If you asked me right now to name my six favorite programming languages, I could. Draw a near-perfect blueprint of the USS Enterprise-D’s bridge? OK. Create a marketing plan for a small business around FourSquare and Facebook? No problem. Recite Hamlet in Klingon? You got it. Ask me to pick out a cement patch that will work well in Colorado weather. I will make a face like this.

When I first started, my websites sucked. It’s taken me 13 years and I think I show some marginal improvement.

Knowledge is the best defense to jerk-asses who want to take your money and dumb-asses who don’t know their trade.