Briefly:

A compulsive art and crafter from his earliest days, world-rambling Dave spends time writing (essays, freeverse poetry, epistletory literature), making static montage art and listening to old vinyl albums on the back porch whilst gazing at North Van's mountains and trees.

At Raincity, Dave brews up blogs, podcasts and white papers laden with anecdotes and derivatives on topics around community building, paradigm shifts in the media industry, and tips for producing quality content.

Factoids:

Favorite City to Visit?

Jasper

Favorite thing about living in Vancouver?

Riding the Seabus

Secret, super hero power?

Finding kind friends in foreign lands

Why Drupal?

Free/cheap and powerful for grassroots publishing

Beverage of choice?

Dark ales, hot sake, earl grey tea, vanilla soy lattes

Underrated rock band?

Buffalo Tom

Where/when did you first get online?

Guam 1995 after Jerry Garcia died using 14.4 K modem, Windows 3.1 Trumpet Winsock

Ficitional character you’d like to have a beer with?

Holden Caulfield

Website you actually go to often – for fun not work?

Shelfari.com, Miss604.com

Hobby you hardly ever talk about?

Bookmaking/scrapbooking

Favorite Raincity Studios project?

TwinF

Fave dish (that you can actually cook)?

A mess of perogies with sour cream and keilbasa

Raincity staffer most likely to win at Jeopardy?

Francis

Favorite techie word/acronym?

Hibernate

Fave “analog” tool?

Scissors

Another profession would you like to try?

Cartographer on exploration ships 150 years ago

Favorite artistic era/movement?

Post-impressionism and Japanese folk art

Rather attend Ballet or Opera or Symphony?

Opera (or whichever i get free tickets for cause i dig all three)

Best concert ever?

David Bowie, Peter Gabriel and The Tubes, BC Place 1983

Co-worker who makes you laugh?

Gotta be Francis and Hubert and … ok all of ‘em

What do you “bring to the table” at Raincity?

Literary tilt and unabashed social media production skillz

Your best tech skill?

Obsolete: Configuring Mac OS 7 TCP/IP Current: Being de-centralized and computer agnostic

Country you want to visit that you’ve never been to?

Latvia (they love hockey) Norway (find my roots)

Where’d you go to school? Why?

Evergreen College – tried all the others

Three words of advice to younger developers?

Be inter-disciplinary

Fave Drupal module?

URL rewrite

A fave Drupal site?

Dead.net

At home: video games or movies?

Movie: historical epics, long documentaries and comedies with a heart of gold

What do you collect?

Travel ephemera and printed oddments

Drupal module you want to build?

Collection (gather diverse media around a chosen topic)

Favorite Canadian?

Cory Doctorow, Mike Myers, Lorne Greene

Favorite Canadien?

Guy Lafleur