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 11 June 2009:It's June and our garden is finally in. It's been an unusual spring so far, with us seeing ninety degrees a few times already before returning to cool, spring-like weather of late. Like I know they say in every part of this (and likely every) country: wait fifteen minutes and the weather will change.
It's been a bumper year so far for me at work: Helix Design is staying very busy on a variety of very exciting projects, and with the exit of my former boss a couple of months ago I'm moving up in the world. We're looking to add more resources in Sales and in Design and Engineering, so (knock on wood) I expect this year to shape up to become one of Helix's best ever. I know that a lot of design firms (car manufacturers, universities, states) in our area are shedding workers, so it's good to be going against the status quo for now. My wife just wrapped up her last class for the semester at SNHU, and all three of my monkeys are looking forward to having the summer off, as well. Various acting camps, baseball games, and soccer will keep us busy through the summer and beyond. |
| About Troy Barber |
  Troy Barber is a graduate of the Graduate School at The University of Texas at Austin, a graduate of NC State's Department of Industrial Design (another Master's degree), and until recently delivered newspapers in the middle of the night while providing freelance illustration and industrial design services to a number of different entities in the Raleigh / Durham area. Happily, he's currently doing well enough in product development sales that he no longer has to deliver papers (but he's still toying with the idea of writing a serial about his experiences).
Mr. Barber is a Hoosier by birth, but a Wildcat fan by the Grace of God. He spent his undergraduate years at the University of Connecticut in Storrs, followed by a year in Tianjin, China studying Mandarin Chinese. At the close of his year abroad Barber also traveled for several weeks in western China, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, where he studied how not to piss off the local people (Uighurs, Pathans, Afghani warlords, Tamil Tigers). It was in Pakistan that Mr. Barber first developed the "Dysentery Diet," a sensible alternative to expensive diet programs that force you to buy proprietary food stuffs and enormous oversized clothing for their bogus TV commercials. You can learn more about the "Dysentery Diet" by flying to Rawalpindi, Pakistan, and drinking a couple of tasty and refreshing "Mango Milkshakes". Also, you can read another traveler's account of a trip remarkably similar to Mr. Barber's jaunt down the Karakorum Highway here. "Mothman" is Mr. Barber's electronic handle. The appellation has had particular meaning for him since his undergraduate days at the University of Connecticut, where he drew the much-maligned Mothman and Co. comic strip for UCONN's nationally recognized student daily, The Daily Campus. A few samples from Mr. Barber's "Comic Period" can be found on this site. Prior to his matriculation at UCONN, he'd come across the John Keel classic The Mothman Prophecies in the humble Clinton, Connecticut Public Library. For anyone interested in the preternatural, The Mothman Prophecies is not to be trifled with. |
| mothman@NOSPAMfritter.com (If you don't know to manually remove the "no spam" from my email address, then you probably shouldn't be emailing me anyway) |
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