My name is Tim Smith, Timothy Alan Smith to be exact. I decided to create this page after a long time period in which I had no website. I needed a way to communicate with friends and family and store mass quantities of pictures. Having the most generic name ever, I couldn't register timsmith.com. Some crazy mayoral candidate in Fort Lauderdale registered that one a long time ago. So here we are at TheRealTimSmith.com. I consider myself the real Tim Smith since the other guy's pictures looks too funny to possibly be real.
A Little Background
I'm a 28 year old (as of 2012) Operations Engineer for a large SaaS tech company in Portland, OR. I was born in Napa, California, well technically I was born in Vallejo, but I try not to think about that. I'm married to a wonderful woman by the name of Brittany that you can see in the picture to the right. Note the sun in the picture as a dead giveaway that we're not in Portland. That would be New Zealand. Having gone to college at Humboldt State University in California, plenty of hippy tendencies rubbed off on both us. We enjoy growing vegetables, woodworking, and raising our three chickens.
My Hobbies
I'm an all around geek and anyone that has ever been around a geek for more than week can attest to the fact that we eat sleep and breath this stuff. My current job lets me geek out on a globally dispersed set of Linux servers powering websites you probably visit every day. I enjoy geeking out on system engineering related stuff as you'll notice from my blog posts. There's not a huge number of people out there that could write two pages on HTTP compression or JavaScript minimizing.