So, I guess you’re wondering, “Who’s this Scooter guy and what’s the big deal about his blog?” Well, there’s no magic or anything. I’m just a normal dude, and I figured my tired old site could use an update.
I’m a native of Washington, DC, a product of the DC Public Schools and Howard University’s School of Engineering, and I’m currently an IT director at a local association. I’m also a pianist at my church, which is something I enjoy greatly. I’ve got close to a cab driver’s knowledge of DC, so if you need to know how to get somewhere around town, feel free to ask me. 😉
I have a wide range of interests: music, sports, cars and a lot of other mechanical things, computers, literature and history are pretty big on my list. I’m big into baseball and hockey, but if it’s a sport, chances are I’ll watch it or want to play a bit. I also watch a good bit of anime, though I’m not big into movies or TV in general.
I am a lot of things, and I look forward to putting a little piece of myself into this site from time to time. (Hopefully. In theory. 😉
So, thanks for stopping by a nondescript place like this.
So, what’s up with the name of this place?
I’m sure some of you are wondering, “Why Texas Colony? What’s that mean?” No, it doesn’t have anything to do with what Bush may or may not want to do to some poor country somewhere. (And yes, I have had that suggested to me when I showed the phrase to someone before.) As some of you may have picked up from my primitively-drawn (yet oddly interesting) banner art, Texas Colony is a reference to Mobile Suit Gundam, which is one of my favorite anime franchises. (Another of my favorites, Super Dimensional Fortress Macross, contributed the title font by way of its American synthesized version, Robotech, which is interesting in its own right separate from its forbears.)
The Zaku mobile suit depicted in the banner isn’t related to the title; I originally was going for a white-silhouette-on-a-dark-background look (hence the lack of detail on the earth, moon and colony), but as I was starting to draw the Zaku, I took the opportunity to indulge in a little fanboyism and do a quick-and-dirty version of Shin Matsunaga’s Zaku II, just for kicks. It’s no work of art by any means, but it didn’t come out so badly, either.