Hello Steemit! After a period of looking at posts I've decided to make an avatar. Let me tell you a bit about myself and where I'm coming from.
And this is me, processed.
I'm an Irish guy in my early 30's, living in the west of Ireland. It's pretty miserable here weather-wise most of the time, but honestly it's my favourite place in the world. If you're from a hot country you will find the green will surprise you. I do however like getting away from time to time, you can only take so much rain! I have a one year old girl, and though I'm no longer with her mother we are friends. Because of this situation I've taken a renewed interest in trying to find my way in the world.
I've been into computer programming and music from a really young age. I learned to code on the Commodore 64 because it's manual was a BASIC language coding guide.
That was such an amazing gift for it's creators to give the world, hats off. Today I'm a self taught Android app developer working professionally for one of the biggest independent mobile app companies in Ireland.
I learned piano as a child and picked up the bass guitar, then the drums as a teenager. My musical awakening started with grunge and pop punk, split into funk and hardcore punk, then morphed into metal and dubstep, eventually coalescing into the more rounded eclectic taste I have today. I played in bands and make electronic music solo and in groups in all those styles over the years. Right now I'm taking a break, concentrating on work and spending time with my daughter.
I put both music and code together to study Music Technology, which was a really good experience, though I think the field needs a lot of development. I've been a university lecturer in software development, and music teacher.
Over a year ago I decided to reduce the noise from social media, only keeping my LinkedIn account (it would be bad professionally to get rid of it). I've pretty much stayed away from it since then, but some time ago Steemit came onto my radar. I'm really interested in blockchain technology, I own some crypto, and so I decided to break my personal silence and dip my toe back in the waters, so to speak.
From what I gather Steemit is pretty unique and an experiment that I maybe wouldn't have expected to work so well. Is it blogging? Micro-blogging? Photo sharing? Video sharing? Memes? It's kind of everything it seems!
You can see my face in the photo here but not too well. I don't want to attach my real name to my account right now, I still want to see if it makes sense for me, but I do want to be a bit personal. So any photos I put up I'll just process the crap out of them. The photo is actually part of my interests, I love computer generated imagery (though I didn't create this myself).
Here's another one I made earlier, from my collection of work:
Some other interests I have are computer games, anime, Indonesian music (gamelan), micro electronics, scifi, and some other things that don't come to mind right now. I'm trying to get more into fitness and healthy eating, it's important, as anyone who gets past their twenties knows this all to well!
I tried like 8 names that were all taken before settling on "fourth". I chose it because 4 is one of my favourite numbers and it has a special meaning to me (which I won't go into now). It's the first non special, non prime natural number. It's a very strong number in a way, as the number of sides of a square, but it's brittle. This is probably why it doesn't appear so much in ancient tales and numerology, it being sandwiched in by much more interesting 3 and 5. Don't get me wrong, I'm not superstitious, but I find it curious.
Well that's enough rambling for now. I'm hoping to talk about my interests, meet people with similar interests and see what this blockchain powered social media is all about. I read some of the guides and some posts already, and I think I'll choose to power up the post.