Hi, I'm Aaron G. Wells. If you're here, you probably already know who I am, so I'm not too afraid of drawing stalkers from posting personal information here since if you already know who I am, then you're probably already stalking me. Besides, this page prominently posts my picture, which ought to be enough to dissuade any stalkers. Incidentally, the women's spelling for my name is "Erin". As you can see from the US Census Bureau's 1990 data regarding the most frequent first names in the US, "Aaron" is the 77th most common men's name in the US, while "Arron" ranks 790th, "Erin" ranks 802nd, and "Aron" ranks 864th. All the variations on my name are at more than 10 times less common than plain old A-A-R-O-N, and yet I see them almost as often as I see people just spelling my name correctly. Admittedly, I pronounce my name in way that people from the East Coast would pronounce the name "Erin", but it's a subtle difference and one that people on the West Coast don't observe with this name or with any other word. (For the uninitiated, "Aaron" is pronounced with a leading short-a sound [as in "can"], while "Erin" is pronounced with a leading short-e sound [as in "air"])

But that's enough of that particular rant. As a person with a very frequently mis-spelled name (I have only ever met or heard of 1 "Arron" in all my 22 years), I've got a lot of bitterness built up.

Now, for more about me. I'm a student at the University of Nevada, Reno, majoring in English and Computer Science. I write a weekly column for the UNR newspaper, the Sagebrush, which can be reached online at www.unrsagebrush.com. Incidentally, I'm also their webmaster, and built the current site from scratch using PHP and MySQL. But the site isn't as good as it could be, because they don't pay me enough to quit my other job at a pharmacy recruiting website and work on the website full time. Furthermore, I'm also the office manager and Classified Ad editor, which takes up a good deal of my time as well. In fact, why the hell am I working at the Sagebrush for $500 a month? I guess it's the free high-speed wireless internet access in the office, which I'm free to use pretty much whenever I want. If they got rid of that, I'd be out of here.

Last year I was editor of The Brushfire, the literary magazine of UNR. I did bring it online, but then I didn't manage to publish until the last week of school because I'm a horrible procrastinator. So, let's not mention that. This year's editor never even bothered to contact me and try to keep the website I'd set up afloat, so it really wasn't worth the effort. For the record, I thought it looked pretty cool.

In the past, I've been associated with Infinite Cheese, but alas IC is now completely dead and defunct, meaning I've lost the basically unlimited wealth and power that I previously clandestinely held and have now become little more than a normal student, except with a magic ponytail in a zip-loc baggie stored away somewhere in the back of my closet.

I'd post a link to Turner and Gomez's new websites, but I think they enjoy the anonymity of having such common names. No coworkers can find their sites unless they tell 'em about them. Not me. I'm constantly striving to keep myself the #1 listed Aaron Wells on google.

A while ago I purchased aaronwells.com, aaronwells.net, and aaronwells.org, in order to have more control over what happens when someone types my name into a web browser. I guess I don't really need all three domain names, but no other Aaron Wellses have ever contacted me wanting to get them. They're probably content with aaronwells.info or aaronwells.tv or something. There do seem to be a few Aaron Wellses who are deservedly more famous than me, including a couple of stockbrokers, several college athletes, a TV producer, and two people on imdb.com, but none of them seem to be as big of web-geeks as me, which is probably for the best.

Also online, you can find the A.G.Wells literary archives, which are up on the web here. That's a collection of all the poetry and fiction I wrote through high school and my first year of college, but I haven't updated it in a while. Here are the electronic archives of all the columns I wrote for the Sagebrush in 1999-2000. I also wrote columns last year, and several this year, but I haven't put them online anywhere, except of course for the ones that are on the newly improved Sagebrush webpage

I also have a couple of online journals, one at Livejournal, accessible through aaronwells.com, and one that I coded myself as an exercise in PHP, accessible at aaronwells.net. See, I'm putting those different domain names to good use.

Are you related to me? My great grandmother Bertha Hunt Wells (daughter of Harriet Hunt, who has a lake named after her near Ketchikan Alaska) was apparently very much into genealogy. Among her records is a type-written sheet tracing her ancestry back to Miles Standish, captain of the Mayflower, which means I'm probably related to a lot of WASPs out there. There was also another sheet tracing the Wells name back across the Atlantic to Colchester County in the year 1590. There's a replica of it here. As you can see from that record, I'm also a direct ancestor of Jonathan Wells, a minor celebrity in King Philip's War, the so-called "boy hero of the battle of Turner's Falls".

From the genealogy research I've done, it looks like my family tree is perhaps 50-70% English, a little Irish, and one quarter Finnish, since the parents of my grandmother, Edith Nurmi Wells, were both from Finland.

I guess I can be contacted at aaronwellsorg2@iowaline.net, but I can't see why you'd ever want to do that.

I love you all.

--Aaron

This page last updated 10/16/1994