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About Me

I'm director of the Institute of Newspaper Technology, a training program for newspaper designers and publishers located on campus at The University of Tennessee in Knoxville, Tennessee.I speak approximately 100 days on the road each year. In my travels I get to meet a lot of interesting people. Just this week, I've had dinner with a tv celebrity in Canada, spent two hours visiting with AT&T's European Director, sat by the 18th hole of the Doral Country Club with some of the newspaper industry's publishers and spent some great hours with designers, speaking on topics like Photoshop, InDesign, New Technology and more.I keep kicking myself for not staying in touch with all these incredible people I meet. This is my effort to start keeping in touch. I'm glad you stopped by.

My Interests

Honestly, my favorite thing is meeting new people and getting to know them. I love the beach & sun, but also find myself falling in love with just about every town I speak in. With the possible exception of Roswell, New Mexico, of course. When I'm in your area, please don't serve me seafood. That's one thing I don't love!

I'd like to meet:

Hmmmm, I don't think there's enough room here for my list.

Music:

Bluegrass, Rock, Country. Pretty much everything. WDVX is my favorite radio station. You can hear it live online at www.wdvx.com. They do a fun live show every day from downtown Knoxville (noon, eastern time) called the Blue Plate Special.

Movies:

Election, Elizabethtown, Hoosiers, Saved, Office Space, In Good Company, Everybody's All American, The Others, Fargo

Television:

24, Lost, Desperate Housewives, Seinfield, Friends, Dead Like Me, Six Feet Under. Did I mention 24?

Books:

A Separate Peace, Anything by John Grisham, Forgiveness: An Invitation to Freedom

Heroes:

Too many to mention here

My Blog

Where am I?

It's been a while since I've written. Travel has been overwhelming.In the past couple of weeks I've been from Northwest Canada to East Tennessee. Iowa and Kentucky were in between.My spring speaking ...
Posted by The PDF Guy on Fri, 16 Feb 2007 05:39:00 PST

Surgery Behind Me, Florida Ahead

January may kill me! I just looked at my calendar. At least the arm surgery is behind and I can look forward to pain-free existance in the future.Off to Florida today. Home tomorrow night. Then on to ...
Posted by The PDF Guy on Tue, 02 Jan 2007 11:02:00 PST

South Carolina Down, Next Up: Alabama

South Carolina was over in a FLASH!!! Whoo! Got to have dinner with Michelle and Jamie (plus Heidi). Bill dropped out at the last second! Just like when he fell asleep in class.I've booked a lot of e...
Posted by The PDF Guy on Fri, 01 Dec 2006 09:08:00 PST

Fun in Kentucky

It's been a lot of fun in Ketucky today. What a good group. I went out to dinner with some folks from a Western Kentucky paper tonight. We started to walk into this italian place where the prices didn...
Posted by The PDF Guy on Thu, 16 Nov 2006 05:44:00 PST

South Dakota Behind Me, Kentucky in Front of Me ...

South Dakota was a lot of fun last week. Good people. I also stopped by Nashville to speak at the National High School Journalists Convention. Man, do I feel old!Now I'm off to Kentucky. They tell me ...
Posted by The PDF Guy on Mon, 13 Nov 2006 12:04:00 PST

The Institute is Tomorrow!!!!!!

The Institute of Newspaper Technology is starting tomorrow! I'm already exhausted from setting up labs, moving equipment, etc. And it's TOMORROW!I'll see some of you there. It's going to be cold (high...
Posted by The PDF Guy on Wed, 11 Oct 2006 08:05:00 PST

Chocolate City!

So, another trip to Hershey is history. They get SO carried away with chocolate up there.While in Hershey, I had the worst meal of my life. I ordered baked crusted chicken, thinking it would be like c...
Posted by The PDF Guy on Tue, 26 Sep 2006 06:17:00 PST

Chocolate Lover's Delight!

Indianapolis was fun (for a midwestern crowd!). Those midwesterners can be quite sedate during a full day class, but I ran into lots of old friends in Indy.This week I'm off to the IFPA convention in ...
Posted by The PDF Guy on Mon, 18 Sep 2006 12:30:00 PST

Rome in my rearview mirror

I'm gonna be home tonite! Yeah!!!!! The storm approaching South Carolina was cause for the cancellation of my session there on Thursday, unless, of course, Michelle was just using that as an excuse!!!...
Posted by The PDF Guy on Wed, 30 Aug 2006 01:59:00 PST

Clearwater in the Rear View Mirror

I can't tell you how much fun Florida (Clearwater) was this weekend. What a great bunch of newspaper folks!Off today to Georgia (two days in Rome), then with Michelle and the gang at South Carolina P....
Posted by The PDF Guy on Mon, 28 Aug 2006 07:10:00 PST