{"id":88,"date":"2006-05-03T12:28:34","date_gmt":"2006-05-03T17:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.graphics-muse.org\/wp\/?page_id=88"},"modified":"2018-04-24T22:30:32","modified_gmt":"2018-04-25T04:30:32","slug":"about-the-author","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.graphics-muse.org\/wp\/?page_id=88","title":{"rendered":"About the author"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My name is Michael J. Hammel.&nbsp; I&#8217;m an embedded Linux developer by day who also happens to be an author, a graphic artist, web designer and independent software developer at night. I currently live with my wife Brinda and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rpawd.com\/\">Reba, Bailey and Cody<\/a>, the three most wonderful golden retrievers in the world, in Broomfield, CO., just outside of Boulder.<\/p>\n<p>I write for various magazines, mostly about Linux-related topics, and I have written multiple books. My last book on the GIMP &#8211; <strong>The Artists Guide to GIMP Effects<\/strong>, was released in early 2011 from <a title=\"No Starch Press\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nostarch.com\/\">No Starch Press<\/a>.&nbsp; I&#8217;ve spoken at the ALS, LinuxWorld and SXSW conferences, various local open source and Linux-oriented user groups and chaired multiple conferences on Linux in Colorado.<\/p>\n<p>Currently I&#8217;m spending a great deal of my spare time working on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.piboxproject.com\/\">PiBox<\/a>, a custom Linux distribution and media center for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raspberrypi.org\/\">Raspberry Pi<\/a>.&nbsp; PiBox is evolving into a voice activated home automation center and already has a kiosk mode.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve got a question about Linux, from the kernel to distributions to user interface development, feel free to drop me a line.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve got a question about anything related to Windows or Macs, look elsewhere.&nbsp; This space is for Penguins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My name is Michael J. Hammel and I&#8217;m an embedded Linux developer. I write for various magazines, mostly about Linux-related topics, and I have written multiple books. Currently I&#8217;m spending a great deal of my spare time working on PiBox, a custom Linux distribution and media center for the Raspberry Pi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5808,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-88","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","czr-hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/Pe9t8-1q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graphics-muse.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/88","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graphics-muse.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graphics-muse.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graphics-muse.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graphics-muse.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.graphics-muse.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/88\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6153,"href":"https:\/\/www.graphics-muse.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/88\/revisions\/6153"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graphics-muse.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graphics-muse.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}