I'm a 28.64 year old midwestern American.

Hobbies/Interests

Software development, photography, video production, auto tuning, skateboarding, inline skating, snowboarding, snowskating, soap shoes, paintballing, fun, friends, looking at girls, loud music, technology, breaking things, going out, driving fast, foooood, traveling, building things, and being generally crazy.

Living

I grew up in the rural town of Port Byron, IL and moved to Mount Vernon, IA for college. After that, work brought me to the Des Moines, IA area - where I've been a suburbanite in West Des Moines and Ankeny.

Loving

I've been married to my college girlfriend, Kari (Reynolds) Brooks for 4.41 years. Together, we have a house and a dog.

School

I graduated Riverdale High School of Port Byron, IL in 1999 then went onto Cornell College in Mount Vernon, IA. I graduated Cornell in 2003 with a degree in Computer Science.

Work

My early jobs consisted of pizza places and hardware stores. In college I began promoting an awesome shoe company and got really into web dev and sys admin. After college I took a job as an Application Developer for the Research Information Management department at Pioneer Hi-Bred International (I basically wrote research software for bio-chemistry scientists). I'm currently a Software Engineer for a small web development company called Red 5 Interactive.

More info and a portfolio available at http://www.broox.com/work/

Music

is a pretty huge part of my life. I have a super hard time not listening to music.

I'm really into to hip hop, club music, metal, ghetto rap, hard rock, punk, horrorcore rap, electro, and even some pop. The only things I'm not into are pop-country, newish pop-punk, and folky "dave" type-o-stuff.

I'm also a huge fan of live shows. Here's a list of some of the concerts I've been to recently.

TV

isn't hooked up in my house. Well, besides the 100" screen in the basement... but it's only for movies and social video gaming. I don't have channels.

Movies

I like em. Lots of them. Comedies, gangster, action, mysteries, and definitely skate/skatish type videos.

Books

My wife's books dominate the storage in my house. I really hate reading; it's not good for my A.D.D. and I feel like most books are as much of a waste of time as television. ;)

Travel

I love traveling but haven't even made a dent in all the places I want to visit. So far, I've been to 3 countries, 5 islands, and 27 of the 50 states. Here's an old map I made of my travels.