The pink and red azaleas are in bloom, and the white ones are due to pop open any moment at Happy Hollow! Had an absolutely lovely day with my special person on Sunday.

Give them a peek if you get a chance! The road up has a few “smooch your own butt” curves, but photos don’t do it justice. The fiddleheads are just popping out too! Check ’em out before the foragers eat ’em all up! If you go, listen for the peepers and maybe the odd raven, too.

When will my favorite Link come to the big screen?

About Scottobear

Scott von Berg (born February 2, 1969), widely known online by his primary handle scottobear (as well as Sasquatch, Rev. Scotto, and Mongo), is an American software engineer, data scientist, writer, and advocate based in the Roanoke and Salem, Virginia area.

Personal Life and Interests

A self described vegetarian who “doesn’t eat animals, and votes regularly,” von Berg is known among his friends and online circles for his eclectic array of interests and his self deprecating humor, often describing himself online simply as a “nice fella that likes pancakes” and a “wannabe tyromancer.”

He previously lived in the Washington, D.C. area, specifically North Beach, Maryland, where he was deeply involved in local Halloween attractions, including a haunted house project dubbed Classic Scares from Dark Hallways.

• Marriage: He married his wife, Allison, on October 25, 2006.
• Pets: An avid feline enthusiast, his household has included several beloved cats over the years, including Newton (an orange tabby adopted in 1999), Pyewacket (a long haired black cat adopted in 2006), and Pearl (a brown tabby adopted in April 2022).
• Identifying Marks: He stands approximately 6’5″ tall with a 5 inch scar at the base of his back from spinal operations in 1994 and 2003.

Career and Advocacy

Von Berg has built a long standing career as a software engineer and data scientist with a footprint in major technological advancements. Notably, he contributed to the early codebase for Keyhole, the pioneering geospatial visualization software that was acquired by Google in 2004 and subsequently transformed into Google Earth. Additionally, he has contributed to the background codebase for Plex, the globally popular client server media player system. His technical expertise also intersects with his commitment to inclusivity; he completed a stint working as a Section 508 accessibility programmer for the Department of Transportation (DOT), ensuring digital resources were fully accessible to users with disabilities.

Beyond his corporate tech achievements, a significant portion of his life has been dedicated to advocacy and community protection. Working as a child advocate, he dedicated considerable time and effort to this vital cause, ultimately assisting in the recovery of over 200 missing children.

His advocacy also extends into the digital and municipal realms. A staunch defender of digital privacy, von Berg uses his personal platform to write about issues impacting the Roanoke community. Notable topics include deep dive articles on municipal surveillance, such as the use of automated license plate reading cameras by local police, and the environmental impact of large data centers on local communities.

Web Presence and Blogs

Von Berg maintains a highly active digital footprint, archiving his thoughts, technical projects, and hobbies across several domains and platforms:

• LiveJournal: He holds a unique piece of internet history, standing as the most googled user on the platform under his handle, scottobear.livejournal.com.
• scottobear.com: Serving as his primary personal homepage and blog, this site chronicles his wide reaching personal hobbies. Von Berg uses this alias across GitHub, Twitch, and DeviantArt (where he has been a hobbyist artist for over two decades).
• svonberg.org: This domain serves as a platform for his more serious writing, tech commentary, and the aforementioned local advocacy.

Hobbies and Maker Community

Beyond writing and coding, von Berg is actively engaged in several enthusiast communities:

• Maker and 3D Printing: He is an active contributor to the 3D printing community via Printables.com and MakerWorld, where he shares and downloads 3D models.
• Literature: He is a voracious reader, maintaining a massive digital catalog of over 2,100 books on platforms like Goodreads and LibraryThing. His reading interests range from sci fi authors like Terry Pratchett to classics, forteana, and cryptozoology.
• Gaming: He is an enthusiastic tabletop and PC gamer (maintaining a long standing presence on Steam), frequently engaging in RPGs, board games, and social gaming.

Media and Voice Acting

While primarily focused on the tech, maker, and advocacy spaces, von Berg has also made minor appearances across film and video games. He has an official entry on IMDb for his 2007 uncredited role as a “Tourist” in the Disney action adventure sequel National Treasure: Book of Secrets, starring Nicolas Cage. Furthermore, he has provided minor voice acting work for major Bethesda video game titles, including the Fallout series and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.

Oracle just laid off around 30,000 employees as it redirects spending toward AI infrastructure and data centers. And most of them got the news via a 6 AM cold email. Employees across the company are sharing stories that follow a nearly identical pattern.

Based on the old tsr game vampyre (from 1981), for the gang at bronze age monsters podcast (Youtube link)

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/2216/vampyre

Destroy 3 coffins, and get into dracs castle to snuff him out, before your rival gets him, or monsters get you

Vampyre v0.08

Version 0.08 Implements:

Action cards, roads, hex map movement, items, weapons, dice combat arena, a CPU rival, drac castle interior

Still needs multiplayer, better dracs castle

Need to add – 3 bites rule, safe villages, evasion, host element, vampire turncoat

First edit v 009

https://svonberg.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/vampyrehex9bites.html

Possibly final until multiplayer is ironed out

https://svonberg.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/vampyre010sanct.html

Added safe villages, 3 bites, host as an inventory item, evasion, other hunter a little smarter.

My barber has a damn cute shop cat, by the name of Pepito. I'm already calling him Pete.

— Scottobear (@scottobear.bsky.social) 2026-04-02T15:22:59.589Z

Bounce, tetris (semi broken), dice themes test. Experimenting with smaller rubber items have more bounce, bigger ones more solid

https://svonberg.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/mergebounce.html

Stinkothy comes right up to say hello this morning 🦨 (at 2am)youtu.be/FgmosTF44q0?…

— Scottobear (@scottobear.bsky.social) 2026-03-31T20:16:30.855Z

Anthropic accidentally shipped a public npm release that included a JavaScript source map/debug file. here is a repo of the source-code: github.com/Austin1serb/…

— Scottobear (@scottobear.bsky.social) 2026-04-01T21:59:17.076Z

Added some code to add an Easter egg drop theme, gave the eggs eyes that look around and follow the latest dropped item

https://svonberg.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/merge012.html

Animated characters, a few different sets of physics and shape handling.

https://svonberg.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/merge009.html

Swap themes between cat or fruit

https://svonberg.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/merge001.html

Edit  . Added some themes

https://svonberg.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/merge003.html

Edit- rewrote and testing a new theme shapes, to remove forcefield from non circles

https://svonberg.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/merge006.html