decade, thanks to a few IRC parties I've attended or online friends I've been able to stay with in Portland. I traveled through southern Oregon in the summer of 2000, first time I'd driven through there since 1980, and was amazed at how much that area has grown in the last 20 years. I`d move back up to Oregon if I could, but I think I`d really miss the Bay Area.

I moved to Northern California in 1981. I`ve lived in various places in the San Francisco Bay Area including Fremont, which is where I lived for just over twenty-three years. I recently moved to San Francisco, and while I'll miss Fremont I've always wanted to live in San Francisco, truly one of the great American cities. In May of 1998, I visited my old neighborhood in Encino for the first time in 20 years..sadly it too had completely changed. Guess that's progress for ya.

Among my hobbies are IRC (well doh!), history, playing with computers, listening to music (mostly rock and jazz), watching baseball and pro football. I also like movies, and people-watching. I've also discovered a great number of other folk named Todd on the 'Net. Amazing, huh? *g* I really liked this particular Todd's web site.

Speaking of San Francisco, if you're interested in learning more about this city, visit this list of SF Bay Area Resources. Or to find out about SF's great history, go to the SF Museum's Index to San Francisco History. And not to mention the great instituion (alas, only in our memories now) of the Doggie Diner or even the last publically displayed Doggie Diner head.

As I mentioned on my main page, I am a technical writer and have done that for years now. I finished the De Anza College Technical Communications certificate program a few years back. I've also designed and maintained several web sites over the last few years for a few different organizations, which was at times challenging but also fun. In fact, I'm currently the WebMaster for STC-Silicon Valley. I feel it's vital to keep up with current computer technology as much as possible.

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