About

Just who is Yoshi anyways? This is a tough question. Honestly, because he’s a very complex person. Let’s just suffice it to say that he is certainly not a green dinosaur that runs around eating everything. Although he does eat quite a bit.

From Weblog Design Studios:

Yoshi’s first computer was a VIC-20. Actually, it may have even been a TI-44A (or something like that). Regardless, that was a long time ago. After putzing around with computers, he decided that he wanted to become a computer technician. He went to school at Lincoln Technical Institute at Pennsauken, NJ. (he was bummed to hear they closed down Pennsauken Mart - say it isn’t so!)

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He started doing web design work, then eventually web developing work. He currently works on way too many projects than he should, but all developers overwork themselves and occassionally get nosebleeds because they work too much. (ok that last part is a lie, but it could happen!)

Timeline (This idea was stolen from Jess)

1968 : I was born.
1973 : Started Kindegarten, realized that all the kids weren’t speaking Japanese anymore, and discovered that I actually moved to the Philippines. I started speaking English then.
1977 : Watched Star Wars, my life was changed. Read Sword of Shannara, my life was changed even more. The beginnings of a true geek.
1983 : Watched The Empire Strikes Back, Darth Vader (and James Earl Jones) becomes my hero.
1984 : Watched The Terminator, re-discovered Arnold Schwarzenegger. I’ll be back.
1985 : Started working at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson, NJ. Realized that aMusement parks are not the magical kingdoms they make them out to be. Learn that choosing Foods as a department did not mean happy times eating a lot.
1986 : Graduated from High School, and kept working at Six Flags
1988 : Graduated from Lincoln Technical Institute, got a job building computers, the geekdom strengthens.
1991 : Got tired of computers, quit all my jobs and joined the Navy. Became a Hospital Corpsman, aka “doc”. Went to my first duty station of Great Lakes Naval Hospital in Great Lakes, IL.
1993 : With a great aversion to doing sea duty, chose to go overseas to a Marine Corps Air Station, one named MCAS Iwakuni. Loved it there.
1995 : With a heavy heart I left Japan, to come back to live in NJ once again, raiding my parents house, causing my parent grief.
1997 : Got tired of NJ, decided to move to Southern California. Also in this year, opened my first website, validus.com. This domain is long gone now, and I’ve sold it off.’
1998 : For crazy reasons, I decided to move to St. Louis, MO. I know, a big drastic change.
2000 : Created psychodaisy.com and shifted my blog from validus.com to psychodaisy.com.
2002 : Met Meesh through a friend, and we started talking.
2003 : Fell in love and decided to move to Washington State.
2004 : Proposed to Meesh, and we decided to set a date. June 25th, 2005. Consequently, this date happens to be the same date that the couple in the movie “Elizabethtown” got married. And more than that, we also had the clicking pens that showed the date. We never saw this movie until much later. Meant to be? I think so. Oh, and the movie is by Cameron Crowe, one of my most favourite directors/writers. (Aside from David Lynch)
2005 : Married Meesh in a somewhat larger than we thought it would be wedding, and I got to see some of my dear friends again: cybr, Tiggerprr, HK Muse, Bick, and my Best Man, Jeff (who doesn’t have a website, though he should I think.).
2006 : This blog was created. Many things happened. If you want to know what, feel free to read the blog. :P
2007 : This timeline was created and this design came into being. Officially now a survivor of 2 Blogathons