I am an opinionated (and occasionally belligerent) system administrator who moved to Massachusetts to work for a mid-sized engineering software company. It was a strategic decision. I'm a strategic kind of guy. See?

Ryan McKern is a classy guy…
I roam the land, living only to design and build web infrastructure capable of withstanding a digging, a fireballing, or a slashdotting (if those still happen?). Once, one of my stacks even survived a go-round on 4Chan's /b/ board… but only once.
A short summary of work history and idiosyncrasies follows.
Previous to my current role at an engineering software company, I also worked for a hardcore record label's merchandising arm, a regional headquarters for a small telecommunications/cable television company that you've probably never heard of, a handful of someone else's failed dot-com startups, and a jewish bakery.
I really miss that bakery.
While employed by the cable company I ran an independent web hosting business called Webslum with my cohort Matt Miller. Then we turned corporate, mortgaged our integrity for The Good Life™, and shut it down in the face of a consolidating and tumultuous market we couldn't afford to play ball in. As a side project I maintain the infrastructure for a web hosting co-operative, where we specialize in WordPress and Drupal administrative upkeep.
As I've maintained for going on ten years now, I probably don't like your band and I am almost absolutely positive that I don't like your friends.