I've been doing the whole design thing for a while now, but I've chosen to live a monk-like existence high above the rest of the design world in my austere cave armed only with a copy of Diablo 2, my pet newt and a satellite dish so I can get the Food channel. So while it's nice and peaceful up here, I just can't help but feel jealous looking down and seeing all the fun everyone else is having. So I'm trading in my orange robe for a blog, and I'm coming down to join the masses.

Who am I you ask? Good question. I can best answer you by re-posting a conversation I recently had with myself for my about page:

Me: Who is Epigroove?
Me: Epigroove is my design company.

Me: And who are you?
Me: My name is Jamie Tibbetts. I'm also known as Dr_God if you're in to the whole brevity thing.

Me: What is the origin of Epigroove?
Me: Epigroove was born back in nineteen aught eight (aught meaning "9" in web time.) Like most people, I struggled for days trying to come up with the name for my company. I wanted something that accurately represented me. And since I can only ever get work done when I'm "in the groove," I came up with Epigroove. I came to the realization shortly thereafter that "epi" really means "above," but by then the name had stuck. So I guess you can say I ride above the groove. Kinda like the Silver Surfer.

Me: A great philosopher of our time said that you need skills to succeed, like nunchuck skills or bowhunting skills. What skills do you have?
Me: I'm a pretty well rounded web designer I'd say. A jack of all trades of sorts. I'm as comfortable behind the scenes (PHP, MySQL, AJAX) as I am in front (CSS, XHTML, Photoshop.) I also have a long and undying love for FileMaker Pro, so I'm always honing my FMP skills by releasing new software organizers. Oh, and I can also jiggle my eyes really fast.

Me: What's your M.O.?
Me: My M.O. in life is to basically try and spend more time doing work than avoiding it. I usually lose. Computers shouldn't be allowed to play games. It's just evil. When I occasionally take a break from wasting time and actually do work, I tend to like to create fun stuff. My goal is to combine creating fun websites and receiving lots and lots of money. I have the fun part down.

Me: Do you do client work?
Me: No, I don't really, for obvious reasons (see my last answer.) I do have one or two long-standing clients, but they are very lenient, so it works.

Me: Anything else? I can't think of any other questions.
Me: Really? I can think of a few.

Me: Hmm...
Me: ...

Me: Anyway, thanks for taking the time to talk to me.
Me: My pleasure. Any time.