About this Site
thunkgeek.com was born on March 4th 2004 in an attempt to type the url www.thinkgeek.com. As it so happens my wife calls me Thunk, and I am a bona fide, card carrying geek, so it must have been providence, not just coincidence that caused me to strike one key to the left of what I intended. Providnce must also have been responsible for the fact that the domain wasn't yet registered and so I snapped it up and my new homepage was born. Here I can rant to my hearts content and probably draw a few more visitors than my previous site got. Do I feel bad taking advantage of the occasional mistyped URL that will lead others here in the same manner in wh ich I was led? Not really.
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My real name is not Thunk, of course. It's Adam. I was born in 1973 in Provo, UT and have lived most of my life within 30 minutes of where I was born. That's not to say I haven't gotten around a bit, however. One of my scant claims to fame is being half english (m y mother) and as a result I was raised in a hybrid home, American attitude and old world culture. I've been to England twice, Italy once, and all over the western United States, the most recent of those trips you can read about in my blog, so I've seen a piece or two of the world. In any case I'm perfectly content to live here in happy valley, with the occasional jaunt to exotic locations. Of course my real dream would be to have a villa in Italy, though not Tuscany like so many dream of. I'd build in Abruzzo, there to whi le away lazy vacation days far from the mundane cares of job, etc. Possibly another in San Francisco, where Erica and I honeymooned in May of 1996. You see, ironically, I am drawn to both the simple country life and the city, maybe as a result of being raised by o ne parent from London and one from Mesa Arizona before it grew into the buzzing metropolis it is now. My dad lived on Mesa's center street back when that was the upscale part of town. Of course whatever the dreams may be, it's time to get back to work, since dream ing never made dreams come true.
Work, by the way, is as Chief Technical Officer at Fibernet Corporation, a small Internet Service Provider in Orem, as if that isn't about the geekiest job there is. The plans of course, for the company, include getting away from the geekiness of running a small t echnology company by growing large enough to buy enough peons to handle all the geeky stuff and be able to look over our vast digita l empire from our strategic vantage points poised far above the world of routers, servers, racks and switches. We recently finished construction on a new data center and high tech office building, so our vantage point has risen a bit. I've been here since the fall of 1996 and I don't plan to be going anywhere else, so I do my best to help the vision move along.
My son, Jonathan, was born in May of 2000 and my daughter, Marissa, was born in April 2003. I have the great priviledge of getting h ome from work just after 3pm and spending a solid four hours alone with my kids every weekday while my wife is at work. Being a fath er is an honor and a huge challenge, but mostly it is just endless fun watching your kids play and learn together. It's hard not to get selfish once in a while and wonder if life would be better without rugrats to tend to, but in reality, what would I do without them?