Toby Deshane

I joke around a lot and have a very sarcastic and often dark sense of humor, but I do know when to be serious. I tend to find a joke in even the worst of tragedies -- basically I've chalked it up to it being a self-defense mechanism that lets me cope instead of exploding and punching walls. Don't let the tastelessness I'm capable of convince you I'm a heartless jerk. That would be incorrect.

I tend to get angry and passionate about things, especially injustices and corruption. Likewise I love to talk about politics in a...I dunno how to describe it...an anti-political-party sort of way. I couldn't give a damn about red, blue, pink, green, yellow, friggin' polka dots or left, right, center, diagonal, etc. All I care about is cutting through the games and the crap and doing *what's right*.

I love a good Photoshop edit contest... I like to go on crazy rants on forums trying to debate a topic or ideal I believe in...

When nobody is around, I often play with my Transformers and pretend some pens are exotic spaceships and fly them around and make whooshing and laser noises, sometimes coming up with a complex story to go with it. (Often praying there isn't a microphone or camera hidden someplace.)

One of my faults is that I tend to start working on something and then get distracted and move onto something else. I have a trail of coding projects behind me that I never finished. I tend to need help staying focused. (You might imagine how chaotic my job must be with such tendencies...)

Where I grew up

Clinton, CT

Places I've lived

Westbrook, CT; Old Saybrook, CT

Companies I've worked for

Soft Designs, Inc.; SBC; Valley Railroad Company

Schools I've attended

Vinal Regional Vocational Technical School; Morgan School

Other names

Hac