User Profile

I'm conventionally eccentric, father of two beautiful girls, married to my
sweetie, never divorced, software engineer type. Into Science Fiction and
Fantasy, used to go to cons a lot, but don't much anymore since I moved from the
Midwest to California and thence to Washington State. I was born in Portland,
OR, moved to Madison, WI with my family when I was very young and grew up warped by
the Berkeley of the Midwest and parents who went from Episcopalian to
Unitarian-Universalists to Pagan UUs. Wisconsin - smell our dairy air or
Wisconsin - eat cheese or die. After graduating from UW-Madison my wife Michelle
and I moved to the suburbs of Chicago where I worked at some software jobs for a
bit at not very exciting companies. I then discovered that some companies would
pay you to move to a place without snow if you promised to do the same thing
that you were doing for more pay :-). We moved to San Jose, CA and I worked for
a small company in Los Gatos that did software development for other companies.
It was too good to last, they paid all your health care costs, reimbursed you
for co-pays, and took people on ski trips. When the owners sold the company, it
all went downhill. I jumped ship to Openwave, for whom I had done some work at
the previous company, and they gave me the opportunity to work on a wide variety
of projects, some of which have actually shipped. Openwave moved us to Seattle
in July of 2005 and then closed the Seattle office, laying everyone off, a week
and a half later. Now I'm working at Medio
Systems, on rich clients for a mobile search engine.

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