About jeem
So who is this jeem guy, anyway? Let’s begin with the basics.
I’m a twenty-nine-year-old geek-of-all-trades, living in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. I am gay, and live with my illegal husband Fred. We got married in Toronto in December 2006; as we all know, our marriage has left Toronto in smoldering, zombie-squirrel-infested ruins, because that’s just what gay marriage does. As part of our further plan for global domination, we purchased a modest house and moved in November 2008.
We also live with two cats, Chip (the hyperactive one) and Dale (the evil, all-too-aware-of-his-own-cuteness one); a dog, Kooper; and a fish. There are plants involved as well; as soon as spring arrives, there are going to be many more.
During the day you can find me in a biomedical research facility, keeping the various bits of computer hardware and software and network infrastructure and research equipment running smoothly and making sure that everybody can do what they need to do with their precious precious data. I’ve been at this job since late October of 2007, and so far I absolutely love it. Prior to that I worked for a large local non-profit agency, where I did a similar job but really didn’t enjoy it.
Apart from the above, my interests include weightlifting, cooking, Linux, Wikipedia, music, licorice, subtle humor, proper spelling and grammar, punctuation, hiking, backpacking, travel, disassembly (and on rare occasion reassembly), and odd movies.
I edit Wikipedia with the username Jredmond. I’ve also volunteered to handle incoming e-mail for Wikipedia and its parent dot-org the Wikimedia Foundation, and on occasion I’ll deal with the press as one knowledgeable in the ways of the English Wikipedia.
You can also find me on Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, gay.com, Twitter, and last.fm if you are so interested.
For the record, “jeem” comes from a trip to Montreal with a few friends. The local anglophones had no trouble calling me “Jim”, but said friends got a kick out of the Quebecois pronunciation “jeem”, and the name stuck.
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