My name is Tarraccas and you've happened upon my humble homepage.

Tarraccas is my real name given to me by my father who created it. It's often mistaken for Russian or Greek. I categorize it as Modern American Hippie and if it has any meaning whatsoever it would be Don't call me John.

A story that made the rounds when I was in school was that my parents were stoned and slurred the name Travis thereby explaining the double consonants. How my dad came up with it has never been made clear to me with story fragments ranging from his brother seeing it spelled out over a garage to ultimate coinage by his mother. My theory is that the name is a derivative of my dad's Zodiac sign, Taurus, which also happens to be mine as well. Were I a woman, I'm told that my name was to be Sunshine because that's just how the kids rolled in the 1970s — decade of bell bottom pants, plaid everything, orange furniture, transcendental meditation, drugs, drugs, more drugs, free love and the birth control pill that my mother, a surfer with a three-legged dog that stumbled after the bicycle she rode everywhere, apparently neglected to use. The diaphragm be damned!

In anycase, it's a cool name. And one of these days I'm getting a postcard photograph of myself, Tarraccas, in Caracas, Venezuela, shaking it up with maracas and a mariachi band. Olé!!!

I operate a small internet development business called Burning Moth Creations. I realize that this isn't much of a web page for a web designer of 10+ years but like the cobbler wearing old shoes or the auto mechanic driving a broken beater car that's just how these things go sometimes. Besides, simple elegance is good feng shui.

In my spare time I produce the webcomic Danny The Diabetic Vampire.

Contact me through one of following social networking fads: MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, or Google+.

Of the forementioned sites, I use Facebook the most and not very often at that. Knowing how the internet works the way I do, I am decidedly a very private person, protective of where and how my extremely easily identifiable name gets posted, not much of a blogger and tend to use social media almost exclusively for the purpose of contact points and publication venues so don't expect much in the way of revelation if your intent is to stalk me.

Call me old fashioned but I prefer email, telephone and in-person conversations over the rampant data mining run amok that defines our hyper-networked Zeitgeist. Just sayin'.

~ Tarraccas