Ten Reasons Why: About the Author

April 05, 2003

About the Author

Me: Greg Ritter
Location: Washington, DC
Contact: greg@NOSPAMtenreasonswhy.com
(Remove the NOSPAM before you send. This keeps spammers from scraping my email address from this page)

Why "Ten Reasons Why:" Apparently, I tend to number my points when making arguments (probably stemming from high school debate team days). My colleagues noticed this rhetorical tic, and anytime I'd begin an explanation they'd jump in with "....and here's ten reasons why!" Rather than let that stand, I have subverted their derogation and re-appropriated their good natured ribbing for the theme of this site. :-)

I've been weblogging off and on since the summer of 2000. This site is the second incarnation of Ten Reasons Why, and was begun in March 2003. The first Ten Reasons Why was hosted on a personal webpage through my ISP. There was also an even earlier weblog, Monkey-Mind. All of the Monkey-Mind and Ten Reasons Why v1.0 posts have been imported into this weblog.

Career: Currently Business Development Manager at Blackboard Inc., a leading e-learning company.

In the past I have been (in roughly chronological order from age 16) an Arby's cashier, a summer camp counselor, a stock attendant (aka truck unloader) at a now-defunct department store chain, a Domino's pizza delivery guy, a library assistant, a freelance photographer, a student newspaper reporter, a bartender, a student newspaper editor, a camera salesman, a human guinea pig for various ergonomics engineering studies, a dishwasher and cook at an Italian restaurant, an English department teaching assistant at the University of Iowa, a waiter, the only non-vegetarian cashier for a natural foods store, a freelance PR writer, personal assistant to a minor real estate tycoon and restauranteur, co-founder and associate editor of a now-defunct monthly humor magazine, a data entry drone for an auto financing company, a technical editor for the Federal Reserve, copywriter for travel catalog CD-ROMs, English department faculty at Virginia Commonwealth University, English department faculty at the University of Richmond, an only-marginally-successful playwright and short story author, project leader for an Annenberg Foundation grant on integrating technology into the writing classroom, instructional technology specialist at Gallaudet University (the university for the Deaf and hard of hearing), Acting Director of Learning Technologies at Gallaudet University, Instructional Designer/Trainer at Blackboard, and Managing Consultant of Blackboard Learning Solutions.

The Usual Disclaimer: This is my personal weblog and does not reflect the opinions or positions of my current employer, nor any of the other past employers listed above. Especially Arby's.

Posted April 5, 2003 02:30 PM