Hi! I'm Joe and this is my website.
My name is Joe Siegler. I've spent most of my life being online, going back to my first modem in an Apple // on CompuServe in the 80's, through Fidonet, and onto the Internet. My online footprint has evolved to this blog and my social media presence, which you can see elsewhere. These days I work for "The Social Element", a social media company out of England. My hobbies (I suppose) are TV sci-Fi (Doctor Who, Star Trek), baseball (Texas Rangers & Phillies), and music (hard rock mostly, but not all that). I have a totally separate site about my love of the Texas Rangers. :) This blog is mostly my thoughts on movies and music, as well as quite a few stories about my years working for 3D Realms.
Let's keep in touchFollow Me on Twitter
Of all the social media platforms out there, I prefer Twitter. It's by far my favorite, the immediacy speaks to me. Properly managed, it's an amazing tool. People need to not try and drink from the firehose, that's a problem. Learn how to properly curate the flood of info, and you'll love it.
Meet Me on TwitterApogee / 3D Realms
I'm quite proud of the time I spent at Apogee / 3D Realms. I've written down a lot of memories from those years. Check out this group of memories and stories:
Apogee / 3DR PostsRecent articles
America the Beautiful Quarters
Tonight I completed the collection of State Park Quarters and polished off the collector’s book. If you didn’t know the US Mint ran a program called “America the Beautiful Quarters“, and there was a quarter design produced for each of the 50 National Parks, as well as one for each of the 6 US territories […]
Colored Vinyl
Last year, just as the pandemic got started and we were all locked in, I did something I haven’t done since the early 80’s. I bought a record player. Somewhere around 1988 I stopped with records completely, as I got my first CD player in Dec 1987, and I was mostly into cassettes then due […]
2020 Deaths Playlist
For the last 5 or 6 years or so, I’ve been keeping a “xxxx deaths” playlist in iTunes. Whenever I hear of some musician I know and like something from, I’ll add a song for them to my playlist. As today is the 31st of December, it struck me as a good time to put […]
Human Feel
On the surface this is a music post, but it really isn’t. It’s about human emotion and feelings. Before I get to that…