You can contact Paul Traina at myanusisgodot at pst dot org.

I’m an amateur photographer, visual artist, and general layabout. I’m indirectly responsible for the fact that you can spend your day masturbating to porn off the Internet. In a former lifetime, I worked with a bunch of guys who built some boxes that glued things together. After we got big and bloated from our success, I decided to try the same thing again and helped create another company that sucked a bit less. I’ve written a line of code or two, contributed to the design of a few communications protocols, done a bit of product management, helped acquire a couple of companies, ran a software organization, and cleaned a few toilets. On occasion, I try to pay back some of my oxygen debt to the planet with a little philanthropy and random good works.

These days, when the urge to do technical things hits, I build random toys and help folks in disaster areas and developing countries get a working telephone.  I also volunteer at San Francisco Sex Information (SFSI) answering people’s questions about sex and things related to sex when they feel insecure or pick up bad information because they’ve been watching too much Internet porn.

On rare occasions, I help old friends with too much money figure out how to get even richer off the blood and sweat of the proletariat.

I tend to engage in equipment intensive recreational activities with a high degree of danger, which means run the other way if you see me flying high performance aircraft, racing cars, or on my motorcycle, because I’m not exactly perfect at any of those things.