As the title indicates this is the online home of Third & Ivy Creative, also known as myself, Harry Meier, and my daughter Ivy. While the blog is mostly a place to post my shorter writing. I may also spew out into the æther, excerpts from novels, random pictures, commentary on my journey, or just the odd random rant, all by me.
First About Me: Who may you ask is Harry Meier?
Well, I’m glad you asked. Harry Meier, aka Harold J Meier III (the Third in Third and IV) Originally of the Northeastern Pennsylvania Harold Meiers, third of his name, and keeper of the sacred ring bologna, is a Deputy CIO by day and writer of sci-fi by … whatever time of day he can be.
With a day job in tech you may ask why I would want to keep thinking and writing about the future when I live in it every day. Well, for one, the word Enterprise is used way too much in my presence. If my dementia were broadcast as a hologram, then every time someone said that word, the starship of the same name would make a flyby.
Secondly, one of the nicer parts of my day job is researching up-and-coming technologies. Many of these are new ways to crunch old numbers, many are new fancy ways to show people whose title begins with C a new pretty graph, and more and more (make that every freakin day), dealing with people slapping a LLM in front of an old product and proudly announcing “Now With AI!!!” However, I also get to do things like tackling the implications of all those LLMs and looking beyond them to what real artificial intelligence looks like. I also get to work on helping people with internet access and tackling big issues like the effects of climate change on my city in the desert. I’ve always been a tech optimist and a believer in people’s abilities to use it for good.
Even while I’m trying to mitigate people’s using it for bad.
Sci-fi has always dug deeper than just tech, looking at the implications and societal impacts of potential futures. My writing often plays within and around the concept of family and relationships amidst all the turmoil the march of time and tech can throw at us.
I hope you enjoy my writing. If you do I’d love to hear about it in the comments.
Have Fun,
Harry
Next about the IV part of the company: Who is Ivy, and what role does she play in the site?
Ivy caught the creative bug from her father at a young age, and after about the 10,000th time someone told her she should sell her art, we finally encouraged her to make the leap (read as, Dad finally got off his butt and filed the paperwork and rebuilt the website around ecommerce)
Ivy’s work includes original works of art and craft creations featuring her work. The first item in the catalog is her “Framed Art by Ivy” custom eyeglass frames. She started by painting designs on her other parent’s glasses many years ago, and the amount of compliments received on them just screamed “This needs to be shared!” Seriously, no day goes by where the following conversation doesn’t take place:
“I love your glasses!”
“It’s her artwork. She painted them.” (pointing at Ivy)
“Wow, you should sell those!”
Yep…
As her other works find form we’ll put them here. Also find us at artist markets in the greater Mesa/East Valley area of Arizona.