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I’m Michael Ellerbeck, I’m sort of a serial entrepreneur in that I keep on having ideas and then seeing if they go anywhere. My latest is a modular connectible candle which I call a ‘WickBrick’. This miniature connectible candle allows you to assemble a wide variety of candles in building block fashion. And before you ask, Lego’s patent expired in 1988, and besides the function of a candle is quite different from that of a building block. The design is also different, allowing multiple wicks to traverse from one brick to the next. You can get one here http://wickbrick.etsy.com/ (Patent Pending)
During the day I work for National Frozen Foods Corporation as a Business Analyst. I primarily handle National’s EDI as well as its VMWare and Active Directory (DNS, group policy, etc…) infrastructure and I enjoy making these business functions hum smoothly. I setup and keep the terminal servers, helpdesk system, and intranet portal and other small servers going as well.
Because we are a small, tight knit IT shop, we cross train and help each other out a lot. We also respond quickly to our users no matter how big or small their question. Because of this structure, I am constantly looking for new and better ways of doing things for myself and others. My recommendations for small and medium enterprises.
I enjoy thinking, reading, writing, composing, coding, art, inventing, experimenting, and entrepreneurial pursuits. One of these days I would like to write a book, compose a symphony, and create some sort of film… the usual pursuits that everyone should attempt 
I’m interested in information management in general (I have a masters in Information Management from the University of Washington) and I guess over all I enjoy finding solutions, and integrating things to become greater than the sum of its parts.
You know, your entry was unique, amusing, and had a fun feel good quality to it. It could have easily been the winner. It is ridiculous that Chicken of the Sea let entry #29 use an automated program to cast votes for herself. I mean it’s ridiculous that the company let her get away with it and did nothing to stop her including leaving the old captcha on that any OCR can read. I sit here and watch her votes increase by a steady never ending 42 votes every 5 minutes. Even at 2am she’s getting 42 votes every 5 minutes never fail. What is heartening to know about the human race is that there are still some honest folks out there and I mean you, seeing how you could have easily made an automated program to vote for yourself if you had so chosen but did not..