User:Joseph S Atkinson

I guess this page will serve as a placeholder. Not much I have considered writing about myself yet. (Okay, that's a lie, I just haven't actually wrote it down.) In the mean time, here are a few quick links on my interests (in no particular order) and blurbs about myself:

• OpenBSD
• World of Warcraft (I'm probably classified an addict.)
• Vendetta Online
• Church of Satan
• Daemonology, which I deliberately spell with the ae dipthong to associate and emphasize the original meaning of the word and reflect my broader interest in both demonic and angelic archetypes.
• Story of O, and to a lesser degree the writings of de Sade and similar authors.
• Fetishism as relates to Goth, Glam, Punk, and "Glittergoth" (a flamboyant mixture of Goth and Glam, q.v. Psychotica) styles.
• Philosophy, especially that of Nietzsche, Machiavelli, and LaVey, all of whom have a markedly undeserved notoriety.
• Nightmare on Elm Street
• Dune
• Music, especially more esoteric, progressive, and avant garde styles such as Baroque, Industrial, and Minimalism.
• Any form of art emphasizing surrealism, expressionism, existentialism, and atmosphere.
• Films of the Silent Era, Fritz Lang, David Lynch, Stanley Kubrick, Just Jaekin, and film history in general. (My wife insists I declare myself a movie whore here, due to my increasingly extensive DVD collection.)

I do not list hiking as an interest, because everyone else typically lists it and yet no one really does it. Drawing attention to my lack of interest in it is my deliberate form of parody and protest.

I was the webmaster/administrator of Y2Krueger.com for its last two or three years. The website was online (in some form) for more than 10 years. It was finally closed for good on December 14, 2006 after being buried in pagerank by search engines for several years by merchandise spamdexing in the wake of Freddy vs. Jason, eventually falling into disuse.

I'm a modestly adept programmer in C (but I detest C++), Lisp, and x86 Assembly. I am also a competent web programmer in PHP, knowledgeable in SQL. I place high emphasis on writing secure code. At one point I was also forced to learn Visual BASIC, which I do not consider to be a programming language, but a Windows API scripting language and interface because of its OS dependency.

They say you are increasingly likely to be a serial killer if you do any of the following things: play Dungeons and Dragons, listen to Industrial music, live in your parents basement, and work for the Post office. I have only ever thought about applying with the post office, and eventually escaped my parents basement. AD&D was replaced by WoW which killed any motivation to do much of anything else, including to much listening to Industrial music. The world is now safe from me at least.

I tend to write in run-on sentences, and managed to get greater than a 4.0 average (from extra credit assignments) in my courses for composition and literature during my college years using them, which turned composition into my best subject during my college career.

I maintain my personal hub at [Autocthonia]. You wont find much there either, as I am horribly lazy.

If you didn't get my run-on sentence joke (which was factually correct just the same), you probably won't get much of my humor.