What is this?

Who are you?

Matthew Carlin. Matt, Matthew, Bugsby, Mattsby, Miley. The Nameless One. I sign my comics Mattsby.

No, that’s stupid, that’s not what I meant. Tell me like one sentence about yourself.

I’m a mathematician and a programmer. I’ve worked for Google and Amazon and Microsoft and stuff. I’m taking a few years to be a stay at home dad and to train as an interactive artist. I make games and children’s books and blog posts and comics and stuff.

Why do you have this site?

It turns out I have to make things, the same way I have to exercise. If I don’t make and post a lot of things, I have a sad. I have a company website for company stuff, but sometimes I’ve just gotta make something for me.

I compulsively search for the details of people’s romantic lives. What’s your deal?

It’s okay, I do that too.

I was married once, and I wasn’t very nice. This person I was married to was nine years younger than me. We fought a lot and eventually got divorced.

Later I dated someone who was four years older than me. It was hard, a lot of bad things happened that had nothing to do with us, we helped each other cope, but it was hard, and eventually we broke up.

Then I took a long, hard look at my approach and worked pretty hard to improve myself. A little later I met someone else, got married fast and had a child way too fast, but ended up building a decent marriage.

And a picture.

Do you like cars?

Kinda like em, kinda hate em.

You said you have a children’s book. Where is it?

I’ll put it on the site at some point.

Would you rather have a toilet in every room of the house, or have all your walls painted black?

Toilet. You could decorate it. You could sit on it.

Cast Batman as an actor playing a character in a movie.

Batman plays Maverick in Top Gun.

Ooh, or Batman plays Luke Skywalker.