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About Me

In my epic quest to become the #1 Michael Conigliaro on The Internets, I discovered that  there are a bunch of other Michael Conigliaros out there. For the sake of disambiguation, I am not:

• Michael Conigliaro – Managing Director at Skinetic MedSpa Systems
• Mike Conigliaro – Sports Director at WYOU in Scranton, PA
• Michael Conigliaro – President and Founder of AMIC Research, Inc.
• Michael Conigliaro – Vice-president of TWU Local 101
• Michael Conigliaro – Executive Leadership Developer at ValueWise Corporation

Instead of a long, pretentious autobiography, I think it would be more fun to just list a bunch of random facts about myself:

Hi.

• In the real world, I’m just Mike (not Michael).
• I was born in Danbury Connecticut on September 4th, 1979.
• I currently live in Broomfield Colorado.
• My primary professional interests are in the areas of infrastructure design and management (preferably in a Linux-centric environment).
• I am Chief Infrastructure Engineer at SocialMedia.com.
• I enjoy programming, but I tend to get bored when I do nothing but that for eight hours a day. Therefore, I tend to think of programming as just another (but very important) tool in my sysadmin arsenal.
• I’m a perfectionist.
• I’ve lived in a lot of places.
• I’ve been an avid skateboarder (and occasional snowboarder) since 1991.
• I’m a self-taught drummer, and I’ve been playing since about 1997.
• I’ve been a strict vegetarian since 1995. I don’t know if there’s a technical term for my particular “variety” of vegetarianism, but I try not to eat or wear anything derived from dead animals. This means I’ll drink milk and eat cheese, but I won’t wear things like fur or leather.
• Tony Conigliaro is supposedly a distant relative of mine. I don’t follow baseball at all, but this fact seems to be a big deal to people who do.
• Sometime in 2004, I decided it was ridiculous that I had never learned to drive anything with a manual transmission. Since I was in need of a new car anyway, I took out a loan for a slightly-used 2004 Honda Civic Si (a car that has no option for an automatic transmission) and taught myself to drive it on the way home.
• Growing up, I was actually discouraged from studying computer science, because “the math is hard” and “I’ll never make it.” Then I used my own money to buy my first computer in 1997 and eventually proved everyone wrong.
• I think I do a lot of things simply to prove people wrong, but I’m not sure what this says about me. ;-)
• I plan on owning a Lotus Exige someday.
• I can’t stand when the necks on my shirts get stretched out, and it makes me a little uncomfortable to see other people wearing shirts with stretched out necks. I don’t understand how anyone could live like that.
• I’ve always had trouble learning things that I don’t know how to apply practically. I believe this is why I’ve always struggled with advanced mathematics, but excelled in anything having to do with computers.
• I’ve traveled quite a bit inside the United States, but not much outside it. This is mostly due to my irrational fear of getting thrown into a foreign prison for breaking an obscure law I wasn’t aware of and/or not being allowed back into the US. I guess I’ve watched too many movies.
• I’ve had “blogs” on various domains since before the term existed. I published my first web page in 1996.

I’ll write more about who I am later.

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