Austin American-Statesman Article

1/31/01 - I know only a couple days have passed since I last wrote something here, but I had to put up a blurb saying that I finally found the article that I had been looking for for so long. A few months ago I was just sitting in my room doing some homework, when I get this call. It turns out it's a reporter with the Austin American-Statesman, who found my webpage somehow, and did some looking around and finally got my phone number. She wanted to interview me about my site for an article she was doing. So I talked to her for a bit, but I hadn't seen the article until today.

I told my parents to watch the paper, but they must have missed it, and no one else knew to look for it, and when I didn't see anything for a month I figured the article never made it to print. Not true. On November 16, 2000, the article was published. Here's the part of the article that related the most to me:

Luke Wallace, a 20-year-old Texas A&M University junior, started his personal Web site four years ago when he was a student at Georgetown High School. At www.geocities.com/Hollywood/9009, he posts his musings on "Star Wars" and "The Simpsons" and reviews the movies in his DVD collection.

The site also includes photos of Wallace, his family, pets and his vacations to Europe and Roswell, N.M. (In fact, Wallace's site is one of at least two run by Williamson County college students that mentions a trip through the town associated with aliens.)

"It's mostly just for fun," said Wallace, a computer engineering major who also attended Round Rock High School. "It's an ongoing journal of what I do, what I like and what I'm interested in at the moment."

So there you have it. I was pretty surprised that anybody could find my page, and then that they would go to the trouble to contact me and actually interview me for an article. I guess some people might have showed up here from reading that, but I doubt any of them will ever return. The writeup in the article isn't exactly accurate, but it does cover a few of the things I have here. Good luck and thanks to Erin Walter for all the work she did. I wish everyone who found my page made as much effort to contact me.

-Luke