Fried Bagels is Aaron Read, Owner, Managing Director and Senior Engineer. He operates out of Rochester, New York, and is readily available for on-site consultation in the upstate New York region. He has ten years of experience working with non-commercial radio stations (public radio/NPR and college radio) and has worked in the streaming media industry since 1999.
For the full skinny, check out Aaron's Resume 
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Frequently Asked Questions:
1. What da heck does "Fried Bagels" mean??
So while it really has no meaning besides being stupid domain name...it's a very memorably stupid domain name; everyone remembers it!
2. What is your rate?
3. You do on-site work? How far do you travel?
4. What's your availability?
5. Where are you located?
6. What was the deal with that show "RadioLINK"?
7. What's the meaning of life?
8. I noticed you sometimes say "I" and sometimes say "we" when you're talking about Fried Bagels the company...why is that?
9. My God you're sexy!
10. I mean, you're so sexy I want to ask you out! Are you available?
Everyone always asks me this...technically it doesn't mean anything. Originally an old roommate challenged me to come up with an original domain name. We're both Eagle Scouts so "Fried Beans" was the original idea, an inside joke to our many campouts we'd done in our respective Troops. However "Fried Beans" kinda carries a negative connotation with it. But, I absolutely love bagels...hence "Fried Bagels". Strawberry cream cheese from Einstein Brothers Bagels is the stuff of life; very tasty!
$75/hr for streaming media work and web design. Radio Engineering is on a case-by-case basis but for on-site work it's usually a minimum of $600/day + expenses. For radio production/talent work the rate varies with the package.
Well for web stuff generally on-site isn't necessary thanks to FTP and Email; it saves you money and me travel time. For radio engineering it's another story...lots of times you really can't get a good estimate down without actually seeing where stuff is going to go. My "home range" is the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York, but if you're willing to hire me, I am willing to fly/drive/train to you.
We're having a conversation aren't we? :-) To be honest it tends to vary during the year since I do a lot of work with colleges, so times around breaks are busy, except over summertime when I'm "more free" (a very relative term!). Feel free to Email me and I'll usually reply within a few hours on a weekday.
South of Rochester, NY (USA). Typically I spend most of my day in the Finger Lakes region, around Geneva, Syracuse and Ithaca.
Back in 2001, I produced (and engineered, and hosted) a six-week series called "RadioLINK". It was a 30 minute NPR-style weekly newsmagazine that aired on WMFO 91.5FM in Medford/Boston. The show was about tech news and issues, and was targeted at the high percentage of dot-com people in the Cambridge and Somerville areas, as well as Boston itself. After six weeks I learned why most NPR weekly newsmagazines have five or six people working on them, and not just one! Still, it was a lot of fun and I learned a lot. There's a archived site for the show at www.radiolink.org
Forty-two.
We were...errr...I was a psychology major. We'll leave it at that.
Yes, this is true. But that's not really a question.
Well, this is by no means a frequently asked question. But to answer it...sorry, I'm taken :-)