About Robbie Hatley

Welcome to my museum, fellow Internet travellor. My name is Robbie Hatley, and I will be your curator and tour guide during your visit here. I imagine you have many questions about me. What follows will hopefully answer some of those questions.

What do I look like? I am a male Caucasian, DOB June 5 1959, 5'9", 155LB, brown eyes, brown hair. Many people have asked me "do you have a picture?" Yes, several. Click the following link to see some pictures of me: Pictures of Robbie Hatley

Where do I live? I live in the beautiful small town of Tustin, California. This is in Orange County, midway between Los Angeles and San Diego counties. Tustin is an old town, dating back to the 19th century. In the early days, downtown Tustin was a Wells Fargo stage coach stop, and the surrounding lands were mostly orange groves. Now, the orange groves have mostly been replaced with housing developments, and the streets are full of traffic; but the town still manages to retain a small-town feel somehow.

What do I do for a living? I am a computer programmer and an electronics technician. I began my career as an electronics technician way back in 1978; but since mid-2003, I've been working to move gradually away from electronics and into programming as a profession. For more on my professional history, check out my on-line résumé.

What is truly important to me? I care about children and their welfare, care, and upbringing. I care about this planet, its animals, its plants, its land, its oceans, its air, its ecology. I care about fairness. I care about Love. And most importantly of all, I care about truth.

What kind of personality do I have? I am an INTJ. "What the heck is an 'INTJ'?" I hear you asking. Well, INTJ is one of sixteen basic human personality types defined by the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI). For more on this fascinating and usefull psychological model and personality categorization system, see my essay Personality Types and the Psychology section of my links page.

What are my interests? I am a big reader, especially of fantasy, including JRR Tolkien, HP Lovecraft, Terry Brooks, Steven King, Anne MacCaffrey, Clifford Simak, Ray Bradbury, and others. I see fantasy as being the highest form of human thought, in which a person dares to create new worlds that never were (yet), but may be (some day), rather than just stagnate in the status quo of the world as it is today. I am also a poet, a philosopher, a music-lover and sometimes-musician, a mathematician, an explorer, an electronics hobbyist (since 1967), a computer nerd (since 1973), an Internet fanatic and web-site designer (since 1996), an amateur radio operator (call sign KM6HT), and many other things. My interests are very eclectic.

Do I get along well with people? No, not really. I am a loner, a rebel, a misfit. I have few local friends, and I do not find it easy to make new friends. Nor do I feel any great compulsion to do so. I am an extreme introvert, and prefer solitude for the most part. However, I do like making new friends (of both genders and all ages, from 1 to 137) on the Internet. The Internet seems to have a magic way of bringing out the latent extravertedness of introverts such as myself. I especially like befriending dreamers, those who dare to see things a different way. I am also here to be of help in any way I can to the sad, the lonely, the desperate. But I have little interest in associating with loud, aggressive, obnoxious people.

Am I religious? No. I intensely dislike organized religion. I see organized religion as being bad fantasy that doesn't even know it's fantasy. I especially dislike Islam, Christianity, and other religions which claim to be "the one and only true religion" and preach that non-believers are hell-bound. On the other hand, I have more respect for the Sikh, Jain, Hindu, and Buddhist religions, as these are less offensive, and generally do not force themselves onto people. I especially admire the teachings of Tibetan Budhism and of it's current leader, Nobel Peace Prize winner Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama. But for the most part, I abhor and detest organized religion categorically.

What do I do when I'm sick and tired of breathing city air? I go to the desert. I love exploring the wilderness. I especially love hiking in The High Mojave Desert, at midnight, when the moon is full. (See my poems "Mojave" and "Into The Great Mojave".) This is a way to put myself in touch with the infinite in a way no religion can. When I'm out in the desert, all the lies and confusions fall away, and the existence and presence of God and Devil (the ever-present forces of creation and destruction in this universe, not deities) in everything becomes clear and palpable, and does not require faith.

What is the most important thing of all to me? Most of all, I am a scientist. By that, I mean that I am a seeker after the truth. In the end, that is the most important thing to me.

Such is the nature of your curator.

Now, pick a wing, and I will show you around the place.