About Josh
Josh Millard is a 28-year-old musician, computer geek, and generally reckless creative-type person. Born in Montana, he was raised in and still lives in Portland, Oregon, with his wife and their no children.
In addition to his legitimate, upstanding dayjob employment in digital archiving and imaging, Josh is one of the administrators of the community weblog Metafilter (along with founder Matthew Haughey, co-admin Jessamyn West, and programmer Paul Bausch). His username on mefi (and in a number of other places) is “cortex”, for reasons that aren’t particularly interesting.
He has also worked as a programmer, a market researcher, a wedding musician, a reluctant clipboard-wielding activist, a last-minute trade-show translator/calligrapher, and a deck-builder; and he’s responsible for a few scraps of freelance writing. He has a Bachelor’s of Computer Science, from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (class of 2001), and enjoys spending time with his outstanding loans.
Josh is currently a guitarist, banjo-player and vocalist in the band The Harvey Girls. He does a fair amount of solo recording as well; in February, 2007, he wrote and recorded the album Manifests. For more on Josh’s musical work and history, see the Music page.
A serial project-starter, Josh’s latest web experiment is Big Big Question, a light-hearted question-and-answer site intended as a spiritual complement to Ask Metafilter. You can check out some other things he’s spent his time on at the Projects page.
If you’d like to get ahold of Josh, it shouldn’t be too hard; take a look at the Contact page for details.