Bio..

Jason Thomas Dolan (that's me) was born on June 24th, 1980. I grew up in Princeton, MA - home of Wachusett Mountain, which would serve as my hangout / place of employment throughout highschool. As a little kid, growing up in the sticks, I had fun playing in the woods and fishing at a little stream near my house.

I was picked on my fair share in grammar school..red hair, freckles, outspoken, and kind of sensitive. Middle school was tough at times, and moving to Sterling for 8th grade..well, sucked - but things got easier in 10th grade. I'm not saying that I had a hard childhood - I had a good one.

I played soccer from age 5-17, and I was pretty good for a while. In HS I dropped soccer to take up skateboarding, tho. I had a lot of fun, and it gave me the opportunity to meet one of my best friends, Adam, who turned me onto snowboarding. Eleventh and twelfth grade were awesome. I was even what you might consider moderately popular in school. I owe that to my friend Ryan.

In the fall of 1998 I started at UMass Dartmouth. I took up Computer Science because of an unhealthy addiction to Quake II. It suited me well. I like working with computers, and thinking that I'm not half bad at it. In retrospect, I'm pretty happy with how I spent my time in college. I could have had a little more fun - well, I could have had a lot more - but I still had a good time, got out on time, and made and kept some great friends.

After school, I stayed in the Buzzards Bay area for a job (that didn't last). Jimmy, my college roomate, and I rented an apartment for a few years that our friends came to call Club Rockdale. The livingroom boasted a big screen television and way too much audio equipment - including my turntables and mixing gear.

I now live alone in downtown New Bedford. I have a beautiful apartment in a historical building. I'm employed as a software engineer at Windmill Cycles, Inc. When I'm not there, I like to bicycle, spin records, and hack or tinker with various computer projects. I'm also a member of the CRUX Linux Community.