Paul’s Bio Page

If you’ve gotten this far, you have at least a passing, morbidly curious interest in what makes Paul tick….


It’s come to my attention that this is not truly biographical information, this is autobiographical information. The difference? An autobiography is one written in a car! Yes, Kelly Bundy is alive and well…. No, seriously, my autobiographical information cannot be trusted or believed because it comes from a completely biased point of view… mine!

This page should serve as a gateway to more detail about my interests, loves, hates and whatnot, as well as a fair source of encapsulated general purpose info about me. Me, me, me!!


Here’s a brief rundown of my life so far…


  • Born - 1968 - Hartford, CT
  • Moved with Parents and siblings to East Lyme, CT in 1972
  • Attended Public Schools in East Lyme, CT., Graduated from ELHS 1986
  • Worked as a DJ at a roller skating rink in Norwich, CT (among other things) while attending Thames Valley State Technicial College — Subsequently dropped out of college to be a full-time DJ
  • Landed a job at WNLC/WTYD in 1990, worked there for just over a year.
  • Joined the Navy in the summer of 1991

  • Transferred to San Diego in 1992
  • Got Married in the spring of 1994

  • Managed to get tossed out of the Navy in October of 1994 … 2.5 years early… broke my heart, too ;-)
  • Sold electronic parts and stuff like that at Willy’s Electronic Supply Co, Inc. in (near) San Diego.– No, Tom’s not paying me for this…
  • Started working for Sony in May, 1997
  • Started working as a Systems Administrator for Sony in November, 1997
  • Moved to the Pittsburgh, PA area in November, 2002, working for Sony.
  • Got the bad new that Sony DSSC-P would be closing in 60 days on January 22, 2003. Immediately started looking for another job.

  • Interviewed with “A Consulting Company” on February 17, 2003 in New London, CT.
  • Hired by “A Consulting Company”. Started working again on March 10, 2003
  • Moved into “new” residence on April 1, 2003. Strangely enough, the “new” residence turns out to be the house Paul grew up in. It took him 12 years to move 5 feet, from one side of a wall to the other.
  • Took up kayaking in the summer. Bought a Walden Vista kayak.
  • Moved again in the fall of 2003 to another rented house in Niantic.
  • Got laid off from “A Consulting Company” at the end of 2004. Budget cuts.
  • Interviewed with, and was hired by “A Top Tier Search Marketing Firm” in February 2005. Linux Systems Administrator. May I never run MS Windows again!
  • Divorce finalized spring, 2006.
  • Fall, 2006, Moved to West Warwick, RI, to be closer to work. The hour-long commute was beginning to wear on me.
  • 2007: work, eat, sleep.
  • Spent the last week of August, 2007 at Lawrence&Memorial Hospital, as my father lay dying of ideopathic pulmonary fibrosis.
  • September, 2007 - took a month off work to help straighten out Dad’s estate. …and moved again.
  • February, 2008 - Bought a house in Warwick, RI — Broadside Ranch.
  • March, 2008 through June, 2008: Remodeling. What a joy! Updates here: http://www.ursuspacificus.net/blog/?cat=9
  • May, 2008: Finally got the Imex Assateague I’d been ogling for 3 years. Details here: http://www.ursuspacificus.net/blog/?p=150
  • July, 2008: Moved in at Broadside Ranch… Still doing some remodeling.
  • October, 2008: Went on a 7500-mile, 21-stat road trip, which I call my “Life Crest Vision Quest”. Guess what. Details here: http://www.ursuspacificus.net/blog/?page_id=243 and http://www.ursuspacificus.net/blog/?cat=15
  • November 20, 2008: Started a CafePress store.
  • December 3, 2008: Started my very own online religion: The Church of No, Thanks.
  • February, 2009: Considering my next move.
  • March 10, 2009: Did first video “NewsUndies”, which started as an occasional series of blog posts.
  • March 23, 2009: Officially retired the “daily” NewsUndies format.
  • April 24, 2009: Started a formatted weekly NewsUndies show.
  • May 22, 2009: Quit my job at “A Top Tier Search Marketing Firm” to take the summer off, get some kayaking in, and prepare for a career reboot. Going to try to get back into radio in the fall.


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Things Paul Likes…(in no particular order)



  • Writing Comedy Sketches and Bogus Commercials
  • Writing Songs
  • Playing Guitar
  • Playing Drums
  • Performing and Recording what I write
  • Having time to get away from civilization
  • GNU/Linux
  • New England in the Fall
  • New England any other time of the year
  • Challenging and engaging conversation
  • Lao Tzu (Author of the Tao Te Ching)
  • The Ocean
  • Kayaking

  • The Woods
  • Old Friends and Family getting together
  • Almost anything by George Carlin (Sorry, George, “A Place For My Stuff” was a little lacking)
  • Reading Carl Sagan
  • Benjamin Hoff (Author of “The Tao of Pooh” and “The Te of Piglet”)
  • The Open Source Movement
  • People who listen and try to understand
  • People who speak from understanding
  • Beer
  • HTML
  • Perl
  • MySQL
  • Pizza
  • The Constitution of the United States of America, in particular, the First Ammendment to the Constitution… Specifically the part about the Government not “Recognizing” or “Estalblishing” any religion


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Things Paul’s not too crazy about…(in no particular order)



  • The Fortune 500
  • Microsoft
  • Miss Cleo
  • Telemarketing
  • Direct Mail Marketing
  • “Suits” making technical decisions
  • Los Angeles
  • Organized Religion
  • People who can’t take “NO, Damnit!!” for an answer
  • Matters of appearance
  • Vanity
  • Branding and Outsourcing
  • People coming onto my property, uninvited, and trying to push their faith on me


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