About Bill Powell (me)

[If only you could see this picture of Bill Powell. So much in life would begin to make sense.]

Hi.

I write, and I'm alive. Wherever I go, whoever I meet, I find we usually have at least one of those in common. I do like to check.

This site is primarily my den, which was formerly known as my blog, Adventures of an Ex-Suburbanite, until I gave up trying to name it something other than the web site, Bill Powell Is Alive. For years I've let this email address amuse and bewilder hapless data entry folk, but it's time I explained that the site name is a reference, perhaps oblique, to Chesterton's Manalive, which is one of my favorite books. In fact, maybe you should just go read it right now, or at least my sample typeset chapter. Or find out how I made it into a game.

I have also given up pretending I really qualify as an ex-suburbanite. Not yet. But you can still read about my adventures in land hunting, organic farming, and permaculture under quest. Oh, and then there's that home birth or two under family.

If you prefer not to think about chickens as cannibals or what it's like to actually use your pocketknife, fear not, fellow sedentary friend. A casual perusal of the categories at right demonstrates the true proportion of outdoor adventuring on this site.

For instance, my last few years have been rather disproportionately occupied with GNU/Linux. You wouldn't guess it from the volume of posts, but that's because it's more fun to play with Linux. Or fight with it.

I've also posted a fair bit of my writing here (especially at the portfolio), but most of my current stuff is still offline while I send it to market. In fact, I originally conceived of this as my work/personal site, but that little slash turns out to cover rather an abyss. If you're interested in professional typesetting, layout, and graphic design services, please consider Wineskin Media for your next click.

And if you don't find enough around here on Distributism and other social justice topics, you might enjoy my new free ezine:

And if you're tired of the Internet's collective posturing at veracity, perhaps you'd enjoy a bit of open satire:

Wherever you go next (here!), I hope you have a lovely day.

And if you have any questions, comments, or uproarious tales of derring-do, please let me know.

Last updated: 2008 Apr 23 20:21