The old guy

My name is Jonathan Martin, and I got my first email account in 1989. Of course, you had to know basic computing language just to send an email and all of about a dozen people were online. I was in college, editing the student newspaper at the University of Washington in Seattle, when I first used the the world wide web, to look at images of art posted by the Met in New York. Unfortunately, I didn't have the good sense to follow friends and colleagues to Amazon, Real Networks or Microsoft. Instead opted for the adrenaline and inquiry of daily print journalism. I've worked at newspapers across the West, and am currently working (as of today at least!) as a reporter for the Seattle Times. I'm on a sabbatical year at UMich via the Knight-Wallace Journalism fellowship, where I've learned how to tell stories on video, how little I want to go to law school, and how to play hockey. My wife, an attorney, and our two children (Noah, 7, and Anna, 3) are freezing their butts off but are otherwise happy to be in Ann Arbor.

My current favorite video comes from McSweeneys' Wholphin project.

www.astateof.com/films/delicious