Tim Eisenhauer
About Tim Eisenhauer
I am part alien, part human, part zombie-vampire, and worried by normal people.
Do you remember when you embarked on a roller coaster for the first time? That’s me.
I’m writing this “about me” thing on a whim. I could hire someone to interview me and write it for me, but what fun is that? I usually shoot straight from the hip, so I though best to just write and see what comes out, kind of like throwing up all over the paper, random, unorganized, unstructured, and uncensored. I don’t consider myself a writer — but I'm getting better. I know when my mom reads this, she’s going to print it, get out the red pen, and mark it up. (Thanks Mom) And by the way, sorry for the overwhelming use of the letter “I” (Writing in the third person seemed kinda goofy), and sorry for any misspellingz.
Well, here we go ...
Photography is a really cool, fun, challenging, and fulfilling hobby. It's not a path I've taken to 'bring home the bacon,' but rather, a path for personal fulfillment, happiness, inspiration, and adventure. It's another creative outlet. I do my best to artistically capture and evoke a mood, feeling, or drama surrounding a particular subject, event, person, object, etc. I prefer shooting humans, events, happenings, parties, and stuff like that -- you know, fun things. I am self taught and self proclaimed. I have no formal training in photography.
I wake up and immediately smile. I roll out of bed and walk out to the kitchen. I open the fridge and pull out the strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, kiwi, black berries, a banana, the peanut butter, REVV, HappyGirl, ZealO2, honey, and handful of ice -- then I forcefully pack it all into the blender -- and with a flick of a switch it gets blended into a healthy morning breakfast. This is like a religion to me. Morning smoothies. :) Want one? I guarantee it will be "the" best you will ever have.
I’m a jack of all trades, master of none — but could probably be master of anything. I am easily amused, easily focused, easily distracted, easily bored, and when I catch fire … look out. When I get involved with something I love, cool things usually happen … although I’ve also experienced my share of failures too … I think this helps me stay grounded.
When I grow up, I want to be an artist. Or maybe I already am one. Some of my friends
say so anyway. I’m an entrepreneur at heart, artist second, tech geek third,
and well, I guess I’m human alien too.
I’m mostly chill and easy to get along with. Usually smiling and happy. Don’t take myself too seriously, life is too short, right? I’m very spontaneous and I find that sometimes it’s hard for people to keep up. I like to make things happen, rather than just talking about them. And, we’re all so predictable — so am I.
Here is something a good friend (plug) just sent over to me: (thank you)
“Tim Eisenhauer is an amazingly talented individual. When he decides to do something, watch out. There’s no stopping him. He tends to get extremely passionate about new projects and when that happens, amazing things are created. Even after knowing him as long as I have, and what to expect, I still get impressed by the things he does. He has an amazing eye with an appreciation for beauty and composition and an imagination that goes on endlessly. But deadlines — forget it. :)”
Here are some things I like:
Books: 4 hour work week, the answer, the art of seduction, the 48 laws of power, emergency, any psych book, NLP books, hypnosis, etc. Love to read, love to learn. I can plow through a book in a day or two.
Movies: fight club, natural born killers, any horror movie, action, animation (not anime), indie, psychological, etc. I watch movies on my Roku, and there are a hand full of movies I put on to fall asleep to. I don’t watch TV and I don’t watch the news.
Music: (no particular order) - AIR, Soulive, Fink, my pandora station (4am music), Radiohead, Phish, Massive Attack, Tricky, NIN, Tool, Puscifer, Pink Floyd, Zeppelin, The White Stripes, The Dead Weather, acoustic guitar, space jam, funk, blues, jazz … love all kinds of music, go to lots of shows, I play the guitar and have been in a few bands over the years - (some I continue to contribute to) Skookyll, Eisenhauer Band, World of Treez — Music is life.
Food: Spice it up. Everything and anything. Eat healthy. Love to cook (for myself and for friends), it helps me unwind.
Things that I spend time thinking about: how to maximize the quality of my time on earth, psychology, human behavior, social dynamics, women, body language, the universe, natural beauty, composition, hypnosis, palm reading, magic & mystery, sarcasm, how to better myself and the people around me, how to better communicate with the other aliens, warmth, and what I’m going to eat next.
As I write this, I’m sitting in my kitchen staring out the window at the ocean. Wow. There is just something about the power of the ocean that fascinates me. It fuels me, gets me going, and humbles me at the same time. As I look over to my right into my living room, I see a big red rug. I love the color red. Again, there’s something about the emotions it brings out in me. Quite often you will see me in a red shirt — it’s just what I gravitate to. I was born on April 6th, which makes me an aries and an earth horse. I’m not huge into the whole astrology/chinese stuff but most people describe me as being typical to my birthdate (whatever).
I was born and raised on the east coast in a small town called Auburn, Pennsylvania by a wonderfully loving family that I can’t thank enough for everything they have done and continue to do for me. In high school I played and excelled at basketball and soccer. In college, I played basketball at a division 2 level and was like 4th team all american (or something like that). College taught me social interaction, which pretty much translates to “how to party and waste my life away, one day at a time.” I studied Telecommunications, Computer Science, and Information Sciences and Technology — none of which prepared me for real life. After about 8 years of ridiculous classes and boring lectures, I dropped out of college, packed my stuff up, and drove 3000 miles to where I live today, in sunny San Diego, California (Ocean beach, to be more specific).
For my day job, I run a rapidly growing technology company with offices in the United States and in India, staffed by 25 software architects and developers. We developed and sell the premier social networking & business collaboration platform. There is no technology that is beyond our capability.
What tech stuff do I know? Well, the best categorization for what I do is a Web Engineer -- primarily working in an ASP.NET environment. My peers say that my User Experience, User Interface Design, HTML, and CSS skills are magical. I dabble in Adobe Photoshop mostly editing photos and designing web pages. I'm an ASP.NET Subject Matter Expert and was a Technical Editor for the book ASP.NET 3.5 Application Architecture and Design.
Ok, well, that looks like enough for now. Maybe I’ll write more later.
Thanks for reading.
Interested? Want to learn more? Contact me:
Email: talk@timeisenhauer.com
Phone: (619)630-8466
Web: http://www.timeisenhauer.com
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/timeisenhauer