T-shirt of the week: My first (run)time

by Jay Garmon in After Hours

on July 31, 2008, 10:00 PM PDT

T-shirt of the week: My first (run)time

You never forget your first love. For some of you old schoolers, it was bartered time on an AIX mainframe. For the younger crowd, it was 3.5-inch disk that carried 1.44 MB of possibility to your PC. But for many of us, it all began with a dog-eared floppy and a Commodore 64. This shirt is for us.

You never forget your first love. For some of you old schoolers, it was bartered time on an AIX mainframe. For the younger crowd, it was a 3.5-inch disk that carried 1.44 MB of possibility to your PC. But for many of us, it all began with a dog-eared floppy and a Commodore 64. This shirt is for us.

By Jay Garmon

The Trivia Geek, known to some by the mysterious alias "Jay Garmon," is an online community entrepreneur trying his luck with some promising Internet startups. To get the real skinny on his wacky business ideas--and his amateurish sci-fi short stories--read his blog, JayGarmon.net. It's like Jay without editorial oversight or decent engineering support. \ \ Jay is also the diabolical mind behind TechRepublic's Geek Trivia newsletter, a former contributing editor of TR's Geekend blog, and until March of 2008 was a project manager for TR site feature development. \ \ In a previous life (read: fresh out of college), he was an ad man, toiling away for low pay and less respect as a copywriter and producer of print ads, radio spots, and TV commercials. No, you've probably never seen his work. Be thankful. \ \ Between his ad days and his life as a TechRepublicist, he worked briefly as a Web developer, mostly using (shudder) FrontPage and SQL Server to build rickety and poorly conceived database-driven Web sites. He was self-taught, and it showed. He's also dabbled in proposal writing, though he wouldn't recommend that as a career choice. \ \ Today, when he's not trying to build the next Internet media giant, Jay reads some comic books, plays tabletop RPGs, helps run a local sci-fi con, tries to launch a career as a fiction author, watches a lot of sports, and keeps his wife and daughter happy. The last part is easiest.

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