Hi. My name is Josh, and I am a nerd. (A special hello to everyone who comes here from typing "Josh is a" into google and letting it autocomplete, and an extra special one for those who get here by searching for "nerd" in google images.)

Generally speaking, I'm an avid tinkerer and builder. The mechanics of things fascinate me; when I see something novel, my first thought is usually "How would I do that?" My mother likes to remind me that, as soon as I learned to get up and pull things off tabletops, there was never a working pen in the house. Since then, I've learned both restraint and how to put things back in working order. That said, one of the benefits of living by yourself is that nobody is around to catch you breaking something...

Applied Platonics is my electronics kit business. It's been a long time coming, but it's gradually making progress, and has been really fun. I also had a kid (Calvin Chaos Myer-Most) in October of 2010, which keeps me busy the rest of the time. It's crazy to meet someone who's really from The Future: he's kind of clueless, really, despite coming from the year 2010!

In 2006, I graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with two degrees: one in Mathematics, and the other in Linguistics. By day, I develop software and help machines learn.

Photo Josh, The Mayor by Rubin Starset, the other mayor of noisebridge. Thanks Rubin!