Who?

That's Sumhenner Studios. (It's pronounced "Summoner," roughly.) We consist of the astonishing total of one person, Ardaniel Aran Sumhenner, a 24-year-old geek who needed a place to stash some projects and links to things she works on from time to time. (Ardaniel has her own homepage as well, which is in the process of moving and has more personal information.)

What?

A few things, right now. Some are hosted here, some are hosted by good folks in other places, some are under development.

Things Here

• City of Steel
  A reworking of the City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania as a setting for a slightly warped take on White Wolf's Changeling: the Dreaming. A work in progress.
• =[TPC]= @ sumhenner
  Well, depending on my friends' response, it'll either be a Starsiege Tribes clan, or it won't. We'll see.
• The House of Slack
  Well, after watching my friends in Pittsburgh go through hell trying to get their site hosted, I put it up here. Under construction-- but it's the story, of a house of slackers... *wanders off singing*
• The Battle of Los Angeles, Rage Against the Machine
  The lyrics sheet, transcribed by hand. No offense to RATM, but it was pretty hard to find this electronically the first few weeks the album was out in stores... and no, I do not store mp3s in the Studios. Go use Napster.

Things Elsewhere

• The Mail Modernization Project
  The maintainer of this project likes coding better than HTML. I like HTML better than coding. It was a fair trade all around. Don't ask me technical questions about the patches to sendmail, I can't help you with them.
• The McGuffin Group
  I am a member. I do not do much on the site any more since I forgot the password and moved out of Boston. That may well change... but anyways, I was present at the creation.
• O! WebZine
  I do many things for O. Last I checked, I was the Assistant to Aine, our Editor-in-Chief, the HTML/CGI/security guru for the domain, and the Features Editor for the Gaming and Anime sections. I write "Time to Redraw the Map Again," the quarterly anime column. I'm not sure when my next deadline is, but I'd better work on that damn Lain article.

Where?

Obviously, all over the Web. I can also be found on IRC (Undernet #userfriendly) and have previously been involved with a handful of Usenet newsgroups, both as a regular poster and, in the case of soc.religion.paganism, as a proponent (under another net.alias). I used to do mailing lists, and, with the exception of the internal O! webzine list, I don't any more.

I have also turned up at Linux World Expo once, and tend to haunt an axis across the States roughly consisting of Boston-Pittsburgh-SF. I'm currently in the process of becoming geographically liberated, to quote my housemate.

When?

Now. It's not likely that I'd be doing this at any other times.

Why?

The canonical reason: because it's here. I like anime; therefore, I write the anime column for O! and support my local anime club. I like RPGs; therefore I review them and play them whenever I can. I support Open Source, so I pitch in on the MMP when Mike needs a hand (and believe me, there are a lot of other people who do a lot more and deserve a lot more credit than I do in that department). I like to look shit up; asking me a relevant question will probably get you a relevant answer, depending on my mood.

How?

At the moment, logged into ufies.org, a Debian box that provides free shells for foks in the User Friendly community. Many props must go to Arc for handing me a vhost here.

I use pico to write the HTML myself, then emacs to go back and fix things or add stuff later. I very rarely do my own graphics; it's not my strong suit. Talented folks tend to chip in for me in exchange for credit on the site.

--Ardaniel