About me

I'm Mike James in Memphis, Tennessee USA: tech writer, engineer, gardener, lover of worship music. (And, obviously, goofer-arounder with digital camera.)

Like Larry Wall, Perl's inventor, I'm a Myers-Briggs INFP type. Larry's a constant, blessed reminder to me that INFPs can actually be technically adept. I like to pretend I'm similarly clever (which is, alas, a fiction, but an empowering one ).

For reasons no more substantial than "you're good in science" and "engineers make a lot of money," I embarked on an undergraduate electrical engineering adventure in 1978 (BSEE, 1982, Christian Brothers University). Toughened but not wisened by running this mathematical gauntlet, I had a go at graduate electrical engineering at Texas A&M during 1984-85. There I learned my appetite for engineering mathematics only goes so far, and I'd overshot it. A heading adjustment then took me toward technical writing, and that's what I've mostly been doing since; it's been a reasonably happy way to blend some technical inclination with a liberal arts soul. I got to nurture that liberal arts soul further during the 1990s as I worked my way through a seminary program (Master of Arts in Religion, 1999, Memphis Theological Seminary).

I never get tired of learning. I hope I'm still learning new stuff at 90.

It's been a blessed journey.

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