Dear Hannah - I'm a #StandupStoryteller. I'm the "Brother From Another Planet". Strange people think I am strange. I think that what I experience is strange. And still I rise. Self-reflection is my "superpower". I am committed to generating hope, healing, and change ... powered by autoethnographic self-reflection, #StandupStorytelling, #YourStory, and publishing. What I see and experience makes me wanna "holler". Rather than wallow in lament, though ... I want to "spit it so they git it" ... success results when preparation meets opportunity ... opportunities are sometimes disguised as 'lost opportunities' ... don't choke on the smoke from the okey-doke ... use what you got to give 'em what they need ...

Dear Hannah - I'm a #StandupStoryteller. I'm the "Brother From Another Planet". Strange people think I am strange. I think that what I experience is strange. And still I rise. Self-reflection is my "superpower". I am committed to generating hope, healing, and change ... powered by autoethnographic self-reflection, #StandupStorytelling, #YourStory, and publishing. What I see and experience makes me wanna "holler". Rather than wallow in lament, though ... I want to "spit it so they git it" ...

In June 2023, The Computer History Museum (Mountain View, CA) published my oral history (https://bit.ly/CHMOH_DB_YT) for my contributions to the computing world as an Internet strategist for The Universal Black Pages (an Internet directory of African-related content), and as the founding director of KnowledgeBase’s Project CHIP (which refurbished and redistributed 1500+ computers to Georgia families and organizations). My oral history experience inspired a new project called #YourStory. #YourStory combines #StandupStorytelling with principles and best practices of oral history recording to document the thoughts and experiences of ordinary people who do extraordinary work. EPISODE 1.14 "TRANSCRIPT": ... ... 56m55sec ... Marc Weber said "I broke the chronology" ... CMcI says "that's OK - we are there" ... 57m05sec ... then we back up to talk about BGSA ... and InfoComm ... and fish fry parties and DJing ... and birthing the KB concept as grassroots outreach and organizing ... and birthing The UBP concept as a commercialized search engine like Yahoo , Infoseek, Alta Vista, and Lycos ... 71m42sec ... Marc Weber asks if we need to stop to render first 71 minutes of footage ... CMcI now departs for a while ... THE END

Dear Hannah - I'm a #StandupStoryteller. I'm the "Brother From Another Planet". Strange people think I am strange. I think that what I experience is strange. And still I rise. We are all born. Then we "dash" to the "finish line". During the "dash" - we live, love, LEarn, handle our business, and tell our own stories. This is "us" ...

Dear Hannah - My name is Derrick. My name means "leader of my people". I am the brother from another planet. "My people" do not always know that they are "my people". I teach *students*, not *subjects*. This is my mission statement. I have realized that this is a "loaded" statement. See - I have a lot of students who do not know that they are "my students". I have a lot of students who live in what I call "Lie-Lie Land". They are not honest with themselves. Their "lie" is their "truth" ... Love, Daddy

In June 2023, The Computer History Museum (Mountain View, CA) published my oral history (https://bit.ly/CHMOH_DB_YT) for my contributions to the computing world as an Internet strategist for The Universal Black Pages (an Internet directory of African-related content), and as the founding director of KnowledgeBase’s Project CHIP (which refurbished and redistributed 1500+ computers to Georgia families and organizations). My oral history experience inspired a new project called #YourStory. #YourStory combines #StandupStorytelling with principles and best practices of oral history recording to document the thoughts and experiences of ordinary people who do extraordinary work. EPISODE 1.13 "TRANSCRIPT": ... 52m46sec ... I learned about the online world by looking over shoulders in the computer lab ... I looked over Jerry Volcy's shoulders a lot ... he introduced me to Netscape ... how can you create a software tool to get onto the Internet from home? ... this is like watching the invention of the car or hammer ... 56m55sec ...

In June 2023, The Computer History Museum (Mountain View, CA) published my oral history (https://bit.ly/CHMOH_DB_YT) for my contributions to the computing world as an Internet strategist for The Universal Black Pages (an Internet directory of African-related content), and as the founding director of KnowledgeBase’s Project CHIP (which refurbished and redistributed 1500+ computers to Georgia families and organizations). My oral history experience inspired a new project called #YourStory. #YourStory combines #StandupStorytelling with principles and best practices of oral history recording to document the thoughts and experiences of ordinary people who do extraordinary work. EPISODE 1.12 "TRANSCRIPT": 47m41sec ... I graduated from Clemson in December 1991 ... which means I enjoyed a 5th football season ... I took nonverbal communication ... I did not write much at Clemson, and should have stirred that gift ... gotcha (CMcI) ... PEER taught me to always listen for opportunity knocks ... became a GEM Fellow at MITRE ... "mitre" means "to fit together" ... I gained lots of knowledge and savvy as a GEM Fellow ... 51m15sec ... Marc Weber asks about me deejaying parties at Clemson ... I tell him that this happened at GT ... at Clemson, I was "about those books" ... 51m59sec ... I made a social choice for grad school ... 52m46sec ...

[Original Broadcast Date: 5-15-2017] Dear Hannah, Life is a series of opportunities. Here's how I approach life ... I listen, because I don't listen well. I am quiet, because I am not quiet. I observe, because I can't see. I know, because I know that I don't know. I speak like no one else is ever going to speak for me. I do like no one is ever going to do for me ...