About Me
So, you want to know something about me, how flattering! I live in, and in fact was born in Corvallis Oregon. I went to OSU for about 8 years and managed to get way more education than I probably really needed; B.S. Physics, B.S. Mathematics, B.S. Engineering Physics, and a M.S. in Mathematics. Somewhere in those blurry years of whirlwind studying I married my junior high school sweetheart, Kara, whom I met in a Tae Kwon Do class.
I've been practicing Tae Kwon Do for a little over 20 years now and I actually teach a class thru the Oregon Pound school. My other interests also include amateur astronomy, which I don't seem to have time for anymore, and of course computers.
In fact, computers are my daily work. During college I worked as a lowly PC support tech for the EPA lab in Corvallis. I spent about 10 years there eventually becoming a UNIX administrator and then a Windows administrator when the EPA decided to migrate everything to Windows. Just when I was on the brink of insanity from administering Windows machines, I managed to land a job at Rogue Wave Software where I am currently employed as a Senior Unix Administrator.
As if being a sysadmin doesn't limit my social life enough, I tend to spend most of my free time playing with computers as well. When I'm not playing tech support for family and friends, I tinker with my MythTV boxes, Otrona MP3 player, or sometimes the old Beowulf cluster. Ah, my old cluster. I had it running dvd::rip for awhile which was really cool, but then I upgraded the nodes and now I can't power it from a 15-amp circuit. I've got to rewire my house one of these days. Then I'm going to play with OpenSSI. Too cool.
I do occassionaly take vacations, and when I do I like to go places I can dive. Yes, you *can* dive off of the Oregon coast, but I don't own a wetsuit thick enough. I'm partial to 70+F water.
That should get you up to speed on the topic of me. If you really want to know more, just send me an email...