Matthew Kern:  

Life See LinkedIn. As for my personal life, I have 1 single family home, 1 wife, 0 cats, 0 dogs, 0 kids. I spent until at least 1992 working on my twisted childhood issues. My apologies to everyone I left behind because of that long journey. I miss very many of you, and I did not mean to be a distant and unreachable bum! I have a list of great people I regret not spending more time with, or treating far better. People more or less still inexplicably view me as brilliant but very eccentric. I think I wasted any supposed brilliance and overplayed the eccentricity. These days I have less disdain for life and limb, and sometimes drive BELOW the speed limit. School My Highschool experience was dominated by Civil Air Patrol and fast cars. I had a bright yellow 69 Mach 1 Mustang. In 9th grade I tried to take electronics at Vo Tech and a full academic schedule as well. I ended up in the hospital with a kidney infection and mono and nearly died. I took two months off after two weeks in the hospital. To this day I have one bad kidney. My friend Ross Crabtree died from our highschool class. I miss him. College I went to college after the USAF. I was emotionally twisted from my USAF experience: losing my fiancee, working massive hours, and watching the world attempt to self destruct from the vantage of Strat Recon. I graduated from one of the worlds greatest EE schools, top 10 in the USA- with some of the worlds brightest folks. If only my grades were better and I had been less distracted. This was my worst academic showing ever- HAH! That which does not kil...Expand for more