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About me
Timothy J. Gibbons is a reporter in Jacksonville, Fla., where he covers municipal government, a beat he moved to after writing about military and veterans affairs and, before that, transportation and international trade.
Born in New Jersey, Gibbons has, at last count, lived in nine cities, five states and two countries (with, of course, the obvious overlaps).
Although not himself mean, he occasionally enjoys walking down mean streets. He thinks he would enjoy living in a hole in the ground, so long as it was not a nasty, dirty or wet hole.
He probably likes your favorite author, too, and thinks good things about that movie and/or band you're going on about, although odds are you're way more into it/them than he is.
He prefers being called Tim or Timothy, with no strong inclinations toward either despite common attempts to force a decision. He finds such attempts somewhat perplexing.
Sometimes he finds it strange that everyone who likes sushi doesn't also like Laphroaig, considering the high percentage of seaweed-related flavors in both. As well as enjoying both of the above, Gibbons also is fond of Pilot G2 gel pens Precise V5RT pens, small notebooks with grid-lined pages, home-brewed beer, bare-boned text editors (layout programs should know their place), really good coffee and well-made hand tools. None of those things, however, have any clear connection with seaweed.
Over the course of his life, Tim has been interested in some or all of the following:
- manual typewriters
- obscure personality tests
- juggling
- motorcycles
- urban parks
- apple Crush soda
- religious wars of 17th century France
- volleyball
- playing with fire
- the impact of containerization upon modern commerce
- oranges
Gibbons is just this guy, you know?
Other places you can find me
I have a presence on most major social media site, although I'm not always sure why. (What am I going to do on Pinterest? How do you get rid of a MySpace account?) On most such sites, I'm using @reportertim as a handle.
Specifically, you can connect with me on the following sites (listed here roughly in the order of usage -- or lack thereof):
- Facebook (Also here)
- Tumblr
- Scribd
- Goodreads
- This Is My Jam
- Flikr
- Foodspotting
- Foursquare
- Google+
My recent work for the Florida Times-Union is collected here
About the site
This is the fifth version of what is now timgibbons.net, a site with its roots in like half a meg of free space AT&T gave its ISP customers back in the mid-'90s. It has progressed through a site powered by Blogger and hosted by Columbia University (during my grad school days) to its current incarnation. (Glimpses of the past can be seen in the projects and Blather sections of the site, at least until I get around to migrating them to the new look and feel.)
The current incarnation was put together in Crimson Editor, with the actual underpinnings of most of the site provided by Movable Type. It is hosted by Hosting Matters.
The images on the front page were all taken with a LG VX8100. They rotate around based on the magic of a PHP script Dan Benjamin wrote about on A List Apart. (Benjamin also created the program used to obfuscate e-mail addresses on the contact page).
Although the design is original, understanding of the CSS involved as well as general design insights came from the following: