Jay Sekora

OK, I decided this page looked too sterile with just links, so I should put some more text on it. I’m a 39-year-old bi, poly geek who grew up in the Midwest but has become thoroughly rooted in the Boston area. I helped found Poly Boston, and maintain its mailing list. Unfortunately, I haven’t found the time to attend Biversity Boston’s bi brunches as often as I used to, but I hope to fix that. I’m a Unix systems administrator by profession. I enjoy astronomy, reading, travel, folk and classical music, and languages and linguistics. I like spicy food. I give good backrubs and bad puns. I follow current events closely and am really interested in history. I’m towards the left end of the US political spectrum.

I’m very much a people person, and my friends and family (chosen and of origin) mean a lot to me. Among the most important people in my life have been Tigris, with whom I shared a household for the better part of a decade, and Tom, who moved in with us around 1998, and who shares a house with me in Quincy now. (We all owned a big old victorian house in Malden together for several years; Tigris and Tom moved to Hawai‘i in 2001, and Tom moved back to the area in 2005, but Tigris likes the weather in Honolulu.) This means I get to visit Hawai‘i a couple times a year.

Another person I’m very close to is my (recent as of March 2006) ex Zeph, who is probably the most compatible-with-me person I’ve ever known. The breakup is recent, but I can’t imagine us not staying very close friends.

If you want to know where I get my wacky ideas, you can see some books I’ve read and some of my book (and e-book) recommendations. That page is ancient at this point, but I sometimes talk about books I’m reading on my journal.

I’ve got a section with information about restaurants, cafés, beds-and-breakfasts, and the like in cities I visit (or live in). This is stuff like phone numbers, directions, and scanned menus. It’s only got a few places now, but I’ve got a lot I want to put in it. Boston’s probably going to have the most stuff listed, of course.

I write lots of little scripts and tools, and have written an editor (and some other stuff) (new URL) in Tcl/Tk. (There’s a new version as of 2001.02.10.)

I have a lot of opinions, and I’ll tell you about them if you don’t watch out.

Here’s a small and fuzzy picture of what I looked like with long hair (i.e., until summer 1996), and here’s another picture of me (also with long hair, but you can’t really tell). I cut my hair short on my 30th birthday so people would rub my head. :-) It worked! Then in February of 2006 I shaved my mustache off for the first time in at least twenty years. As of March 2006, I have a little beard, but no mustache, which means that none of the pictures here is accurate. We’ll see how that goes; I may be too lazy to keep shaving.

Here’s an old picture of me in amazing 3­D, for cross­eyed people or for wall­eyed people (both 36K GIFs).

If you want more pictures (and not just of me), you can check out my photo gallery.

Thought for the moment from early 2002

Rough history