Organized Gibberish

Now that I’m finally going to update this thing I felt I should take a minute to let you know a little more about me.

I grew up in North St. Paul and moved to the suburbs at the early age of nine.  Unlike the majority of my second grade classmates I started elementary school with a complicated learning disability and I was only reading at a Kindergarden level.  I didn’t have the ability to differentrate direct dialog and the random chatter around me.  Basically, I couldn’t tell if people were trying to talk to me if there were other noises around.  At first people assumed I had ADD, but after half a dozen tests they found I had no problems paying attention if I was isolated and could hear the directive.  To treat my disability I wore a special hearing aid receiver that had an accompanying microphone transmitter.  The mic was worn by my teacher or special ed assistant and it made it so I could hear them over all of the other noise that comes out of a 2nd grade classroom.

After two years of wearing these hearing aids and a lot of extra special help I had caught up to my classmates and I was testing at above average reading levels.  I am writing about all of this because one of the main focuses of this blog is going to be sound, sound design and general music/audio.  If you didn’t know this before you got here I’m now an audio professional… kind of funny that I wore hearing aids for a few years as a kid, eh?  I think the main reason I love sound design is because now I have the ability to hear all of those sounds at once and pick out the specific stuff I need to hear.  Who would’ve known that I was training to be a sound engineer at the young age of nine?

So the reason I made this blog… I’ve been a big fan of reading other people’s blogs for a few years now.  It started with the social networks, and live journals but then in the spring of 2007 I met one of the kings of blogging and that’s a man named Ed Kohler.  Ed knows more about blogging and the internet than any other person I’ve ever met.  I’ve read a few posts from him over the last few years about the importance of creating your own content.  At the start of 2009 Ed wrote a post about what he wants to see from his readers this year.  These lines really stuck with me:

What I’m asking for, in 2009, is more from you. It could be in the comments here, but better yet, it would be in the form of your own blog or some other form of creative content.

The thing that would excite me the most is seeing more of you become subject experts. What the heck do I mean by that? I mean, take a topic that you’re passionate about and write about it, take pictures of it, sing about it, dance about it, draw it, doodle it, cook it, drive it, eat it, or sleep with it.

After reading that I knew that I needed to get this thing going.  I’ve owned my domain for five years now and I’ve done nothing with it except use it as an ftp host… lame.  So now I want you, the reader, to stick with me for a while.  It may be a little rough at the start, but hopefully I’ll get the hang of it.  Please leave feedback, and constructive criticism is great!  Hopefully, I can make this blog be one of the first blogs that you’ll check in your RSS readers.

Goodnight,

-Adam