In the mid-90’s I joined a summer internship at the University of Massachusetts designed to draw minorities into engineering careers. Once I learned that UNIX could be used to supply Mortal Kombat codes, my career was assured.
As a producer and technologist I’ve worked on dozens of builds, applications, marketing programs, CMS systems and helped put together all kinds of cool stuff. I manage the development of digital products and produce projects for agencies and businesses all over the world, and have worked in North and South America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East.
I lived in New York City–Brooklyn, mostly–for over two decades. In 2020, I moved to northern New Jersey. Sort of from the lower-lower-east side to the upper-upper-west side. The suburbs have proven to be, in the words of a friend, “surprisingly not terrible!” Kind of great, actually.
I also write. Some essays and fiction can be found freely throughout this site. You should read it! My parents will appreciate it. I very occasionally perform stand-up, because I am hilarious.
“Rampant Strangeness” is the name of my original student website from college, ca. 1996. I have kept it, for no compelling reason.
“Maceo” is the last name of revolutionary Antonio Maceo y Grajales, the so-called “Bronze Titan,” a nickname that tickles my wife to no end. Also a Latin American (Caribbean in particular) first name. As my next door neighbor said to me when I asked him how it was he pronounced it correctly, “It was the name of my elementary school in Cuba.”
You can contact me here: [email protected], or join my mailing list, like a boss.
