Friends in Focus

Michael Conti

In the Spotlight

My friend, Michael, is the most extraordinary person!  He’s a physicist by nature and a doctor/healer by instinct.  Michael reads the most marvelous books — about doggies, and Los Alamos, the Manhattan Project … and sometimes, cowboy poetry.

He’s from Chicago, but we do not hold that against him.  Part Italian (mostly the cooking/eating part) and part Irish (that would be the drinking part).

He spent 30 years at IBM, inventing computer thingies and programming and Internet sites before most of us even knew it existed.  He lived in New York, London, Japan, Australia, Florida, and probably other places that I don’t know about!

The best thing about Mikee is that he raised our Maggie from a pup and trained her to be smarter than whole families we know.  (More about Maggie later…)

Any computer problem that you can think up, he can solve.  No matter how much data you think you’ve lost, he will find it.  If you need to build a computer from scratch, he can help you — but with a large piece of 2×4 lumber, in my case.

He’s been named Volunteer of the Year in Cobb County, GA, for his patient work in teaching Computers for Seniors classes, and he maintains a website for just that project.  That’s how great he is!

Weekends are special for us — we have dinner together and then curl up to watch movies.  The old classics, documentaries, movies produced by the BBC, anything Elizabethan, or about doggies.  His one fault, however, is that he balks at watching the same old John Wayne movies (like The Alamo) more than 10 times or so.

My friend, Michael.
He’s a treasure.