About

I’m Brian DeHamer. I lve in San Diego, CA with my wife, two young kids and a healthy obsession with technology. I’m currently employed by Hewlett-Packard Company as a software engineer and work from home full-time.

The title of this blog is derived from the word “hammerspace”:

ham·mer·space -noun: an imagined, extradimensional, instantly accessible storage area that allows cartoon characters to have access to practically any item they wish without impeding the plot.

Hammerspace is that physical dimension that Bugs Bunny reaches into to pull out the mallet/anvil/shotgun which seems to materialize out of thin air or from behind his back (See the hammerspace entry on Wikipedia for more info). Being a bit of a nerd myself, I always appreciated the fact that someone was concerned enough with the physics of cartoons that they felt compelled to invent this concept and then give it a name.

So, from the idea of “hammerspace” and an obvious similarity to my last name we get:

de·ha·mer·space -noun: a non-imagined, instantly accessible storage area that Brian uses to store random thoughts, observations, and tips for later reference.