About Andrew Gaken
Andrew Gaken is a graduate of Central Michigan University with a BS in History and English. He currently lives, works, reads and writes in Austin, Texas. He's a pretty cool dude. He previously performed his cool-ness in College Station, Texas and Kirkland, Washington (it's near Seattle). Yeah, he moved around a lot, but he's hoping he sticks around in Austin for a while.
Andrew Gaken is a front-end web developer and designer. Upon graduating from CMU (and a two week stint on the "Geek Squad" at the local Best Buy) he quickly realized that neither of his majors was going to get him a job - so he shifted his focus and got a web job. He's been working front-end magic ever since.
A Michigan native, he enjoys the warmer climate and still has trouble understanding how some people get excited at the thought of snow.
When it comes down to it, as long as he has his Apple products around and access to watch the Detroit Tigers and University of Michigan football, he's pretty happy.
He also believes that Donuts by J Dilla is one of the greatest things ever.
For more information about him visit me.flamingbuffalo.com.
About The Site
Tools used to create Flamingbuffalo
Flamingbuffalo.com is written on a Mac. It is published using: They are all very sweet.Why The site may not look so great in IE6
See, Andrew is a web developer by trade, and he just loves making websites. He loves all the nerdy stuff it involves and he love learning about new technologies that are just around the bend.
So, you might catch yourself saying, "if he loves it so much why don't he support IE6?" (Yes, he assumes you have a terrible grasp of English). Well, the answer is simple, in that nerdery that he loves there are also things that he hates, and Internet Explorer 6 is at the top of the list. IE6 is a huge waste of time in every conceivable way. It is slow, insecure, terrible to develop for and even harder to troubleshoot in. It is a bad browser and has been bad for a long time. If you have to use it for work, he says he's sorry (I don't believe him). He's sorry, but he's also not going to spend the time to support it. If you can't use another browser, try your iPhone, it looks super on his.
Just remember, if you're using IE6 you're part of the problem. Don't be that guy.
Why no Comments
Because it's his site not yours, that's why.
About the name
Flaming Buffalo is a reference to a stupid story a young lady told about buffaloes walking into sulfur pits in Yellowstone National Park and catching on fire - "like the end of Terminator 2." The sheer stupidity of this inspired the term "flaming buffalo," which in turn he stole, and has appropriated for this site. Fun, huh?
