I’m in Microsoft training all this week. I’m learning why Bill Gates is my friend and why I should buy all his stuff. Most importantly I’m learning that anyone who says Microsoft isn’t the best stuff ever, or worse tries to compete with Microsoft, must be the Anti-Christ.

You remember those slaves in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom that walked around chanting? Yeah, I’m one of those guys.

I’ll be back in the real world next week. Until then, buy Microsoft or die.

I’ve been asked before where the name Light-Spark came from. I spent a great deal of time thinking about the perfect domain name and finding out that all the perfect ones are already taken.

Since my site would cover web development, graphic art, and photography, I wanted something that could apply to all three. My logic was as follows. All computer graphics and programming are, in the end, nothing more than tiny electric charges bouncing between different pieces of silicon and copper that eventually produce light in a cathode ray tube (that’s what your monitor is). Photography is capturing light to film. (Photo – light, graphy – writing.) So I ran the gamut of domain names that related to light and electricity. Light-Spark was the winner. (In fact, lightspark.com was already taken too, so I had to hyphenate.)

Lordy, Lordy. I have a blog. So there really is an End of the Universe. If you don’t know what a blog is, welcome to the 21st century, where entertainment has become as trite as reading someone else’s diary.

But, hey! I’m a Renaissance Man. I live on the cutting edge of technology. I own a mountain bike AND an SUV. So why not a blog too?! At least it gives my family a way to know what’s going on in my life when I get so self-absorbed that I forget to call them for months on end.

So, allow myself to introduce … myself. (If you haven’t figured it out yet, I tend to weave my dialog with as many movie quotes and stolen comedy bits as I can.) My name is Trint, but my mom insists on calling me Trinity, just because that’s what’s on my birth certificate. (Detail, details!) I’m a Christian, a husband, and a web programmer (in that order). I enjoy movies, computer games, and sitting slack-jawed on the couch ruining my brain with the bilge that comes from my TV. I love to read, but I can never find time to do it. I like funny t-shirts, food, the great outdoors, and food.

My wife and I have two kids: me and her. (That one will have your noodle hurting for a while.) We spend as much time as possible doing immature things, like rock climbing, mountain biking, four wheeling, PC gaming, and even racing RC cars (nitro stadium trucks for those in “the know”). We are also heavily involved in our church, Glenview Baptist Church. We are leaders in two youth drama groups, occasionally teach Sunday School, and are part of a close-knit group of couples our age called RRN. (The meaning of that acronym is under debate.) We both grew up in Amarillo, Texas, and spent several years living in (and falling in love with) Colorado.

That’s all I’ve got to say about that.