Oh no! It’s MCM!

I’ve had a very strange career. I started off as a writer, creating the pre-Youtube online series Dustrunners, which necessitated learning to program. From there, I worked as both a programmer and writer, switching back and forth as the winds shifted, and mashing them up when it felt right.

I created the award-winning animated series RollBots (YTV/4Kids), about robots that transform into marbles and race on sky-bound rollercoaster tracks, and packed with copious free software references. So that basically held all my interests in one luscious gift package.

On the screenwriting front, I’m technically a Daytime Emmy-nominated writer, and co-creator (with Craig Young and Cory Morrison) of the preschool series Shutterbugs (TVOKids/Knowledge). I’ve written for the TV series Justin Time (Disney/Netflix), Ollie: The Boy Who Became What He Ate (CBC), True and the Rainbow Kingdom (TVOKids/Netflix), Worry Eaters (Hahn Film), Mia and Me (Hahn Film) and co-story edited the series Terrific Trucks for NBC/Sprout, again with Craig.

I was a bit internet famous in the late 2000s for the internet fable The Pig and the Box, downloaded over 2 million times in over a dozen languages, and praised by award-winning author Cory Doctorow. It’s a story about the evils of DRM, which I am happy to say was not heeded at all and— wait.

In 2012, my wife was in an accident and suffered a traumatic brain injury, which greatly messed up what little momentum I had going on, so I went into a bit of a hibernation period, punctuated with efforts to be more social, usually to no avail. But if you’re wondering where I was for any stretch of time, just assume I was tucked into a closet somewhere crying.

These days, I am head of R&D for a stealth startup based in Austria, and doing some really crazy cool work there. I would say more, but I built the drones tasked with enforcing NDAs, so I know for sure they’d kill me.

I currently live in the thriving metropolis of Stittsville, Canada with my wife, the occasional daughter, and a healthy assortment of foster dogs, one of whom is curled out at my feet at this very moment, farting.

Where to start

There are 628 posts here going back to 2003, which is a lot to be handed at once. Some doors in:

• Topic Tag Tuesday — someone picks a topic, I write the story, that person picks who goes next. 52 of them.
• The Commons — the characters, free to take and build on.
• Steal this — what the licence actually lets you do, in plain words.
• Push the Third Button Twice — a fake newsroom I ran in 2007, one of whose jokes was later reported as real by TechCrunch.
• The experiments — the projects that were as much about the delivery as the story.

Elsewhere

No social buttons, because there is nothing to like. If you want to say something, mcm@1889.ca reaches me.