I’m Bo Adams, though you’ll see my name more formally written as Richard Manly Adams, Jr. (I don’t particularly care which you choose). Most of my day is spent thinking about texts and technology. I’m essentially a textual and technological nerd, an identity that has taken me some time to embrace. I’m sure there’s some catchy way of combining textual and technological into a modifier for myself (textological? techtual?), but I’m not clever enough to come up with one. I’m very fortunate to have a job that allows me to draw on these two sides of my training and interests. I was originally trained as a software developer (C++, SQL, etc.), but I’ve spent the last (too many) years in graduate education studying ancient texts, primarily those of early Christianity. While these two worlds, software development and exegesis, seem pretty far apart, I find that a) they draw on the same basic skill set of close reading and problem solving, and b) things get really exciting (well, for me), when they come together. So, my work is most interesting when I get to think about texts as technology (history of the book, history of reading, etc.) and when I get to apply technology to texts (data mining, visualization, reading applications, etc.). Fortunately, I’m a theological systems librarian (Pitts Theology Library, Emory University), so I get to think about such things all day long. My library work has led me to develop my tech skills to morph into a lot of web development (PHP, AJAX, JQuery, etc.) and my text interests beyond early Christianity. The real beauty of what I do, though, is that I get to share my passion and abilities with others through instruction. This blog is a small part of that work. What you’ll most find here are my internal ramblings about things that occupy my (very strange) mind. As any good textnologist will tell you, though, turning internal ramblings into external ramblings is a process of translation. My hope, though, is to keep these as raw and pure as they come to me. So I can’t promise much research, and I can’t promise any organization in topic, and I really can’t promise real clarity of thought. However, I do hope to provide some locus of conversation for people with similar interests. What that conversation will be about, though, I’m not so sure (back to that textnology definition thing again…)