Once the resident web-master of The Obscure Company site (now incredibly surpassed by Aaron Bosworth's talents), I would like to welcome you to my poorly, and rushingly formatted site.  It shall be boring, it shall be irregularly updated, it shall be all things which embody my upkeep of The Obscure Company.  However, I am extremely impressed that you found this page, unless you followed the introductory link from the home page, in which case you are both intelligent and lazy.  Thus ends the IQ/profession test, you should be an actuary if you found the page that way, I hear they do little to no work, yet have extra-ordinary math/nerd skills.  If you found the page any other way, well, I recommend a whole host of professions, such as explorer, spelunker, fish enthusiast, bureaucrat, or Obscure Company web-master.

This is a poor picture of me, and I am looking for another one.

John's Thoughts on the Obscure Company

"...Awesome!"

"...Wonderful!"

"Wish they would bring wordidity back!"

More Formally

"Rarely do you see a group of fresh high school and college grads willing to take a stand on obscurity and charity.  Particularly the stand to combine them, convince people they're actually serious, and then volunteer their time to see their goals through to completion by wading the swamps of bureaucracy to establish a company, become a charity and generally try and do the right thing." 

Considering you are an avid Obscure Company fan, I feel it is necessary to give you some background into the executives in which you place so much trust. 
  I descend from immigrant workers of moderate income. These immigrant workers are essentially Roger Williams and only Roger Williams, hence The Obscure Company was fore-ordained, at least for Mark and I.  I don't know what the others' excuse is.  More recently, I descend from my mom, and my pop (who I never refer to as pop).  My mom's name was Sherry Hunt, a nurse and harpist of great renown, and my dad's name is Wayne Colwell Earl of Cranston.  (The last is a little known fact, keep it hush hush.)  I was born May 4, 1980.
  I like to know a little bit about everything, so people think I'm smart.  It's not true, and if you get into any discussion w/ me for any length of time, you'll find my vast reservoirs of knowledge turn into puddles relatively instantly.  However if I were to pick an area of expertise, it is currently Chemical Engineering for which I went to The University of Rhode Island, and the Image Expert Software which is an obscure imaging processing device at Cabot Corporation, where I am currently employed.  One has nothing to do with the other, so don't bother making assumptions.
  URI stemmed from my effort to be informed about something, as did a year in Germany (Braunschweig and Kaufering).  Going to Germany is a recommended experience, going to Kaufering is not.  I studied 6 months, and worked an Internship with Hilti Gmbh which makes power tools, which I had nothing to do with, and dual system epoxies, which was my department, and a bunch of other stuff which makes Hilti a lot of money, and me currently none.  I also worked for Dr. Brown at URI who taught me about corrosion, which is bad for pipes, tin men and most other metal objects as well as the ways of the vast wilderness that is laboratories and lastly, but quite importantly, how to work when your boss never shows up.  The current leg of the working journey resides in Ayer MA, home of the best pool hall in NE, the loneliest Bead shop cat and me.  That's about it.  I actually work in Billerica MA at Cabot Corporation a maker of Ink dispersions, and a host of other stuff that matters (according to their slogan, and generally acknowledge to be true by the host of people that buy stuff from them).  Billerica is actually pronounced Bill-rick-ah for those that wish to be "in" with the native lingo.  I exist currently because I think, and pay taxes on monies earned as a research associate/lab technician answering to as many people as possible.
  So much for the bio, I'm tired of writing it.  Perhaps I will add on more at a later date and it will become the highlight of "COMPANY NEWS!" or "MEMBER NEWS!" depending on which is going slower at the moment.  Good job reading this far by the way.
 

Coincidentally, since this page is lovingly stored on The Obscure Company Website, I work for the Obscure Company.  The honorable board of directors has found it fitting in their vast wisdom to elect me to the position of President of The Obscure Company and the seven seas.  Since I have only seen two seas in my life, I tend to ignore the last part, since it is in fact false.
  My road to President began as a mild mannered interested party, who along with a few friends decided to sit on a couch on a highway median.  The details, such as why, are lost in the mists of history, but the short of it is that it was determined that doing random stuff for no reason was fun.  The logical step forward was of course that doing random stuff for a good reason should be even more fun.  Then, a few more interested parties jumped on that idea and a Company was born.  We eventually registered with the far off land of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations and have undertaken a pledge to do random stuff for good reasons.
  Next on the list was Treasurer of The Obscure Company which I became at the same time as founding member.  A year or so passed of trying to grow the obscure company (somewhat successfully) with limited resources and then a new phase was ushered in to revamp the staffing structure, include more people and generally try and do random stuff for good reasons more efficiently.  2006 and 2007 will be the test of that theory.  In the revamp I was elected in a surprise move of surprising proportions to President of The Obscure Company and am now "in charge" of an excellent staff dedicated to our mission.   My job is to oversee the day to day operations of The Obscure Company, be a resource, motivator and manager of operations and generally make sure we are getting the stuff done we are trying to get done.