About the Hosts

Name: Carolyn Sonnek
Pownce Username: blogkitten
Favorite Girl Scout Cookie: Samoas

Bio: I was born and raised on a farm - but I prefer the city with its bright lights and its high-speed internet connections. Growing up on the Intellivision, then moving up to the NES, I started gaming at a young age. I’ve also dabbled in tabletop gaming and most recently I can be cajoled into playing Munchkin or Trivial Pursuit.

I’m is a self-taught graphic and web designer (which could be a good thing or a bad thing) and I have bad dreams at night about FrontPage and messy CSS code. Instead of World Peace, I would like a Nintendo Wii, a Mini Cooper S 5-speed (with the John Cooper Works on it) and a free pass to be snarky to anyone in the world without reciprocity. Oh, and some tacos.

I’m also the co-founder of Pink Ninja Studios and one of the hosts of the show Tech Snark.

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Name: Kevin “Doc” Belton
Pownce Username: drkilljoy
Favorite Girl Scout Cookie: Tagalongs

Bio: I like long walks on the beach and quiet nights by the fireplace, with good wine and a beautiful……………….Okay so you don’t want to read my online dating profile. I spend the majority of my day behind a desk and in front of my laptop writing code or crystal reports but that is only my outward persona.

The small 4 foot by 4 foot server closet is where I carry out my plan for world domination and I hide the occasional body. In reality, it’s just the easiest place to not be caught browsing Pownce and other sites I shouldn’t be browsing on company time.

So whats my nerd cred? I am 36 and I owned a Colecovision game system when I was a kid and still have a fully functional Vectrex system (Google that one, kids!). I wrote my first program in BASIC on a TI99/4A and hacked the Gibson at age 16. Some of this may or may not be true. However, I still program but I have pretty much sold out to The Man and now use my evil powers for good. Well, more for money. What can I say, I’m a whore. Want to know anything else send me a message over at my Pownce page!

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Name: Tim Wilsie (a.k.a. Commander Tim, Producer Tim)
Pownce Username: commandertim
Favorite Girl Scout Cookie: Thin Mints

Bio: Wow, my very own bio section. Well let’s see… I’m originally from a quiet town in upstate New York, where there wasn’t much else to do but read comic books and play video games. Sure, I could’ve played sports or spent time paying attention to my school work, but there was too much Nintendo to play! Over the years, I’ve honed my geek street cred into a finely tuned machine bent on world domination. I’m an avid classic video game collector, comic book nut, and a complete technology junkie. I also have the tendency to unleash my “Old Man Spittle Rage” on many topics, thus making me the John C. Dvorak of my generation.

In 2005 I started a podcast called ‘The Widget: Games, Tech, Whatever’ which became an affiliate show on the PC Gamer Podcast Network. In 2006, I moved to Minneapolis and in 2007 I co-founded Pink Ninja Studios in with Carolyn as a way to give other geeks like myself a home for all of their various projects. In addition to being the Producer for the PownceCast, I host The Commander Tim Cast. Recently, I founded the video games news/reviews/opinions website Gaming Clarity where I strive to use my Old Man Spittle Rage.