short answer: yes.

long answer: but not in BYOND's DM language, at least not anywhere as fluently as the rest of you. being self-employed as a website programmer, i daily work with PHP, Javascript, and Perl, with a smattering of Python and C for flavor. you name the BASIC, and i've probably messed with it at some point in the past. C/C++ leaves a bad taste in my mouth for numerous reasons, and my early days of PASCAL and COBOL work causes me to awake in a cold-sweat during the the short hot summer nights. Java is currently a hobby, and i've been known to tinker with SmallTalk and tcl (pronounced 'tickle') years ago.

with that kind of diverse background, i could, in principle, dive right in and play around with DM. i would love to take the several ideas/concepts i have that currently reside on paper or in my head and make actual games out them-- this is what led me to BYOND in the first place: the desire to make my own games.

but seeing how the real world (food, rent, work) keeps interrupting in a not-so-linear fashion, i never seem to make the time to just sit down and do it. so i did the next best thing: digitalBYOND (http://digitalbyond.net.tc) - my little contribution to supporting a language i admire, and a community i've grown to respect (well, most of you - and you know who you are). heck, i've even started a little BYOND hosting project on the side to help keep my *nix skills up and to help some people host games when they otherwise could not do it themselves.

when i have time, i also contribute as a forum moderator- hopefully keeping most of the riff-raff and roughage out of the BYOND forums, and helping to make it a more enjoyable place.

someday i'll get that multi-server-space-sim project started.

someday...