Matt Himrod has worked as an application integration engineer with a small company in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania area since January 2008. He grew up in Wheeling, West Virginia before moving to Cleveland, Ohio where he earned his bachelor's degree in computer engineering and minor in artificial intelligence from Case Western Reserve University in 2004. He has previously worked as a system administrator in two of the Schools at Case Western Reserve before moving to Pittsburgh in 2007.
In his spare time, he works on freelance web programming projects, examples of which can be seen here. He also enjoys reading Wikipedia as well as science fiction. Matt also enjoys playing the flute and violin, working out at the gym, playing video games, and rollerblading.
Travel Luck
I'm getting better than I want to be at arriving at the airport at the very last minute. Tuesday's travels were a bit of an adventure up until my first flight departed for Philadelphia this morning. (My final flight destination was St. Louis, but it's nearly impossible to go directly to any non-hub city from Pittsburgh anymore.)
I don't know what I was thinking on Monday night. My flight was scheduled to depart at 7:15 Tuesday morning. Somehow, I decided that I'd have plenty of time if I left home at 6:15. I really should have left at 5:45 or even earlier. Thankfully there were no major traffic hurdles on PA-28 or the Parkway West. However, there was one guy who had a stop sign at one of the on-ramps who pulled out in front of me and really should not have. I rarely think to use my horn in traffic, but he got the horn and the sound of my locked brakes. I'm honestly surprised I didn't give him the finger as well. No collision, thankfully. I didn't even have to come to a complete stop, either. This was lucky moment #1 of the day. Read more
Saturday, October 25, 2008 - 0 Comments