About
My name is Matt Hackett. I was born in 1980. I’m a neurotic computer and digital music geek. I was born and raised in Carbondale, Illinois. I currently work at Yahoo! in California. Somebody bitched that my email wasn’t available on this site so now it is.
I read somewhere that nobody reads anything on the Internet. People’s eyes are drawn only and directly to bold text and bulleted lists…
- I must be constantly moving and producing, creating and contributing to something, or I begin to feel like a failure on a daily basis.
- I think of myself as an optimist. I’m always amused by people that insist they are not skeptics, but rather realists. To me, this makes them all the more skeptical.
- I am probably doomed to spend the rest of my life constantly striving for more because of this goddamn American ideal that I must achieve more than my neighbor. I believe this is freedom in its rawest sense, and though I completely agree with it, it brings me more stress and angst than anything else.
- I am easily excited by technology, parties and food. I often giggle like a schoolgirl. I’ve probably been doing it for long enough that it’s ambiguous whether I actually do that or it’s just a very, very long-running joke.
- I tend to be ridiculously sensitive, envious and jealous of everyone around me. Partially due to this, I am in a constant state of convalescence.
- I am a hopeful romantic. On a related note, I annoy myself.
- Despite my apparent excitability and cheerful demeanor, I spend almost exactly two weeks out of every year in a state of depression.
- I loathe driving unless I’m driving up on an overpass. Then I absolutely love it.
- As you can probably tell, I lack brevity in any of its many shapes. (It also may be apparent that I have a tendency to be pretentious.)
Other than that, I’m a web developer and amateur electronic musician. I adore and recently moved to California.
If you know me a la real life, we should get drunk together very soon. If you know me online, we should get drunk together very soon.