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A blog about whatever catches my fancy
Created on 2005-01-06 23:59:30 (#5675213), last updated 2008-05-05
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| Name: | compactspleen |
|---|---|
| Birthdate: | 1966-04-27 |
| Location: | Bellevue, Washington, United States |
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.
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
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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Interests (75):
alternative rock, anime, art, beer, books, cartoons, cats, celtic music, chatting, cheese, chinese food, coffee, comedy, comics, computers, cooking, discworld, dragons, dvds, eating, england, europe, faeries, family, fantasy, food, france, french, friends, games, girls, halloween, heinlein, invader zim, ireland, japan, kissing, laughing, learning, led zeppelin, macintosh, monty python, nature, philosophy, photography, photoshop, pictures, pirates, pizza, politics, porn, punk, radiohead, rain, reading, rock, rpgs, sarcasm, science, science fiction, sex, sleeping, sushi, swords, taking pictures, talking, terry pratchett, thinking, travel, traveling, video games, walking, wine, women, world of warcraft
External Services:
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Schools:
Madison West High School - Madison, WI (1980 - 1981)Malcolm Shabazz City High School - Madison, WI (1981 - 1984)
Madison Area Technical College - Madison, WI (1988 - 1990)
University of Wisconsin - Madison - Madison, WI (1990 - 1994)
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