Ok, yer admitting to either boredness or weirdness by being here, and as that puts us on some common ground, guess I'll take it easy on ya... so... whadaya need to know about mmairs? Well the most basic, I suppose, is that music is my life. So why, you ask, the trappings of a wirehead? Why a vendor page? Why the software, why the wirehead pubs, why a homepage at all? Well... lemme put this delicately: seems to me that it is impossible to make entirely worthwhile music when ya have to either perform standards or teach for a living. Or both. So I work in the industry and I can honestly say my music is, if not completely uncorrupt, at least possessed of greater integrity than most from academia. So la de da! Suppose this brings us to the question; 'so Matt, long way from the conservatory to the CSC labs; how'dja manage that one?' Well, if ya were bored enuf to check out my resume, you may already know the answer. MIDI brought me here. Yeah, so I was writing video games on my sinclair, my friend's VIC20 and my dad's CBM/PET when I was 8; but I was composing when I was 6, and pretty much from the ages of 12-21 I said: 'Stick it faceless machine world! Me artist!' And then I bought an xt compatible and a sound blaster. I was licensed to develop for it within the year, and it's been downhill ever since.
The rest of the page has far outstripped this as far as real description of my life goes I see.  So, how 'bout some salient facts?  I was born about noon on April 30, 1969 at Waltham General hospital to Nancy and George Mairs.  I spent the first three years of my life in Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont.  I spent the next four traveling back and forth from New Hampshire, Cambridge, Boston  and Vermont and Tucson, Arizona.  In the next five we still went back East, but less and less often. Then I left my parents.  After two years of living peripherally off of them and somewhat on my own efforts I moved in with the woman I would marry.  I repeated the same pattern, making as much as I could playing music, while she reeally made ends meet. Married March 23, 1992.  Many events listed elsewhere.  Divorced January 3, 1995.  It was an incredibly complicated chain of events that led to a simple conclusion. But either she warned me or I was prescient because I had begun to relearn the 'puter when it happened. And I'm sure my change in psyche contributed to the estrangment. Now I build networks for a living and try to play music for fun. So I eat well and have a nice car, but I can't pretend I do music for a living anymore. But it is still what I love most.
I have become too cruel and intense for AZ. So I have moved to NY. Either I will learn how useless cruelty and intensity are, or I will take it to a new level. Or both.
And I don't build networks anymore, I build and run UNIX servers. And I don't have a car either. And I've found a girl I'd marry, but her mom hates me. Maybe it's just as well.. maybe I shouldn't get married. Well, of course it's just as well, such is life. It all works out. And bio is just leaking out all over. Go to my main page and blog out, dood!