About
Hi! My name is Josh Babetski. This is my website.
You can also usually find me online using the handle/nickname/username of "quixado™," which is a shortening of QUIXotic BravADO™, the name of this site. You can find a list of the online communities I frequent most in the sidebar.
I'm the founder of Collective Detective™, where we develop social location gaming and entertainment applications. Our latest project: Collectivus™, is in a limited beta. By day, I'm a Senior Product Manager and the Product Evangelist at MapQuest. You can read more about my professional projects below.
For recreation, I like to tinker with numerous writing, web applications, and gadget-related projects. I'm a big fan of mountain biking, traveling, and meeting all kinds of different people. In my down-time, I read, learn an excessive amount of useless pop culture information, blow stuff up on game consoles and watch movies.
I currently live in Central Pennsylvania with my lovely fiancé Traci, a dog, and our two awesome kittens: Pink and Floyd. We also have our first baby on the way, due this fall.
Puzzy
I get asked this a lot so: The avatar you'll find me using all over the Internet is of a blue jig-saw puzzle piece, not a gingerman. His name is "Puzzy" and he is the mascot of Collective Detective, you'll find him running around Collectivus too. I've used Puzzy since 2003 because he's much more recognizable than a small thumbnail picture of me — and he's awesome.