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About the Editor My name is Keith Ferguson. In addition to being the editor of CraterRanch.com, I'm also a writer, photographer, and tinkerer. I like bicycles, gadgets, and well-crafted sentences. I have a fondness for old things, a penchant for the old-fashioned, and I think about things in a generally diagonal manner. I studied English literature and history, and after a variety of post-college employment, I realized that technical writing would allow me to combine my enjoyment of the written word with my desire to enter the field of computers. I have been professionally employed as a Technical Writer since 2000, and currently I'm a Senior Technical Writer at a well-known medical software company. In addition to producing the traditional written formats, I have helped to implement more visual elements within our online help, and generally tried to bring innovation to the company in this area. I have especially tried to raise awareness of the necessity and possibilities of quality end-user documentation. When not at work, I enjoy working on our house, refinishing old furniture, hunting for antiques, restoring old bicycles, and riding my newer ones. |
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About this Site I started CraterRanch.com as a means to improve my technical skills, but mainly as a place to post things about my life. The Crater Ranch theme began while browsing the internet for retro space images. I found some great old magazine advertisements and somehow imagined the happy-faced 1950's house dwellers looking out the windows of their chrome-appointed, linoleum-floored kitchens onto the surface of the moon. Such a scene brings to mind, of course, a 50's style ranch home in a crater. Hence: Crater Ranch. I love antiques, but especially streamlined era or atomic age artifacts; all things that come to mind when you hear the word "retro." Fortunately, there are plenty of fabulously retro images out there, and combined with NASA archival photos and a little editing magic, I should be able to appoint this site with pictures to compliment the theme. |
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