The best way to learn about me is to read my blog. In it I share as much of my life as I think I can get away with sharing. One of my fundamental beliefs is that if everybody shares then the world becomes a better place. Admittedly, I haven't been sharing much lately... but these thigns ebb and flow.
I'm self-unemployed. I have a tech start-up addiction. It really is a problem. I simply love taking an idea from napkin sketch through company to exit strategy. I love it when other people say things that I've never said while still clearly voicing the vision. My latest effort is socketware which sits between Big Data and machine learning. It's a fairly geeky endeavor and one that I'm enjoying immensely. We're privately funded and seeking pilot projects.
There are three legs on my stool... and each competes for my attention:
1) Family - Wife, kiddos, extended fam.
2) Business - The addiction... tech start-ups.
3) Hobby - Ironman, ultramarathon, skydiving, rockclimbing, skiing, skateboarding... what I do for fun.
It's tough fitting everything in. At this point in my life I find that my days are full from dawn to dusk. I feel like there isn't a moment to spare in my quest to fulfill all of my passions. I simply won't accept the notion of giving any of them up. Life is short so I want to do as much as I can... while capturing it all at joereger.com.
My father was in the U.S. Army so I got to travel the world, living in Naples, Italy, Izmir, Turkey and all over the U.S.
My formal education was from Georgia Tech. I majored in Physics with a minor in Computer Based Instrumentation and a minor in Philosophy. I paid my own way and was out of college debt in about three years thanks to wonderfully inflated dot com salaries. Yay dot coms!
I live in Atlanta, GA with my wonderful wife Heather, daughters Ava and Emme. Our son, Asa, is due in late December 2011. Both of our families live in the Atlanta area. Heather's parents are still married after many years. My parents split up when I went to college and then followed me to Atlanta. My mother is remarried to Mark which brings John, Johanna and Jesse into the family. Heather has one sister, Robin. My sister Kendra is married to Matt.
I'm 6'2 1/2" tall and I can bench press 450lbs, plus or minus three hundred pounds. I weigh somewhere between 175 lbs (winter, natural weight) and 158 lbs (summer, racing season weight). I'm partially color blind. My workouts are logged on the blog along with a weekly time summary. You can find more pictures of me than you'll ever want to see on my site... and there's even one of me naked under the stars!
Thanks for stopping by. Please let me know what you think by sending me a comment or two on the blog posts. You are appreciated!
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