About me
Hi, I’m Kyle and on this website I mostly talk about skeleton, travel, code, and the web, but you should probably follow me on twitter for a better idea of who I am.
For a decade I’ve been an athlete on the US National Skeleton team. I’m currently 3rd in the US and 20th in the world. If you don’t know about skeleton, it’s headfirst sledding down an ice track at 85mph. Oh, and it’s in the Winter Olympics, too.
Besides traveling the world and drinking too much Red Bull, I’m an avid writer. I recently completed the first draft of a terrible children’s fantasy novel for National Novel Writing Month, 95% of which I hate, 30% of which I stole, and 3% of which is probably publishable. I used to write funny articles for this site, although I’ve neglected it recently to pursue something more serious.
I’ve attended several universities, studying diverse fields such as Chemistry, Mathematics, Finance, and Computer Science. Most recently I was a student at the University of Illinois, where I lasted an entire 5 weeks before dropping out to focus on my software company A Tiny Tribe. Our most popular app is Moodboard Pro for iPad, recently featured as ‘What’s Hot’ by Apple and currently ranked in the Top 100 of several App Stores around the world.
I dabbled in acting for a while, working as an extra on films like Transformers 2, Gossip Girl, CSI:NY, When in Rome. Yes, I know it’s not real acting but it was a fun experience.
I discovered the web at the age of 14, during the days of Prodigy dial-up. That led to an interest in all things programming and internet. Today I’m an experienced designer developer, working with HTML5, CSS3, Ruby on Rails, Objective-C, and other bits of interesting technology. Although I’m a lifelong Nintendo fan, I’ve recently become enamored with my Xbox (Skyrim!) and the amazing possibilities of the Kinect.
I’m a humanist and atheist, with a strong belief that people should be good for its own sake, while living the best possible life with the only one we get. I’ve heard that cleanliness is close to godliness, which is probably why I’m such a mess.
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This website is lovingly handcrafted and maintained on a Mac using Coda and Adobe Fireworks. All pixels, code, and content are curated with the latest best practices (I hope). Besides HTML5 and CSS3, I’m using:
- TypeKit (Camingodos)
- Modernizr
- Modified Normalize.css and Bootstrap.css (Twitter)
- Inspiration from HTML5 Boilerplate
Thanks for stopping by. Don’t forget to follow me on twitter and say hello.
