~ The Little-Blue-Books Webmaster ~
Uh—that would be the guy in the photo. His name is Scot Kamins. He says Hi. (He's shy.)
Scot is a retired technical writer who worked anywhere in the world that an Internet connection would take him. (Physically he refused to leave his Zip code in Portland Oregon.) He wrote books, manuals, and on-line help systems about computers and computer software and other high-tech thingees for 30 years before he decided that enough was enough. He bought his first computer in 1977 (Apple II serial #245) and in 1983 was part of the orginal Macintosh documentation team. For historic interest, his resumé is here and a partial list of stuff he wrote is here. If you care, more personal stuff is here.
He created the rec.collecting.books Usenet newsgroup (now pretty much moribund) and the website Collecting the Modern Library in 1996. In 2008 he cofounded the website The Seasoned Spender with Ron Holl (the guy providing this website space until at least the end of 2010) and wrote the help system for Ron Holl's website bisibat.
He went to college. A lot. He got a bunch of degrees in areas like education and literature and general studies and stuff. Nothing about computers. Go figure.
By spirit he's probably a Buddhist or maybe an agnostic deist. Who can know these things?
By politics he's a cynical intellectual and a left-leaning Libertarian. Or maybe a crypto-anarcho-socialist. It changes daily depending on what he had for lunch.
He loves dogs. And pizza. And of course Haldeman-Julius booklets. (All books, actually.) And single-malt scotch. And Terry Pratchett. And that's enough.
