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Greetings
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- Family pictures,
Holiday Cards, and 5more ...
- Blogestroika:
2011,
2010,
2009,
2008,
design
- Instruments of choice
- Shaunner House
- design, travel, parties
- In loving memory of John Armstrong Shaul
1934 - 2009, Rest in peace
March 8, 2009 - John
and Marilyn preparing Henry for his first Wizard of Oz
live performance
March 10, 2009 - San Francisco
- Profoundery
- Associations [edit]
- DJ Nod, KSCU.org 103.3 FM
- Stanford University, Center for Professional Development
Excellent methodologies for managing software, engineering, and web publishing teams.
- Santa Clara University: Santa Clara,
California. Member esteemed Cohort 7.
Spent most of 2003 and 2004 studying, working, and being a dad.
Completed the program Fall 2004.
- SCALIX -
provider of enterpise messaging/email for Linux/Unix.
- Cacheon: fascinating gig right
on Market & 4th in San Francisco.
Built up software development team and development infrastructure.
Developed peer-to-peer messaging system and flexible distributed
computing engine to run on Windows, Linux, PalmOS, and Java!
- intel: Microprocessor Research Lab.
Ported proprietary 3D
scene manager to Linux. Wrote the first 3D
graphics Linux demo to run on the 64 bit Itanium processor.
- nVIDIA:
makers of consumer grade real-time 3D
computer graphics silicon for major PC manufacturers.
Built up a professional graphics program to round out their
game-centric reputation.
- 3Dlabs: My ticket to Silicon Valley
IPO land. Evolved from a Graphics Systems Engineer to Program Manager
with a bit of jack of all tradesmanship in between.
- Old Quad, Santa Clara, California.
Also see Win6 Village (Agrihood).
- University of Houston:
completed MBA coursework
- Compaq Computer Corp.:
Houston, Texas
- Spent a year on their Graphics R&D team. Left to go to 3Dlabs.
- United Sates Patent
Office:
have submitted preliminary design
plans for ... whoops, details later ;)
- Commodore Amiga: West Chester,
Pennsylvania - Moved into the Retargetable Graphics team for 6 months.
Got my name on the Deathbed T-shirt. Hoping
Amiga Technologies can bring the
power of the Amiga, with its
remarkable OS and video friendly output,
back into the mainstream
- SCAN: participating member. Their 1993 annual proceedings
published my technical paper, Real-Time Methodology for 2-D
Rendering of 3-D Objects of Vastly Different Scale
- ENSONIQ:
Originally based in Malvern, Pennsylvania, now part of
conglomerat Creatve Labs'
EMU
division.
Electronic Musical Keyboards with SCSI, real-time audio recording,
floppy disk drive, and multitasking operating system.
The ASR-10 took a couple of years of blood and sweat from me.
Left to go work on the Amiga.
- IUSB: Indiana University at
South Bend. Masters candidate Electronic and Computer Music Theory.
- 88.9 FM, WSND: Notre Dame University
Spent a couple years as volunteer disc jockey for both the
alternative pop Nocturne midnight and Classical
Tafelmusik dinner time shows! Live student radio rules!
- Allied Signal: South Bend,
Indiana. Spent 4 years working on FADECs (Full Authority Digital
Electronic Control) for military and commercial turbine jet engines.
- Purdue University: West Lafayette,
Indiana. Computer/Electrical Engineering Bachelor of Science 1986.
- Beyond Our
Control:
amazing televsion production group I was part of in high school.
Helped write, act, direct, produce completely original works, and
solicit advertisors for this taped production. Most amazing of all
was that it was regularly broadcast
on South Bend, IN NBC affiliate channel 16.
Update: BOC Youth Foundation
- Funky What
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- Word Unscrambler (Scrabble aid)
- Improbable Research
- Zero Waste Box
- John Englander: Sea Level Rise
- Building Electronic Aircraft
- Thirteen
Months of Working, Eating, and Sleeping at the Googleplex
- Tao of Backup
or How
quickly offline SSDs
lose data
- Give it Five Minutes
- Software Development/Design
- Growing Cities,
better world shopper
- Stone Construction
- Choosing
a Hindu Name
- Long Bets,
Long Now,
- Why
don't we catch liars?
- Logarithmic Maps of the Universe
- Life in PostScript
- Jane's:
Military, Terrorist, and other demagoguery developments
- Google Hot Trends
(formerly Zeitgeist)
- Coase's
Penguin, or Linux and the Nature of the Firm
- The Spamdemic Map
- pseudodictionary.com
- Net World Map - mapping the physical locations of the world to the virtual locations of the Internet
- How To Write Unmaintainable Code
- metasyntactic variable
- WiFi Madness:
Wi-Spy
- FM radio transmission
DECADE,
HOBBY TRON,
Broadcast Warehouse,
FM Concepts,
Free Radio Berkeley,
wavemach,
progressive concepts
- embrace,
extend, extinguish: usually a last final anti-competitive gasp
before a monopoly is broken up
- Outer Space
- jodi.org: psychedelic HTML
- The Caifornian
Ideology and now
CYBER-COMMUNISM
- Experimental Interaction Unit
- gay-or-straight
- the cluetrain manifesto
- Web Monkey: good resource
for learning how to write HTML directly
- Text Mode Quake
- Nutty Bay Area Humor
- Silicon Valley Tarot,
Morgan's Tarot
- MOO:
text only (like Zork) online world. Telnet client required.
- Eric's Random Writings:
The
Cathedral and the Bazaar,
Homesteading
the Noosphere
- Ask Janis:
some Silicon Valley slang defined
- FUD:
Fear
Uncertainty, and Doubt
usually a marketing tactic used as a last resort
- The Jargon Dictionary
- The
Annotated VRML 2.0 Reference Manual
- SafeSexGetPaid
- Great Man Theory
- The Four Agreements
- Curse of Object Oriented Programming (OOP):
Goodbye (Medium),
OOP
being BS (Pivotal),
Programming Wisdom Center
- Cameos
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Perusals
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- reference:
Yahoo,
google,
Wiktionary,
Merriam-Webster,
Gracenote's
CDDB (music recognition service),
Internet Movie Database,
Wikipedia (encyclopedia)
- My Wiki-presence:
twitter, twitter, twitter,
Heart and Cog,
DISQUS,
Blogger,
LinkedIn,
Pinterest,
FaceBook,
Meetup,
My Bubblegum
- recipes: lasagna
- myland:
Santa Cruz,
craigslist,
Computer Recycling Center,
Earthquakes,
BayNature,
Hacker Dojo,
TechShop,
dice.com
- maps:
TopoZone.com,
Relief Maps,
MapBlast,
MapQuest
- travel: San
Francisco Bay Area transit information,
Valley Transportation Authority,
FLIGHT Explorer,
PlugShare
- weather:
AirNow,
The Weather Channel,
Tides
- arts:
Only in San Francisco,
SFarts,
MOMA
- government:
be civilized, vote
Absentee!
state of California,
county of Santa Clara,
city of Santa Clara,
Congress.org
- education:
Santa Clara University,
Foothill-De Anza College,
UC SantaCruz,
Purdue,
Stanford
- libraries: Santa Clara,
Woodside,
Santa Cruz,
Santa Clara,
San Francisco
- finance: NASDAQ,
Yahoo,
Shadow Government Statistics
- Video Programming:
hulu,
Adult Swim,
ZAP 2 it,
TV GUIDE,
Public Broadcasting Service
- News: slashdot.org,
SoylentNews,
Mashable,
The Verge,
SF Gate,
San Jose Mercury,
digg,
CNN,
Associated Press
- bookstores:
Recycled Books
- parks:
Santa Clara County Parks,
- East Bay:
Best Oakland Hikes
- religion:
Unitarian Universalist:
UUSF,
UUCPA,
UUFRC,
UUBA
- weeklies: Metro
- protocyberchatazines:
Medium,
The Awl,
Edge,
dack.com,
WIRED,
Salon,
The Well,
Utne
- environmental awareness:
GREENPEACE,
Sierra Club,
Treehugger,
The Conservation Fund,
ewg,
Global
Footprint
Network,
Geoengineering Monitor
- hazardous waste:
Santa Clara County: Household Hazardous Waste Program,
Cupertino
- user groups:
San Francisco SIGGRAPH,
SVLUG,
IDSA,
Silicon Valley World
Internet Center
- humor, comics:
xkcd,
Dilbert
the ONION,
United Media
- cinema: AMC Theatres,
Century Theatres,
Rotten Tomatoes,
CameraOne,
hollywood.com
- games: Steve Jackson Games,
Cosmic
Encounter
- zoos: Palo Alto Junior Museum
and Zoo
- shopping:
warehouse.com,
ebay,
AUTO BY TEL
- live media:
SomaFM,
KUSF,
KDFC,
sleepbot, KSCU (the underground sound), KFJC,
last.fm
- vibes:
SoundCloud,
post-rock,
ambient-trance-techno, shoegaze, neo-sacred classical,
lush distortion/synth wash female vocalist pop,
John Adams, Arvo Part, Gorecki, ...
[more]
- language
SYSTRAN,
TravLang
Google,
Translation-Guide
- relationships:
fwb
- nerdom:
Brian Knapp
- gotta mention:
Tank Girl, anything by
Enki Bilal,
Philip K. Dick,
Original StarTrek
My Take
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- tunes:
The Kills - Last Day Of Magic (Midnight Boom),
Only Lovers Left Alive (movie soundtrack),
Clint Mansell - Moon (moview soundtrack)
- flicks:
The Giver, Only Lovers Left Alive
- read:
Station Eleven,
Broken Monsters,
Ready Player One,
Matter,
The Swerve,
Anathem,
Cryptonomicon
- still reading: Gravity's
Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
- wtf:
Emmy's
A 16,
Darkness
- tubage: Akira/Offspring,
North American Scum
- gaming: Medium
editorial, EVE online/gate/lopdia (EVE-Central, market-guide, EN24),
Dungeons & Dragons (basic rules, Path Guy: Character Generator)
- oddplot
- test
- Wired: Best
Fantasy Books of 2020,
How
Being Bored Out of Your Mind Makes You More Creative
Emerging 3D and Internet
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-
AllSides,
KeepItOn,
Punkspider,
FreeRADIUS,
Svelte,
Is BGP safe yet?,
Free DNS/named,
Mac Ports,
1.1.1.1,
Transatomic,
WAI-ARIA,
OpenID,
WebSockets,
React,
clumsy,
three.js,
Let's Encrypt,
OpenCloud,
Mumble,
LXC,
Aereo,
Bitcoin,
Digital Attack Map,
GPGTools,
MMOG Fails,
Diaspora,
MINECRAFT,
git,
Games Salad,
HTML5 Test,
Scientific Linux,
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy,
KVM,
WebGL,
PickupPal,
Open for Questions,
AppJet,
Low End Box,
VirtualBox,
SketchUp,
miniclip.com,
Cernio,
wikiHow,
Citizendium,
phpWebSite,
OSFlash,
Relakks,
ReactOS,
CentOS,
osCommerce,
RoundCube
Technorati,
AJAX,
Drupal,
Bastille Linux,
PeerCast,
KnowledgeTree,
GForge,
Greylisting,
phpBB,
skype,
Inkscape,
SPF (Sender Policy Framework),
Lustre,
InterMezzo
The Midgard Project,
NEST,
Fedora,
ODDPOST,
SquirrelMail,
Open Source Development Lab,
spellchecker,
favicon.ico,
Spam Assasin,
Gnucleus,
NuSOAP,
zeroconf,
gnutella,
libical,
CodeWeavers,
ISMA,
blender3d,
Nerd-Out.com,
VCDhelp,
OutGuess,
mailman,
avifile,
FFmpeg,
OpenDivX/Project Mayo,
LAME,
HOTLINE,
MySQL,
PuTTY
BountyQuest,
Subversion,
VoiceXML,
IMP,
nanodot.org,
linmodems.org,
iCalender,
XFCE,
Xen/Zope.org,
OpenSSL,
Crowds/AT&T,
Anonymizer.com,
ZKS Freedom,
Sealand/HavenCo,
OMG/CORBA,
SHOUTcast,
#IRChelp,
Advogato,
DRI,
Source Forge,
miniGL,
MNG,
PNG,
MI/X,
MacCVS,
Remind,
eGroups.com,
Noble Ape,
LeapFTP,
caida,
Quesa,
CFSD,
macweb3D,
encompass,
NCSA,
Transmeta,
ARIN,
hyperreal,
NIST,
MESA,
sendmail,
IMAP,
Red Hat,
BBEdit,
LDAP,
Voila',
Web3D Consortium,
vizbang,
hypercosm,
neo3D,
REBOL,
GIFConverter,
OpenGL,
autodessys/formZ,
MIDS,
WC3,
Mozilla,
David Siegel,
Opera Software,
out of the blue,
interforti,
Bruce Damer/Digital Space,
Progressive Networks,
Linux,
Contact Consortium,
Planet9,
Apple Computer,
SGI,
InterNIC
Web As Code
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Jest,
riot.js,
Atom,
TxStyle,
Screaming Frog,
Open Graph,
Product Plugs
-
Dia Diagram Editor,
Edition
Kainhofer (blank sheet music),
musescore,
Brooklyn Aerodrome,
MMO-Mumble,
Herman Miller,
Mission City Design,
Apple
Virtual Death
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Weird Stuff,
First Virtual,
SoYouWanna,
Babel Fish,
Mac OS Rumors,
3D cafe,
Yahoo! Maps,
J-Track,
wideopen.com,
MacFixit,
All Things D,
Be,
Plastic,
Virtus 3D,
Superscape,
ZD3D,
MetaCreations,
CyberTown,
Air America,
Be,
Distributed Server Boycott List,
Microsuck,
DVD Hacking Pages,
North Point,
newertechnology,
Ask Jesus,
StockMaster,
Amiga Web Directory,
Fabulous Marketing Babe,
QD3D,
Cafe Babylon,
Platinum,
Global Village,
Cosmo Software,
Intervista
NeTpower,
Radius,
CyberOrganic,
Black Sun,
OnLive!,
electricminds
Friends/Family [edit]
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- cheese evil, eat fresh fruit and produce
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