My name is Jeffrey Stone and I am a geek.
When I was little the idea of what I was going to do with the rest of my life changed almost as frequent as my underwear, and probably faster at times. Actually I’m sure if you ask my wife it still changes quite frequently. I can’t help it. I’m distracted by shinny objects.
My original plan for this site was to be Technology based since over the years that has been the constant. In elementary school I was coding simple BASIC applications, by the time the internet hit mainstream in the late 80′s, early 90′s I was on to coding web pages and even had a movie review site for a year or two. More recently my day job is in IT Management, although I am still drawn to coding, PHP being the language of choice. But that is only one part of my life.
After leaving for college I got into cooking only because one can only live on Whataburger for so long and no one else was around to cook for me. But I found I really liked it, and it was on some level a creative outlet to balance the more logic centric Technology side. I have gotten good at some things-I make a mean carrot cake-but the more complicated dishes still present a challenge which I believe is part of the allure. In a way cooking is a lot like programming. A rule based system where you take small parts or pieces and form a larger unified project, and yet it allows for more leeway than programming does. And not to mention you get to eat the solution.
In the last couple of years, I have found a new creative outlet to supplement the cooking. Writing. I was never a big reader until about my sophomore year in high school, but ever since I have read everything I could get a hold of whether it be how to manuals, popular fiction, or cereal boxes. I think its hard for people who read not to imagine the other side of the process. I know ever since I started reading, I would often get glimpses of stories or snippets of conversation in my head. About fives years ago I finally started writing them down, but it never went any further than that. It wasn’t until I started to spend more time writing at work that I realized how much I really enjoy the writing process and really started to see how powerful words could be. Talk about a creative outlet. It is amazing that something that seems so lifeless on the page as black text can produce such visuals in your head. I have started to put some of the stories on the page but I am not sure anyone outside my wife and a few others will ever see them, but you never know.
Anyway, I have babbled long enough. My concept for jeffreystone.net is simple. It is going to be a random, disjointed collection of things that I find interesting. You might find code one day, opinions on tech on another, perhaps the occasional recipe, and perhaps one day a small piece of fiction. In any case, I cannot promise value to anyone but me, but feel free to check it out.