“Where Teagan’s Gone Wrong”
and
“Who the Hell is this Teagan Person Anyway?”
Slow, lazy and the very embodiment of bureaucracy – a Vogon I am not!
I am Teagan, a self-proclaimed Engineer of Laziness. Growing up as an inquisitive, and often misunderstood child provided the perfect opportunity to become a shy, introverted nerd. It probably didn’t help that my father was (still is) an über nerd; Bring Your Child to Work Day was my favorite, I got to talk to software engineers, learn about computers. Whenever I didn’t have school, I’d beg to go to my dad’s office, where I would be tasked with wiping old OS/2 machines and installing Windows 95 so the computers could be resold; I got paid in computer parts, and that’s how I built my first computer.
Automating Laziness: “You’ll never meet someone who puts more effort into being lazy than her” – Tanner McGraw, fmr CEO Apto
From there, my love of electronics and my need to understand how things work (my parents were afraid to buy me expensive toys because I would invariably take them apart – but I always put them back together). Given the book “Teach yourself Visual Basic 5 in 21 Days” as well as a Visual Basic compiler. I grew bored with the language within a month or so; I took it upon myself to walk to the library and check out a book on C++, I even changed schools to have the option to take software classes. I was just born for it.
My high school senior project was a top-down RPG engine, driven from configuration files, with event triggers, random battles – all before I even knew what a game engine was. Over the last few years, my interests have shifted to living by the motto I beat into my junior engineers: the Rule of Three. I have taken it so far that it has fed into the most wonderfully expensive hobby and passion: using the “Teagan Method” way of automating home and life – though Automating Laziness.
I am starting this blog to share my projects, frustrations, fun, and if I’m being truly honest, to show off my house… primarily that last bit… If you see
“I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.”
Bill Gates