Hi! I go by Mezz whilst out and about gaming on the Internet.
I'm from Washington DC, USA. Been researching various frameworks and systems for building my own 3d games. Math is a weakness, so I'm teaching myself and learning the ideas now - and hoping I can abstract the hard stuff with some of the wonderful open source tools and kits that are available.
In my wanderings, I found Stress Free Zone
(SFZ;
http://sfz.schattenkind.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page) and removed all the asshat postings
from someone blocking the board. If I can't code, I can at least help clean up and organize! LOL!
Professionally, I'm a project manager and accessibility design specialist, have done quality assurance, independent verification and validation, systems integration, instructional design, policy, and IT Governance functions.
Personally, I'm indexing a lot of the frameworks and ideas and hope to put them up on my blog to help myself and friends better use the tools that exist. I've noticed there are some great tools already available, but because of poor organization, lack of resources, lack of direction for those asking to contribute, we all miss out. So hopefully I can contribute with that effort as I find them and I'll post my web links soon. I've also been poor, homeless, rich, had a family, divorced, had a boyfriend, raised Baptist, Methodist, and now am a Buddhist. Played role playing games since the original D&D (fantasy, space are my two favorites), I've traveled to Japan while in the USMC, done art, photography, blacksmithing, some coding, foundational HTML, and am currently working through Blender3d training.
Please don't hesitate to email me if you have questions or think I can be of assistance. May you be slow to anger, quick to joy, and any suffering you may have remind you to have compassion for others,
~Mezz